Fake Bowser: Difference between revisions

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|image=[[File:Tanooki_Bowser.png|250px]]<br>Artwork of a fake Bowser in ''Super Mario 3D Land''.

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A '''fake Bowser''' (also called '''Bowser's decoy''' or '''Bowser Imposter''') is a standard enemy that was transformed by [[Bowser]]'s black magic into a duplicate of himself. They first appear in ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''

 

The reason for the fake Bowsers in the original ''Super Mario Bros.'' is due to the fact that, while the game was still in development, since all enemies have their sprites flipped upside-down when they are defeated (except for [[Piranha Plant]]s, which simply disappear, and [[Bullet Bill]]s, which stay rightside up, while defeated [[Koopa Troopa]]s and [[Buzzy Beetle]]s turn into upside-down shells), one of the programmers accidentally inserted an upside-down Koopa Troopa shell when portraying Bowser's death animation as if he were defeated with fireballs. The developers liked this idea, and as a result, this idea was kept.{{ref needed}}

====''Super Mario Bros.'' / ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels''====

The seven fake Bowsers are placed in each [[castle]], with [[Bowser's Castle]] containing the real one. Defeating a fake Bowser with five [[fireball]]s reveals that they are really just common enemies disguised as Bowser. The enemies and their abilities are:

 

*'''World 1''': [[Goomba|Little Goomba]] - fire

*'''World 6''': [[Blooper|Bloober]] - fire and hammer ([[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]) / hammer ([[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]])

*'''World 7''': [[Hammer Bro]]ther - fire and hammer (NES) / hammer (SNES)

 

''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' additional worlds:

*'''World A''': Goomba - fire ([[Family Computer Disk System|FDS]]) / [[Red Shell|Red]] [[Koopa Troopa]] - hammer (SNES)

*'''World B''': Green Koopa Troopa - fire (FDS) / Green [[Cheep Cheep]] - hammer (SNES)

*'''World C''': Buzzy Beetle - fire (FDS) / [[Bullet Bill]] - hammer (SNES)

*'''1-4''': Green [[Cheep Cheep]]

 

====''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3''====

====''Super Mario 3D Land''====

[[File:SM3DL - False Bowser Screenshot.png|thumb|Screenshot of a fake Bowser from ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]''.]]

Fake Bowsers, also known as '''Tail Bowsers'''<ref>von Esmarch, Nick. ''Super Mario 3D Land'' [[Prima Games|PRIMA]] Official Game Guide, pages 28 and 76.</ref>, appear in the [[Nintendo 3DS]] game, ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]''. They have spiky raccoon tails, and they attack like they do in ''Super Mario Bros.'', breathing giant fireballs and jumping around the stage, though they do not throw hammers.

 

However, unlike in ''Super Mario Bros.'', only two fake Bowsers appear: one in {{world|1|castle}} and the other in {{world|5|castle}}. They are also immune to projectiles. In order to defeat a fake Bowser, Mario or Luigi has to press a switch at the end of bridge to make it collapse and send the fake Bowser into the lava. After falling into the lava, fake Bowsers bounce upwards and show their true forms (a [[Goomba]] in World 1, and a [[Magikoopa]] in World 5) with a [[Super Leaf]] beside them.

====''Super Mario Run''====

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! width=20% | Release Date

! width=10% | System/Format

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

| Boss

| 1985

| [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]

| ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]''

| Boss

| 1986

| [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]

| ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]''

| Boss

| 2003

| [[Game Boy Advance|GBA]]

| ''[[Super Mario Run]]''

| Boss

| 2016

| iOS, Android

FalseBowsa.PNG|The fake Bowser from World 1-4.

FalseBowsa2.PNG|The fake Bowser of World 1's true form: a Goomba.

MLPJ Bowser LV1-7 Card.png|''[[Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam]]'' card

==Name in other languages==

|Jap=にせクッパ<br>''Nise Kuppa''<br>しっぽクッパ<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario 3D Land'' section, page 180.</ref><br>''Shippo Kuppa''

|JapM=Fake Koopa<br><br>Tail Koopa

|Fra=Faux Bowser

|FraM=Fake Bowser

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|Rus=Поддельный Боузер

|RusR=Poddelny Bouzer

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*The World 3 and World C (original) fake Bowsers are the only Buzzy Beetles that can be defeated by fireballs, and the World C (''All-Stars'') and "You VS. Boo" 2-4 (''Deluxe'') ones are the only Bullet Bills that can be defeated by fireballs.

*Fake Bowser's ''Super Mario 3D Land'' artwork is in almost the exact same pose as [[Dry Bowser]]'s artwork for ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]''.

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