#red koopa troopa shell

[eris1521987]

Some Old Mario Pics I made to look like some stages, using both Legos and figures.

[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

Blue Shell Spinys And Mario Kart's Spiny Shell

So recently after The Super Mario Bros. Movie I've seen many people going under the assumption that the Blue Shells from Mario Kart are Koopa Troopas shells, and that Blue Shelled Koopas are special high ranking Koopas.

However while the Blue Shell is a Koopa shell it is not a Koopa Troopa or Paratroopa shell but rather a Spiny Shell. This is evidenced by the countless manuals, in game info, and even cards referring to it as such.

You also have the while non canon Mario + Rabbids referring to it as a Spiny shell through the Phantom or a large fossilized Spiny Shell.

There is also the appearance of the shell usually and mostly appearing like Spiny shell with a smooth appearance. Now while recent games have given it segments making it somewhat more resemble a Koopa Troopa shell, Red Spiny shells also have dawned this appearance. These include the ones from Mario Strikers Charged, Mario Party 3, and Super Mario Strikers.

There is also the fact that no Blue Shelled Koopas in game have a spiked shell. Whether it be the Blue Shelled Koopa Troopas from Super Mario World or Kooper from Paper Mario 64, not a single one wears a spiked Blue Shell.

While the Spiny Shell of Mario Kart is made by a company for the events, there are some beings in game that wear such shells as armor. You have Major Burrows from Super Mario Galaxy and you have the Sky-Blue Spiny Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.

[yesterdays-xkcd]

Unsafe vehicles, hills, and philosophy go hand in hand.

Electric Skateboard (Double Comic) [Explained]

Transcript

[Cueball showing off electric skateboard to Megan reading something.] Cueball: Check it out! An electric longboard! Megan: Sweet!

[Cueball riding longboard with Megan sitting onboard — people in background.] Longboard: RRRR

[Megan turned around on longboard.] Megan: I feel like we're missing something... Cueball: Yeah...

[Cueball holding 3 green Koopa Troopa shells; Megan throwing 1 red Koopa Troopa shell - like Mario Kart.] Music Playing Longboard: RRRR

[Cueball and Megan still on longboard, going up an incline.] Cueball: Skating uphill like this is amazing. Years of gliding downhill and pushing uphill, and now suddenly it's gliding both ways. Longboard: RRRRRRR

[Cueball and Megan after passing an S-curve and boulder.] Cueball: It's like going from C to Python. You don't realize how much time you were spending on the boring parts until you don't have to do them anymore. Megan: But coding C or assembly makes you a better programmer. Maybe the boring parts build character.

[Cueball and Megan on longboard.] Cueball: Yeah... but it depends how you want to spend your life. See, my philosophy is-

[Longboard gets into an accident.] WHAM

[Calvin and Hobbes lying down in the grass near Cueball and Megan lying down in the grass - Calvin and Hobbes's wagon is on the path, as is the longboard - all characters seeing stars.]

[swifthorne]

Things I want to see in the Mario Movie sequel

The return of the Koopa General

"Mama Luigi" reference

Bowser Jr and/or the Koopalings' big screen debut

Princess Daisy

A Bowser jailbreak sequence

More scenes featuring the Koopa Troopas

Koopatrol appearance or cameo (maybe as royal guards?)

More Luigi screentime

Mario riding Yoshi

Yoshi eating a red shell

Kamek gaining some form of rivalry with Yoshi, as a reference to the Yoshi's Island games

Another Bowser song

[issuesntissues]

when 141 plays Mario Kart !!!

Price

what the hell is this—

doesn't know how to throw items

keeps falling off the map

has had enough of red shells

thinks Bowser is cool

never wants to play again, the sensory overload is atrocious

Ghost

knows what he's doing but pretends not to.

if he's 1st, he's silent while everyone else yells at each other

if he gets last consistently, he'll rage quit silently

always picks King Boo and uses bikes.

Soap

this mf needs a leash. tryhard ™️

knows all the shortcuts and maximizes drifts

in his mind, if he's not first, he's last

gets the gamer lean when he's locked in

almost always misses 1st place because of a random shell (and will question everybody about who threw it 💀 )

picks Isabelle & Yoshi on bikes

Gaz

him and soap together are the loudest, they're both just too good

loves tormenting soap by throwing red shells backwards

is a whole mile in front of everybody else

picks Peach and Luigi on bikes

always says gg's 🫶

!! BONUS !!

Laswell

the most relaxed, always places top 4

always lands her green shells

thinks soap is insufferable but enjoys playing with gaz

if graves is playing she won't play until he rage quits

tries to help Price but gives up (the man can't even stay on the map—)

Picks Toadette and Bowser Jr. on karts

Graves

better than price, but worse than everybody else

the shit talking is unbelievable

throws bananas ahead and then runs into them—

throws shells backwards and they bounce right back and hit his ass

always says shit after throwing a red shell

gaz and soap gang up on him to make him leave 💀

picks Donkey Kong and Roy, hates bikes

Konig

sweaty palms ™️

apologizes after throwing red shells

if he's in the top 3 he's nervous

know's what he's doing but tries to be unnoticeable

consistently gets crazy eights 🤔

always says gg's no matter what place he's in

picks Koopa Troopa or Shy Guy on karts (he gets nervous on bikes)

Keegan

this man can play on 200cc

acts like he doesn't want to play, but is the only one who can beat Gaz

says nothing the whole time (it's kind of infuriating)

will use green shells & bananas as offensive defense

mutters gg's then gets up & leaves, but will eavesdrop & enjoy the commencing arguing

always picks Baby Rosalina or Villager, with both bikes & karts

[smallmariofindings]

Super Mario 64 contains unused small red and green Koopa Troopa shells in its data. They neither share their shape with the green Koopa Troopa shell present in the finished version, nor the similarly-sized Spiny shell, but have their own unique shape.

