A little thing I wanted to point out is that in Mario Party 6, beating the Koopa Kids in a minigame of Solo Mode will sometimes have Bowser go "Koopa Kids, you're a disgrace! That's it... no playing with your Mario action figure for a MONTH!" as if Bowser really is their father. Maybe he really is just a busy guy.
Viven Ayala Did Hudson really own Koopa Kid though? He has mostly Bowser’s design, it it were a completely other character then sure, but Koopa Kid is literally a mini Bowser so I don’t think that’s the reason
@@bowserjr.3353 they probably don't but Nintendo tends to want to use their own designs. Like, there was an internal debate on what to do with Donkey Kong post-DKC. There is a video (Beta64 I think, maybe DPadGamer) where they show the debug menu and DK has a generic grey outline, seemingly because Nintendo wasn't sure if they wanted to use their design or the Rare design with the red DK tie.
Nintendo really just changed the Koopa Kids to Bowser Jr in the remake of that one Bowser minigame in Mario Party: The Top 100, even they don't want them anymore
You know... Bowser Jr’s arrival and prominence caused a lot of characters to be altered. The Koopalings lost their relationship to Bowser, Bowser’s “Mini Me” Koopa Kid disappeared, and Bowser’s younger self (Baby Bowser) had his design altered to basically be Junior without his bandana. Makes me feel some type of way despite liking the little runt.
speaking of baby bowser, he uses bowser jr's voice but high pitched. in partners in time, baby bowser wears a bib but nothing on it, and his voice was the same as bowser jr because during that time, baby bowser's age is the same age as bowser jr.
Sean Bird That shouldn’t be much of a concern. The Koopalings were all named after musicians (mostly modern rock, with some exceptions). This is why why odd names like “Wendy O. Koopa,” “Morton Koopa Jr.,” and “Ludwig von Koopa” exist. That all there is to it. In addition, Nintendo themselves have basically eliminated their surnames.
@Zachary Rugar @Sean Bird on the flip side, there is the mysterious blue Fake Bowser from Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels. He has been referred to in some media as “Bowser’s Brother,” though this contradicts other supplemental media. Supplemental media in Mario is notorious for being inaccurate, however, so it should all be take with a grain of salt. Especially since Super Mario All-Stars scrubbed the blue Fake Bowser for a normal one, though it still lacked the telltale sign of a Fake Bowser: it didn’t turn into a minion when defeated by fireballs.
Bowser Jr. Out of curiosity, in what source material has he been referred to as “Morton Koopa?” The only names I’ve heard are “Morton Koopa Jr.” and simply “Morton.” As I said before, the surnames have mostly been done away with and ignored since SMW, and I know that has Morton’s full name as “Morton Koopa Jr.”
Oh, I know everything about Koopa Kid. I’ve done many hours of research and, well, a lot of the key details of koopa kid were said in this video, but I’ll list a few that weren’t. In Mario Party Advance, whenever Koopa Kid selects the number of koopa kids, he says “No sweat!” most likely implying Koopa Kid is able to split into however copies of himself he wants, shown in Mario Party 5 aswell. He’s also able to impersonate Npcs like Toad, by putting on a fake costume as a disguise. There’s actually around 100 normal koopa kids, and 90 colored ones (30 red, 30 green, 30 blue) according to Mario Party advance yet again. Koopa Kid and Bowser Jr share the same liking of machines, seeing as the two like using machines a lot in games. My head canon is that Bowser has Koopa Kid as a proto Bowser Jr, to see if a son would work out, but something happened to the cloning process and made the Koopa Kid able to do wacky things, like cloning itself. I personally see Bowser Jr and Koopa Kid as separated brothers or something, might be the best reason Nintendo could come up of anyway. I think Koopa Kid will come back, the koopalings and boom boom came back after a long time, even it they’re just minor characters
Ya know, the funny thing about the bowsette meme, is that there's a certain point in the hallway to the Bowser in the Dark World stage in SM64 where the peach picture is only halfway transformed to the bowser picture; and it looks like Bowser in peach's dress.
sokumo tanaka - I don’t understand why Nintendo would change the history of the KOOPA KIDS (from SMB3/SMW) from being Bowser’s kids to being just minions.
