Lemmy Koopa
Lemmy in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. | |
Lemmy Koopa | |
Species | Koopa |
Hair color | Rainbow |
Eye color | Black |
Relatives | Bowser (father), Koopalings (siblings) |
Voiced by | Lani Minella (2009) |
Debut | Super Mario Bros. 3 |
Despite his diminutive size, Lemmy Koopa is Bowser's second-oldest child whom he often uses as a pawn in his schemes along with his other varied siblings. He is an athletic Koopa whom often acts as a jester.
Background
In Super Mario Bros. 3, Lemmy received an airship for the invasion of the Mushroom World, which he used to attack the Iced Land and steal their king's magic wand, wielding it in battle after using it to transform the king into a creature (a seal in the original version and a Monty Mole in the advanced remakes). In battle, he was unique in that he battled with a giant circus ball that he balanced himself upon and occasionally tossed at Mario or Luigi. However, he was still defeated in battle and forced to surrender the wand.
Lemmy was then part of the invasion on Dinosaur Land in Super Mario World, where he was the third boss in charge of the Vanilla Dome, holding a friend of Yoshi's captive. In this game, he would pop out of one of a series of Warp Pipes in a room at random along with a decoy, while a fireball bounced around the room. Mario or Luigi had to stomp on the real Lemmy three times to knock him through the pipe and into the lava below, defeating him. When Bowser stole the twelve magic crystals of Jewelry Land during Yoshi's Safari, Lemmy was put in charge of the Red Crystal at the Grassland. Lemmy fought Mario and Yoshi within mechanical armor. After the machine was destroyed, Lemmy tried hiding behind a shield, but he still got beaten.
After a long absence, the Koopalings returned when Bowletta called them into action to eliminate the Mario Brothers in Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga. Lemmy is the third Koopaling to battle the brothers, and this time he unveils a new trick, as he creates flawless dopplegangers of himself (which are actually Goombas in disguise). Once more he meets defeat at the brothers' hands.
In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Lemmy returns with an orange shell and a ponytail. The collective Koopalings kidnap Peach on her birthday and escape for their home in an airship. Along the way, Bowser Jr. drops the Koopalings off at fortresses to slow down Mario and co., with Lemmy being left at the World 3 fortress. When Mario arrives, Lemmy shows off his acrobatics on his circus ball before attacking with a new magic wand that creates duplicates of the ball. Lemmy is defeated, but escapes to the World 3 castle for a rematch. This time he receives help from Kamek, who enchants his ball to make it giant. Lemmy loses again and heads home on foot along with the other Koopalings, where they find a fallen Bowser. They help him up, only to have Bowser's Castle fall on top of them.
Other Appearances
Video Games
- Lemmy and the other Koopalings are featured as bosses in the licensed game Hotel Mario. In Hotel Mario, he is the boss of Lemmy's High-ate Regency Hotel, where he attacks Mario with paper planes while flying to different floors of the hotel using a jetpack, and can only be defeated by closing all the doors of the hotel.
- Despite being the only Koopaling absent from all versions of Mario is Missing!, the PC version references his absence by saying that he is out playing in the snow of Antarctica rather than helping Bowser with his scheme by acting as a miniboss.
Other Media
- Lemmy and the other Koopalings appear in the "Momotaro" and "Snow White" shorts of Amada's Super Mario OVA, where Lemmy and the other Koopalings act as minions of Bowser whom Mario defeats in a group in order to reach him.
- Lemmy and the other Koopalings are featured in the animated series The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World as Bowser's primary minions. In this incarnation Lemmy was named Hip and his twin brother was Hop, together being the youngest of the Koopa Kids in this incarnation as well as being notorious pranksters.
- Lemmy appeared in the Super Mario comics of the Nintendo Comics system as well as the Nintendo Adventure books, where he was shown as one of the least intelligent and competent Koopalings, despite being the only one who could understand the pictures that Larry used to communicate.
- Lemmy also appeared with his siblings in the Super Mario Adventures comic, where they aided Bowser in another of his schemes and usually appeared as a group rather than being battled individually.
Canceled Appearances
- Unused sprites of Lemmy and the other Koopalings were found in Super Princess Peach, indicating that they were intended to appear in the game as bosses but were removed at some point in the game's development.
Trivia
- Lemmy is probably named after Lemmy Kilmeister of the band Motorhead.
- In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Lemmy has 380 HP.