Super Mario Bros.

In the climax of the 1993 live-action *Super Mario Bros.* movie, King Koopa attempts to merge his alternate dimension with Earth, causing landmark structures in New York City to temporarily transform. During this visual sequence, Koopa's Tower overlaps with the World Trade Center, showing one of the Twin Towers dissolving, smoking, and crumbling away as the dimensions collide. Released eight years before September 11, 2001, the scene later gained notoriety among online pop culture theorists, who categorized the eerie imagery of a damaged World Trade Center tower as another striking pre-9/11 visual coincidence in mainstream 1990s media.