Internet cranks proven right for once as Nintendo admits Star Fox is in Super Mario Galaxy

It’s a weird move: While 2023’s Super Mario Bros. Movie did go a bit afield into wider Nintendo characters, it mostly did so via Seth Rogen’s Donkey Kong, a character who traditionally has a lot of backstory and beef with its central mustachioed plumber. Fox, meanwhile, exists in a whole other franchise, and has only interacted with the Mario cast through the Smash Bros. fighting game series. (Which has led some people to speculate that a Smash Bros. movie is currently kicking around in some executive’s head; we’d tell these people to calm down, but, hey, we would have said that about Fox being in this movie, so…)

The poster reveal of the character—who is, for the unfamiliar, a Fox who lives among the Stars, you’re welcome—didn’t reveal one key detail, i.e., which celebrity A-lister will pick up a paycheck for briefly voicing him in this movie. (He’s been handled by a variety of voice actors in the Star Fox games, although the Mario movies have been some pretty un-shy guys when it comes to swapping out game actors in favor of bankable stars.) Mario Galaxy sees Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, and Jack Black reprise their roles from the first movie, with Benny Safdie, Brie Larson, and Donald Glover joining for this second outing. The film invades theaters on April 1.