Midbus

“	You listen. Peach, gone. Lord Fawful, new ruler. Now, no need of you. Lord Fawful says sleep. NOW YOU SLEEP!	„
	~ Midbus to Bowser

“	Now you face hot wrath. The hot wrath of my freezing blizzard attack! Here your long journey ends!	„
	~ Blizzard Midbus to Bowser

Background

Midbus is an antagonist from the Super Mario Bros. series, making his first and only appearances in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and its remake, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey. Midbus serves as the primary rival to Bowser, and Fawful's right hand man.

Although Midbus doesn't have much stake in the overarching story, he is completely loyal to Fawful and will fight Bowser on a whim. After suffering defeat at the hands of Bowser during their first encounter, Fawful powered Midbus up through use of a Freeze Ray, which transformed Midbus into the fearful Blizzard Midbus. Still, Midbus lost to his rival, and encased himself in ice, yet to be seen since.

Statistics

Tier: 2-C, higher as Blizzard Midbus

Name: Midbus, Blizzard Midbus

Origin: Super Mario Bros.

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Pig

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Complex Universe level (Can fight on par with Bowser, who has faced Mario on numerous occasions. Could easily defeat a weakened Bowser, should realistically be on the same standing as him), higher as Blizzard Midbus (Could fight a Bowser who was stronger than their previous encounter)

Durability: Complex Universe level (Can take several hits from Bowser without trouble), higher as Blizzard Midbus (Can withstand powerful attacks from a Bowser who is stronger than their first fight)

Striking Strength: Complex Universe Class, higher as Blizzard Midbus

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Massively FTL (Is comparable to Mario, who can keep up with Bowser's Clown Car on foot which can fly to the sun, and swim out of a black hole that warped two galaxies)

Combat Speed: Massively FTL

Reaction Speed: Massively FTL (Can keep up with Bowser and is thus comparable to Mario, who can react to Launch Stars that send you to the edges of the universe)

Stamina: High (Can go through long fights with Bowser without any signs of fatigue until he is defeated)

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Ball & Chain | Standard Melee, Tens of Meters with Snowballs

Intelligence: Genius (Can fight on par with Bowser, who has been fighting for several decades)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics (Can make huge leaps and spins with ease), Weapon Mastery (Can wield and swing around a Ball & Chain), Body Control (Can inflate his body like a balloon), Rage Power (Gets the Fury status when at half health, putting him in an enraged state that increases damage output), Vibration Manipulation (Creates a shockwave with his Ground Pound), Social Influencing (Preforming a successful attack makes the crowd cheer and throw him coins and food items every time), Status Effect Inducement (His attacks can make opponents Dizzy)

All previous abilities, Ice Manipulation & Cold Manipulation (Can encase himself in ice and give off cold air from his snout, create Snawfuls made from snow, create small and large snowballs. His Snawfuls can create and throw chunks of ice) Explosion Manipulation (Can use Bob-Ombs, which explode after being hit), Status Effect Inducement (Blizzard Midbus's attacks can inflict the Sick status), Statistics Amplification & Healing (The icy breath of Snawfuls heals Midbus and increases his attack and defence)

All Mario characters can use Paint, which grants:

Conceptual Manipulation (Can remove paint from anyone with any attack)

The next set of the abilities are what Paint makes up, and thus what Midbus can remove:

Life Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Paint makes up all of life), Mind Erasure & Memory Erasure (Paint makes up the mind and memory), Soul Destruction (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)

(See Note for extra information on Paint)

Resistance to: Fire Manipulation (Can withstand Giant Bowser's fire without much trouble, and is immune to Burn), Ice Manipulation & Cold Manipulation (Fawful's Freeze Ray transformed Midbus instead of freezing him), Status Effect Inducement (Midbus is immune to Dizzy and Burn), Conceptual Manipulation (Can survive attacks from Mario which every one of his attacks are conceptual attacks that take away paint)

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Standard Equipment

Ball & Chain, Bob-Ombs, Snawfuls

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Other

Weaknesses: None 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

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