Missing in Action “Toadsworth”. Seriously! He was in Sunshine, Paper Mario TTYD, Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga and even Mario Tennis as a ref. What even happened to him?
imagine if in one of Bowser's Castles in the RPG series there was a lab where there were a bunch of these Koopa Kids in tubes and implied to be clones created by a mad scientist of Bowsers'
The Koopaling story retcon will always bother me, because the dynamic between Jr and the Koopalings as siblings and them being Bowser's family made more sense to why they care to work for him. Despite all the Ls taken from Mario. Heck, even Smash Bros kinda plays with the idea still. With how in Palutena's Guidance, it points out that the Koopalings clearly look similar to Bowser and his son.
Bowser: it's time for a little *"FAMILY REUNION!!"* Junior: Yeah!!!! Koopalings: at least we got a least got invited!! ... *Koopa kids watch inside while in the cold outside~*
When i was a kid i tought he was Bowser Jr. And Sunshine only did an upgrade on his design, and when i realized they were different characters, Koppa Kid went missing on action.
I always figured: Baby Bowser was just a Baby Version of Bowser/King Koopa. Koopa Kid was a Kid version of the Kong Koopa race that will grow up to become something like one of the Koopalings. Bowser Jr was always Bowsers only son.
Before I even played Super Mario Sunshine, I had guessed that Shadow Mario was one of Mario Party's Baby Bowsers. Best "Called it!" moment of my gaming childhood.
I'd happily take both Baby Bowser and Koopa Kid (with variants) before more characters in the same vein as Pink Gold Peach, Tanooki Mario, or Ice Luigi.
I dismissed this notification at first, then imediately pulled it back up when I saw it was about Koopa Kid. YOOOOOO, As the only Koopa Kid Stan on the planet, I appreciate you Game Xplain.
My head canon is that the Koopa Kids are clones of Bowser given the european version of the games titles they're called Mini Bowser. As for the Koopalings I headcanon they are all Bowser's children but Junior is the only Biological one
Mario is NOT a war criminal,Goombas are trying to KILL him,they work for Bowser and are members of his army and I have enough of people thinking they're innocent,and I don't care if this is 1 year old or even 10 years old.
Maybe Bowser adopted a bunch of Koopa Kids with the same happening to the Koopalings? With Bowser jr being his actual born son and the others being his adoptive children, and once again showing that Bowser is a great dad.
So I have a small complaint about the video. You guys talk about how when the Mario Party series went over to ND cube, that is when Bowser Jr came to replace Koopa Kid that is untrue. Mario Party DS was the first appearance of Bowser Jr in a Mario Party game and that was developed by Huston Soft.
Bowser Jr. is responsible for all. After learning Peach wasn't his mother, he became very resentful, and embraced the idea of being the only son to his only parent. He blackmailed/bribed the Koopalings into denying their paternity. He engineered a genetic retrovirus that would cause the mystical clone matrix that created the Koopa Kids to destabilize, and they disintegrated. Bowser had considered them quasi-children because they looked like him and shared his DNA. Finally, Bowser Jr., while using a red light toy to confuse Bowser during his times as Meowser by repeatied post-hypnotic suggestions to him that he only ever had one son.
Everyone has that ONE AI player that they hated, and for me, it was Koopa Kid in Mario Party 5 (the one I played most as a kid). It only intensified as I got older and started to appreciate Bowser Jr. more. People constantly get him mixed up with Junior, and I HATE it. It's a huge pet peeve of mine, right up there with people calling Baby Bowser "Bowser Jr" in the Yoshi games.
SapphicSoprano have a played the M&L:BiS remake? Because it’s very clear there that Junior see them as just minions. Minions with the same clout as Kamek, yes, but minions nonetheless.
SapphicSoprano by the end of the adventure, he grows to see them as true comrades and friends though, for part of the postgame he’s shown just chilling out with Roy
I think before Bowser had his one (and only) son Bowser Jr., Bowser had a fostering program taking in homeless Koopa children like the 7 Koopalings and Baby Bowsers/Koopa Kids to become their foster-father. (that's why they all call him their Dad)
I have a theory about Koopa Kid/Mini Bowser's disappearance. At the end of Mario Party 7's Solo Cruise mode, Bowser and Koopa Kid are sent plummeting to a small desert island. My theory is that Bowser fired Koopa Kid and left him stranded there. I sincerely apologize for this messed-up theory.
Huh... that’s my theory too. I wish there was a game about Koopa Kid’s struggles to get off the island, and he eventually does and leaves, sense Nintendo wouldn’t put something that dark happen to a kid
The Mario Team has done a very poor job of separating the two ideas, so I can understand why it would be like that to people who don't go looking into it further. Especially if they played Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time without playing any of the early Yoshi games.
