President Koopa

* Dinohattanite
* Reptillian
* Tyrannosaurus Rex
* Primeval Slime

> *"I guess I'm not a good guy."*
> - *Koopa, Super Mario Bros.*
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**King Koopa** (also known as **President Koopa** or simply **Koopa**) was a Dinohattanite male from Dinohattan. Originally serving as a military general under the rightful king of Dinohattan, he eventually revolted, took control of the realm from him, and de-evolved him into fungus. He later planned a full-scale takeover of Earth, which would be achieved by merging the two dimensions into one by inserting the meteorite piece back into its proper place.

## Biography

Sixty-five million years ago, a meteorite crashed onto Earth, somehow isolating a population of dinosaurs in an Earth that is in a dimension parallel to our Earth. It is in this dimension that the dinosaurs continued to live, and, like the apes on Earth, evolved into a human form. Koopa was one such humanoid dinosaur, having descended from a Tyrannosaurus rex. Originally serving as a top military leader, Koopa eventually seized control of Dinohattan from The King, whom he turned into fungus, with plans to use a shard of the meteorite to reunite the dimensions and allow him to take over Earth as well.

### Koopa Stops the Queen

Twenty years prior to the near-merging of the dimensions, the Queen managed to take her unborn and unhatched daughter (Daisy) and the shard through a portal to Earth, leaving them at the entrance to a cathedral before trying to return to Dinohattan, only to have been captured by Koopa. Earlier, he had killed the portal's keeper as part of his coup d'état, and demanded the meteorite piece from her. In the ensuing struggle, however, Koopa accidentally knocked over a support beam and the tunnel collapsed, crushing Daisy's mother and blocking off the portal.

### The Search for Daisy

Twenty years later, when the portal was finally reopened, Koopa assigned his cousins Iggy and Spike, who were also his minions, to retrieve Princess Daisy so he could use the meteorite piece she carries for his master plan. However, his bumbling cousins continuously delivered him the wrong girls, until finally succeeding in kidnapping Daisy. They barged into his office after he had done a routine de-germification of his palms. However, it turned out that they lost the meteorite piece to Mario and Luigi in the process of capturing Daisy.

### Koopa Meets Mario and Luigi

Later, after Mario and Luigi were arrested, they were taken to see their lawyer, who is actually Koopa under an alias. He tried to trick the brothers into handing over the necklace, which had the meteorite piece on it and which they didn't have anymore, eventually reaching the point where he physically assaulted the brothers and orders them and Toad to be de-evolved.

### In the de-evolution chamber

In the de-evolution chamber, Koopa witnessed as Toad was turned from a human-like state to a Goomba, a strong, large, and stupid being loyal to Koopa. He then ordered the brothers to tell him where the necklace is, or face de-evolution. After a technician ended up sneezing, Koopa, because of his germophobic nature, as well as to do a further demonstration to the Mario Bros. regarding the properties of the de-evolution chamber, had the technician executed by turning him into primordial slime. However, the brothers escaped, pushing Koopa into the de-evolution device, defeating all of his minions, and setting the machine for the Jurassic period. While the de-evolution ended prematurely and Koopa remained in his human-like form, his eye briefly becoming more reptilian hinted that he had in fact been affected by the machine. He then angrily demanded that they recapture the Mario Bros.

### Koopa evolves his cousins

Iggy and Spike later break-in on Koopa and Lena's mud bath, reporting that Mario and Luigi were in the Koopahari Desert. Koopa orders Lena to bring him Daisy, and has Iggy and Spike taken to the de-evolution chamber. However, instead of de-evolving them, Koopa had his cousins evolved, which resulted in the pair becoming smarter. He then ordered the pair to capture Mario and Luigi and retrieve the meteorite piece or be killed, also specifying that he himself would execute his cousins in person.

