King Bowser Koopa II

*"Will you shut up and get me a beer already?"* - Lights, Camera, Annoyance!

**King Bowser Koopa II**, mostly referred to as **Bowser**, is the forty-four and current monarch of the Koopa Kingdom, as well as the adoptive father of the Koopalings, and the biological father of Bowser Jr. He is a major character in *Bowser's Koopalings*. He is a reckless, irresponsible, alcoholic father, though he does try his best to be a positive role model for his children and loves all of them.

## History

### Backstory

Bowser was born on October 4th, 1970, being the second son of King Bowser Koopa I and Princess Jasmine Valentine and also his father's heir due to his older brother Joseph having died a few years prior. Unlike the Koopalings and Bowser Jr., Bowser's date of birth has stayed consistent throughout the seasons, as he is portrayed as 48 in 2018 and 50 in 2020.

Most of Bowser's backstory was explored in "Return of the Koopa King". In the episode, it is shown that Bowser was initially just a lazy, alcoholic teenager and showed no interest in participating in the Koopa Troop. It is confirmed that this is partially due to the death of his mother in the year 1985, when Bowser was fifteen years old. After the death of his father, Bowser I, in 1996 however, when Bowser was intended to take the throne himself, a group of criminals sent by his second cousin Tyson trapped Bowser in a crate and sent him away across the ocean. He awoke in Dinosaur Land a year later, where Princess Peach, as well as a group of Toads, helped him mature. He grew fond of Princess Peach especially, and the two started a romantic relationship.

In 1999, however, Kamek flew to Dinosaur Land to get Bowser after Tyson sent the Koopa Kingdom into chaos due to his tyrannical reign. Bowser initially didn't want to go back, however with some convincing from Princess Peach, he reluctantly agreed, and the group flew back to the Koopa Kingdom on Blue Toad's ship known as the Starshroom. Bowser confronted Tyson and challenged him to a race for the throne. Tyson accepted, however secretly planned to have Bowser assassinated during the race to ensure that he would keep the throne and remain king. This almost worked, however, Bowser survived the attempt and won this race, as Tyson crashed into a mountain. Tyson was arrested and stripped off of all his royal titles after his plans were exposed by Peach, and Bowser was crowned king of the Koopa Kingdom at the beginning of the year 2000. Bowser and Peach got officially married shortly afterwards and Peach was appointed as Bowser's official King's Claw.

In the year 2004, an explosion at a bar had taken the lives of many of Bowser's most loyal subordinates and their families, leaving behind five eggs that were close to hatching. In addition to one abandoned by Morton Koopa Sr. and one trusted to them by Sophia Eisenhower of the Bohnenkraut Kingdom, Bowser and Peach decided to raise the babies that hatched from the eggs as their own children, with them becoming the Koopalings.

In the year 2012, Bowser and Peach were involved at an airship crash. He survived it, but Peach was nowhere to be seen. The Princess was presumed to have perished in the crash and the rescue team gave up the search. Bowser struggled a lot of following Peach's disappearance and possible death, to the point in which he left the position of King's Claw vacant for ten years. He eventually tried to move on and remarried to his second cousin, Karen, whom he had his only biological son, Bowser Jr.. The marriage was a disaster however, as Karen had an unbearable personality, often favored Bowser Jr. over the Koopalings, and even tried to get rid of everything that could remind Bowser of Peach, including the Koopalings themselves. Because of this, Bowser divorced Karen not long after Junior was born and gained custody of him due to Junior being heir to the throne.

## Appearance

Bowser is a large, hefty Koopa, and is one of the largest characters in the series. He has spiky red hair, a green head with two sharp horns, large red eyebrows, red eyes, and a pale-yellow snout and mouth with several fangs. He has scaly, yellow skin, sharp claws on his hands and feet, and a spiked tail. He wears black spiked cuffs around his wrists and shoulders, as well as a spiked collar, and a spiked, scaly green shell with a white casing and orange rings around the spikes.

