Main characters: The Mario Brothers | Allies (The Princesses) | The Koopa Kingdom (Bowser — Bowser Jr. — The Koopalings — Other High-Ranking Subordinates — Bosses) | Assorted Nasties
RPG characters: Super Mario RPG | Paper Mario (64 — The Thousand-Year Door — Super — Sticker Star — Color Splash — The Origami King) | Mario & Luigi (Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser)
Spinoff series: Yoshi's Island | Luigi's Mansion | Mario Golf | Mario Tennis | Super Mario Maker | Donkey Kong series (Kongs) | Wario series (Wario and Waluigi)
Crossovers: Punch-Out!! | Super Smash Bros. | Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games | Skylanders | Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle | Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Other media: The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach! | Super Mario Bros. (DiC) | Super Mario Bros. (1993) | The Super Mario Bros. Movie
A list of characters in the Super Mario Bros. cartoons by DiC Entertainment.
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The Heroes
Both Brothers
Both Brothers
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In the Super Show both of their hair colors were black unlike brown as in the games. While Mario's was changed to brown in the Mario 3 cartoon, Luigi's remained black until the end.
- Adaptation Name Change:
While it's not exactly clear if it applies to the games, the live-action segment "Dance" features a letter giving Luigi's full name as "Luigi Mario". - Adaptational Skill: In the Super Show's animated segments they're plumbing savants, while in the live action segments the implication is that they're inept.
- Adaptational Wimp: The Mario brothers in the Super Show tended to surrender or flee whenever confronted with King Koopa's goons, unless they had weapons or power-ups handy. The later two cartoons dropped this with the bros being able to fight back against enemies even without power-ups.
- Bash Brothers: They regularly team up to fight Bowser.
- Big Applesauce: While all the DiC Mario shows give the Mario Brothers New York accents, appetites, and, to a lesser extent, personalities, it's at its strongest in the Super Show. The live action segments even take place in Flatbush, with an Establishing Shot on the Brooklyn Bridge. Makes sense considering they cast Captain Lou Albano, a genuine New Yorker, as Mario.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": They both have their initials on their hats.
- Dance Battler: They defeat Tryclidius in "The Great Gladiator Gig" by performing an odd dance routine, causing its three heads to get themselves tangled up in each other.
- Good Is Not Soft: Despite being the heroes, since the koopas don't hold back they don't either. For some specific examples:
- In "The Great BMX Race", after learning they risked their lives and wasted their tomato sauce for nothing, the two of them chase Koopa and unrelentingly pelt him with vegetables as revenge.
- After freeing Mario from Kooky's mind control device, they use it on him and order him to go after his own father.
- In "Party Line" they deal with the caterpillars and dinosaurs invading Dome City by tossing them into space using the Super Stars.
- Idiot Hero: Mario and Luigi are implied to be as such in the episode "Koopenstein". In that episode, Koopa has captured them and plans to use their brains to complete his monster experiment. Before he does so, he measures their combined brain power; according to the scans, Mario and Luigi's combined I.Q. is lower than that of a potted plant, much to Koopa's disbelief:Koopa: No one is THAT stupid!
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: While Mario is still the older brother and Luigi the younger one, they aren't twins in this continuity. This is revealed in the live-action segment "Dance", where Mario throws a birthday party for Luigi without getting or expecting anything in return.
- Sibling Rivalry: The subject of "Oh Brother", with the two of them getting on each other's nerves due to extensive quarantining in Toad's house.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: A Basement Divided is about Mario (the former) and Luigi (the latter) starting some resentment, mostly from Luigi.
Mario
Mario Mario
Voiced by: Captain Lou Albano (Super Show), Walker Boone (Mario 3, Mario World)
The Hero who often foils Koopa's plans.
The Adventures Of Super Mario Bros 3
- Arbitrary Skepticism: In the episode "Count Koopula," even though he's seen crazy things like magic stars and flowers, mushroom people, and warrior turtles, Mario doesn't believe in vampires... until a Tweeter Bat sucks every drop of tomato sauce out of his ravioli right in front of him.
- Berserk Button: He hates it when Luigi pulls on his hat, then his overalls, and then his 'stache.
- Big Eater: Primarily in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, where there are moments when Mario's primary motivation isn't even doing the right thing, it's just so he can eat in peace. Best summed up in the episode "Koopenstein":Princess Toadstool: Don't you ever think about anything but food?
Mario: What else is there? - Bizarre Taste in Food: In the Super Show's cartoon segments, Mario often enjoys such food as pepperoni cheesecake and mozzarella milkshakes.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: In "Oh Brother", after being kidnapped by the koopas and subjected to Kooky's Lame Brainer, he's forced to do their every bidding. No matter how much it goes against his character, such as hating pasta, repairing their evil devices, and trying to kill Luigi.Luigi: Mario! Don't you know who I am?! It's Luigi!
Mario: Smash! Crush! Pound! Destroy! - Clothing Damage: In "Mario of the Apes", Mario's shirt gets torn apart in a fight with a lion, and it stays that way for the rest of the episode.
- Does Not Like Spam: While he will generally eat anything, King Scoopa Koopa reveals he doesn't like eggs (with his unhealthy eating focusing on the fries and shakes). Turns out to be for the best, considering what the Chickadactyl eggs did to everyone who ate them.
- Identity Amnesia: "Mario of the Apes" sees Mario suffer this after a bang on the head, becoming "Marzan" as a result.
- Red Is Heroic: His overalls and hat are red.
- Trademark Favorite Food: While he is not exactly picky (being shown to be an absolute connoisseur for Italian food in general), Mario loves pasta so much, the episodes he does not mention it can be counted on one hand. In the live action skits on the other hand, he and Luigi are referred to as Pizza-tarians.
Luigi
Luigi Mario
Voiced by: Danny Wells (Super Show), Tony Rosato (Mario 3, Mario World)
Mario's younger brother.
- Accent Adaptation: An odd case involving the same character in the same language, but after the voice cast changed between the first two shows Luigi had less of a Brooklyn accent and more of an Italian one courtesy of Italian-Canadian actor Tony Rosato. It's nowhere near as strong as the one used by Charles Martinet, being fairly subtle and mainly manifests as peculiar pronunciation of certain words and the occasional Trrrilling Rrrs.
