Kings
- This article is about the kings in Super Mario Bros. 3. For other uses of the term, see King.
| Kings | |
|---|---|
| |
| Species | Human |
| First appearance | Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988) |
| Latest appearance | Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024) |
- “Oh thank heavens! I’m back to my old self again. Thank you so much. Here is a letter from the princess.”
- —Kings, Super Mario Bros. 3
The kings[1] are the monarchs of the various lands of the Mushroom World. Seven of them are featured in Super Mario Bros. 3, and each was turned into a different creature by the Koopalings. The kings are unnamed individually, although The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 gave some of them unique identities, and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! even introduced several similar characters and territories. Like Princess Toadstool, they have Toad helpers.
History[edit]
Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
In Super Mario Bros. 3, the Koopalings invaded seven kingdoms of the Mushroom World, stealing the royal magic wands and using them to transform their kings into various creatures. With the kings in their vulnerable state, each evil Koopaling then ruled over the world in that king's place, with Boom Boom and Bowser's Minions placed all over the kingdoms. Renowned heroic brothers Mario and Luigi of the Mushroom Kingdom arrived to help them, first starting with Grass Land.
To save a king, the Mario Bros. have to go to his castle, where the Toad pleads the heroes to restore the king by taking the magic wand back from the Koopaling. After that, Mario and Luigi must assault the airship, defeat the Koopaling, and return the king back into his human shape. He thanks the Mario Bros. for saving him, and he delivers a letter from Princess Toadstool enclosed with a "jewel" (or power-up). If the player manages to restore the kings to their human forms while wearing a special suit, then they get different rescue dialog for each different suit. This continues until the brothers reach the forbidden kingdom of Dark Land, where Bowser ended up holding the princess hostage.
In Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, if the player defeated Bowser before saving the kings, upon selecting the castle, the player is treated to a cutscene where it shows the Koopaling of the respective world invading the castle, snatching the magic wand and using it to transform the king, and then escaping seconds before Mario arrives. In addition, because Princess Toadstool has already been saved beforehand, the king does not give the player a letter from her.
- Grass Land king
The king of Grass Land wears a jeweled white turban and has a large black mustache and sideburns. In the original game, he wears a green robe over white clothing, while in remakes, he wears red clothing and an indigo-colored cape. In the original game, there are unused tiles depicting him moving his mouth or chin when he speaks, though in the final game, he only blinks. He is turned into a dog that constantly scratches his ear in the original game, and into a Cobrat that slithers back-and-forth in the remakes.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal, unused)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal, unused)
Super Mario All-Stars (transformed)
Super Mario All-Stars (normal)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
- Desert Land king
The king of Desert Land appears to be balding with a white mustache and a small crown. In the original game, he wears an orange robe over white clothes, while in the remakes, he wears a red robe over a white shirt and orange pants. He is turned into a silkworm that bobs on a thread over his crown in the original game, and a Hoopster that falls off a vine and continues animating on the ground in the remakes.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario All-Stars (transformed)
Super Mario All-Stars (normal)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
- Water Land king
The king of Water Land has a striking facial resemblance to Mario and Luigi and wears a tall crown. In the original game, he wears a green robe over white clothes, while in the remakes, he wears green clothes and a red cape. He is turned into a kappa drawn in a similar manner to a Spike in the original game, and a medium-sized purple Dino Rhino in the remakes.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario All-Stars (transformed)
Super Mario All-Stars (normal)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
- Giant Land king
The king of Giant Land wears a turban and pants without a shirt, which are white in the original and tinted orange in the remakes. He also appears thinner in the remakes compared to the original. He is turned into a small orange bipedal dinosaur with plates down his back in the original, and into Donkey Kong Jr. in the remakes.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario All-Stars (transformed)
Super Mario All-Stars (normal)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
- Sky Land king
The king of Sky Land has a crown and a long white beard. In the original, he has a long nose and the beard is angular, while in the remakes, his nose and beard are more rounded with his mustache becoming more prominent. He wears an orange and white robe in the original game and a red shirt with indigo pants in the remakes. He is turned into a large vulture that flies in-place in the original, and into an Albatoss that flies back-and-forth in the remakes.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario All-Stars (transformed)
Super Mario All-Stars (normal)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
- Ice Land king
The king of Ice Land appears to be balding and has a crown, a black mustache, and a heavy coat. In the original, he uses unique palettes that gives him peach skin with gray hair and a brown coat, while in remakes he shares his palette with others and has tan skin, blond-yellow hair, and a purple coat over a red suit. He is turned into a seal that balances his crown on its nose in the original and into a Monty Mole that dashes back-and-forth in the remakes.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario All-Stars (transformed)
Super Mario All-Stars (normal)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
- Pipe Land king
The king of Pipe Land has a full beard and wears a horned helmet. In the original, he has pale white skin with an orange beard and black clothes, while in the remake, he has the same tan skin tone as the other kings, a white beard, and a red suit. He is turned into an orange Piranha Plant (with a pose resembling a Venus Fire Trap) with a small pipe in the original, and a Yoshi in the remakes.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
Super Mario All-Stars (transformed)
Super Mario All-Stars (normal)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (transformed)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (normal)
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 created personalities for several rulers. Many, if not all, of them also looked different.
