Broque Monsieur

Broque Monsieur
Artwork from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Species	Brock
First appearance	Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (2009)
Latest appearance	Mario & Luigi: Brothership (cameo) (2024)

“Ah, sweet monsieur! 'Elp me! I need 'elp! Helpez-moi, s'il vous plaît!”

—Broque Monsieur, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

Broque Monsieur is a Brock character in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey. He speaks English with a thick French accent, and able to speak French itself, as well as Spanish. According to the Japanese official site, he is the Mushroom Kingdom's leading block collector; he is also a collector of block-shaped kittens called Blitties. Broque Monsieur owns a block-shaped dog named Broggy, and manages a store where Bowser (whom he often refers to as "Monsieur Turtle Bits") can shop at to get items and equipment. His name is a pun on the name "Brock" (or the word block) and croque monsieur, a French sandwich. Bowser often refers to him as "blockface".

History

Mario & Luigi series

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story / Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey

Broque Monsieur rotating his head in both versions

An unknown period of time before the events of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, he and Broque Madame dated, but have since separated as he gave her up for blocks. This is revealed when Mario and Luigi chat with her inside her house in Blubble Lake.

Broque Monsieur asking Bowser to assist him when a bridge broke, preventing him from leaving an island

While on an island in Plack Beach, cleaning his block collection, the bridge connecting the island to the beach breaks apart, leaving Broque Monsieur stranded in the ocean on the island. When Bowser walks past the island, he yells for his help, who only does it for a prize offered by Broque Monsieur, the Vacuum Block. He tells Bowser to grab the rope and pull it. At first, Bowser cannot pull the island any closer, but with the help of Mario and Luigi on the inside of his arms, he pulls the island back to the shore. As promised, Broque gives him the block, but Bowser complains that it is just a regular block and nothing else. He then fights Bowser to help him master the Vacuum Block technique, rotating his head to make himself look more fierce before the battle commences.

Broque Monsieur getting inhaled during the Vacuum Block tutorial

Broque Monsieur starts by giving a tutorial on how to vacuum, and then gives Bowser a Retry Clock. After the tutorial, he fights by using items he gets out of ? Blocks. The most frequent of these are Mega Mushrooms that make him grow giant so he can ram into Bowser. To counterattack, Bowser must punch Broque just as he is about to ram into him, and doing this will knock Broque's body far away from the battlefield, with his head laying on the ground. While Broque's body is trying to get to his head, Bowser can punch the head to gain one coin each time he hits it. Sometimes, a mushroom will come out of the block to heal Broque Monsieur for 30 HP; however, it may go in the opposite direction and heal Bowser instead. A coin can even pop out, which does nothing and wastes Broque's turn. Every time he gets inhaled by Bowser, Mario and Luigi have a chance of fighting him inside Bowser's body, though he will escape after a few turns. Each time the brothers hit Broque Monsieur, they will receive a coin. After a few more turns, Broque Monsieur will state he is impressed, and announce that the battle is over.

Later on Plack Beach, after gaining the ability to breathe fire, Broque Monsieur can be seen calling out for Broggy. He later finds Broggy, who rams into him. Broggy goes on to fight Bowser, but before the fight commences, Broque tells Bowser to not punch Broggy, and instead use his Fire Breath. Bowser beats Broggy, causing him to run away, with Broque chasing after him.

Broque Monsieur's shop

Broque is later seen in Dimble Wood, running his own shop where he sells consumable items for Bowser. Right next to that shop is a shop run by Broggy, that sells gear. When buying items at his shop, he introduces the Scratch Cards, which allows him to refund any coins spent while shopping if he lands either a Mushroom, Flower or Star. Before Bowser leaves though, Broque asks him if he could do him a favor: collect Blitties hidden inside enemies by using the vacuum technique. In exchange for collecting all fifteen Blitties, he will lend Broggy to Bowser for a walk. During Giant Bowser's battle against Bowser's Castle, Broque Monsieur can be seen with Broggy, continuously saying "Big! Oui, so big!" once he sees the gigantic Bowser.