## Personality

Bowser is an incredibly angry, reckless and irresponsible alcoholic. He appears very neglectful and spends most of his time drinking beer rather than doing any actual work, even hiring the Elite Trio not based on their skills but based on how much beer they can deliver to him. He is prone to having angry outbursts when someone disagrees with him or pisses him off. Despite being somewhat neglectful and irresponsible, he still cares for the Koopalings. In *Morton Koopa Sr.* he is shown to be saddened when Morton leaves to go and live with his biological father, and in "It's A Not So Wonderful Life" he feels bad for snapping at Ludwig and buys him a toy airship. In some episodes he goes too far, such as "The Boxing Match" or "Lights, Camera, Annoyance", showing that too much money or power can cloud his judgement at times.

## Relationships with other characters

### Prince Bowser Koopa

Being his youngest and biological son. Bowser is shown to favor Bowser Jr. over his other children often spoiling him and does care for him. Bowser does get angry when Jr gets bullied even though Jr pretends that he is the one being bullied him and is often fooled by his false ego.

### The Koopalings

#### Ludwig Von Koopa

Ludwig is Bowser's oldest son while they do care for each other Ludwig is shown to slightly dislike his father for his reckless behavior and him favoring Bowser Jr over him and the others and replacing Bowser Jr as 2nd in command

#### Morton Koopa Jr.

Bowser does care for Morton. though he often sees him as very dimwitted as shown in *Morton Koopa Sr* Bowser got angry at Morton for leaving him and the others to go to like with his biological father despite doing so much for him when he was a child, but he then forgiven him afterwards.

#### Iggy Koopa

Iggy and Bowser don't interact that much. Iggy is his smartest son and does care for him as shown in *Iggy's New Pet* he wanted Iggy to take care of a Chain Chomp and threatened to take it away if he's not taking care of it.

#### Wendy O. Koopa

Wendy is Bowser's only daughter while he does care for her Bowser gets annoyed when Wendy is on her phone and doesn't pay attention to orders and also gets annoyed when she's being sarcastic and snarky moments.

#### Roy Koopa

Bowser often sees Roy as a bit lazy due to him often sleeping thought they don't interact that much but despite that he still cares for him.

#### Lemmy Koopa

Bowser is shown to see Lemmy as a bit childish and can get a bit annoyed by his jokes and his sarcastic remarks, though they don't interact that much he still cares for Lemmy just like the other Koopalings.

#### Larry Koopa

Larry is Bowser's son he and Larry are shown to care for each other though Bowser often see's Larry as a coward and too much of a "Pussy" just like his other siblings though Larry is shown to be loyal to Bowser.

### King Boo

King Boo and Bowser are shown to get along. Every since Bowser was young, King Boo and Konnor were great friends to Bowser. After becoming King, Bowser would make King Boo the Secretary of State.

### King Konnor Rool

Konnor and Bowser are childhood friends. When they were young, Bowser crowned Konnor the king of obesity, Bowser is shown to prefer Konnor over A. Byzmal.

### King Donny D. Davidson

Donny and Bowser are drinking buddies. He is shown to get along with Bowser but Bowser prefers Konnor and King Boo to Donny.

### Pope

The Pope and Bowser are shown to be good friends. They meet up in Bowser's Bodyguard. He gives a sandwich full of poison to the Pope not knowing that it is full of poison.

### Andrew Byzmal

Bowser is shown to despise A. Byzmal and prefers Konnor over Byzmal. When Bowser got turned into a kid, Byzmal insulted him while Bowser was a kid form.

### Byron McQueen

Byron and Bowser get along well. Byron likes Bowser because of his power and him being in the Koopa Family. Byron will do anything for Bowser even calling Bowser the Furious B.

### Shawn McQueen

Shawn and Bowser have a negative relationship. Shawn would dress up as Bowser and pretend to be him, doing terrible things but Atony Spook would take care of him, thinking that he is the real Bowser but Shawn reveals himself.

### Karen

Karen is Bowser's Second Cousin and Ex-wife. Karen is negative towards Bowser, threatening Bowser that she will take away Junior from Bowser. At the end of Bowser Jr.'s Journey, She apologizes to Bowser and the Koopalings when Junior says that he had a good time with the Koopalings. She reminds him that if he messes up, she takes away Junior.

