Mario Movie Peach Backstory is now Canon to the games

Mario games aren't exactly story-heavy. A plumber who eats mushrooms to get a big stomp on a bunch of goombas until they get to the castle and throw Bowser into the lava or sometimes the sun. End. If you're looking for character motivation and meaningful relationships, you'll have to settle for Daisy turning into an elephant.

That's not exactly ideal for a movie, so Illumination's new movies have expanded on each character's personality and story to give them some depth (well, as much as you can in a movie that hangs at you for two hours). One of the most interesting revelations to come out of this shift in approach is that Peach and Rosalina are actually sisters, which was finally confirmed after decades of speculation in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

“I would like to stick to the original story established in the film”

Rosalina reads to Luma in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

Submitters who wrote a fanfic of Rosalina and Peach cuddling outside a castle or drew artwork of a couple locking lips might cry, “The movies are their own thing! They're not sisters in the games!” Sorry to burst your bubble, but according to Shigeru Miyamoto, they are.

“Because we don't always know what kind of game we're going to make next, too many character stories can end up limiting us,” Miyamoto said (via Nintendo Dream Web, translated by machine learning). “I'm fine with being tied down by the gameplay, but I didn't want to be limited by the story we've created — that's why we've avoided making movies for so many years.

“We didn't decide on Peach's origin until we made this movie,” he continued. “But now that we've made the movie, it's fun to expand on the character in different ways. That's why I'd like to stick to the story set in the movie as much as possible in future games.”

There's no point trying to decipher what the canon Mario games are (if you think the Zelda timeline is confusing, fine), but at least we know that Rosalina and Peach are now sisters. Maybe it's time to hang up their fan art and fan art as a couple. In retrospect, it's a little strange.