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King Bowser

CBUB Wins: 14
CBUB Losses: 21
Win Percentage: 40.00%

Added by: Grover Junior

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Official Site: Nintendo

Bowser, also known as King Koopa, is a video game character and the primary antagonist of Nintendo's Mario series. In Japan, the character is known as and bears the title of .

Bowser is the leader and most powerful of the Turtle-like Koopa race, and is the evil archnemesis of Mario and other characters throughout the Mario series, beginning with his first appearance, in the game Super Mario Bros. His plans usually involve kidnapping Princess Peach and attempting to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom. Since his debut, he has appeared in almost every Mario series game.

Bowser was the creation of Nintendo designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto had first envisioned Bowser as an ox, basing him on the Ox King from the Toei Animation film Alakazam the Great . However, Nintendo designer Takashi Tezuka pointed out to Miyamoto that the character looked more like a turtle than an ox. Despite popular misconception, Bowser is, in fact, supposed to be a turtle, not a dragon. (Though an early advertisement flyer for the arcade version of the game did refer to "conquer[ing] dragons" as part of its gameplay.) Miyamoto and Tezuka then began to work together to define Bowser's appearance. Since the character was in the turtle family with the Koopa Troopa, the two began to base his new appearance on them, creating a new illustration. In his final design, Miyamoto commented that he could make Bowser "look cool now".

Miyamoto named him Daimaƍ Kuppa. Kuppa came from the Japanese name for , gukbap, a Korean dish. Miyamoto had also considered the names Yukke and Bibinba, also Japanese names of Korean dishes ( yukhoe and bibimbap respectively). Interestingly enough, the Korean name for the character Bowser/Kuppa is not Gukbap, but Kupa, which is essentially a phonetic round-trip translation. Kuppa is also said to be a pun on kappa. The name was anglicized Kuppa rather than Koopa in the Japanese versions up until the release of Super Mario World.

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Fantasy Teams Season 2 Record:

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Result Opponent A Score   B Score
Win The Rancor 27 to 5
Win Voldemort 21 to 5
Loss Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living 7 to 16
Loss Lobo 11 to 13

Regular play Record:

Result Opponent A Score   B Score
Loss Ganondorf 40 to 65
Loss Mewtwo 31 to 74
Loss Godzilla 28 to 101
Loss Ganondorf 43 to 65
Win Dr. Eggman 80 to 28
Loss Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage) 36 to 73
Loss Link 29 to 69
Win Sora 63 to 49
Loss The Jedi Knights 27 to 61
Win Laharl 57 to 52
Loss Colossus 34 to 74
Win Lara Croft 48 to 44
Tie Kirby 40 to 40
Win NiGHTS 64 to 30
Win Wario 61 to 45
Loss Godzilla 23 to 80
Win Charizard 52 to 34
Win Hero 74 to 24
Loss Sonic the Hedgehog 39 to 64
Win Koopa Troopa 77 to 9
Win King Dedede 78 to 13
Loss Godzilla 20 to 42
Loss The Galactic Empire (Star Wars) 6 to 19
Loss Link 12 to 29
Loss Godzilla 7 to 28
Loss Shadow the Hedgehog 7 to 18
Loss General M. Bison 4 to 16
Loss Voldemort 5 to 16
Win The Xenomorphs 8 to 3
Loss Shrek 5 to 12