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|image=[[File:Dark Star MaLBIS.png|200px]]<br>Artwork of the Dark Star from ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''

{{quote|Long, long ago, a star sleeping deep below the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] was dug up. It was not benevolent. It was a frightful star that hid a great evil. The '''Dark Star'''. It was said that if an evil entity found the Dark Star, the world would plunge into darkness. That [[Dark Bowser|evil-hearted entity]] would rule the world. Fearing that, the [[Star (species)|Star Sprites]] that watch over us sacrificed much over many years. They sealed up the Dark Star deep under the earth in [[Toad Town]].|Princess Peach|Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story}}

As a boss, the Dark Star gives the most [[Experience Point|experience points]] of any enemy in the game when defeated. A more powerful variant, [[Dark Star X]], can be fought in [[The Gauntlet]] after Mario and Luigi first defeat the Dark Star.

Within the Airway, the Mario Bros. repeatedly try and fail to trap the Dark Star, which eludes their grasp by copying Bowser's DNA in order to enhance its own powers; this ranges from punching to breathing purple fire and body slamming the barriers, and Starlow soon begins to suspect as much. Eventually, the Mario Bros. confront the Dark Star at the very back of the Airway and battle it; despite the Bros. defeating the Dark Star, it simply escapes from Bowser's body and transforms into [[Dark Bowser|a Bowser-esque apparition]].

When Dark Fawful is defeated by Bowser and flees the [[Conference Hall]], Dark Bowser inhales him, and the Dark Star inside his body merges with Fawful's bug form, completing Dark Bowser and creating the [[Dark Star Core]]; this fact is not revealed until the final battle. When Dark Bowser is KOd, the Dark Star Core's powers allow him to recover and double in size; once Bowser punches the enlarged Dark Bowser's stomach, he expels Dark Fawful, who Bowser can then inhale into his body. Within Bowser's body, Mario and Luigi confront Dark Fawful, who transforms into the Dark Star Core, and manage to progressively weaken them before attacking the Dark Star directly, eventually defeating them both.

==Battle==

:''For the battles as part of the final boss, see [[Dark Bowser]] and [[Dark Star Core]].''

In battle, the Dark Star cannot usually be damaged. To expose its vulnerability, the Mario Bros. must destroy the [[Dark Satellmite]]s that surround it. With sufficient damage, the Dark Satellmites will use a kamikaze attack that consists of throwing a [[bomb]] (or electric sphere in the remake) at one Mario brother, and throwing their own body at the other, in order to bait an attack. Ordinarily, both will miss, but either brother can attack the projectile launched at him. If the bomb or electric sphere is attacked, it will explode, doing damage to either Mario or Luigi. If the Satellmite is attacked, it will be knocked flying into the Dark Star. After being hit in such a way twice, the Star will become vulnerable and immobile for a turn; in the original game, the hits also pierce its invulnerability and damage it.  

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