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{{about|the boss Mouser|the character from ''Mario Party Advance''|[[Mouser (Mario Party Advance)]]|the similarly named recurring species in ''Yoshi'' and ''Paper Mario'' titles|[[Little Mouser]]}}

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|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' ([[List of games by date#1988|1988]])<br>''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'' ([[List of games by date#1987|1987]])

|latest_portrayal=[[Charles Martinet]] (2001)

 

{{quote2|Here, have some bombs!|Mouser|[[Super Mario Advance]]}}

 

'''Mouser''' is a large, anthropomorphic mouse who wears sunglasses, gloves and boots. He is a resident of [[Subcon]], the land of dreams. Not much is revealed about Mouser, though it is mentioned that he is prideful and utilizes his [[Bomb (object)|bombs]] to destroy good dreams.<ref>"''It is a bomber of bad dreams that destroys good dreams. It is proud and it doesn't believe that it is just a mouse.''" - ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' instruction booklet, page 27 (Mouser description).</ref>

 

====''Super Mario Bros. 2''====

[[File:SMB2 Mouser Screenshot.png|thumb]]

Mouser appears in ''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' and ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''. In ''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'', Mouser is fought three times, appearing in World 1-3, World 3-3 and World 5-3; the World 5-3 fight in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' replaces Mouser with [[Clawgrip]]. In the NES releases, he has pink ears and shoes in World 1-3, while in World 3-3 he has green ears and shoes.

 

In battle, Mouser throws bombs at the player, which will explode after a short time. Players must defeat Mouser by grabbing bombs from him or elsewhere in the stage and throwing them at him so that they explode near or on the rodent; Mouser takes three hits to defeat in World 1-3, and five in World 3-3.

In ''[[Super Mario Advance]]'', a new boss, [[Robirdo]], replaces the second Mouser battle in World 3, and the second fight is moved to World 6-3, replacing [[Tryclyde]]{{'}}s second battle. He was given voice acting along with the main cast and the other various bosses, with his lines performed by Charles Martinet, who voiced him with a snide tone. Upon defeat, Mouser exclaims "No way!" before falling off-screen.

There are some unused sprites in ''Super Mario Advance'' of what appears to be a [[Porcupo]]-like mouse enemy, indicating that Mouser was intended to start out as a regular enemy type before undergoing a transformation, much like [[Fryguy]] and [[Clawgrip]].<ref name="Super Mario Advance- The Cutting Room Floor">[http://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Advance#Unused_Enemies tcrf.net - Super Mario Advance: Unused Enemies] (accessed October 25, 2013)</ref>

{{quote2|[[Mario|You're]] about to learn about it... ze ''hard'' way!|Mouser|'''[[Koopenstein]]'''}}

 

Mouser is voiced by [[John Stocker]], the same actor who voices [[Toad]], and is given a Swiss accent. In "[[Butch Mario & The Luigi Kid]]" and "[[Rolling Down the River]]", his voice is higher pitched than in other episodes. He appears in 23 episodes, but has a speaking role in only 21.

{{quote2|Sheriff Mouser to you, you despicable felons!|Mouser|[[Butch Mario & The Luigi Kid]]}}

After Mario and friends go to a mine where [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] is trapped, Mouser surrounds them with his band and tells them to "reach for the sky." However, a [[Tweeter]] then gets into an argument with him, distracting him, and Mario and co. quickly run away. Mouser then throws a [[bomb]] at the mine, and a resulting boulder chases Mario and co. Eventually, they get exhausted, fall for a trap, and are captured.

Mouser then arrives at a bar for a drink. Toad sneaks from the hat and steals Mouser's bombs to bomb Mario and Luigi's jail cell. When Mouser notices that Mario and his friends are free, he orders his pack of [[Koopa Troopa]]s to stop them. Mario and Luigi run to the mine where Princess Toadstool is trapped, and Mouser allows [[King Koopa's alter egos#Kid Koopa|Kid Koopa]], an alias for King Koopa, to stop them. However, Koopa fails, and the princess is rescued.  

