President Koopa

Bowser

Canon

1993 Movie

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Background

King Koopa, often Koopa and also referred once as President Koopa, is the primary antagonist of the Super Mario Bros. film, portrayed by the late Dennis Hopper. He represents Bowser, the main antagonist of the video game franchise on which the film was based. The character is portrayed as the corrupt, unopposed ruler and self-proclaimed "president" of Dinohattan. Unlike his in-game counterpart who is a Koopa, President Koopa, like the other inhabitants of Dinohattan, is a humanoid of reptilian origin, descending from the Tyrannosaurus rex.

He is portrayed as a former subject of Dinohattan's rightful king, who revolted and took control of the realm from him. He later plotted a full-scale assault and takeover of Earth, which he would achieve by reuniting and merging the two dimensions into one by inserting the meteorite shard owned by Princess Daisy back into its proper place.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of President Koopa’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Sixty-five million years ago, a meteorite crashed onto Earth, somehow isolating a population of dinosaurs in an Earth that is in a dimension parallel to our Earth. It is in this dimension that the dinosaurs continued to live, and, like the apes on Earth, evolved into a human form. Koopa is one such humanoid dinosaur, having descended from a Tyrannosaurus rex. Originally serving as a top military leader, Koopa eventually seized control of Dinohatten from Daisy's father, whom he turned into fungus, with plans to use a shard of the meteorite to reunite the dimensions and allow him to take over Earth as well. However, Daisy's mother manages to take the princess and the shard through a portal to Earth, leaving them at the entrance to a cathedral before trying to return to Dinohatten, only to be captured by Koopa. Earlier, he killed the portal's keeper as part of his coup d'état, and now demands the meteorite shard from her. In the ensuing struggle, however, Koopa accidentally knocks over a support beam and the tunnel collapses, crushing Daisy's mother and blocking off the portal. Several years later, when the portal is finally reopened, Koopa assigns his cousins Iggy and Spike, who are also his minions, to retrieve Princess Daisy so he can use the meteorite shard she carries for his master plan. However, his bumbling cousins continuously deliver him the wrong girls, until finally succeeding in kidnapping Daisy. They barge into his office after he had done a routine de-germification of his palms. However, it turns out that they lost the shard to Mario and Luigi in the process of capturing Daisy. Later, after Mario and Luigi are arrested, they are taken to see their lawyer, who is actually Koopa under an alias. He tries to trick the brothers into handing over the necklace, which has the shard on it and which they don't have anymore, eventually reaching the point where he physically assaults the brothers and orders them and Toad to be de-evolved. In the de-evolution chamber, Koopa witnesses as Toad is turned from a human-like state to a Goomba, a strong, large, and stupid being loyal to Koopa. He then orders the brothers to tell him where the necklace is, or face de-evolution. After a technician ended up sneezing, Koopa, because of his germophobic nature, as well as to do a further demonstration to the Mario Bros. regarding the properties of the de-evolution chamber, has the technician executed by turning him into primordial slime. However, the brothers escape, pushing Koopa into the de-evolution device, defeating all of his minions, and setting the machine for the Jurassic period. While the de-evolution ends prematurely and Koopa remains in his human-like form, his eye briefly becoming more reptilian hints that he had in fact been affected by the machine. He then angrily demands that they recapture the Mario Bros. Iggy and Spike later break-in on Koopa and Lena's mud bath, reporting that Mario and Luigi are in the Koopahari Desert. Koopa orders Lena to bring him Daisy, and has Iggy and Spike taken to the de-evolution chamber. However, instead of de-evolving them, Koopa has his cousins evolved, which results in the pair becoming smarter. He then orders the pair to capture Mario and Luigi and retrieve the shard or be killed, also specifying that he himself will execute his cousins in person. Koopa is discussing training his Goombas with the de-evolution gun when Lena arrives, telling him that Daisy is ready. He is then finally introduced to Daisy, who is in another room with Yoshi, a baby Tyrannosaurus rex. He surprises Daisy by entering the room and telling her Yoshi is a dinosaur. Ignoring her pleas for the whereabouts of her father, Koopa tells her that she also descended from dinosaurs, and, afterward, his head begins to show dinosaur-like traits and he nearly seduces her. A frightened Daisy then runs away but is caught by Toad, whom Koopa demands to take Daisy away. At another point, he enters Devo 4, the holding chamber for Daisy's father, where he engages in small-talk with the fungus. He eventually states that his rebellion will have been in vain after the dimensions have been united. Lena later enters Koopa's quarters, secretly possessing the meteorite shard, with Iggy and Spike as her prisoners. She convinces Koopa that they were now against him, and he orders them to be killed. He then walks off with Lena, who tries to reveal that she has the shard, only to be ignored. She bemoans the fact that Koopa only cares about Daisy now, while he states that he only cares for the future of their species and leaves, whereupon Lena decides to take action on her own. Koopa is later told by the police chief that the army is ready for the invasion of earth. Alarmed by this, Koopa demands to know who gave the order, to which the chief states that he did, according to Lena. Koopa then figures out that she has the shard, and demands her arrest. He, along with a Goomba entourage, later run into Luigi and Daisy and capture the duo. Afterward, he orders the preparation for the invasion of earth. Eventually, the police chief captures Lena and delivers the shard to Koopa, and he then orders to prepare for the invasion. Outside, Koopa and a small group of Goombas are distracted as Mario, as well as the missing girls from Brooklyn, fly out of a ventilation shaft on a mattress, allowing Luigi and Daisy to rejoin Mario. However, Koopa then approaches the brothers with a fireball gun, declaring he had won, and gives several commands through a communicator. The distracted Koopa does not notice Luigi grab a Thwomp Stomper's cartridge from a local shop, which Mario loads into a stomper and activates it. The stomper knocks Koopa into an empty vat above the streets. Mario, using some fungus as a vine, leaps onto the bottom of the vat, climbs on top of it, and hits Koopa, knocking the shard out of his hand. Not being able to locate the shard, Mario is able to trick Koopa into thinking he has it. They continue the fight on a catwalk, Mario pulling out the Bob-omb the brothers retrieved earlier and winds it, though the bomb falls through a hole. Unaware that the Bob-omb is still on its trek, the two dimensions begin merging before their eyes. Mario, Koopa, and his legion of Goombas appear at the excavation site after Koopa's tower merges with the World Trade Center. Casting aside the fireball gun, which no longer functions, Koopa takes a de-evolution gun from a Goomba and fires at Mario, though he dodges the blast, which accidentally hits Anthony Scapelli, a business owner, and turns him into an ape. He tries firing at him again, but Mario pulls out a mushroom the brothers found earlier to absorb the blast. The mushroom starts to grow, eventually becoming really large, and Mario uses it to attack Koopa, knocking the gun out of his hand. Thanks to the efforts of Luigi and Daisy, the dimensions are split again, and Mario is joined by Luigi, who hands him a de-evolution gun. He attempts to have his accompanying troops shoot him, but the Goombas end up failing to obey the order by dancing thanks to Toad playing the harmonica, exploiting an earlier weakness of the Goombas, causing Koopa to angrily punch them down dominoes-style. The brothers then fire the guns at him after he attempts to strike them with his now functioning fireball gun (the latter missing them and instead hitting a Koopa propaganda poster depicting him kissing a baby), which began de-evolving him, granting him definite saurian features just as the Bob-omb arrives right beneath Koopa and explodes, sending him flying into the empty vat. After a moment of silence, he emerges from the vat, having de-evolved into a semi-humanoid Tyrannosaurus. The brothers then defeat him by continuously blasting Koopa again until he finally de-evolves into primeval slime.

