Editing Giant Bowser

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|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])

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'''Giant Bowser'''<ref>Williams, Drew. The ''Yoshi's Island DS'' Player's Guide. Page 139.</ref>, also known as '''Super Bowser'''<ref>''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide pg. 171: "''When Super Bowser begins spitting fireballs, edge up against the right wall and jump over the fireballs to let them bypass you.'' [...] ''After you defeat Super Bowser, you gain access to World 9!''"</ref><ref>''New Super Mario Bros. 2'' PRIMA Official Game Guide pg. 169: "''After his initial defeat, Bowser emerges from the lava bigger and angrier than ever. Super Bowser lets out a thunderous roar and the room begins filling with lava. As you jump between the floating platforms to stay ahead of the lava, pay attention to this massive enemy. When Super Bowser’s eyes light up, it means he’s locked on to you. Jump away from your current platform to avoid his swiping attack.''"</ref>, is an enormous form [[Bowser]] takes in many games in the [[Mario (franchise)|''Mario'' franchise]]. He often serves as the final boss of a game.

Though Giant Bowser's size has stayed roughly the same across the franchise, the method used to enlarge him is inconsistent, though it almost always occurs with outside help and when Bowser is in a life-threatening situation. For example, in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', [[Kamek|Magikoopa]] enlarges Bowser after he falls into [[lava]].

[[File:SMS Corona Mountain Tub Battle.png|thumb|left|200px|Mario battling Giant Bowser and Bowser Jr.]]

Giant Bowser first appears as the final boss of ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' alongside [[Bowser Jr.]] Giant Bowser is first seen sitting in an enormous hot tub full of green [[Goop#Hot water|water]] with Bowser Jr. and [[Princess Peach]]. [[Mario]] appears and is shocked to see Bowser so much larger than normal. Bowser then roars at Mario for ruining his "family vacation" and the battle begins.

Bowser is later seen returned to normal size sitting on top of the upside-down tub next to Bowser Jr. Guiltily, he starts to tell him that he lied about Peach being Junior's mother, but discovers that his son already knows. Junior then tells his father that he wants to fight Mario again one day, which improves Bowser's mood. He comments that the royal [[Koopa (species)|Koopa]] line is still strong, but suggests that they both rest a bit.

====''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''====

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At the end of {{World|8|bowser}} in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', Mario encounters Bowser on a bridge. Mario gets past Bowser and hits a [[! Switch]] that destroys the bridge, sending Bowser plummeting into the lava below. Mario then turns his attention to what appears to be Princess Peach in a cage above. The "princess", however, reveals "herself" to be [[Kamek|Magikoopa]] in disguise. Magikoopa proceeds to spread magic dust into the lava, which begins to rumble and boil. When nothing happens, Magikoopa looks quizzically at the lava, when Super Bowser bursts out of the pool, knocking Magikoopa away, and roars at Mario, initiating the final boss battle.

In order to defeat Super Bowser, Mario must make his way through a labyrinth, allowing Super Bowser's [[fireball]]s and claw swipes to destroy structures blocking his path. Some [[? Block]]s, [[Coin]]s and [[Goomba]]s appear in this section. Eventually, Mario will reach a new section composed of floating platform. A [[Propeller Mushroom]] may be collected at the beginning of the section. Bowser will use a new attack here, pounding the lava to send waves at Mario. Mario will soon reach another, larger switch, which sits below the real [[Princess Peach]]'s cage. Hitting the switch will destroy the floor and cause Super Bowser to fall, thus defeating him and completing the game.