Bini Lover what makes Sm4sh better than Ultimate. Also idk if it’s part of your argument but Sm4sh is also non canon but in terms of appearance in games Tiny was most recently in Ultimate as a spirit. even if it is non canon that’s the most recent game she appeared in
The Koopalings are still Bowser's kids, as far as I'm concerned. Miyamoto wouldn't know good character dynamics if they jumped on his head three times.
I always thought of Koopa Kids as some kind of artificial lifeform, based on their ability to split themselves up into seemingly infinite clones of themselves, as seen in Mario Party 5 and Mario Party Advance. It's presented in an especially 'clinical' way in Mario Party Advance, where the number of Koopa Kids that appear in a minigame is determined by a dice roll, and the main Koopa Kid says "[X] Koopa Kids coming up!" (if I recall correctly) before the game begins, as though conjuring up to 100 identical brothers is just a routine exercise for him. They're some kind of abominable chimerae of science, probably related to the powerful magic practiced by the Koopa clan as described in the manual to the original Super Mario Bros. Further evidence for this theory of mine is the term used to explain the Koopa Kids' relation to Bowser in the original Japanese version of the first Mario Party (the term translated as "Cohort" in English): in Japanese, they are 分身 (bunshin), which can mean child (albeit in a roundabout way - the first definition given in my dictionary is the unusual "parturition", which apparently means the act of childbirth), a branch/offshoot, or an avatar - "one's other self". I'm far from a native speaker of Japanese, but this is exactly the kind of esoteric language I would use to refer to the nature of the Koopa Kids as I understand it: something derived from Bowser, but abstract and unnatural; his progeny, but not his children. They're basically Bowser's homunculi.
There's always the option of adoption. Bowser jr. Might be his biological kid, but maybe he adopted the rest, hence calling them "son", but they still respectfully saying "Mr. Bowser". Same goes for the Koopalings.
No mystery here. Koopa Kids are just Bowser taken from the past. That’s why there are an infinite amount- different timelines. Just like how there are Baby Marios and Baby Luigis. Also it explains how Koopa Kid turns into Bowser in that one game. He’s just hyperaged. And the different color Koopa Kids are just split versions of Koopa Kid. This is also shown when Koopa Kid splits into multiple color versions in that other Mario Party game.
It's unfortunate how the Koopalings were retconned to minions instead of kids. I remember their was a time, when they were his kids and I remember the Mario anime that treated them as such, but with different appearances and different names. But damn, Baby Bowser/Koopa Kid, that's a piece of history forever lost. I'll miss those cute little koopas.
You might have seen me say this on Twitter, but I am all for Koopa Kid coming back. I would have been fine if he was just another playable character while Junior could be an antagonist like his dad. ...However, even with my bias for Koopa Kid, he is objectively quite confusing, especially since Baby Bowser and Bowser Jr. are actively used in modern games. Plus, he is rather obscure. Good video, Derrick.
I'm fine with Koopa Kid being replaced wholesale by Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings. I would love to see old boards reimagined for _Super Mario Party_ as well, likely giving the Koopalings an inroad into the series by taking over his roles.
I would definitely like to see them return, even if it's only for the Mario Party series as I think they have redeeming and charming qualities about them that would warrant their return. As for other things to cover on MIA please do an episode on the Ape Escape series as it's a very charming and fun series that I feel doesn't get enough love.
Koopa Kid is easily my second-favorite forgotten character after Donkey Kong Jr. I love Junior, but Koopa Kid has such a special place in my heart that he's irreplaceable to me. I'd even go as far as to say I'd have preferred Nintendo adopt Koopa Kid's design for Bowser's child in Super Mario Sunshine onward. As for the Koopalings, I liked them back in the '80s and '90s, and I was happy to see them return in 2009's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but I feel they've long overstayed their welcome and have become annoying or bothersome, to the extent that they appeared in the Wii U version of Mario Kart 8 while Junior didn't. I'd scrap them all to bring back Koopa Kid. He's a tiny, younger version of Bowser with feet and no legs. It scarcely gets more adorable and endearing than that!
Koopa Kid grew up and went on his own. At least we can say, Bowser is a good father figure, taking in all of theses kids, and giving them a place they can call home.
Next to Ludwig, Koopa Kid has always been my favorite. I would love to see him comeback but I think he's in a worse situation than DK Jr Bowser Jr - Koopa Kid Diddy Kong - DK Jr
Imagine a boss fight with Bowser, Bowser Jr., all the koopalings, all the koopa kids, and all the other miscellaneous koopas attacking you at one time.
