Iggy Koopa is the fourth of Bowser's children whom he often uses as subordinates in his conquests. He is arguably the most bizarre-looking of the children with his swirly glasses and rainbow hair. He is described as "demented" in Super Mario World.

Background

	Iggy in Super Mario World.
Iggy Koopa
Species	Koopa
Hair color	Blue/Yellow/Pink
Eye color	Unknown
Relatives	Bowser (father), Koopalings (siblings)
Debut	Super Mario Bros. 3

In Super Mario Bros. 3 Bowser gave Iggy his own airship to invade Big Island. Iggy succeeds in stealing its king's magic wand, but he is forced to surrender it after battle with Mario. He is the game's fourth boss.

After Bowser conquers Dinosaur Land in Super Mario World, Iggy is given a fortress to rule Yoshi's Island from, and is also given one of Yoshi's friends to guard. Iggy is the game's first boss. Iggy battles Mario atop an unstable island in a lake of lava. Iggy attacks by withdrawing into his shell and tossing fireballs. Yet Mario defeats Iggy by hopping on him or bombarding him with fireballs until he slides off the island and into the lava. After leaving the castle, Mario blows it up with dynamite.

When Bowser stole the twelve magic crystals of Jewelry Land during Yoshi's Safari, Iggy took care of the White Crystal at the Grand Bridge and battled Mario and Yoshi in a giant Blooper robot.

After a long absence, the Koopalings returned when Bowletta called them into action to eliminate the Mario Brothers in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Iggy was the first of the Koopalings to challenge them. He twirled around the brothers to make them dizzy and watched them drunkenly stumble through an obstacle course towards him. The brothers endured their dizzy spells and survived the course. Iggy tried battling the brothers directly with fancy spins and fireballs, but he was no more successful then he was in his previous tries and met defeat once again.

Other Appearances

Video Games

Iggy and the rest of the Koopalings appeared as bosses in the licensed games Mario is Missing! (in the Super NES and PC versions only) and Hotel Mario. In the latter game he was a boss in Bowser's Seizure Palace Hotel rather than having his own hotel, and he attacked by shooting fireballs and lightning while wearing a Bowser mask. He could be defeated after knocking the Bowser mask off, when he would summon the real Bowser.

Other Media

In the "Momotaro" and "Snow White" shorts produced as part of Amada's Super Mario OVA, the Koopalings appear as minions of Bowser whom Mario defeats on his way to challenge Bowser himself.
The Koopalings appeared as Bowser's main minions in the animated series The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and its sequel series Super Mario World, where he was renamed Hop. Lemmy was portrayed as his twin brother Hip, and together they were the youngest Koopalings in this continuity as well as being notorious pranksters.
The Koopalings appear as Bowser's minions in various adaptations such as the Mario comics of the Nintendo Comics System, the Nintendo Adventure books and the Super Mario Adventures comic. The Nintendo Adventure books notably portrayed him as the inventor among the Koopalings.
In the Super Mario Bros. movie, one of Bowser's bumbling minions is named Iggy, but only seems to be related to the game Iggy by name only. He is Bowser's cousin instead of his son and is paired with the dim-witted Spike. Although Iggy acts like the smarter of the duo, he fails just as frequently as his partner, and later in the movie they desert King Koopa to help Mario and Luigi after they are evolved by Koopa's machine and gain common sense as a result.

Canceled Appearances

Unused sprites for Iggy and the other Koopalings were found in Super Princess Peach, indicating that they were intended to appear in the game as bosses at some point and were removed at some point in the game's development.

Trivia

Iggy may be named after the famous punk singer Iggy Pop.
Iggy has 550 HP in "Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga".

Iggy Koopa

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