Natural selection begins at home.
Was Bowser Jr. a pointless addition to the cast?
Juan Torres
Nolan Robinson
Like, it was a terrible idea in the first place to introduce a new son for Bowser.
Firstly because it directly demanded the question of A) who his mother was, which was a plot point of the game he was introduced to, B) how do Koopas give birth C) where are the female koopas (of which none were hard canon at the time of Sunshine).
It also made Peach look like a dumbass/whore in Sunshine for not instantly telling them that she was not the mother.
It also was an incredibly tone deaf addition because fans loved and wanted back the Koopalings, and until that time the Koopalings had been Bowsers canon kids, and each had a ton more personality than Jr did at that stage.
And in an ensemble cast as big as the Mario games, I think people didn't like a annoying new character suddenly introducing itself and sucking up basically all plot related screen time. If you were a fan of Mario games you already had a favorite character, and you wanted to see them get the focus, not some brat.
Lucas Young
yes
Evan Bailey
I'm still surprised that there hasn't been /ss/ comics between him and Peach.
Christian Cooper
>Firstly because it directly demanded the question of A) who his mother was, which was a plot point of the game he was introduced to, B) how do Koopas give birth C) where are the female koopas (of which none were hard canon at the time of Sunshine).
You can apply most of those to the Koopalings. The only difference is that the question of their mother was never a plot point (and this is a universe where storks exist)
>It also was an incredibly tone deaf addition because fans loved and wanted back the Koopalings, and until that time the Koopalings had been Bowsers canon kids, and each had a ton more personality than Jr did at that stage.
The Koopalings suffered a worse case of "Luigi Syndrome" - due to the change in how the games worked, it was hard to readd them to the series. Stuff like Super Princess Peach's unused data and the e-reader stuff shows that Nintendo at least tried to keep using them in some ways until NSMBW properly introduced them.
>And in an ensemble cast as big as the Mario games, I think people didn't like a annoying new character suddenly introducing itself and sucking up basically all plot related screen time. If you were a fan of Mario games you already had a favorite character, and you wanted to see them get the focus, not some brat.
>Mario games
>Plot
Sunshine has the most (main) plot and even then, it gives up all pretenses after Pinna Park.
Junior as himself and not Shadow Mario only shows up in three cutscenes: The reveal and the two ending ones.
>It also made Peach look like a dumbass/whore in Sunshine for not instantly telling them that she was not the mother.
Probably the most justifiable and, given the retcon, she's probably shocked Bowser has a kid in general.
Nathaniel Smith
Bowsette Jr?
Lucas Taylor
No because he led to /ourslut/ being introduced
James Sanders
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Eli Allen
I hated him at first but he's one of my favorite mario characters these days. From a character standpoint he's got a lot of personality and from a gameplay standpoint he fills a niche of being the "Dr. Eggman" type character that always fights in some kind of machine or robot.
It took him a while to find his footing though. His debut in Sunshine was fucking cringe and he felt like a lackluster Koopaling in NSMB. I think he's been helped by a lack of overexposure. He's not 100% guaranteed to appear in a Mario game like Peach or Bowser, so his appearances are a little more fresh.
Colton Ross
She predates Jr. by two console generations.