Scattered across many areas in the Mushroom Kingdom are Shop Blocks, which, once punched, will activate it, showing Broque Monsieur on its screen. Broque Monsieur will first ask if Bowser wants to be freshened using the "negative-ion treatment", before selling both items and gear to him.

Much later in the game, after Dark Bowser unleashes the dark wind on the Mushroom Kingdom, he is shown in a bubble with several Toads and the Koopa Paratroopa Trio.

While Broque is friendly towards Bowser, he has a strong dislike of Mario and Luigi because he considers the brothers' habit of breaking blocks and lowering their "value" to be abhorrent. Because of this, Broque will refuse to sell items to the brothers and impolitely insist they leave his shop immediately and never come back (though he will immediately apologize for his rudeness). Additionally, the Mario Bros.' hammer is not strong enough to activate a Shop Block, thus eliminating the other method of shopping through Broque Monsieur.

If the player brings back the collected Blitties back to Broque Monsieur at his shop, he will give Bowser the Block Band for collecting four Blitties, Block Fangs for collecting eight, Block Ring for collecting twelve and then, finally, Broggy for collecting fifteen so he can use the Broggy Bonker Special Attack. This means Broggy's shop will be closed due to the absence of Broggy, though this also means Broque Monsieur's shop can sell not only items, but gear as well.

Broque Monsieur reappears in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey, the original game's 3DS remake, with the same role. He does not take damage from Bowser's punch at all despite having 80 HP and the battle will immediately end if either Bowser masters the Vacuum technique and punches him once or if the Vacuum Block command is successfully executed four times. The Mushroom he gets to restore his HP is now a Drumstick that recovers some of Bowser's HP. The scenes where he comments on seeing Giant Bowser in Dimble Wood, as well as being trapped inside a bubble, along with the other inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom, are removed in the remake.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

Broque Monsieur appears in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. He welcomes Mario, Luigi, and Peach to Pi'illo Island and also provides enemies, which Toadsworth uses to further explain battling. He rotates his head to look more fierce offscreen before the Bros. arrive for this. Once the Grombas he unleashes are defeated, he rotates his head to be nice again and states that this was all an act. Broque mentions, upon the bros' arrival, that they are familiar; however, he disregards this. His species, the Brocks, also appear in this game. Later in the game, he is also seen telling his co-workers that Mario and Luigi are crazy because of them hitting blocks from beneath, to which he turns around and sees Mario and Luigi listening, and runs out from embarrassment. In this game, he seems to have lightened up towards Mario and Luigi, and seeing them as strong allies; possibly starting to like them, but still finding them crazy for hitting blocks. Also, when the Dreambeats are playing, he is seen listening to them, making him fall asleep and a Dream Orb appears.

A Dream World version of Broque Monsieur appears in Dreamy Pi'illo Castle to teach Mario how to fight in the Dream World, and also runs a couple of shops: one in this same Dream World and the other in Dreamy Neo Bowser Castle.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions

Yoshi Theater features a poster in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions, depicting a movie starring Broque Monsieur, Broque Madame, and Broggy.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership

A reef that resembles Broque Monsieur named Broque Reef appears in the Ocean Map of Mario & Luigi: Brothership. After it is discovered and Issa Rock is informed of it, she builds a statue based on the reef on Shipshape Island.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Broque Monsieur appears as a Novice-class Shield-type primary spirit with one support slot. His artwork is taken from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. The spirit raises a fighter's overall power without granting any special effect. Its puppet fighter is Pac-Man, fought on the Battlefield version of the Mario Bros. stage.

General information

Speech

Broque Monsieur often uses "Engrish" words, phrases, and sentences in both Japanese and Korean releases He also uses some French words in said versions. His trait of adding English sentences was carried over to the Korean version. In the English version, as well as the Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese versions, he speaks with a French accent. In the European-French version, Broque Monsieur speaks broken French, saying sentences in an English context, using "le" instead of "la", and saying English words sometimes. In the Canadian French version, Broque Monsieur speaks stereotypical European French (similar to his portrayal in other translations), due to differences between the French spoken in Quebec and France. In the German version, Broque Monsieur speaks correct German, without any accent, but in a noble and polite manner.