The final battle is in [[Bowser's Galaxy Generator]] in the mission [[Bowser's Fortified Fortress]]. Bowser tells Mario his plan to create a new galaxy using pieces of the existing one and ruling it with Peach as his empress. He then fights Mario again. The battle is the same as the last, but Bowser's fist now releases six lasers that shoot across the planet. After two hits, this really makes Bowser angry, and this time, whenever he punches, it gives off eight lasers instead of six. After he is hit four times total with meteorites, he spits out the Grand Star and falls into the depths of the generator. However, just as Mario is about to collect the star, Bowser reappears, enlarged once again, and eats the Grand Star, and enlarges himself to around double the size than before. He then warps Mario into a planet-less area with a black hole in the background. The only thing for Mario to stand on is several meteorites. Bowser will fly closer and closer to Mario, punching him when he is close enough. Mario must launch meteorites at him when he is out of his shell. After two hits, Bowser will just be at a comfortable distance and punch at Mario. After four total hits, Bowser laments his defeat and the fact that he never got to try a huge cake, before being sucked into the black hole.

At the end of {{World|6|bowsern2}} in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', Mario meets Bowser and defeats him in much the same manner as the previous game. After Bowser's defeat, Princess Peach's cage, situated above the switch that destroys Bowser's bridge, is pulled up higher into the castle by its chain. Mario follows via floating platforms and encounters the [[Koopalings]], who use their wands to enlarge Bowser in much the same manner as Kamek, even being knocked away when Super Bowser appears.

[[Dry Bowser]]'s boss fight in {{World|star|castlen2|World Star-Castle}} works the exact same way, except his fireballs are blue and is much faster than Bowser. Also, fireballs don't hurt him and most of the platforms are tinier.

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Giant Bowser appears once again as the final boss in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]''. After Bowser is defeated in [[The Final Battle (New Super Mario Bros. U)|the final level]], Mario runs outside the castle and Bowser Jr. flies in with the [[Junior Clown Car]], carrying an unconscious Magikoopa. Bowser Jr. wakes Magikoopa and the two have a brief argument, ending with Magikoopa being convinced to enlarge Bowser again.

Outside, Mario spots Princess Peach trapped in a tower room. She waves to him, but a door with Bowser Jr.'s emblem slams in her face. Bowser Jr. then appears to taunt Mario before Giant Bowser leaps up and roars. During the battle, Giant Bowser will breathe fireballs, which take three hits from ice balls to destroy, stomp his foot to crush Mario, and jump. Bowser Jr. fights alongside him in the Clown Car, throwing [[Bob-omb]]s and ground pounding.

To defeat Giant Bowser, Mario must stomp Bowser Jr. and steal the Junior Clown Car. He must then fly directly above Giant Bowser by rapidly tapping the [[jump]] button and ground pounding on his head by [[spin]]ning. While Mario is in the air, Bowser will attack by breathing up to five fireballs at a time, as well as streams of fire and claw swipes. Being hit will knock Mario out of the Clown Car, but not deal damage. After each hit, Bowser will curl into his shell and spin around the battlefield, making frequent jumps. After the shell spin, Bowser will breathe lava into the air to send fireballs raining down. Mario can also attack him by jumping on Bowser Jr. when he is running back to Clown Car to lob his shell at Giant Bowser, hurling fireballs, or throwing Bowser Jr.'s [[Bob-omb]]s at him.

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Giant Bowser appears as the second stage of Bowser's boss minigame, [[Frightmare]]. After the player defeats Bowser by tricking him into ground pounding through the floor, the entire floor falls apart beneath them and they plummet to another boss stage. Bowser then drinks an elixir that transforms him into Giant Bowser. Unfortunately, his weight breaks the floor underneath him and he is forced to hang on to the edge of the stage.

 

During the fight, Giant Bowser will toss large red orbs that explode, leaving behind a smaller black orb. He will then breathe a stream of fire. The player must get him to hit an orb with his fire, turning it white. They can then pick it up and throw it at him. After the fire attack, Giant Bowser tosses a purple orb that sends a shockwave across the stage, requiring the player to avoid it before they throw the white orb. Giant Bowser will toss more red orbs each time he is hit. After he is hit five times, The black hole in the background sucks Bowser in.