Based on internal documentation, these were some of the earliest objects created for the game. Unfortunately, all code for them has been removed and they are completely non-functional.

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[telleroftime]

You've kick started my angst loving heart and it got me thinking

Do you think Bowser ever stops and takes note of just how much bigger he is than everyone else? Not in a way that makes him prideful but one that makes him worry and even uncomfortable. He's sharp and massive and he's shown that he's very capable of hurting people. If he's not careful he could hurt Kamek or the kids or you.

Oh absolutely. He'd think his anxieties on the topic are well hidden but nope, he's terrible at hiding his emotions and when he suddenly goes quiet and solemn and rigid and still it's quite obvious something is on his mind. He knows that his scales are harder and that he's more resilient to stuff. He knows that others are not. His claws are sharper. The spikes on his shell are longer. He's bigger and stronger and he needs a lot of self control to manage that. And he has the control.

But that won't stop him from worrying.

What if he gets too exited? He doesn't want to accidentally be too loud. He doesn't want to cause any damage if he stomps a little too firmly. What if he gets too angry? He knows that he wouldn't scare Kamek or the kids since they'd be used to his tantrums. But you? He'd hate to scare you. He'd hate to see your brows push into a frightful frown or see your hands tremble because of him or see you flinch away from him.

He'd definitely be self conscious about his size and his strength. When he's not in a fight or protecting anyone, what's really the point? He'd definitely feel left out too.

The children are smaller than you. Kamek and Kammy are smaller than you. The Koopa Troopas are smaller than you. And him? King Bowser? He's bigger. A lot bigger.

For everyone else you need to look down or just slightly tilt your head up to meet their eyes. When if comes to Bowser you have to practically crane your neck up. There would definitely be a part of him that feels worried about that. Is he making you uncomfortable? He'd hate to make you feel like that.

Oh just imagine how fidgety he'd get if you come along with him to some foreign kingdom to argue politics. Everyone there is your size. They're your height and Bowser sticks out. He's not your height. He's big and burly and, well, sharp. He's out of place and with you there it bothers him. He'd hate for you to think less of him.

And of course, you'd know something is wrong. It's not often that Bowser visibly deflates. It's not often that he mumbles, especially when he's in front of strangers.

You'd have to reassure him them. You'd have to hold his hand, lean on his arm, just continuously touch him to reassure that he has nothing to worry about. He's perfect and he'd melt if you told him that. You words, if only temporally, would wash away those anxieties.

And if you choose to kiss hiss cheek when in front of others, not an ounce of shame on your face. Well, he'll grow red faced but at the same time he'll be relieved.

[childofsardior]

Sorry if u feel like I'm a harassment I just love koopas just like u but what is the most unusual thing about each koopalings body? (Just curious 😅)

Hello again!

Do not worry, you are not an harassment ^w^ I appreciate your asks, and I am glad you are curious abt my HC/AU to the point of asking me all these interesting questions about my Koopas x3

So, let's start!

In my AU, all the Koopalings + Jr have some quirks due to their mother's peculiar bloodline. In fact, all of them have some charateristic not present in most Tarrasquins (Bowser included).

Quirks they all share:

Ludwig, Lemmy, Roy, Wendy, Larry and Junior all have some colorful and shiny small scales around the body. These crystal-like scales match the Koopa's shell color, exception made for Junior who's special scales are bright red, like his hair. Morton and Iggy are the only exception, the first having a natural armor made by hard scaled-plaques and the latter having an outgrowth of green scales on his shoulders, arms, knees and tail, that give him a spiky appearance.

All of them, except for Jr, breath colorful fire. Again, the color of each Koopaling fire is the same of their shell, and when they fight with their wands, of their magic.

And talking about colors, almost the whole bunch have natural hair colors that do not match with the common Dragon-Turtles natural hair (basically red, brunette, blonde, black and a few other); their peculiar hair color looks like is connected with "magic", somehow...

Most unusual body quirk about each one:

Ludwig: He has got a tail fluff made of feathers and one of the rarest Royal Fang patterns (single central fang, along with two future lateral Royal Fangs), but the most curious think about his body is probably related to his weight and his innate agility in the air.

He is in fact way lighter than you could expect looking at him and more agile than most Tarrasquins of his size; he takes advantage of this swifting in the air and being able - thanks to his battle and magic training - to even float for a short while if needed. They say it has something to do with his shell, being way less heavy than the average Royal Koopa's one. Weirdest thing of all, he can naturally walk on clouds like only winged or air-related-creatures can do (in my HC). This is why he's the one that usually lead attacks to the various fractions of the Cloud & Sky Kingdoms. All these detail seem to naturally connect his nature to some kind of sky being or flying creature of some sort...

Lemmy: Some peculiar traits about him are the three big feathers at the end of his tail (that he dye, exactly like his hair), and the total lack of Royal Fangs - he only got "normal" fangs, usually hidden under his lips. But the real quirk here is his height.

Compared to other Tarrasquins of his age (17 in my HC), Lemmy is tiny. Very tiny. And him having a quite androgynous and soft appearance doesn't help: he's often mistaken as a "kid" by people around him. It is currently unknown in the family why Lemmy is so short. The palace doctors hypotized at first that Lemmy could be just affected by some kind of dwarfism or something similar, but this idea was later discarded. In recent years his brother Iggy came up with a couple of new hypothesis, one being Lemmy's unknown father some sort of Koopa Troopa/Common Koopa or a similar, small creature like that (since none of them know their father and they do not even know if they all share one) - and this would explain his unusual shortness. Just recently Iggy thought about another possibility: he claimed that Lemmy's body looks like it is refusing to grow. It tries to, but for some unknown reason something gets in the way and slowes down the whole process. Since Tarrasquins are related to dragons, and dragons bodies can adapt or even change in some situations (in my HC), Iggy's basically theorizing that Lemmy's inconscious but blatant fear of growing up and "becoming adult", his fear of responsabilities (and maybe some other important realization that he's currently hiding from his family) are currently preventing him to... "grow". Or at least, grow bigger. Lemmy has mixed feelings about the whole situation, but he surely is the nimblest, most agile and fastest sibling among the whole squad.

