KOOPA KIDS: AWOL?

Tails_155 · **on:** December 11, 2007, 11:55:51 PM

What happened to the Koopa Kids? They were in the 2 best (IMO) Mario games of all time! then they just... disappeared... Bowser fell in lava before and he didn't just disappear... so what's with the Koopa Kids? Did their mother take custody? I wanna know!

Kor · **Reply #1 on:** December 11, 2007, 11:59:23 PM

Maybe they won't appear till they get a better deal from their dad or Nintendo.

Tails_155 · **Reply #2 on:** December 12, 2007, 12:15:05 AM

could be, but I wonder whether they'll (provided they bring them back ever) use the TV or the VG names

Manny Cav · **Reply #3 on:** December 12, 2007, 12:33:58 AM

What's with the infamous "Morton Koopa Jr." thing?

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Tails_155 · **Reply #4 on:** December 12, 2007, 12:54:11 AM

?

I guess I don't know what ya mean

Manny Cav · **Reply #5 on:** December 12, 2007, 12:57:34 AM

Koopa's (or Bowser's) son's name = Morton Koopa Jr.

Koopa's (or Bowser's) full name = Morton Koopa.

Tails_155 · **Reply #6 on:** December 12, 2007, 01:00:01 AM

whose to say it isn't?

it may be Bowser Morton Koopa, and therefor Morton is using his middle name

-shrugs- the question at hand though... anyone have any other hypotheses on where they went?

Kor · **Reply #7 on:** December 12, 2007, 01:52:54 AM

That is a better name then naming your kid the same as his last name as in Mario Mario.

Or Bowser could be a nickname or something. They may have dropped the kids since they could not think of anything for them to do. They could be minor bosses though in games I would think.

Flathead770 · **Reply #8 on:** December 12, 2007, 02:34:44 AM

maybe the developers thought it would sound better when they made it, i dunno. Or maybe they got the name from a historical person (like they did with ludwig von koopa, who is a composer, just like ludwig von beethoven, who also was a composer).

Tails_155 · **Reply #9 on:** December 12, 2007, 07:45:27 AM

they're all people

Lemmy is a rock star
Iggy Pop is also
There's a lot of Larrys...
I think it's Morton Downey Jr. he was named after

etc

well they were in games that worked, maybe if they went back to that style it'd be better (with the exception of Hotel Mario & Mario Is Missing... for the most part)

Chikara · **Reply #10 on:** December 12, 2007, 09:11:49 AM

The Koopa Kids were going to be the bosses in Super Princess Peach on the DS, but Nintendo decided against using them. The sprites of them are still in the spare space in the game cartridge.

As for Morton Jr.'s name, another theory is that some relative (probably father or brother) of Bowser's is the original Morton.

Besides where they are now, there's still the question of where they came from. How does Bowser, a single guy who's never had any on-screen romance besides unrequieted love for Peach, end up with 8 children anyway?

Manny Cav · **Reply #11 on:** December 12, 2007, 09:57:30 AM

The children might have came about before the events that take place for most of the Mario series. He may have lost his former wife through one way or another. Either that, or the kids are adopted.

Kor · **Reply #12 on:** December 12, 2007, 10:44:57 AM

It can be a mix of these also, some may be actual kids, and or some may be adopted.

How is super princess peach anyway, just curious.

Lain_EX · **Reply #13 on:** December 12, 2007, 02:25:41 PM

No clue, I saw them last time in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Since then, they did't made any more appearances.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #14 on:** December 13, 2007, 04:07:36 PM

If you read the narrative notes on the botton half of the screen in "Super Mario World", it directly implies that Mario killed them all.

Kor · **Reply #15 on:** December 13, 2007, 05:58:26 PM

Which system was this out on?

Manny Cav · **Reply #16 on:** December 13, 2007, 08:10:45 PM

Quote from: Kor,Dec 13 2007 on 03:58 PM

Which system was this out on?

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly called the SNES (or Super NES around my household).

And, WeirdRaptor, you are referring to the notes that follow when you finish a castle level when you defeat a Koopa kid, correct?

Kor · **Reply #17 on:** December 13, 2007, 09:37:52 PM

Did he make Yoshi eat them and turn them into an egg or something?

Tails_155 · **Reply #18 on:** December 13, 2007, 10:10:53 PM

seems rather violent for a Mario game O_o o_O besides, the nicknamed Hip and Hop were my fav bosses

(Mainly because of Tara Strong's role in the SMW TV series

)

not only a first record of killing in a Mario game, but the first record of killing children in a Mario game too...

at least he gets blown up

I can't seem to find the rest as screens

#1 Iggy Koopa (Hop Koopa) "defeated" is all it says
#2 Morton Koopa Jr. (Big Mouth Koopa) "Just a memory" seems more like what WR was saying
#3 Lemmy Koopa (Hop Koopa) "Triumphed" doesn't imply it either (so at least my 2 favs could still survive!

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#4 Ludwig von Koopa (Kooky von Koopa) Composing now over... but it also says "in castle #4" maybe he's just not gonna be able to in that castle?
#5 Roy Koopa (Bully Koopa) Put an end seems pretty straight forward
#6 Wendy O. Koopa (Kootie Pie Koopa) Sung her last song seems pretty straightforward
#7 Larry Koopa (Cheatsy Koopa) also "defeated" meaning 7 and 1 are ridiculously similar XD

8 lives, because we know that

Kor · **Reply #19 on:** December 13, 2007, 11:30:23 PM

A couple of those can be interpreted either way so some could have survived.