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| “ | I AM PRINCESS SHROOB. YOU INTERLOPERS...WILL BE CONSUMED. | „ |
| ~ Princess Shroob |
| “ | NOW YOU'VE DONE IT! YOU'RE USELESS NOW, PEACH! TIME TO FINISH YOU! YOU CANNOT ESCAPE! THIS KINGDOM IS MINE! I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL! DESTROY! | „ |
| ~ Princess Shroob before battling Mario and Luigi and their baby counterparts. |
| “ | NOW IT'S YOUR TURN... SIS... TER! | „ |
| ~ Princess Shroob's last words after Mario, Luigi, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi defeated her. |
Princess Shroob is the main antagonist of the 2005 role-playing video game Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.
She is the younger twin sister of Elder Princess Shroob and a princess of the Shroob race. She is the one who leads the Shroob's attack on the Mushroom Kingdom and became the supreme head of the invasion after her sister was sealed in the Colbalt Star.
Biography[]
Background[]
Decades ago, in a distant and desolate region of space, there existed a solitary planet ruled by two sisters. The rulers of this planet, known as the Shroob Planet, spent their days gazing into the endless void of black space. However, their homeworld began to wither and die, threatening the survival of their race.
In a desperate bid to ensure their survival, the Shroob race launched an invasion of the Mushroom Kingdom. The Shroob Princesses led the charge, devastating towns and abducting countless Toads. The captives were subjected to a horrifying process that drained their life force, ultimately leading to their demise in an agonizing manner. The invasion succeeded, and the Mushroom Kingdom was reduced to a barren wasteland.
With their conquest nearly complete, the younger Shroob Princess devised a plan to eradicate the remaining species in the kingdom. She unleashed a monstrous creature known as Yoob, a living weapon designed to transform Yoshis into more Yoobs. These transformed creatures would consume everything in their path, leaving no trace of life behind. The Shroobs' reign of terror was absolute, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Although the Yoshis were saved, dozens of other species fell victim to the first-ever created Yoob and did not survive.
Just when all hope seemed lost, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi saved the Mushroom Kingdom and restored peace by discovering the Shroobs' weakness—baby tears.
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time[]
When Planet Shroob was withering and dying, and in order to find a new place for their people, the two Princess Shroobs attempted to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom in the past. When Princess Peach (who had traveled back in time inadvertently to this period) trapped Elder Princess Shroob inside the Cobalt Star and broke it into shards, Princess Shroob took over as leader of the Shroobs and captured Peach. Later, she sends Baby Bowser's Koopa Cruiser a transmission, though the crew members are unable to understand her language. She then launches a missile to take down the Koopa Cruiser in an attempt to kill him, Peach, and the Mario Bros. (both past and present), and rest of pilots (who's fate is unknown) laughing as the ship crashes into Bowser's Castle.
After Mario Bros. found Toadiko weak and slowly drained, she reveals how she, Peach and Toadbert returned to past during successfully conquer of the Castle, with shroobs surrounding them and allowing Princess Shroob to capture them.
Princess Shroob was next seen hosting a celebration over conquering the kingdom and fed Peach to Petey Piranha. When the Mario Bros. tried to intervene, she sent Shrooboid Brat to defeat the Mario Bros, but they defeated him. Princess Shroob and her minions sent them falling into the caves below.
Sometime later, The Mario Bros went back to the present where Princess Shroob pretends to be Princess Peach to infiltrate the adult bros timeline, but before she could reveal her identity, she gets unwittingly kidnapped by the now-king Bowser, leading to the brothers to chase after him back to the past at Thwomp Volcano where he meets up with his own past self. After both Bowsers' defeat, Princess Shroob is rescued, but then taken by her own mothership, which also abducts the brothers.
After surviving and evading the occupants, Mario, Luigi, and their baby selves eventually catch up to the princess, but this was a hologram as the shroobs surround the four, ready to blast them at point blank. Before they could, Princess Shroob, still in disguise, approaches the four as the squadron holds their fire. She then reveals herself to be the orchestrator of the war (The reason for translation is unknown) After taunting them, she orders to have them killed, but one of the shroobs begins taking photographs and blasts the others. This Shroob was none other than a disguised Kylie Koopa, who gives the Mario Bros a chance to escape.