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Giant Bowser appears as the final boss of ''[[Mario Party 9]]'', in the minigame [[Bowser's Block Battle]]. Players attack by rolling dice with their own face and Bowser's emblem on them. They are able to pick up and throw the dice repeatedly for 10 seconds. After the 10 seconds are up, dice showing players' faces are converted into energy balls that the players use to attack Bowser, gaining one point per hit, while Giant Bowser shoots three [[fireball]]s for each die showing his emblem, deducting a point from any player hit.

 

Once his health drops below half, Giant Bowser grows even larger and the second phase of the fight begins. Giant Bowser will now tilt the platform the players are on to add chaos to their rolls. After each set of rolls, Bowser will pull out a spiked dice block with images of the previous bosses on it and roll it. The die transforms into whatever boss is rolled and will perform a brief attack.

* If Bowser rolls his own image on the dice, he'll launch five waves of fireballs straight ahead. The waves alternate between three and four fireballs, forcing players to weave between them.

After Giant Bowser's health is depleted, he is launched into the black hole in the background and explodes, releasing several [[Mini Star]]s.

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In Bowser's Boss Minigame [[Bowser's Tank Terror]], after being shot by enough cannonballs from the tanks, Bowser falls into the lava, only for himself to reemerge as an enlarged [[Dry Bowser]], who is roughly the same size as Giant Bowser.

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Giant Bowser (known in-game as '''Bowser 2''') appears as the last stage of the final boss battle of ''[[Super Princess Peach]]''. After being defeated once, Bowser uses the [[Vibe Scepter]] to enlarge himself and fights Peach on what appears to be the castle roof. He attacks by slamming his hands, causing spiky balls to fall, breathing fire, and creating rings of hammers that fly outward. When he slams down both hands, several Bob-ombs will fall. Peach must pick these up and throw them at Giant Bowser's face.

 

When Giant Bowser's health is reduced to three points, he starts breathing two fireballs at once. When it drops to two, he breathes a stream of fire. When he has only one health point left, he uses the [[Calm]] vibe to restore health. Peach must attack him repeatedly to wake him up so she can deal the final blow.

===''Yoshi'' franchise===

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Giant Bowser appears as the final boss of ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]''. After he is defeated in the level [[At Last, Bowser's Castle!]], Bowser is enlarged by Kamek. Four differently-colored [[Yoshi]]s battle him at once with the assistance of [[Baby Mario]], [[Baby Peach]], [[Baby Donkey Kong]] and [[Baby Wario]].

[[File:Bowserbattle2 YNI.png|thumb|200px|Bowser defending against Yoshi]]

In ''[[Yoshi's New Island]]'', Bowser appears as the hidden final boss, traveling through time to attack Yoshi in his past. He appears in the secret level [[Make Way for King Bowser!]], unlocked after all levels are completed without [[Flutter Wings]]. Bowser is dispatched by Yoshi, but Kamek retaliates by enlarging him with his hammer. He is battled in a similar manner to giant [[Baby Bowser]], attacking from the background. He can breathe fireballs into the air, which rain back down, and summon [[Mega Guy]]s. Kamek will also assist him  by casting magic balls at Yoshi.

To defeat Giant Bowser, Yoshi must swallow a Mega Guy, turning it into a [[Mega Eggdozer]], and throw the giant egg at Bowser while he is breathing fire, as he will block the attack otherwise. After each hit, Giant Bowser will slam the ground, causing section of the ground to move up and down, possibly sinking into the lava and making the battlefield uneven.

 

After being hit three times, Giant Bowser shrinks out of view and a glowing light emerges from where he shrunk and flies into the distance, apparently Bowser himself flying to his home time.

