Airship

The Airship is a common reoccuring area in Mario video games. Typically, the airship marks the level of a boss, where the player will have to travel across the airship to the boss. Airships are usually used as one of Bowser's main forms of transport.
The airship's are large propellor and rocket engine-driven ships that can soar through the sky. They are most commonly equipped with cannons, Bullet Bill and Bob-Omb.
Airships are shaped identical to large wooden ships, however instead of sails they have propellors. On the front of the airships are usually Bowser's face. In New Super Mario Bros. U, each Koopaling got a personal airship which was smaller in size and had the respective Koopaling's head and features on it.
==Fanon appearances==
===New Super Mario Bros. 4===
The Koopaling Airship appears in the last World in New Super Mario Bros. 4 as the Tower Boss (alongside with 
Bowser Jr. To defeat the airship, Mario must jump on a Koopaling when he or she jumps out of the airship to attack him. Once all the Koopalngs (and Bowser Jr.) are defeated, the Koopaling Airship will spin out of control and explode, giving Mario the key to the final course, Bowser's Castle. Please note that as every Koopaling is defeated, the next one is more difficult to jump on.
===Mario Hoops 3-On-3 Switch===
The Airship is the signature court for Bowser Jr. and the inside of the Airship is a signature stage for Boom Boom and Pom Pom. The court is on top of an Airship and the goals are floating by some propeller things. You can fall if the Airship and if your character dies so it takes a while to respawn so be careful. The inside is the same but you can’t fall off and the background is different.
===Super Smash Bros. Galactic Battle===
The Airships from the Mario series as a whole appear as explorable levels in Adventure Mode: The Galactic Battle in Super Smash Bros. Galactic Battle. The ships are full of enemies and take on their designs from the New Super Mario Bros. games. Several battles are fought in the Airships, while many of the ships are found under Hearth's control even after Bowser, and the members of the Koopa Troop aren't present.
===St. Clair Publications===
*For obvious reasons, airships are an integral part of Koopa Troopa.
*The stage Doomship Fields in Super Smash Stadium is obviously based on airships. Prior to November 2004, it was Rainbow Cruise, from Mêlée. The Koopalings also have a Final Smash themed around airships, called "Doomship Brigade".
*Airships also made multiple appearances in The World of Nintendo. They were usually seen being driven by Bowser, and Alex even continued the "Doomship" name over from the DIC cartoons. (That's how Doomship Fields got its name!)
*While Mario Kart: Ancient Circuit features no new airship-themed tracks, DS Airship Fortress DOES come back for one more go-around, its second appearance as a Retro track. It largely holds on to the Mario Kart 7 incarnation, with even more upgrades, such as the Rocky Wrenches now actually throwing wrenches and Bob-Ombs.
==Trivia==
*As noted above, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, a cartoon produced by DIC Entertainment, took to referring to airships as "the Doomship". There was only one in that series, and it was driven by Bowser with all seven of his Koopalings on it, as opposed to them having individual ships. While this concept never made its way back to official Nintendo canon, "the Doomship" is quite popular in fanon.
*The official Prima Games guide for New Super Mario Bros. Wii calls the airships "Sky Ships."
*Princess Peach can be found on the airship in one of the official artworks for Super Mario Bros. 3; however in the game, she only appears in the secret room where she is locked in when Mario rescues her in the end after defeating Bowser.
*In Super Mario Galaxy, whenever the player spins near the doors of the airship, a coin will pop out.
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