Super Koopster

**Super Koopster** is a CGI adventure animated comedy web series created by Caroline Killian and produced by The One Legendary Gamer that airs on TOLG Junior The show revolves around Koopster Parakarry and his elemen and family issues whilst trying to stop Shadow Queen’s nefarious antics. Similar to Toad and the Kingdom Saga, the show used viewer interactivity, but only in the first season. Each episode runs for 20-25 minutes, followed by a live-action song performed by The Rockman Band before the credits roll. Following the rebrand from TOLG Playhouse, this was the second show to be hosted on the channel after Toad and the Kingdom Saga.

## Premise

The show follows the everyday life experiences as told through the perspective of a vivid, articulate, and self-centered Koopster Parakarry, a ten-year-old kid who is just entering the fourth grade. Throughout the series, Koopster devises schemes and plans as a means to become the most popular kid in his school through trying to become a class favorite in multiple categories, including “Class Clown” and “Best Dressed”. While Koopster is heavily concerned with popularity and fitting in with his peers, his naive and childish best friend Goombs Jeffrey is not. Koopster also faces struggles at home, as he and his teenage older brother Kent constantly fight and struggle to get along despite their parents’ best (yet unsuccessful) efforts to remain strict but easygoing. Over the course of the show, Koopster occasionally faces conflicts with other characters, including Priscilla Matthews, an arrogant teacher’s pet, and Miller, the school bully. The series is comprised of real-time sketchbook entry, as every episode opens with the name of the month and the day of the week, with said entries unfolding in real time during Koopster’s everyday life.

Koopster frequently gets requests from other characters in the Mushroom Kingdom who need his help. Whenever setting out for a mission, Koopster and his crew, Toadette, Kylie Koopa, and Bowser Jr. retreat to Hero Hideaway, an underground hideout put together years ago when the kids first met each other. After transforming into super heroes, Koopster and the crew board their rocket ship named Saturn, and go an an adventure to rescue whoever is in trouble while battling against Shadow Queen, an evil majestic creature who constantly steals treasure and terrorizes people in hopes of conquering the Mushroom Kingdom after failing to overtake Rogueport. Koopster and his crew constantly have to conquer challenges and obstacles, frequently using their super hero abilities to save the day.

Upon returning to Hero Hideaway, Koopster and his crew reflect upon their adventure and Koopster realizes how his super hero experiences can apply to the issue he is facing. Oftentimes, the end result is not in Koopster’s favor as he resorts to either using people (for embracing teamwork) or changing another person into a replica of himself (for the message of “being yourself), taking the wrong message in. It is when Koopster benefits others for selfless intentions when Koopster gets a positive end result from his actions, which happens quite rarely, and typically only after Koopster has met his dire consequences.

Often times throughout the series, Koopster’s imagination and his exaggerated thoughts are presented through animated drawings from his sketchbook, giving the audience deeper insight into his thoughts and perspective on his experiences. While season 1 was interactive with kids viewing at home, seasons 2 and 3 are not.

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Koopster - A ten-year-old Koopa Troopa and the main character of the show and leader of the super hero crew. An articulate, matter-of-fact yet self-centered kid, Koopster likes to draw cartoons in his sketchbook and play video games. He possesses a bright fantastical view of life and imagines himself in times of fortune - yet luck seems to always turn on him for the worse thanks to his massive ego. Koopster tends to use others - particularly Goombs- for his own selfish motives and has the goal of becoming the most popular kid in school and to grow up rich and famous - yet the only work he’s put in towards that goal is pursuing a sketchbook, which he claims will be a museum of his life that he’ll sell for millions. He is skilled with his sword, entrusted (wrongfully) by Mario, as well as the commander of Saturn the rocket ship. His super hero alter-ego is a knight.

* Bowser Jr. - A nine-year old Koopa and the youngest among the 4 heroes. He enjoys playing with his father Bowser, loves to build and wants to get strong like him. Although arrogant and impulsive at times, he's still willing to help to save the day. His power is building legendary items using his Enchanted Tools. Using his Emchanted Tools, he can build many objects. Junior also has super strength.
* Kylie Koopa - A female journalist Koopa that enjoys photography and writing. Her super form is an artist dressed in a trench coat. She uses her magic paint brush to paint objects to life, which can help the team solve puzzles, mysteries, and uncover secrets. She uses her Magic Paintbrush to draw out pictures.