After Mario throws an open can of tomato sauce at Team Koopa, Tryclyde and the Koopa Troopa lose control of their vehicles. Mouser however, appears and begins to assault the brothers with Bob-Ombs. Unfortunately, he soon becomes disoriented in the explosion of one of his own projectiles. Just as Team Koopa surrounds the brothers, Mario and Luigi play a game of Patty Cake, distracting them. The brothers flee to a nearby [[Vegetable]] patch and throw vegetables at Team Koopa. Mouser is hit by a large zucchini, knocked off his vehicle, and badly injured. He and the rest of Team Koopa are not able to continue racing.  

Later, King Koopa orders the [[Koopa Troop|Koopa Pack]], consisting of Mouser and several State Troopas riding cars, to siege the [[Rebel Fort]]. Mouser is knocked down from his car by [[Vegetable]]s. He regretfully informs Koopa that Mario, Luigi and Toad have evaded capture, and soon after plots to annihilate them with his ultimate weapon, the [[Thunderbirdo]]. It bombards the Rebel Fort with a giant egg, causing an explosion, as an excited Mouser persuades King Koopa to overrun the fort, now in shambles.  

After Hercufleas’s training, King Koopa commands Mouser to bring more marshmallows for him. When Mouser, holding large portion of marshmallows, asks King Koopa if he should just save the Great Balls of Fire just to defeat the Marios with them, King Koopa tells him that he has seemingly taken down the Marios, just when they, along with a now-muscular Hercufleas, have stormed into Koopacropolis. When Toad is taken to fall into the Great Balls of Fire by one of the [[Beezo]]s, Hercufleas takes and throws Mouser’s marshmallow bowl on top of the Great Balls of Fire, causing Toad to land safely into the marshmallows just as they melt, trapping the Beezos in them in the process. Towards the end of the episode, after a fiery face-off with Toad (in his [[Super Toad]] form), King Koopa calls in Mouser, who out of nowhere re-enters with his chariot and leaves just as Koopa leaves Koopacropolis once and for all.

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! '''Sheriff Mouser'''

| "[[Butch Mario & The Luigi Kid]]"

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! '''First Mate Mouser'''

| "[[Rolling Down the River]]"<br>"[[Pirates of Koopa]]"

| [[File:Astro Mouser.png|100px]]

! '''Astro Mouser'''

| "[[Stars in Their Eyes]]"

| [[File:Mousigor.jpg|100px]]

! '''Mousigor'''

| "[[Count Koopula]]"

| "[[Escape from Koopatraz]]"

In the ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'', Mouser is said to have been the leader of similar looking rats called '''Mice''', before defecting to King Koopa.

 

In the ''Nintendo Comics System'' issue "[[A Mouser in the Houser]]", it is revealed that the Mice once had a prosperous society, having dug the [[Warp Pipe|Transport Tube]] system and hidden all the treasures they found in it. Eventually, the society of the Mice began to crumble when their king, Mouser, abandoned them and joined [[Bowser]].

In the aforementioned comic "A Mouser in the Houser", several Mice abduct Princess Toadstool after she becomes lost in the Transport Tube system. After kidnapping the princess, the Mice reveal their origin to her and offer her the position of their queen, saying that if she agreed to this proposal, she could have a map of the Transport Tube system, as well as dozens of ready troops to help her defeat Bowser. Princess Toadstool eventually rejects the offer of becoming queen of the Mice when they refuse to help her aid [[Mario]], who was being attacked by Mouser.

In a later issue of ''Nintendo Comics System'' entitled "[[The Buddy System]]", a large group of Mice appear to capture Mario and Bowser when the two become lost in the Transport Tube system. Shackling Mario and Bowser together, these Mice interrogate them and learn that Bowser had planned on flooding the Transport Tube system by blowing up the main water valve of it. Deciding to aid Bowser in his plot of destroying the Transport Tube system, this group of Mice use bombs to blow up the main water valve, which causes a large amount of water to flow through the Transport Tube system and wash them away.

Though several Mice appear on the alternate cover of another ''Nintendo Comics System'' comic entitled "[[Bedtime for Drain-Head]]", no Mice actually appear in the story.

[[File:DiscJocky.png|thumb|right|Mouser and Mario.]]

In ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'', Mouser first appears in chapter 6 of [[Super Mario-kun volume 6|volume 6]] as the first antagonist. Bowser rented some of the 8 bits soldiers in the previous chapter, and sends Mouser to protect a hall of his castle. He manages to give Mario and company a fight for their lives by attaching a [[Phanto]] on Luigi's face, turning him evil; Mouser's plan is foiled when Luigi is cured with some [[Yoshi Cookie]]s and throws back the bombs that he lobs at the heroes.

