Bowser's Koopalings

***Bowser's Koopalings*** (formerly titled ***Bowser's Children***) is a series on YouTube created by FreezeFlame22. It was first launched on October 4th 2017. The series is about Bowser and the Koopalings, Larry, Wendy, Roy, Iggy, Morton, Lemmy and Ludwig, who are generals in The Koopa Troop and act as Bowser's adopted children. The show mainly revolves around them getting up to random antics around Bowser's Castle, although there are exceptions such as The Water Park and mainly focusing around the 7 Koopalings getting up to random antics together.

## Backstory

*Bowser's Koopalings* somewhat serves as a reboot to FreezeFlame22's old series, *The Koopa Kids*, which was also about the Koopalings. However, FreezeFlame22 was not happy with that show and decided it was best to end the show and instead create a new show where he could have a fresh start.

Many things were changed from *The Koopa Kids* to *Bowser's Koopalings*; the most notable being the Koopalings now being adopted children rather than biologically related to Bowser like in the old show. The location also changed from Bowser's Airship to Bowser's Castle, although airships make appearances in BC. The characters were also completely re-written with different backstories and personalities, due to FreezeFlame22 disliking most of the characters in The Koopa Kids. As well as this many sprites were updated, such as the Koopalings now using custom sprites created by RidgeTroopa, with the exception of Wendy whose sprite was made by FreezeFlame22, rather than the classic *Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga* sprites.

On September 2nd, 2020, the show's title was changed from *Bowser's Children* to *Bowser's Koopalings*, due to issues with the word *Children* being used in the title being that it might get marked as YouTube kids.

## Characters

### Main Cast

#### King Bowser Koopa

Bowser is the king of the Koopa Troop and the adopted father of the Koopalings. Despite his royalty, he is portrayed as a reckless and somewhat horrible alcoholic father who makes his children do his dirty work while he himself choses to stay at his castle and drink beer. He often yells at the kids when they don't do as he asks and is frustrated with them often, however he can still be proud of them on occasion and does care when one of them goes missing as shown in Larry's Validation.

#### Larry Koopa

Larry is the youngest of the Koopalings and is certainly shown to act like it. He is often viewed as a naive and cowardly child who is not anywhere near as competent as the other Koopalings. However, this doesn't mean he doesn't have an angry side. He can get angry if his mocking is taken too far. He often tries to prove himself to his brothers, who tend to mock him for his aforementioned attributes. Because of this he is closest to Wendy, his sister, as while she tends to mock him on occasion, she still is shown to be friendly with him and even sticks up for Larry occasionally. He also has somewhat of a rivalry with Ludwig, due to him finding Larry as a pussy, immature and naive person.

#### Wendy O. Koopa

Wendy is portrayed as a stereotypical, average teenage girl, liking money, expensive jewellery and constantly being on her phone, much to the other characters annoyance. She tends to be disinterested a lot and can show lack of concern for others, but does seem to care for Larry.

#### Roy Koopa

Roy is often shown to be the lazy Koopaling, spending a lot of time in his bed and is even shown sleeping in the intro of the show as of Season 2. Despite this lazy attitude of his, he tries to flex and show off to people, specifically girls and tries to portray himself as cool, however often ends up failing miserably without realizing. He is commonly seen with Iggy, aiding him in his lab for cool inventions, hence his Bill Blaster.

#### Iggy Koopa

Iggy is the smartest of the Koopalings and is portrayed as a crazed inventor. He creates many inventions and spends a lot of time in his room, which he turned into a science lab. He strongly believes in his intellect and is shown to be somewhat disappointed when he is treated on the same level as the other Koopalings, believeing he should be put in a smarter environment. He owns a pet Chain Chomp he nicknamed Jaws and is shown to be somewhat abusive to him, however he still likes the dog and has been shown to care for him.

#### Morton Koopa Jr.

Unlike Iggy, Morton is not very bright. He's shown to be quite dumb, with ferrel tendancies to match, often being compared to a caveman. He loves to eat meat and tends to create sandwiches with ridiculous food combinations that only he enjoys. He's also prone to become angry and frustrated easily. He most commonly hangs out with Lemmy and the 2 are portrayed as the most immature of the family.

#### Lemmy Koopa

Lemmy is the smallest and most childlike of the Koopalings, being much smaller and less developed than the rest of the Koopalings. He has a very sarcastic sense of humour, often making snarky comments and cracking jokes about people. Despite this he has been shown to have a cowardly side, being scared of people that are larger and not in his family, hinting he is possibly secretly insecure and uses comedy to mask that. He is best friends with Morton and spends most of the time with him. It was revealed in The Love Potion that he was gay.

