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“ | Finally! You got here just in time to see the creation of my galaxy in the center of the universe! WATCH AND WEEP! From this galaxy, I'll rule a great galactic empire with Peach by my side. It will last forever! I will rule every pitiful corner of the universe. So, Mario, as you can see, I got big plans. And stomping you is at the top of my list! | „ |
~ Bowser confronting Mario to decide the fate of the universe |
“ | Check out my flame! Yeah! I am ROCKING this new look! Oh man...I have so much power...I can do whatever I want! Peach...This island...This world...All of it...MINE! And you guys are...COOKED! | „ |
~ Bowser after absorbing the power of the Dream Stone and preparing to attack Mario and Luigi |
“ | SHOWTIME!!! | „ |
~ Bowser before engaging in a fight |
Summary
Bowser, sometimes known as King Koopa (Japanese: 大魔王クッパ, Daimaō Kuppa or "Great Demon King Koopa"), is the main antagonist of the Mario series and the King of the Koopas. He has repeatedly kidnapped or attempted to kidnap Princess Peach and take over the Mushroom Kingdom. He has also attempted to conquer other lands, such as the Mushroom World, Dinosaur Land, Sprixie Kingdom, and even the entire universe. Despite his villainous nature, he has occasionally helped the heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom against common threats and participates with them in their numerous sporting events in spin-off games.
Since his debut, Bowser has been in nearly every Mario game, including the main series, spin-offs, and crossovers. Due to his role as the primary villain of the Mario series, he is mostly the final or penultimate boss in his appearances, if not as the main antagonist (an example being Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga). In the Mario RPGs, Bowser is generally cast as an antihero or a minor villain, with the exception of Paper Mario, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, and Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam.
Powers and Stats
Tier: High 6-A, far higher with Size Manipulation and certain power-ups. 4-A with Reality Warping and 3-C with Preparation | High 4-C, higher with more Power Stars | 2-B
Key: Base | Power Star | Dreamy Bowser
Name: Bowser Koopa (Simply called Koopa in Japan), Rookie (By Popple), King Koopa, King of the Koopas, Cap'n Bowser, Bowser the Brilliant,[1] Bowser the Brash, Wizard Bowser, Bowser Sphinx, Black Hole Bowser, King of Awesome (Self proclaimed), Great Demon King Koopa, Great Sorcerer King Koopa, Lord Bowser, King Bowser
Origin: Mario Bros
Gender: Male
Age: 26-27 years old, likely over 30 years old (He was a toddler when Mario was a newborn baby)
Classification: Koopa King, Sorcerer, Star Child
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Genius Intelligence
- Breaking the Fourth Wall (Can see and comment on the color of the text in Fawfuls speech bubble,[2] interrupted the ending of Yoshi's New Island and tore apart the screen[3])
- Immortality (Types 2, 3, and 7. Can live and perfectly function even when reduced to a skeleton. Managed to also survive as nothing more than some form of a celestial body)
- Acausality (Type 1. Can interact with and attack his baby self with no repercussions)
- Large Size (Type 0 normally. Despite his size being inconsistent throughout the series, he is consistently portrayed to be close to, or at least twice the size of Mario. Type 1 as Giant Bowser)
- Regeneration (At least High-Mid, he can casually remove and reattach his skull,[4] reassemble his skeleton if it's scattered apart,[5] and quickly recover from being turned into cut up pieces of paper as Dry Bowser.[4] Possibly Mid-High, was blown up as a literal firework[6] and recovered just fine not too long after,[6] although it's unknown if he regenerated himself)
- Self-Sustenance (Types 1 and 2. Consistently shown to be capable of breathing in space and underwater, and he can live and function normally even when reduced to an organless skeleton and as such does not require food, refreshments, or oxygen)
- Telepathy (Can communicate with people from across dimensions[7])
- Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant (Has consistently contended with Mario on various occasions, even managing to triumph over him a few times)
- Extrasensory Perception and Clairvoyance (Was able to sense and watch Mario entering Peachs castle despite being in another dimension,[7] and could sense his targets location in his tower and watch their battles with his minions[8])
- Self-Perception Manipulation and Afterimage Creation (With Zone Speed, Bowser can slow down his perception of time to the point everything is slowed to a crawl.[9] The technique also continuously generates afterimages when moving around[9])
- Dimensional Travel and Time Travel (Was able to warp through space and time decades into the past)
- Weapon Proficiency (Skilled in utilizing hammers)
- Weapon Control (Can attach additional armaments to his Koopa Clown Car)
