Bowser. Jr

* Current
* Splatshot

### Full name

Daimaō Bowser Koopa. Junior (大 (だい) •魔 (ま) •王 (おう) •クッパ • ジュニア, *Daimaou Kuppa. Junia*?)

### Other names

BJ
DJ
Jun
Juno
Junior
Little J.
Son

### Alias

Splatshot (codename)Daimaoko
Prince Bowser. Jr
Prince Daimaō. Jr
Young Master Junior

## Characteristics

### Inspiration

Young Simba
Copper
Hiro Hamada

### Species

Koopa
Snapping Koopa

## Traits

### Powers and abilities

Fire spitting
Shell spinning

## Professional Status

### Occupations

Guardian
Leader
Prince
Junior high student

## Personal Status

### Friends

Steven Universe
George
Garnet
Ruby
Sapphire
Peridot
Spinel
Bismuth
Lapis Lazuli
Rafael , Simon , Gavin (best friends)

### Family

Bowser (father)
Unknown Mother † (mother; supposedly deceased)
The Koopalings (siblings)
Boom Boom, Pom Pom (cousins)

### Likes

Fun, adventure, exploring, learning, drawing/painting, sports, hot wings, pizza, parties, spicy food, machines, toys.

### Dislikes

Unfairness, boredom, being hungry, danger, his friends or family being threatened, being disrespected or underestimated, fish, getting his tail stepped on, carrots.

### Goal

To impress his father and become the strongest koopa.

## Media

### Music Theme

"Scamper Shores"

―"Shadows and Reflections" | ”

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**Daimaō Bowser. Jr**, one of the youngest sons of the omnipotent king, Bowser, and future successor, is a twelve-year-old young koopaling who is a junior high student. He and his best friend Steven Universe lead the **Speedstars**, and he is responsible for establishing the group.

Junior keeps his antagonist ambitions to a side during the franchise. When leading the group, he tends to take the opportunity to do good things and achieve his dreams. And though he has trouble figuring out right and wrong, he still learns through the adventures with him and his friends.

## **Background**

### **Distinctive features**

Young Daimaō manifests similar characteristics to that of his father, such as having the same stocky build and facial features. He has a sunglow orange, smooth, and scaly complexion, with traces of mantis green and wattle green pigment on his face and neck, and gold tip spots on his elbows, knees and tail. His eyes are mostly pupil, with slight shows of drover yellow around the edges. He has long orange wavy paintbrush-shaped hair, with two long strands coming down from his hairline and framing his face, and two shorter strands about it.

He is almost always wearing a white bandana with a graffiti of a colourful fanged mouth, usually around his neck, or sometimes covering his mouth. He has a sushi green shell with sharp vertical spikes extruding outwards in a hexagonal pattern. The palms of hands and soles of his feet have a much lighter pigment than other parts of his body, with sharp, thin claws on all appendages.

#### **Upgraded (Splatshot)**

Daimaō. Jr keeps most of his essential clothing on with his upgraded gear. Instead of his usual wristbands, he wears spiked ones. His hair is covered in paint, possibly from his paintbrush. His bandana is also messy and is the same colour as his Shadow Mario form. He wears finger-less gloves with his logo embedded on the palms. Junior's shell is also protected with a shell case, which is usually the same colour as his set bib. It can store small items, like food, supplies or something as big as a book. His shell case has a strap that holds his paintbrush.

### **Voice**

Bowser. Jr maintains a young and infantile voice, as he is an adolescent, with a raspy, slightly nasally and falsetto tone. Junior typically speaks childishly, whilst using southern phrases.

