Adult Bowser's Castle is in Dark Land, but that's not the only castle he's ever had. Baby Bowser's Castle was on Yoshi's Island, and the game makes that quite clear. It's not until Partners in Time (where his horns are beginning to grow, indicating that he's older than he was in YI) that he's shown to have a castle anywhere near the Mushroom Kingdom.
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The main entrance was built for sure (punched open with an airship, by the looks of it), but the cavern could easily have been there all along (and just accessed via Warp Pipe) - I doubt Bowser would have built in a Warp Star had he designed the whole place. Anyway, while there's a thunderstom in the Valley of Bowser somehow, the YI castle seems to be outside, but it doesn't fit the perpetually overcast depictions of Bowser's Castle's surroundings in most other games, so rather than Dark Land, I generally feel like it's another nearby island entirely that the Koopas abandon after the destruction of their castle.
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Seeing another mention of "Dragon Koopas" has reminded me of another facecanon I have. Bowser and his family are Boom Booms, which are basically just hefty Koopas with ox-like muzzles and sometimes spikes and/or fire breath. Boom Booms are alternatively known as "Dinosaur Land Koopas" to differentiate them from Mushroom Kingdom Koopas, and that's why Bowser lived on Yoshi's Island during childhood and why Sumo Bros. and Football Charlies are also found in Dinosaur Land, because they're Boom Booms with specific skills.
read the above posts in more detail edit: shellcreepers bite, and my other headcanon is that "shellcreeper" is a racial slur for four-legged koopas
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Imo, there's too many differences between Boom Booms and Dragon-Koopas for them to be the same species, the most major being that Dragon-Koopas have soft belly scutes separated from their carapaces by regular scaled flesh, while Boom Booms (and the closely related Sumo Bro) have wraparound plastrons. They also lack the paired head horns, spiked tail and flexible shells of adult Dragon-Koopas, suggesting there's neoteny in their evolutionary line, making them resemble hornless, small-eyed juvenile Dragon-Koopas (although some youngsters already have horns - hence the other neotenic species, Koopa Kids, have horns too). Sumo Bro are of the same line as Boom Booms (they're definitely sister species), but their single head horn and lightning/fire abilities set them apart from the transformation-magic-specializing Boom Booms (although as seen in Pom Pom, Boom, Booms can have smooth shells like Sumo bros - and unlike Dragon-Koopas).
I still like the idea that "turtle" is a derogatory term for Koopas. I consider Shellcreepers their own species of four-legged colour-changing Koopa - the precursors to Koopeleons, and the descendants of four-legged Koopa Troopas.
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Seeing another mention of "Dragon Koopas" has reminded me of another facecanon I have. Bowser and his family are Boom Booms, which are basically just hefty Koopas with ox-like muzzles and sometimes spikes and/or fire breath. Boom Booms are alternatively known as "Dinosaur Land Koopas" to differentiate them from Mushroom Kingdom Koopas, and that's why Bowser lived on Yoshi's Island during childhood and why Sumo Bros. and Football Charlies are also found in Dinosaur Land, because they're Boom Booms with specific skills.
read the above posts in more detail edit: shellcreepers bite, and my other headcanon is that "shellcreeper" is a racial slur for four-legged koopas
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Imo, there's too many differences between Boom Booms and Dragon-Koopas for them to be the same species, the most major being that Dragon-Koopas have soft belly scutes separated from their carapaces by regular scaled flesh, while Boom Booms (and the closely related Sumo Bro) have wraparound plastrons. They also lack the paired head horns, spiked tail and flexible shells of adult Dragon-Koopas, suggesting there's neoteny in their evolutionary line, making them resemble hornless, small-eyed juvenile Dragon-Koopas (although some youngsters already have horns - hence the other neotenic species, Koopa Kids, have horns too). Sumo Bro are of the same line as Boom Booms (they're definitely sister species), but their single head horn and lightning/fire abilities set them apart from the transformation-magic-specializing Boom Booms (although as seen in Pom Pom, Boom, Booms can have smooth shells like Sumo bros - and unlike Dragon-Koopas).
I still like the idea that "turtle" is a derogatory term for Koopas. I consider Shellcreepers their own species of four-legged colour-changing Koopa - the precursors to Koopeleons, and the descendants of four-legged Koopa Troopas.
okay but where do the Mural Koopas fit into this. since they're meant to be a depiction of what koopas looked like in the past, what evolved into what in terms of them
Bowser has many different identical shells, and he has them in a hidden closet. Then when MK:DD occurred he donated them all to be used as items
oh i love how most items in smrpg have official artworks despite that you never seen them ingame at all
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