Another relevant quirk about Lemmy's body is his unexpected cold resistance. Tarrasquins are half dragons but also half reptiles, and usually they don't enjoy temperatures that are too low. But Lemmy is a living exception: he could literally play all day in the snow without a jacket and would be perfectly fine. Cold places are actually his favorites!

Roy: Talking about bodies and heights and wheights, Roy is probably the one that fits perfectly the description for an average Tarrasquin of his age, health and gender. But he got some curious traits, too. His big shoulders show a double set of big scales, and some tiny spikes have recently sprouted on the top of his head - but no sign of horns yet. He also happens to have heterochromia (one eye is blue, the other is partially pinkish-red), but he hides this trait most of the times with his shades.

The most unusual thing about him is his pink head/shoulders scales. Spontaneous color mutations are a common thing in my HC Mario World, and this happens to Tarrasquins as well. His pink scales could be hinherited from an older relative witht the same mutation or have been just appeared for the first time in his bloodline. He also has some pink details around his shell, in a similar way his almost-twin-sister Wendy has some purple ones.

Iggy: Iggy may seem bizarre in various ways, his weird hairstlye first of all - but it's just his hair being naturally green and his sense of style being quite peculiar. Palm/pineapple hairstyle aside, our green Tarrasquin has some harder and pointier scales on his shoulders, arms and legs, along with some tiny spikes on his tail. Despite this apparent natural armor, he's quite weak and the one that always gets sick. His body can't also process meat very well for unknown reasons, leading him to a mostly vegetarian diet - lukily he's also probably the only one along with Morton that actually enjoys greens. His siblings joke about it claming that it's due his unusual diet for a Tarrasquin (that are mostly carnivourous) that Iggy is so long yet so slim and muscle-less. It's probably unrelated, and Iggy is just naturally tall. Roy also claims his passion for vegetables led him to "become one" - a carrot, specifically. His fire is also the weakest of the family, but it tends to create a lot of green smoke that's hard to navigate during fights.

The most curious thing about him is definitely his eyes. Aside of being almost blind without his custom glasses, Iggy's irises are separated from the pupils, giving him a crazy look. Nobody seems to have an explanation for it yet...

Wendy: Wendy hasn't many unusual traits for a Tarrasquin around her body, except made for the crystal-like scales she shares with the others, pink-colored in her case (some of them are curiously heart-shaped, too) and some purple-pinkish scales on her harms and legs, resembling in a way her almost-twin-brother Roy's pink head/shoulders scales. But, unlike most of her siblings, her natural hair color do not match her shell color - she got very light brown/blonde hair.

Even more noticeably, she doesn't have green head/shoulder scales, but yellow-golden ones, very similar to the ones that cover the rest of her body. This trait is often seen in Plain Tarrasquins more than in Vulcanic Tarrasquins, a detail that, along with their lack of horns in young age, could maybe point to the Koopalings origins...

Morton: First of all, Morton's peculiar color. His darker appearance seems to be a result of a partial melanism, a trait that is not very uncommon in Tarrasquins - especially in the Vulcanic subspecies. It is said that Bowser's father himself, the "Empereor of all the Koopas", suffers a similar color mutation. He also got a star-shaped birthmark on the left side of his face, once again a rare-but-not-too-rare type of birthmark that happen in my HC SM world.

Coloration aside, Morton's natural resilience is the real mystery. His whole body is covered with big scales the color of gray-brow, with even harder and bigger scale-plaques protecting his arms, legs and tail. This whole protection can take almost any type of non-magical damage, and this is why Morton is always put on the melee formation of fights. Curiously enough, Morton's resiliance can also be found in his impeccable health and his stomach - not only he could eat a buffalo on his own if hungry enough, along with Larry probably, but he is also resistant to poisonous food and toxins - the lethal ones will only kaing him sick for a while, and the non-lethal ones will take quite a long time and a big dose to work, as it happened during the Malatone Formula:X crisis. Least but not last, he's the second more cold-resistant Koopaling after Lemmy and the one that in general can resist the most extreme weathers without blinking.

Larry: Larry is young enough to do not have shown particoular quirks yet, except for a few. Most of all, his light-blue crystal-like little scales form the shape of a star on the left side of his head, making him one of the two "Star Kids" of the family - along with Morton and his birthmark. The idea of showing his shiny blue star was one of the main reasons that led him to try out and then adopt his current hairstyle. Another thing to mention, that could be connected with his age, is his eternal hunger. He could eat dozens of cookie and chips boxes in a single evening, all by himself, and he will likely do if left unsupervised.

There is not much more to say about Larry, yet. Except for... maybe... that time he was swimming alone and tried to dive to get a shiny-something at the bottom of the sea but then he found himself too deep-down and ran out of breath and... he was... was he suddenly breathing underwater? None of his siblings believe him, and he is too afraid to try it again. Will we ever know...?

Bowser Jr.: This one is easy. Junior looks very much like how Bowser used to when he was a kid; he's basically a mini-Bowser in appearance, nothing more and nothing less... or so they all thought until the recent years. Junior eyes, for example, are slowing turning blue (Royal Koopa's eyes change color from deep brown/black to their final color starting from 9/10 years old), like his siblings. Plus, he also got the shining small scales scattered around his body, of a bright red. His shell is green like the King's, but some red details can be seen getting more and more visible as he grows up.