Profiles and statistics

Mario & Luigi series

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

• Prima Official Game Guide description: On this adventure, the trio of Mario, Luigi, and Bowser will run into a strange fellow on the seaside of Plack Beach named Broque Monsieur. The blockheaded fellow has a few tricks to teach Bowser that will certainly help him battle Fawful and his minions. If only Broque could teach his pup Broggy a few tricks, like behaving in front of company. Of course, a mischievous puppy could come in handy sometime....

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story enemy
Broque Monsieur
	HP	158 (237)	POW	27 (68)	DEF	30 (45)	SPEED	42 (63)
	Coins	0 (0)	Level	11	Fire	Normal	Burn?	Immune
	Role	Training	Battled by	Anyone	Location(s)	Plack Beach	Dizzy?	Immune
	Stat down?	Normal	KO?	Immune	Experience	30	Item drop
Notice: The second set of numbers next to the enemy's HP, POW, DEF, SPEED and Coins are stat increases from the Challenge Medal accessory; a 50% increase for HP, DEF, SPEED and Coins earned, and a 150% increase for POW.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey enemy
Broque Monsieur
	HP	80	POW	54	DEF	14	SPEED	10	Experience	0
	Fire	Normal	Jump	Normal	Hammer	Normal	Battled by	Bowser	Coins	0
	Burn	Immune	Dizzy	Immune	Stat down	1x	Speed down	1x	Item drop	None - 0% None - 0%
Level           2	Location(s)	Plack Beach

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Spirit #109 Broque Monsieur
	Series/game	Mario & Luigi Series
	Type	Primary
	Slots	1
	Class	Novice
	Strength / effect(s)	Shield
	How to obtain	Spirit Board
Spirit battle	Opponent(s)	PAC-MAN
	Conditions	Rule: Defense ↑; Item: Blocks The enemy has increased defense The enemy shields often The enemy's shield has extra durability
	Stage	Mario Bros. (Battlefield)
	Song	Tough Guy Alert!

Quotes

Main article: List of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story quotes § Broque Monsieur

• "Ah! Bonjour!"
• "Your tongue, bite upon it!"
• "Such a fine block! We sing the song of block!"
• "Come, let us try zis out!"
• "ALLOOOOOOO! MON CUTE BROGGY! COME BACK TO MOI! I AM MISSING YOU!"

Gallery

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  New Year's card made by developers of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

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  Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story stylus set

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  Broque at the Check-X Quiz

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  Broque Monsieur in the Pi'illo Castle photo puzzle

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  Broque welcoming Mario, Peach, Toadsworth, and some Toads to Pi'illo Castle

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  Broque Reef in Mario & Luigi: Brothership

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ブリロック[?] Burirokku	Portmanteau of "brick" and "block", or male name "Brock"; officially romanized as "Brirock"
Dutch	Broque Monsieur[?]	Name copied from the English version
French (NOA)	Monsieur duBloc[?]	"duBloc" is a reference to many common French family names starting with "Du", like "Dubois" or "Dupont"
French (NOE)	Charlie Bloc[?]	Charlie Block
German	Blockhard[?]	Blockhard
Italian	Luc Blocque[?]	From the French given name Luc ("Luke") and homophone of bloc ("block")
Korean	블로크[?] Beullokeu	In Korean, Blocks are called "블록" (Beullok) and it is shown to be spelled similar to English. However, the official romanization is "Brirock", just like the Japanese romanization.
Portuguese (NOE)	Monsieur Bloco[?]	Block Monsieur
Russian	Месье Дюблок[?] Mesye Dyublok	Transliteration of NOA French name
Spanish (NOA)	Monsieur le Bloqué[?]	Block Monsieur, or Mister the Block
Spanish (NOE)	Charles Bloquette[?]	Charles Blockette