The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s post-credits scene is a sequel teaser

Nintendo and Illumination’s Super Mario Bros. Movie brings Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and dozens of Toads and Kongs to the big screen in a highly referential, kid-friendly action movie where the breakout star is Jack Black’s Bowser. Mario and Luigi’s colorful cinematic adventure runs the approximate length of a child’s attention span — roughly 92 minutes — and after the climactic battle, viewers may be wondering, “Do I need to sit through Super Mario Bros. Movie credits with my kid to find out what happens next?”

Regardless of who you’re seeing the movie with, the short answer is yes, The Super Mario Bros. MovieDoes have a post credits scene. There is also a scene in the middle of credits. It is an animated movie, not a CGI/live action hybrid blockbuster from Marvel Studios. The credits are quite short, compared to the modern movies.

Here’s what happens.

[Ed. note: The following contains spoilers for the ending of The Super Mario Bros. Movie.]

Mario and Luigi have defeated Bowser successfully in Brooklyn. Now, Bowser is safe in his glass prison. After a brief credits sequence, Bowser is returned to the screen, shortly after his victory in New York. He is once again singing his ode to the princess, “Peaches.” It’s revealed that this reprise performance is played by a shrunken Bowser on a shrunken grand piano. It’s a funny sight gag, and a chance to get another shot of Jack Black for the road, but it’s also an inconsequential mid-credits stinger.

What is the outcome? AfterThe credits are a good place to start. Super Mario Bros. MoviePossibly a sequel. The credits are over and the film returns to Brooklyn underground where Mario, Luigi, and others discovered the Pipeworks leading to the Mushroom Kingdom. We see the familiar Yoshi egg. It is about to hatch. After the film ends, we hear the familiar Yoshi cry. (Which is “Yoshi!”)

Yoshi’s character is finally revealed in Super Mario Bros. MovieIt’s not surprising that we see many of them in herds moving earlier in the movie, when Mario, Peach and Toad travel to the Kong Kingdom. Surprise! Mario and Luigi might be surprised when Yoshi wanders off in Brooklyn. Whether that’s actually part of the plot of the next Super Mario movie remains to be seen. But after a full-on Koopa Troopa invasion of Brooklyn at the end of the film, a cute dinosaur running amok through the Big Apple won’t make its residents blink. Surely, Nintendo and Illumination have bigger plans for Mario and Luigi’s next adventure, but it seems all but guaranteed to include Yoshi.