- Adaptational Jerkass: While he's generally as kind and sweet as he is in the games, in this continuity he has a tendency to be an unrepentant Annoying Younger Sibling towards Mario from time to time.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In this continuity he has green eyes instead of blue as in the games, most likely to tie into his signature color scheme.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: In one Super Show episode Luigi doesn't believe in magic lamps despite all the other stuff like warrior turtles, mushroom people, and magic stars and flowers he's okay with.
- Annoying Younger Sibling:
- The live-action section "Little Marios" shows he often got into fights with his brother and dodged any accountability by being the younger sibling. When Mario told him he was going to run away, his response was "Who cares?". He enjoyed his brother's absence because it meant he didn't have to share anything and was annoyed when Mario came back. Even as an adult he still thinks fondly of those events.
- In "Oh Brother" he's actually the one who adds the most fuel to the bros' arguments, between tossing Mario's favourite record into the fireplace and repeatedly pulling on his overalls despite Mario telling him not to do that. He also continues to do it even after the bros have made up.
- A Day in the Limelight:
- In "Quest For Pizza" Koopa trapped Mario in a coma and the only way to save him was for Luigi to make him pizza.
- "Life's Ruff" had him going to Ice Land to deal with King Windbag bullying his subjects and them getting turned into dogs by Hip and Hop, forcing them follow them to Miami. Since he was the only main character in this episode, he's the only character to be featured in every single episode of the DIC Mario cartoons.
- "Mama Luigi" is about Luigi telling Yoshi the story of how he found and adopted the green dinosaur, with Mario and the Princess having fairly minor roles.
- Deadpan Snarker: Being the younger and more nervous of the two brothers, Luigi does get some amusing digs in toward his more boisterous and reckless elder brother. One exchange from "The Great Gladiator Gig" has this when the two try to commandeer a horse to escape from Grouchius and his Koopa Troopas:Luigi: He's too busy eatin', Mario. (chuckles) He's your kinda horse!
- Demonic Possession: In the live action skit "Slime Busters" he gets captured, dragged off and possessed by some ghostly slime infesting the bros' shop. It takes Ernie Hudson firing a very risky shot to free him.
- Establishing Character Moment: In "The Bird! The Bird!", after Mario bravely charges forward to rescue Toad from a short-sighted mother Birdo and the Princess happily follows him, what does he do? Try to weasel his way out of the mission, saying he's allergic to mountains... only to rush towards them in a panic after Mario suggests he'd be eaten by polar bears if he stays behind.Luigi: (horrified) A polar bear... LUNCH?!
- Gadgeteer Genius: He manages to convert Prince Mushroomkhamen's sarcophagus into a "steam powered mummy sled" within a few seconds.
- Hidden Depths:
- An early Super Show episode reveals he's fluent in Pidgit.
- Despite proudly being from Brooklyn in this continuity, Luigi has a very deep love for the Italian language. To the point where his reaction when he hears a Venetian gondolier speak it is to cry tears of joy.
- Horrifying the Horror: Ironically he scares off two Boo Diddleys trying to sneak up on him by making a scary face at them in Misadventures In Babysitting.
- Lovable Coward: Notably, the DiC cartoons were among the first bits of Mario-related media to establish Luigi's nervous and pratfall-prone disposition; something which would ultimately carry over to the games themselves. That said, he's still more than capable of getting the job done when he's really needed.
- Manipulative Bastard: He fakes a call to his mother saying she won a lottery ticket in order to get her to leave their plumbing shop after constantly bossing him and Mario around.
- Only Sane Man: Shows shades of this at times, most prominentely in Never Koop a Koopa, where he immediately points out that Koopa's promise to leave the Mushroom Kingdom and giving Toadstool his castle are a trap, only for her to dismiss his advice.
- Skyward Scream: In "Mama Luigi", when Luigi and Yoshi are cornered by Wigglers, he screams:Luigi: Mario, wherever you are! HEEEEEEEEEEEE-EEEEEEEELLLP!
- Verbal Tic: In the latter two shows he has a habit of wheezing after delivering a line, most notably in "Mama Luigi".
Princess Toadstool
Princess Toadstool
Voiced by: Jeannie Elias (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), Tracey Moore (The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World)
The princess of the Mushroom Kingdom.
- Abnormal Allergy: In "Mario and the Beanstalk", Princess Toadstool is shown to be allergic to garbonzo beans and has a sneezing reaction to them. While people can get a rash from consuming them since they're a legume, it's not at all possible to sneeze from them.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Has reddish-brown hair, much like in the game. Her blonde hair was not canon by this point just yet, but after Super Mario Bros. 2 (alongside The Lost Levels) and Super Mario Bros. 3 standardized her design including her blonde hair, in the manuals' artwork and both in the manual and in-game in Super Mario World (now freed from the NES' color limitations), her cartoon design wasn't updated to reflect this change.
- Deadpan Snarker: Despite being regal and kind she's not above dishing out the sass from time to time.Mario: And why we're the best plumbers in the Real World and the Mushroom Kingdom.Princess: And the most modest.
- Elective Monarchy: It's implied her position of the Mushroom Kingdom princess is the result of this, as she's able to challenge Bowser into an election for the throne.
- Era-Specific Personality: In the "Mario World" cartoon the network's demand for more educational episodes caused her to shift into a responsible, no-nonsense Women Are Wiser personality. Compare that to the previous shows, which had her grabbing the Idiot Ball as much as the rest of the heroes and also showcased her having less uptight hobbies, such as frequenting music concerts.
- Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity: She's a huge Milli Vanilli fan, much to the chagrin of her friends who she drags along to their concerts.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes and is a friend to virtually every Mushroomer.
- Jerkass Ball: "Mario and the Beanstalk" shows a more irritable side of Princess Toadstool where, in a rarity for the show, she gets frustrated with the Mario bros after they trade the royal cow for some beans.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She most often fights in her dress.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Aside from he standard pink dress, her other outfits such as her swimsuit also feature pink in some way.
- Properly Paranoid: In "King Scoopa Koopa" she refuses to eat anything from the titular restaurant due to preferring healthy food and hygene concerns. She was more right than she could have known at the time due to the horrid side-effects from eating Chickadactyl eggs.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She regularly accompanied the heroes on their missions to stop King Koopa from taking over her kingdom or whatever other scheme he's plotting.