Mouser reappears in chapter 3 of [[Super Mario-kun volume 8|volume 8]], where he leaves some leaf-shaped candy on the ground as bait for the heroes. Yoshi falls for it, but Birdo recognizes Mouser's style, and shoves Yoshi away from the candies as they explode, killing Birdo. Full of rage, Yoshi attacks Mouser without mercy until he drops dead.

Later, during the second part of the Wart fight, Wart moulds himself into a hybrid of all of the 8 bits' generals, granting Mouser infinite bombs.

====''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''====

Mouser makes an appearance as a [[Sticker (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)|sticker]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. When used on any fighter in [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl#The Subspace Emissary|The Subspace Emissary]], it boosts their arm attack power by 20 points.

 

====''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''====

Mouser appears as a Novice-class Grab-type primary [[Spirit (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)|spirit]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''. When used, it boosts the fighter's power without granting any special effect. In [[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate#Adventure|World of Light]], the spirit is found on the Light Realm map. The spirit battle takes place on the Battlefield form of the [[Mushroom Kingdom II]] stage, with [[Pikachu]] as an opponent and [[Bob-omb]]s as the only items that spawn.

 

The core extracted from a Mouser spirit can be combined with a [[Count Cannoli]] core and two other Neutral cores to summon the [[wikirby:Daroach|Daroach]] spirit.

In the cartoons, Mouser, like his boss, King Koopa, is an antagonist of Mario and his friends and he will do anything he can to capture them. Mouser also likes to use bombs as his primary form of attack. Even though he is second-in-command, his pack members still obey him, as seen in "Butch Mario & The Luigi Kid." Mouser, however, does laugh at King Koopa when something embarrassing happens to him, as demonstrated in the episode, "The Adventures of Sherlock Mario" when [[Herlock Solmes]] recalls King Koopa's embarrassing memories of his past, though he is still afraid when King Koopa threatens or gets angry at him.

===''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' sticker===

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!Effect in [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl#The Subspace Emissary|The Subspace Emissary]]

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|[[File:Mouser Sticker.png|100px]]

|''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''

|align=left|[Arm] - Attack +20

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===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' spirit===

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|''Super Mario'' Series

|Primary (1)

|Novice

|'''{{color|Grab|limegreen}}'''

|World of Light (Light Realm); Spirit Board

|[[Pikachu]]

|'''Rule:''' Item: [[Bob-omb]]

|[[Mushroom Kingdom II]] (Battlefield)

|Boss Theme - Super Mario Bros. 2{{footnote|main|1}}

|}

{{footnote|note|1|Although this theme plays, the song title that appears at the start of the match reads "Ground Theme - Super Mario Bros. 2" due to both themes being part of the same track when played on a stage (with the Boss Theme replacing the Ground Theme when nearing the end of the match).}}

===Artworks===

DonMouser.png|''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'' / <br>''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' instruction booklet

|Jap=ドン・チュルゲ<ref>''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' instruction booklet, page 35.</ref>

|JapM=「ドン」is from "Don" (a Spanish word for "sir") or Japanese onomatopoeia for booming sound, and「チュルゲ」is derived from「チュー」(''chū'', Japanese onomatopoeic word for squeaking mice)

|Spa=Mouser

|SpaM=-

|Ger=Mauser<br>Mouser <small>(''Super Mario Advance'')</small>

|Ita=Topastro/Mouser<br>Squittix <small>(''Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition'' instruction booklet)</small>

|ItaM=From ''topo'' (mouse) and the male pejorative suffix ''-astro''.<br>From the onomatopoeic word ''squit'' (squeak)

|Rus=Мышкин

|RusR=Myshkin

|RusM=From ''мышка'' (myshka, mouse) and a surname suffix ''-ин'' (-in)

|Chi=老鼠大王<ref>From the ending scenes of ''[[Super Mario Advance]]'' as localized by [[iQue]]. Reference: 无敌阿尔宙斯 (August 28, 2013). [http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2559790043 神游 超级马力欧2敌人官译]. ''Baidu Tieba''. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref>

|ChiM=Mouse King

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