Broque Madame

"Could you try? Do you... know zee massage arts?"

- Broque Madame

Broque Madame is a block character in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, similar to Broque Monsieur. Her house serves as an Enemy Attack Challenge House in Blubble Lake, which is the equivalent of the Cholesteroad inside Bowser. Her name appears to be a pun on a French sandwich dish called "croque madame".

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story / Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey
Bowser comes across Broque Madame's house in Blubble Lake, and when he enters she asks for a massage to soothe her aching back. This is accomplished by Bowser using his special attacks on her, Shy Guy Squad and Broggy Bonker excluded. Bowser must keep his special attacks going for as long as possible without failing. If Bowser does well enough, Broque Madame rewards him with coins and equipment. Bowser's score is saved if he gets the high score. However, Broque Madame only saves the score for the minigame, so Bowser must still save at a Save Block for the game to be saved, as Broque Madame warns him.

If Mario and Luigi visit Broque Madame, she immediately regards them to be weak but politely asks them to return to talk with her again as she is lonely, and to also request a "burly" guy (Bowser) to come to her house for a massage. If they do return to talk with her, she tells them stories. These stories include topics such as the Shroob Invasion and the fact that someone (Bowser) kept some of them, a reference to the cold storage in Bowser's Castle. She also says that if they have a special one that they need to care for them, because she once had her own special person that gave her up for blocks. She also mentions Kuzzle, who used to come to the lake, but now no longer does so ever since Bowser took his Star Cure.

Broque Madame also appears in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey, where she makes an appearance in the Bowser Jr.'s Journey mode as a boss. She is battled after Bowser Jr. and Kamek go to her to make the Skeletone Formula:D, as she asks them to give her a massage. She is weak against Ice Bros., as she is soothed by the ice that they throw. After the battle, she creates 200 servings of Skeletone Formula:D. She is battled a second time during the second visit to Blubble Lake; this time, she must be defeated within 4 turns.


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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Broque Madame reappears in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. She is found in the back room of the shop in Driftwood Shore, where Princess Peach (later revealed to be a fake) and Toadsworth, both disguised as Brocks are jumping on her back to massage her. She holds the endless mode for the Luiginary Attacks in this game. She also runs a shop in Dreamy Driftwood Shore, and she helps the Bros on finding the Driftwood Jellyfish Sheets during their search for the Ultibed parts by giving them the Old Lithograph as a clue she happened to stumble upon.

Battle Broque Madame
Upon Mario and Luigi's first visit to Driftwood Shore, they meet Broque Madame on a stand, who suggests the idea of the Bros. entering her dreams due to her boredom at her shop and her crave for excitement. This is much like the Mad Skillathon; however, it is the Luiginary Attack version for it, similar to her being the version of the Cholesteroad for Bowser's Enemy Attacks in the previous game.

These are the list of rewards gained from hitting the B, A or S rank scores, them respectively being 200 for B, 500 for A and 800 for S. After getting S rank in all four challenges, the player is awarded with the Excellent Boots.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions
Yoshi Theater features a poster in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions, depicting a movie starring Broque Monsieur, Broque Madame, and Broggy.

Quotes

 * "Oh! Please tell me... a masseur arrives..."
 * "Could you try? Do you... know zee massage arts?"
 * "Cherís... Tell me, do you believe in zee aliens? Once upon a long, long ago... Zey say zat aliens visited zis very kingdom... Someone told me zis, oui... Zis was long before I arrived in zee area, of course... Zey were evil... Zey destroyed zee houses, kidnapped people... Zis was a terrible, awful time. But in zee end... Two champions, superstars in zee green and red, defeated zem all... And yet... Zere is a rumor zat, in fact, zee aliens are preserved somewhere in zee kingdom... Heehee... Preserving evil aliens... Zere are some people who have zee bizarre hobbies, honh? Oh... Now zat I think on it, you two are red and green... Heehee.. Are you perhaps fans of zese famous superstars? Hee... You look a lot like zem..."
 * "Cherís... Tell me zis thing... You have...special someones? Heehee... I must apologize... Zis is a personal question, oui... Ah, if you do have zis person... You must cling to zem tightly, you understand zis? You do not relax when zey are beside you... For one day, zey may disappear on zee wind... And...in zee moment you realize zey are gone...you realize how important zey really were... Zis thing happened to moi... Zat is why, cherís, I tell you to cling to zee special someones... Zee special someone for moi... Heehee... I wonder if he is still collecting zee silly blocks..."
 * "Cherís... Tell me, you know zis gentleman, Monsieur Kuzzle? Heehee... He is much older, oui, but he has zee joie de vivre... So much energy, zis monsieur... And his mind, it is sharp, honh? He is master of zee puzzles... He talks of zem...hee...always... When he visits moi, he is saying "puzzles" and "so trendy with zee youth" and stuff like zis... Hee... I was never bored when Monsieur Kuzzle visited, non... But... Zen he stopped crossing zee border to see me... Sad... It is a rumor, but... Something was stolen from him, perhaps? Something about a cure of some kind... Zis is what i hear, oui... So zat was zat with Monsieur Kuzzle... I wonder how he is.... Zis man, he loved the sea like life itself, so... Perhaps he has retired near zee beach, oui?"

Trivia

 * In the Italian version, Broque Monsieur speaks with a French accent while Broque Madame does not.
 * There is a recurring mistake in Broque Madame's speech. Instead of saying "chéri" and "chéris", which are French for "dear", she often says "cherí" and "cherís". The accent is in the wrong place.

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