### **Personality and traits**

Junior has a spunky and courageous, and sometimes naïve personality, with signs of kind-heartedness and optimism. He is extremely intelligent despite his young age, and can be brazen, cocky or borderline egotistical because of this. His intelligance can make him amped with motivation and ambition, sometimes his passion can lead him to become stubborn in certain situations. He can be seen as caring and supportive to his friends and others around him, having a sort of free-spirited and childish nature, and it can often leave his usual intellectual mind clouded by judgment and commit acts normally out of the question, have a tough time figuring out what is right and wrong

He is a risk-taking pioneer and will do anything in his power to make someone smile, he can very analytical, monitoring the tics and habits that make people laugh or smile in those he is fond of. Junior is heavily inspired by dreams, and uses his skills in engineering to make them a reality. His consistent drive of ambition has its downsides, however, his afformentioned stubborness can follow into bad attitude and disobdience. Overall, Junior is a pleasant, daring and heroic figure, having excellent leadership, strategic, and tactical skills.

## **Powers and abilities**

### Natural Abilities

* **Co-ordination**: Junior has a very complex way of formulating ideas and plans in very little time. Alike how Peridot would, he could create a specific and simplistic objective or task beneficial for himself and his fellow team members. These simple ideas are not senseless or unwise because of how short it takes to think of them. But with Junior's adolescent intelligence, these schemes conclude to be successful the majority of the time.

### Unique Abilities

* **Shell Spinning**: Junior is able to rotate his shell rapidly while he is in it.
* **Fire Breath**: Like his father, Bowser. Jr is capable of spitting fire in different forms. At first, he was not very good at breathing fire, where he tries to breathe fire like his father in his entrance, only to breathe smoke and a small flame. That as he gradually grew older, where he can breathe fireballs that can accommodate opponents, and creates a large flame of fire when the fireball is in contact with the ground. He can breathe fireballs consecutively and is able to breathe a stream of fire.
* **Superhuman Attributes**: Like his father, Bowser. Jr. has superhuman abilities well beyond the average person.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Despite his young age, Bowser. Jr. has superhuman strength, including a huge strike force. In Super Mario Maker, he has the ability to crush and paralyze remaining opponents on the field, a skill performed by most of the big and strong characters like Bowser, or his siblings Morton, Roy, and Ludwig. He once again demonstrates his deceptive strength, where he can easily throw a giant cannonball, as an example, several times his size at a specific target.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: Bowser. Jr. showed high levels of durability to the point of being able to survive imminent death situations. This is evident in *Super Mario Galaxy*, where he falls into the gigantic sun after his father's defeat, and he is later shown to be back alive in the Mushroom Kingdom, as well as New Super Mario Bros Wii, where he survives after being crushed by Bowser's collapsed castle.
	+ **Superhuman Agility**: Bowser. Jr, thanks to his small size, is very agile, able to make prodigious leaps.
	+ **Palletakinesis**: While using the magic paintbrush, Bowser Jr. can create/generate, shape and manipulate paint.

## **Statistics**

* Collision Archive
* Collision Analysis

Bowser.'s stats, according to the Collision Archive

Bowser.'s stats, according to the Ultra Analysis Book
## **Trivia**

* Junior actually widely dislikes the concept of Steven's healing ability, he is seen as being really grossed out by Steven's saliva or tears, and whenever he would get hurt he'd ten to want to heal naturally. Steven would still ask even if Jr would reject the offer. This is best demonstrated in "Frozen Future", where Steven is willing to heal Junior's hand with his magic spit, but he declines it.
* Junior is seemingly smart for his age. He can seem immature or childish at times as he is still 12, but does show decency and common sense frequently.
* Junior's personality is inspired by Young Simba, from the Lion King. As he is represented as adventurous, inquisitive, and impressionable.
* Bowser. Jr has the ability to uncontrollable "chirp - as he himself calls it" like a Koopa Troopa, he personally finds it personally embarrassing even though it is a unique feature that not all koopas like him have.

Here are some of the sounds he may make:

* Bowser. Jr and Steven share a theme, the guitar solo representing Steven and the original form of the music is Junior.
* Junior's birthday was set to August 26, which is the release date of Super Mario Sunshine in Northern America.
	+ Junior's birthday is also in the same month as Steven's birthday, his being August 15.

* Junior was originally meant to die and becomes revived by George during the final episode, but this was soon changed in the canon.