I’m sorry Bowser, your family is in another castle
XD
cringe
A little thing I wanted to point out is that in Mario Party 6, beating the Koopa Kids in a minigame of Solo Mode will sometimes have Bowser go "Koopa Kids, you're a disgrace! That's it... no playing with your Mario action figure for a MONTH!" as if Bowser really is their father. Maybe he really is just a busy guy.
Glad to see this series isn't missing in action.
@@Prince_rub10 what do you mean?
Imagine mario in smash
Ha I see what you did there haha
@@Jack-Oates you deleted your comment
@@soooreal no I didn't? Which comment?
We all know the real truth. Bowser secretly runs an orphanage.
Lol
Or he's Genghis Khan.
Wouldn't surprise me
Knowing how baller of a dad he is, wouldn’t surprise me.
He kidnaps peach because he’s dying to find adopters, and the attention he gets attracts a lot of them.
I legitimately want this character to start appearing in games again
Viven Ayala Did Hudson really own Koopa Kid though? He has mostly Bowser’s design, it it were a completely other character then sure, but Koopa Kid is literally a mini Bowser so I don’t think that’s the reason
@@bowserjr.3353 they probably don't but Nintendo tends to want to use their own designs.
Like, there was an internal debate on what to do with Donkey Kong post-DKC. There is a video (Beta64 I think, maybe DPadGamer) where they show the debug menu and DK has a generic grey outline, seemingly because Nintendo wasn't sure if they wanted to use their design or the Rare design with the red DK tie.
Same. I loved these guys. It's a legit highlight of my childhood when he became playable in one of the GameCube Mario party games.
he won't, tho
Me too
Missing in action - the “missing in action” series
Well, not anymore.
Remember when they branded their cool game bits with “Cool Bits”? Good times.
It's entirely possible that the Koopalings are adopted and similarly just love to raise hell along with Jr.
Chaos89P That has always been my theory
@@peytonjackson855 it has been THE theory. a sort of council of like minded individuals to help out the one true heir to the trone
Chaos89P Nintendo said that they were not Bowser’s kids thus not even being adopted counts
Nintendo really just changed the Koopa Kids to Bowser Jr in the remake of that one Bowser minigame in Mario Party: The Top 100, even they don't want them anymore
DK Family tree vs Bowser’s Real kids?
Which one is more convoluted?
Bowser's family. Dah.
Everyone's love for Kiddy kong is missing in action.
i love him tho
But Chunky Kong is dead. Confirmed dead. Served in the Banana War, didn’t make it.
Let’s get one for our boy with a funny face, Lanky Kong.
Christian Flaherty: Sequel Edition that’s just a theory or to do have any proof
The entire later half of the Kong Family needs one.
@@dukemon6163 chunky Kong can be funny but its overrated by the joke that he's "dead"
Me too. Poor little guy.
I always liked the Koopa Kids. Thank you for acknowledging their existence with this video, I kinda felt like nobody else even remembered them.
Yeah I miss them very much and it breaks my heart that they weren't passed down from HudsonSoft to Nintendo. I love those little guys to pieces.
He left with my dad to get some eReader cards.
My childhood was spent playing koopa kid in Mario Party 6, bring him back please :
Watch how this series goes on hiatus and becomes *MiSiNg In AcTiOn* for like the 3rd time.
You know... Bowser Jr’s arrival and prominence caused a lot of characters to be altered. The Koopalings lost their relationship to Bowser, Bowser’s “Mini Me” Koopa Kid disappeared, and Bowser’s younger self (Baby Bowser) had his design altered to basically be Junior without his bandana. Makes me feel some type of way despite liking the little runt.
speaking of baby bowser, he uses bowser jr's voice but high pitched. in partners in time, baby bowser wears a bib but nothing on it, and his voice was the same as bowser jr because during that time, baby bowser's age is the same age as bowser jr.
Just here to say we still don’t know who Morton Koopa Sr. is.
Sean Bird That shouldn’t be much of a concern. The Koopalings were all named after musicians (mostly modern rock, with some exceptions). This is why why odd names like “Wendy O. Koopa,” “Morton Koopa Jr.,” and “Ludwig von Koopa” exist. That all there is to it.
In addition, Nintendo themselves have basically eliminated their surnames.
@Zachary Rugar @Sean Bird on the flip side, there is the mysterious blue Fake Bowser from Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels. He has been referred to in some media as “Bowser’s Brother,” though this contradicts other supplemental media. Supplemental media in Mario is notorious for being inaccurate, however, so it should all be take with a grain of salt. Especially since Super Mario All-Stars scrubbed the blue Fake Bowser for a normal one, though it still lacked the telltale sign of a Fake Bowser: it didn’t turn into a minion when defeated by fireballs.
