Roy Koopa

"Dad would want a pointless act of violence in his name."

- Roy Koopa

Roy Koopa (known as Bully Koopa in the cartoons) is considered the third oldest of Bowser's eight children in the games and oldest in the cartoons. From what has been revealed about Roy's personality, he is more brawn than brains, preferring brute force over thinking things through. Despite this gruff, tough-guy demeanor, Roy originally wore a pink shell, which may be a reference to the fact that some (jokingly) say pink is a manly color. He now wears a purple shell. Roy also wears red sunglasses similar to his namesake, the legendary rock and roll musician, Roy Orbison.

''Super Mario Bros. 3
In Super Mario Bros. 3, Roy was charged by Bowser with taking over The Sky. Easily doing this with his airship and armies, Roy stole the wand of Sky Land's king and transformed him into either an Albatoss or a Duck with it, depending on which version of the game.

Adventuring through Sky Land, Mario managed to reach Roy's airship. Managing to pass all the traps on Roy's airship, Mario reached Roy's cabin, where he engaged the burly Koopaling in combat. In battle, Roy would leap at Mario and try to crush him with his ground-shaking stomps, Roy would also shoot energy blasts from his stolen wand. Despite his power, Roy was defeated by Mario.

''Super Mario World
In Super Mario World, Roy took over the Forest of Illusion when his father attacked Dinosaur Land. After fighting his way through the perplexing Forest of Illusion Mario reached Roy's castle and ventured his way to the Koopaling's chambers.

In this battle, Roy would utilize Morton's attack pattern by climbing-up the walls of his room and try to crush Mario by dropping down from his ceiling. Unlike the last battle, the walls of the arena would steadily close in, giving Mario less of an easy time to avoid the attacks. Mario managed to defeat the wall-crawling Koopaling by bashing him on the head three times or hitting him with twelve fireballs.

''New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Roy, along with the rest of the Koopalings, appeared in the game New Super Mario Bros. Wii as a boss. He wears a purple shell instead of his pink shell from the past games. Unlike his past appearances, where he was the fifth Koopaling that the player had to fight, Roy appears in World 2 instead.

In the first fight, Roy's arena is similar to Larry's first arena except that it is filled with quicksand. Before battling Roy, he is shocked that Mario made it to him and roars at Mario. In battle, Roy will make jump and ground pound like a Sledge Bro.. If Mario doesn't jump when Roy lands on the ground, he'll be stunned by the shockwave, leaving him vulnerable. Roy's magic is purple in color and will hurt Mario if he comes in contact with it. In addition, his casting seems to be faster than Larry. Like most other bosses, three stomps on the head will defeat him. Roy will leave the fortress and flee to the castle at the end.

In the second fight, the arena closes up and there are no hazards. However, Kamek flies overhead and casts a spell on the arena, causing five huge Warp Pipes in different sizes to protrude from the ceiling. Roy will then jump into the Warp Pipe and start shuffling around. He'll then jump out of the pipe and make a huge shockwave, stunning Mario. Not only will Mario have to watch out for Roy's shockwaves, but he also has to be careful not to be crushed by the Koopa from above. After 3 stomps, Roy is defeated and Mario claims the key that unlocks World 3.

Roy survived the battle, however, and was seen along with the other Koopalings getting Bowser back up, only to have Bowser's castle fall on top of all of them.

This is also the first game where the player faces Roy before facing Morton. Also, he is not the boss of a sky world (as he was in Super Mario Bros. 3), but rather a desert world (which Morton was the boss of in Super Mario Bros. 3).

Super Mario anime series
Roy, as well as his siblings were featured in the Super Mario Amada Series, a set of three Japanese OVAs. In the Mario retelling of the story "Momotaro", Roy and his siblings appear as minions of Bowser, aiding him in abducting Princess Toadstool. In "Shirayukihime (Snow White)" Roy also appears as a minion of Bowser once again, like his brothers and sister, Roy ends-up being beaten by Mario.

