Wooster
| Wooster | |
|---|---|
| Species | Mushroom person |
| First appearance | Super Mario Bros. ("The Legend") (1990) |
| Latest appearance | Nintendo Adventure Books (Brain Drain) (1992) |
Wooster is a Mushroom person who appears in the Super Mario Bros. comics, as well as a few of the Nintendo Adventure Books.
Wooster serves as the Mushroom King's chief adviser and worries a lot about him. He is very polite and helpful, but he can occasionally get fed up with the Mushroom King. An example of this is in "Betrayal Most Proper", in which the king buys a crown that flashes things such as "Big Cheese!" and "Kiss the King!" in neon, and Wooster expresses a negative opinion of it, offending the king to the point of declaring him a traitor. As a result, Wooster resigns, gets himself captured by King Koopa and, posing as an actual traitor, feeds Koopa and his army enough food for a small hibernation. However, the Mushroom King still does not realize the importance of Wooster, although Wooster is whom he relies on to make his simplest decisions, even the decision of whether or not to fire him.
Appearances[edit]
- "The Legend"
- "Weight Up"
- "Piranha-Round Sue"
- "The Kingdom Enquirer"
- "Bedtime for Drain-Head"
- "Betrayal Most Proper"
- "Duh Stoopid Bomb!"
- "Cloud Burst"
- "The Buddy System"
- "Minor Defects"
Gallery[edit]
Wooster in the Super Mario Bros. comic "The Legend"
Naming[edit]
Wooster's name may be derived from the verb "to woo," meaning "to solicit or entreat", but it may also be a reference to Bertie Wooster, a character from the Jeeves novel series, whose eponymous protagonist is a butler par excellence in the English-speaking world; however, unlike the novel series where Wooster is the foolish aristocrat and Jeeves his patient and cunning butler, these roles are reversed with King Toadstool in the Super Mario Bros. comic.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finnish | Wooster[1] | - | |
| German | Wooster[2] | - | |
| Portuguese | Wooster[3] | - | |
| Swedish | Wooster[4] | - |