#### Ludwig Von Koopa

Ludwig is the oldest of the Koopalings. He is very arrogant and selfish, often looking down on his other siblings and even betraying them to save himself in The Castle Dungeon. He is shown to find the rest of them immature and spends a lot of time stood in a corner by himself reading a book. He has also been shown to have somewhat of a rivalry with Larry, as Ludwig finds him the most immature and hates his naive attitude towards things. As the series goes on however, Ludwig has started to become more selfless and began to care for his other siblings more (except for Junior). His original behavior was caused by Junior becoming second in command rather than himself. Not because he had lost his position for being destined to the throne, even though that was part of it, but because his siblings began to treat him differently and leave him out of activities more often. Wendy and Larry are the only 2 to know about this. His mother's death may have had something else to do with his depressed and antisocial personality.

#### Prince Bowser Koopa Jr.

Bowser Jr. is the main antagonist of the Bowser's Koopalings series, Bowser's youngest son, the heir to Bowser's throne and the arch-nemesis of the Koopalings. He is a selfish quick-tempered spoiled brat who looks down on everyone else and views people as slaves. He is especially cruel to the Koopalings and often uses his position as Bowser's son to make them buy or do things for him. He pretends to be a kind-hearted, lovely child in front of Bowser, who is easily fooled by his false persona. As the series moves forward, Bowser had begun to treat the Koopalings and Junior more equally. Even putting Junior in his place when he acts rude or breaks something that was expensive.

#### King Boo

King Boo is a leader in the Koopa Troop, as well as Bowser's best friend and drinking buddy. He is seen quite regularly throughout the series and is mostly shown to be an alcoholic and somewhat stupid due to how much he drinks. He is also shown to be friendly towards the Koopalings.

#### Kamek

Kamek is Bowser's childhood caretaker and advisor. He is a grumpy old man, constantly shown to be grouchy and miserable, not being very friendly towards Bowser or the Koopalings, although he has helped them on occasion, such as in KoopaTube. He is also a wizard and often uses his wand to help people out.

#### Boom Boom

Boom Boom is one of Bowser's minions. He is incredibly dull witted, as he shown to speak in the third person, he also has an aggressive side. Despite this, Boom Boom is still a loyal minion to the Koopa Troop.

#### Travis Hawke

Travis is a character that first appeared in the episode, *Bowser's Bodyguard*. He appeared as a barman working in Wonderworld who appeared to be one of Wendy's followers in Instagoomba and then comes to the Castle because Wendy left her phone and ends up saving the Castle from Tyson who was about to activate the Remote Bombi. He starts dating Wendy in the episode, *Love Triangle* and becomes "family-like" to the Koopalings. As of Season 6, he becomes part of the main cast. During the events of *Wendy vs. Camilla*, he has a secret life as his name is Trent and he didn't want Wendy to know about his secret identity or having an encounter by Yamik.

### Supporting Cast

#### Titch Smally

Titch is a Microgoomba and a recurring character in Bowser's Koopalings.

#### Lucy and Courtney

Lucy and Courtney are the female Koopas who live in Dark Valley that Roy sometimes flirts with.

#### Camilla McQueen

Camilla is a female Koopa who is an ex-friend to Wendy. She’s a snob who looks down on everyone and is considered the most attractive of her group of friends. In later episodes, she starts to become more of a spoiled brat and even backstabbed Wendy in Love Triangle by trying to win Travis from her despite her current marriage to Roy, whom she cheats on with other guys, and ends her friendship with Lauren and Ally after her mistreatment towards Wendy and her friends as of *Wendy vs. Camilla*.

#### Lauren Knightly

Lauren is a female Koopa who is friends with Wendy. Lauren is the most average of her group of friends, still having standards but not being as harsh towards the Koopa Family as Camilla.

#### Ally Rook

Ally is a female Koopa who is friends with Wendy. She’s considered an attractive but ditzy girl and is Morton's love interest.

#### Spike

Spike is a friend to the Koopalings and a fun-loving character.

