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King Bowser Koopa (Japanese:クッパ), a fictional turtle character from Nintendo video games, is Mario and Luigi's archnemesis (although he has joined forces with them in a few games). He constantly kidnaps Princess Peach Toadstool and has repeatedly attempted to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom since his first appearance in Super Mario Bros.
In all of his various incarnations throughout the Super Mario Bros. series, he has been depicted as obsessed with Princess Peach. He is also consistently depicted as nasty, brutish, and not particularly bright.
In Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and Super Mario All-Stars, his seven children helped him in his unsuccessful conquest.
It is arguable whether Mario and Bowser first encountered each other when they were babies in Super Mario World 2, or from old manuals that they actually first encountered each other when Bowser took Princess Toadstool captive in Super Mario Bros. However, it is generally held that Baby Mario and adult Mario are the same person, and more recent Nintendo manuals agree with this conclusion.
In Super Mario RPG Bowser teams up with Mario, Peach, and their two new friends Mallow and Geno in order to get his castle back from an extra-dimensional invader named Smithy (or Kajioo in Japan). This is the only game in the series in which Mario and Bowser have intentionally worked together, and the only Mario RPG game in which Bowser is a member of your party.
In Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS, he steals Peach's castle, and Mario (and his friends) have to collect all the stars to restore the power of the castle. In Paper Mario he steals Peach's castle again with the Star Rod. In Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga he tries to kidnap Peach but somebody else has gotten there first and so ends up in a complicated adventure to help Mario get her back so he can kidnap her. In Super Mario Sunshine, it is revealed Bowser has a son named Bowser Jr. According to Nintendo materials, this is the same "Baby Bowser" who in Yoshi's Story converts Yoshi's Island into a storybook. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Bowser is enraged when he discovers that someone other than himself has captured Princess Peach and sets out on a mission of his own to find her, only to be beaten by the punch at every turn.
 King Bowser is a playable character in Super Mario RPG. Here he is given the spotlight in the introduction sequence. Bowser also appears in secondary Mario Games like Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Tetris Attack, Mario Kart Super Circuit, Mario Kart: Double Dash, Mario Power Tennis and Super Smash Bros. Melee. In these games he is not the villain, but rather a selectable character that the player can chose to play as. A giant Bowser also cameos in the SNES port of the original Sim City when a monster disaster strikes.  The cartoon version of Bowser, a.k.a. King Koopa. Bowser has been known by different names over the years, which have since amalgamated into his current title. In Japan, he has always been known as simply Koopa. When Super Mario Bros. came out in the US, he was given the more American name of Bowser, King of the Koopas. Confusingly, the American cartoons, such as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show (where he had an amazingly large sense of humor and delivered most of the show's one-liners, and the Super Mario Bros. movie consistently referred to Bowser as "King Koopa", never Bowser (although he was occassionally addressed as Bowser in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3). Somewhere along the line the two names merged, and he is now known in America as being Bowser Koopa, with "Koopa" as his, and his children's, last name.
Bowser the Wardrobe Artist In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Bowser/Koopa had a particularly large wardrobe, and every so often (mostly in movie parody), he'd put on one of his many costumes and/or take on a new alias. Among his many alter-egos: |
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