Bowser

Bowser is the main antagonist of the Mario series.

* Blossom VS Bowser
* Bowser VS Doomsday
* Bowser VS Frieza
* Bowser vs. Thanos
* Ganondorf vs Bowser
* Bowser vs Dracula (Castlevania)
* Bowser vs SCP-682

* Hates the Mario Bros. Since he wasn't able to ride Mario's Yoshi when they were babies
* One of the Seven Star Children

### Natural Abilities

* Super strength
	+ Threw a massive metal ball heavy enough to damage a castle.
* Super durability
	+ Immune to Mario's basic jumps in most games
	+ Survived getting crushed by his own castle
	+ In his smallest form; Bowser can survive 19 of Mario's fireballs; each individual fireball is powerful enough to instantly kill a normal koopa.
* Pryokinesis
	+ Fire Stream
	+ Fire Balls
		- Fire Balls can become lava puddles when they hit the ground
		- Can travel long distances without being affected by gravity
		- Homing Fire Balls
	+ Fire clouds
	+ Fiery Rain
	+ Meteroite Breath
	+ Fire still works underwater
* Vaccum
	+ Sucks anything light enough into his body like Lakitus and Shy Guys (He has inhaled heavier things such as Mario though)
* Black Magic
	+ Terrorize
	+ Poison Gas
	+ Crusher
	+ Bowser Crush
	+ Teleportation
	+ Shapeshifting
* Whirlling Fortress
* Bowser Bomb
* Shoulder Charge
* Spike shoot
	+ Shoots out spikes from his shell that immediately grow back
* Body Slam
	+ Bowser jumps high up in to the air and slams down creating a shockwave
	+ Any person on the ground that is hit by the shockwave will be temporarily paralyzed
* Electrokinesis
	+ Has not used in battle yet
		- No reason he couldn't, but he as limited experience with it

### Weaponry

* Throwing Hammers
* Handheld Hammer
* Barrels
* Heal Shell
* Safety Ring
* Yoshi's Safari Armor
* Hurley Gloves
* Spiked Link
* Drill Claw
* Metal Bat
* Soccer Ball Bombs
* Spiked Ball
* Koopa Shells
* Bowser Shell
* Flame Boomerangs
* Bullet Bill
* Magic Spell Book
* Minimizer
* Stone Staff

### Power-Ups

* Cat Bell
* Double Cherry
* Mega Star (Paper Bowser)
	+ Nearly identical to the Mega Mushroom besides the fact that it turns Bowser 8-bit
* Pal pill (Paper Bowser)
	+ Makes small 8-bit clones of Bowser
* Fast Flower (Paper Bowser)
	+ Greatly increases Bowsers speed and speeds up time
* Slow Flower (Paper Bowser)
	+ Makes Bowser slower and more floaty and slows down time

* Dream Stone (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team)
* Can wish for anything he wants
* Can clone itself

### Vehicles

* Clown Car
	+ Flight
	+ Contains multiple weapons and projectiles.
		- Bowling balls
		- MechaKoopa bombs
	+ Can protect Bowser from attacks
* Bowser-Mobile
* Mario Kart Vehicles

### Transformations

* Giant Bowser
	+ By using magic or with the assistance of Kamek, Bowser can grow into a Godzilla-esque kajiu size.
	+ Immune to most of Mario's basic powerups.
	+ Strong enough to lift a castle.
* Giga Bowser
	+ Bowser grows to a massive size
	+ Gains elemental traits to his attacks.
	+ In Melee this is the secret final boss.
	+ In later games this is a invincible yet temporary transformation akin to a Mega Mushroom or Super Sonic.
* Dry Bowser
	+ Bower's undead skeleton after his flesh was incinerated in magma
	+ Immune to fire and lava.
	+ Can detach and reattach his bones; allowing him to throw bones or even his own head.
	+ Fire attacks are now ghoulish.
	+ Can still be defeated and killed by blunt force.
	+ Can become Giant Dry Bones Bowser.
* Meowser
	+ Bowser with cat claws and whiskers
	+ Bowser can climb virtical walls
	+ His claws are even larger than they were before.
* Molten Bowser
* Shrowser
	+ Bowser after fusing with the Elder Princess Shroob
* Block Bowser
	+ A form entirely composed of cube constructs
* Dreamy Bowser
* Megadragonbowser [1]
* Fury Bowser
	+ One of Bowser's biggest incarnations to date
	+ Looks absolutely f\*\*king terrifying
	+ Constantly exhales fire
	+ Can rain meteors across entire islands
	+ Can turn even docile cats into enemies

