Editing Kings

{{about|the kings in ''Super Mario Bros. 3''|other uses of the term|[[King]]}}  

|image=[[File:SMA4 Mushroom Kings.png|230px]]

|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' ([[List of games by date#1988|1988]])

{{quote|Oh thank heavens! I’m back to my old self again. Thank you so much. Here is a letter from the princess.|Kings|Super Mario Bros. 3}}

==History==

===''Super Mario Bros. 3''===

[[File:Air Assault.jpg|left|thumb|The transformed Water Land king pointing at the Koopalings' airship in ''Super Mario Bros. 3''.]]

To save a king, the Mario Bros. have to go to his castle, where the Toad pleads the heroes to restore the king by taking the magic wand back from the Koopaling. After that, Mario and Luigi must assault the [[airship]], defeat the Koopaling, and return the king back into his human shape. He thanks the Mario Bros. for saving him, and he delivers a letter from [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] enclosed with a "jewel" (or [[List of power-ups|power-up]]). If the player manages to restore the kings to their human forms while wearing a special suit, then they get different rescue dialog for each different suit. This continues until the brothers reach the forbidden kingdom of [[Dark Land]], where [[Bowser]] ended up holding the princess hostage.

In ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', if the player defeated Bowser before saving the kings, upon selecting the castle, the player is treated to a cutscene where it shows the Koopaling of the respective world invading the castle, snatching the magic wand and using it to transform the king, and then escaping seconds before Mario arrives. In addition, because Princess Toadstool has already been saved beforehand, the king does not give the player a letter from her.

Each king had been transformed into a creature of some sort by the Koopalings:

*[[Grass Land]] king – Turned into a dog (a [[Cobrat]] in the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] and [[Game Boy Advance]] remakes).

*[[Giant Land]] king – Turned into a dinosaur ([[Donkey Kong Jr.]] in the SNES and Game Boy Advance remakes).

*[[Sky Land]] king – Turned into a vulture (an [[Albatoss]] in the SNES and Game Boy Advance remakes).

*[[Ice Land]] king – Turned into a seal (a [[Monty Mole]] in the SNES and Game Boy Advance remakes).

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===''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3''===

''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'' created personalities for several rulers. Many, if not all, of them also looked different.

*[[Prince Hugo]] – the new ruler of Giant Land (likely making him different from the king seen in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'')

*The [[Sultan]] – the ruler of a [[Desert Land#The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3|palace]] that may be in Desert Land

===''Super Mario'' Kodansha manga===

[[File:SMB3 Kings KC Mario.png|200px|thumb|left|The kings seen in the first 4koma volume]]

==Gallery==

Grasslandking.png|Sprite of the Grass Land king (GBA)

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<gallery caption="Desert Land king">

SMB3-NES-DesertKing.png|Sprite of the Desert Land king (NES)

SNES King of Desert Land.png|Sprite of the Desert Hill king (SNES)

SMAS SMB3 Desert Hill King Screenshot.png|In the throne room (SNES)

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<gallery caption="Water Land king">

SMB3-NES-WaterKing.png|Sprite of the Water Land king (NES)

Seasideking.png|Sprite of the Sea Side king (GBA)

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<gallery caption="Giant Land king">

SMB3-NES-GiantKing.png|Sprite of the Giant Land king (NES)

SNES King of Giant Land.png|Sprite of the Big Island king (SNES)

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<gallery caption="Sky Land king">

SMB3-NES-SkyKing.png|Sprite of the Sky Land king (NES)

SMAS SMB3 The Sky King.png|Sprite of the Sky king (SNES)

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<gallery caption="Ice Land king">

SMB3-NES-IceKing.png|Sprite of the Ice Land king (NES)

Ice Land king SNES.png|Sprite of the Iced Land king (SNES)

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<gallery caption="Pipe Land king">

SMB3-NES-PipeKing.png|Sprite of the Pipe Land king (NES)

File:SMB3 SNES Pipe Land King.png|Sprite of the Pipe Maze king (SNES)

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<gallery>

SMB3Art3.png|''[[Nintendo Power]]'' artwork of the Water Land king

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==Names in other languages==

{{foreign names

|JapM=King

|ChiTR=Guówáng

|ChiTM=King

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==Trivia==

*If Mario defeats a Koopaling as [[Frog Mario]], [[Tanooki Mario]], or [[Hammer Mario]], the king says one of the following:

*The king of Water Land bears a striking resemblance to Mario. Also, the castle's island resembles Japan, with the castle itself placed where Kyoto, Nintendo's headquarters, would be.

*All of the transformed kings are depicted with generic crowns either on or near them, despite the fact that only four of the non-transformed kings wear crowns.