The most curious thing about him is probably his fire. He developed a strong fire way faster than any of his siblings, and it's getting stronger and stronger year after year. Kamek claims that, at this peace, Junior's fire will probably become the hottest of the whole bunch, and could even surpass Bowser's destructive fire when Jr. will be old enough.

***

Aaaand here you go! I had to think about it for a while, but now you should be aware of the most interesting facts about the Royal Koopa siblings' bodies that came to my mind - as always, refering to my personal HC/AU!

[oh-hell-help-me]

Day 5: Blaze

They found the culprit eventually, after Mario arrived.

In fact, Luigi was sure that -had he not lead the investigation- Bowser would have disregarded his daily duties to smoke out the Koopa himself.

It turned out to be surprisingly easy.

It also turned out that Luigi.... might have made a bigger impression than he realized?

Like, at least a whole search party made up of vendors, Troopas, and the odd old Koopa ladies (who he once talked to about Koopa style crochet) had taken up the tracking while Luigi and his guards were busy, well... Busy.

In any case, the Koopa left a trail that was particularly messy and caught him before he left the Kingdom via airship.

None of them would explain why the Koopa was hauled to the castle with various injuries, but even Luigi could guess the answer to that -even if the gesture made him feel conflicted.

Is it bad to feel so much gratitude for this? To feel relieved that he meant something to other people?

To feel satisfaction as someone who hurt you refuses to look you in your direction?

He struggles to not acknowledge the part of him that makes him feel nauseous thinking out it- turns his attention towards the Koopa King as he sits on his throne amidst officials and common folk alike. It seems like they have gathered around for... whatever was going on, but the collective silence is deafening.

With his imposing bulk backlit by the lava wall, red eyes gleaming brighter than his scales, Bowser was a sight that had Luigi feel like he couldn't catch his breath.

His face was unreadable, with most of it shadowed, but there was something dangerous in his voice as he spoke.

"What is your name?"

"......Hackson." A jam to the back of his shell. "Sir." The Koopa spat out

Luigi couldn't see his brother from his seat in a makeshift wheelchair, but he could still hear Mario's teeth grind together. He could see Peach, perched next to him on a fancy chair, but the way her gloved hands clenched made him realize that she was just as angry.

By the subtle sound of claws on his stone armrests, Bowser may have felt the same.

"Well, Hackson." The behemoth's voice seemed to get deeper and raspier, something that made Luigi's spine stiffen. "Do you know why you are here?"

"Yes." The Koopa said curtly.

Red eyes narrowed. "Then you should be aware that you should choose your next words carefully." Smoke leaked from Bowser's maw, trailing his head as he leaned forward from his throne. "Why."

It was obviously as much a command as it was a question.

"I was getting rid of a problem you're too weak to get rid of."

Bowser seemed to almost lunge, baring his teeth into a snarl.

"YOU DARE-"

"I DARE ALRIGHT!" The Koopa didn't seem to register the way the crowd shifted away from him. "I DARE BECAUSE THAT-" He thrusts a claw at Luigi, who flinches into his seat- wincing as another panging sting raced from his stomach. "HUMAN AND EVERY OTHER SCALELESS-" he says something Luigi couldn't pronounce, but the way the Koopas around them acted told him enough. "-SHOULDN'T BE HERE! THEY SHOULD STILL BE RUNNING IN FEAR AS WE BURN THEM TO ASHES!"

Hackson seemed to be growing angrier, locking eyes with almost everyone present. "OUR WORKERS SHOULD STILL BE ABLE TO HAVE A ROOF OVER OUR HEADS! HAVE MORE THAN A DAMN MORSEL TO EAT! WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR FUCKUPS!"

There is a silence that followed, but Luigi could only focus on the sudden smell of sulfur and the way Hackson flinched as Bowser stood up.

"And what did you gain, hm?" The king's voice was almost soft, but the way started to step down from his throne... "A promotion? A medal?" The sulfur smell grew stronger. "Did you know what you've just done? What you almost did?"

The Koopa, Hackson, seemed to pale and freeze on the spot. He looked less sure of himself, but something seemed to have egged him on.

"I-I could have saved them -finished what we started!" He wasn't making sense- saved? "I WOULD STILL HAVE MY FATHER HERE!"

....

Gradually, the sulfur scent faded, but Bowser kept cold eyes locked on Hackson as he stared down on him.

"....Regardless of your reasons, you have committed a crime against both the Mushroom Kingdom and my Will." He took a step back, beckoning the Troopas to secure him again. "You will be placed in a holding cell, until mine and the Council's judgment will call upon you."

It seemed like that was that.

But then-

Hackson caught a glimpse of Luigi behind his king, his desperate eyes locking onto his before seeming to turning into bubbling anger- no-

Hate.

Luigi couldn't breathe, couldn't think, couldn't move when the Koopa lobbed out a fireball-

A hissing ROAR-

then bright, blistering heat came -cracking stone and sending waves of whipping air -nearly carrying his hat right off his head before he barely caught it against his head.

He couldn't tear his eyes from the sight- the sound -the smell---

He heard Hackson be burned alive.

He saw Mario -his brother, his fratello- take the fireball to his shoulder- crumbling against him in pain as Peach screamed-

He saw Bowser, fire highlighting him and his angry eyes-

-turn into regret, looking away even as he drew closer.

He was shivering, he knows he is in the way that Mario still tries to check him over -frantically looking him over even as Luigi stutters out protests because damnit Mario, you're the one hit with a fireball--!

