Webcomic / Bowsette Saga

In the wake of Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser decided to work with Mario on a plan to make Peach jealous. He then used the power of the Super Crown to become the gorgeous (if partially monstrous) blonde bombshell known as Bowsette. To her genuine surprise, Bowsette falls in love with Mario and ends up marrying him.

This is where the story starts, with Bowsette finally finding happiness as Mario's wife. But after an angry and drunken Peach plants a seed of doubt in Bowsette's mind, one that Kamek unwittingly fertilizes, Bowsette sets out to make certain that her happy ending doesn't disappear.

Starting off as a one-page comic, Tony Kuusisto's Bowsette Saga is now running three chapters strong with more on the way. The comic has an archive on Canterlot Comics, found here. The artist also uploads new pages to their tumblr as they are created.

Be advised that this comic is Not Safe for Work. Nothing explicitly pornographic ever occurs, but there are frequent partial shots of "tame" female nudity (buttocks, the side of the breast, covered-nipples cleavage, panties, etc.).

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This work contains examples of:

• A-Cup Angst:
  • Invoked. Bowsette isn't exactly flat, but after seeing the enormous breasts that the Super Crown gives to Booette, she grumbles that the Super Crown has to be malfunctioning. After seeing the even-bustier Lady Bow, she mentally prays that Junior wasn't similarly made hugely buxom as she checks in on her son-turned-daughter.
    Bowsette: (thinking) Please be okay and not some boob nightmare like Boo.
  • The new Toadette is initially happy to be turned into a cute girl... until she finds out that she's still flat as a pancake.
  • King Boo wound up looking roughly 12 years old. She is not happy about this, and demands that a generic Boo hand over her breasts, in spite of the fact that doing so would be impossible.
• Adaptational Ugliness: The Koopa Troop members are much more wrinkled and elderly-looking than their game counterparts. Kamek in particular seems to be showing his age.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Bowsette is captured by an old Lakitu named Jugem who incapacitates her by attacking her injured ribs. She eventually resorts to begging for mercy before she passes out from the pain.
• Amazon Brigade: Mario's rescue party is made up of Bowsette, some of her minions under the Super Crown influence, and Peach.
• Amazonian Beauty: Bowsette post-Firmamentor is visibly muscular, tall enough to tower over basically everyone, and no less attractive for either of those.
• Ambiguous Gender: Invoked. After Boo is transformed into Booette, she notes she's been dead so long that she's forgotten what gender she was before she died, so she's not sure if she's a Gender Bender or not once she puts on the Super Crown. However, she moves past the question pretty quickly.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Kamek asks one that sets off the rest of the comic by making Bowsette question her new relationship with Mario by asking her if Mario would still love Bowsette if she took off the Super Crown and reverted back into Bowser. The question makes Bowsette seriously consider the possibility that Mario only likes Bowsette because she looks like Princess Peach. The result is that Bowsette has a Heroic BSoD and sets off to invoke a Shapeshifter Mode Lock to keep herself as Bowsette permanently, which is Dramatically Missing the Point of what Kamek was trying to tell her.
  Kamek: That's all well and good, Bowse...-ette, but did you ever stop to consider he may not love you, but whom you look like? Do you think he'd have the same eyes for you if the crown was gone?
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: After her Berserk Button gets seriously pushed in Chapter 3, Bowsette instinctively reactivates her Sizeshifter powers, turning her into a gargantuan Bowsette.
• Badass in Distress: While journeying to rescue Bowsette, Mario gets kidnapped by Jugem.
