I think the frankenstein monster could work for Bowser, i mean it's heavily implied he can ressurect the dead, so having him summon a frankenstein monster made of previous bosses would make sense.
If we talking undead (Not sure if he consider a Zombie or not) I think Dry Bowser could have some uses in that department. Would be interesting if he was a past king or related to Bowser but with out him being Bowser himself. Mario Party Island Tour stated that he related to Bowser by Bowser himself. And god know what other experiment Kemek as left behind.
Would rather go to Waffle Kingdom than this Mushroom crap.
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Zombies also appear in Super Mario Land 2, particularly Pionpis from Super Mario Land 2. Dry Bones and Dry Bowser are also pretty zombie-like, though.
It would be funny if the twist WAS that Dry Bowser was a former Koopa King, now that I think about it. It would definitely make Dry Bowser's character more interesting, but of course, Nintendo isn't clever enough.
Tbh, i alway through that Dry Bowser is an alternate universe Bowser.
I mean the moment he truly started to be recurring was with SM3DL release and guess where you find him ? In some kind of alternate universe Mushroom Kingdom.
He even guard an alternate dimension in NSMB2 (World Star) and emerge through a portal in Paper Jam.
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That the problem, Nintendo doesn't want to do anything with him but extra boss battle that usually mimics Bowser. They could do a lot with him if they gave some attention but not he's literally rotting away.
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I personally don't mind the predictability in Nintendo if for nothing else that I don't think it's out of laziness, I think that for them it's a shtick. But that's obviously not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I think they genuinely find it funny to watch Bowser get thwarted from the same lame scheme. But as it's been pointed out, that's certainly not the only scheme he's had, it's just the most prevalent.
To be fair, all of Bowser's battles have been different in the 3D Mario games so far. And even in the 2D ones, the second stage of the battle has been different in every installment.
So while his plans aren't original, his methods of trying to kill Mario and co are surprisingly so.
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I really don't see what people complain about Bowser do the same thing. He really has only one goal and it would weaken his Character if he suddenly not what he strive to do. He's persistent and take one hell of a beaten and still get up and try again. It's not like he hasn't learn from his mistakes, he does tweak his plans here and there. Is he a deep villain? Not really. He pretty simple for the most part, his back story has more interesting things but is very vague about it too. Bowser is meant to be a simple villain is a basic good vs Evil type things. Only in the RPG does he get more experimental development mostly due to the nature of the genre. I'll say he does his job well he not may fav due to lack of characters outside of the Evil King shtick but he gte points for trying.
He did unexpected stuff there. He tricked the bros into helping a fake Princess Peach, got to the Dream Stone first (and never let go of it), completely outdid Antasma in terms of villainy and got incredibly genre savvy in his giant boss battle. Heck, the whole first half/three quarters of the game was Bowser and Antasma winning at everything and the bros getting curbstomped. It's like everything the heroes did failed and everything the villains did succeeded, which was nice to see.
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True my only complain about them is that they didn't got much screentime (specially Antasma) and Antasma got a rather shoddy end (no rant, no epic death, he just inflate and explode)
I did like the twist about how Bowser turned the tables and became the final boss but i didn't like about how underwhelming Antasma was in the end.
Hence why i hope AlphaDream will bring him back and give him more characterization.