Koop Star
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| Appears in | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ("Star Koopa") (1989) |
The Koop Star is an enormous, faucet-shaped spacecraft/garrison owned and operated by Darth Koopa. A parody of the Death Star from the Star Wars franchise, it is featured prominently in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Star Koopa."
Roughly the size of a small moon, the Koop Star is built for the domination of the universe. It is the fastest known spacecraft to have ever been built, and is capable of reaching speeds of up to Warp 10. Known machines that are a part of the Koop Star include a tractor beam, the Birdo Ray, and the Intergalactic InSinkErator.
In "Star Koopa," Darth Koopa and Mouser use the Koop Star to pursue the Flying Pizza, which they capture with its tractor beam. When Darth Koopa succeeds in freezing Mario and his friends, he brings them aboard the Koop Star, where he fails to coerce Princess Toadstool into ordering the Mushroom Space Colonists to surrender their planet to him.
Knowing that Princess Toadstool will not change her mind, Darth Koopa orders Mouser to activate the Birdo Ray, and to toss the four heroes into the Intergalactic InSinkErator, where he expects them to be killed. However, due to some quick thinking by Mario and Luigi, their group jams the Intergalactic InSinkErator's blades with utensils, causing them all to be packed into a single Garbage Pod while still alive. The Garbage Pod is then ejected out of the Koop Star, and transports Mario's group to the Mushroom Colonists' planet.
At the Mushroom Colony, Obi-Wan Toadi tells Mario's group that the only way to save the Mushroom Planet was to penetrate the Koop Star in a Mushroom Starfighter, so that one can disable the Birdo Ray. Once they are equipped with Mushroom Starfighters, Mario and his friends fly back to the Koop Star, were they are attacked by Stormtroopas in their own starfighters. Mario's group manages to fight off the Stormtroopas, allowing Mario to fly into a canyon-sized groove along the surface of Koop Star. After some close calls with a few Stormtroopas and protruding walls, Mario enters the Koop Star through a small hole, and blows up the foundation of Koop Star with a Bob-omb. As a chain reaction, Koop Star as a whole blows up as Mario flies off, while Darth Koopa and Mouser escape into deep space on a Space Raft.
Names in other languagesEdit
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 酷霸星[1] Kùbà Xīng |
Koopa Star | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 庫巴死星[2] Kùbā Sǐxīng |
Koopa Death Star | |
| German | Koop Star[3] | - | |
| Italian | Attila-Nera[4] | "Black-Koopa"; the Death Star is called Morte Nera ("Black Death") in Italian | |
| Swedish | Koop Star[5] | - |