Later when Kylie uses key to reveal the "secret" of Shroobs for her scoop, it is revealed to be just a trap door and has Mario Bros thrown out while Kylie manages to hold herself on a key. She was then discovered by Princess Shroob and soldiers, whom she commands to knock out Kylie, doing so, Princess Shroob sadistically laughs alongside her minions, only for Baby Bowser to sneak in.
Mario, Luigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi eventually entered the Shroob Castle (Peach's Castle in the past, taken over by Shroobs), reaching the top to find an imprisoned Princess Peach, who tried to warn them. However, before she could say anything, Princess Shroob angrily commands the Mother UFO to exterminate them as they are shooting the castle. Quickly thinking, the Mario Bros. use will another UFO to damage the attackers, causing it to crash through the castle and the destroy barrier that has kept Princess Peach imprisoned. Now enraged, Princess Shoob challenges the heroes to a final battle, dead set on seeing them and all of Mushroom Kingdom's people destroyed. After her defeat, Princess Shroob watched the Mario Bros. and Peach attempt to escape, only to be stopped by the Cobalt Star, who will be completed by Baby Bowser. Watching this, with only small energy left, Princess Shroob crawls to the Cobalt Star and expresses her last wish, before she collapses and dies the same way as all the other Shroob bosses (except Junior Shrooboid).
Battle[]
Princess Shroob will first start on her throne which is covered by a pink-red sphere that protects her from any attacks, this sphere will change from blue to pink and then explode causing the throne to malfunction and forcing Princess Shroob to fight on foot.
Despite this, Princess Shroob will reuse her throne, which gains three legs becoming a mecha. It walks and stands above Mario or Luigi to shoot more lasers from below the throne that can be avoided by jumping. After this, she tries to crush them with the mecha that can be prevented by using the hammers. If she laughs at that moment, she will stop before touching them to make them miss with their hammers on purpose. If failed, either Mario or Luigi can temporarily suffer a dizzy effect from the massive attack, leaving them also vulnerable in combat. After these attacks, Princess Shroob will be protected again with a blue sphere, she will attack shooting lasers from the throne that can be avoided by jumping.
As she walks on foot, Princess Shroob teleports to shoot energy balls at both the Mario Bros. that have to be jumped over. She will occasionally teleport in front to shoot quickly at one of them with an energy ball. Princess Shroob also teleports above them to shoot down an energy ball that can be deflected to with the hammer causing her damage. She'll also use a purple star attack that won't stop until it hits its target. It must be jumped on, but it loops back and accelerates if it is dodged entirely, being destroyed if it makes contact. Princess Shroob will switch between aiming at Mario and Luigi with the purple star as it accelerates.
When she is close to being defeated, she starts to shine, becoming more faster as the battle goes on.
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story[]
Her fate in the unaltered past is revealed during the optional boss fight against three Shroobs. It is said that she likely died decades ago after the weakness of her species was discovered.
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey[]
The fate of Princess Shroob differs from the original version. Instead of Commander Shroob, she was captured and frozen in ice alongside Elder Princess Shroob in the same room and has remained here so long that Bowser eventually forgot about her. She's clearly more visible outside of battle background after Bowser Junior visits his father's freezer, confirming she's actually there.
Other Media[]
Super Mario-Kun[]
Princess Shroob appears in the Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time adaptions in the Super Mario-Kun manga (volumes 35, 36, and 37), serving the same role as she does in the game.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[]
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Princess Shroob appears as a neutral primary spirit. Her battle is a Stamina battle against Peach on Princess Peach's Castle who grows to giant size and gains increased attack power once her health has dwindled halfway.
Physical Appearance[]
Princess Shroob is a particularly humanoid Shroob. As with most members of her species, she has dark purple skin with white spots around her forehead and sinister red eyes. As with the rest of her species, Princess Shroob’s brain has as irregular shape, which further emphasizes her unmistakable similarity in cranial anatomy to them.
Princess Shroob is a notably humanoid Shroob in physicality. She is clearly taller than Mario, being about the same height as Princess Peach and Luigi as well as roughly the same frame as the former. In terms of clothing, she also dresses quite similar to Princess Peach, although with her own staunch contrast. She wears a magenta dress with a high collar complimenting the notably sinister pattern with a black brooch matching the one on her silver tiara. She also wears white gloves that in addition to her pointed fingers, also have a split cut at the sleeve entry.
