Koopacenter

Koopacenter
Appears in	Super Mario Bros. (Valiant Comics) ("Elect Mario for Man of the Year") (1991)
Greater location	Mushroom Kingdom
Owner	Princess Toadstool
Iteration of	Mushroom Castle

The Koopacenter is an iteration of the Mushroom Castle appearing in the Super Mario Bros. comic "Elect Mario for Man of the Year." The Mushroom Kingdom's annual Man of the Year ceremony takes place at the convention center.

During the comic, Mario arrives at the Koopacenter just as the Princess announces that he won the Man of the Year award for this year. However, as Mario is not present to accept the award, Luigi is accepting it for him in his place. Mario, wearing a Shyguy mask, comes up on stage to ask him for the antidote for C. Mentum's Famous Sticky Juice (which had dripped on the mask and caused the mask to become stuck on his face earlier in the comic), and the Mushrooms in the audience, seeing him with the Shyguy mask on, believe that he has turned evil and begin critizing Mario and throwing their pins depicting his emblem onto the stage. As Luigi begins preparing an antidote for the sticky juice, one Mushroom asks him who the runner-up for Man of the Year was, and Luigi finds that it is King Koopa, who is wearing a robe and a sombrero. Koopa comes up on stage to make his acceptance speech just as Luigi applies the antidote, Antipaste, to Mario's mask, allowing him to pull it off his face.

With the Shyguy mask removed, Mario accuses Koopa of cheating to win the award and tricks him into admitting that he paid a lot to print up fake votes for himself. With Koopa's dirty tactics exposed, Mario wins the award by default. Koopa storms out of the Koopacenter, unaware that the Shyguy mask has now become stuck onto the back on his tail, resulting in some Shyguys mistaking him for a Shyguy walking backwards.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Finnish	Koopartti-Halli	Portmanteau of "Koopa" and partti-halli ("convention center")
Swedish	Koopacentrum	Koopacenter