- Vehicular Mastery (Bowser is skilled in[10] piloting his Koopa Clown Car,[11] a highly skilled kart racer who can effortlessly perform drifts and competitively participate in intense high speed races[12])
- Bodily Weaponry (Via his claws, tail, and shell spines)
- Toon Force and Elasticity (Can survive being flattened and is able to recover immediately)
- Acrobatics (Can easily leap several dozen to hundreds of feet into the air, perform acrobatic flips, instantly accelerate himself and slide at top speed, and can mimic Yoshi's Flutter Jump to keep himself in the air)
- Statistics Amplification (Can boost his own attack power alongside his minion's)
- Non-Physical Interaction (Can attack boos, and his attacks could harm and destroy the soul of the Elder Princess Shroob)
- Flight (True Flight. Capable of[13] flight[14]),
- Magic, Breath Attack, Danmaku, Fire Manipulation, Magma Manipulation, Homing Attack, and Intangible Attacks (Capable of[15] breathing out[16] fireballs[17] and large[18] streams of fire,[19] he can create flaming boomerangs,[20] create and control rings of fire and conjure red spheres that explode into flames,[21] he can generate flaming shockwaves and a ring of fire around himself,[19] can coat his claws[22] and tail in fire,[19] he can spit out fireballs that turn into puddles of magma,[23] fire off a volley of flaming meteorites, can raise the magma within his castle,[24] can shoot fireballs that can phase through solid objects but still damage his target,[25] and he can shoot homing fireballs.[26] Bowser can also unleash a stream of fireballs in the sky, causing them to rain down on his surroundings)
- Earth Manipulation (Via Crusher, Bowser summons a jagged rock to shoot up from the ground, right beneath one enemy of his choice. Similar to Rock Mario, Bowser can also surround himself in rocks to form a boulder)
- Smoke Manipulation (Can breath out damaging smoke if his fire breath doesn't work)
- Transformation (Can transform himself into Metal Bowser, increasing his weight by 10 times)
- Electricity Manipulation (Can summon lightning bolts, generate purple orbs that explode into electrical shockwaves,[21] and he can project a large blast of electricity[27])
- Air Manipulation and BFR (After eating the Vacuum Shroom, Bowser gained the ability to inhale objects and characters inside his body. He can also forcibly bring his targets with him to various locations)
- Attack Reflection (Can reflect his fireballs[26]),
- Summoning (Can summon allies and members of his Koopa Troop to aid him in battle)
- Teleportation (Has shown the ability[28] to teleport[17]),
- Telekinesis (Capable of,[29] telekinetically holding[13] and moving objects[30])
- Size Manipulation (He can shrink his targets to cellular size and alter his own size to gigantic proportions)
- Poison Manipulation (He can create a thick fog of poison to surround his opponent,[31] his claws and teeth are also naturally poisonous)
- Curse Manipulation and Body Puppetry (Can cast curses that limits his targets movement or forces them to move in the opposite direction they want to go[32])
- Body Control (Has a good deal of control over the spikes on his shell, to where he can retract them. He can also turn his shell into a ball that he can contort into, roll around in his shell, and he can control his head even when it's not attached to his body)
- Surface Scaling (By rolling into his shell, Bowser can travel alongside vertical surfaces, such as a wall)
- Rage Power (When enraged his strength doubles at the cost of taking twice as much damage as he normally would[33])
- Power Nullification (Scaling to Bowser X, who can suck attack icons, preventing Mario & Luigi from using their respective moves)
- Shockwave Generation (Can create harmful shockwaves by ground-pounding)
- Transmutation (Turned most of the Toads in the Mushroom Kingdom into stone blocks, bricks, and plants, turned a Koopa Troopa into a frog, was converting all the beings inside the castles paintings into subservient monsters, and turned all the Egglings living in Eggland into apples)
- Sealing (Trapped almost everyone in Peach's castle walls and paintings and sealed most of the doors in the castle, sealed Princess Peach away with a seal. Has also kept Princess Peach contained within a bubble)
- Fusionism (Merged several Bowser Dice Blocks into a single Super Bowser Dice Block)
- Creation (Created a 30 floor tower and an island with his magic)
- Forcefield Creation (Can create a barrier to protect himself[19])
- Portal Creation (Can create portals[34])
- Illusion Creation (Able to create physical illusionary copies of his hat that can damage his opponent, and created a fake painting of Princess Peach that turns into a painting of himself when Mario gets closer)
- Fear Manipulation and Statistics Reduction (Via Terrorize,[31] which induces fear onto the targets and reduces their strength and durability by half[35])
- Matter Manipulation (Could gather and control cosmic matter to form a boulder around his body)