Bowser's dad.
Morton Koopa Jr has been renamed to just Morton Koopa. The Jr in his name was completely removed, so there is no Morton Koopa Sr
Bowser Jr. Out of curiosity, in what source material has he been referred to as “Morton Koopa?” The only names I’ve heard are “Morton Koopa Jr.” and simply “Morton.” As I said before, the surnames have mostly been done away with and ignored since SMW, and I know that has Morton’s full name as “Morton Koopa Jr.”
Oh, I know everything about Koopa Kid. I’ve done many hours of research and, well, a lot of the key details of koopa kid were said in this video, but I’ll list a few that weren’t.
In Mario Party Advance, whenever Koopa Kid selects the number of koopa kids, he says “No sweat!” most likely implying Koopa Kid is able to split into however copies of himself he wants, shown in Mario Party 5 aswell. He’s also able to impersonate Npcs like Toad, by putting on a fake costume as a disguise. There’s actually around 100 normal koopa kids, and 90 colored ones (30 red, 30 green, 30 blue) according to Mario Party advance yet again. Koopa Kid and Bowser Jr share the same liking of machines, seeing as the two like using machines a lot in games.
My head canon is that Bowser has Koopa Kid as a proto Bowser Jr, to see if a son would work out, but something happened to the cloning process and made the Koopa Kid able to do wacky things, like cloning itself. I personally see Bowser Jr and Koopa Kid as separated brothers or something, might be the best reason Nintendo could come up of anyway.
I think Koopa Kid will come back, the koopalings and boom boom came back after a long time, even it they’re just minor characters
Nintendo: "We don't know who the mother is."
Also Nintendo: **burying Bowsette memes in a nearby ditch*
Miyamoto himself says that he is the mother.
Ya know, the funny thing about the bowsette meme, is that there's a certain point in the hallway to the Bowser in the Dark World stage in SM64 where the peach picture is only halfway transformed to the bowser picture; and it looks like Bowser in peach's dress.
I like bowsette memes 0/
But Bowsette is just female Bowser.
That meme just makes me want to shoot myself
Koopa Kid: I haven't been around in forever!
Kiddy Kong: Hold my beer.
@@LordDragox412 LOL
LordDragox412 Thanks, Scott Pilgrim!
@@LordDragox412 That makes no sense given that Diddy Kong exists.
anutrof dinky, not diddy
Fact. Kiddy was 3 in DKC3 what came out in 96. So kiddy could legally drink now. If he was real... And a human.
This is the problem with stating info then retconing it later rather than just leaving well enough alone.
sokumo tanaka - I don’t understand why Nintendo would change the history of the KOOPA KIDS (from SMB3/SMW) from being Bowser’s kids to being just minions.
They don't want Bowsette to happen.
**insert joke about this series being missing in action*
@Professor Pro Lol
Didn't Nintendo say in an interview that the Koopa Kids are retired characters? I remember reading that somewhere in 2018.
Part of me is sad they're gone, but the additional screen time the Koopalings have gotten in return has been worth the sacrifice. RIP Koopa Kids...
Missing in Action “Toadsworth”. Seriously! He was in Sunshine, Paper Mario TTYD, Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga and even Mario Tennis as a ref. What even happened to him?
I actually like koopa kids, i hope they come back in the futere in some shape of form.
Daisty and Mont Mole Montansazazee Max.
imagine if in one of Bowser's Castles in the RPG series there was a lab where there were a bunch of these Koopa Kids in tubes and implied to be clones created by a mad scientist of Bowsers'
This is the strangest episode of Maury i’ve ever seen
This video just reminds me ... A Slap in the Face in how good Mario Party games used to be :(
The Koopaling story retcon will always bother me, because the dynamic between Jr and the Koopalings as siblings and them being Bowser's family made more sense to why they care to work for him. Despite all the Ls taken from Mario.
Heck, even Smash Bros kinda plays with the idea still. With how in Palutena's Guidance, it points out that the Koopalings clearly look similar to Bowser and his son.
Bowser: it's time for a little *"FAMILY REUNION!!"*
Junior: Yeah!!!!
Koopalings: at least we got a least got invited!!
...
*Koopa kids watch inside while in the cold outside~*
Missing in action: Rosalina’s mother.
NO STOP
Missing In Action “Fossil Fighters”.
