Bowser (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how Bowser appears in Super Smash Stadium. For information about him in general, see his article on MarioWiki.
Bowser is a playable character on Super Smash Stadium. He debuted in the show's very first season, alongside his castle.
==In his own universe==
Bowser is the main villain of the Mario series. King of the Koopas, he maintains a gigantic army of them (along with Goombas, Piranha Plants, and various others). He constantly kidnaps Peach, and his motives for doing so have never been fully explained outside of Super Mario Bros. 1, where it was alleged that only she knew how to break the spell that the Koopas had put her people under. It has since been speculated that he and Mario are part of a love triangle with Peach.
His competence at his job has varied from game to game: while he certainly looks intimidating in the Mario platformers and any other game where he's the main villain, RPG's have portrayed him as an incompetent, bumbling fool.
==Attributes==
"Slow but powerful" has been Bowser's mantra in, well, pretty much every game he's been playable in, and SSS is no different. He is a killer. If he hits you, you're gonna get hurt quite a bit and probably die; many of his moves kill at low percentages. Good luck landing a hit with him, though...his moves come out slowly, have lots of cooldown lag, and he telegraphs them quite a bit. He's also a big target: no avoiding projectiles with him like you can with Kirby. He only has one projectile of his own outside of items, and it's a bad one, so with Bowser, you ARE going into close quarters. However, his size also lets him live to much higher percents than the rest of the cast.
In SSS, since Season 36, Bowser actually uses his voice clips from Super Mario Galaxy on (or his higher-pitched voice clips from Super Mario Sunshine for Seasons 32 to 35).
===Changes===
*Season 4: General power boost.
*Season 15: Retained his strength, but was made slower.
*Season 36: Made slightly faster, but slightly weaker.
*Season 39: His original "motorboat" run was replaced with him actually running on his legs; this made him faster somehow. His reach was also improved.
*Season 47: Slightly reduced cooldown lag on air moves.
===Moveset===
Entrance: Comes out of a pipe. It's black, as opposed to the green that the rest of the Mario cast uses.
Move Name	Description
Neutral Special:
Flame Breath	Bowser engages his signature move, doing slight damage to anyone hit. Hold the move for too long, and it gets weaker.
Cannot kill.
Side Special:
Flying Slam	Bowser slashes an opponent. If he sweetspots the move, he then grabs and suplexes them to the ground. He can perform a "Bowsercide" in this way if timed right. Opponents at low percentages can button mash out.
The Koopa Klaw was just an alternate grab attack; you could press multiple times to chomp opponents before flinging.
Flying Slam kills at 84%.
Koopa Klaw could kill at 184%.
Up Special:
Whirling Fortress	Bowser tucks himself into his shell and spins at high speeds. If used on the ground, he does a wind-up animation that can do heavy damage and knockback. Had poor vertical gain until Season 47, making its use as a recovery move questionable.
Kills at 85% grounded.
Down Special:
Bowser Bomb	Referencing an attack he used in Super Mario Bros. 3, Bowser jumps up in the air (if he isn't there already) and slams down hard. While it thankfully doesn't make him commit suicide by breaking brick floors, it does do massive damage on opponents (up to 30%!) and murders shields.
Kills at 75%.
Final Smash:
Giga Bowser	Bowser turns into precisely that for 15 seconds, giving his moves various elemental attributes (most notably, his Down Smash can freeze opponents). He also becomes immune to knockback from opposing moves, but can still take damage.
===Taunts===
*Up Taunt: Tilts his head back and roars into the air.
*Side Taunt: Chomps five times.
*Down Taunt: Goes off-balance.
===Victory===
*Pose: Spins, then finishes with his back facing the camera and a claw out.
*Theme: Team Mario's victory theme.
*"No Contest"/Loss Theme: Team Mario's loss theme.
==Costumes==
*Default
*Brown: A more realistic-looking coloration of Bowser.
*All-Green: May reference The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and its successors, as well as his "all-green" Super Mario Bros. 1 and World 1 sprites.
*Wedding Bowser: Bowser in his "wedding" outfit from Super Mario Odyssey.
*Blue: The "fake" Bowser from Lost Levels?
*Meowser
*Bowsette: Not an Echo Fighter, and he uses the same voice clips.
*Dry Bowser: Echo Fighter. Per tradition dating back to Mario Kart Wii, this costume also uses altered voice clips.
==Name in other languages==
Category:Koopas
Category:Villains