Did anyone else notice that there were NO original characters whatsoever in the Galaxy movie?
I don't see anyone talk about his, but I'm starting to wonder if it's a sign for the future of the series that they may not even want to debut a new character as a villain or just a new interesting side character.
While they didn't play massive roles, the first film DID have some original characters. Francis the dog, the Toad council, the Brooklyn couple, Giuseppe, and the rest of Mario and Luigi's family were also OCs. And on some level, you could also consider the blue shelled koopa general an original character since we've never seen him before as a character as opposed to a Mario Kart item. There's also the Penguin King, and arguably Lumalee. (Lumalee did debut in Super Mario Galaxy, but this one has a very distinctive personality)
Some of these characters do return in the sequel as cameos, but that means that it's not their debut, and all new characters in the Galaxy movie didn't actually debut in that movie. I'm not going to say it's a particularly massive flaw that the Galaxy movie has, as it's filled to the brim with tons of characters, but just being able to come up with new characters, even minor ones, could drive a fresh sense of creativity into these films.