- Gravity Manipulation (Able to alter his own and Mario's gravitational fields to fling himself and Mario to various planetoids)
- Spatial Manipulation (Turned a small flight of stairs into an "endless" distance that kept anyone stuck at the bottom no matter how long they ran up the stairs by creating a spatial loop)
- Life-Force Absorption and Healing (He can absorb large amounts of his targets life force to heal himself by merely chewing on them),
- Reality Warping and Pocket Reality Manipulation (Was able to turn Yoshi's Island into a storybook dimension, was going to corrupt all the good dream worlds created by the Dream Depot and twist them to make his own dreams come true
- Preparation
- Life Manipulation (Created sentient lifeforms to combat Mario)
- Water Manipulation and Duplication (Created Bowser's Tower[36] with a bubble machine that can seal away fun within bubbles. With the bubble machine, he's also created water clones of the other characters present in Party Island, and even created a believable copy of himself to trick Mario[36])
All abilities from his Base, plus:
Standard:
- Large Size (Type 1)
- Passive Weather Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Corruption (Type 2. The effects of Black Ooze worked on the whole Cat World. Each time Fury Bowser appears, creatures such as the Lake Lapcat cats are turned hostile, and the sky darkens and begins to storm heavily)
- Reactive Evolution and Accelerated Development (Bowser was at first affected by the purifying light of the lighthouses, but later on grew strong enough to where it did not affect him, and the Giga Bells were needed to defeat him, although he kept his Fury Bowser abilities even after being cleansed by the Giga Bells, and 3 Giga Bells are required to fully cleanse and defeat this new Giant Bowser)
- Passive Platform Creation and Creation (Fury Bowser's appearance causes certain platforms to appear and rise from the water as well as spawn floating golden islands that will appear in random places that all disappear when Fury Bowser sleeps, and create pillars to damage Mario and Plessie),
Black Ooze:
- Portal Creation and BFR (It sent Mario to the setting of Bowser's Fury which is a different world as it even has a different sun)
- Sealing (By spreading his black ooze around the lake, Bowser was able to seal away entire islands which rise up from the water upon the ooze being vanquished)
- Durability Negation (The Black Ooze can harm Mario while he is invincible. It is not a game mechanic as Mario dies instantly to lava with this same invincibility Power-Up)
- Adhesive Manipulation (Slows Giga Cat Mario and Giga Mario in general and lessens jumping ability).
Fury Shadows:
- Body Control
- Inorganic Physiology (Type 2)
- Flight (Restricted Flight. Through levitation)
- Resurrection
- Immortality (Types 4 and 8. The Fury Shadows made of black ooze will keep coming back from ooze, which Bowser can release just by moving around)
- Power Mimicry and Shapeshifting (Shown here to shapeshift into others, copying their abilities and movements)
Resistances:
- Purification (Type 2. 2 Layers - Grew strong enough to where the purifying light of the lighthouses did not affect him, thus requiring the power of individual Giga Bells. Despite later losing his Fury abilities from being cleansed by the Giga Bells, he managed to adapt again to their light; now requiring 3 Giga Bells to be defeated)
- Extreme Heat (On several occasions he has casually walked in lava, was sent flying into his artificial sun while being set on fire and resurfaced just a few minutes later completely unburned, was unbothered by setting himself on fire, and he has flown across the vacuum of space while not even remotely affected by the extreme cold. He's also casually sat in a bowl of hot water, said water being hot enough to harm Mario upon contact)
- Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiation (Unaffected by the radiation of space and black holes)
- Fire Manipulation (Can easily endure being set on fire from using a Flaming Tender.[37] He's also completely unfazed from his own fireballs hitting him)
- Electricity Manipulation (Can at most only be hindered slightly by lightning[20] despite being repeatedly struck by such)
- Darkness Manipulation, Air Manipulation, and Sealing (Could resist and fight within Dark Bowsers vortex which was a massive tornado made up of dark energy, and was only slightly blown back by its power while most citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom were sealed away by it)
- Limited Transmutation (He can fight while turned into a scarecrow[31])
- Black Hole Creation and Gravity Manipulation (Outran, withstood, and escaped black holes from Super Peach's Castle of Fury several times during their fight, he is also able to stand or float near them without threat of being dragged in by their gravitational force)