### Koopa meets Daisy

Koopa was discussing training his Goombas with the de-evolution gun when Lena arrived, telling him that Daisy is ready. He was then finally introduced to Daisy, who was in another room with Yoshi, a baby theropod. He surprised Daisy by entering the room and telling her Yoshi is a dinosaur. Ignoring her pleas for the whereabouts of her father, Koopa told her that she also descended from dinosaurs, and, afterward, his head begam to show dinosaur-like traits and he nearly seduced her. A frightened Daisy then ran away but is caught by Toad, whom Koopa demanded to take Daisy away.

### Koopa talks to the former king

At another point, he entered Devo 4, the holding chamber for Daisy's father, where he engaged in small-talk with the fungus. He eventually stated that his rebellion would have been in vain after the dimensions have been united.

### Lena informs Koopa of Iggy and Spike's rebellion

Lena later entered Koopa's quarters, secretly possessing the meteorite piece, with Iggy and Spike as her prisoners. She convinced Koopa that they were now against him, and he ordered them to be killed. He then walked off with Lena, who tried to reveal that she has the meteorite piece, only to be ignored. She bemoans the fact that Koopa only cared about Daisy now, while he stated that he only cares for the future of their species and left, whereupon Lena decided to take action on her own.

### Preparation for the invasion of Earth

Koopa was later told by the police chief that the army was ready for the invasion of earth. Alarmed by this, Koopa demanded to know who gave the order, to which the chief stated that he did, according to Lena. Koopa then figured out that she has the shard, and demanded her arrest. He, along with a Goomba entourage, later ran into Luigi and Daisy and captured the duo. Afterward, he ordered the preparation for the invasion of earth. Eventually, the police chief captured Lena and delivered the shard to Koopa, and he then ordered to prepare for the invasion.

### The final battle

Outside, Koopa and a small group of Goombas were distracted as Mario, as well as the missing girls from Brooklyn, flew out of a ventilation shaft on a mattress, allowing Luigi and Daisy to rejoin Mario. However, Koopa then approached the brothers with a fireball gun, declaring he had won, and gave several commands through a communicator. The distracted Koopa did not notice Luigi grab a Thwomp Stomper's cartridge from a local shop, which Mario loaded into a stomper and activated it. The stomper knocked Koopa into an empty vat above the streets. Mario, using some fungus as a vine, leapt onto the bottom of the vat, climbed on top of it, and hit Koopa, knocking the shard out of his hand. Not being able to locate the shard, Mario was able to trick Koopa into thinking he has it.

They continued the fight on a catwalk, Mario pulled out the Bob-omb the brothers retrieved earlier and winded it, though the bomb falls through a hole. Unaware that the Bob-omb is still on its trek, the two dimensions began merging before their eyes. Mario, Koopa, and his legion of Goombas appeared at the excavation site after Koopa's tower merges with the World Trade Center. Casting aside the fireball gun, which no longer functioned, Koopa took a de-evolution gun from a Goomba and fired at Mario, though he dodged the blast, which accidentally hit Anthony Scapelli, a business owner, and turned him into an ape. He tried firing at him again, but Mario pulled out a mushroom the brothers found earlier to absorb the blast. The mushroom started to grow, eventually becoming really large, and Mario used it to attack Koopa, knocking the gun out of his hand.

Thanks to the efforts of Luigi and Daisy, the dimensions were split again, and Mario is joined by Luigi, who handed him a de-evolution gun. He attempted to have his accompanying troops shoot him, but the Goombas ended up failing to obey the order by dancing thanks to Toad playing the harmonica, exploiting an earlier weakness of the Goombas, causing Koopa to angrily punch them down dominoes-style. The brothers then fired the guns at him after he attempted to strike them with his now functioning fireball gun (the latter missing them and instead hitting a Koopa propaganda poster depicting him kissing a baby), which began de-evolving him, granting him definite saurian features just as the Bob-omb arrived right beneath Koopa and exploded, sending him flying into the empty vat. After a moment of silence, he emerged from the vat, having de-evolved into a semi-humanoid Tyrannosaurus. The brothers then defeated him by continuously blasting Koopa again until he finally de-evolved into primeval slime.

## Behind the scenes

Koopa was based on the video game character Bowser. He was portrayed by the late Dennis Hopper.

## Sources

https://www.mariowiki.com/President\_Koopa