King Boo

*- King Boo mocking Luigi before fighting him in Luigi's Mansion.*

## Evil-Doer

Imprison his enemies inside paintings for his own portrait gallery. (Ongoing, Temporarily Succeeded)

### Hobby:

Gambling.
Scaring others.
Looking after his ghosts.
Plotting revenge.
Sadistically tormenting Luigi.
Hanging out in his mansion.

### Crimes:

Attempted Mass Murder
Attempted Omnicide
Attempted Torture
Attempted World-Domination
Usage Of Dark Magic
Terrorism
Assault
Stalking
Harassment
Psychological Abuse
Unlawful Imprisonment
Kidnapping
Conspiracy
Corruption
Hacking
Sabotage
Trespassing
Breaking and Entering
Cheating
Vandalism

### Type of Villain:

Vengeful Monarch

**King Boo**, is a major antagonist and occasional anti-hero in the *Mario* franchise, and is Easily one of the darkest and most malignant characters in the franchise, most notably serving as the main antagonist of the *Luigi's Mansion* series.

He serves as the main antagonist of all three *Luigi's Mansion* games. He is also a major antagonist in the *Super Mario* series and occasionally appears in other spin-off series. He appears under different shapes and roles, most commonly as a boss character.

As his name suggests, he is the king of the entire Boo race. He is also the arch-nemesis of Luigi as Bowser is to Mario. Despite having the same name and role.

## Appearance:

In the *Luigi's Mansion* series, King Boo appears as a large Boo with magenta eyes, an indigo tongue, and gray body that is sometimes shrouded in shadows. He also wears a gold crown that has a large magenta jewel embedded on top of it. In the first *Luigi's Mansion* game, his eyes and crown jewel were originally red in color and his tongue was originally blue in color.

## Personality:

King Boo is notably darker than in any other *Mario* games. He was initially much fairer in his rule, going out of his way to save a high-ranking Boo and generally acting fond of his own troops. He despised the Mario Bros, so he plotted to get rid of them by capturing Mario and then tricking Luigi so he could store them both into paintings. This grudge also extends to Princess Peach and her Toad Retainers in the third game, despite them having nothing to do with his imprisonment. He also hates Professor E. Gadd since his Poltergust is only the thing that can harm him.

## Biography:

King Boo's history is a fuzzy and unknown one at that, though some of it is well known.

For starters, It is known that, prior to the events of *Luigi's Mansion*, King Boo was a free spirit. Believed to have been causing grief and mayhem wherever he went. His power was eventually challenged by Professor E. Gadd, who managed to capture the largest boo in the King's army, Boolossus, with his invention, the Poltergust 3000, a modified shop-vac made specifically to capture and contain Ghosts.

Angered by the capture of his most powerful ally, King Boo mounted an assault on E. Gadd's laboratory in order to save Boolossus. After succeeding in his mission, he then went about rescuing all of E. Gadd's Portrait Ghosts, and using his magical capabilities to conjure a mansion, which the newly-freed ghosts decided to take up residence within.

King Boo and his underlings took shelter within the mansion's walls. During this time, King Boo decided to make use of his powerful army of ghosts to exact revenge on the Mario Bros. as pay-back for all the Boos that fell to the brothers' hands in their past adventures. He does this by inviting them both to the mansion under the premise that Luigi had won the mansion in a contest. Mario had arrived first, and King Boo made swift work of him, trapping him in a painting and stowing said painting away in the Secret Altar beneath the mansion.

During the games endings, all of Boo's plains had been eventually foiled and he currently had returned to wreak more havoc against Luigi in *Luigi's Mansion 3*.

## Trivia:

* King Boo's quote, "I don't plan to give up my favorite decoration. I like Mario where he is." is a quote derived from *Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi*, when Jabba the Hutt said, "*I don't plan to give up my favorite decoration. I like Captain Solo where he is.*"
* Luigi is canonically the only *Mario* character to fight King Boo more than once, due to him being his arch-enemy.
* In the English version of *Super Mario 64 DS*, King Boo was called Big Boo.
* In the *Mario Party 9* Sound Test, there are two voice sounds with the name "King Boo's Entrance"; one is King Boo and the other is actually Boo.
* The Japanese, Dutch and Korean names for King Boo use the English word for king, instead of a word in their own dialects.
* Unlike many other characters in the *Mario Franchise*, King Boo's true identity is fully unknown.

## Gallery:

King Boo's first appearance.King Boo meeting Luigi for the first time.King Boo chasing Luigi in Luigi's Mansion 3.King Boo's game over screen in Luigi's Mansion 3.The Cutscene before Luigi fights King Boo, activating a boss fight.