- Mind Manipulation and Possession (2 Layers - He can resist the effects of Lucien, remaining mostly in control of himself and using Lucien's power for his own goals even after Lucien regained his full power. He also couldn't be possessed by the Elder Princess Shroob)
- Transformation and Statistics Amplification (Via multiple power-ups)
- Greater Fire Manipulation (With the Fire Flower)
- Enhanced Statistics Amplification (The Super Star grants this due to in-game showings where a character becomes impervious to all types of conventional damage, and statements from sources)
- Further Surface Scaling (With the Super Bell, Bowser can transform into Meowser, thus being granted the same abilities as Cat Mario)
- Duplication (With the Double Cherry, Bowser can duplicate himself to form a single clone, or multiple at once)
Koopa Clown Car:
- Flight (True Flight. The Clown Car can seamlessly hover and maneuver around the air. It's also shown the capability to hover through space without issue)
- Light Manipulation and Petrification (Can unleash a large flash of light that turns anyone caught in it to stone[38])
- Energy Projection and Danmaku (The Clown Car can fire off a large volley of energy beams in rapid succession)
- Explosion Manipulation (Can release a cannon that can drop spiked bombs)
Gear/Items (Super Mario RPG):
- Purification (Type 3. With Able Juice and Freshen Up. Both can cure its user of all negative status ailments, not including death)
- Damage Reduction (With the Ghost Medal, B'tub Ring, and Bracer. It halves damage taken from all attacks that deal numeric amounts of damage, can halve damage from elemental attacks, and halve damage in general by 50% respectively)
- Damage Reduction and Statistics Amplification (With the Quartz Charm. It halves damage taken from enemy attacks and adds 50% more to attacks the wearer performs)
- Healing and Statistics Amplification (With the Bonus Flower. After an enemy is defeated, the flower can cause its user to either fully recover their HP, or increase their Attack/Defense by 50% for the remainder of the battle. Energizer can also increase its user's Attack by 50%)
- Healing (With Froggie Drink and Honey Syrup)
- Resurrection and Time Manipulation (With Earlier Times. Using it can rewind a battle to its beginning)
- Fire Manipulation (With Fire Bomb. This item is especially effective against those weak to Fire)
- Ice Manipulation (With Ice Bomb. This item is especially effective against those weak to Ice)
- Sleep Manipulation (With Sleepy Bomb. Using it causes an enemy to instantly fall asleep)
- Fear Manipulation (With Fright Bomb. Using it summons Boos to scare and damage an enemy)
- Summoning and Transmutation (With Lamb's Lure and Sheep Attack. When using Lamb's Lure, a sheep appears and can turn an enemy into a sheep itself. When using Sheep Attack, a group of sheep come down, then fly around, turning all enemies into sheep that fly off)
- Resurrection (With Pick Me Up. It can revive a downed ally)
- Limited Enhanced Statistics Amplification (With Red Essence. It can grant invincibility for three turns)
- Danmaku (With Rock Candy. Using it performs a shining star storm)
Gear/Items (Mario & Luigi Series):
- Statistics Amplification (With Bands such as the Hunter Band, which can boosts his power by 10% upon the foe being KO'ed, maxing out at 30% when the battle is reset)
- Greater Fire Manipulation (With Red-Hot Fangs, which boosts the power of Bowser's Flame attack)
- Status Effect Inducement (With Burning Fangs, which doubles the chances of Flame causing the "Burn" status ailment)
- Healing (With Rings such as Restore Ring and Peace Ring and Bands like the Vampire Band, which regenerates 8% of Bowser's HP each time he performs a "Punch" attack)
- Resurrection (With Retry Clock. If Bowser falls in battle, the Retry Clock allows them to restart the battle with their HP restored to its previous state before battle, although this also resets the enemy's HP)
- Supernatural Luck (With Horn, which increases odds of critical hits and increases the chances of enemies dropping items after battle)
Gear/Items (Mario Kart Series):
- Summoning (With Item Boxes,[39] Bowser can summon a variety of Power-Ups and items to use at his disposal)
- Weapon Creation (Via the Boomerang Flower, which allows the user to create boomerangs[12])
- Homing Attack and Explosion Manipulation (With the Spiny Shell,[39] which targets those in "first" and homes in on them. The Red Shell can also home in on targets)
- Explosion Manipulation (With the Bob-omb)
- Sound Manipulation (With the Super Horn[39])
- Speed Amplification (With the Dash Mushroom, which can greatly amplify Bowser's speed, and the Golden Dash Mushroom, which is a more potent variant of the Dash Mushroom. He can also transform into a Bullet Bill, which is of comparable speed, if not faster, to the Golden Dash Mushroom)
- Electricity Manipulation, Size Manipulation, and Statistics Reduction (With Lightning, which can strike an opponent to shrink them, greatly reducing their speed)
- Status Effect Inducement (With the Blooper, which can squirt ink on an opponent to blind them)
With Lucien:
- Forcefield Creation, Energy Manipulation and Energy Projection (Can summon a barrier accompanied by orbs that also project balls of energy)
- Air Manipulation (He can conjure rows of, what appears to be, miniature tornadoes)
- Fire Manipulation (With Lucien, Bowser can spawn a pool of fire)
Miscellaneous:
- Invisibility and Intangibility (With Boo Biscuits, which makes him invisible and intangible even to others who can attack ghosts),
- Empathic Manipulation and Reality Warping (With Music Keys and Vibe Scepter.[40] Using the Music Keys suddenly made Bowser happy, which even surprised him. The Music Keys also reversed the barren landscape created by Bowser[40])
- Shapeshifting (Via the Megamorpth Belt)
- Shockwave Generation and Vibration Manipulation (With the POW Block, whenever thrown on the ground, it causes tremors that harm all enemies in its vicinity on said ground. Whenever hit while airborne, it harms all enemies within its vicinity)
- Status Effect Inducement (Which includes Elemental Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Transmutation, Poison Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Time Stop, Statistics Reduction, Paralysis Inducement, Size Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, and Power Nullification. Super Suit grants him these resistances)
All abilities of his Base enhanced.
- Greater Statistics Amplification (Stated to grow stronger from Peach's Castle the more Power Stars Mario collects)
- Healing (Power Stars can heal accumulated damage)
- Purification (Type 2. Defeating Bowser and his troops brought peace back to the world, shown to be due to power stars. Toad also states that life is returning to the castle thanks to the power of the Stars)
- Greater Statistics Reduction (Weakened Mario to the point where any attacks could kill him, was also described as sapping his strength)
- Further Dimensional Travel (Power Stars allowed Mario to return from the paintings he entered in Peach's Castle)
- Negation to Sealing (Power Stars can remove the seals placed on the castle doors by Bowser)
- Black Hole Creation (Power Stars have been shown to be capable of creating and containing black holes)
- Existence Erasure (Power Stars are composed of Mini Stars, which are capable of erasing the physical bodies of opponents)
All previous abilities enhanced.
- Large Size (Type 1)
- Energy Manipulation and Greater Shockwave Generation (His punches can generate streams of energy. The meteors he summons also can create harmful shockwaves)
- Reality Warping and Greater Black Hole Creation (Summoned a massive vortex during his battle against Mario)
- Dark Matter Manipulation and Existence Erasure (Created Bowser's Dark Matter Plant, which houses Dark Matter that can erase things from existence[41])
All abilities of his Base enhanced.
- Large Size (Type 0)
- Self-Sustenance (Type 3)
- Dream Manipulation (Due to being empowered by the Dream Stone, Dreamy Bowser should have power over dreams, and be able to manipulate all dream worlds)
- Greater Telekinesis (Can telekinetically bring his foes to him[42])
- Greater Shockwave Generation (Can generate powerful shockwaves by slamming his arms into the ground[42])
- Greater Forcefield Creation (Can use the Dream Stone's power to erect a barrier around himself)
- Further Portal Creation and Summoning (Can use portals to summon his minions)
- Healing (Dreamy Bowser can conjure food to heal himself should he be injured)
- Duplication (Dreamy Bowser is able to duplicate himself through the use of the Dream Stone)
- Passive Absorption (The Dream Stone can passively absorb dream energy from anyone who is sleeping. As Dreamy Bowser is empowered by the aforementioned artifact, he should be capable of it as well[42])
- Existence Erasure (Was going to use the Dream Stone to erase Mario and Luigi from existence before it was shattered[42])
Attack Potency: Multi-Continent level (Physically stronger than Mario and Luigi, as he can casually[43] destroy objects that[44] Mario himself cannot.[44] Can easily shake the entirety of Pagoda Peak), far higher with Size Manipulation (Was capable of sending Peach's mechanized Castle flying around the planet with one punch) and certain power-ups (Powered states such as Fury Bowser also render him gigantic, which should render him more powerful than his usual Giant Bowser form). Multi-Solar System level with Reality Warping (Warped the reality of Yoshi´s Island by transforming it in a storybook with a cosmological structure big enough to house a starry sky, which would yield this much energy) and Galaxy level with preparation (He was going to create his own galaxy via his Galaxy Reactor had he not been stopped by Mario and lost his Grand Star) | Large Star level, higher with more Power Stars | Multiverse level (Absorbed the Dream Stone and gained its power, with the Dream Stone containing a cosmology of 100,000 universes), several of his abilities ignore durability