DIC Cartoons
In the The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World cartoons produced by Nintendo and DIC Entertainment, Roy was renamed Bully Koopa. As his name would imply, Bully constantly pummeled and pulled cruel-pranks on friend and foe alike. Out of all the Koopalings, Bully seemed to have the least amount of air-time in the DIC cartoons, only appearing occasionally, though he did have a major role in "Do the Koopa", "Recycled Koopa", and "The Yoshi Shuffle". He was also seen having a slightly major role in "Mush-Rumors". Bully was given a Brooklyn accent in the DiC cartoons, and unlike in the video games, the character wore a spiked collar, had only one spike in center of his shell, and was regarded as the oldest Koopaling.

''Nintendo Comics System
Roy was also featured in the Nintendo Comics System. Here Roy's personality was similar to his "Bully Koopa" incarnation, but lacking the Brooklyn accent. The Nintendo Comics System issue "Bowser Knows Best" also revealed that Roy had a pet rabbit named Pookie, whom he would often abuse for his own amusement.

''Nintendo Adventure Books
In Double Trouble, Roy is found piloting the Doomship, which he has parked above a patch of Munchers in the Mushroom Kingdom, by Mario. Upon sighting the plumber, Roy tries to escape, but if he gets a hold of an anchor, Mario can board the Doomship and confront him, discovering the Koopaling is holding Luigi captive. In the best possible scenario that occurs, Roy charges at Mario, who sidesteps, causing Roy to fall over the Doomship's railing and be sent plummeting to the ground below. All other possible choices presented to the reader merely end with Roy catching Mario and dumping him off the Doomship.

At the beginning of the book, if Mario decides to trust a clone of Luigi created by the GLOM, follows it into an alleyway behind Mario Bros. Plumbing and straps on an odd vest it hands him, he will be pulled up into the sky, and onto the Doomship. Before Mario can react, Roy catches him in a net, shoves him into a cage with the real Luigi, and pushes the two overboard after placing the cage in a large sack, causing a Game Over.

In Leaping Lizards, Roy and five of his siblings enter the International Mushroom Games, where Roy is the first Koopaling to compete. In two of three possible scenarios in the obstacle course, Roy cheats to get second place, and in the final one he is knocked out of the race when Rocky Wrench, a member of an opposing team called the Sneaks, cuts a hole in his Magic Carpet during the last stretch. After his carpet is sabotaged, Roy lands in a patch of Munchers, but is left uneaten due to the plants finding his tough skin unappetizing.

Roy also competes in the second event, the Beetlebowl. In one scenario, Roy teams up with Wendy to score, faking out the Mario Bros. with a ball of garbage he made up to look like a Hoopster while Wendy dunks a real one in their bucket. In another possible scenario, Roy proves immune to the blinding flashes employed by the Sneaks two Fire Snake members due to his sunglasses, and gets a hold of a Hoopster, only to lose it when Rocky Wrench throws ink in his face.

In Koopa Capers, Roy and his brothers have their wands stolen by Wendy, who disappears with them shortly afterward, intent on overthrowing their father with her own army, and a super wand she plans to create by fusing her own wand with her brothers'. If Luigi, who had been coerced by Bowser into searching for Wendy, tracks the female Koopaling down to her hideout, Bowser and the male Koopalings, who had been following him, will barge in after the plumber, but decide to stave off punishing Wendy for her mutiny if she helps search for the hiding Luigi. If Luigi had acquired Boom Boom's socks earlier in his adventure, he can toss them into Wendy's simmering wand combination potion, which will release fumes that knock the entire Koopa family and their minions out for at least a week.

''Mario is Missing!
Though absent from the NES version of Mario is Missing! Roy does appear in the PC and Super Nintendo version of the game. Following his family to Earth, Roy had planned on aiding them in their plot to melt Antarctica, thus flooding the Earth.

Roy was eventually defeated again in the corridor of Bowser's fortress by Luigi, who had been searching for his kidnapped brother.

''Super Mario Adventures
Roy also appeared in the Super Mario Adventures comic, where he aided Bowser in his plot to hypnotize and marry Princess Toadstool.

''Yoshi's Safari
In Yoshi's Safari Roy appears as the boss of Float Castle I. Roy battles Mario and Yoshi in a large hot-air balloon equipped with six cannons. Despite having this mass amount of firepower, Roy was still defeated by Mario's Super Scope.

