Bowser Junior (SML, late-seasons 11-present)

Bowser Junior (SML, late-seasons 11-present)

Unfortunately, when your character relies on striking a fine balance between funny and annoying, it's very easy to overshoot the line and just turn them annoying.

Gender:	Male
Type:	Unsympathetic Self-Centered Greedy Moron
Age:	15 (born on September 28th, 2008)
Species:	Koopa (seasons 2-10) Human (seasons 11-present)
Portrayed by:	Logan Thirtyacre
Status:	Alive
Media of origin:	SuperMarioLogan

Bowser Junior (now known as simply Junior since 2021) is one of the main characters from the puppet web series SuperMario Logan. He is Bowser's son and he was highly known for his role in the Junior era, the era where there are many videos based on him. He is voiced by the series creator Logan Thirtyacre.

While he had an over-the-top bratty attitude, delusional nature, trouble-making tendencies, and warped understanding of the world are somewhat funny like a less extreme embodiment of Eric Cartman, sadly, since late season 11, he's been flanderized and hasn't recovered since, although depending on your opinion, he and Joseph improved a bit in season 15.

Why He Needs to Go Back to Military School Now

In late season 11, or more specifically, "Taken Away!", he was badly flanderized and became overbearingly annoying, unfunny, and much stupider, to the point where he even developed sociopathic tendencies. While he was always supposed to be somewhat of a jerk, he still had a nicer side and was meant to be more rebellious than outright sociopathic.
He has also been noted for acting extremely cruel to Chef Pee Pee and Cody for little to no reason whatsoever; especially Cody to the point that almost any interaction with Cody often ends with either Junior insulting him, mocking him/a family member, or sometimes abusing him verbally/physically.
He's started to become aggravatingly petty in most episodes; for example, in "The School Project!", when Cody asks Junior if he can play with the helicopter, Junior said "no", but for seemingly no reason other than the fact that the writers wanted it to happen, he gave Cody a chance to play with the helicopter. Then after it breaks, he gets so angry he refuses to talk to Cody, even when the latter tries to tell him it was an accident, and goes as far as to destroy their shared school project to get revenge.
Also as implied above, his stupidity has been exaggerated to the point where he often cannot even remember basic facts or even apply a bit of common sense to situations, but whereas his pre-season 11 self was able to handle ignorant comedy a lot better, his stupidity now more often seems to be forced into videos for the sake of plot convenience and tends to be more annoying than funny; notably in "Taken Away!", his flanderization episode where he continually predicts the safe combination is things like "1111", "2222" and so forth and gets the safe locked because of it.
A lot of his common recurring jokes have become stale and painful to watch from overuse; a prime example is him making fun of Cody's mom's weight. While the joke has existed in the series for a while, it's started to become beaten into the ground from seasons 11 onwards; it gets to the point where sometimes 30 seconds or more of a video are dedicated solely to Cody's mom jokes.
He has done many horrible things, all in the name of "comedy":
- In "Cody Goes to College!", when he learns that Cody isn't going to hang out with him and Joseph anymore because he's going to college, they get him kicked out of college so they can continue to have a punching bag.
- In "Bowser Junior's Prank Gone Wrong!" he alongside Joseph, blew an air horn in Chef Pee Pee's ears and made him deaf, and Junior uses that problem to insult Chef Pee Pee, going as far as to say the page quote.
- He was at his absolute worst in "Bowser Junior's Revenge!", as he cyberstalks, sends threatening messages to, and even tries to burn Cody's house down. The reason he does this is simply that Cody accidentally knocked over his piggy bank, which Junior nonsensically accuses him of doing on purpose.
- He was also stupid in "Cody Goes To Kindergarten" when Cody told him he is 16 he told Jackie Chu that he was born on leap day this caused Jackie to be forrrios and sended him to kindergarten.
- He Along With Joseph are also at their absolute worst in "Cody's Bad Word" where they falsely accused him of saying the n-word eventhrough he only said inward plus he also told his parents that Cody was racist he even told to Cody that he is a KKK member
Overall, these problems with Junior have ruined the overall reputation of his character, to the point where many people have considered him to be worse than Jeffy. The downfall of his character is just one of the reasons why SML's quality has been going down the drain in recent years.
- To make matters even worse, we are meant to sympathize with him because Logan never seems to write him in the wrong (as stated above). This was easy to do so in the seasons 5-11 videos since he was constantly being abused - both physically and verbally - by both Bowser and Chef Pee Pee, not to mention the fact that Cody could be a major jerkass towards him during the seasons 9-11 era even Jeffy too such as falsely accusing him of eating his kids in "Jeffy's Kids". Sadly, any attempts to get us to sympathize with him in the seasons 11-present videos fall apart since he is now a selfish greedy brat who doesn't care about anybody but himself.

Redeeming Qualities

He was much more likable until late season 11, and even today he still has many funny and likable moments; in "Cody's Cavity", him and Joseph trying to get Cody's cavity out and claiming they are "good friends" can be seen as funny to some people; in "Precious' Biggest Fan", for example, it's easy to feel sorry for him since he (along with Joseph) mourned the death of Precious and paid his respects for her. He also has multiple videos where he reverts to his old personality, like "Bowser Junior's Stinky Friend", "Junior's Embarrassing Video", "Nine Lives", "Junior's Essay", "Junior Saves ToysRus", "Junior's New Year's Resolution", "Groundhog Day", "Junior's Last Meal", "Jeffy the Wrestler", "Junior's Stolen Birthday Present!", etc.
- Despite all of his actions, he can still be more tolerable than Hank Huckerdoo and Rosalina, as compared to Rosalina he is not a Karen.
Logan still does a decent job voicing him, as always, except for when he is yelling.
His puppet design is commonly regarded as one of, if not the best SML puppet redesigns since it is rather faithful to Junior's original video game design and fits his current personality well, despite some flaws.
He sometimes gets comeuppances in videos. In "The Film Project", for example, Cody slapped him after he insulted his mom in front of the class - and he fully got his comeuppance in "Junior's Karma" where he got what he deserved for the most part.
- Another instance of him getting karma is in "Jeffy's Laser Pointer", where he is blinded as a result of Jeffy shining a laser in his eye and is forced to wear glasses for the rest of the video. This is considered karma for him blinding Cody by telling Jeffy to shine the laser pointer in his eyes.
- In "The Cheerleading Competition" he along with Cody gets disqualified by breaking Heidi's kneecaps. Even though Cody did nothing wrong other than being forced to break her kneecaps by Junior.
- In "SUPERPOWERS 3", he got karma by Cody roasts him for Jeffy's videos got 100% positive and his videos got 60% negative, and making him angry.
To be fair, his unlikable behavior can be justified since his father doesn't support him.
Like Jeffy, he has a Kable10 incarnation who's much more tolerable.
- Sometimes, often when Joesph isn't around, he is nice to Cody for the most part.
- Depending on your POV, he and Joseph slightly improved during season 15.

Trivia

In season 13, he, along with every other Mario character, has been permanently turned into SuperMarioLogan human puppets that don't resemble the games due to legal issues with Nintendo.
His birthday is September 28th, making him a Libra.

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