Speed: Massively FTL+ (He can run almost as fast, sometimes even faster, than Mario and Luigi, and keep pace with them in combat, and he could tag and shoot down Lubbas spaceship with his meteors), faster with the Koopa Clown Car (The Koopa Clown Car is Bowser's preferred method of fast travel and is usually depicted as being faster than him) | Massively FTL+ | Massively FTL+, faster with the Koopa Clown Car
Lifting Strength: Class Y (Superior to Mario and Luigi, who threw a large cord to a satellite with this much force, and his Power Star-empowered minions) | Class Y (Much stronger than before) | At least Class Y (Immensely stronger than before)
Striking Strength: Multi-Continent level, far higher with Size Manipulation and certain power-ups | Large Star level, higher with more Power Stars | Multiverse level (Empowered by the Dream Stone, which is made of innumerable dreams)
Durability: Multi-Continent level (Can take attacks from Mario and Luigi. He is sometimes portrayed as so durable that the Bros. can't even hurt him by normal means, though this is not always the case), higher via his shell (Many attacks that can normally cause Bowser great harm can't even scratch his shell[45]), far higher with Size Manipulation and certain power-ups | Large Star level, higher with more Power Stars | Multiverse level (Empowered by the Dream Stone, and can tank hits from the Zeekeeper, who had fought and defeated a Dark Stone-empowered Antasma), higher via his shell
Stamina: Superhuman (Can fight repeated back-to-back battles with no hints of tiring, move across the entire Mushroom Kingdom without stopping, and battle his son on near-equal footing for weeks on end, and 342 times in a row, while showing no signs of fatigue[46]) | Superhuman | Infinite (As he is powered by a collection of countless dreams)
Range: Extended Melee Range to Several Meters normally (He is consistently portrayed as being much larger than most characters, ranging from 1.55 to 6.2 meters in size, and he has made use of weapons that often reach his own size), Tens of Meters as Giant Bowser (His giant form is often well over 20 meters in size), Interstellar and Interdimensional with his abilities (Turned Yoshi's Island into a storybook dimension large enough to contain several stars, he can easily teleport across tens of millions of light years to reach to other galaxies, sensed and telepathically spoke to Mario from another dimension and could watch what he did, can travel between dimensions, and used his endless distance technique on Mario while in another dimension). Galactic with Preparation (Was going to create his own galaxy) | Tens of Meters (By virtue of sheer size), Universal+ and Interdimensional via his abilities (The Grand Star can open up portals in space and time to as a form of travel to anywhere in the universe) | Extended Melee Range naturally (Much larger than his base form), at least Multiversal via his abilities (Empowered by the Dream Stone, which governs and control all dreams worlds)
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Chomp Shell: A Kinklink Shell that Bowser can toss at his opponent, the Kinklink will latch onto it's target and repeatedly bite them. Chomp: A Chain Chomp Bowser had befriended inside Boosters Tower, essentially a more powerful Kinklink it will latch onto its target and repeatedly bite them. Hurly Gloves: A pair of gloves that enhances Bowser's throwing strength, often using other people as a weapon. Spiked Link: A spiked ball and chain Bowser can toss at his opponent. Drill Claw: A pair of gloves that greatly sharpen and enhanced his claws, greatly increasing his physical strength.
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Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Bowser may display moments of stupidity and a lack of common sense on occassion, but is far from a brainless foe. Has built giant battle mechs of himself armed with various powerful weapons, as well as a massive space station that can operate beside the Sun.[47] Played up the dumb brute role to successfully trick Antasma and take the Dream Stone for himself, the latter of which was an incredibly calculating and careful individual. Successfully runs an entire kingdom and army, having set up complete tyranny on global and even galactic scales that were only thwarted by the intervention of Mario. Created a bubble machine that could trap the fun of the Party Islands and create duplicates of various Mario characters as well as a perfect copy of himself that he constantly used to trick the heroes in order to catch them off guard later. Achieved a doctorate and is able to cure various diseases and viruses with his own specially created medicine. Claimed to have an IQ of 9,800[1] before revealing to have created sentient lifeforms in his lab. Created a dark matter plant that could produce a near endless supply of dark matter that erases whatever it touches from existence. Responsible for the creation of a reactor that could form an entire galaxy.)