''Hotel Mario
In Hotel Mario Roy is in charge of and the boss of Roy's HardBrick Hotel; a hotel with somewhat shoddy electrical wiring. Fought on Roy's Rowdy Rooftop, Roy uses the same attack pattern against Mario in this game as he did in Super Mario World; climbing-up the walls and trying to stomp Mario. Like some of his siblings, he can completely devour the player if he happens upon an elevator. Ultimately, Roy was once again beaten by the Mario Bros.

''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
After several years of absence in a Mario game, Roy made a return appearance in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga; during Bowletta's invasion of the Beanbean Kingdom, Roy acted as a guard in Bowser's Castle, which Bowletta had hijacked, being the fifth Koopaling to be fought.

After making their way through Roy's puzzle filled room, Mario and Luigi approached the Koopaling, who fled at the sight of them. Leaving Roy's room, thinking the Koopaling had turned coward, Mario and Luigi were sneak attacked by the oversized Koopaling.

In this battle, Roy would attack by spitting fireballs (as with all Koopalings), spinning in his shell (akin to one of Ludwig's attacks), and stomping the ground, sending shockwaves at Mario and Luigi (similar to Morton). Despite having the aid of a Time Bob-omb in battle, Roy was still defeated by the combined might of the Mario Brothers.

Defeating Roy caused a barrel to fall into the room, allowing the brothers to rise up into the air and reach Wendy's location.

Character Description
Roy has the same yellow and tan skin complexion as the other Koopalings, but his head is pink instead of the standard green colouration. Roy has two, fang-like teeth in the upper corners of both sides of his snout; they are the same as Larry's. His mouth is feline-shaped, as his lips are deeply curved, and his nose is flat; it is relatively the same as Roy's aside from the jawline. His head is a very simple round shape, and like the other Koopalings, he has a ribbed, padded stomach and padded feet.

Roy has always been rather large when compared to his siblings. He is often defined by his abundance of muscle; his hunched shoulders give his biceps an even larger appearance. His shell was originally pink, like his head; it was changed to green in unused sprites from Super Princess Peach, and is now purple, lined with a white encasing, and with the multiple, short spikes circled with hot-pink rings. Roy wears distinctive cat-eyed, hot-pink, sunglasses, as well as the same metal, spiked cuffs as the other Koopalings.

Personality and Traits
Roy is depicted as typical bully who usually beats people up for his own amusement, including his own siblings. His love of the colour pink may be considered a subversion of his personality, although it could be a reference to the popular depiction of pink as a manly color. Bully Koopa had the exact same personality. It is rumored he spends most of his time beating up his little brother, Iggy Koopa, though he was seen beating mostly Morton in the cartoons.

Powers and Abilities
Roy Koopa tends to put brawn over brains, he shows this, by his ability to jump high into the air and use Ground Pounds to cause powerful tremors, capable of stunning (or even crushing) the Mario bros. He then uses his magic wand to fire a purple magic fireball at his opponents while they are dazed by the aftershock. His unused sprites in Super Princess Peach suggest he was going throw spiked-balls and use a full body tackle for Attacks. Like his siblings, Roy can also breathe fireballs and spin inside of his shell.

Bio from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 Writers Bible
''As long as you're smaller than he is, Bully will push you around. His favorite sport is stealing lunches from second-graders in wheelchairs. Bully is the most dangerous of the kids. The oldest, he would try to take over his dad's position as king, if his dad would stop being such a big bully and let him do it. Bully has a gang, but nobody will join it. He thinks he's totally cool, and loves fifties greaser music in Nintendo style.

Quotes

 * "Wow! Mario sure has some new neat tricks... I hope we can stop him!" - The Super Mario Bros. 3 manual (page 25)
 * "Toss it in the sack! All of it!" - Crimes R Us
 * "You beautiful Kootie Pie? I thought you were part of the garbage"- Recycled Koopa
 * "Oooh, I'm scared! NOT! Only fire can destroy me!" - ''Mario is Missing!
 * "Go ahead, lock 'em all. We don't care, we're up to our tails in hairdryers. Soon this place will be a hairdryer-heated hot-house!" - ''Mario is Missing!

Trivia

 * Roy was originally going to appear in Super Princess Peach, although he was taken out of the final game along with the rest of the Koopalings.
 * Oddly, for that game, his shell color is colored green, instead of his usual pink color. Similarly, his appearance in the SNES version of Mario is Missing! depicts him with a green shell.