Fawful

Fawful (Japanese name Gerakobittsu) is a fictional video game character whose sole appearance was in the game '. He is the accomplice to the villainous Cackletta and a large source of the game's comic relief.

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Exactly what Fawful is remains a mystery. He appears 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-like outfit 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 transform's 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.

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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, but whether this means Fawful is truly dead or if this was the result of some astral projection on Cackletta's part is not revealed. Some point out that he is still alive, for his body is recovered in the end credits.

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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.

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