Fox McCloud Revealed in Mario Galaxy Movie
I did NOT have this on my bingo card. Today, Fox McCloud was revealed as a character in the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Seems like it might have been a joke or AI, but nope, this is official. Hard to believe that a fully animated movie is the first official Star Fox media release since December 2018 when Super Smash Bros Ultimate released with a Krystal Assist Trophy among other Star Fox cameos.
Super excited to see Fox, of course. He's great and all, but with Mario and Donkey Kong in the last movie and now Star Fox, a few questions come to mind.
- How much of the Star Fox team is in the movie? I can see it going either way. Fox could be scouting alone, or the Star Fox team as a whole could be involved.
- Is Krystal going to make an appearance? That would be amazing, but I doubt it. Not because I don't think they want to, but because I think they want to tell the beginning of the story of Star Fox first, which means Lylat Wars.
- Star Fox movie when? I can see Lylat Wars making a good movie, then an exciting sequel with the subtitle "Dinosaur Planet".
- This is all a setup for a Super Smash Bros movie event (a la Avengers Endgame), isn't it?
In retrospect, we should have seen this coming. Several of you did, posting this screenshot from one of the more obscure trailers from Feburary 17th.
See that on the left side? That's definitely Fox! To my embarrassment, I saw people talking about this online a week or two ago, and I thought it was an AI hoax. There are certainly a lot of them out there now. Now that I look at it more closely, even if I hadn't known today's announcement, I think I would have erred on the side of believing it.
On that note, there's a lot of AI hoax stuff out there of Fox interacting with Mario already, trying to get views or mess with people. Stay safe out there and only trust official sources!
The movie comes out on April 1st, just a couple days away. I went ahead and got tickets to a midnight showing, so I will be able to bring you the first official Star Fox coverage in a long time! So if you're interested in finding out what role Fox plays, as well as what implied future plans for Nintendo's "cinematic universe", just check back here on the Krystal Archive at about 2 AM (Central) on April 1st.
Comments
WHHAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOO!!!!! THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE, there’s no way that the Star Fox series would ever interact with the Mario series except only in “Smash Bros”, even in a Super Mario movie. The only other series that I know of so far that also exist in the Mario universe is Donkey Kong and Yoshi. Even though in Mario Kart 8 they had a cameo of Link from Zelda and the Inklings from Splatoon, but this here has to obviously be one of the granddads of April Fools pranks that I have ever seen. So kudos to you Mr.Krystal, for you are now the “Prank Master” of your culdesac or as of this moment.
P.S. You have a swell website here Mr.Krystal, I’ve been a fan of the series for a long time, even though you don’t have the fanart section anymore and sorry that this comment is long
Oh sure suddenly Nintendo want to give a shout out to a franchise of theirs that hasn’t had any REAL installments in over a decade.