JRC SMASH hahahaha
At least someone *"STILL"* remembers
Shell knight I’m just as surprised as you are seeing your reply.
Oh yeah, the Dinosaur King knock-off
* shots fired *
Oh I remember watching my sister playing it. always wanted to try it
When i was a kid i tought he was Bowser Jr. And Sunshine only did an upgrade on his design, and when i realized they were different characters, Koppa Kid went missing on action.
I always figured:
Baby Bowser was just a Baby Version of Bowser/King Koopa.
Koopa Kid was a Kid version of the Kong Koopa race that will grow up to become something like one of the Koopalings.
Bowser Jr was always Bowsers only son.
Excellent video! A great breakdown of the history of these characters and the conclusion you come to is sound. Very well done.
Before I even played Super Mario Sunshine, I had guessed that Shadow Mario was one of Mario Party's Baby Bowsers. Best "Called it!" moment of my gaming childhood.
I imagine Bowser to be a tender and unselfish lover
Peach is missing out.
@@zigzoinks5493 To be fair Bowser can be kind of a creep -- he needs to be more gentlemanly in how he handles rejection for example hehe.
Baby bowser/Koopa kid would be perfect for Mario Kart, considering how much the franchise loves baby characters
I'd happily take both Baby Bowser and Koopa Kid (with variants) before more characters in the same vein as Pink Gold Peach, Tanooki Mario, or Ice Luigi.
and in smash too, but they're in alternate skins for bowser jr
In reality, these guys were doomed as soon as Bowser Jr. became more prominent.
Haven't forgotten him. If you like the best mario parties you'll remember
I personally really enjoy this series of you guys'. . . Glad to see it back.
Ny headcanon is that the Koopalings are Bowser's adoptive children, and the Koopa Kids are clones that Bowser can create and get rid of at any point.
I dismissed this notification at first, then imediately pulled it back up when I saw it was about Koopa Kid.
YOOOOOO, As the only Koopa Kid Stan on the planet, I appreciate you Game Xplain.
This series has been missing in action
(For like the 4th time)
Koopa kid was my favorite character to play as in MP5, still upset that he hasn't returned.
My head canon is that the Koopa Kids are clones of Bowser given the european version of the games titles they're called Mini Bowser. As for the Koopalings I headcanon they are all Bowser's children but Junior is the only Biological one
"Is anyone gonna do anything about the amount of child labor Bowser uses?"
Considering Mario is a war criminal, that's highly unlikely
Mario is NOT a war criminal,Goombas are trying to KILL him,they work for Bowser and are members of his army and I have enough of people thinking they're innocent,and I don't care if this is 1 year old or even 10 years old.
@@cbfranco3307 Mario drops penguins off cliffs
@@DamnZtar Good one, that is literally uncanon and is something the players do lol.
@@cbfranco3307 how about him kidnapping DK and trying to kill his son for trying to save him? You can’t blame players for that one.
Maybe Bowser adopted a bunch of Koopa Kids with the same happening to the Koopalings? With Bowser jr being his actual born son and the others being his adoptive children, and once again showing that Bowser is a great dad.
Bowser kidnaps monarchs, I doubt he cares about child labor
So I have a small complaint about the video. You guys talk about how when the Mario Party series went over to ND cube, that is when Bowser Jr came to replace Koopa Kid that is untrue. Mario Party DS was the first appearance of Bowser Jr in a Mario Party game and that was developed by Huston Soft.
I never thought about the Koopa Kids being to Hudson as Waluigi is to Camelot.
Missed those Mini Bowser (Koopa kids)
I think Bowser lowkey perfected cloning and slapped that copy button for years.
Bowser Jr. is responsible for all. After learning Peach wasn't his mother, he became very resentful, and embraced the idea of being the only son to his only parent. He blackmailed/bribed the Koopalings into denying their paternity. He engineered a genetic retrovirus that would cause the mystical clone matrix that created the Koopa Kids to destabilize, and they disintegrated. Bowser had considered them quasi-children because they looked like him and shared his DNA. Finally, Bowser Jr., while using a red light toy to confuse Bowser during his times as Meowser by repeatied post-hypnotic suggestions to him that he only ever had one son.
Bowser Jr, He's basically the Joffery of the Super Mario bros universe taking out the others for the best claim to the throne.
Everyone has that ONE AI player that they hated, and for me, it was Koopa Kid in Mario Party 5 (the one I played most as a kid). It only intensified as I got older and started to appreciate Bowser Jr. more. People constantly get him mixed up with Junior, and I HATE it. It's a huge pet peeve of mine, right up there with people calling Baby Bowser "Bowser Jr" in the Yoshi games.
