Games - Fawful

	Games - Fawful

Fawful (Japanese name 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 large source of the game's comic relief.

Fawful, in Superstar Saga, reveals himself to be a "toadie," which is a branch of the Bean species in the Beanbean Kingdom. He appears at first to be a Bean, but later reveals that he has a pair of bat-like wings. He dresses in a heavy red coat, but changes to a pink ballet 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 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 topknot on his skull (which pops out when he is in his pink underwear).

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.

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!"

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. There is a part in his speech that may hint towards Fawful's involvement in future Mario & Luigi title, as he says something about rising again....

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