Weaknesses: While in his enraged state his durability drops by half. He can sometimes lack foresight which causes him to make mistakes and overlook crucial details in his plans. Highly arrogant and narcissistic.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Fire: What this reptilian tyrant is known for. It is Bowser's signature attack and he is able to make use of this with a multitude of diverse applications:
- Fire Breath: Bowser's signature attack and probably the most skilled fire breather in the series as he is able to breathe fire in various ways. Bowser will breathe fire either in large streams or individual large fireballs. He also uses this move to make a fiery rain and breath different colored fire that has unique effects such as breathing blue fireballs that homes onto his target. Bowser have occasionally shown to be even embed his physical attacks such as claw swipes and tail whips with fire.
- Fire Storm: Bowser breathes a large stream of fire that acts as a whip. Hitting opponents with it cause them to be cloaked in fire, run uncontrollably, and reverse their normal movements.
- Fire Breath Barrage: Bowser's Special Shot in Mario Tennis Aces. First, he roars and begins breathing a stream of flames on his racket, setting it on fire. He then jumps high and quickly spins in the air while leaving trails of fire before hitting the ball.
- Fury Blast: An enhanced version of his normal Fire Breath. This version of his iconic attack is only used by Fury Bowser, in which he unleashes a large stream of fire in a single direction of his choosing.
K.O. Punch: Bowser will charge up his fist with some form of energy before unleashing a devastating punch on his opponent.
Dashing Punch: Bowser will slide forwards as if he were on ice at high speeds while holding his fist out.
Spiked Shell: Like the Koopa Troopas, Bowser can retreat into his shell and start spinning around at high speeds and ramming into the opponent.
Spike Shot: Bowser will either shoot spikes from his claws or shell at his opponent.
Shockwaves: Bowser will stomp or hit the ground so hard, he will generate shockwaves. The shockwaves will occasionally have an electric or fiery effect.
Fury: A double-edged status alignment that activates when Bowser takes several hits, glowing red and roaring upon activation. All of his attacks will double in power but he also receives double the damage from his opponents as well.
Magic: Alongside his usual tactics for combatting his foes, Bowser is also no stranger to using magic to achieve what he desires.
- Transmutation: A personal favorite of his, Bowser will cast a spell on his target(s) that will change them into helpless stone bricks, blocks, plants, frogs, apples, or even obedient monsters, being able to affect entire populations of a country at once with the spell with ease.
- Bowser Crush: Bowser will create a giant green Mechakoopa to stampede over his opponents.
- Illusionary Hats: Bowser will create illusionary hats to throw at his opponent, despite being illusions they can physically harm anyone they touch.
- Gravity Inversion: Bowser will alter his targets gravity to fling them to his desired destination, being able to move even those who can withstand and somewhat resist the gravitational pull of a black hole, he can also alter his own gravity to achieve the same effects.
- Endless Distance: Bowser will distort and manipulate the very fabric of space itself to create what seems to be an infinite amount of distance. Using this technique,Bowser will create a spatial loop that traps his targets at the start leaving them unable to get near him.
- Bowser Curse: Bowser will place a curse on his target that will allow him to control their movements, having been shown to make them take steps they didn't mean or want too, or force them to turn around and walk in the opposite direction.
Ground Pound: Introduced in Super Mario Bros. 3, the Ground Pound is a move usually executed by crouching in midair, but it is sometimes used by pressing the jump button twice instead (usually in Mario Party minigames). When the move is used, the character slams their rear end on the ground, which can cause many results. Bowser is no exception, as he's also shown to perform a Ground Pound should the need arise.
Poison Gas: Bowser will create a fog of poison gas that will damage and poison his opponents. He can also utilize poison attacks with his claws and bites.
Terrorize: Bowser will summon a giant Boo to strike fear into his opponents. This will cause damage and inflict the Fear status on his opponents.
Crusher: Bowser will make a giant jagged rock spire up from the ground beneath his foes.
Magic Weapon: Bowser will forge a weapon made of pure energy in shape of a hockey stick. This move is only seen in Mario Sport Mix.
Gear: The Gear in the Mario & Luigi series, specifically Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, is equipment that raises Mario and/or Luigi's stats, along with sometimes providing special effects. In contrast to the Clothing that the Bros. can wear, Bowser is given different attributes to his bodily weaponry; Claws, Fangs, Shell, and including Rings.
Music Keys: Artifacts with the power of music. They hold multiple powers such as mind control, manipulating the weather and emotions, healing, and even warping reality.
