Editing Bowser Switch

{{item infobox
|image=[[File:SM3DL Screenshot Bowser Switch.jpg|150x150px]]<br>Screenshot from ''Super Mario 3D Land''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' ([[List of games by date#2011|2011]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'' ([[List of games by date#2023|2023]])
|variant_of=Switch
|related=[[! Switch]]<br>[[Large ! Switch]]<br>[[Skull switch]]
|comparable=[[Axe]]
}}

'''Bowser Switches'''<ref>{{cite|author=Esmarch, Nick van|date=2011|title=''Super Mario 3D Land: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|format=Premiere Edition|location=Roseville|publisher=Prima Games|isbn=978-0-307-89386-4|page=137}}</ref> are buttons used in some of the [[castle]] boss battles within ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]''. Landing on the switch is necessary to defeat the boss. Bowser Switches have flat tops and feature Bowser's [[emblem]]. They appear only in boss battles against [[Bowser]] himself or members of [[Koopa (Bowser's species)|his species]].

==History==
===''Super Mario 3D Land''===
A Bowser Switch occurs at the end of the bridges found in [[castle]] courses, and pressing it causes the bridge to collapse and defeat the boss that stands atop it, like the [[axe]]s from the original ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' or the [[skull switch]] in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' In most courses, the boss is a [[Tail Bowser]] and pressing the switch exposes their real form. In {{world link|8|bowser3d|World 8-Bowser: Part 1}}[[World 8-Bowser: Part 1|: Part 1]] and {{world link|8|bowser3d|World 8-Bowser: Part 2}}[[World 8-Bowser: Part 2|: Part 2]], [[Mario]] (or [[Luigi]]) faces the real [[Bowser]], and the switch is necessary for his defeat instead. [[Dry Bowser]] appears in their place within the castle courses of the special worlds unlocked after {{world|8|bowser3d}} is completed. The only castle course without a Bowser Switch is {{world link|s7|castle3d|Special 7-Castle}}, within which there is no boss fight.

===''Super Mario Bros. Wonder''===
In ''Super Mario Bros. Wonder'', a Bowser Switch is physically incorporated into Bowser's body body, who has been fused with [[Prince Florian]]'s Flower Castle to become [[Castle Bowser]]. In the final battle with [[Wonder Bowser]], the form fought in [[The Final Battle! Bowser's Rage Stage]], striking the [[large ! Switch]] under his chin five times causes his stone armor to fall away, exposing his cloud-based body underneath and a Bowser Switch on his head. The player character must ascend the [[lift]]s that appear during this phase of the battle and avoid his four floating hands to reach the switch. Pressing it finally defeats Wonder Bowser, and reveals the final [[Royal Seed]] of the game.

Like the large ! Switch and other components of Castle Bowser, this Bowser Switch glows magenta.

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=クッパスイッチ
|JpnR=Kuppa Suitchi
|JpnM=Bowser Switch
|JpnC=<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|date=2015|title="Super Mario 3D Land" in 『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック]]』|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|location=Tokyo|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8|page=185}}</ref>
|Ita=Interruttore Bowser
|ItaM=Bowser Switch
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=185}}</ref>
}}

==References==
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