The Koopalings are more like adopted kids of Bowser, since Bowser Jr treats them like siblings
SapphicSoprano have a played the M&L:BiS remake? Because it’s very clear there that Junior see them as just minions. Minions with the same clout as Kamek, yes, but minions nonetheless.
@@hugenose8824 Ah, hadn't played that one. I stand corrected
SapphicSoprano by the end of the adventure, he grows to see them as true comrades and friends though, for part of the postgame he’s shown just chilling out with Roy
@@_cephas_ they r bros...junior comes to accept that his dad has many pseudo-children...
koopalings are bowser's adopted kids.
bowser jr is bowser's only biological child.
I think before Bowser had his one (and only) son Bowser Jr., Bowser had a fostering program taking in homeless Koopa children like the 7 Koopalings and Baby Bowsers/Koopa Kids to become their foster-father. (that's why they all call him their Dad)
Never thought we'd see the day when we'd need to take Bowser to the Maury show to see if he is or is not infact the father.
I have a theory about Koopa Kid/Mini Bowser's disappearance.
At the end of Mario Party 7's Solo Cruise mode, Bowser and Koopa Kid are sent plummeting to a small desert island. My theory is that Bowser fired Koopa Kid and left him stranded there.
I sincerely apologize for this messed-up theory.
Huh... that’s my theory too. I wish there was a game about Koopa Kid’s struggles to get off the island, and he eventually does and leaves, sense Nintendo wouldn’t put something that dark happen to a kid
can u believe there actual people out there that think Bowser Jr is just Bowser from the past and not his son
The Mario Team has done a very poor job of separating the two ideas, so I can understand why it would be like that to people who don't go looking into it further. Especially if they played Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time without playing any of the early Yoshi games.
Please do a missing in action for Tiny Kong, Chunky Kong, and Lanky Kong.
@@lilylopnco
Even then, aside from her appearance as a spirit in Smash Ultimate, she hasn't been seen since Mario Super Sluggers afaik.
@GameAndWatcher96 You play Super Sluggers? I thought it was fun.
And also Kiddy Kong and Swanky Kong.
Bini Lover what makes Sm4sh better than Ultimate. Also idk if it’s part of your argument but Sm4sh is also non canon
but in terms of appearance in games Tiny was most recently in Ultimate as a spirit. even if it is non canon that’s the most recent game she appeared in
Bini Lover it’s better than the shit storm that was smash tour
The Koopa kid were just a prototype of bowser jr.
Glad to see, that i'm not the only one, who misses these fellas. Especially since Koopa Kid was my favourite character to play as in MP5 and MP6.
He left when Bowser started putting Parentel Controls on his and Jr.s Switch
Exactly the video I was looking for!. The Koopa Kids were so much fun in Mario Party 5
it'd be interesting to see Koopa Kid and Bowser Jr interact with each other
The Koopalings are still Bowser's kids, as far as I'm concerned. Miyamoto wouldn't know good character dynamics if they jumped on his head three times.
Dang. This series has been gone so long, it was Missing in Action!
Maybe they could be the antagonist in Mario Party 12 to take revenge on Bowser for firing them.
Koopa Kid should return in a new Mario Party game as Bowser Jr's underlings
I always thought of Koopa Kids as some kind of artificial lifeform, based on their ability to split themselves up into seemingly infinite clones of themselves, as seen in Mario Party 5 and Mario Party Advance. It's presented in an especially 'clinical' way in Mario Party Advance, where the number of Koopa Kids that appear in a minigame is determined by a dice roll, and the main Koopa Kid says "[X] Koopa Kids coming up!" (if I recall correctly) before the game begins, as though conjuring up to 100 identical brothers is just a routine exercise for him. They're some kind of abominable chimerae of science, probably related to the powerful magic practiced by the Koopa clan as described in the manual to the original Super Mario Bros. Further evidence for this theory of mine is the term used to explain the Koopa Kids' relation to Bowser in the original Japanese version of the first Mario Party (the term translated as "Cohort" in English): in Japanese, they are 分身 (bunshin), which can mean child (albeit in a roundabout way - the first definition given in my dictionary is the unusual "parturition", which apparently means the act of childbirth), a branch/offshoot, or an avatar - "one's other self". I'm far from a native speaker of Japanese, but this is exactly the kind of esoteric language I would use to refer to the nature of the Koopa Kids as I understand it: something derived from Bowser, but abstract and unnatural; his progeny, but not his children. They're basically Bowser's homunculi.