• Bad Boss: Downplayed. Like with Bowser, Bowsette zigzags between this and Benevolent Boss; she's not afraid to yell at her minions, call them insulting names, or even beat them up if they do something stupid. Sometimes, she yells at them just for fun, but she also cares for them and listens to them. Perfectly encapsulated by the letter she leaves Mario after she goes on her quest to become Bowsette permanently, wherein she both asks Mario to keep Yoshi from gobbling up all her Koopa Troopers and admits she thinks that smashing them out of the resultant eggs with a baseball bat is actually pretty fun.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: The climax of Chapter 3 is a psychic showdown between Bowsette and Bowser in the Firmamentor. Only by defeating Bowser does Bowsette fully synchronize with herself and make the effect of the Crown permanent.
• Big Eater: Bowsette may be smaller than Bowser, but her appetite is still pretty sizable, as shown when she wrestles a fish as large as she is and then proceeds to eat the whole thing by herself in a single sitting.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When Bowsette asks her at the wedding reception why she was always leading Mario on, confessing that she had plenty of reasons to turn down Bowser by comparison, Peach admits that she was afraid that Mario would stop wanting to help her if she gave him what he wanted. When Bowsette mocks her for this lack of faith in Mario's character ^note (if anything, Peach becoming Mario's girlfriend or wife would push any later kidnappings into It's Personal territory for him), she lashes out by claiming that Mario only loves Bowsette for her Bowsette form and that he'll abandon her if she ever returns to being Bowser. The doubt this instills in Bowsette kicks off the whole plot.
• Boring Return Journey: Bowsette and Chompy return back to the castle with very little trouble.
• Bratty Half-Pint: King Boo post-Crown explosion is this in all but, perhaps, chronological age.
• Bullying a Dragon: Jugem's interactions with Bowsette revolve repeatedly around attacking her verbally and even physically, including forcing her into an Explosive Leash and repeatedly insulting her. Even after she grows into a giant and threatens to squash/eat him, he still doesn't learn from his mistake: despite Bowsette leveling the castle and finally giving the Lakitu his freedom, he decides to delay his mission of seeking out his son to instead try and get revenge on Bowsette. And he decides the perfect way to start is by kidnapping Bowsette's beloved husband, Mario.
• Bunny Girl: During the dress-up sequence in Chapter 2, Bowsette puts on a bunnygirl costume, which looks quite odd when paired with her draconic horns, tail and shell.
• Cheerful Child: Downplayed with Bowser Junior. When first introduced to him, he's not especially happy, because Bowsette is saying goodbye to him before she goes on her mission to mode-lock herself into her new form. But when Bowsette returns, he's portrayed as a very happy and sweet-natured child. Even being turned into Bowsette Junior doesn't bother her in the slightest - in fact, she's actually happy since not only has she "turned pretty" like her dad-turned-mom, but now she can hold her crayons and pencils more easily thanks to having human hands.
• Chekhov's Gun: After Bowsette and Chompy are permanently locked into their more human female forms by the Firmamentor, Bowsette is given back the Super Crown and informed that it's still fully functional. When she gets back to her castle, she tests it on a random Boo, and turns them into Booette. And then she accidentally blows it up, transforming her entire army into Cute Monster Girl versions of themselves.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: Downplayed; As Bowsette admits, her new human-like form does lack some of the powers of her natural form, such as being more vulnerable to low temperature and not being quite as strong because she can't put her former multiple tons of weight behind her blows. This becomes more prominent when she is separated from the Super Crown by an explosion, somehow retaining her Bowsette form but also being severely weakened by its lack.
• Clothing Damage:
  • Bowsette is attacked by robots who eventually catch her in a Power Star explosion that renders her naked. She ends up having to find another dress as a result.
  • Chompy is attacked by the robots and her dress is shredded.
• Cute Monster Girl: Bowsette herself, of course, but then the Super Crown falls onto a Giant Alpha Chain Chomp and turns it into a Chompette. And in Chapter 3, Bowsette decides to test the post-Firmamentor Super Crown on a Boo and turns it into Booette. In Chapter 4, the Super Crown explodes and "Peachette-ifies" Bowsette's entire army; although only "Kamakette" and Booette appear in the first page of the chapter, the second page confirms that everybody in the castle has been transformed.
