Editing Bowletta

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|image=[[File:Bowletta Art - MLSS.png|200px]]

|first_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' ([[List of games by date#2003|2003]])

|latest_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions]]'' ([[List of games by date#2017|2017]])

|species=[[Koopa (species)|Koopa]]

|latest_portrayal=[[Kenny James]] ([[List of games by date#2017|2017]])

[[File:MLSS-Bowletta Final.png|frame|right|[[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] encountering Bowletta at the end of [[Bowser's Castle]]]]

Bowletta retains Cackletta's facial appearance, including her purple eyes, large head and mouth, and the two pink horns replacing Bowser's own horns, although she has Bowser's red hair between them. Her body resembles Bowser's except that she has a smaller tail and light-colored breasts. Bowletta is also less round, but has a more hunched appearance, along with a taller shell. While their scales are the same color, Bowletta's green coloration is lighter than Bowser's. Bowletta wears both sets of Bowser's arm bracelets but lacks his collar. In her artwork, her horns are purple, and it is shown that she completely lacks Bowser's claws.  

In the [[Nintendo 3DS]] [[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions|remake]], her appearance is revamped with the collar now appearing around her neck unlike previously. Her horns are also now correctly colored, and her shell is no longer as tall in comparison to that of normal Bowser's. Her green scale coloration is additionally no longer subtly brighter than Bowser's own. Her tail is also the same length as Bowser's tail, and she now has Bowser's claws. Her breasts no longer replace Bowser's plastron, as the plastron is still visible as a duller color than the breasts. Her dark appearance is altered by removing her pupils and all pink and red areas outside her eyes, and adding more yellow glowing areas.

Being the result of Cackletta's spirit possessing Bowser, Bowletta has the powers of Bowser; meaning she can shoot balls of fire, produce [[Flaret]]s or [[Fire Breath|fire a continuous blast of fire]] from her mouth. She also retained her ability of electrokinesis, shown when she appears for the first time as Bowletta, and can also create a rain of shooting stars when she transforms into her dark form. She can also inhale things into her body, shown when she inhales Mario and Luigi when they are knocked out from the Time Bob-omb after faking her defeat. Finally Bowletta also has limited shapeshifting abilities that she has preserved from her old form, as she appeared as Bowser in ''Minions Quest'' in an attempt to trick the Koopa Troop, only removing the disguise when she was sure no one was present.

[[File:MLSS-Bowletta Most Powerful Attack.png|frame|Bowletta's most powerful attack]]

Bowletta's first attack uses Flarets aimed at the Bros. and fired randomly and rapidly. Three, however, will be used for Bowletta to use at a later turn to heal herself. In order to prevent this, the Bros. must [[hammer]] them (or [[jump]] on them with the proper badges equipped) in order to get rid of them when it is their turn. However, using [[Firebrand|fire]] or [[Thunderhand|thunder]] will heal the Flarets. She can also will summon [[block]]s above the Bros.' heads. They must break the blocks with a required amount of jumps in five seconds in order to even be able to evade the fire stream she makes. When Bowletta transforms into a darker form, she summons shooting stars to hit the brothers. Green stars will hit Luigi, red stars will hit Mario, and both stars will harm Bowletta if countered with a hammer; the purple stars (yellow in the remake) which also fall do not damage anyone. If Mario and Luigi do not counter the stars with their hammers, there is a chance that they may get [[dizzy]]. In the remake, Bowletta also winks one of her eyes to indicate which star will target one of the bros. This form of Bowletta is also hazardously-surfaced, and will damage the Bros. if they try to use jumping attacks without the proper badges needed to damage Bowletta.

==Official profiles and statistics==

{{:Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga bestiary|transcludesection=Bowletta (Dark)|align=horizontal}}

|JapM=A portmanteau between "''Geragemōna''", Japanese name for Cackletta, and "''Koopa''", Japanese name for Bowser.

|Fra=Bowsémona

|FraM=A mix between "Bowser" and "Graguémona", the French name of Cackletta

|Ita={{nowrap|Ghigno Bowser}}

|ItaM=A mix between "Bowser" and "Ghignarda", the Italian name of Cackletta

|Chi=咯咯酷霸王

|ChiR=Gēgē Kùbàwáng

|ChiM=Chuckle-Bowser. From the Japanese name.

*Her Star Strike move is similar to the [[Star Storm]] special move and the [[Shooting Star (item)|Shooting Star]] item in ''[[Paper Mario]]''.

*Before she is fought in the original ''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga'', Mario and Luigi are terrified. However, in the remake, they assume their default "battle ready" stances as she breathes fire on them.

*If the Bros. can defeat Bowletta with her falling star attack, then die by the stars, the game will trigger both the Game Over sequence and Bowletta's "death" sequence at the same time. Restarting the game is required to get out of the glitch.

*In the original game, how she reacts to the results of the time bob-omb detonating near the Mario Bros. varied depending on the player's stats before the battle. If the player had low or normal stats, Bowletta, referring to the past two instances that they tricked her, will gloat about tricking them this time around before announcing her intentions of devouring their corpses. If the player had high stats, Bowletta will express confusion as to whether they're dead or unconscious, before ultimately deciding to eat them anyways.

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