Codex Statistics

Tier: 9-A

Name: Koopa, King Koopa, President Koopa

Origin: Super Mario Brothers Movie

Sex: Male

Age: Over 65,000,000 years old

Classification: Lizard, Koopa, Evil Egg Sucking Son of a Snake

Status: Other (Was de-evolved into primeval slime by Mario and Luigi)

Alignment: Neutral Evil (A greedy, evil ruler who turned Daisy's father into living fungus, and was planning to merge dimensions to rule over the human world too)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Room level (Should be far superior to Mario and Luigi, the latter of who can send one flying through the air. Should be comparable to his durability)

Durability: Room level (Tanked a bob-omb blast which is this strong)

Striking Strength: Room Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Can keep pace with Mario Mario and Luigi Mario, the latter of who can keep up with Yoshi, a raptor)

Combat Speed: Likely Supersonic (Can tag Mario Mario, who can avoid the de-evolution gun and fireballs)

Reaction Speed: Likely Supersonic

Stamina: Average

Range: Standard Melee Range, Hundreds of Meters with De-Evolution Gun

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Koopa made a de-evolution device that takes one back to their ancestry, along with making people evolve and become smarter)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Human Achievements (Became president of Dinohatten and created the evolution-based technology), Social Influencing (Got the entire underground to accept him as supreme leader and ruler. Noted that if he merged both dimensions he'd become ruler of two worlds), Longevity (Koopa has lived for over 65 million years), Adaptation (Not combat applicable. Over the 65 million years, Koopa individually himself has evolved into the being he is today), Evolution Manipulation (Has a de-evolution gun that can take one back to their ancestry, the gun can de-evolve the person to reduce them to goo), Fire Manipulation (Can use the Fry Guy Flamethrower to shoot out fireballs)

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Equipment

• De-Evolution Gun: The Devolution Gun is a powerful weapon in the Super Mario Bros. film. It was mainly used by President Koopa. The device could be used to mobily access the raw power of de-evolution into a gun. When it hits a victim, it will turn them into their ancestral species. It can transform humans into primates, having been designed specifically as weapons against the Mammalian dimension. Hitting a denizen of the Dinosaur dimension, however, will result in the person de-evolving into their ancestral species. It is used in the movie by President Koopa, where he aims it at the Mario Bros., in order to stop Mario and Luigi from trying to save Daisy and thus halt his plans of conquest, although he wasn't able to fire at them. Koopa, upon the merging of the dimensions, used the Devolution gun on Mario, although it accidentially hit Anthony Scapelli, which he was nonetheless amused at. He later attempted to attack Mario with it again, although Mario knocked it out of his hands when using some fungus to shield himself from the Devolution rays of the gun. It is finally used by the Mario Bros. to devolve the dictatorial President Koopa into a Tyrannosaurus Rex (Koopa's ancestral species). They go even further to where he devolves into primordial ooze.

• Fry Guy Flamethrower: The fireball gun, also known as the flamethrower, flame thrower, fireball thrower, and flame-throwing gun, is a weapon used in the Super Mario Bros. film. As its name suggested, it shoots fireballs as opposed to bullets. President Koopa threatens Mario and Luigi with a fireball gun during their battle, only to be launched into an empty vat by a Thwomp Stomper-using Mario. When the dimensions merge, the fireball gun malfunctions, forcing Koopa to discard it for a Devolution Gun. Upon returning to Dinohattan, Koopa manages to get the gun to work again and fires it at the Mario Bros., only to miss and hit a Koopa propaganda poster depicting him kissing a baby, enabling the brothers to get a clear shot at him with Devolution Guns.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Koopa will either use the fireball gun or de-evolution gun.

Weaknesses: Nothing notable.

Note: The webcomic sequel is canon.

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