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It's been too long now, literally almost a year since the release of the game and yet we still haven't added a key or any abilities from the game to the profiles yet. That simply has to change.
First and foremost, there's the big and obvious:
Mind Manipulation and Corruption - The residents of Lake Lapcat are stated to become "ferocious" and "go berserk" when Fury Bowser corrupts the land.
かわいらしいネコたちも凶暴になり、
一斉にマリオに襲い掛かってきます。
"凶暴" is the kanji for "ferocious"
凶暴になったネコ
This is what the cats are called in the Japanese guidebook when corrupted according to references found on the Mario Wiki. Again, we have that kanji so it's definitely corroborated by official sources.
I could also probably find the various other translations from other languages and their official sites which iirc say stuff like them being corrupted and turning evil and whatnot and becoming furious. This is a clear example of Empathic Manipulation and likely Morality and Madness Manipulation as well which all fall under Mind Manipulation and can also fall under Corruption as well. I know this wiki doesn't like clutter but I thought I'd mention those anyway.
For those who don't know, Black Paint is revealed to be the cause of Bowser mutating and transforming into Fury Bowser..This is rather explicit mind manipulation and corruption. It's important to make a distinction because mind manipulation covers the possessive abilities of black paint and it's ability to affect the mental states of people such as Bowser and the Cats, but corruption covers the environmental effects and damage such as the ferrofluid-like substance that starts to appear over the land, the raging thunderstorm and lava shower, and how lighthouses and Giga Bells that are normally a source of Purification and also have sentience get covered in goop again and become inactive. Corruption covers a lot of the mental affects the ability tends to have as well as some biological manipulation as well, since it can slightly mutate the forms of Bowser and the Cats (making Bowser larger, giving him different features, making the cat's fangs more pronounced and their fur spiky). Both of these things are passive abilities since simply awakening as Fury Bowser causes all of this.
I'm not sure what all we can list separately from Corruption and Mind Manipulation, but Bowser creates a storm that spans the horizon instantly and corrupts the landscape, though many official sources say the world itself changes.
"The world completely changes..."
"completely changes" makes me believe it's talking about the entirety of the world here.
This "world" refers to the fact Bowser's Fury takes places in the World of Cats.
"Explore a seamless feline world in the new Bowser’s Fury adventure" From the English Website
Official statement that you "explore the mysterious world of cats"
The official Japanese site even says Mario enters the world through the paint portal. I believe this is evidence it's a separate place from the main world, and in saying that one commonly thinks of the planet for "world" in this instance. I could say you can make an argument for the entire dimension but that's probably taking things too far and doesn't have much evidence. Yes, "Worlds" are often used to describe levels that are barely even a city's length, but to compare a singular "world" to the assumed main world and pointing out the difference that EVERYTHING is cat-themed, even the Sun of that world, indicates to me that this isn't Earth and so "world" is meant to be in a planetary sense at least. Also, we literally open up the game with a shot of the Sun and there are no cat ears present, effectively proving at the least that Mario is on a different planet with a different sun. So yeah, planetary range seems fine to me. I'm curious what kind of arguments there could be against it.
But if for some reason people still find this unusable, the Japanese site says that there is a country of cats, so at VERY least country-wide range.
Also worth noting that Fury Bowser kept growing and growing in power with each defeat, eventually getting to a point where even the Cat Shines couldn't fend him off anymore. Similarly, Lighthouses and Bells, despite having met numerical requirement of Cat Shines to be able to free themselves of the goop and dispel the corruption in the landscape will get corrupted again after Fury Bowser's consecutive awakenings, showing his power progressing from the fact he can still affect these things that were able to repel him before. It gets so bad that the number of Cat Shines needed after each battle requires a gradually increasing amount of Cat Shines in order to fully combat Fury Bowser and attempt to cleanse him. Pretty sure this is Accelerated Development and maybe even Reactive Power Level and Reactive Evolution since the Cat Shines, Lighthouses, and Giga Bells are like sacred things that are able to cleanse the world and purify with their light, and Bowser and the black paint are affected by this greatly at first, but over time the scales tip and Bowser is able to grow a stronger resistance to the point where the Giga Bells are absolutely needed to beat him, and even when you do cleanse him, you find out he's still able to keep up the Fury Bowser abilities as Giant Bowser and he seals the Giga Bells away in a barrier, meaning just one Giga Bell wasn't enough, and the final blow that makes him fully revert requires all three. But even despite the main objective and power of the Giga Bells being purification and quelling anger Bowser is STILL angry even after all of that, lowered significantly and at a manageable level, but still hostile.