• Cuteness Overload: Bowsette's reaction to the mole people village; she finds them so adorable that she literally starts squeeing over how cute they are. Yes, seriously.
• Cute Witch: "Kamakette", Kamek's Cute Monster Girl form after the Super Crown blows up, is an adorable witch girl without any bestial features at all. Oh, and she's a Bespectacled Cutie for good measure.
• Damsel out of Distress: Because of his experiences with Peach, Mario's reaction when he finds out about Bowsette's quest is to go after her on the basis that she'll get into trouble and need to be rescued. Not only does she get out of trouble herself, he gets kidnapped.
• Didn't Think This Through: Jugem says he bred Chain Chomps to get rid of a rat infestation, but didn't anticipate that afterwards he would have to deal with the much more dangerous Chain Chomps.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: Kamek's Armor-Piercing Question is asking Bowsette if Mario would still love her if she was Bowser and not Bowsette, essentially questioning if Mario loves her just for her looks. Bowsette's response to that is to embark on a quest to make the effect of the Super Crown permanent in order to keep Mario's love.
  Bowsette: Alright, old farts! Kamek is Right! The moment the Crown is gone, so is Mario! So the Crown must be permanent!
  Kamek: That's not what I-
• Drowning My Sorrows: Peach's reaction to Mario and Bowsette's wedding is to start getting very, very drunk.
• Evil Me Scares Me: The reason that Bowsette goes on her quest is that she's afraid that Mario might leave her as a result of what she used to be. She wants to make sure that she doesn't lose the happiness she's found.
• Exposed to the Elements: Averted. When arriving at Jugem's palace in arctic weather, Bowsette notes that she's freezing cold in her dress and vows to get warmer outfits for a Winter vacation. After she suffers further Clothing Damage and ends up naked, Bowsette notes it's only a matter of time before she freezes to death. Also, she can't use her fire breath because it's too cold for her to do it.
• Extreme Omnivore: Chompy likes to take a bite out of anything, including metal and people.
• First Law of Gender Bending:
  • Initially played with: Subverted in that Bowsette could easily change back into Bowser by just taking off the Super Crown, but Invoked in that she wants to play it straight and her whole quest is about doing so.
  • Played straight after Bowsette accidentally "Peach-izes" her whole army - the magical energy released by the exploding Crown has basically permeated the Life Energy of the hosts to cause the transformation, so unless "Kamakette" can figure out a way to distinguish the Super Crown's magic from the background spiritual energy so she can extract it, the change can't be cured. She likens it to a fungal infection of the very soul.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: Bowser's ability to use dark magic doesn't get a whole lot of attention in the games due to his preference for brute force. Bowsette is able to defeat a Bowser copy by using a magic spell to pin him down with his own weight.
• Fountain of Youth: During the Jugem arc, Kamek explicitly states that she's a bicentenarian (200+) who has been rejuvenated to a 16-year-old body by the Super Crown's magic. It seems likely that she's not the only one among Bowsette's minions, though she is the only explicitly-identified one thus far.
• From Bad to Worse: First, Jugem kidnaps Mario (and then takes Luigi hostage when he comes to his brother's rescue). Then he demands that Bowser come and see him to get Mario back safely, being unaware that Bowser and Bowsette are the same person. The problem is, Bowsette just got back from an adventure to make it so that she couldn't turn back, since the Firmamentor has invoked Shapeshifter Mode Lock and is now keeping her permanently as Bowsette. And in the process of trying to save Mario anyway, the Super Crown that caused the transformation in the first place explodes, transforming Bowsette's entire army into cute near-human women just like Bowsette. ^note (The mass-transformation part isn't exactly a bad thing, especially since both Kamek and Junior mention liking the changes.)