### Tyson Koopa

Tyson and Bowser have a negative relationship. Bowser once mentioned Tyson thinks he’s better than everyone because he wasted his life studying and going to law school which indicates he is probably intellectual. He became king after getting Mouser, Triclyde, Clawgrip and Fryguy to get rid of **King Bowser Koopa II**, then Prince Bowser Koopa, by shoving him into a crate and throwing the crate into the ocean, believing he had died. However after Bowser returned three years later and his two plots to assassinate Bowser were uncovered, Tyson was ultimately arrested and stripped off of all his royal titles. Bowser would take over as King. Later Tyson would escape prison switching appearances with his cellmate, Charles. He under the alias, Atony Spook would pretend to be Bowser's Bodyguard who would attempt to kill him but would reveal himself as Tyson.

### Kamek Kazi

Kamek and Bowser have a positive relationship. Despite demanding orders at Kamek, he cares for Kamek and promotes Kamek as King's Claw.

### Boom Boom

Boom Boom is one of Bowser's henchmen. Boom Boom talks in third person and Bowser thinks of Boom Boom as a pet than a bodyguard. In Castle Crashers, he is impressed that Boom Boom took down the Boom Boom.

### Elite Trio

#### Corporal Nick Paraplonk

Corporal Paraplonk is extremely loyal to Bowser that possibly has a crush on him. Paraplonk is shown to always praise Bowser.

#### Private Joe Goomp

Private Goomp is shown to fail bowser because of his short-term memory.

#### Sergeant Kevin Guy

Sergeant Guy is quiet but fails tasks like the rest of the Elite Trio.

### Princess Jasmine Valentine

Bowser speaks very fondly about his mother, showing that the two had a close bond with one another. It is stated that Jasmine also acted as a teacher to Bowser due to him being home-schooled. When Jasmine died, Bowser was extremely depressed. Her death had a strong negative impact on Bowser, and it caused him to drop out of military school and become a reckless teenager.

### King Bowser Koopa I

Bowser wouldn't listen to his father while he was alive. Once his father died, he was sad and would see visions of Bowser I in his head.

### Chief Chilly

Chief Chilly is one of Bowser's drinking buddies that he is shown to get along with.

### Goomboss

Goomboss is one of Bowser's drinking buddies that he is shown to get along with.

### The Shadows

#### Underwood

Underwood and Bowser had a negative relationship. Bowser and the rest of the people were taken hostage by Underwood and the rest of the Shadows. Later Wart would kill Underwood and reveal himself as a commander of the shadows.

#### Quartet

Bowser is a target to the Shadows, especially to the quartet, which includes Mouser, Triclyde, Clawgrip and Fryguy. When they first appeared in Return of the Koopa King, they plotted against Bowser during his race against Tyson for the Koopa Throne under his commands. They failed and ended up arrested along with Tyson. They escaped off-screen implicitly through Mouser's explosives and then return in The Heist where they introduce themselves as members of The Shadows and hijack a business party and hold several members hostage. While they were supposed to retrieve an artifact from the tower, Fryguy and Clawgrip show off their grudge against Bowser. It is revealed that they work for a mysterious Koopa known as Edgar. In Bowser Jr.’s Gift, the quartet holds Bowser Jr. hostage for the Orange Star causing Bowser to panic. They appear again in Bowser's Bodyguard where they plot against Bowser again with Atony Spook (who was Tyson in disguise) posing as his bodyguard and would insult him for failing to eliminate Bowser.

#### Wart

Wart is shown to be kind to Bowser. He was later shown to be manipulative.

### Drake Francis

Drake holds a grudge against the Koopa Kingdom and Bowser for putting an end to both Johann XVIII's reign and plan to eradicate the tourists and common folk, showing off loyalty to his king even after his death.

