Fawful

Fawful in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
Fawful
Species	Bean
Hair color	None
Eye color	Unknown
Debut	Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

Fawful is a hyperactive little green man who originally served as Cackletta's faithful servant. and a recurring enemy in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga before being promoted to serving as the main villain for Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. A technical expert, Fawful has invented a variety of powerful machines, which earned him favor with Cackletta. One of his most often-used inventions is special headgear with rocket jets, a fireball-spewing cannon and a vacuum that can even suck up spirits. However his grammar skills are not as good, and he speaks in sentences such as the infamous "I HAVE FURY!"

Background

In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, he aided Cackletta's most ambitious scheme to steal the Bean Star and use it to, as Fawful says, make "the sandwich of Cackletta's desires". First he helped to steal Princess Peach's voice, which would act as the bread of the sandwich. Then he helped to foil an attempted rescue mission when he battled the Bowser that he hates and two other fink-rats called Mario and Luigi on the Koopa Cruiser- hoping that victory over them would be the mustard on that bread. Although Fawful was defeated by the Mario Bros., he returned in a sneak attack and scuttled their ship.

On arrival in the Beanbean Kingdom, Fawful continued to mar the heroes' progress at Hoohoo Mountain; he kidnapped Prince Peasley and turned the prince into a monster, and he also tried blocking the Mario Bros' path with a stone gargoyle. Afterwards he and Cackletta stole the Bean Star, bringing them even closer to completing the sandwich. At Woohooniversity they were to spread the mayonnaise, only to be struck by misfortune; it ended with them losing the Bean Star and Cackletta's body being destroyed. But his master was not dead yet- Fawful sucked up Cackletta's soul and carried it in his helmet until he found a perfect host body- the Bowser that he hates. Under the new being, Bowletta, Fawful continued to do more dirty work which brought him to confront Mario and Luigi several more times, but they did not fight again until their last battle.

Fawful showed up again in an entrance with drama for his last fight with the Mario Brothers in Bowser's Castle, guarding Bowletta's room. This time Fawful ditched his red cape and headgear, and garbed himself in a skin-tight suit, revealing himself to have bat-like wings. Those brothers had taken too many bites of Cackletta's sandwich, and Fawful could not stand it any longer. He also had a big pre-battle monologue in which he felt his light truly shone like angry sunbeams of rage, but he also realized that he was just Cackletta's toady, which filled him with fear and confusion about the upcoming battle. Needing no long speech, Fawful then engaged his battle with the Mario Brothers, safe within a giant metal dome that shot fireballs and lasers and was immune to everything but its own fireballs. However, the one flaw of the machine was that it would occasionally overheat and cause Fawful to come shooting out- making him vulnerable to attack.

Although he lost the actual battle, Fawful then started a second battle: a battle of comebacks. While Mario and Luigi congratulated themselves over their victory, Fawful jumped to his feet and blasted them back to take advantage of their carelessness. But then Fawful's pride became carelessness, and he was smacked back by Prince Peasley. But Fawful then suffered the same carelessness again in the finale of the finale of the finale, when those fink-rats Mario and Luigi came back and smacked him out of the castle, where he disappeared in a burst of smoke. Some presumed Fawful to have died in this encounter, but Fawful was still alive out there, biding his time- and above all he still had fury.

In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, it is revealed that Fawful has in fact survived and taken up residence in the sewers under Peach's Castle following Cackletta's demise. Hidden within a pipe that only the Baby Mario Bros. could enter, he woefully recounts his tale of defeat by the fink rats who look very similar to the babies before offering to sell them extremely valuable badges for an extremely large amount of beans that they've been digging up throughout the adventure. Fawful claimed to be preparing for a comeback, a prophecy that he would eventually fulfill in the following game.

Trivia

• Fawful has 30 HP during the first band and 500 HP in the second battle.
• In the Japanese version, Fawful is called Gerakobittsu, a play on "geragera", which is an onomatopoeia for obnoxious laughter. This continues the first Mario & Luigi's recurring theme of places and people named after laughter.
• In the final battle with Cackletta in the first Mario & Luigi game, she will occasionally summon an apparition of Fawful, who fires energy from his headgear at the Mario Bros. but is easily defeated.
• In Super Paper Mario, one Sammer Guy named "Mustard of Doom" acts as an homage to Fawful. His speech pattern is identical to Fawful and he uses several of Fawful's quotes, including saying that his sword has fury. After being defeated, he specifically describes his enemy as an "awful" person in another reference to Fawful's name.