King Koopa

### Goals

Conquer the entire Mushroom Kingdom, then conquer the Real World and in *Super Mario World*, conquer all of Dinosaur Land.
Kill Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Toad, and Yoshi. (all failed)
Raise the Koopa Kids to be evil just like him. (succeeded)

### Most Entertaining Features

Harvey Atkin's fantastic performance.
Whenever he evades capture.
His alter-egos.

### Most Detestable Traits

Being a big jerk to almost everyone around him, willing to insult even his most loyal subordinates.
His sometimes extreme methods of killing the Mario Brothers.
He is more than willing to break his promises, because that's a type of lying and lying is one of King Koopa's favorite things to do.

### Type of ED

Comedic Tyrant

King Koopa is the main antagonist of the DiC Mario cartoons, being the archenemy of both Mario and Luigi, and always ploys taking over the Mushroom Kingdom, one day also wanting to conquer the Real World which is where the Mario Brothers are from.

He is voiced by Harvey Atkin in all three cartoons.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* He uses unique insults to insult the Mario Brothers, usually related to their profession as plumbers or the food they like to eat.
* His ability to evade capture, such as escaping into a warp zone by using a magic potion.
* In *The Super Mario Bros. Super Show*, King Koopa would have alter-egos usually based off of famous people, movie characters, and book characters, with the plot of the episode parodying what those famous people did, or what happened in the movie or book.
* In *The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3* episode *Reptiles in the Rose Garden* King Koopa righteously punishes Kootie Pie Koopa for being a spoiled brat and throwing temper tantrums, something that Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad celebrate.
* Harvey Atkin’s amazing performance, giving him an extremely recognizable and memorable voice.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* He is mean to practically everyone around him (besides his mother and Koopalings most of the time) and almost no one is immune to his acrimonious insults, as he is willing to insult his most loyal subordinates, including the more competent ones like Mouser.
* He is a double-crosser, as shown by the fact he never keeps the promises he makes to the heroes and how one of his favorite parts of being a villain is lying, especially shown in *The Super Mario Bros. Super Show* episode *Do You Princess Toadstool Take this Koopa…?* where despite originally freeing Toad and the Mushroom People from being rocks, he turns them back into rocks and relocates them back into his own castle.
* Despite being a mere nuisance most of the time, there are times when he is a very serious threat, such as when he became Koop-zilla after eating the Super Sushi (his biggest alter-ego) where he would cause mass property damage to the city of Sayonara, thereby nearly destroying the entire city (even though Giant Mario helped destroy more of the city when battling him).
	+ In *Super Mario World*, he attempted mass murder on the cave people twice, first by capturing and attempting to feed them to the dinosaurs, the second time being when he gets them addicted to his fast food, which slowly turned them into chickens of which he planned to turn them into food to sell to the dinosaurs.
* Some of his methods of getting rid of the Mario Brothers can be swingeing, such as in *The Super Mario Bros. Super Show* episode *King Mario of Cramalot*, where after Mario surrenders the golden plunger he pulled out of the Sacred Sink of Cramalot to King Koopa to save Princess Toadstool, he puts Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Toad, and Mervin in the dungeon of Cramalot Castle, where a spiked ceiling lowers whilst water fills the chamber, and they only escaped because Mervin is a powerful magician.

## Trivia

* King Koopa is an amalgamation of Bowser and Wart, having the size, shape, large spiky shell, and personality as bowser (albeit more sadistic), but is green, has a crown, and lacks fire powers just like Wart. Also like Wart, King Koopa is shown to be the leader of the 8 Bit Club in the Mario Cartoons, who are actually part of the Koopa Pack, and whose goal is to conquer the entire Mushroom Kingdom rather than the Subcon.
	+ Furthermore, both King Koopa and Wart show an extreme disdain toward vegetables, as seen whenever they are defeated by getting vegetables thrown at them.

## External Links

* King Koopa on the Villains Wiki
* King Koopa on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki