Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Fawful (Super Mario) – DEATH BATTLE! Analysis

Background

Fawful is a Beanish villain who followed the witch Cackletta. Cackletta sought to rule over the Beanbean Kingdom and Mushroom Kingdom by using the Beanstar, a magical artifact that can grant anyone’s wishes. To do this, Fawful helped her in a variety of tasks, such as stealing the voice of Princess Peach. However, after Mario and Luigi defeated Cackletta, it was Fawful who helped revive her by putting her soul into Bowser, creating Bowletta.

Once the Mario Bros. infiltrated Bowser’s Castle in order to stop Bowletta, Fawful encountered them and told them his realization that the reason for Bowletta’s successes and revival was because of him. Despite being defeated by the two plumbers, he wanted to be more than just a lackey. After Bowletta’s final defeat, Fawful devised a plan of his own to rule the world using another powerful artifact called the Dark Star, which proved to be quite challenging for the Mario Bros. and Bowser to overcome.

More Info
  • Race: Beanish
  • Speaks Engrish
  • Mad genius
  • Insert fury and chortles here
  • Owns a railway
  • Has surprisingly good culinary skills
  • Once turned Princess Peach’s Castle into a Transformer

Equipment

Vacuum Helmet
A helmet with rockets on each side and a vacuum on top that lets Fawful fly around in the air and suck in things. It can even fly and fight on its own, take people’s voices, create a suction beneath it to get Fawful to wear it much more easily, absorb energy, steal items from enemies, and atomize a body to suck up a person’s soul. Besides flying and sucking in things, it can also tackle or spin into things, shoot electrical blasts that stun enemies, release souls so that they can possess bodies, turn into a pair of binoculars, spray gases that brainwash others or heal, grab onto objects for Fawful to swing around on, capture enemies and drag them around or spin with them to make them dizzy, and fire energy blasts that make enemies dizzy. Fawful has many Vacuum Helmets, and can call another down when one gets destroyed.

Ray Guns
Fawful carries two types of ray guns, each one being used for different circumstances. The first one is for combat, letting him shoot circling star projectiles that hover in the air before descending on enemies and can lower their defense if they’re hit. All of the stars can be gotten rid of though if the red star shot out is destroyed, though it will turn purple to fake others out. If any other purple star is attacked, it blows up to punish them. Fawful’s second ray gun is used for utility, letting him take things out of a person’s body and imbue and power up others with ice.

Wingsuit
An outfit with wings, giving Fawful the ability to fly by flapping them. It also has an antenna, which lets him fire off electrical bolts. These bolts can stun others and even delay their landing or move slowly to trick them into mistiming their counterattacks. And after charging up for a bit, Fawful can send out a powerful electrical beam from the suit that sweeps across the area in front of him.

Dome
A mechanical dome that Fawful can hide in to protect himself from attacks. It can also attack by shooting controllable eye beams or creating up to eight energy balls and guiding them around itself by spinning, though the latter will cause the machine to overheat so much that Fawful has to exit it due to how hot it is.

Fawfulized Block
A block resembling Fawful that flies by using two rockets. Fawful can use many of these to restrict his enemies’ movements so that they’re more likely to get hit by his attacks. They can easily be destroyed when hit repeatedly though.

Flying Platform
A rocket-powered platform that Fawful uses to fly around while standing. It can also fire energy projectiles.

Fawfulcopter

Dark Star
An artifact dug up in the Mushroom Kingdom several years ago. It contains great power, and it’s said that evildoers who get ahold of this malevolent star will plunge the world in darkness and rule it. It is actually sentient, meaning it can fly on its own and has several other abilities. The Dark Star can tackle into enemies, summon lightning, turn into particles of dark energy to enter the bodies of others, create auras that suffocate enemies, duplicate itself, increase its size, surround itself in a dark barrier, cover the area in a dark fog that it can disappear into when approaching enemies, create bombs, take out enemies’ shadows that it can attack to hurt whoever it came from, shoot out electricity or electrical orbs, use telekinesis, fire thin beams that lower defense, create orbs of energy that it launches from above by spinning itself into them, turn into gas, charge up before firing off a powerful laser that poisons enemies, and suck in enemies to deal a ton of damage as a last-ditch effort upon being defeated. It can also create Dark Satellmites, which attack by firing lasers and self-destructing when defeated. They can also heal the Dark Star and raise its defense. But most importantly, the Dark Star can consume and copy the DNA of others, letting it take their shape and gain their abilities. This is what led to the creation of Dark Bowser.

After absorbing half of the Dark Star’s power using his Vacuum Helmet, Fawful transforms into Dark Fawful. This form boosts his strength, speed, and durability, as well as giving him new abilities. He can levitate, summon and manipulate the placement of portals, and create dark energy balls that can be sent through his portals or hover around to protect him, setting those who get too close aflame before being launched at enemies. The energy balls can also lower their defense.

When defeated, Fawful will turn into a shadowy bug-like creature, becoming helpless on his own. However, if he goes into the Dark Star, the artifact regains its full power, making Fawful carry the Dark Star Core, its weak spot. While inside or outside of the Dark Star, he can heal it should it be low on health. Also, while he is the source of power for it, and can be knocked out of it by force, he isn’t completely defenseless when fighting on his own. With the Dark Star Core attached to him, Fawful has gained many new abilities. He can increase his size drastically, grab enemies and create rings of stars, shroud the area in a dark fog that he can teleport in, detach the Dark Star Core to attack with both it and himself, charge up before firing off a massive laser, generate dark energy through his arms, swing and drag around a dark arrow before increasing its size and launching it forward to make enemies dizzy, and spin dark energy balls around himself that move up and down. The latter attack’s dark energy balls can also be absorbed by the Dark Star Core in order to fire off a dark arrow.

Despite these new powers, Fawful’s limbs can be destroyed to make it easier for enemies to attack the Dark Star Core, though the core can regenerate them. He is also weaker than the full power of the Dark Star, but the core can also suck Fawful into it before flying off to return to it. Should the Dark Star Core be destroyed, the Dark Star will weaken and be left wide-open, though the core exiting it won’t weaken it. Even after that, Fawful can self-destruct to take his enemies down with him.

Powers & Abilities

Captain Commands
Special abilities that Fawful can perform to aid both himself and the minions he’s leading. To perform these, he must spend Captain Points, or CP. Fawful can hold up to 10 CP, and he regains some after winning a battle. Fawfulcopters can also use these. The following is a list of all the Captain Commands Fawful and Fawfulcopters can perform:


Fury
A special condition Fawful goes into when his health is low. While in it, his power, defense, and speed increase and he will attack more frequently. The power increase from this also affects his equipment. The condition lasts until Fawful is defeated. The Dark Star and Dark Star Core can also go into this condition.

Feats

Strength

Speed

Durability

Training & Experience

Weaknesses

Fawful is physically very weak and relies on his equipment in a fight. Even then, some of his equipment has flaws. His dome can overheat and cause him to leave it, the blocks used to restrict enemies can be broken very easily, and Fawfulcopters are mostly used for communication rather than fighting. Also, his Vacuum Helmet’s brainwashing gas can be overcome if one has a strong will. Fawful himself is crazy, and can sometimes give hints to his enemies by complete accident. He is also overconfident and underestimates his enemies. And while Captain Commands are useful, Fawful and his Fawfulcopters can only use one if they have enough CP, which doesn’t recover until after they win a battle.

Lastly, while the Dark Star is incredibly powerful, it also has its fair share of weaknesses. When Dark Fawful is defeated, he turns into a shadow bug-like creature and becomes very vulnerable if he doesn’t rejoin with the Dark Star. The Dark Star Core is also a very big weak point. While Fawful will protect it, his limbs can be destroyed for enemies to reach the core much more easily. And if it’s destroyed, the Dark Star will weaken and be left wide-open.

Summary

Advantages
  • Can suck up voices, energy, items, and souls with his Vacuum Helmet
  • Vacuum Helmet can brainwash others and heal him
  • One of his ray guns takes things out of people’s bodies
  • His dome protects him from many types of attacks
  • Blocks can restrict an enemy’s movement
  • Can attack at multiple angles using his Fawfulcopters or the Dark Star
  • The Dark Star has many powerful abilities and also gives him access to other forms
  • Captain Commands can help control the flow of battle
  • Automatically becomes stronger, tougher, and faster via Fury when low on health

Disadvantages
  • Physically very weak
  • Some of his equipment has flaws to them
  • Vacuum Helmet’s brainwashing gas can be overcome if one has a strong will
  • Can accidentally give hints to enemies
  • Is overconfident and can underestimate enemies
  • Can only use a Captain Command if he or his Fawfulcopters have enough CP, which doesn’t recover until after a battle is won
  • Becomes vulnerable once defeated as Dark Fawful
  • Limbs can be destroyed while protecting the Dark Star Core
  • The Dark Star Core’s destruction weakens the Dark Star and leaves it wide-open

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