- Team Mom: In Super Mario World, she is notably straight laced and more responsible, being the feminine voice of reason as well as serving as a maternal figure to the much younger Yoshi and Oogtar.
- Totally Radical: Her outfits in "Kootie Pie Rocks", which include a Milli Vanilli T-shirt.
- Universally Beloved Leader: Proven in "Princess Toadstool for President" when everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom votes for her over King Koopa, including the Koopas and the Koopalings.
- You Don't Look Like You: In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, she's portrayed as having auburn hair comparable to Daisy's.
◊ Her Super Show design is based on her actual in-game sprites, which depicted her with red hair. She also has the oddity of huge forearms, with her hands more comparable to Mario's. - Younger Than They Look: The Mario 3 Writer's Bible states she's 17, but she certainly doesn't look that young. This could be why she's never Mario's love interest in these cartoons.
Toad
Toad
Voiced by: John Stocker
Mushroom Man who accompanies the Mario Bros and Princess.
Toad's old design
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Due to him not being in the game, Toad is completely absent from the Mario World cartoon with no mention of him.
- Distressed Dude: He gets kidnapped by a Birdo in the first Super Show episode after she mistook him for her missing son.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: The first few episodes of the Super Show had the colors on his cap inverted. Later episodes would have them be the same as in the games with the inverted colors being used for his super form.
- Hypocritical Humor: During the Toadstool's and Koopa's running for the Mushroom Kingdom throne he worries how the princess can win the election as he's wearing a Koopa t-shirt.
- Informed Flaw: In Super Koopa he complains when the princess orders him to stay behind in the Mushroom Kingdom, saying he always stays behind. Exept this has never been shown, with him being part of the main four heroes up to this point.
- Jerkass Ball: In "Koopa Klaus". Toad can be a Bratty Half-Pint sometimes, but when Koopa attacked Mario and Co., Toad cared more about his snowboard than his friends, earning him a well-deserved scolding from the Princess.
- Jail Bake:
- In "Rolling Down The River" he tries to smuggle a bunch of tools into the princess' cell by disguising himself as a waiter trying to deliver her an ugly looking birthday cake. Unfortunately for him, Koopa caught him, exposed him as an imposter and took him prisoner too.
- He'd gotten better since then, as in "Super Koopa" he successfully manages to get a super block disguised as an actually good looking cake into the Mario bros' cell, allowing them to escape.
- Noodle Incident: In the first Super Show episode Toadstool mentions that Toad had saved her life a hundred times. When or what those times were exactly is never explained.
Yoshi
Yoshi
Voiced by: Andrew Sabiston
A friendly Dinolander.
- Age Lift: Yoshi was found by Luigi as a baby and despite being fully grown in the rest of the show he's still fairly young if Toadstool's comment of him still being a baby is anything to go by.
- Baby Talk: He speaks this way. Justified due to him being younger in this continuity.
- Big Eater: To the point that he puts previous Big Eater Mario to shame.Mario: Wow, and I thought I was hungry all the time.
- Does Not Like Spam: Dislikes meatballs and Chargin' Chucks, saying the latter taste like sweatbands.
- Dumb Dinos: Yoshi is fairly ignorant of the ways of the world due to his young age, which has resulted in him being easily manipulated by those with less savory intentions. And like all Dino Land natives he isn't as adept when it comes to proper English.
- Extreme Omnivore: Will eat just about anything with very few exceptions. This has hindered the heroes just as much as it has helped them.Luigi: Boy, this kid makes Mario look like he's on a diet.
- Gasshole: Yoshi burped quite often after eating, including one instance that resulted in Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool sharing a parting laugh.
- Happily Adopted: Depite having their differences from time to time, Yoshi does enjoy (Mama) Luigi's company.
- Imprinting: As revealed in "Mama Luigi", the first thing he did after hatching from his egg was to declare Luigi his mother. Despite his initial reluctance, Luigi still took care of the newborn and eventually reciprocated the sentiment.
- Third-Person Person: He often uses the third person when referring to himself.
- Token Heroic Orc: Between the Dino Riders, the giant T-Rexes terrorizing the cave people, and the Rexes and other dinosaurs working for Bowser, Yoshi is the only known heroic dinosaur in the World cartoon.
The Koopa Family
In General
King Koopa and the seven Koopa Kids.
- Adaptation Name Change:
- Averted with King Koopa. In the games, he's called King Koopa in Japan and Bowser (full name King Bowser Koopa) in Western translations. Here, he's mostly called King Koopa, but it's established that in this continuity, his full name is Bowser Koopa.
- All of the Koopa Kids have different names from the original Koopalings. Larry becomes "Cheatsy", Morton Jr. becomes "Big Mouth", Wendy O. becomes "Kootie Pie", Iggy becomes "Hop", Roy becomes "Bully", Lemmy becomes "Hip", and Ludwig becomes "Kooky".
- Age Lift:
- In the games, Ludwig (Kooky) is the oldest Koopaling. Here, Bully (Roy) is stated to be the oldest in the show's source material.
- Hip and Hop (Lemmy and Iggy) are stated to the youngest at six-years-old in the show's source material. In the original games Larry (Cheatsy) is the youngest Koopaling.
- Bald of Evil: King Koopa, Kootie Pie, and Bully are hairless.
- Despotism Justifies the Means: They often try to take over the Mushroom Kingdom and parts of the Real World (or the entire world in one episode).
- The Family That Slays Together: King Koopa's efforts to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom and other villainous schemes are a family operation, being their version of quality time or chores. It's very rare for one of the Koopas to be up to something without at least one other member of the family helping in some way.
- Morality Pet: The Koopalings are the few beings that King Koopa genuinely cares about, to the extent of sometimes basing his schemes just so he could spoil them rotten. Of course the Koopalings were regularly just as evil as their dad so didn't really appeal to his redeeming qualities otherwise.
- Nice Mean And In Between:
- Nice: Hip and Hop;
- Mean: Bully, Cheatsy and Kootie Pie;
- In Between: Kooky, King Koopa and Big Mouth.
- You Don't Look Like You: Instead of strictly resembling Bowser, King Koopa has a look combining Bowser and Wart's traits. The Mario 3 and World cartoons also redesigned the Koopalings (if not quite as drastically), giving them more reptilian, gangly designs.
Bowser
King Bowser Koopa
Voiced by: Harvey Atkin
The Big Bad and father to the Koopa Kids.
