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Bowser's Brother
From The Codex
Background
Bowser's brother is a character similar to Bowser who appears in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. His identity varies in supplemental material, with the only consistent characteristic being his bluish color that was removed in Super Mario All-Stars.
Bowser's Brother makes his first appearance in the Family Computer Disk System version of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. There, he appears in World 8-4 and World 9-3. He tries to stop Mario or Luigi both by throwing hammers at them and by breathing fire.
While distinguished from Bowser through the color of his skin and shell (brown and deep cyan, respectively), when defeated with fireballs, he does not turn into one of Bowser's minions, revealing him to be distinct from the fake Bowsers. In World D-4, a fake version of him appears that only breathes fire and, when defeated with fireballs, is revealed to be a Spiny.
Due to All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.'s version of World 8-4 being reused from The Lost Levels, Bowser's Brother also returns in that game.
In the Super Mario All-Stars version, Bowser's Brother is recolored to look identical to Bowser and also appears in D-4 in place of the fake version of him. However, there is an unused palette in the game's data meant for him.
General Information
Name: Bowser's Brother
Origin: Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels
Sex: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Bowser's Brother
Status: Alive
Alignment: Neutral Evil (Apart of Bowser's army and attempts to stop Mario from getting the princess)
Codex Statistics
Tier: Varies. 8-B, up to 2-C
Cardinality: Varies
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: Varies (Mario and his friends are noted to be akin to a troupe of actors, taking on different roles depending on the game[1], with his gimmick being attributed to the same as Mickey Mouse, with their strength and skills even being shown to vary with it being shown with Mario being unable to take on Wario in his pixelated form due to the Wario using a different physiology to make him be unable to interact requiring him to turn to a similar physiology to beat him). City Block level, up to Universe level (Can fight with Mario)
Durability: Varies. City Block level, up to Universe level
Striking Strength: Varies. City Block Class, Up to Universe Class
Lifting Strength: Varies. Class G to Multi-Stellar (Should be somewhat comparable to Bowser who is comparable in strength to Mario)
Travel Speed: Varies. Supersonic to Faster Than Light (Can keep up with Mario)
Combat Speed: Varies. Supersonic to Faster Than Light (Can tag Mario)
Reaction Speed: Varies. Supersonic to Faster Than Light (Can react to Mario)
Stamina: Unknown
Range: Standard Melee Range, Several Meters with Hammer Throws and Fireballs
Intelligence: Unknown (Considered apart of the "King Tribe" but has no real intelligence feats beyond fighting Mario)
Powers and Techniques
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Can throw multiple hammers at once), Fire Manipulation & Breath Attack (Can shoot out fire), Paint (Like everyone else can use paint which gives the following: Conceptual Manipulation (Like every other character Bowser's Brother can remove paint from anyone with any attack. The next set of the abilities are what paint makes up, and thus Bowser's Brother can remove them. See notes for extra information on paint), Life Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Paint makes up all of life), Mind Erasure & Memory Erasure (Paint makes up the mind and memory), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; Paint makes up the souls), Empathic Manipulation (Paint can inflict anger, sadness, self-consciousness, and remove motivation. It can also remove said emotions), Poison Manipulation (Paint can inflict poison), Blood Manipulation (Paint makes up blood), Power Nullification (Paint can nullify abilities and forces you to use an ability that's the same color as the paint)).
Resistance to Conceptual Manipulation (Can survive attacks from Mario which every one of his attacks are conceptual attacks that take away paint)
Equipment
Hammers
Notable Techniques
- Hammer Throw: He throws out multiple hammers at once, to overwhelm his enemy.
- Fire Breath: Can shoot out fire from his breath.
Other
Standard Tactics: Bowser's Brother throws multiple hammers at once, and shoots out multiple breaths of fire.
Weaknesses: Nothing notable.
Note: In Paper Mario Color Splash, the main point of the game is paint. Paint is a concept. As shown in the game, paint encompasses everything. And I mean everything. Paint is shown to be all of land, liquid, life (Once bringing Toad back via paint, Huey states that paint gives life. Additionally, paint can return the blood, organs, and skin to an old fossil that's been dead years ago), mind (Paint can speak to your mind by coloring your thoughts. Paint was able to take over Bowser's body and freely act on their own. Big Paint Stars are also shown to be alive), memory (Toad couldn't remember anything with the loss of paint on his head. Returning paint gave his memories back), emotions, space (even simple holes require paint to function as holes) and souls. Removing any paint would stop making anything work. It's everything.
Battle Records
None.
None.
None.
- ↑ "If you're familiar with things like Popeye and some of the old comic characters, you would oftentimes see this cast of characters that takes on different roles depending on the comic or cartoon," Miyamoto said. "They might be businessman in one [cartoon] or a pirate in another. Depending on the story that was being told, they would change roles. So, to a certain degree, I look at our characters in a similar way and feel that they can take on different roles in different games."