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In ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' and its [[Nintendo 3DS|3DS]] remake, ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey]]'', Giant Bowser is a playable character, who is only used during giant battles. When he is crushed, [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] must go to the [[Rump Command]], where they play a [[minigame]] to spike Bowser's adrenaline. Once this is done, Bowser will grow large enough to fight whatever is threatening him. The first time this happens, Bowser attempts to fire a [[Banzai Bill]] at [[Bowser's Castle#Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story / Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey|his castle]], but the castle activates rockets installed by [[Fawful]] and lands on top of Bowser. However, he grows giant and lifts the castle up. He then fights it as a boss. Later, he is exploring [[Blubble Lake]] when he comes across a large propeller, belonging to the [[Tower of Yikk]]. After he activates the propeller by [[Nose Deck|sneezing]], the tower comes to life and stomps on him. Bowser is enlarged once again to fight it. Later he must battle the [[Fawful Express]] at Bowser Castle (which runs Bowser over) and a robotic, "Fawfulized" version of [[Peach's Castle#Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story / Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey|Peach's Castle]] called [[Super Peach's Castle of Fury]] (which crushes Bowser).

 

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Giant Bowser (simply called '''Bowser''' in-game) reappears in ''Mario & Luigi: Dream Team'' as the final giant boss of the game. He is faced in [[Neo Bowser Castle (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team)|Neo Bowser Castle]]'s dream world, where Bowser's dream self attempts to reach this form by eating a large amount of meat brought to him by his minions. However, when he learns that there is no more meat, he flies into a rage and begins devouring the scenery in an effort to grow even larger; when that fails, he leaps off a cliff and seemingly to his doom. However, just as Mario and Dreamy Luigi prepare to celebrate, Bowser returns in his full giant form, having used the adrenaline of the near-fatal fall to attain his Giant form (similar to how he grew in ''Bowser's Inside Story''). After he knocks the Mario Bros. down to a lower level, he gloats that he fears nothing in his dreams; in response, Dreamy Luigi grows into [[Giant Luigi]] to fight Giant Bowser on equal terms.  

**[[Kamek]] and several [[Magikoopa]]s can appear on the roof, summoning a massive magical orb to send at Luigi; this must be deflected with a timely Hammer strike.

**Platoons of [[Spear Guy]]s can emerge from the front door, latching onto Giant Dreamy Luigi's legs and attacking with their spears; this is countered by tapping them quickly to shake them off.

**A fleet of Airtubs may fly in and fire lines of cannonballs that are blocked by swinging the hammer vertically or horizontally. The Airtubs fly in circles to try and confuse Luigi, but they always alternate between horizontal and vertical shots; if the player looks closely, they can also see the Airtubs' cannons swell right before they fire.

**Bowser can also attempt to heal himself by calling out a squad of [[Spear Guy]]s to toss enormous chunks of roasted meat at him, similar to the Mario Bros's [[Rhythm Mushroom]] technique. Giant Luigi must "Stop the Chow Down" by smashing the ground with his Hammer just as Bowser raises his arms; if done correctly, Bowser will stagger just as the meat bounces off his head instead of falling into his mouth.

After being knocked into the lava enough times, Giant Bowser becomes vulnerable to the [[Finishing Bros.]] attack, seemingly putting an end to the fight. However, Kamek will return with one last trick up his sleeve; with the help of other [[Magikoopa|Magikoopas]], he fully heals Giant Bowser while making him grow to a size that dwarfs Giant Luigi. For this final phase of the battle, Bowser can use one of two moves: a colossal fireball or a stomp attack. The fireball is countered by tapping it repeatedly as Luigi struggles to hold it back with his Hammer; this is similar to how he countered the [[Robo-Drilldigger]]'s energy ball, but made more difficult by the fireball moving around the screen. If Giant Bowser tries to stomp on Giant Luigi, the player must repeatedly tap the two arrows that appear to let Giant Luigi lift the foot off of himself; since each arrow corresponds to one of Giant Luigi's arms, the player must evenly distribute their taps to prevent him from being crushed. Countering either attack will knock Giant Bowser into the lava, allowing the Mario Bros. and [[Prince Dreambert]] to use the [[Star Driver]] to finish him off once and for all.

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