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Palette swap challenge deviantart4/15/2023 ![]() That blue fake is his eighth color in this game!" " A Bowser Impostor?! – In Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Mario fights a blue fake Bowser before the real thing.The Japanese Mario Portal website similarly lists him as a blue Bowser, while the English version lists him as a blue fake Bowser. Encyclopedia Super Mario Bros., which was released around the same time, distinguishes him from fake Bowsers but states that his identity is unknown. Super Mario Pia, a memorial book also written in collaboration with Nintendo, depicts the blue Bowser as a particular fake Bowser. for Wii U, the English text suggests the blue Bowser is a fake while the Japanese version leaves his nature ambiguous. Deluxe, where he is again considered Bowser's brother. After the release of Super Mario All-Stars, he was referred to as a fake Bowser, with the exception being the Prima Games guide for Super Mario Bros. Contradicting one of the original Japanese guides for The Lost Levels (which suggested that he was not a twin), when "Bowser's Brother" is described in Nintendo Power's guide for Super Mario All-Stars it states "Bowser's got a twin". Due to his recoloring from blue to green in Super Mario All-Stars, he is not considered a distinct character from fake Bowsers in the Japanese official guide book. Super Mario Zen Hyakka, a book written in collaboration with Nintendo, describes him as part of the「 王族 おうぞく」( Ō-zoku, literally "King Tribe") and thus a leader of the Koopa Troop and member of Bowser's royal family, along with the Koopalings and Bowser himself. In the character books of the '90s released before the release of Super Mario All-Stars, the blue Bowser is described as being either Bowser's first or younger brother. He is initially mentioned as the first/fake or first/blue Bowser in the Japanese guides of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, which do not specify his relationship to Bowser besides one suggesting that he is not his twin. Similarly, in the Disk System version of the Minus World, due to that level using the underwater color palette, causing all green enemies to turn gray, including the "green" Cheep-cheeps, Bowser appears gray in his appearance in that version of World -1, based on World 1-3. Additionally, defeating a fake Bowser before his color change will result in the enemy acting as his true form to retain this color scheme (such as World 5-4's fake Bowser becoming a Lakitu using the underground/castle color scheme). The same graphical oversight can be seen in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. Because of this, standing near the end of a castle in a way so that Bowser is barely seen on the right-hand side of the screen causes him to appear dark shades of teal, but he will revert back to his correct colors if Mario or Luigi advances any further. This is due to color of Bowser's skin and shell being obtained through a palette swap commonly used in castle sections of the game, except for the part where the axe is loaded. In the original Super Mario Bros., the palette used for castle sections before the final boss battle causes an unintended consequence in which Bowser has the same blue coloration of Bowser's Brother. In World D-4, he replaces his imposter but does not breathe fire.īlue-colored versions of Bowser distinct from Bowser’s Brother Įven though these blue-colored versions of Bowser likely affected the depiction of Bowser's Brother, they are not stated to be him. reuses World 8-4 and World D-4 from The Lost Levels, so Bowser's Brother and his imposter also return.īowser's Brother returns in the Super Mario All-Stars remake of The Lost Levels, where he is colored identically to Bowser, though an unused color palette shows him with his blue color scheme, as well as magenta hair. In World D-4, however, a fake version of him appears that only breathes fire, being revealed as a Spiny when defeated with fireballs.Īll Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. While distinguished from Bowser by the color of his skin and shell (brown and deep cyan, respectively), defeating him with fireballs does not reveal him as one of Bowser's minions, making him distinct from the fake Bowsers. He reappears alone in World 9-3, but does not breathe fire. ![]() There, he appears before the fight with Bowser in World 8-4, where he tries to stop Mario or Luigi by throwing hammers at them and breathing fire. Bowser's Brother makes his first appearance in the Family Computer Disk System version of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. ![]()
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