Fawful

Fawful
Super Mario series character
File:Fawful.jpg Fawful artwork for Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
First game	Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga - 2003
Created by	AlphaDream

Fawful (ゲラコビッツ, Gerakobittsu) is a fictional video game character who appears in the game Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and its sequel, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. He is the accomplice to the villainous Cackletta and a source of the game's comic relief. Template:Spoiler Fawful, in Superstar Saga, reveals himself to be a "toadie," which is basically a lackey. He appears at first to be a Bean, but later reveals that he has a pair of bat-like wings, possibly meaning that he experiments on himself. He dresses in a heavy red coat, but changes to a pink flying suit in the final battle to increase his mobility. Fawful appears to be something of a psychopath, and is definitely a mad scientist-type character. His eyes are spirals behind his large spectacles, and he has a grating habit of giggling dementedly at inappropriate times. His main weapon is his "headgear", a large mechanical helmet, suctioned onto his head, that allows him to fly and fire energy blasts. Fawful's headgear also has the seemingly magical ability to transfer different things into a form of energy in a tank, which he can then imbue into other things. This is how he steals Princess Peach's voice at the start of the game, and later transforms Cackletta's body (weakened from battle) into a sentient cloud, which Fawful then injects into Bowser, possessing him and turning him into Bowletta. Fawful also has the ability to fire electric bolts from the yellow orb on his skull (which pops out when he is in his pink underwear). The yellow orb could be more proof that he experiments on himself, because in previous scenes where he is not wearing his headgear, there is no orb.

Mario and Luigi encounter Fawful several times throughout the game, and Fawful either battles the brothers or finds some way to impede their progress. Fawful is the final opponent Mario and Luigi face before the final battle with Cackletta, attacking from a gigantic robot. After Fawful is defeated (and a bit of byplay with Prince Peasley), the Mario Brothers knock the little miscreant clean out of the castle with their hammers. In the final battle with Cackletta's spirit, Cackletta occasionally summons a ghostly version of Fawful, which, for a time, caused debate over if he had survived his fall from Bowser's Castle. As proved in Partners in Time, however, he was knocked all the way to the mushroom Kingdom and charshed through the ground to the sewers of Peach's Castle.

Fawful has found fame as one of the more quotable characters in the game, as he has a bizarre grasp of the English language, turning basic sentences into nonsense. In fact some consider his speech patterns to be one of the game's many in-jokes (in this case, a reference to the days of the NES, when translation was poor; check the article on Engrish for more information). For example, he shouts "Fink-rat! Have you readiness for this?" in his first battle with the Mario Brothers. His catchphrase is "I HAVE FURY!" He also commonly uses the phrase "fink-rat", and his "mustard of doom" speech on the Koopa Cruiser at the beginning of Superstar Saga is among the most popular quotes in the game.

Cameos

Fawful would make a return cameo appearance in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, thus proving that Fawful did, indeed, survive what happened back in Superstar Saga. He is now a merchant below Peach's castle in the present. The shop can be accessed by tunnelling under the pipes as the babies. Here, he will trade beans for valuable badges. While Fawful does speak of the events in Superstar Saga, he never mentions Cackletta and he refers the Mario Bros. as Red and Green. He, apparently, still despises them, but doesn't clue in to the fact that the babies are their younger selves and does business with them all the same. As Fawful has catch phrases such as "I have fury" and "fink-rat" in Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, he also humorously uses the phrase "drizzeled rage dressing on the salad next door, rage dressing on a salad of evil" the first time you see him as the babies. That is a reference to Cackletta and himself trying to take over Beanbean Kingdom (the salad next door.)

See also

• Beanbean Kingdom
• Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga