Bowser/Relationships

This page covers all relationships and interactions that Bowser has had.

### Luigi

Bowser and Luigi both had an interaction when the latter was brought in by the Shy Guys and Snifit. Here Luigi was interrogated by Bowser when the latter hears word about his brother supposedly stealing Peach from him. Eventually Bowser loses his patience and tears a chunk of Luigi's mustache off, before imprisoning the plumber. Sometime afterwards, Bowser would execute Luigi as one of the various prisoners for his and Peach's wedding. In the climax, Luigi foils Bowser's attempt to kill Mario, by using a manhole to block his fire attack from reaching Mario, before he grabs the Super Star. After the two powered-up, Bowser saw Luigi as a equal level threat as his brother, and demanded that he would be "ripped to pieces" when commanding his army to attack him.

**Status:** Enemies

### Peach

Despite coining Mario as his main arch-nemesis, Peach is Bowser's true arch-nemesis regards of his love interest for her. Regards of Peach's hatred for Bowser, the latter still attempts to do anything for her, including attempting to kill of any opposing love rivals to raiding an entire kingdom to steal a star for her. It also goes as far as him coercing the latter to marring him, and to threating to destroy her kingdom if she does not oblige. Bowser's love-side of the relationship can also be hypocritical however, including attempting to scorch Peach during the wedding, to attacking her in Brooklyn, when during his mid-gloating at an inflicted Mario. Their final interaction came when Bowser himself was defeated, where he tried to innocently pick up on Peach and begged to be spared. Of course, this wasn't done out of any genuine love, but rather done so that he wouldn't face repercussions, something that was shot down and denied by Peach. Peach would go on to punish Bowser by shoving a Mini Mushroom to shrink him and imprison him inside her castle.

**Status:** Arch-enemies (one-sided love-interest from his perspective)

### Kamek

Bowser's relationship with his advisor is quite complicated, but mostly friendly. While the two have more positive terms during the movie, like when Kamek assists Bowser with his marriage, while other times Bowser abuses him, including slamming his fingers with a piano hood and refusing to lift the cover. Where their relationship becomes ambiguous, however is during the final battle, where Kamek essentially ditches Bowser and weasels his way out of fighting the invincible, powered-up Mario and Luigi unlike the other minions. Though considering if he knew about the Super Star's powers beforehand, than Kamek would still care about Bowser, and likely plot revenge and a way to free his imprisoned leader in the future.

**Status:** Friendly terms

## Minor & supporting interactions

### Koopa General

The Koopa General is one of Bowser's elite minions in the Koopa Troop, and thus the former serves his leader faithfully. He assists Bowser by taking the Penguin King and his goons hostage upon the Koopa King finding the Super Star, and later helps him track down Mario and friends location. Eventually, he blasts Mario when transforming himself into a Blue Shell, causing Bowser to laugh afar from his fortress upon success.

**Status:** Minor allies

### Toad

Toad is an ally associated with Princess Peach, and thus Bowser's relationship with him could be on negative terms. Here, Bowser ends up using Toad as a hostage against Princess Peach by torturing him via Kamek's magic, until she can agree to marry him. Eventually, Toad plays a role in crashing Bowser's wedding by smuggling an Ice Flower into Peach's bouquet, which she eventually uses on the Koopa King. In Brooklyn, Toad attempts to battle Bowser, before being knocked aside and apprehended by the Koopa Troop. In the end, Toad then proceeds to imprison Bowser when he is shrunken by Peach, and transfers him into a birdcage inside the princess' castle offscreen.

**Status:** Minor enemies

### Donkey Kong

Since Donkey Kong is an ally acquainted with Princess Peach, Bowser's relationship with him is at odds. This is shown where during the gang's drive on Rainbow Road, Donkey Kong would be one of the main victims of Bowser's ambush, via his army. Another instance is where Donkey Kong battles him in Brooklyn, before being overwhelmed and beaten up, before Bowser prepares to kill the ape.

**Status:** Minor enemies

### Kongs & various prisoners

Kongs included, Bowser likely neglects all of his prisoners he captures, where he simply keeps them dangling in cages above lava. However, most of the prisoners, of course aren't too friendly with Bowser, due to him capturing them, and somewhat extended to ambushing, raiding, and destroying their homeland. Bowser later attempts to execute all the prisoners when he plan on marrying Princess Peach, causing most of them to panic. Notably, one prisoner, Lumalee likely doesn't care at all about his imprisonment, and it remains unknown why Bowser captured him in the first place, until he becomes happy when Bowser plans to execute him.

**Status:** Neutral (somewhat bad terms by some of the prisoners)