Jump Man
The oddest thing about The Super Mario Bros. Movie is that Nintendo exists within the film’s universe, but presumably does not have Mario as its mascot. When we see Mario in his room, he’s playing Kid Icarus on his old-school 8-bit NES, and there’s even a model of Star Fox’s Arwing on top of the television set. There’s also posters on his wall for Ice Climbers and Baseball.
The most meta reference is in the pizzeria, where we see an arcade cabinet of Donkey Kong—Mario’s first appearance in a video game. However, it is renamed as Jump Man, which was Mario’s original name before Nintendo formalized the canon.