How can he tell anyone that neither the Koopa's death nor his brother's injury wasn't the only reason he was shivering like a leaf? That it wasn't just fear that had left him otherwise mute as he and Mario were picked up by Bowser and carried away from the blaze?

That even after he heard those screams of agony, and smelt the charred meat of what used to be a living being, those encompassing arms- hot and firm with bumpy shield-hard scales- felt like the safest spot in the world?

[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

Shells Are Clothes

So, shells in the Mario world are not necessarily biological but more like a type of clothing and possibly power up with variations of a single shell.

While not everyone remembers this but Koopas quite often could be kicked out of shells and run around without one Super Mario Bros. 4 Super Mario World, Super Mario 3D Land, Super Mario 64, etc. Even in the original Mario Bros. the Shell Creepers exit their shells to flip it. In Paper Mario 64 the Koopas of Koopa Village have their shells stolen by Fuzzies, one Koopa mentions their shell is custom made, this shows them to be something that can be ordered and worn.

This is further shown with characters like Bowser in the RPG games switching out shells, and Mario using the Blue Shell power up. Mario uses a Blue Shell Power up and block in NSMBDS and M&LBIS. There is also the Lazy Shell from SMRPG.

Not to mention Mario and Friends in Super Mario 3D World can enter empty Koopa shells.

They also seem to serve as power ups themselves Bowser gaining abilities from different shells, certain shells in SMB4SMW being able to chase Mario down when piloted by a Kamikaze Koopa, or even how when a Yoshi eats the SMW shells he can spit fire or grow wings.

We also see Blue Electrokoopas remove their shells and send it flying at Mario as a form of attack.

The shells are probably made by a company that is connected to the Strike Equipment from Mario Kart who Mario Red, Green, Bowser, and Spiny shells for kart races.

We also see shells being worn by non Koopa creatures as well that don't normally need shells like Goombas, Konkadors, and Ant Troopers. Yoshis themselves could be a Koopa as mentioned in a previous post, and like Koopas they are born without their shells.

Some shells might even be extra heavy causing Koopas to go on all 4.

[butterflyinthewell]

This plot bunny wouldn’t shut up, so here you go. This is a short “how Bowser Jr was born” fic.

CW: puking and an egg.

Nascent

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In all his dabbling with magic, Bowser never expected an outcome like this. He wasn’t a MagiKoopa, but simple spells came easy.

Usually.

Turning his bathroom into an altar wasn’t the best place for performing this spell, but it granted the most privacy. Magic required the user’s concentration. He smeared two drops of his own blood on the parchment and read out the incantation as directed. The parchment lay across a slab of stone, surrounded by candles.

“Blood of my blood, life unto life, bring tomorrow here to me!”

The candles flared inward. Flames scorched the parchment into smoky ash. He swept it into a gold goblet of water and drank it, like the instructions described.

The ashy water went down gritty and bitter.

All it did was induce nausea. No grand visions of the future like the spell promised.

Bowser shook his head at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. Smoke escaped his nostrils.

“Hmph, this is better off done by a MagiKoopa.”

He blew out the candles, shoved them all against the wall so he wouldn’t knock into them in the morning and retired to bed.

At dawn, he awoke even sicker. His stomach lurched. He bolted into the bathroom to vomit over the toilet. Nothing but bile and water.

Maybe I misspoke the incantation, Bowser thought.

His stomach gave him grief all day. The only thing that didn’t come back up was thick, meaty soup, so he kept a thermos of the stuff on hand to gulp from every time he felt nauseated.

By afternoon, his urges to throw up transformed into the bubble guts that always meant a bad night awaited.

“I really screwed that spell up,” Bowser grumbled, rubbing his agitated midsection. “Note to self, don’t do it again.”

He endured the cramping through the most boring debriefing of his life. The red-shelled Koopa Troopa kneeling at his throne gave him a rundown on activity in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Bowser struggled to stay focused on the information.

“…my liege, are you ill?”

“Huh?”

The Koopa Troopa closed his plastic folder. “Forgive me for noticing, sire, you’re greener than usual.”

Bowser sipped from the thermos and clunked it noisily onto the arm of his throne. “It’s just an upset stomach. I’m fine. What’s Mario doing?”

“Uhh…” The Koopa Troopa opened the folder again and flipped pages. “On vacation with Princess Peach. They went to Rainbow Road.”

Rainbow Road was a terrible place to attempt a kidnapping. Good, it wouldn’t seem unusual if he didn’t act.

“Fine, leave ‘em all alone until they come back. Is that all?”

“Yes, your Spikeyness, that’s all.”

“Fine. Go take a day off. Tripper, is it?”

The Koopa Troopa smiled. “Tripper is my brother. I’m Flipper.”

Nodding, Bowser waved him off to go. “Take the day off. Both of you.”

He finished the last of the soup in the thermos and stared at his reflection in the red metal cylinder in his beefy hand.

Perhaps he did look a tad greener than normal. The cramping in his stomach kept getting worse and moved lower down.

.o

Sucking down soup all day was a mistake.

Bowser locked himself in his room with a DO NOT DISTURB sign on the door. No need to be violently sick with an audience.

He was on and off the toilet passing the vilest liquids in every color imaginable until midnight, when sleep finally claimed him.

Horrible burning sensations launched Bowser out of a deep slumber. Predawn light illuminated his bedroom in muted shades of purple. He barely registered the time.

Sweat beaded on his face. The edges of his vision blurred. He staggered into the bathroom and gripped the spikes on either side of his toilet, unsure of which end he was about to be sick from.

Dry heaves forced a drastic decision. He pushed off the toilet and collapsed against the tiled wall in the shower. At least he could clean up whatever happened.

