Super Mario: Makai Teikoku no Megami



Super Mario Bros.: Goddess of the Demon Empire is a 34-page oneshot manga published in Shogakukan's Monthly Corocoro Comic Summer Holiday Special in 1993. It is an adaptation of the  Super Mario Bros. film made to promote the then-upcoming movie.

Differences from the film
Due to the manga's short length, much of the second half of the movie is heavily truncated or adapted out. Characters such as Lena, Bertha, Yoshi, Daniella, and Anthony Scapelli do not appear, though Lena's design is used for Daisy's mother. Iggy and Spike have expanded roles as the ones to insert the meteorite piece; they subsequently die, while in the movie they survived.

President Koopa, unlike his film counterpart, is portrayed as an ugly lizard-man with regenerative powers, who can only be permanently stopped if his head is destroyed. He also successfully turns many inhabitants of Brooklyn into monkeys as part of the invasion, while in the film he only did this to Scapelli.