Editing Broque Monsieur

|image=[[File:Broque Monsieur MLBIS Artwork.png|230px]]

|latest_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey]]'' ([[List of games by date#2018|2018]])

'''Broque Monsieur''' is a [[Brock]] character in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'', ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]'' and ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey]]''. He speaks English with a thick French accent, and able to speak French itself, as well as Spanish. According to the Japanese official site, he is the [[Mushroom Kingdom]]'s leading [[block]] collector; he is also a collector of block-shaped kittens called [[Blitty|Blitties]]. Broque Monsieur owns a block-shaped dog named [[Broggy]], and manages [[Broque Monsieur's Shop|a store]] where [[Bowser]] (whom he often refers to as "Monsieur Turtle Bits") can shop at to get items and equipment. His name is a pun on the name "Brock" (or the word block) and {{wp|croque-monsieur}}, a French sandwich.

An unknown period of time before the events of ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'', he and [[Broque Madame]] dated, but have since separated. This is revealed when Mario and Luigi chat with her inside her house in [[Blubble Lake]].

While on an island in [[Plack Beach]], cleaning his [[block]] collection, the bridge connecting the island to the beach breaks apart, leaving Broque Monsieur stranded in the ocean on the island. When Bowser walks past the island, he yells for his help, who only does it for a prize offered by Broque Monsieur, the [[Vacuum Block]]. He tells Bowser to grab the rope and pull it. At first, Bowser cannot pull the island any closer, but with the help of [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] on the inside of [[Arm Center|his arms]], he pulls the island back to the shore. As promised, Broque gives him the block, but Bowser complains that it's just a regular block and nothing else. He then fights Bowser to help him master the Vacuum Block technique, rotating his head to make himself look more fierce before the battle commences.

Broque Monsieur fights by using items he gets out of [[? Block]]s. The most frequent of these are [[Mega Mushroom]]s that make him grow giant so he can ram into Bowser. To [[counterattack]], Bowser must punch Broque just as he is about to ram into him, and doing this will knock Broque's body far away from the battlefield, with his head laying on the ground. While Broque's body is trying to get to his head, Bowser can punch the head to gain one [[coin]] each time he hits it. Sometimes, a [[mushroom]] will come out of the block to heal Broque Monsieur for 30 [[Heart Point|HP]]; however, it may go in the opposite direction and heal Bowser instead. A coin can even pop out, which does nothing and wastes Broque's turn. Every time he gets inhaled by Bowser, [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] have a chance of fighting him inside [[Bowser's body]], though he will escape after a few turns. Each time the brothers hit Broque Monsieur, they will receive a coin. After a few more turns, Broque Monsieur will state he is impressed, and announce that the battle is over.

Broque Monsieur appears in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]''. He welcomes Mario, Luigi, and Peach to Pi'illo Island and also provides enemies, which Toadsworth uses to further explain battling. He rotates his head to look more fierce offscreen before the Bros. arrive for this. Once the [[Gromba]]s he unleashes are defeated, he rotates his head to be nice again and states that this was all an act. Broque mentions, upon the bros' arrival, that they are familiar; however, he disregards this. His species, the strong allies; possibly starting to like them, but still finding them crazy for hitting blocks. Also, when the [[Dreambeats]] are playing, he is seen listening to them, making him fall asleep and a [[Dream Orb]] appears.

In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', Broque Monsieur appears as a Novice-class Shield-type primary [[Spirit (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)|spirit]] with one support slot. His artwork is taken from ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''. The spirit raises a fighter's overall power without granting any special effect. Its puppet fighter is [[Pac-Man]], fought on the Battlefield version of the [[Mario Bros. (stage)|Mario Bros.]] stage.

==Language==

*In the Japanese version of the game, he speaks using "{{wp|Engrish}}" words, phrases and sentences fairly often (for instance, in a scene he says "Oh my dog! What's happen!"<ref>「オウ　マイ　ドッグ！／ワッツ　ハップ～～～ン！」</ref>). His trait of adding English sentences was carried over to the Korean version.

*In the English version, as well as the Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese versions, he speaks with a French accent.

*In the European-French version, Broque Monsieur speaks broken French, saying sentences in an English context, using "le" instead of "la", and saying English words sometimes.

*In the Canadian French version, Broque Monsieur speaks stereotypical European French (similar to his portrayal in other translations), due to differences between the French spoken in Quebec and France.

*In the German version, Broque Monsieur speaks correct German, without any accent, but in a noble and polite manner.

===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' spirit===

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|[[File:Broque_Monsieur_MLBIS_Artwork.png|100px]]

|''[[Mario & Luigi (series)|Mario & Luigi]]'' Series

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|Novice

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'''Rule:''' Defense ↑; Item: Blocks

|[[Mario Bros. (stage)|Mario Bros.]] (Battlefield)

|Tough Guy Alert!

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|JapM=A portmanteau of English words "brick" and "block", or the name "Brock"; officially romanized as "Brirock"<ref>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/cljj/character/index.html Official Japanese website for ''Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story'']. Retrieved February 20, 2020.</ref>

|FraA=Monsieur duBloc

|FraAM="duBloc" is a reference to many common French family names starting with "Du", like ''Dubois'' or ''Dupont''.

|FraE=Charlie Bloc

|FraEM=Charlie Block

|ItaM=The French given name ''Luc'' (Luke) and ''blocque'', a distortion of the French "bloc"

|KorM=In Korean, Blocks are called "블록" (Beullok) and it is shown to be spelled similar to English. However, the official romanization is "Brirock", just like the Japanese romanization.