Bowser sank onto all fours on the hot shower floor to wait for his body to finish whatever indignity it needed to do. His stomach kept caving in. Nonstop retching blurred his eyes with tears. The cramping intensified, like something doing a flip inside his intestines. Now he knew exactly which end was about to be sick.

Shit, I need to get on the pot!

But he couldn’t walk without passing out, and he knew it. Desperate, he pulled the lever to turn on the shower at the same time his body bore down.

White hot agony tore through him. The violence of it wrenched his breath away. His fist tightened on the shower lever, bending the metal.

Something semi-solid came out. He couldn’t breathe to scream, let alone turn to look. All he could do was endure until the pain cooled away.

Panting, his awareness growing to perceive water gurgling down the drain, Bowser wiped his soaked hair back out of his face and sidestepped to survey the massive fecalith he dropped on his shower floor.

Except, it wasn’t shit.

It was an egg just large enough to fill both his hands. Steaming water from the shower washed the slime off its speckled grayish-white shell.

Definitely a Koopa egg.

“No way.” Bowser shoved the lever upright to shut off the shower spray and bent to pick the egg up. He handled it delicately, keeping his claws from denting the shell.

The egg was heavy in his wet hands and still warm from his body heat.

“No way.” Bowser took it to the sink and set it on one of the little mood lights under the mirror.

He turned the dial to light the bulb. The egg took a translucent yellow hue with a darker spot on its left-hand side.

Fertile. Alive.

“No way!” Bowser glanced down at himself, as if seeking evidence for the impossible feat his dripping wet body accomplished, but there was none. Just a puddle on the floor where water dribbled off his scales.

Koopa eggs were the most fragile for three hours after being laid, and they needed continuous warmth during that period to stay alive.

Bowser wrapped a towel around the egg and carried it with him into the bedroom. Placing it on the bed, still enmeshed in the giant towel, he shrugged his spiked shell off and used it to cover the egg. Like the thermos he carried all day, it would hold and radiate his leftover body heat onto the egg all night long.

.o

The MediKoopas downstairs went bananas over the egg, especially when shining a light behind it revealed networks of blood vessels spreading out beneath its chalky shell.

Bowser endured the medical poking, prodding and questions while watching them arrange the egg in a tall, transparent incubator full of blankets. A bright lamp at the back made it simple to candle the egg.

Whatever organs allowed him to lay his egg were no longer present. A thorough scan revealed no trace of them.

“You cast magic on yourself?” Asked Doctor Roll, the green-shelled head of the MediKoopas.

She was petite, direct and sharp-witted, not prone to sniveling in fear like other MediKoopas. Her black eyes looked huge behind her thick green-rimmed glasses.

“I thought I messed it up.” Bowser shrugged, gesturing at the incubator. “I was sick all day, went to my room last night, was sick all night and did that this morning.” He exhaled smoke. “How long till it hatches?”

“One hundred days.” Roll said without missing a beat. “And you’re lucky that magic spell didn’t rearrange your insides.”

“Lesson learned,” muttered Bowser.

Roll turned away with a little huff from her nose. “All things considered, that’s a healthy egg. A little small, but seeing how it arrived here, that's for the best. Take it easy today. Your metabolism took a hit and being ill all night didn’t help. Your bloodwork is a mess! Luckily, it’s fixable.”

She swiped a bottle from a glass cabinet, came back and placed it in his hand. “Vitamins. Take them once a day until they’re gone. Eat extra red meat and drink a glass of milk at breakfast. Your bones and muscles will thank you.”

Everyone in the castle knew better than to argue with Roll about medication. Bowser smirked, he couldn’t help jerking her chain.

“I can take them all right now.”

She arched a brow. “Do you want your stomach pumped?”

He laughed, juggling the bottle in his hand.

That evening, he saw a heartbeat when he lit the egg, and it hit him that he was going to be a dad. He looked around to make sure nobody saw him and wiped tears out of his eyes.

.o

Leaving the egg sitting in the medical ward didn’t feel right. Bowser took it everywhere with him that wasn’t dangerous. Meetings, patrols, even a parade— he concealed it in a cloth sack full of bubble wrap and blankets for that— and at night he put his shell over it to keep it extra warm.

By day fifty, the baby’s silhouette took up half the egg and looked unmistakably like a tiny Koopa suspended in gel. Even more incredible, it began reacting to Bowser’s voice.

He started reading children’s books to the egg. Sometimes he did it several times a day. Peter Piranha books were his childhood favorites, so he dug them up to entertain the little one.

“It’s gonna be awhile before you get out of there,” Bowser caressed the eggshell with his fingertips. “You’re such a little squirt, heh. Can’t believe I made you.”

Inside the shell, the baby kicked and wiggled, unaware of its nascent future.

.o

“Egg tooth is present,” Roll said after closely examining the egg under a lamp. What used to be a small, dark blob now took up all the space inside the shell. “He’s right on schedule.”

The egg felt solid and heavy in Bowser’s giant hands. Heavy like a tiny Koopa with a shell, bones and muscles.

“He?” He eyed her. “How do you know that?”

Roll threw a glove in the trash. “I’m familiar with the spell you cast. What were you trying to accomplish with it?”

“Uh,” Bowser scratched the back of his head, “Clairvoyance.”

“No wonder you goofed, you must have read it too literally.” She scoffed, checking her clipboard. “Anyway, in cases like this, the baby is always the same gender as the parent. I thought you knew that.”

“I…did! I was testing you!” Bowser deflected his ignorance by asking his own question. “How much longer till he hatches?”

She side-eyed him suspiciously. He put on his best innocent face, which worked about as well as throwing glass at a Thwomp.