Vibe Scepter: The Vibe Scepter, or Vibe Wand, is a magic wand in Super Princess Peach. It affects the enemies' vibes; vibes acting as emotions that can be forced on any living creature/thing. With it, Bowser can use its power to amplify his own emotions, greatly empowering himself.
- Bubble Machine: Using this he can create water clones of his targets which are almost as powerful as the real thing, he was able to seal away the Party Islands and their fun within the machines bubbles and he can create a perfect clone of himself with it.
- Bowser Mech: Bowser can take control of a giant mech of himself outfitted with bombs, missiles, and energy cannons.
- Galaxy Reactor: His greatest invention, the reactor harnesses the power of a Grand Star to cause a universal collapse, destroying the very fabric of the universe and erasing everything before recreating the cosmos in anyway Bowser desires.
Lucien: Lucien is an ancient tennis racket with the power to control people. It appears as the main antagonist of Adventure Mode in Mario Tennis Aces. By using its power, Bowser can merge with it to become Bowcien.
Brawl Attacks: Brawl Attacks, originally called Special Attacks and similar to Bros. Attack, are special moves that only appear in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and its 3DS remake, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey. Bowser is able to use these, with each Brawl Attack using a certain amount of Brawl Points (shortened to BP; known as Special Points/SP in the original)
- Goomba Storm: Bowser will summon a group of Goombas and send them charging towards the opponent, he can also set many of them on fire which sends them into the air before crashing down on the opponent dealing more damage.
- Shy Guy Squad: Bowser will summon a group of Shy Guys and contort himself into a spiked ball, the Shy Guys will then push him against a rope building up momentum before letting him go, causing Bowser to get sent hurtling towards his opponent at high speeds.
- Koopa Corps: Bowser will summon a group of Koopa Troopas and all of them (Including Bowser himself) duck into their shells and start spinning, with Bowser ricocheting the Koopas into the opponent.
- Bob-omb Blitz: Bowser will summon a group of Bob-ombs who he'll command to huddle together before they run into and explode on the opponent.
- Magikoopa Mob: Bowser will summon a group of Magikoopas who will start charging uo energy in their wands, while they're charging Bowser will shoot fireballs into their wands which the Magikoopas will then supercharge and fire at the opponent.
- Broggy Bonkers: Bowser will summon Broggy and start to clean her to prepare her to attack the opponent, once ready she'll ram into the opponent with the Blittles following suit and also ramming into them.
Notes:
- Avoid attempts to upgrade this verse based on Power Stars creating the Painting Worlds, as the original Japanese text conflicts with this, therefore it cannot be used as a feat.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mario Party Advance
- ↑ Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga; First Fawful Battle
- ↑ Yoshi's New Island
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam - Secret Boss
- ↑ New Super Mario Bros. - Dry Bowser
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Super Mario 3D World - Ending
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Super Mario 64 - Bob-Omb Battlefield
- ↑ Mario Party: Island Tour - Bowser's Tower
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Mario Tennis Aces
- ↑ Super Mario World: Final Boss
- ↑ Mario Party: Island Tour; Final Boss
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Mario Party 9; Final Boss
- ↑ Super Mario 3D Land; World 8 First Castle
- ↑ Super Mario Bros 3; Final Boss
- ↑ New Super Mario Bros; Final Boss
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Super Mario Galaxy
- ↑ Super Mario 64; Final Bowser Battle
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Super Mario Odyssey
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Mario Party 4: Final Boss
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Mario Party 5; Final Boss
- ↑ New Super Mario Bros U; Final Boss
- ↑ Super Mario 3D World; First Bowser Battle
- ↑ New Super Mario Bros 2; Final Boss
- ↑ Super Mario 3D Land
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time; Final Boss
- ↑ Super Mario Galaxy: Opening
- ↑ Super Mario 64; Second Bowser Battle
- ↑ Mario Party 10
- ↑ Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
- ↑ Mario Party 3
- ↑ Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
- ↑ Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
- ↑ Super Mario RPG: Legends of the Seven Stars; Nintendo Player's Guide; Pages 9 & 13
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Mario Party: Island Tour
- ↑ Mario Kart Arcade GP DX
- ↑ New Super Mario Bros. 2
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 Mario Kart Series
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 Mario Party: Island Tour
- ↑ Super Mario Galaxy - Bowser's Dark Matter Plant
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
- ↑ Super Mario 3D Land - Final Boss
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 Super Mario Odyssey - Final Boss
- ↑ Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story - Final Boss
- ↑ Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's Journey
- ↑ Mario Party 8 Party Mode - Bowser's Warped Orbit
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