### Feats

* Managed to lift his own castle after being crushed by it
* Pulled an entire island to shore with just a simple rope
* Is strong enough as Giant Bowser to pull himself out of a black hole
* Managed to catch a cannonball several times bigger than himself and throw it back where it came from
* Forced a massive drill machine through massive amounts of dirt and rock
* Overpowered the combined strength of his minions while pushing a giant statue against them
* Almost stopped a moving train, and the only reason he failed was because he was crushed into a rock
* Can busts through walls with his claws
* Punches hard enough to have the floor underneath collapse
* His spikes can easily kill Mega Man
* Physically stronger than Mario, who is able to effortlessly lift up and punt castles
* Can break through bricks easily
* He can run almost as fast, sometimes even faster, than Mario and Luigi, and keep pace with them in combat
* Could tag and shoot down Lubba's spaceship with his meteors
* Outran lions
* Should be able to leap at least several stories
* Can run in short bursts of speed
* Can use his levitation to move at fairly fast speeds
* In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and New Super Mario Bros Wii, he was crushed by his own castle and survived
* Pulled through and fought through Dark Bowser's dark wave
* Has been dropped into lava numerous times and survived
* Survived falling into a sun that he created
* Has survived falling into several black holes
* Shakes off brief contact of a stillborn star
* Got tossed into spiked bombs that exploded violently
* Survived being in the middle of an explosion of his castle and landed in to the sea
* Narrowly survived the destruction of the universe
* Can casually bathe in acid and survive falling into lava
* Can take attacks from Mario and Luigi
* Traded blows with Dark Bowser
* Can tank hits from the Zeekeeper, who had fought and defeated a Dark Stone-enhanced Antasma
* Took hits from Super Dimentio while empowered by the Pure Hearts
* Survived the explosion of about a hundred Bob-Ombs.
* Survived falling from a chandelier
* Survived being thrown around the planet
* Survived a stadium-sized explosion
* Has defeated Mario on occasion
* Kidnapped Peach several times
* Defeated Midbus, Fawful, and Dark Bowser
* Has instantly defeated powerful enemies such as Mawful Mole and Magifoofa by simply walking into them
* Just his appearance scares the entire Toad population
* When exercising he burns weight... literally
* Stole the Super Leaves
* Imprisoned six, and later all seven, of the Sprixie Princesses to build World Bowser, or Bowser Land, for him
* Made allies with the Ruined Dragon
* Enslaved hundreds of Toads alongside his paper counterpart
* Made Mario into a pinball
* Stole various famous landmarks and attempted to flood the Earth by using hairdryers to melt Antarctica
* Also stole various historical artifacts from Earth's history to make his own museum
* Held the Yoshis native to Dinosaur Island in captivity
* Convinced his son, Bowser Jr., that Peach was his mother and Mario was her kidnapper
	+ This resulted in Bowser Jr. vandalizing Isle Delfino and later on "rescuing" Peach from Mario

### Faults

* Despite his high endurance and hard shell; he can still be defeated and killed by conventional means: even as Giant Bowser. [2]
* One of the slowest Mario characters. Can be easily overwhelmed by an opponent with superior skill and agility.
	+ Giant Bowser is even slower than he normally is.
* Can be instantly killed by Starman and Mega Mushroom transformations; even as Dry Bowser.
* Usually portrayed as a dimwitted clutz
	+ Frequently fights Mario in areas where Bowser has a massive disadvantage
		- This includes literally dozens of times Bowser fights on a collapsible bridge.
* Extremely cocky
* Almost never beats Mario