Now, lastly, the black paint has been shown to null literally any power-up by causing damage to Mario regardless of if he has the invincibility items in the game. Just for reference, these items suffer no damage from Fury Bowser's attacks but if you so much as touch the black paint (same goes for touching Bowser with the black paint on him) you take damage even if you have the invincibility items. This could be attributed to game mechanics I guess but the fact the Giga Bells allow you to rummage through the black paint unharmed makes me think it might've been intentional. Worth a thought. This would probably be Durability Negation and potential Power Nullification for anything other than Giga Bells due to their powerful Purification abilities. I should also note that if the black paint was simply a game mechanic like lava and falling into pits, Mario would be insta killed, and sure enough, even with invincibility Mario instantly dies in this game's lava. So I believe that's a great distinction that separates it from the usual game mechanic deaths.
I think that's everything. If there's any more potential abilities or something you think would better fit in place of another ability feel free to add your thoughts.
To summarize: As Giant Bowser, Bowser gets Planetary Range for Weather Manipulation (Sustained the storm that effected the entirety of the cat world even after he was cleansed of the Black Paint, and official sources state the world changed completely when Bowser awakened), a more concentrated fire breath that acts like a laser and more generally enhanced fire breath abilities, the ability to control the spikes on his back and eject them from his shell and grow new ones, and make lava rain down from the sky.
As Fury Bowser, Bowser gets Large Size (Type 1) Passive Mind Manipulation, Weather Manipulation and Corruption on a likely planetary scale as well as Accelerated Development and possible Reactive Power Level, and Reactive Evolution (Passively corrupted the citizens of Lake Lapcat and made the normally peaceful and benevolent inhabitants go berserk and become ferocious just like him; corrupted the Lighthouses and Giga Bells continuously and made them require more and more Cat Shines to be able to fend him off, with canon acknowledgement he grew too strong and furious to be pacified and defeated with any amount of Cat Shines that previously warded him off and harmed him, needing a Giga Bell to defeat him, but even that didn't work and he was able to sustain everything after being cleansed of paint and needed all three Giga Bells for him to finally be put down), Sealing (by spreading his black paint around the lake he was able to seal away entire islands which rise up from the water upon the paint being vanquished), possibly Durability Negation/Power Nullification (Black Paint reverts Mario back to Base and damages him even if he has invincibility power-ups activated, with the one exception being people under the effects of the Giga Bell), Creation (Fury Bowser's appearance causes certain platforms to appear and rise from the water as well as spawn floating golden islands that will appear in random places that all disappear when Fury Bowser sleeps) and Resistance to Purification (Grew a resistance to the Cat Shine's effects and even was able to basically ignore the Giga Bell Mario used to finally cleanse him of all the black paint to sustain his Fury), Levitation as the Fury Sun.
Should be noted these abilities of Fury Bowser can potentially be applied to Base as well, since Giant Bowser (that he can achieve in base) was able to sustain everything even after the paint got cleansed, showing that Bowser's regular body had adapted to the form and it's abilities similar to Goku after attaining his God form for the first time. The only truly paint specific ability would be the dura neg/power null if accepted.
Black Paint would get Corruption, Power Mimicry and Shapeshifting (Via Fury Shadows which take the form of a character and mimic their movements), Adhesive Manipulation (Slows Giga Cat Mario and Giga Mario in general and lessens jumping ability), Sealing, Portal Creation, and potential Durability Negation/Power Nullification
Fury Shadows would get Body Control, Inorganic Physiology, Levitation (in their ball of goop form), and potentially some form of Immortality via Resurrection as long as there's black paint around to produce them since they have multiple missions where they keep coming back.
Let's hope this doesn't get toxic. I don't think it should cause most of these seem pretty blatant.
Agree - 7 (@GyroNutz @Lou_change @TyranoDoom30 @Apex_PredatorX @DarkDragonMedeus @y3p_owo @FoxySonicMaster108 )
Neutral - 1 (@DarkDragonMedeus*)
*DDM is only really Neutral about the Planetary Range but agrees with the rest of the proposals
Disagree -
First and foremost, there's the big and obvious:
Mind Manipulation and Corruption - The residents of Lake Lapcat are stated to become "ferocious" and "go berserk" when Fury Bowser corrupts the land.