### King Johann Von Speckbohne XVIII

King Johann and Bowser have a negative relationship. Johann is Bowser's third cousin. Sophia asked Reinhold to take her to the Koopa Castle, where she begged **King Bowser Koopa II** and Princess Peach Toadstool to take her son in and keep him safe from Johann. Bowser and Peach agreed to raise Ludwig as one of their own children, and with sadness, Sophia bid them farewell, knowing she would never see her son again. Bowser would disguise a snow bro and protect Ludwig from Johann and his troops. Bowser says that it explains why he never came to the Monarch parties. Johann says that Bowser is on his territory and that his forces will deal with Bowser's Children, that they will come for you and Ludwig. Johann says Tyson put it best that Bowser is nothing but a hopeless, ill bred, drunk. Bowser is excited to hear more people coming. Johann asks why Bowser is so calm. Bowser quotes King Robert Koopa III, "*The best way to conquer your foe, is to pursue him, at his own realm".* Koopa Kingdom airships arrive. Snow Hammer Bros. arrive with Snow Blasters shooting at Snow Wrench Bros. Johann is furious and Johann says that he still has the Green Star. Johann is sad of his empire being ruined. Bowser fights Johann while Fawful gets away. Ludwig uses his fire breath against Johann and gets knocked down by Johann. Midbus gets his hand unstuck and knocks a snow bro down. Snow Bros chase the group down while Iggy uses his hacking skills to close the doors. Midbus is stuck and asks a snow bro to get him out. The Snow Bro asks if he gets a day off but Midbus says he can't do anything about that. Snow Bro leaves him. Bowser fights Johann with a crowd of people . Ludwig yells no and Ludwig tells Johann that he is no father of his. Johann beats up Ludwig and tells that he is the king and the people is his, the kingdom is his and the realm is his. Bowser throws Johann down the abyss. Larry appears while Ludwig is trying to get Bowser to be awake again. Roy, Lemmy, Travis and Morton show up. Lemmy ask if he is too late. Ludwig asks them to get Bowser on the airship

### Sophia Eisenhower

Sophia asked Reinhold to take her to the Koopa Castle, where she begged **King Bowser Koopa II** and Princess Peach Toadstool to take her son in and keep him safe from Johann. Bowser and Peach agreed to raise Ludwig as one of their own children, and with sadness, Sophia bid them farewell, knowing she would never see her son again.

### Reinhold

Sophia asked Reinhold to take her to the Koopa Castle, where she begged **King Bowser Koopa II** and Princess Peach Toadstool to take her son in and keep him safe from Johann. Bowser and Peach agreed to raise Ludwig as one of their own children, and with sadness, Sophia bid them farewell, knowing she would never see her son again.

### Princess Peach Toadstool

Peach first met Bowser when the Toad Brigade reported her while he was bound and gagged, but she decided that it would be best to untie him and let him explain himself. She later decided to talk him in a fireplace. The two soon began bonding, developed feelings for each other and eventually started dating. In the year 1999, her, Bowser and the Toad Bridgate went to the Koopa Kingdom with Kamek in the Starshroom after the latter had finally located Bowser, only to see that Bright Valley had turned into Dark Valley due to Tyson’s tyranical rule. She exposed the assassination attempt against Bowser after taking out Triclyde and Fryguy, Resulting in Tyson getting arrested and being revoked of all his royal titles after he lost the race to Bowser. Peach would be King's Claw and would later adopt 7 children once they found their eggs. Unfortunately, tragedy would strike the Koopa Family in the year 2012. In "The Heist" it was revealed that Peach and Bowser were involved in an airship crash. When the rescue team arrived, they were able to recover Bowser alive from the crash, but Peach was nowhere to be seen. After a fruitless search for her whereabouts, the princess was assumed to have perished in the crash and was declared deceased, devastating both the Koopa Family and the realm.

### Toad Brigade

#### Yellow Toad

Yellow Toad and Bowser at first had a negative relationship but after Bowser stayed with Peach and the Toads, they would become friends.

#### Captain Toad

Captain Toad and Bowser at first had a negative relationship but after Bowser stayed with Peach and the Toads, they would become friends.

#### Green Toad

Green Toad and Bowser at first had a negative relationship but after Bowser stayed with Peach and the Toads, they would become friends.

#### Blue Toad

Blue Toad and Bowser at first had a negative relationship but after Bowser stayed with Peach and the Toads, they would become friends.

### Jaws

Jaws was brought by Bowser to give to Iggy and Bowser thinks Jaws is helpful.

### Lord Hancock

Bowser thinks Lord Hancock that he was an asshole who kept disagreeing and challenging his ideas.

### Lord Blackfoot

Bowser thinks that Lord Blackfoot wouldn't leave him alone. He followed Bowser to the bathroom when he tried to sneak out to the bar.

### Lord Johnston

Bowser thinks Lord Johnston has an annoying voice despite having serve the kingdom for years.

## Gallery

Bowser as his burglar alter ego, Rookie, in Lemmy & Morton: Stupidstar SagaBowser in a flashy suit in The Boxing MatchBowser as a teenager.Zombie BowserBowser after being crushed by a humongous rock released by the murderer.Dry Bowser seen in *It's A Not Wonderful Life*