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'''Cackletta''' is a witch from the [[Beanbean Kingdom]] and the main antagonist of ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' for the [[Game Boy Advance]] and its [[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions|remake]].

===''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga'' / ''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions''===

In the meantime, Bowletta plans to destroy the Beanbean Kingdom and then, after the Bros. are destroyed, the Mushroom Kingdom. She enters [[Bowser's Castle]] and attacks [[Beanbean Castle Town]] again. After this, the Bros. go to [[Hoohoo Village]] and tell [[Blablanadon]] that Bowser's Castle is overhead and he should take them. [[Fawful]] informs Bowletta that the brothers are coming, so Bowletta orders the seven [[Koopalings]] and Fawful to guard her castle. The Bros. fight them all and eventually fight Bowletta, but just as it looks like they have defeated her, it turns out Bowletta pretended to be defeated and as this is happening, a [[Time Bob-omb]] comes into view, exploding and knocking the Bros. out cold. She then proceeds to swallow them. Inside Bowletta's stomach, Mario and Luigi with 1 HP find Cackletta's spirit inside the body and fight her.

After Cackletta is defeated, her spirit leaves Bowser's body, disappearing afterwards and Bowser returns to his original form.

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Cackletta's main attack during the battle is creating lightning bolts to strike the brothers. The arm she lifts for this attack show whether she will attack Mario and then Luigi, Luigi and then Mario, or both at once. She can also create two clones of herself, so when one of the duplicates is attacked, it divides into a swarm of Cackletta-like bats and attack the brothers. They are not very dangerous because they only cause very little damage, although they can give [[Poison (status effect)|poison]] if Mario or Luigi make contact. When the real Cackletta is attacked, the fake ones disappear. In order to figure out which Cackletta is the real one, the players should look at which arms each of them raises to do the lightning attack. The real Cackletta will raise both of her arms, attempting to strike both of the brothers at once. Cackletta also has a special attack where she makes voids in the ground that move toward Mario and Luigi, so they can fall in and drop from the top of the screen and hit the ground while making them [[Heavy G|heavier]]. She can only use this attack once at the very beginning of the battle, and also near the end of the battle. Her clone attack in the 3DS remake is changed slightly: the real Cackletta laughs briefly while the rest do not. After doing so, she will also attempt to switch places with one of her clones multiple times to confuse the player. She also clones herself far less frequently than she did in the original game. In this boss fight, Cackletta gives 300 EXP in the original non-Japanese release. However, due to a glitch, this amount is multiplied by 3, causing her to drop 900 EXP instead, which is more than the next two bosses, [[Popple]]/[[Rookie]] and [[Mom Piranha]].

The brothers start the final boss with 1 [[Heart Point|HP]], so it is recommended that they quickly heal on their first turn. In battle, the Mario Bros. must destroy both of her arms and her head in order to expose her heart, which is very similar to the battle against the second form of the final boss Isana (イサナ) in [[AlphaDream]]'s first game ''{{wp|Koto Battle: Tengai no Moribito}}'' before they developed the ''Mario & Luigi'' series. In this battle, the player confronts Isana's head, hands, and a blue portal-like object (instead of the heart). When her heart has been exposed, the Mario Bros. must attack it to finally destroy her and complete the game. With Cackletta's exposed heart, she will use it to revive her head and arms, and then heal them as well. After two full battle rounds of Cackletta's heart being exposed, she will conceal it once again and the entire process repeats.

*At around 50% HP lost, her head can summon many blue balls of magic that will teleport around the battlefield before appearing in front of a brother and flying into them. The ones that turn pink target Mario, while the ones that turn green target Luigi and the blue ones don't target either brother. When hammered, the magic balls will be launched back and damage any of Cackletta's exposed targets.

*At around 75% HP lost, her head can move her eyes up or down, indicating where she is going to fire a beam for each brother. If her eyes move up, she is going to fire upwards. If they move down, she will fire downwards. A few seconds later, she will stop time before actually firing the beams, forcing the brothers to jump or stand in the correct position ahead of time. Over the course of the fight, she will fire more beams.

*Her enormous energy ball attack is relatively unchanged, but is not used until Cackletta is at low health.

*Many of Cackletta's attacks are also more powerful in the remake, including the massive energy ball, to the point that it is an effective one-hit KO if it lands.

**'''English:''' ''The Beanbean Kingdom's resident witch. Why is she so evil...?''<ref>''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga'' Instruction Booklet, page 7.</ref>

**'''Japanese:''' マメーリア王国に住む魔女。さまざまな悪事を企てる目的とは⋯？ (''A witch living in the Beanbean Kingdom. What is the purpose of her various evil plans...?'')<ref>「マリオ&ルイージRPG 取扱説明書」 (''Mario & Luigi RPG Toriatsukai Setsumeisho''), [https://www.nintendo.co.jp/data/software/manual/manual_PAEJ_00.pdf page 7].</ref>

*'''Official Nintendo Player's Guide:''' ''Cackletta is a mysterious witch with terrifying powers. Her ambitions are unknown, as are her reasons for stealing Princess Peach's voice. She's a master of disguise, able to imitate almost anyone.''<ref>Thomason, Steve. ''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga'' Official Nintendo Player's Guide, page 5.</ref>

*'''Japanese website bio:''' ピーチ姫の声をうばっていった魔女。なにやら悪事をたくらんでいるようすだが⋯⋯？<ref name=BMBio>''マリオ＆ルイージRPG1 DX'' website. {{media link|M&LSS+BM - Japanese Character Bio Cackletta.png|Character bio for Cackletta}}.</ref>(''The witch who stole Princess Peach's voice. She seems to be planning to do something evil...?'')

|description3=Plays during Cackletta's second boss battle in ''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga''.

|Fre=Graguémona

|FreM=From the Japanese name

|ItaM=From "strega" (witch) and a derivation of ''ghigno'' ("grin")

|Kor=까르게모나 <small>(''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'')</small><br/>''Kkareugemona''<br/>깔깔깔마녀 <small>(''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga DX'')</small><br/>''Kkalkkalkkal Ma'nyeo''

|KorM=From the Japanese name; "깔깔" (''kkalkkal'') is one of a sound of laughing in Korean<br/><br/>From "깔깔" (''kkalkkal'') and "마녀" (''ma'nyeo'', "witch")

*In early builds of the game, there is an NPC who states Cackletta is the younger sister of [[Queen Bean]], and is motivated by jealousy of her.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBnYXSOFEIM</ref>