This is easily my favorite series on Gamexplain.
12:45 Neither is kidnapping a princess and sending an army to kill someone.
I'd say they're just Bowser's subjects and he's like a father to his people
There's always the option of adoption. Bowser jr. Might be his biological kid, but maybe he adopted the rest, hence calling them "son", but they still respectfully saying "Mr. Bowser". Same goes for the Koopalings.
No mystery here.
Koopa Kids are just Bowser taken from the past. That’s why there are an infinite amount- different timelines. Just like how there are Baby Marios and Baby Luigis. Also it explains how Koopa Kid turns into Bowser in that one game. He’s just hyperaged.
And the different color Koopa Kids are just split versions of Koopa Kid. This is also shown when Koopa Kid splits into multiple color versions in that other Mario Party game.
Koopa kid for smash, uses various capsules for attacks
I wish Koopa Kid wasn’t erased from history.😭
I'm about to end this man's whole career: Bowser Jr. is better
It's unfortunate how the Koopalings were retconned to minions instead of kids. I remember their was a time, when they were his kids and I remember the Mario anime that treated them as such, but with different appearances and different names.
But damn, Baby Bowser/Koopa Kid, that's a piece of history forever lost. I'll miss those cute little koopas.
Bowser Jr, Baby Bowser, and Koopa Kids are all separate entities, yet people always mistake em all as being one and the same
You might have seen me say this on Twitter, but I am all for Koopa Kid coming back.
I would have been fine if he was just another playable character while Junior could be an antagonist like his dad.
...However, even with my bias for Koopa Kid, he is objectively quite confusing, especially since Baby Bowser and Bowser Jr. are actively used in modern games. Plus, he is rather obscure.
Good video, Derrick.
5:35 Popgun Pick-off: "Am I a joke to you?"
Alongside Bowser Jr, the Koopalings are still Bowser's kids in my canon don't @ me.
I'm fine with Koopa Kid being replaced wholesale by Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings.
I would love to see old boards reimagined for _Super Mario Party_ as well, likely giving the Koopalings an inroad into the series by taking over his roles.
I would definitely like to see them return, even if it's only for the Mario Party series as I think they have redeeming and charming qualities about them that would warrant their return. As for other things to cover on MIA please do an episode on the Ape Escape series as it's a very charming and fun series that I feel doesn't get enough love.
Hudson Koopa Kids was pretty strange by Default, but they could return
Rip 1998-2005
Koopa Kid is easily my second-favorite forgotten character after Donkey Kong Jr. I love Junior, but Koopa Kid has such a special place in my heart that he's irreplaceable to me. I'd even go as far as to say I'd have preferred Nintendo adopt Koopa Kid's design for Bowser's child in Super Mario Sunshine onward. As for the Koopalings, I liked them back in the '80s and '90s, and I was happy to see them return in 2009's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but I feel they've long overstayed their welcome and have become annoying or bothersome, to the extent that they appeared in the Wii U version of Mario Kart 8 while Junior didn't. I'd scrap them all to bring back Koopa Kid. He's a tiny, younger version of Bowser with feet and no legs. It scarcely gets more adorable and endearing than that!
@12:45-.-His kingdom, _HiS RULES!!_
I think the Koopalings are just relatives.
13:05 I’m still waiting for a playable Goomba in Mario Kart.
I personally loved these Characters in the Mario Party Games, i always went as them in Mario Party 6, tbh i like their designs more than Bowser Jr
I wonder what bowser does with peach every time he kidnaps her.
This SERIES was missing in action, dudes! Happy to see it back!
And just in time before the decade it was created in ends!
Koopa Kid grew up and went on his own. At least we can say, Bowser is a good father figure, taking in all of theses kids, and giving them a place they can call home.
Next to Ludwig, Koopa Kid has always been my favorite. I would love to see him comeback but I think he's in a worse situation than DK Jr
Bowser Jr - Koopa Kid
Diddy Kong - DK Jr
Imagine a boss fight with Bowser, Bowser Jr., all the koopalings, all the koopa kids, and all the other miscellaneous koopas attacking you at one time.
Koopa Kids: When will we return in the flesh?!
Yaya Panda: You will eventually.
Honestly, I like to think of the Koopalings as Bowser's adopted children, rather than biological ones.
12:41 Peach is just as guilty. I mean, the Toads are kids too aren't they? They're all in diapers for pete's sake.
Some of the Toads have kids, and are able to run actual jobs, so they’re more like adult citizens, but Mario characters have no real age