Personality[]
Although she shares—and likely even initiated—the amorality and cruelty inflicted by the Shroobs on the Mushroom Kingdom with no empathy, Princess Shroob operates largely out of her own sadism and perverse amusement at the suffering of her targets and enemies. She clearly stands out as a fearmonger who eliminates not only those who oppose her, but even those who are merely unfortunate enough to cross her path.
Her wrath and lack of patience are among her most well-known traits—so much so that even members of her own species (which they completely lack, even toward their enemies) are not spared. As demonstrated during her own celebration, she is easily irritated when events do not go her way or fail to occur on schedule.
Perhaps her darkest traits lie in the way she perceives the world around her. Despite her limited and translated interactions, it is evident that she takes great pleasure in taunting her enemies. She mocks the Mario Brothers for trespassing aboard her Mothership—ironically labeling them as intruders, despite being an invader herself—and takes evident delight in threatening them with the death she intends to deliver. This ultimately highlights her deep-seated arrogance toward the Mushroom Kingdom, This stance is more grounded in her ruthless campaign of terror against the Toad race: she murdered many by draining their life forces and repurposing the extracted energy as resources—whether as fuel or even in beverages—for her own use, showing how meaningless others lives are for.
Although she fights for the future of her kind—not merely only their survival—as demonstrated by her attempt to conquer the present day Mushroom Kingdom, her actions are driven solely by her belief in “Shroob Supremacy” that also feeds her egotism. This is supported by the very design of her castle, which prominently features two statues of herself—despite having a twin sister who was sealed away before the castle was redesigned—underscoring her self-importance and dominance.
As in that case, it becomes clear just how much of a psychopathic alien she truly is—even by Shroob standards— she declares the entire Mushroom Kingdom to be hers alone, utterly dismissing her sister’s legitimate claim. She is very out for her own ego and ambition that she willingly abandons her own sibling within a sealed prison to further her hunger for power. As for her soldiers, she demonstrates the same ruthless disregard, using Shroob Saucers as kamikaze bombs during the battle against her Mothership, shortly before her eventual downfall.
Trivia[]
- Because Princess Shroob mainly speaks in the Shroob language, she is the only main antagonist in the Mario & Luigi franchise to have a very few translated lines, having very little in-game.
- Although it is implied she understand English based on the events she was disguised as Princess Peach, with her nodding to Toad's questions.
- The closest to her name "Princess Shroob" remains the same in all the other translations of the game, except the Russian translation where she is named Принцесса Хомор (Printsessa Khomor), with Принцесса meaning "princess" and Хомор is a part of мухомор (mukhomor, fly-agaric)
- Princess Shroob's three-legged throne that she uses in her boss battle resembles the Martians' fighting machines from the novel The War of the Worlds, being a very tall walking tripod that shoots lasers. Her throne also floats and has a forcefield, similar to the fighting machines in the 1953 film.
Names in other languages[]
- Spanish: La Princesa Champizoide—Means Princess of the Shroobs. (El Champizoide means "Shroob".)
- Genitive: Les Princeses Champizoidiro
- Dative: Le Princese Champizoidiro
- Ablative: Lad Princésad Champzoidiro
- Portuguese: A Princessa Shroobom—Means Princess of the Shroobs. (O Shroobe means "Shroob".)
- Genitive: Les Princesses Shroobom
- Dative: Le Princesse Shroobom
- Accusative: Lão Princessem Shroobom
- Ablative: Lade Princessad Shroobom
- Italian: La Principessa Shroobo. (Princess of the Shroobs)
- Genitive: Les Principesses Shroobo
- Dative: Lai Principéssai Shroobo
- Accusative: Lam Principessam Shroobo
- Ablative: Lade Principéssad Shroobo
- Russian: Printsessa Khomor—From Mukhomor (fly-argic).
- Genitive: Printsessi Khomor
- Dative: Printsesse Khomor
- Accusative: Printessu Khomor
External Links[]
- Princess Shroob on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Princess Shroob on the Mario Wiki
- Princess Shroob on the Super Mario Wiki
- Princess Shroob on the Nintendo Wiki
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