Please Don't Make a Smash Bros Movie

Schaff doesn't think a Smash Bros film is a very Smashing idea

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[SmeargleStuff]

I could really go for a 30 minute smash bros comedy skit by Nintendo where the joke is how different everything is and how nothing fits.

[Nuvizzle]

I've always appreciated the fact that Smash Bros.'s actual story is that it's just a kid smashing action figures together to make them fight. That truly is the best justification you can have for that kind of game.

[JAProductions]

Honestly, my first thought after finishing the Mario movie was “I hope they do a Luigi’s Mansion movie”. It wasn’t “I hope they do a Smash Bros movie”. Mario is big enough as is and you can make so much from this one franchise

[panaotispanaotis]

Actually, a Stop motion Pikmin movie made by Aardam wouldn't be a bad idea.

[colleagueloyal]

I want a cute childlike Kirby series but only the ending is just batshit horrifying

[Cupheadfan]

I swear to god not everything needs to be a cinematic universe

[The_Skyfoogle]

"I NEED a smash bros cinematic universe" MFs when they hear that they will need to sit through 15 fire emblem films to understand the story.

[americanintendo]

Another issue is that there are now so many characters in Smash. If you have too many characters in a movie, then you will have people complaining that their favorites didn’t get a lot of screen time or character development, and it will be hard to give each character a decent amount of screen time. Plus, if they only decide to include certain characters to reduce the cast size and make it easier to create a better film storywise, then people will be complaining that their favorite characters are being excluded. Either way, it’s a lose-lose situation.

[mercianthane]

Kirby can work, if the first part of the film is insanely kid friendly, then the second part scalates to an action packed adventure and the third act is pure Lovecraftian horror.

[donnelwaddledee]

A Splatoon Anime would be fun as I could see it being a Spy/Sports Anime where an Inkling has to balance life between their competitive Turf/Ranked sessions and stopping whatever Agents are dealing with.

[PastryIsaac]

Schaffrillas isn’t pregnant but still never fails to deliver

[bunnytrailtraveler]

can you imagine illumination portraying war crimes and exploring the intricacies and pitfalls of a magical aristocratic society in a Fire Emblem Three Houses movie

[jeepmega]

The Mario franchise is so utterly gigantic that you could make 5 other spin-off movie franchises alongside the main Mario movie franchise.

[andrewdrost]

The Mario universe is pretty much as expansive as the MCU. Making a Smash Bros movie would be more similar to shoving Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Spongebob, LOTR, Mickey Mouse, Forest Gump, and Despicable Me into a movie together than just making a "new MCU".

[funkythor]

“Why can’t a movie be a movie anymore?” You have no idea how much I felt that. I love the MCU but the impact it did made people think that every movie needs to be connected and have a big pay off in the end with a crossover film, we can’t have solo movies or stories anymore, it’s honestly really sad and unfortunate.
Another point that you didn’t mention is that having a smash bros movie would be a mess because of how many characters there are, Ultimate had like 80+ characters, it would be a nightmare for writers to handle that much

[ad-sd-vids]

A super smash bros movie is like if the Lego movie wasn’t about legos and claimed that dumbledore, Gandalf, the Justice league, the Star Wars characters, and the TMNT were all in the same universe and interacting with each other

[FatAlbert]

An Earthbound movie by Laika would literally make western civilization implode

[Jean-Paul-Lane-Valley]

It's simple: People don't want movies for the interesting plots, messages or style; people just want to see the products they recognize from their childhood in another medium just because. Now, imagine a buch of products sharing screentime toguether, that's a money printer if I ever saw one.

[AlexDayz]

The tonal differences of these franchises would definitely make it more difficult. Imagine Chrom Fire Emblem says something like “my older sister died” and then Kirby is just like “POYO”. Heck in Smash itself the characters don’t really say much

[Criegrrunov]

I want an Earthbound series that much like the Kirby one, would begin being all sweet and child friendly but end up with straight up cosmic horror.