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A spiky turtle king who kidnaps a princess, loses, and gets invited to her birthday anyway.
means A bowser is a fuel-dispensing pump, especially the pump itself at a petrol/gas station — a word still common in British, Australian, and New Zealand English.
from Comes from the Bowser & Co. company, which in the late 1800s manufactured one of the first practical kerosene and gasoline pumps — the inventor Sylvanus Bowser lent his surname to the machine itself. Over time 'bowser' became a generic trademark, the way 'hoover' did for vacuum cleaners, sliding from brand name into everyday noun. The Mario villain Bowser is an unrelated naming choice by Nintendo, not a nod to the fuel pump.
- real name
- Koopa, technically a surname
- kid count
- seven children, one favorite, Bowser Jr.
- job security
- defeated hundreds of times, still employed as villain
- actual power move
- married Peach in Odyssey's wedding chapel