THE FUSE

Nintendo and Illumination decided to casually spoil one of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s big surprises by sharing a poster of Star Fox’s own Fox McCloud as he will appear in the film when it premieres next week. This obviously raises a lot of questions about both the nature of the animated Mario movies and whether we might be working our way up to a Super Smash Bros.-style movie down the line. But the biggest question on most folks’ minds is “Why the hell did Nintendo announce this?”