Best Mario Villains Excluding Bowser

The best villains from the Mario franchise excluding the big koopa himself Bowser either from the main series or spin off series as long as its related to the Mario franchise its allowed on the list.
The Top Ten
1 Count Bleck (Super Paper Mario) Count Bleck, true name Lord Blumiere, is the central antagonist turned anti-hero of the 2007 Nintendo Wii videogame Super Paper Mario.

Count Bleck has a tragic story and has lost the only thing that he ever loved, and that turned him into the villain he is. He lied to his minions telling them that after destroying all worlds he would create perfect new ones for them but secretly he was going to just end all worlds and himself because he thought life was meaningless without his love.

Count Bleck is often overshadowed by Dimentio, but Count Bleck as actually more powerful. Super Dimentio has 200 health. Count Bleck does 8 damage. It would take 25 hits for Count Bleck to defeat Super Dimentio. Count Bleck has 150 health. Super Dimentio does 6 damage. It would take Super Dimentio 25 hits to defeat Count Bleck. So, despite Dimentio literally fusing the Chaos Heart with Luigi, thereby greatly increasing it’s power, and adding his own power, he was still only able to be barely equal to Count Bleck. I say barely because Count Bleck has more powers, attacks faster, can teleport and fly, and was just harder to beat. Once I finally beat Count Bleck, besting Super Dimentio was just too easy. Count Bleck also literally almost destroyed the Multiverse. Mario is considered childish, but not even Marvel is on that great of a scale as to destroy the multiverse. The scale of a game is determined by the villain. The scale of SPM was so great that a whole normal Mario game, ...more

Truly the best one, no explanation needed

I feel bad for him...

2 Cackletta (Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga) Cackletta is a witch from the Beanbean Kingdom, and the main antagonist of Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga. Her name is a pun on the word "cackle".
3 Shadow Queen (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door) The Shadow Queen is the overarching antagonist and final boss of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. She is widely considered one of the most difficult bosses in the Paper Mario series.

Holy hell was the Shadow Queen was creepy during your battle with her she actually devours the entire audience and nearly killed Sir Grodus the one who resurrected her in the first place.

4 King Boo (Luigi's Mansion) In the Super Mario series, King Boo is the leader of all the Boos and a major antagonist. He is an ally of King Bowser. He is depicted as a large white Boo with a crown similar to that of Princess Peach. In the Luigi's Mansion series, King Boo serves as the main antagonist and Luigi's arch-nemesis. He is depicted as gargantuan, even larger than his Super Mario counterpart, with darker eyes, a purple tongue and pupils, and a golden crown with a corrupted power-enhancing jewel. He is considered to be one of the series' most evil villains.

Though Mario wasn't the hero of the game he was captured by King Boo and turned into a painting and it was up to Luigi to save him.

Very scary (no pun intended)

5 Fawful (Mario & Luigi: Superstar saga) Fawful, known in Japan as Gerakobits, is a fictional character appearing in the Mario & Luigi series of role-playing video games developed by AlphaDream.

Cool, but very overrated, I don't find him to be that funny to be honest (although I smiled whenever he appeared on screen)

Why is he not # 1! He is the most comical video game villain ever made.

A pretty hilarious antagonist.

6 Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong Arcade) Donkey Kong is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981. It is an early example of the platform game genre, as the gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping over obstacles.

Before Bowser there was Donkey Kong who was Mario's first rival and villain although not actually evil he was a wild animal who kidnapped Pauline and it was Mario's job to rescue her all while he constantly hurled barrels and jacks at you he would also be the villain for the Mario vs Donkey Kong series.

He did this because of Mario forcing Donkey Kong to do circus tricks in the game and watch game and he gets laughed at by Mario for getting burnt or dropping a fruit.

7 Dimentio (Super Paper Mario) Dimentio is an evil harlequin magician and the main antagonist of the 2007 Nintendo Wii video game known as "Super Paper Mario". One of his notable features is that he has created his own Dimension, known as Dimension D.

Come to thin kabout it, Dimentio is very similar to Thanos, they both are mad men wanting to kill the universe, although Dimentio is even more brutal than Thanos, Thanos might have wanted to kill half of the population in the universe, but Dimentio went even further and wanted to destroy everything and create new worlds! I have a theory that Dimentio is Thanos is in a joker outfit and that the chaos heart is the infinity gauntlet on steroids

He's quite the clever bastard, and his personality is absolutely amazing.

He's the best one. Who can forget the final boss of that game?

He sent Mario to hell. TO damn HELL.

8 Dooplis (Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door)

Main boss from the Twilight Town chapter of the game, he turned the people of the town into pigs by ringing the bells after beating him the first time takes over Mario's body leaving him a mere shadow and you have to go through this whole quest to get it back.

9 Mr. L (Super Paper Mario) Mr. L, also known as the Green Thunder, is the major supporting antagonist of Super Paper Mario. He is an evil alter ego of Luigi as a result of being brainwashed by Nastasia, and the creator of Brobot.
10 Smithy (Super Mario RPG)
The Contenders
11 Wario (Super Mario Land 2: Six Gold Coins) Wario is a character in Nintendo's Mario series who was originally designed as an antagonist to Mario. His motives are driven by greed and he will take the side of whoever will give him the most pay. Although he may seem like just a mean man with no heart, he does have a very tragic past.

Well, he's my second favourite mario character

12 Mimi (Super Paper Mario)
13 Goomba (Super Mario Bros.) Goombas, known in Japan as Kuribo, are a species of sentient mushrooms from Nintendo's Mario franchise.

Goomba is cool and underrated.

14 King Koopa (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!)
15 Crystal King (Paper Mario)
16 Shake King (Wario Land: Shake It!)
17 Large Fry (Wario Land: Shake It!)
18 Fracktail (Super Paper Mario)
19 Bloomsday (Wario Land: Shake It!)
20 Hot Roderick (Wario Land: Shake It!)
21 Shadow Mario (Super Mario Sunshine)
22 Rollanratl (Wario Land: Shake It!)
23 Chortlebot (Wario Land: Shake It!)
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