“We’re on day one hundred today, and there’s already an internal pip, so it can happen anytime.” Roll cleaned her glasses on a cloth and settled them on her face again. “If he has a yolk sac on his belly when he pops out, leave it alone. Bring him straight to me if it’s any color other than red or yellow. Got it?”

“Yeah, yeah, okay.”

Bowser waited for her to walk away. He kissed the thick eggshell and headed back to his room. Towels, blankets and a cradle were piled up next to his bed.

I’m ready for this.

.o

The faintest crackling catapulted Bowser out of sleep. It was happening! Now!

He lifted his spiked shell off the egg and settled it on his back. There was a hairline crack along the middle of the speckled eggshell. Scraping sounds were unmistakable in the silence.

Bowser’s heart hammered in his ears. All at once everything seemed too real. He snatched his biggest towel and laid it around the bottom of the egg like Roll showed him.

“Come on, Junior.” That was the first time he uttered anything resembling a name.

The hairline crack around the middle widened. Something poked out. A tiny hand the same color as his own.

Awed, Bowser touched the little fingers. They grasped the tip of his claw, barely big enough to wrap all the way around.

A lump formed in his throat. His eyes stung, but he smiled.

“Hey. This is your daddy.” He wiggled his claw up and down, as if to shake hands with the son he still hadn’t met yet. “Come outta there, let’s see you.”

The miniature hand withdrew. New vertical cracks appeared. A faint grunt issued from within and the whole egg rocked. Now the other hand popped out, grasping and reaching.

Finally, with a decisive thump, the baby head-butted the inside of his egg. His face burst through in a spray of slimy eggshell, and Bowser was suddenly looking into a pair of beady little red eyes that mirrored his own.

Junior toppled onto the towel, panting from the effort. His wrinkled tail slapped against the slimy mess created by his birth. A yolk sack clung to his underbelly like a yellow water balloon.

Then he decided he didn’t like how much colder the outside world was, so he did what all babies do. He screamed his head off with all the rage of a confused newborn.

The moment Bowser saw his son, he knew he would lay his life down anytime, anywhere to ensure he had a future.

He scooped his miniature doppelgänger up in a fresh towel and pulled him close to his chest. Junior fit easily in one of his giant hands, but he used both to hold him.

“Whoa! You’re okay. I’ve got you.” His voice cracked.

He couldn’t believe it. He was a dad.

“Shhh, you’re okay.” Bowser lowered his voice to a whisper. “You’re— geez, you’re so small! But you’re okay. Eight fingers, six toes. Yup, you’re fine.” He wiped the egg slime off Junior’s nostrils and stroked the lock of reddish-orange hair sprouting off his head.

Junior’s wailing calmed to frustrated sniffing. He looked up at Bowser again, beady eyes blinking rapidly, and soaked his towel with pee.

Bowser laughed and cried, not caring that he got peed on.

He had a son!

.o

Prince Bowser Koopa Jr.

A mouthful of a name, but Bowser had no regrets upon signing the official birth certificate with his flowing signature. A Hammer Brother posted it on the fence outside his castle.

Bowser took dozens of photos of his son’s first day. Photos of Junior curled up with a stone chewy pacifier and a crown on his tiny head, wailing while having his diaper changed and sound asleep in his arms.

The little guy had a penchant for drooling, so Bowser gave him a bandana to keep it from dripping on everything. It helped, sort of. He decided Junior needed tiny armbands like his own, too, but without the dangerous spikes.

“You look like a prince now,” Bowser said, kissing his sleepy son’s brow.

Junior yawned adorably, as if deceiving the universe of what a menace he would grow up to be.

.o

Junior screamed the day Bowser appeared in his castle courtyard and held him aloft for the cheering Darklands citizens to see their new prince. He didn’t like crowds or noise. Newborn Koopas never did.

For payback, he blew out his diaper and spat up in Bowser’s mouth after a dinner of mashed Cheep-Cheep meat.

Bowser couldn’t stay mad. Babies were supposed to be gross.

.o

“You were this cranky at that age,” Roll said upon giving Junior his first full medical exam.

“Wait, you were there for that?”

“I’m old enough to be your grandmother.” She huffed.

“Hah! You hardly look like it!” Bowser grinned.

“That’s the most flattering thing you’ve said.” Roll placed Junior in Bowser’s waiting hands and inclined her head. She didn’t quite smile, but her eyes were bright. “And this little guy is perfectly healthy. It’s safe to bathe him properly now. Don’t worry if the yolk scab falls off during his bath. It’s empty now.”

“Got it.” Bowser cradled Junior upright against his shoulder, one hand under his backside to support him without putting pressure on his delicate shell. Junior gnawed on his own thumb, his gums making little slurping noises.

“You know the egg was the easy part, right?” Roll remarked.

“Yeah. Now the work starts.”

At last, the old MediKoopa grinned, her glasses glinting. “Do you intend for him to be as awful as you?”

Laughing, Bowser kissed Junior’s cheek without thinking about it.

“No, Roll, I’ll make sure he’s worse.”

[nintendouniverse2023]

Here we are is the Super Mario Rebirth Show Bowser's army. They're the in the forefront of fighting the Mario Bros when they follow Bowser's plans. We get started on the first list of Bowser's Koopa Empire along with their history.

Koopa- The Koopas are one of the many long running species ever scene the day of the Mushroom World Time. Their first evolution was non other then a "Shellcreepers" to a walking turtle people. Some of them may have not been bad as they were out into their own village while the other Koopa's were at War with The Mushroom Kingdom. They started out in The Koopa Clan under in charge of a younger Bowser. After so many failed misions aganst the Yoshi's, Bowser decied to trun this Clan Around as an Empire, So he makes his own Koopa Kingdom in the Volcano Land aka Darklands. Years later the war continues which was Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach for the first time at the start of "Super Mario Bros 1985 events happen" Thoe the Koopa Troops were jumped onto their heads and used their shells as weapons numerous times. They aint going down without a fight as they were trained for years.

