Powser

"Hear me! I will kidnap Peach OVER and OVER until I pull it off!"

- Bowser, Mario and Luigi: Dream Team

Powser is the het ship between Princess Peach and Bowser from the Super Mario fandom.

Canon
As shown by Partners in Time, Bowser and Princess Peach have known each other as children. However, even as a baby, Peach would avoid Bowser due to his rivalry with Mario and rude demeanor. Thus, he has attempted to kidnap Peach even as children.

Bowser has repeatedly kidnapped Peach and invaded her kingdom multiple times, both out of a megalomaniac desire to rule the world, but also because he has fallen in love with her. In certain attempts, Bowser may even try to force marriage between the both of them. Reasoning may vary depending on the game. Although Bowser is interested in Peach, in canon, Princess Peach does not return his feelings. While she and Mario allow Bowser's participation in sports and board games, media such as Super Mario RPG portrays her as being frightened by him. However, she has been shown to be kind to the Koopa, as shown with a cake she baked for him in Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. In Super Paper Mario, their paper counterparts are forced into marriage by the main villain Count Bleck. For Peach to even say 'I do,' the character of Nastasia had to mind control her. Bowser, on the other hand, had no problem with the process. The Nintendo Power comic, Super Mario Adventures, shows Bowser attempt to marry Peach as well. Here, he threatens Peach that, if she refuses or tries anything, her kingdom's inhabitants will be turned to stone. Due to the fact Mario was also turned to stone, Peach attempts to form a deal with him on her own, but ends up being kidnapped. (A similar event occurs in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode "Do You Princess Toadstool Take this Koopa...?".) Much later in the comic, Princess Peach is hypnotized by a koopa into believing her true love is Bowser. However, she eventually snaps out of it and helps free Mario. In Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser attempts to forcefully marry Peach, but not before being stopped by Mario. Posters around the world show Peach in disgust of Bowser. During Odyssey's ending, both Mario and Bowser attempt to have Peach choose between them, but when overwhelm her with flowers, she turns down both of them.

During his ending in Mario Power Tennis, Bowser points to his cheek and asks Peach to kiss him as a reward. Instead of complying, Peach has Birdo kiss him for her, which results in Bowser freaking out. Super Mario Sunshine has Bowser convince his own son into believing Peach is his mother. Believing Mario kidnapped her, Bowser Jr. steals Peach away as Shadow Mario.

In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Bowser steals a Power Star from the Ice Kingdom as a declaration of love for her, much to the bewilderment of his minions. When one Koopa brings up the possibility that she might say no, Bowser executes him by breathing fire on him, followed by him saying that he will use the Power Star and destroy the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser later dedicates an entire love ballad to her that he sings before being interrupted by Kamek. Throughout the movie, he questions if the human that arrived recently in the Mushroom Kingdom is competition. When Peach and Toad confront Bowser, Bowser proposes to her, going so far as to order the sacrifice of all his prisoners to ensure that they live a long happy life together. The princess is disgusted and only agrees after Kamek tortures Toad with magic. At the wedding, she soundly rejects him freezes him with an Ice Flower. After Mario and Luigi defeat Bowser, Peach force-feeds him a Mini Mushroom and locks him in a cage hanging in her castle. In the mid-credits scene, Bowser continues to sing about how much he loves Peach while playing a tiny piano before a Toad guard tells him to pipe down.

Quotes
"No one, NO ONE, is authorized to kidnap the Princess except ME It just wouldn't be right!"

- Bowser; Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

"Oh, Princess Peach! Your cuddly old Bowser's here!"

- Bowser; Paper Mario

"Princess Peach! You are formally invited... to the creation of my new galaxy! Gwahahaha! This festival's over!"

- Bowser, in Super Mario Galaxy

Songs
•Peaches | Bowser (Jack Black)

“Peaches” is a love song that appears at two segments in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. In one idle moment, Bowser sits at his piano and belts out this power ballad about his love for Princess Peach and his plan to force her into a marriage with him. Later, in the mid-credits scene, a miniaturized and imprisoned Bowser is heard reprising this song in his cage while he plays a miniature piano.


 * This one is for my one and only true love
 * Princess Peach
 * Peach, you're so cool
 * And with my star, we're gonna rule
 * Peach, understand
 * I'm gonna love you 'til the very end
 * Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches
 * Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches
 * I love you, oh
 * Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches
 * Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches
 * I love you, oh
 * Mario, Luigi, and a Donkey Kong, too
 * A thousand troops of Koopas couldn't keep me from you
 * Princess Peach, at the end of the line
 * I'll make you mine, oh
 * Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches
 * Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches
 * I love you, oh
 * Peaches, Peaches
 * Peach, Peach
 * Peach, Peach

Fanon
Powser is one of the most popular ships for Bowser. It rivals with Mareach as both Mario and Bowser are portrayed in a struggle over Peach. The trio may sometimes be portrayed as a love triangle, or that of an OT3. Powser fans headcanon that Bowser kidnaps Peach either because he wants her to bake a cake for him, he wants her as his queen, or because his kids (Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings) desperately want a mother.

Fandom
FAN ART
 * Super-Powser fanclub on Deviantart.
 * Super-Powser fanclub on Deviantart.

FAN FICTION
 * Bowser/Peach on FanFiction.Net
 * Peach/Bowser on FanFiction.Net

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Variations

 * Bowsareach ― the ship between Bowser, Mario, and Peach