King Bob-omb

“	I'm the Big Bob-omb, lord of all blasting matter, king of ka-booms the world over! How dare you scale my mountain? By what right to do you set foot on my imperial mountaintop? You may have eluded my guards, but you'll never escape my grasp... And you'll never take away my Power Star. I hereby challenge you, Mario! If you want the star I hold, you must prove yourself in battle. Can you pick me up and hurl me to this royal turf? I think you cannot!	„
	~ Big Bob-omb to Mario

Background

King Bob-omb (formerly known as the Big Bob-omb) is the king of the Bob-ombs who debuted in Super Mario 64, being the first boss fought in that game and its remake. Guarding the Power Star, which Bowser entrusted him with, he does not give it up without fighting the player. After his debut, King Bob-omb became a recurring boss in later games, specifically spinoff games such as Mario Party 9 and Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. King Bob-omb, like other certain bosses, takes pride in his royal status.

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Big Bob-omb first appears in Super Mario 64, specifically at the top of the mountain in Bob-omb Battlefield. In the game, Mario merely has to run around to the back of him, pick him up, and toss him three times. If Mario runs into the Big Bob-omb after tossing him, but before he gets back up, the former will take damage, likely to prevent the player from picking the king back up immediately. After the third throw, the Big Bob-omb will give up the Power Star. If he is thrown off the mountain or baited into walking off, he accuses Mario of cheating and the battle starts over. After defeating him, the Bob-omb Buddy at the beginning of the level will express gratitude and note that the Big Bob-omb is now "just a big dud," in other words, defeated. In the remake, Super Mario 64 DS, Big Bob-omb is fought twice. The first time, he is encountered while playing as Yoshi. Instead of picking him up, Yoshi has to grab the Bob-ombs thrown at him with his tongue and spit them back at him before they explode in Yoshi's mouth. Yoshi can also lead a Bob-omb to explode next to him; if playing as one of the other three characters or wearing their caps, the original method from Super Mario 64 can also be used. After being hit by three Bob-ombs, the Big Bob-omb is defeated. The second time, he can only be defeated by one of the three unlocked heroes using the same strategy as in Super Mario 64. If the first mission is played as Mario, Luigi, or Wario, he says something different for each of them at the start and the end of the battle, relating to their mustaches; in the second mission, he uses identical dialogue for all characters. If the player touches him as he is knocked down, they will take damage.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 2-C

Name: King Bob-omb, Big Bob-omb

Origin: Super Mario Bros.

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: King of the Bombs, Bob-omb

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Complex Universe level (Has a power star which have the power to create several universes that are infinite in size. Can fight Mario, Yoshi, Luigi, and Wario)

Durability: Complex Universe level

Striking Strength: Complex Universe Class

Lifting Strength: Multi-Stellar (Is amplified by a Power Star, which can absorb stars and send them flying)

Travel Speed: Massively FTL (Can move quite fast on the ground in comparison to the likes of Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, and Wario)

Combat Speed: Massively FTL (Can tag Mario, Yoshi, Luigi, and Wario)

Reaction Speed: Massively FTL

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee Range, Complex Universal with powers from the Power Stars

Intelligence: Above Average

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Breaking the Fourth Wall (Notes that if you want to see them again choose the power star mission he’s assigned too), Conceptual Manipulation (Like all others can remove paint from anyone with any attack), Explosion Manipulation & Self-Destruction (Self-destructs upon his defeat. Can throw bob-ombs), Resistance to Cosmic Radiations, Biological Manipulation, & Gravity Manipulation (Can survive in the vacuum of space like every other character), Resistance to Conceptual Manipulation (Can take hits from others)

Magic (Power Stars are stated to have magic), Statistics Amplification (Mario gets more power and stronger, upon gaining a star. Fast-Foe Comets increases your speed), Healing (Power Stars can heal damages upon touch), Mind Manipulation, Transmutation, Corruption, Empathic Manipulation (Wiggler states the star makes him feel strange, he’s extremely irritated, which after getting rid of the star he suddenly felt far better and more calm. Bowser was going to turn all of the residents from the painting world into monsters), Madness Manipulation (Stated by Toad that being locked up in the walls caused the Toads to slowly become brainwash and fall into madness), Purification (Returning all Power Stars to the castle caused peace to return to the worlds), Flight (Grabbing the Jumbo Star grants the user flight, as well as normal Power Stars), Spatial Manipulation (Bowser used the Power Stars to create an endlessly looping staircase and Power Stars can be alternatively used to override the endless staircase and turn it back into a normal staircase), Power Bestowal (Bowser states he was the one to give his troops their powers), Dimensional Travel (One collecting a Power Star allows them to leave the dimension within the paintings), Resurrection (Was revived by a Power Star given by Bowser), Energy Manipulation (Toad states that the Castle is recovering its energy due to Mario collecting power stars), Causality Manipulation (Power Stars can revert parts of stages to re-do their missions and get transparent versions of them), Willpower Manipulation (The Power Stars gave Mario more courage from the castle), Sealing (Bowser used the Power Stars to trap everyone inside the walls of the castle), Power Nullification & Sealing Negation (Power Stars can override the seal Bowser placed on the doors), Creation, Reality Warping & Space-Time (Bowser has created and shaped his own worlds inside of the paintings with the power of the Stars), Black Hole Creation (Power Stars have been shown to be black holes), Matter Manipulation (A single Power Star is able to completely remodel the spaceship Lubba was on to work for Mario), Size Manipulation (Power Stars increase the size of various enemies), Forcefield Creation (Can create a barrier across an area), Teleportation (Can teleport around), Fire Manipulation (Can shoot fireballs), Summoning (Can summon other beings), Existence Erasure (Power Stars are composed of Mini Stars, which are capable of erasing the physical bodies of opponents), Law Manipulation (Prankster Comets change the effects of galaxies they would normally have, manipulating the area and people within it), BFR (Speedy Comets gives you a time limit as to how long you can stay in a galaxy), Statistics Reduction & Life Manipulation (Daredevil Comets reduces your health to one hit point, nullifies giving yourself extra health, and removes all ways to heal yourself. Toad said that life was returning to the castle thanks to the power of the stars), Duplication (Cosmic and Clone Comets can create cosmic clones), Fusionism (Power Stars can fuse together) Power Mimicry (Power Stars can create enemies with Mario, Luigi or Wario caps where the wearer that wears them becomes essentially another Mario, Luigi, or Wario). Resistance to Sealing & Power Nullification (Power Stars can override seals)

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Standard Equipment

Power Stars, Bob-omb

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Other

Standard Tactics: King Bob-omb will either lift and throw his opponent or if the opponent cannot lift him, throw bob-ombs at them.

Weaknesses: Is an extremely honorable fighter to the point that he will give an enemy other ways to attack him if they cannot lift him.

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