• Gender Bender: The plot centers around the memetic version of the Super Crown, which after some tinkering by Kamek is able to transform anyone who wears it into a Cute Monster Girl version of themselves. This includes switching the genders of male wearers to female. In fact, Bowsette starts the series by wanting to find the Firmamentor to put the Crown's magic into her body forever, becoming Bowsette permanently.
• Genius Loci: The world that Bowsette goes to to make her transformation permanent is home to Vatzomak the Eternal, a sapient moon in the form of a giant human face that has been mostly disintegrated on its left side, leaving a disembodied eye and teeth floating in the void where the face once was. He's a peaceful entity who takes an interest in Bowsette's presence as somebody to talk to at long last.
• Giant Woman: One of Bowsette's powers is using her magic to become gigantic. She first uses it after Chompy protects her, believing that Chompy is either dead or at death's door. As for how big she becomes, she notes that 70 stories up is "a small leap" at her current size.
• Girly Bruiser: As part of Bowsette's general Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak personality, she sees no dichotomy between her newfound feminine interests and lady-like behavior and her continuing to be the butt-kicking badass she always was. In particular, she actively enjoys dressing up or looking good, but also enjoys beating up anyone who ticks her off - one sequence in Chapter 2 involves her spending time eagerly dressing up in various dresses, before reluctantly settling on a relatively modest and replaceable one as she'd hate to ruin them by fighting in them.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Bowsette's personality is a blending of classically feminine traits (maternal instincts, love of being perceived as beautiful, love of dresses and cute things), "dark" feminine traits (lustfulness, feminine braggadocios), and masculine traits (voracious appetite, love of fighting, regular use of profanity, willingness to resort to violence).
• A God Am I: Jugem declares himself a god after finding a way to draw power from every Power Star in the universe.
• Godzilla Threshold: Bowsette putting the Super Crown back on at the end of Chapter 3 in hopes that it will now work in reverse and change her into Bowser. She doesn't want to become Bowser, or to experiment with what she's well aware is a highly-unpredictable piece of magic, but Jugem is expecting Bowser to show up to rescue Mario (and Luigi), so she has to give it a try for her husband's sake. Oh, and her brother-in-law's, too.
• Good Feels Good: Bowsette discovers this over the course of her quest. After meeting a group of mole people, Bowsette pays for things from a market instead of just taking what she wants (albeit because she thought they were cute), and notes to herself afterwards that she sees the appeal in being polite since no one attacked her or objected to her presence.
• Hero with an F in Good: Since Bowsette used to be a villain, she often slips into a more malicious mentality, even beyond her usual bad temper - such as when she considers how she would have tortured the Dry Bones if they'd damaged the Super Crown, or when she contemplates eating the villagers of the lone mole-folk settlement in Vatzomak's realm if they prove inhospitable. Played for drama in that this is why she's afraid that Mario will ultimately leave her - because she can't get her temper under control. After learning that Good Feels Good, she tries to move past it.
• Humanity Ensues: The Super Crown turns a mostly mindless and instinct-driven Alpha Chain Chomp into a girl with a (somewhat feral) child's level of intelligence.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl:
  • Chompy still has a mind mostly based on her original dog-like Chain Chomp brain, so she often acts like a dog in ways that look really fanservicey thanks to her new cute girl body.
  • Normally subverted with Bowsette, who knows exactly what she's doing when she does the sexy thing, but even she gets her moments of it. Such as when she unwittingly gives one of her commanders a look straight down her new cleavage before beginning her quest, or when she dresses up in a Bunny Girl costume and starts hopping up and down, having mistaken it for a jump-enhancing costume along the lines of the traditional Tanuki Suit.
• Insistent Terminology: Bowsette and Bowser always describe their species as "dragon", despite being dragon turtles.
• Irony:
  • Really, the central precept itself is pretty ironic - for years, Bowser has fought Mario over Princess Peach's heart, only for her to stomp on both their hearts by telling them she doesn't like either of them. So Bowser turns into a Cute Monster Girl and goes on dates with Mario to make Peach jealous, only for the two former enemies to fall in love for real and get married.
