Bowser (The Super Mario Bros. Movie)

Take over the Mushroom Kingdom and marry Princess Peach (or kill her and destroy the Mushroom Kingdom if she refuses.)
Execute his prisoners during his wedding as a sacrifice for Peach, including Luigi, just to spite Mario.
Kill Princess Peach for rejecting him.
Kill Mario and his friends for ruining his plans (all failed)

### Most Entertaining Features

His Peaches song makes him complex and dives deeper into the roots of his character.
Jack Black's performance.

### Most Detestable Traits

His "love" for Peach is simply lustful and he has no qualms about killing anybody who he thinks is stealing his supposed crush.

### Type of ED

Obsessed Warlord

**Bowser** is the main antagonist of Illumination's 13th full-length feature film *The Super Mario Bros. Movie*, an adaptation of Nintendo's *Mario* franchise.

He is the tyrannical king of the Koopas and ruler of the Darklands who desires to conquer the world using the powerful Super Star. With the assistance of his Koopa Army and loyal servant Kamek, Bowser plans to use the Super Star to target the Mushroom Kingdom and win Princess Peach's hand in marriage, with his plan bringing him into conflict with Mario after abducting his brother Luigi, while viewing the former as his rival to win as Peach's love and eventually becomes his arch-nemesis.

He is voiced by Jack Black.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* Bowser's Peaches song resonates with fans, as this song dives deeper into his complexity of his lustful nature.
* He has many hammy comedic moments such as him practicing to propose for Peach and feeling embarrassed when Peach asked if he really thought he'd marry her.
* Him losing his sanity at the end and ranting out at Mario for "ruining everything" was nothing more than a badass considering how bad he beat up Donkey Kong and Mario.
* He is very charismatic, as he uses his torture of Toad to have Peach give into having to marry him.
* His performance by Jack Black has been one of the best highlights of the movie.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* Unlike his original version, he has zero redeeming qualities.
* Despite having comedic moments, the other characters take him seriously most of the time.
* He is a coward who attacks mainly people who are defenseless or powerless against him, like his minions, the penguins, Toad, etc. but will panic once they have the upper hand and he cannot fight back.
* He is a terrible boss to his minions. He called the Spinies "whatever those things are," constantly abuses his right-hand wizard, Kamek, burns a Koopa alive, makes it very clear he doesn’t want them to have Peach, doesn't mourn Koopa General's death and has them all charge straight to their deaths at the hands of Mario and Luigi instead of having them retreat.
* His love for Princess Peach is out of lust rather than genuine love and he consistently displays perverse behavior throughout the movie. Moreover, he tries to kill her as soon as she rejects him.
* He almost has Donkey Kong killed and brutally injures Mario without provocation during his villainous breakdown. And he also tried to strike Peach and Toad to death just because they defended Mario against him.
	+ Even before to meet Mario, he already hates him to death without any reason, only because he was taken in by Peach.
* At the very end, he cowardly begs for mercy at Peach's hands.

## External Links

* Bowser on the Villains Wiki
* Bowser on the The Ultimate Evil Wiki
* Bowser on the Near Pure Evil Wiki

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