- 0% Approval Rating: Unlike his game counterpart, where he is universally beloved amongst his minions and subjects, it's shown that nobody truly likes him. In the Election Day Episode, he's on the receiving end of a Landslide Election, where he only receives one vote, which was his own. Whereas Princess Toadstool received over six million ballots in her name. Neither his minions or ''his own children'' voted for him.
- Adaptational Wimp: Bowser in this continuity doesn't have his iconic fire breathing ability.
- Affably Evil: Koopa genuinely cares for his Koopa Kids to the point where he would conquer America just for Kootie Pie. He also tries doing this to the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom in "Princess Toadstool for President".
- All Your Powers Combined: In "Super Koopa" he gets unlimited access to the power-ups courtesy of Kooky's latest invention, which he uses to easily overpower the heroes. It takes Toad gathering a bunch of power-ups and the bros using them to overload his device to defeat him.
- Bad Boss: Koopa often abuses his minions (including Mouser himself) for even the slightest inconveniences.
- Character Catchphrase: In the Super show he often said "Koopa Pack, ATTACK!" and "He who koops and runs away lives to koop another day!".
- Combat Pragmatist: In "Star Koopa", Mario faces Darth Koopa in a lightsaber duel and disarms him. When Mario orders him to surrender, Koopa draws a Freeze Ray and zaps him with it, winning the duel.
- Composite Character: His design is a combination of Wart and game Bowser's, as when the Super Show first aired only the first two Mario games existed. And despite losing access to the Mario 2 enemies as his minions when switching to the later cartoons, his design remained unchanged.
- Doting Parent: He is shown to love his children very much, especially Kootie Pie. That said, even he has points where his permissiveness reaches its limits.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Averted, of course. He's raising his kids to be just as evil as he is, and he's proud of it. As far as he's concerned, the kids doing evil deeds is not unlike family bonding or chores. In fact, the only time he expresses disappointment in any of his kids is if they're doing anything that could be considered nice. He outright forbid Hip and Hop from going to school on the grounds it would be a positive influence on them.King Koopa: You will grow up to be sneaky, two-faced, cheating illiterates, just like your dad.
Hop: You forgot—
Hip: Lying! - Faux Affably Evil: He carries this demeanor in every episode aside from "Princess Toadstool for President".
- Full-Name Ultimatum: The Mario Bros 3 cartoon was the only time in this continuity where King Koopa was referred to as Bowser.
- Goo Goo Getup: King Koopa's Goo Goo Ga Ga Koopa alias from "Two Plumbers and a Baby" has him dressed in a bib, bonnet, and diaper, despite him being his normal adult age (at least until he falls into the fountain and de-ages into an actual baby near the end of the episode).
- I Have Many Names: In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Bowser had many alter-egos depending on the setting of the episode: Alley Koop, Robo-Koopa, Darth Koopa, Professor Koopiarty, Emperor Augustus Septemberus Octoberus Koopa, Count Koopula, Koopzilla, Kidd Koopa, King-of-the-Road Koopa, Blackbeard Koopa, Doctor Frankenkoopa and Frankenkoopa's Monster, Koopfinger, The Sheriff of Koopingham, Koopa Nemo, and a whole lot more.
- I Lied: As the main villain, he proudly loves lying and deceiving others, to the point that he teaches his children it's an "admirable trait". Expect any promise or deal he makes to turn out this way.Koopa: One of the nice things about being evil is you get to lie a lot.
- Insistent Terminology: On a few occasions, he is called Bowser Koopa, but he is addressed as "King Koopa" every other time. Even when he introduced himself as Bowser Koopa in "Crimes R Us", he immediately followed it up with "King Koopa to you."
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: In "Count Koopula" King Koopa has become a vampire, the titular Count Koopula, capable of Voluntary Shapeshifting into a bat and having an aversion to sunlight and garlic. No explanation for how he gained vampiric traits is given, and he never displays them again in later episodes.
- Papa Wolf: In "Mush-Rumors" when he's determined to keep his kids safe from the "aliens" after seeing Kootie Pie cry.
- Shell Backpack: When King Koopa dressed up in setting appropriate costumes in the Super Show, his shell appeared to be worn over whatever other clothes he has on.
- Sick Episode: He gets a cold in "Do the Koopa", rendering him barely able to hear anything. Which works out in his favour, as when Bully tried to upstage him with the doom dancer music box, he was unaffected due to being unable to hear it.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He was a borderline Hate Sink in Super Show, but the following two shows brought out the best in him when showing affection to his kids.
- Uncertain Doom: At the end of "A Little Learning" he's left trapped in his bedroom with lava slowly filling it up. Since the next and final episode, "Mama Luigi", is a Flashback Episode it's never revealed what happened to him.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: He'd frequently pull this off in the Super Show, often accompanied by the catchphrase "He who koops and runs away lives to koop another day!"
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: His eyes are yellow and he is constantly drawing up schemes.
- You Don't Look Like You: Koopa looks almost nothing like his game counterpart, due to being a Composite Character with Wart. What's jarring about this, though, is that the Koopalings look more like Bowser than he does, orange scales and all.
Kooky
Kooky Von Koopa
Voiced by: Michael Stark
Ludwig Von Koopa's animated counterpart.
- Achievements in Ignorance: He managed to design and build the Power Shower, a giant machine that makes it continuously rain throughout the Mushroom Kingdom. And as revealed when one of its pipes sprung a leak, somehow without any knowledge of plumbing.
- Co-Dragons: With Cheatsy. He's the brains coming up with assorted gadgets for King Koopa to use.
- Demoted to Extra: After being one of the most reoccurring Koopalings in the Mario 3 cartoon, he's only in one of the Mario World cartoon's episodes.
- Gadgeteer Genius: When he's the main villain of an episode, chances are it's to display one of his inventions.
- Genius Sweet Tooth: According to the Writer's Bible, Kooky eats nothing but candy and fried foods.
- Hypnotize the Captive: When the Power Shower springs a leak, he's the one who came up with and executed the plan to capture and brainwash one of the Mario Bros into fixing it for them. Koopa's only contribution was choosing which one.
- Laughing Mad: He has a distinctive Evil Laugh when things are going his way.
- Mad Scientist: While he does regularly invent all kinds of evil devices and machines, he's actually got a surprising grisp on reality. He knows the capabilities and limitations of his inventions well and whenever they fail its usually due to someone else's influence.