  • Mario goes after Bowsette when he gets worried about her, expecting to have to rescue her, only to end up being taken hostage himself. Which means Bowsette arrives home to find that she now has to go and rescue him.
  • In the games, King Boo is the biggest of all the Boos and is depicted as a hulking giant almost the size of Bowser, whilst Lady Bow is a normal-sized Boo distinguished by her green color and "hair" ornaments. When subjected to the Super Crown's explosion, King Boo becomes a Token Mini-Moe in Elegant Gothic Lolita apparel whom Bowsette initially mistakes for one of Junior's little friends, whilst Bow becomes a tall, full-breasted woman who towers over her former King to the point they look like mother and daughter.
• Jumping the Gender Barrier: Despite the fact that Bowser was always after Peach, Bowsette quite happily marries Mario and settles into a physical relationship with him. Word of God by the creator of the webcomic on their Tumblr is that Bowser is, fundamentally, just desperate to be loved (to the extent where Bowsette says In-Universe that kidnapping Peach was because of Koopa fairy-tales about how dragons find love), and doesn't care what either their gender or his gender is in pursuit of that goal.
• Lazily Gender-Flipped Name: Many of the people turned into their -ette forms, including Bowsette, Chompette, Booette, etc. Despite the meme, however, it is also often averted, notably by King Boo (who starts referring to herself as Queen Teresa), Lady Bow (who was already female), Kamek (whose canon gender is ambiguous), First Lieutenant Fuzzy (presumably a surname), and Yoshi.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Bowsette is an Anti-Hero at best when the series first starts. While she has been acting more feminine since she put on the Super Crown, she's still very much like she was as Bowser - arrogant, rude, blunt, selfish, and a Bad Boss. However, she has her moments of being a Benevolent Boss if the situation calls for it, she's genuinely in love with Mario and wants to improve herself for him, and is even willing to act nice around some mole people she finds despite the temptation to terrorize and conquer them as she normally would. She even undergoes Character Development by learning that Good Feels Good and tries to be nicer more often (even if she's pretty bad at acting like a good person at first).
  • This makes Bowsette infinitely better than Jugem, who has all of Bowsette's flaws and bad points turned up even higher with none of her strengths or good points. For one, Jugem is willing to knock out Mario with a tranquilizer and force Bowsette to beg for her life before making her pass out from abusing the pain from her cracked ribs.
• Loophole Abuse: Played for laughs when Bowsette falls afoul of Jugem, a crazy Lakitu trapped in the same ruins as her - he wants something from the control room, which only a human can open, so he forces her to help him by planting a bomb in her stomach. When Bowsette points out she can't be human, because she has horns and a tail, the Koopa simply replies that having those traits doesn't necessarily disqualify her, much to Bowsette's irritation.
  Bowsette: You're shit outta luck, crazy old koopa. I am no human. Or did you miss the tail and horns?
  Jugem: (stares at Bowsette, hand on chin, then points at her) ...There's nothing saying humans can't have horns or tails.
  Bowsette: (Comical Angry Face) Are you F@#$) serious?!
• Loving Bully: Mario and Bowsette's relationship has overtones of this, since Bowsette is a rather tomboyish sort of woman, and she's used to expressing her affection in more blunt and/or villainous ways, but there's no questioning that she genuinely loves her former rival turned husband. Even when she does things like think about how much she'd love to take Mario fishing, and in the same thought muse that he'd have fun playing "bait" for the various giant fish monsters they could catch.
• Man, I Feel Like a Woman: A Toad who was visiting Bowsette's Castle for no apparent reason at the time when the Super Crown went kablooie is initially excited about being gender-bent, eagerly grabbing at her new tits...only to discover that she was just turned from Toad into Toadette, and is thusly flat as a pancake.