かわいらしいネコたちも凶暴になり、
一斉にマリオに襲い掛かってきます。
"凶暴" is the kanji for "ferocious"
凶暴になったネコ
This is what the cats are called in the Japanese guidebook when corrupted according to references found on the Mario Wiki. Again, we have that kanji so it's definitely corroborated by official sources.
I could also probably find the various other translations from other languages and their official sites which iirc say stuff like them being corrupted and turning evil and whatnot and becoming furious. This is a clear example of Empathic Manipulation and likely Morality and Madness Manipulation as well which all fall under Mind Manipulation and can also fall under Corruption as well. I know this wiki doesn't like clutter but I thought I'd mention those anyway.
For those who don't know, Black Paint is revealed to be the cause of Bowser mutating and transforming into Fury Bowser..This is rather explicit mind manipulation and corruption. It's important to make a distinction because mind manipulation covers the possessive abilities of black paint and it's ability to affect the mental states of people such as Bowser and the Cats, but corruption covers the environmental effects and damage such as the ferrofluid-like substance that starts to appear over the land, the raging thunderstorm and lava shower, and how lighthouses and Giga Bells that are normally a source of Purification and also have sentience get covered in goop again and become inactive. Corruption covers a lot of the mental affects the ability tends to have as well as some biological manipulation as well, since it can slightly mutate the forms of Bowser and the Cats (making Bowser larger, giving him different features, making the cat's fangs more pronounced and their fur spiky). Both of these things are passive abilities since simply awakening as Fury Bowser causes all of this.
I'm not sure what all we can list separately from Corruption and Mind Manipulation, but Bowser creates a storm that spans the horizon instantly and corrupts the landscape, though many official sources say the world itself changes.
"The world completely changes..."
"completely changes" makes me believe it's talking about the entirety of the world here.
This "world" refers to the fact Bowser's Fury takes places in the World of Cats.
"Explore a seamless feline world in the new Bowser’s Fury adventure" From the English Website
Official statement that you "explore the mysterious world of cats"
The official Japanese site even says Mario enters the world through the paint portal. I believe this is evidence it's a separate place from the main world, and in saying that one commonly thinks of the planet for "world" in this instance. I could say you can make an argument for the entire dimension but that's probably taking things too far and doesn't have much evidence. Yes, "Worlds" are often used to describe levels that are barely even a city's length, but to compare a singular "world" to the assumed main world and pointing out the difference that EVERYTHING is cat-themed, even the Sun of that world, indicates to me that this isn't Earth and so "world" is meant to be in a planetary sense at least. Also, we literally open up the game with a shot of the Sun and there are no cat ears present, effectively proving at the least that Mario is on a different planet with a different sun. So yeah, planetary range seems fine to me. I'm curious what kind of arguments there could be against it.
But if for some reason people still find this unusable, the Japanese site says that there is a country of cats, so at VERY least country-wide range.
Also worth noting that Fury Bowser kept growing and growing in power with each defeat, eventually getting to a point where even the Cat Shines couldn't fend him off anymore. Similarly, Lighthouses and Bells, despite having met numerical requirement of Cat Shines to be able to free themselves of the goop and dispel the corruption in the landscape will get corrupted again after Fury Bowser's consecutive awakenings, showing his power progressing from the fact he can still affect these things that were able to repel him before. It gets so bad that the number of Cat Shines needed after each battle requires a gradually increasing amount of Cat Shines in order to fully combat Fury Bowser and attempt to cleanse him. Pretty sure this is Accelerated Development and maybe even Reactive Power Level and Reactive Evolution since the Cat Shines, Lighthouses, and Giga Bells are like sacred things that are able to cleanse the world and purify with their light, and Bowser and the black paint are affected by this greatly at first, but over time the scales tip and Bowser is able to grow a stronger resistance to the point where the Giga Bells are absolutely needed to beat him, and even when you do cleanse him, you find out he's still able to keep up the Fury Bowser abilities as Giant Bowser and he seals the Giga Bells away in a barrier, meaning just one Giga Bell wasn't enough, and the final blow that makes him fully revert requires all three. But even despite the main objective and power of the Giga Bells being purification and quelling anger Bowser is STILL angry even after all of that, lowered significantly and at a manageable level, but still hostile.