- The Von Trope Family: His full name is Kooky von Koopa. Interestingly, this trope also applies to his game counterpart, even though the characters were named independently of one another.
Cheatsy
Cheatsy Koopa
Voiced by: James Rankin
Larry Koopa's animated counterpart.
Click here to see him in Super Mario World.
- Bastard Understudy: Cheatsy tries to double cross his father a couple of times in the Mario 3 cartoon, to the point where his double-crossing ways screwed his father out of taking over the Mushroom Kingdom in "Never Koop a Koopa". He's quite assured he'll be especially proud of what an underhanded villain he is.
- Co-Dragons: With Kooky. He's the sneakiest of the bunch and adept at coming up with schemes.
- Even Evil Has Standards: While all of King Koopa's forces voted for Princess Toadstool rather than him, it's Cheatsy who outright says why: she's just so nice, whereas King Koopa is most definitely not.
- Smug Snake: Cheatsy reeks of this. Koopa seemed to put extra care into making him a smug, conniving back stabber like his dear old dad (sometimes a bit too much than he hoped for). Even his design and mannerisms were redesigned to be more weaselly.
- Slimeball: Cheatsy's characterisation, to the point he's even more of a weaselly backstabber than his dad.
- The Starscream: Attempted in "Never Koop a Koopa" to get control of the Mushroom Kingdom right out from under his father. Unfortunately, he wasn't experienced enough to check if the the most important step in his plan even worked, allowing the heroes to escape.
Kootie Pie
Kootie Pie Koopa
Voiced by: Tabitha St. Germain (credited as Paulina Gillis)
Wendy O. Koopa's animated counterpart.
- Appliance Defenestration: Does this often. Her birthday presents and cake in "Reptiles in the Rose Garden" get this treatment.
- Asshole Victim: At the end of Fire Sale she's left trapped in an ice block as her koopa troopa minion doesn't bother helping her. Considering she spent the episode verbally and physically abusing him it's hard to say she didn't have it coming.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: She's confirmed to be 16 in this continuity often makes outlandish demands and throws massive temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Out of all his children, Koopa dotes over her in particular, offering her gifts such as trying her turn Venice into her own water park or giving her her own ice palace.
- Demoted to Extra: After being one of the more prominent Koopalings, she's only in two episodes of the Mario World cartoon, and in the latter one she gets no speaking lines.
- Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity: Like the princess, she's a fan of Milli Vanilli. She gives on her worship of them though after Koopa threatens to lock her in the dungeons if she brings them back to their castle, rather appropriately saying their music was too good to last.
- Gene Hunting: After Bowser punishes her for not having cleaned her room, she concludes she must be adopted. Getting Big Mouth to agree with her, they set out to find their real father, which they think is Madzilla. After Mario dresses up as Madzilla's mother and demands they do chores, Kootie Pie and Big Mouth choose to return to Bowser.
- The One Who Wears Shoes: She's the only Koopaling with footwear.
- Pink Means Feminine: She wears pink bows on her head and tail, has a pink shell, and loves fashion, make-up, jewlery and other girly things.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female of the Koopa Kids.
- Spoiled Brat: Her first true appearance had her demanding the country of America as a birthday gift and her brattiness hasn't let up since.Writers Bible: Anything anybody else has, Kootie Pie wants. And anything she already has she wants two of.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Wears a huge bow complete with lipstick, bracelets, high heels, eyelashes, and a small bow on her tail.
Bully
Bully Koopa
Voiced by: Dan Hennessey
Roy Koopa's animated counterpart.
- Big Brother Bully: The writer's bible says he's the oldest Koopaling and constantly picks on his younger siblings. That being said, there seems to be an equal number of stories in the series where he seems to get along with the others a bit easier.
- Big "SHUT UP!" To Big Mouth in his ear in "The Yoshi Shuffle" when the latter wouldn't stop talking:Bully: Awwwwwwwwwwww, SHUT UP!! We'll never get started.
- Poke the Poodle: Despite his usual competency, his evil scheme for Asia in 7 Continents for 7 Koopas was to paint graffitti all over the Great Wall of China. It says something that Mario's solution of turning the wall into a giant dragon was a far more effective plot.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Despite being the most physically active and macho tough guy of the Koopalings, both his head and shell are pink.
Big Mouth
Big Mouth Koopa, Jr.
Voiced by: Gordon Masten
Morton Koopa, Jr.'s animated counterpart.
- All There in the Manual: His name having a Jr. suffix was never hinted at in the shows themselves, only seen in his title card on the DVD's writer bible segments.
- Butt-Monkey: Mainly in the Mario World cartoon. Particularly the episodes "Send In The Clowns", where Koopa's Rexes perform an entire circus routing humiliating him which gets a rise out of the audience, and "Rock TV" which has the running gag of the wrestlers tossing him out of the ring so the match can get started.Mario: Big Mouth with his mouth shut. That's something to cheer about.
- Flat Character: He has no defining traits other than never shutting up and being evil at times.
- Gene Hunting: After Kootie Pie convinces him they're adopted, they set out to find their real father, which they think is Madzilla. After Mario dresses up as Madzilla's mother and demands they do chores, Kootie Pie and Big Mouth choose to return to Bowser.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: His family aside, none of the koopa minions hold any respect for him since his rambling only wastes everyone's time, both his enemies and his allies'.
- Motor Mouth: Started in the Mario 3 cartoon but made much more prominent in in Super Mario World (1991).
- In "Rock TV", after he goes on an extremely long-winded speech, and introducing the Tyrannosaurus Twins, Big Mouth is finally shut up by King Koopa by tossing him out out of a makeshift wrestling ring. He returns, only to do the same thing again and be tossed away by one of the Tyrannosaurus Twins.
- In "The Yoshi Shuffle", he once again rambles on about a football game before being finally shut up by Bully via a Big "SHUT UP!"
- Precision F-Strike: In the German dub of the second episode, he calls his sister a Schlampe (i.e. slut).
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He's prone to using an abundance of different adjectives and synonyms to describe things when he goes off on one of his rambles.
- Speech Impediment: Often rolls his B's when he speaks.
- The Un-Favourite: Neither his father nor his siblings can seem to stand his presence, with them all being collectively annoyed at how much he never shuts up. It's also telling that in "7 Continents for 7 Koopas" he was the one put in charge of Antarctica.