• Mugging the Monster: Shortly after arriving in Vatzomak's realm, Bowsette is mugged by a pair of feral Dry Bones (undead Koopas)...which knock the Super Crown from her head. She promptly vaporizes them with her fire breath.
• Mundane Utility: Bowsette uses her fire breath to heat her baths and cook a fish when she's traveling to find the Firmamentor.
• Muscles Are Meaningless/Muscles Are Meaningful: Zig-zagged. Bowsette is about as strong as she was as Bowser. When facing down her old self, she finds her punches don't mean as much against someone both as strong and with some major muscle mass to back it up.
• Mythology Gag: Subtle and overt references to the Mario universe abound throughout the comic.
  • Per a question-response on their blog, Bowsette and Chompy's bonding is a reference to how Bowser gains his Chain Chomp attack in Super Mario RPG.
  • When Jugem captures Mario with the aid of a tranquilizer dart, he tells the nearly-comatose human that "your princess is in another castle".
  • After returning to her castle, it's mentioned that Bowser actually commissioned Kamek to magically tinker with his Super Crown to make it able to turn him into Bowsette. This is a nod to the way Nintendo quickly shut down Bowsette and the other non-Toadette users in canon by stating that only Toadette can use the Super Crown in-game. Kamek's tinkering may have even inverted the effects, as while the other enemies got Peachette-like likenesses, the lone Toad in Bowser's castle turned into Toadette.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bowsette puts the Super Crown back on herself, despite being warned that the results could be highly unpredictable, given that it was first tampered with by Kamek and then subjected to whatever the Firmamentor did. The result? It explodes, generating a huge mushroom cloud that floods Bowsette's castle with a sparkling aura and turns her entire army into Cute Monster Girls, as the Super Crown's magic is dispersed. In fairness to Bowsette, putting it back on was also her Godzilla Threshold, and one that didn't pay off.
• Now That's Using Your Teeth!: Being a transformed Chain Chomp, Chompy's primary weapon is of course her monstrously strong choppers, with which she can bite through steel.
• Oh, Crap!: Valentina's reaction to finding out that Bowsette is Bowser. When Bowsette has Valetina in a full-body lock.
• One-Winged Angel: If she's really desperate in a fight, Bowsette could theoretically revert to her original form for a power boost, but she tries to avoid this - and it stops being an option after using the Firmamentor to meld the Super Crown's magic into herself. Around the end of Chapter 2, though, she figures out how to use her Sizeshifter powers in her new humanoid body.
• Operation: Jealousy: How the story starts. Mario and Bowsette apparently were hoping to make Peach jealous enough to break the status quo - Peach eventually admits that she was playing hard-to-get with Mario, and that she was afraid that if she gave him what he wanted, he'd never come after her again. What actually happens is that Mario and Bowsette fall in love and get married. In fact, Bowsette didn't figure that the plan had changed until they were literally at the altar and Mario confirmed it; she thought they were just taking the plan really far.
• Outrun the Fireball: Bowsette attempts to do this when the robots self-destruct. Despite her efforts, she is caught in the explosion, but it only destroys her clothes and gives her minor injuries.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: After Bowsette successfully uses the Firmamentor to permanently keep the Bowsette form, a side-effect is that her hair changes from Peach's blonde to her original red hair.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Chompy powers up by eating her own chain, and her bob cut turns into waist-length hair.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Peach gives one to Bowsette after drinking heavily at the wedding of Mario and Bowsette. While Bowsette initially dismisses Peach's comments since she's conquered Mario's heart, that same evening sees Bowsette laying in bed next to Mario, pouring over Peach's words in her mind.
    Peach: You idiot! You don't understand Mario or his heart at all! He is a protector, a hero! I am not using him! I just don't want to lose him when so many people need him! But what would you know of that? All you are is a big mean reptile! A conqueror, all you know is battle, and the only reason you got Mario to go along was because you showed a moment of fragility to begin with! When he realizes you are beyond saving, he'll leave you!