ParaKoopa- The ParaKoopas are the same Koopas but born with Wings. They traditionally come in two varieties: Red Koopa Paratroopas usually fly every where they go as the same goes to Green Koopa Paratroopas ijto The Mario Sibling's general direction. Most of the Para Koopas were under guidance by General Blue Shelled Koopa, who was In Charge of the Koopa Military.

Goomba- The Goombas were the opposite of The Toads. Some of The Goombas who were not on Bowsers side but they are not to bright. While serving the empire, The Goombas were just stomped on like a pancake. Some turned out fine but while other could have died or suffer brain damage. Despite having no arms, Goombas of all types were useful.

Shy Guy- Shy Guys are timid troublemakers and are recognizable by their masks, which they wear due to their shyness. They can be easily disposed by being picked up and thrown against another enemy or into a nearby abyss.

Laktiu- Lakitus are mysterious Koopas who can control clouds. They like to stay airborne because they're weaker than Koopa Troopas. When Bowser and Kamek hires the mystrious Koopa who controls clouds and creat Spiny's. They could also be a quite annoyance to the Mario Siblings but sometimes can be very good use to Go Karts Instructors if some are not helping the Koopa Empire.

Spiny- Spinys are much tougher then Lakitus even though they're merely their pets. Also, they can't be stomped on for obvious reasons due to their spikes on their shells and be used for weapons. They would also be known to be as their guard dogs.

Buzzy Bettle- Buzzy Bettles are the strongest soldiers. Their shells are way more tougher than those of a Koopa Troopa. Also, they're can't be hurt be fire. Unless you jump on them.

Piranha Plants- These Pirahna Plants are carnivores & they inhabit pipes. They tend to pop out of pipes without warning. Any attempt to stomp on them could render as the Pirahna Plant waits for its next meal. These Plants are the attchment to any to Bowsers Empire scene it’s days on Yoshi Island and always will be to this day to bite on its victims.

Boos- Boos are some of the most troublesome. No one reailly knows where they come from but rumors say but they were once in the Darklands in the abandon area of it and some were haunted in mansions. They like to sneak behind the Mario Siblings., trying to kill them but as soon as they turn around, the Boos cover their eyes, turn invisible & doesn't move until turn they turn back around. The one who was in charge of all Boos was "King Boo"

[plumberpower]

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‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎Peace in the Mushroom Kingdom wasn't often long-lived. For such a friendly looking place, there were a great number of dangers that could catch the unwise and uninitiated unwise off-guard. Fall down the wrong Warp Pipe? Who knows where you could pop up at! Go strolling in a field of flowers? You might find a Piranha Plant trying to take a bite at you for just about stepping on its stem...

‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎Or, if you're the hapless and unsuspecting sort, an ambush waiting on the roads to town just may be what's awaiting you. And by the sound of shrill screams peppering the road to Toad Town, that was precisely what today had in store for some unfortunate fellow! Lucky for them...

‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎Super Mario was already on the case! It hits the ear too familiarly, yet unfamiliar at the same time. Call it morbid, but he knew the shouts and wails of Toads quite well, and this holler was anything but the same timbre. In the same breath, he could hear the calls of Koopas not too far off in the distance. He didn't know the reason they were attacking, but move it, plumber! Things were only going to turn toward the uglier the longer you dawdled!

‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎A bounding leap punched red and blue décor to the sky, a silhouette framed by a blazing sun as a backdrop. That famed jump took its wielder into what felt like the atmosphere, only for the drop of brown boots to collide hard and fast with a turtle's shell once a body returned from orbit! Boot the shell off into the far-off distance, turn to the rest of the crowd, and roar!

‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎"Hey, you Koopa creeps! Get a hint and get outta here before-a Mario...!"

‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎...Cripes. Eyes focus up and acknowledge the scene instead of the sound. A Koopa Troopa is getting completely trounced, they're grabbed and hit with a gigaton punch straight into the sky, shining sparkle and all. The next is suplexed with reckless abandon, the in line shrieking in fear as it's headbutted into a line of three other fleeing turtles.

‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎Huh. A scratch to the side of the head as a cap was lifted slightly. Was he sure he was hearing the man's screams? Or was it their screams. Haven above.

‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎Steps start their approach as the 'fight' was finished faster than it had started, leaving the plumber with the handle of his trusty hammer stowed instead of brandished. Instead, a water bottle was produced as an offering... looked like they needed it, what with all of the sweat the chef-hatted harbinger of pain was accumulating. And it was held out at a... slight distance. Didn't want to get caught in that aggro storm, no sir.

‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎"Yowza. They're-a gonna be feelin' that in the mornin'. That Koopa Troop is filled with some serious troublemakers no doubt, but what'd they do to get that far on-a your bad side?"

[smallmariofindings]

In New Super Mario Bros., there is a red Koopa Troopa walking on a three-block platform near the end of Level 1-1. If it is knocked out by throwing a Koopa shell at the rightmost block while it is walking on that block, it will become glitched. Upon reemerging, the Koopa Troopa will be intangible, unable to harm Mario, but also unable to be harmed by Mario.

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[faline-cat444]

Found more Mario Wonder preview images.This one shows a variety of Koopa Troopas that move by roller skating.Since I haven't played too many titles in the franchise(Especially the main line) I don't know if this is a new variety all together or just one that's joined since my latest time.Same goes for the detail on how shell and shoe color seem to be linked as these Skoopas(Skater Koopas) have pink while we also have a more standard dark red/brown in another shot.