Hip and Hop
Hip and Hop Koopa
Voiced by: Tara Strong
Lemmy and Iggy Koopa's animated counterpart.
- Beware the Silly Ones: According to the writer's bible, they are younger and thus less intelligent than their siblings, but they possess the most powerful wands.
- Creepy Twins: The way they finish each other's sentences and giggle.
- A Day in the Limelight: They're the Villains of the Week in "Life's Ruff", being assigned by Koopa to trouble Luigi on their own and are even the POV characters of "A Little Learning".
- Enfants Terribles: While the rest of the Koopa Kids are in their teens, Hip and Hop are six. Doesn't make them any less competent, though.
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Often taking more than one turn doing so.
- Hidden Depths: Ironically enough, the two of them are very skilled at plumbing, managing to construct an entire lave pipeline from the Koopa Castle to Dome City within a single night.
- Keets: Their high-pitched voices since they are so young. Being voiced by Tara Strong certainly does help.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Despite the two of them being The Baby of the Bunch, Hop's evil scheme in 7 Continents for 7 Koopas was amongst the more harmful ones, with him turning the entire Amazon forest into a giant parking lot.
- Single-Minded Twins: The two of them rarely leave each other's company and seem to share a single mutual braincell when it comes to plotting evil schemes. The furthest they've come apart was when Bowser assigned them to North and South America in 7 Continents for 7 Koopas.
- Villain Protagonists: They're the focus characters of "A Little Learning", with the episode following their antics whilst joining the Princess' school.
The Koopa Army
The Koopa Army
Mouser
Voiced by: John Stocker
Koopa's right hand lackey in the Super Show.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Due to him not being in Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, Mouser doesn't show up in the cartoons based on those games either. It's never mentioned what became of him.
- The Dragon: He served as King Koopa's right hand man in the Super Show, before being later replaced by the Koopalings.
Koopa Troopas
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Koopa Troopas have been recolored in the Super Show to look more green as a side effect of King Koopa being a composite of Bowser and Wart. The later two shows have them more closely resemble their appearance in the games.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Even when Mario 3 and Mario World had their appearance be more faithful to the games, the art style still caused them to be less cute than in the games. Best seen with the red Koopa in "Fire Sale", who has much sharper features.
- Demoted to Extra: Despite having been prominent mooks in the Super Show, they're relegated to background cameos in the Mario 3 cartoon and don't show up in Super Mario World at all aside from one in the first episode.
- The Dog Bites Back: The red-shelled Koopa assigned to Kootie Pie in "Fire Sale" spends most of the episode being physically and verbally abused by her. After she ends up frozen in a block of ice he gladly leaves her there.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: "Count Koopula" features Were-turtles, ordinary looking Koopa Troopas who can turn into hulking monsters by gazing at the full moon. Despite their brutishness, they are still capable of following orders and distinguishing between individual targets.
Lakitu
- Demoted to Extra: After getting his own episode in the Super Show, the Mario 3 cartoon only features one generic Lakitu in a non-speaking role.
Sledge Brothers
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Princess Toadstool manages to trick them into freeing her friends by getting them to attack her and jumping out of the way, causing their hammers to hit the closet they're trapped in instead.
Boo Diddleys
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Their one and only interaction with Luigi has him effortlessly scaring them off, never once showing his trademark fear of them.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Due to the show being made before the franchise officially changed the species' name to just Boo they have a different name in this continuity.
- Shout-Out: They are named after singer Bo Diddley.
Super Show Characters
Super Show Live Action Characters
The Bros' Mother
Played by: Captain Lou Albano
Mario and Luigi's mother who appears in the episodes "Mama Mia Mario" and "Little Marios".- Body Horror: When Mario reminds Luigi that he was born with a plunger in his hand, Luigi says that it was awfully hard on their mom.
- Parental Favoritism: She seems to have preferred Luigi when the bros were young, as whenever something would happen she'd make Mario take the full blame due to being the older one.
- Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids: Her overly bossy behavior when she visits the bros at their plumbing shop causes Luigi to fake a call saying she won the lottery in order to get rid of her.
Super Show Cartoon Characters
Birdo
- Adaptational Heroism: Compared to Super Mario Bros. 2, where she was a recurring minion of Wart, Birdo in the Super Show is merely a doting mother who only kidnaps Toad because she confuses him for her lost child, Cheepy, and even helps Mario and Toad fight King Koopa. Anything Birdo-related that Koopa uses is merely a weapon made in her likeness or a hybrid animal like Birdo-Kangaroos or a Birdo-Pterosaur.
- Flight: Is capaple of flying despite having no wings, something her game counterpart cannot do.
- Heel–Face Turn: Granted, she was never truly villainous in this continuity, but still, once the misunderstanding is cleared up, she proves helpful against King Koopa.
Sultan Pashbah
Voiced by: John Stocker
A sultan who tricks people into his palace to become his slaves... or, in Princess Toadstool's case, his harem.- Big Bad: Of the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Mario's Magic Carpet", at least before King Koopa took over.
- Hijacked by Ganon: On the receiving end of this. After King Koopa buys the princess, saving her becomes the priority for the rest of the episode.
- Karma Houdini: He doesn't get any consequences for enslaving Mario and friends, as well as selling the princess.
- Noodle Incident: Apparently, his fake swimming pool trick got him slaves in the past.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in one episode and is never seen again.
Queen Rotunda
Voiced by: Denise Pidgeon
The tyrannical ruler of Rotunda Land. She wants to make Prince Pompadour marry her by use of a Love Potion, but an accident causes her to fall in love with Mario instead.- Adipose Rex: She's not called "Rotunda" for nothing...
- Alice Allusion: She's a living reference to the Queen of Hearts, right down to her preferred sentance being "Off with their heads!"
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Her Establishing Character Moment is having Hildy make her a Love Potion so she can make Prince Pompadour marry her. Even when she drinks the potion by accident and falls in love with Mario, she still demands a marriage at all costs.
- Bad Boss: She doesn't treat her Beezo minions any better than King Koopa does, threatening to behead them if her wedding with Mario isn't perfect, and her treatment of Hildy is neutral at best.
- Big Bad: Of the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Love 'Em And Leave 'Em", the only episode of the show where King Koopa isn't taking the role.