  • Bowsette gives one to Bowser during her Battle in the Center of the Mind, realizing how terrible she was when she was him and that how, for all of the scheming, she was never happy.
    Bowsette: What would you know of happiness? You've never felt any of it, just the pursuit of it. All you are is a victim of propaganda, believing those old Koopa tales about a dragon who kidnapped a princess and lived happily ever after. You were the naive one. You fought, stole, destroyed more than ever, and it was still not enough. You took Peach to the moon, even that was not enough. Because you did it the wrong way. That foolish trust in "might makes right" was my greatest weakness. When I shed that form, I shed the childish ego which demanded love without effort. I thought I was perfect. Power was all that mattered. With it, I could take everything I wanted. Then, out of the blue, Mario gave me love. He had so much of it to give, because he worked so hard to earn it. And he still does, every day! I finally feel like I have some of it to share, too. Thanks to all the love he has for me.
• Recursive Fanfiction: A fanfic titled "Foe to Admirer" was born out of one fan's admiration of the webcomic as an attempt to "fill in" the gap between the original Bowsette debut comic and the first comic of the saga, where Bowsette and Mario are getting married.
• Removable Shell: This is canon for Koopa Troopas in the Marioverse anyway, but as Bowsette, Bowser's shell also qualifies. In fact, it becomes a literal Shell Backpack, becoming an accessory she can take on and off as she pleases and which she wears on her back as a means to store goods. A side page has Bowsette explain that Koopa shells are their race's version of cuirasses, so this trope actually applied to her even when she was male.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When Bowsette thinks Chompy has been killed by Jugem's robots, she turns into a Giant Woman and destroys Jugem's robot army. The whole time, Bowsette is using her flame breath to melt the robots, screaming that if Chompy is dead, then she'll kill all of them, kill the people who made them, and feed their children to Chain Chomps.
• Romanticized Abuse: Mentioned by Bowsette as a pernicious aspect of Koopa folktales - she outright states that Bowser kidnapped Peach because of "old Koopa tales about a dragon who kidnapped a princess and lived happily ever after".
• Sapient Eat Sapient:
  • Invoked; when Bowsette is directed to the mole people village in Vatzomak's Lair after her supplies are ruined by a Dry Bones attack, she muses to herself that if they prove inhospitable, she could just eat them. The thought immediately vanishes when she sees them, and she regrets thinking it in the first place.
  • The first thing Chompy does upon meeting one of Bowsette's Goombas is take a bite out of him. Then she tries to eat a Boo sent to tell Bowsette that Mario has been kidnapped. Bowsette then has to physically restrain her from eating the new Toadette after the Super Crown goes supernova.
• Second Law of Gender-Bending:
  • After Kamek's Armor-Piercing Question, Bowsette tells her minions to find a way to make the effects of the Super Crown affect her permanently. Word of God is that Bowser simply doesn't care what gender he is or how he looks; what's important is if people care for him. Mario loves Bowsette whilst Peach hated Bowser, so Bowser prefers to be Bowsette.
  • After Valentina's defeat, the newly-made Queen Boo actually refers to herself as a queen while calling for her execution. This is promptly lampshaded by Bowsette, and possibly justified in the same way as the generic Boo's invocation of Ambiguous Gender (i.e. not remembering what her gender was when she was alive).
  • The first thing Kamek does after getting gender-bent is research how to turn herself into a Magical Girl.
• Self-Destruct Mechanism: After Bowsette defeats several robots, they self-destruct in an attempt to take her with them. It destroys her dress and breaks several of her ribs from the impact.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock:
  • Invoking this is the entire point of the first arc. After getting worried that she might lose the Super Crown, Bowsette goes on a quest to find the Firmamentor, an artifact said to be able to make magical enchantments last forever. During her adventure, she loses the Crown in an explosion, but to her surprise she doesn't turn back into Bowser, then guesses that the explosion caused some of the Crown's magic to enter her, though it's wearing off. She eventually finds the Firmamentor and uses it to lock herself and Chompy into their human forms.
