Cackletta



Cackletta (or Kikimona in Japan) is an evil witch from the Beanbean Kingdom and the main villain of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga for the Game Boy Advance.

Throughout the whole game, she oft is with Fawful, her assistant who speaks in metaphores, sycophant and simile, usually relating to food or yelling, "I HAVE FURY!". Early in the game, Cackletta stole Princess Peach's voice and used it to steal the Beanstar. Beanbean lore states that only one with a beautiful voice can activate the Beanstar's mysterious powers to grant any wishâ€¦ Cackletta hoped to use this power to conquer Beanbean Kingdom and soon after, the Mushroom Kingdom. Cackletta's plans backfire, however, when she attempts to use Peach's voice by putting the voice in robots codenamed "Peachbots". She finds that Toadsworth and others of the Mushroom Kingdom avoided the Plot and switched Peach with Birdo, whom they dressed up like Peach. As a result, the Beanstar was infuriated by Birdo's squawking voice and did not grant Cackletta her wish, but instead made the star angry.

Mario and Luigi soon caught up to Cackletta at Woohoo Hooniversity and fought her. Her body was battered up so badly, she could no longer move around on her own. Fawful absorbed Cackletta's spirit into a vacuum cleaner-like devise and tried to attack the mario bros. but was stopped by Prince Peasley who then attacked them and shot them out of the Hooniversity. King Bowser was suffering from amnesia for some time and wandering idly around Beanbean Kindgom. Just when he remembered who he was, Fawful met him and sent Cackletta's spirit into his body. Cackletta promptly renamed herself "Bowletta", a combination of Bowser's name and hers.

Armed with the new alias, Bowletta continued her plan to obtain the Beanstar and Peach's voice. The Mario Bros. eventually caught up with Bowletta, and after fighting through the notoriously spoiled Koopalings (Bowser's malicous children), and Fawful, they fought and beat Bowletta, who then ate them. Inside Bowser's stomach, Mario and Luigi encountered Cackletta's spirit inside of the body, and defeated her. After defeating the specter, it left Bowser's body, returning him to normal.

Cackletta is the first female character in a Mario game to be the main villain. Though Captain Syrup and the Golden Diva technically appeared before her, they appeared in games in the Wario Land series. Cackletta was followed by the Shadow Queen, the last boss in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Princess Shroob from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.