Apparently she's the only one capable of healing her people, and with her white magic and
healing capabilities seen years later in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, that story checks out... except for all the bricks in subsequent Mario games.
And that's really the fascinating thing that the film dabbles into but is too afraid to explore with much depth: what if humanity had the
capability of actually creating «God» — all -
seeing, all - knowing, with the
capability to
heal and protect people, and to rid the world of hunger, strife, war and pollution?