  • Those transformed into Peachette analogues by the exploding Super Crown are likewise modelocked, because the energy that causes it is carried by "spores" of magical energy that have taken root in their Life Energy. The only way to undo the change is to extract all of the spores, and nobody knows how to do that.
• Shout-Out:
  • While trying on new outfits, Bowsette ends up dressing like She-Ra, Tanya Degurechaff, and Midna.
  • After her first run in with the robot guardians of the tower, an unconscious Metal Sonic can be seen when Bowsette is doing her Atop A Mountain Of Bodies pose.
  • Bullette Betty finds a Sonic Screwdriver in Jugem's possessions.
• Spit Take: Peach has one when Bowsette shows up during her pity drinking binge at Mario's wedding.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Bowsette has a dim view of her troopers' competence, referring to them as "bumbling fools", insisting on doing important tasks herself, and assuming that if they got into a fight with Yoshi, it would end with all of them being eaten.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Bowsette may still retain her old strength as Bowser, but her body is now that of a super-strong human female instead of a gargantuan dragon-turtle. This means that she doesn't have near the muscle mass she used to, and her punches lack the same power as before as a result. This proves very dangerous when fighting a copy of her old Bowser body, which is around half-a-ton of solid muscle. Her lack of force combined with his sheer mass and strength means she can't inflict damage with physical blows, and even one good hit from him could be fatal.
• Synchronization: According to Chompy, Chain Chomps feel any damage their chain takes, a precaution that prevents them from biting through them. Chompy is willing to take the pain when she bites through her chain so she can help Bowsette, getting a power boost in the process.
• Tears of Joy: Bowsette sheds these during her wedding when Mario declares his love for her.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: As Bowsette and Peach admit, neither is exactly thrilled at the prospect of working together to rescue Mario from Jugem. Still, they know they have a better chance together than alone.
• The Bus Came Back: After not having appeared since the third page of Chapter 1, Peach returns to offer Bowsette help in rescuing Mario.
• Third Law of Gender-Bending: Played with. Bowsette does invoke the trope, but her motivation is fear that not acting more "lady-like" will ultimately drive Mario away. In practice, she does act a little more girly in some matters, such as when she squees over the cuteness of the mole people or eagerly starts dressing up when presented with an abandoned dress shop. But for the most part, Bowsette is still very much the same person as Bowser - loud, obnoxious, bombastic, and blunt.
• Third-Person Person: Chompy talks about herself like this, as she was a Chain Chomp beforehand. While the effects of the Super Crown do make her more intelligent, it's only slightly so; she still has very primitive manners of speech and a very straightforward attitude to anything.
• Token Mini-Moe: After the Super Crown goes nova, both Junior and, ironically, King Boo get turned into child-like Cute Monster Girls. The former makes sense since Junior was a child to begin with, but nobody has any explanation for Queen Boo's form.
• Tranquil Fury: After learning that Mario had been kidnapped by Jugem and then seeing the video where Jugem both shows off the badly-beaten Mario and demands Bowser come to him, the Koopa Queen is dead calm, speaking only through clenched teeth with smoke spilling out from between them.
  Bowsette: Kamek, send Lakitu my condolences for the passing of his father.
• Transformation Sequence: While fighting Jugem, Kamek turns herself into a magical girl in a sequence similar to Sailor Moon.
• Trust Password: Jugem doesn't believe Lakitu is his son because she has been turned into a girl. To try to convince him, she tells of how the last time they saw each other, Jugem promised to get him a yellow Yoshi as a gift.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: Invoked; after forcibly recruiting her, Jugem stuffs a handheld computer/communicator down Bowsette's cleavage.
• Why Can't I Hate You?: Bowsette towards Peach after the latter offers to help the former with rescuing Mario, despite how many times Bowsette kidnapped Peach when she was Bowser.

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