* Toadette - A 9 year old female Toad that likes to play sports. Her power is super speed. She can control situations by accomplishing tasks with super speed, or reaching far with her lasso to reach things from afar. Her outfit physically resembles Toad’s design from Super Mario Strikers. Toadette can also fly without any assistance.
* Saturn - a lifelike spaceship with godlike abilities, able to communicate with the crew and help out on their adventures.

### Supporting Characters

* Bowser - The father to Bowser Jr. and a father figure to the Koopalings. Although he makes a great dad, his sense of power and bossiness gets the better of him. Bowser tends to come out more comical than villainous.
* Mario Mario - The all famous hero of the Mushroom Kingdom. He’s taking a long break to chill with civilians in the Mushroom Kingdom.
* Luigi Mario - Mario’s younger twin brother who’s hanging out with the crew but also has to suck in ghosts.
* Shadow Queen - The main antagonist of the show who wants to seize power of the Mushroom Kingdom and always plots against Koopster and his crew. She has an army of 3 X-Nauts (Nax, Nas, and Nat) and owns a spacecraft named Jett.
* Princess Peach - The princess and ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom.
* Princess Daisy - An extroverted ruler from Sarassa Land who sometimes appears in Koopster’s adventures.
* Keith Parakarry - Koopster’s father and a mischievous full-grown man child whose wacky antics are hard to ignore. As a part of his business, Keith owns a restaurant called “Keith’s Eatery” but no one hardly shows except for his family due to its bad reputation and Keith’s inability to cook delicious food. Keith tends to be overbearing yet over-exaggerated when parenting his kids, yet he still sets high standards for them so they can become responsible individuals despite Keith himself not knowing what it truly means to be the head of his family.
* Karina Parakarry - A famed pirate and loving mother of the Parakarry family. She cares deeply for her family but hasn’t gotten a clue on how to raise modern-day teens and tweens. Legend says she is one of the greatest pirates and sailors of the Mushroom Kingdom. Early on the show revealed that Karina is the first lady pirate to ever sail the seas of the Mushroom Kingdom. Karina, being a mother, serves as the voice of reason for her kids, but ends off coming out as an overprotective mother who tends to treat Koopster much younger than he is, much to his embarrassment.
* Kent Parakarry - Koopster’s big teenage brother who loves punk rock music. Kent believes that his little brother is annoying to no end, constantly antagonizing and torturing him with his schemes, pranks, and endless teasing. Kent is seen constantly being lazy and playing dumb, as he fails school, rarely does his chores, and has low expectations from his parents. However, Kent does all of these things intentionally to get through life easily while spending all of his energy towards the thing he cares about the most - pursuing a music career. Kent had his own punk rock band, the Rockman Band, and gains two additional members during the season one finale.
* Kim Parakarry- Koopster’s little sister. As she is still an infant she is prone to tantrums (Much to Koopster’s demise), and is constantly moddycoddled by Karina. She’s quite a playful, wacky, and outgoing baby who often causes trouble for everyone, especially Koopster, yet gets away with it. Her parents, Keith and especially Karina, indulge Kim and treat her better than the rest of the family, causing resentment among Koopster.
* Goombs Jeffrey - Koopster’s happy-go-lucky best friend who enjoys playing with him. Goombs and Koopster have a complicated friendship seeing as how different they are from each other. While Goombs acts more immature than his peers of his age, everyone still enjoys his company due to his charming nature and his ability to not be afraid of being himself.
* Sagewell
* Priscilla Matthews
* Miller
* Coach Marrow
* Lady Bow
* Chomp Chomp - A golden Chain Chomp that chases Bowser around the Mushroom Kingdom.

## Trivia

* This is the second original series to be produced and hosted on TOLG Junior, releasing just months after Toad and the Kingdom Saga.

* The show’s pilot (New Year, New Queen, New Chaos) started production in 2048.

* The pilot was revised 3 times before it was complete. With the pilot episode finished in early 2033, the final version of the pilot was dubbed as the premiere episode for the show. Shortly after, a first season of 60 episodes (including the pilot) was ordered.
* The first version of the pilot had no animated drawing segments. The second version had these animations but were choppy. The third, final and aired version had smoother animation, and over time it’s art style evolved over the course of season 1.

* Season 1 was produced from 2033-2035 and aired from 2034-2035.
* Koopster’s animated fantasy sketchbook drawings revived an art style upgrade in season 2, transitioning from cel-shaded animation to smoother, more fluent CGI animations.