Now, lastly, the black paint has been shown to null literally any power-up by causing damage to Mario regardless of if he has the invincibility items in the game. Just for reference, these items suffer no damage from Fury Bowser's attacks but if you so much as touch the black paint (same goes for touching Bowser with the black paint on him) you take damage even if you have the invincibility items. This could be attributed to game mechanics I guess but the fact the Giga Bells allow you to rummage through the black paint unharmed makes me think it might've been intentional. Worth a thought. This would probably be Durability Negation and potential Power Nullification for anything other than Giga Bells due to their powerful Purification abilities. I should also note that if the black paint was simply a game mechanic like lava and falling into pits, Mario would be insta killed, and sure enough, even with invincibility Mario instantly dies in this game's lava. So I believe that's a great distinction that separates it from the usual game mechanic deaths.
I think that's everything. If there's any more potential abilities or something you think would better fit in place of another ability feel free to add your thoughts.
To summarize: As Giant Bowser, Bowser gets Planetary Range for Weather Manipulation (Sustained the storm that effected the entirety of the cat world even after he was cleansed of the Black Paint, and official sources state the world changed completely when Bowser awakened), a more concentrated fire breath that acts like a laser and more generally enhanced fire breath abilities, the ability to control the spikes on his back and eject them from his shell and grow new ones, and make lava rain down from the sky.
As Fury Bowser, Bowser gets Large Size (Type 1) Passive Mind Manipulation, Weather Manipulation and Corruption on a likely planetary scale as well as Accelerated Development and possible Reactive Power Level, and Reactive Evolution (Passively corrupted the citizens of Lake Lapcat and made the normally peaceful and benevolent inhabitants go berserk and become ferocious just like him; corrupted the Lighthouses and Giga Bells continuously and made them require more and more Cat Shines to be able to fend him off, with canon acknowledgement he grew too strong and furious to be pacified and defeated with any amount of Cat Shines that previously warded him off and harmed him, needing a Giga Bell to defeat him, but even that didn't work and he was able to sustain everything after being cleansed of paint and needed all three Giga Bells for him to finally be put down), Sealing (by spreading his black paint around the lake he was able to seal away entire islands which rise up from the water upon the paint being vanquished), possibly Durability Negation/Power Nullification (Black Paint reverts Mario back to Base and damages him even if he has invincibility power-ups activated, with the one exception being people under the effects of the Giga Bell), Creation (Fury Bowser's appearance causes certain platforms to appear and rise from the water as well as spawn floating golden islands that will appear in random places that all disappear when Fury Bowser sleeps) and Resistance to Purification (Grew a resistance to the Cat Shine's effects and even was able to basically ignore the Giga Bell Mario used to finally cleanse him of all the black paint to sustain his Fury), Levitation as the Fury Sun.
Should be noted these abilities of Fury Bowser can potentially be applied to Base as well, since Giant Bowser (that he can achieve in base) was able to sustain everything even after the paint got cleansed, showing that Bowser's regular body had adapted to the form and it's abilities similar to Goku after attaining his God form for the first time. The only truly paint specific ability would be the dura neg/power null if accepted.
Black Paint would get Corruption, Power Mimicry and Shapeshifting (Via Fury Shadows which take the form of a character and mimic their movements), Adhesive Manipulation (Slows Giga Cat Mario and Giga Mario in general and lessens jumping ability), Sealing, Portal Creation, and potential Durability Negation/Power Nullification
Fury Shadows would get Body Control, Inorganic Physiology, Levitation (in their ball of goop form), and potentially some form of Immortality via Resurrection as long as there's black paint around to produce them since they have multiple missions where they keep coming back.
Let's hope this doesn't get toxic. I don't think it should cause most of these seem pretty blatant.
Agree - 7 (@GyroNutz @Lou_change @TyranoDoom30 @Apex_PredatorX @DarkDragonMedeus @y3p_owo @FoxySonicMaster108 )
Neutral - 1 (@DarkDragonMedeus*)
*DDM is only really Neutral about the Planetary Range but agrees with the rest of the proposals
Disagree -
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