- Karma Houdini: What's her punishment for trying to behead people and force them to marry her? She gets to marry Prince Pompadour, who she planned to force into marriage anyway.
- One-Shot Character: Only appears in one episode and is never seen again.
- Punny Name: She's rotund, geddit?
- The Smurfette Principle: Notably the only female character in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! that's a main antagonist.
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3 Characters
Mushroom Kingdom Characters
Prince Hugo the Huge
The Prince of Giant Land who appears in the episode "Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas".- Gentle Giant: He's a very mild mannered fellow on top of being the new ruler of Giant Land.
- Informed Attribute: Despite being described as the "biggest, toughest, bravest prince ever", he's never shown as anything but meek and timid. He also gets defeated immediately once the koopalings barge into his castle.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Owns a parrot.
The Mushroomkhamens
The mummified rulers of Desert Land in the episode "Mind Your Mummy Mommy, Mario".- Abhorrent Admirer: The queen becomes one towards Luigi.Queen Mushroomkhamen: But you look exactly like my husband. Come to me, my darling.Luigi: *gulp* Uh huh huh... Excuse me, but I-I gotta find that map salesman and buy a map to someplace else.
- Anti-Villain: While the queen is certainly ruthless and has no regards for any collateral damage she causes, at the end of the day she is just a mother trying to locate her missing son.
- The Ghost: King Mushroomkhamen is never seen anywhere, neither in the tomb nor on any illustrations. The only thing known about him is him looking just like Luigi.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Despite being the late ruler of Desertland the queen has no reservation destroying her subjects' descendants' livelyhoods to get what she wants.
- Hypocritical Humor: After the prince is returned to her, she angrily calls Mario an imposter who doesn't look anything like her son. Despite her having kidnapped the plumber because she mistook the two and refused to listen to Mario's numerous claims to the contrary. She then mistakes Luigi for her husband immediately afterwards.
- Identical Stranger: The prince looks almost exactly like Mario, which is why the queen kidnaps him when she sees him. The king is also a literally dead-ringer for Luigi if the queen is to be believed.
- Implacable Woman: The queen goes on a rampage throughout the desert after Hip and Hop steal her son. She only stops after mistaking Mario for him and kidnapping him. Luigi, the princess and Toad are forced to reclaim the real prince in order to save their friend.
- Living MacGuffin: Technically not living, but Prince Mushroomkhamen's only role in the plot is being kidnapped by Hip and Hop and being rescued by Luigi and Co..
- Mama Bear: Queen Mushroomkhamen, especially when her son's sarcophagus is stolen.
- Misplaced Retribution: The queen tears Desertland in order to look for her missing son, even though its people are completely innocent of the crime. She never goes after the Koopas, who were actually responsible for the theft.
Sultan
The ruler of Desert Land in the episode "The Beauty of Kootie".- Arab Oil Sheikh: The main reason Cheatsy and Kootie Pie steal oil from him.
King Windbag
Voiced by: Dan Hennessey
The King of Ice Land who appears in the episode "Life's Ruff".- Defrosting Ice King: Literally, since he's the king of Ice Land. He goes from a ruthless to loving after his adventure with Luigi.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Becomes nicer when Luigi teaches him how to cooperate.
Holly Mackerel
The Princess of Water Land who appears in the episode "The Ugly Mermaid".- Mermaid Problem: Tags around Mario after she saves him.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: She is a mermaid, but she is a fish from the waist up.
Emperor Ed
The ruler of Sky Land who appears in the episode "Up, Up, and a Koopa".- Non-Standard Character Design: Compared to the other rulers of kingdoms, there isn't much about Emperor Ed's design that points to him being the ruler of Sky Land, looking more like a military official for the Mushroom Kingdom.
- Pungeon Master: He's subtle about it, but he slips in a lot of Literal-Minded puns, such as "revolting people" who revolt against Koopa, and "falling asleep" in a bed falling from the sky.
Real Worlders
Madzilla
A giant robotic monster in the episode "Dadzilla".
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He comes close to sending some garbage-throwing tourists into the Pacific Ocean.
- Berserk Button: Getting pelted with garbage will set him off.
- Doting Parent: To Kootie Pie and Big Mouth after they bring him to life.
- Extreme Doormat: Kootie Pie and Big Mouth control him until the Marios intervene.
- Notzilla: No, he's not Godzilla. Pay no mind.
Crimewave Clyde
The Real World's Public Enemy #1 in the episode "Crimes R Us".
- Be the Ball: Clyde dribbles a fellow prisoner like a basketball when we first see him.
- Butt-Monkey: The Koopas show little respect for him when he teaches them how to commit crimes.
- The Dog Bites Back: With the help of Mario and Luigi, he gets back at the Koopas for double crossing him.
- Facepalm: He ends up doing this a couple times, due to Big Mouth's tendency to steal goods from his own siblings instead of civilians.
- Heel–Face Turn: When the Koopas became too much for Clyde, he gets their payback by foiling their attempt to rob the Mushroom Treasury.
- Institutional Apparel: He wears his prison suit for the duration of the episode.
- Lesser of Two Evils: His reason for willingly returning to prison? Because his Longer-Than-Life Sentence is better than one more day with the Koopas.
- Let Me Get This Straight...: At the castle, Clyde tries to process the off-screen explanation of who the Koopas are and "this wacky Mushroom Kingdom" that they keep attacking. He is particularly perturbed by how those aren't costumes.Clyde: This is like some freaky dream.
- Longer-Than-Life Sentence: Is serving a 12,423 year prison sentence with no parole.
- Name To Run Away From Really Fast: Well, with a name like Crimewave Clyde...
- Noodle Incident: We never find out what he was in jail for so we can only assume.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: We don't know where the Koopas found him but the most logical guess is his prison is in the United States.
Norman, his wife, Bud and Missy
Voiced by: Dan Hennessey (Norman)
A family from Kansas who appear in the episode "Mush-Rumors"
- Are We There Yet?: The children frequently ask this at the beginning and end of the episode.
- Black Bead Eyes: Missy has these.
- Expies: They seem to be these of the Griswolds
- Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Norman and his wife.
- No Name Given: Norman's wife.
- Not in Kansas Anymore: Norman says this when they arrive in the Mushroom Kingdom.
- Too Dumb to Live: They are never aware that their experience in the Mushroom Kingdom was not a part of the theme park they were trying to visit.
