Part 2
Nintendo's platform-scroller video game series Super Mario Bros. (1985-) may show some future clues (circa 2024) to the Ghostbusters sci-fi / comedy franchise as well as films based on the comic book series of Marvel and DC. The original 1984 film was the basis for a computer game eventually ported to the NES home console in 1988.
- Ghosts enemies are introduced from Super Mario Brothers 3 (1988). Called Boo, they appear in world 2 (Desert Land) in the fortress.
- In the same scene as the Boo, close-by are the Thwomp enemies which are rock-like with encrusted spikes. I thought the Thwomp similar in appearance to the Superman villain character Doomsday.
- If accurate, this specific point in Super Mario 3 may show a time period near to the present (November, 2024).
Why I believe this is:
- The 5th Ghostbusters film Frozen Empire was released in March.
- The Bobby Brown music video for Ghostbusters 2 in 1989 "On Our Own" featured cameos by Donald Trump (just re-elected as President of The USA in November) & a major link to Superman: actor Christopher Reeve.
- A major visual anchor or reference point may be the Piranha Plant (plant with mouth & teeth that pops up out of the pipes / similar to the "real world" Venus Fly Trap), encountered early in the gameplay of Super Mario Bros. released in 1985.
- Actor Rick Moranis (Louis in Ghostbusters) was later in the 1986 adaptation of the stage theatrical musical Little Shop Of Horrors. Audrey II in this story is similar looking carnivorous plant.
- Moranis was in the 1989 comedy Honey I shrunk The Kids, where he played a tinkering inventor who reduces the size of his kids by accident. A giant ant is prominently featured in this. This film may be predictive to actor Paul Rudd's future role as Marvel Comics superhero Ant-Man who also has the power to reduce his size to a smaller scale.
- Rudd joined the Ghostbusters movie cast in 2012's Afterlife film and subsequently appeared in Frozen Empire in 2024.
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