## Scrapped Episodes & Concepts

* **Mario & Bowser: Behind the Beef** - This was originally a project that was planned to be developed around the time Bowser’s Koopalings was being developed including some sneak peeks of it, however this was later scrapped, as FreezeFlame22 decided he no longer wanted Mario to be involved in Bowser's backstory or the show as a whole at the time, in addition to thinking the title was horrible.
* **The Power Outage** - Around the near end of the 2nd season of both Carl and Bowser's Koopalings, there was originally an episode planned that had the power going out on the Koopa Kingdom, and was originally planned to be made somewhere after The School Dance, it was eventually scrapped for unknown reasons, and was most likely replaced with Morton Koopa Sr.
* **Untitled Carl & Bowser's Koopalings Crossover** - Originally FreezeFlame22 was planning on making a crossover special of Carl and Bowser's Koopalings around 2019. Multiple ideas were thought of, including a concept where Gooper and his gang would hijack a Koopa Troop airship, or Carl & co. helping the Koopalings prevent an assassination on Bowser. Ultimately however, the idea was scrapped after multiple re-writes, due to the scripts not turning out good in Freeze's eyes.
* **Wart in Time Travel Trouble** - While most of the plot remained the same, originally, Larry and Ludwig were about to face Wart at the near end, although he was later replaced with Major Burrows in the episode.
* **Mario in Return of the Koopa King** - In early drafts of *Return of the Koopa King*, Mario from the *Super Mario* series was going to be the main antagonist, and the story was going to have him attempt to marry Peach to become king of her Kingdom while Bowser also liked her. Freeze later decided Mario wasn't physically imposing enough to be the main villain when compared to a character like Bowser, and thus he was replaced with Tyson.

## References to other series

### **Carl**

* In *Training School*, there is a teaser for *A Christmas Carl* on the blackboard.
* In *Enter Bowser Jr.*., King K. Rool and King Dedede talk about scenes from Logan's New Girlfriend and Halloween Party.
* In *Secret Santas*, Carl is shown in the hospital from getting injured in *A Christmas Carl*.
* In *It's A Not So Wonderful Life*, there was the gravestone of Toadette Onix, Zachary Williams, and Edna, Dry Bones' mother.
	+ In the same episode, Lemmy states that Carl's fanbase is around 2,000 fans.
* A. Rool makes a return in the episode *Jurassic Piranha* under the name A. Byzmal.
* In *The Slumber Party*, Lauren mentions her brother getting hit with a barstool at the Huckit Hotel, which was originally a reference to when Carl hit Leon with a barstool in the episode, *Summer of '19 (1/2)*, but was then retconned due to Freeze thinking it would be a waste to have 2 characters from different shows be related.

### **Donkey Kong Island**

* In The Return of the Koopa King Cranky Kong Makes a Cameo Complaining about the Loud Commercials
* In *Jurassic Piranha*, Iggy was told by A. Byzmal that King K. Rool has a bigger part in another show.
* In *The Cell Phone*, Lemmy prank called Funky from Kongo Jungle.
* In *Bowser's Bodyguard*, the radio in Bowser's car references events from Lite Food Truckers.
* In *King Boo's Mansion*, Sneaker changes the TV while Roy was watching the game, to the news that references the events of *The Corporate Party*

### **The Koopa Kids**

* Messenger, who was a prominent character in The Koopa Kids, briefly appears in *Enter Bowser Jr*., being run over by Bowser while he's drunk, supposedly killing him. This was done to show he would not be returning for the show.
* In the Episode *Training School* when Iggy asks Mr. Adams if he is from an old show (Referencing his appearance in The Koopa Kids, where he was known as "The Angry Paratroopa" by fans) he replies by saying "That crap" ended.
* In the episode *It's A Not So Wonderful Life*, there's a gravestone of Messenger that says that he isn't coming back.

### Wars of Frozen Flames

* In *The King's Claw*, When Bowser mentions the position of King's Claw, Morton replies to him with "The hell's a KIng's Claw" before Lemmy intervenes with "Did you watch the last video?" as it was a reference to the first part of the Feeble King being the prior video premiered before this one.
	+ In addition to this episode, one of Bowser's old King Claw was named Lord Blackfoot, who is a descendant of the Blackfoot Family featured in the Series.
* In *Lemmy's Secret*, Eddie takes Lemmy for a ride to Mushroom City, where the two are hanging out at the Bar named The Blackfoot.
* In *Goom-Banned*, Bowser announces to the Koopalings that he had banned Goomburgers across the Kingdom after a series of riots, Iggy tells him off by telling him that he's the worse King than King John Koopa VI, referencing the Feeble King himself.

## Gallery

Bowser's Children, Bowser's Koopalings' original title.