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A Koopa Kid — also known as a Koopaling, although this term usually refers to the first seven Koopa Kids that appeared in Super Mario Bros. 3 — is a character from the Super Mario Bros. series of video games. As far as it is known, there are eight Koopa Kids, all of them children of Bowser Koopa. Nothing else is known about their origins. The first seven originally appeared in Super Mario Bros. 3, and subsequently appeared in Super Mario World, Yoshi's Safari, Mario Is Missing!, and Hotel Mario. More recently, they appeared in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, and are confirmed for inclusion in the soon to be released New Super Mario Bros. They are always world bosses, except for Mario & Luigi, in which they are minibosses in Bowser's castle. Oddly, in their appearance in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the Koopa Kids never speak. The eighth Koopa Kid is Bowser Jr., who first appears in Super Mario Sunshine, and in later Mario spin-off games like Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and the various Mario sports games; promotional art shows that he will also be in New Super Mario Bros., making it the first game to feature all eight Koopa Kids.

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 Super Mario Bros. 3. Explains Shigeru Miyamoto: "This is another way we give recognition to the many people who help make the games successful." Nintendo did not initially name them for their debut in the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 3. It has been speculated by fans that the game's American translator at Nintendo of America named them after western celebrities.

In the Mario cartoons, the original seven Koopa Kids were given different names, either to reduce the amount of money the show's producers, DiC, had to spend to reserve the rights to copyrighted character names, or because the characters were not officially named before the show started production. In a similar fashion, the Koopa Kids' father, Bowser, is almost always referred to as "King Koopa", in which this is how Bowser is known in Japan.

Ludwig von Koopa

Ludwig von Koopa resembles and is probably named after Ludwig van Beethoven, because they are both composers. (According to in-game text in Super Mario World, Ludwig composes "Koopa symphonies" in his castle.) He first appeared in Super Mario Bros. 3 as the boss of the seventh world, the Pipe Land. The game's official player's guide claims that he is Bowser's "second-in-command", and he has the powers of his sister and brothers, including multiple blasts from his wand and ground-shaking stomps. In Super Mario World, Ludwig is boss of the Twin Bridges area. He is the oldest of the Koopalings (Not to mention the Genius of the Kids).

In a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book, Ludwig kidnapped Princess Toadstool to be in his dance recital, but she was saved by the Mario Bros.

In the cartoon series, he was named Kooky von Koopa and was the typical mad scientist character, inventing wicked devices for his dad, Bowser to use, such as a time machine to help prevent the Mario Brothers from even coming to the Mushroom Kingdom — because, in the series, the brothers were from Brooklyn, New York, in the "real world" — or a robot look-alike of Princess Peach that was programmed to turn the Mushroom Kingdom over to Bowser. Kooky's German-accented voice was provided by Michael Stark. The only major physical difference between Ludwig and Kooky is that Kooky has untamed hair.

Lemmy Koopa

Lemmy Koopa has rainbow hair, a lazy eye, and balances atop a rubber ball (His Dream is to be in the Circus). In Super Mario Bros. 3, Lemmy was the boss of the sixth world, Ice Land. In "Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga", he was the third koopaling to fight Mario and Luigi. In Super Mario World, Mario fought him in the subterranean Vanilla Dome area. In Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and "Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga", Lemmy's fighting style matched that of his sister, Wendy.

In the cartoons he was named Hip Koopa and he often hung out with his similar-looking brother Hop (Iggy). The two of them shared most of their sentences (a la Donald Duck's nephews) and were usually seen pulling pranks. There are three major differences between Lemmy and Hip: Hip's hair is far thinner; Hop has an overbite; and while Lemmy is the second oldest Koopa Kid, Hip and Hop are twins and are also the youngest of the bunch. He was voiced by Tara Strong.

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