- Totally Radical: Bud often speaks in slang.
Junior
Voiced by: Stuart Stone
A kid Mario and Luigi wind up watching over in the episode "Misadventures in Babysitting"
- Everyone Has Standards: Junior's a mischievous brat who is okay with annoying Mario and Luigi, but not actually hurting them. He sides with the Koopalings to play tricks on the Mario Bros. and gets his laughs leading them on a wild goose chase, but when the Koopalings trapped the brothers in a cave and started filling it with lava, Junior starts to have second thoughts.
- Freudian Excuse: He's a troublemaker notorious enough to have scared off babysitters in the past, but considering his parents were willing to leave him in the care of complete strangers who they don't know how they entered their house, one can imagine why he has behavourial issues.
Milli Vanilli
Voiced by: Rob and Fab
- Cassandra Truth: They straight-up tell Kootie Pie they can't perform their music without their backup band.
- Distressed Dude: Bowser and Cheatsy kidnap them for Kootie Pie, forcing the princess and her friends to save them.
- Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity: The real celebrities who have fictional fans, in this case the Princess and Kootie Pie.
The Dino Landers
Dino Landers
Cave Caterpillars
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the games, the Wigglers only Turn Red when they get jumped on or otherwise angered. In this show, it's their only known state of being.
- Adaptation Name Change: They're called Cave Caterpillars instead of Wigglers.
Oogtar
Voiced by: John Stocker
Far out! Dinobunga!
A blond caveboy who usually tags along with the heroes in the Super Mario World cartoon.- Bratty Half-Pint: As to be expected from a kid, he's brash and overconfident, often inadvertently causing problems for the rest of the cast.
- Didn't Think This Through: His plan to save the princess and bros from Wizenheimer? Knock on his front door and demand he be taken to the dungeon. Something the evil magikoopa doesn't hesitate to do.
- Expy: This interview with Super Mario World scriptwriter Perry Martin reveals he was originally intended to be one to Bart Simpson, with the original series bible giving him the name "Bartzan". This aspect of his character was removed from the final version (probably for legal concerns).
- Hulk Speak: He speaks in broken sentences along with the other cavepeople.
- The Load: He causes all manner of problems for everyone else, from geeting himself lost in the enchanted forest, to trying to steal the Christmas toys, to getting kidnapped by King Koopa, to giving Hip and Hop gum despite the school's no gum rule. When he does need to be rescued he doesn't do anything to help, with the heroes being stuck with all the actual work.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Oogtar acts as a substitute for Toad from the previous Mario cartoons. Oogtar takes on the same role usually held by Toad in the previous series and also has the same voice actor, John Stocker.
- Totally Radical: He speaks surfer slang with phrases related to cavemen and dinosaurs.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Due to his brash nature, Oogtar is almost always getting himself into trouble and getting Yoshi involved.
Mama Fireplant
Voiced by: Catherine Gallant
A fire breathing Piranha Plant appearing in the episode Fire Sale.- Big Good: She provides fire to Dinosaur World. Without her, the cave people will freeze.
- Sassy Black Woman: She speaks in this manner.
- Token Heroic Orc: Despite being a fire breathing Piranha Plant she's firmly on the heroes' side and openly hates the Koopas.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Mama Fireplant doesn't do well in cold environments, as one would expect. She's also vulnerable to being submerged in water, as doing so could extinguish her fire powers permanently.
Wizenheimer
An evil koopa wizard living in the haunted forest.
- Alter Kocker: He has a subtle Yiddish accent.
- Always Chaotic Evil: His stated reason for doing evil acts is not any specific reason, it's just in his nature.
- Berserk Button: Don't get his name wrong. He doesn't like that very much.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of the episode "Ghosts R Us".
- Destroy the Villain's Weapon: His wand is a victim of this when his wand gets destroyed. And by "destroyed", we mean eaten by Yoshi. It tasted great, by the way.
- Exact Words: Played with. Despite him not being the one to initiate the conversation, he nonetheless decides to give Oogtar exactly what he asked for when he demanded to be taken to the dungeon.
- Mad Bomber: He gets the Mario Bros. and the princess to come with him to his haunted house by threatening to attack them with Bob-Ombs.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Deconstructed. There's no indication that he works for King Koopa, but he's still a villain.
- Phrase Catcher: "Wisen-whatever!"
- Squishy Wizard: He has a wide array of magic, but upon losing his wand he goes down in a single hit.
- Uncertain Doom: After being depowered, Mario jumps on him, and he tumbles down the stairs until he lands at the bottom offscreen. It's unclear if that killed him or just knocked him for a loop.
- Villain Has a Point: When the princess asks why he's keeping her and the bros prisoner despite them never having done anything to him, he states that as an evil wizard he doesn't need a reason to. Luigi even agrees with him.
The Dino Riders
A local gang- er... social group. The trio consists of Duke, Rock Man and Lu Lu.
Left to right: Duke, Rockman & Lu Lu
- All Bikers are Hells Angels: As is typical of bikers in media, they wear leather jackets and go around causing troublesome acts of delinquency.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With King Koopa not present in "Born to Ride" despite being mentioned several times, these guys take center stage as the main antagonists.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They act friendly towards Yoshi, taking him under their wing after he got scolded by the Mario Bros and even making him a member of their gang. In reality, they consider him a wimpy idiot whose only use was leading the Mario Bros into their trap.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The three share this dynamic, with Duke being the brains, Rock Man being the brawn and Lu Lu being the beauty.
- Delinquents: As the Princess says, they're "a nasty bunch of juvenile delinquents".
- Delinquent Hair: Duke sports a noticeable ponytail.
- Insistent Terminology: Duke insists on the Dino Riders being called a "social group" instead of a gang. Not that it fools anyone other than Yoshi.
- Makeup Is Evil: Lu Lu wears prominent lip-stick and upon Yoshi leaving their gang permanently her complaint is her finger-nail polish being gone.
- Manipulative Bastards: The Dino Riders act like Yoshi's friends after a falling out with Mario and Luigi in order to get him to lead the bros into a trap.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Despite their regular activities consisting of things like graffiti and tossing Stink Bob-ombs, they manage to kidnap Mario and Luigi with the intent on selling them to Bowser for the large reward money.
- Villainous Crush: While she drops it almost immediately, upon meeting Yoshi, Lulu refers to him as cute and a "Dino-babe".
