President Koopa

President Koopa (also known simply as Koopa and King Koopa, and formerly General Koopa) is the main antagonist of the 1993 film Super Mario Bros.., played by the late Dennis Hopper He is the counterpart and adaptation of Bowser, the main antagonist of the video game franchise on which the film was based.
==History==
===Backstory===
65 million years ago, a meteorite fell to Earth, somehow isolating a population of dinosaurs on an Earth that is in a parallel dimension to our Earth. It is in this dimension that dinosaurs continued to live and, like apes on Earth, evolved into human form. Koopa is one of them, Koopa is a dinohattanite, descended from a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Originally serving as a military leader, Koopa eventually took control of King of Dinohattan, Koopa de-evolved King into a fungus with plans to use the meteorite piece to merge dimensions and allow him to take control of Earth as well.
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Category:Characters in Super Mario Bros. (film)