Koopa Kid
A Koopa Kid (also known as a Koopaling) is a character from the Mario Brothers series of video games. As far as it is known there eight Koopa Kids - all the children of King Bowser Koopa. The first seven originally appeared in Super Mario Bros. 3. They also appeared in Super Mario World, Yoshi's Safari, and Mario is Missing. They are always bosses of levels.
The Koopa Kids have wild punk hairstyles and dress. It is said that each Koopaling was personally designed by a different member of the production staff of SMB3.
All of the first seven Koopa children are named after celebrities. They are:
- Ludwig Von Koopa is the oldest. In the cartoon series he was named Kooky. He was named after (and resembles) Ludwig van Beethoven.
- Lemmy Koopa is the second oldest. In the cartoons he was named Hip. He was named for Lemmy Kilmister. Lemmy has lazy eye and balances atop a ball.
- Roy Koopa is the third oldest. In the cartoons he was named Bully. He was named after Roy Orbison, and both he and Orbison wear trademark dark sunglasses.
- Iggy Koopa is the fourth oldest. He is bespectacled and blue. In the cartoons, he was called Hop (Lemmy, his brother, was named Hip, a play on hip-hop). He is named after Iggy Pop.
- Wendy O. Koopa is the third-youngest. In the cartoons she was named Cutie Pie. She is the only female Koopa Kid. She was named after Wendy O. Williams.
- Morton Koopa Junior is the second-youngest. He is named after Morton Downey, Jr. and appears to be modled after Paul Stanley of KISS.
- Larry Koopa is the youngest. He was named after Larry King.
In Super Mario Sunshine and the Mario Party series (and Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story, though this is arguable), Bowser had an eighth child named Bowser Junior.
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