- Prince Hugo – the new ruler of Giant Land (likely making him different from the king seen in Super Mario Bros. 3)
- The Sultan – the ruler of a palace that may be in Desert Land
- King Mackerel – the ruler of Mertropolis, a domed underwater city
- Wizard King of the West – the wizard of an unknown location that resembles Sky Land
- King Windbag – the ruler of a domain implied to be Ice Land
- Emperor Ed – the ruler of Sky Land
Super Mario Kodansha manga[edit]
- “"スーマリ3には七人も王さまが出てくるからどれがほんものかわからないのよ" ("In Super Mario Bros. 3, there are seven kings, so who knows which one is the real one.")”
- —Princess Peach, Super Mario Kodansha manga
The kings can be seen in the first 4koma volume of the Super Mario Kodansha manga. They appear only in the "7 Kings" (7人の王さま) strip, in which Peach states that one of the seven kings is her father. It is never fully confirmed which king is truly her father, though Peach wishes that the king from Water Land would be him. The kings' transformed states are the same as in Super Mario All-Stars.
Gallery[edit]
Artwork[edit]
Nintendo Power artwork of the Water Land king
Notebook from Pigna with the Water Land king
Screenshots[edit]
Super Mario All-Stars (Grass Land)
Super Mario All-Stars (Desert Land)
Super Mario All-Stars (Water Land)
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | Ōsama |
King | |
Kokuō | |||
| Chinese (traditional) | 國王[4] Guówáng |
King | |
| French | roi[?] | king | |
| German | König[?] | King | |
| Italian | Regnanti del Mondo dei Funghi[5] | Mushroom World's rulers | |
| 7 Re[6] | 7 Kings | ||
| Sovrano[7] | Ruler | ||
| Re[8][9] | King | ||
| Spanish | Reyes[?] | Kings |
Notes[edit]
- If Mario defeats a Koopaling as Frog Mario, Tanooki Mario, or Hammer Mario, the king says one of the following:
- "Oh me, oh my! You've been transformed! Shall I change you back with this wand?" (to Frog Mario)
- "Thank you, kind raccoon. Please tell me your name." (to Tanooki Mario)
- "Hey you! How about lending me your clothes? No dice?! What a drag." (to Hammer Mario)
- The king of Water Land bears a striking resemblance to Mario. Also, the castle's island resembles Japan, with the castle itself placed where Kyoto, Nintendo's headquarters, would be.
- All of the transformed kings are depicted with generic crowns either on or near them, despite the fact that only four of the non-transformed kings wear crowns.
References[edit]
- ^ 1990. Super Mario Bros. 3 instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (English). Page 5 and 25.
- ^ 1988. Super Mario Bros. 3 Japanese instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 2 and 24.
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 3 Japanese instruction booklet. Page 2 (Larry's speech balloon).
- ^ 瑪利歐歷史｜超級瑪利歐兄弟 35週年｜任天堂. Nintendo of HK (Traditional Chinese). Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 3 | NES | Giochi | Nintendo IT. Nintendo (Italian). Retrieved August 6, 2024.
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 3 booklet. Nintendo (Italian). Page 5.
- ^ 2010. Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition instruction booklet. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 15.
- ^ Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition Italian manual. Page 17.
- ^ 2003. Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 instruction booklet. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 106.
| Super Mario Bros. 3 / Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Protagonists | Mario • Luigi • Princess Toadstool • Toads • Kings | |
| Bosses | Boom Boom • Big Booa • Fake Bowsera • Koopalings (Larry Koopa • Morton Koopa Jr. • Wendy O. Koopa • Iggy Koopa • Roy Koopa • Lemmy Koopa • Ludwig von Koopa) • Bowser | |
| Items | 1-Up Mushroom • 3-Up Moona • Advance Coina • Anchor • Blue Coin • Boomeranga • Cape Feathera • Card • Coin • e-Coina • Fire Flower • Frog Suit • Goomba's Shoe • Hammer • Hammer Suit • Lakitu's Cloud • Magic ball • Magic Wand • Magic Whistle • Music Box • P-Wing • Poison Mushrooma • Starman • Super Leaf • Super Mushroom • Tanooki Suit • Vegetablea | |
| Objects | Main game | ? Block • Beanstalk • Big Block • Bolt Lift • Brick Block • Brick floor • Bridge • Buzzy Beetle Shell • Canoe • Cloud Block • Cloud Lift • Coin Block • Coral • Directional Lift • Donut Lift • Drawbridge • Elevator block • Empty Block • Flimsy Lift • Frozen Coin • Giant Shell • Goal • Green Shell • Hidden Block • Ice Block • Island • Jump Block • Lift • Locked Door • Magic Door • Magic Note Block • Magical ball • Mega ? Block • Mushroom Coina • P Warp Door • Quicksand • Red Shell • Rock • Rotary Lift • Semisolid Platform • Spiny Shell • Switch Block • Track • Treasure box • Warp Door • Warp Pipe • Waterfall • White Block • White Block (platform) • Wood Block |
| World-ea | !-Switch • Axe • Balance Lift • Bubble • Control Coin • Dotted-Line Block • Goal Pole • Flipper • Giant Gate • Grass • Jumping Board • Key • Key Door • Power Meter Block • Rock Block • Rotating Block • Roulette Block • Seesaw • Snake platform • Soft sand • Stretch Block • Triangular Block • Vanishing Block | |
| Forms | Small Mario • Super Mario • Fire Mario • Raccoon Mario • Frog Mario • Tanooki Mario (Statue Mario) • Hammer Mario • Invincible Mario • Caped Marioa | |
| Switch Cardsa | 1UP Kinoko ga 3UP Moon ni kawaru! • Blue Green Switch • Luigi Power Up!! • Orange Switch • Sugu ni mantan! Power Meter!! • Teki Power Up! Tokuten x2!! • Timer yukkuri! | |
| Worlds | Grass Land • Desert Land • Water Land • Giant Land • Sky Land • Ice Land • Pipe Land • Dark Land • Warp Zone • World-ea | |
| Locations | e-Coin Castlea • Enemy Course • Panel (N-Mark Spade Panel • Spade Panel • Start Panel) • Toad's House • Treasure Ship | |
| Enemies | Main game | Angry Sun • Baby Cheep • Big Bertha • Bloober • Bloober baby • Bloober with kids • Bob-omb • "Boo" Diddly • Boomerang Brother • Boss Bass • Bullet Bill • Buster Beetle • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep-Cheep • Colossal Koopa Paratroopa • Dry Bones • Fiery Walking Piranha • Fire Brother • Fire Chomp • Firesnake • Giant Koopa • Goomba • Grand Goomba • Hammer Brother • Hot Foot • Jelectro • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Kuribo's Goomba • Lakitu • Lava Lotus • Micro-Goomba • Missile Bill • Muncher • Para-Beetle • Para-Goomba • Pile Driver Micro-Goomba • Piranha Plant • Piranhacus Giganticus • Podoboo • Ptooie • Rocky Wrench • Scattering Bloober • Sledge Brother • Spike • Spiny Cheep-Cheep • Spiny • Spiny Egg • Stretch • Thwomp • Venus Fire Trap • Walking Piranha |
| World-ea | Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother • Big Boo • Bony Beetle • Bowser Statue (Super Mario World) • Bumpty • Chargin' Chuck • Flurry • Goomba (Super Mario World) • Hoopster • Hothead • Jumping Piranha Plant • Lil Sparky • Magikoopa • Monty Mole • Para-Goomba (Super Mario World) • Porcupo • Rip Van Fish • Spike Top • Thwimp • Wiggler | |
| Obstacles | Bowser Statue • Candy ring • Cannon • Cannonball • Diagonal cannon • Falling spikea • Fire-Bara • Giant cannon • Giant cannonball • Lava • Pit • Quartet-cannon • Rocket Engine • Roto-Disc • Spike • Tornado • Turtle Cannon | |
| World-e mini-gamesa | Blue Mushroom House • Orange Mushroom House • Red Mushroom House | |
| Music | Airship BGM • Athletic BGM • Bros. Battle • Fortress Boss • Ground BGM • King of the Koopas • P Switch BGM / Toad's House • Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM • Underwater BGM • World 1 Map (Grass Land) • World 3 Map (Water Land) • World 4 Map (Giant Land) | |
| Miscellaneous | Game Over • Extra life • P-Meter • Time Limit | |
| Further info | Completion • e-Readera • e-Reader cardsa • Gallery (Super Mario Advance 4) • Glitches (Super Mario Advance 4) • Media • Nintendo Music • Pre-release and unused content (Super Mario Advance 4) • Quotes • Staff | |
