Fawful Express

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Bowser's Inside Story Enemy
Fawful Express
Location(s)	Tunnel
HP	885
Power	294
Defense	130
Speed	30
Experience	3,500
Coins	1,000
Items	Star Candy
Gear	None
Related	None

The Fawful Express is a giant train with a Fawful face in the game Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and its enhanced remake, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey. In the game, Bowser meets up with the Monty Bros. he encountered in the Tunnel who drive the Fawful Express, telling Bowser that they had switched sides and were working for Fawful the entire time. They then drive the train into Bowser, forcing Mario and Luigi to make him giant. After becoming giant, Bowser faces off against the Fawful Express.

The train turns around, and attempts to reach the rickety bridge in 100 "kilomoles". if Bowser does not defeat the train by the time it reaches the bridge, he will fall into the gorge, resulting in a Game Over. The train is too small to be able to punch, so the only way to defeat the train is with Bowser's fire breath. The train makes a certain amount of stops during the chase, during which Bowser has two whole turns to act, and the train having one attack. After Bowser's second turn, it will move to the next station.

The first two stations, the train will unleash small hordes of Choombas, which will charge into Bowser. He must use the stylus to tap on one of the three dots that appear on the screen to squash the Choombas. Occasionally, a Mushroom will appear. After the two stations, the train will reach a small spiky mountain, where it will fire a missile over and at Bowser. Similar to the Tower of Yikk, Bowser must repeatedly tap the mountain to punch it until it crumbles, evading the missile.

The Fawful Express then hides inside a living mountain, called Fawful Mountain, which Bowser must defeat in order to move on with the main battle. The Monty Moles can repair the express while in the mountain, but if Bowser burns the mountain with fire breath, the train inside will lose some health. After the mountain is destroyed, the train flees to another spiky mountain, which Bowser must also destroy. Also, the second missile is much faster.

The final two stations feature an attack where the Monty Bros., now with jetpacks, carry bombs. Bowser must time his punch so that he hits the lead mole while the other moles are all aligned, causing all of them to drop their bombs and heavily damage the train. The final station is Grand Central, and Bowser has two more turns to attack before time is up. If he wins, the train explodes, and several chunks of debris defeat the Monty Bros. as well.

In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey, after defeating the Fawful Express, the Monty Bros. will get out of the train before Bowser tosses it on the bridge, causing the bridge to fall apart and the train to fall into the gorge.

Gallery

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  Bowser's encounter with the Fawful Express in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

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  Bowser battling the Fawful Express in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

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  Splash screen in The Gauntlet in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ゲラエクスプレス Gera Ekusupuresu	From「ゲラコビッツ」(Gerakobittsu, Fawful) and "express"
French (American)	Faffreux Express	Faffreux (F + Affreux (Awful), which is Fawful's Canadian name) + Express
French (Europe)	Gracowitz Express	From Gracowitz, which is Fawful's French name and Express
German	Krankexpress	"Krank" from Fawful's German name "Krankfried" and the English "Express"
Italian	Sogghigno Express	From Fawful's Italian name, Sogghigno
Spanish (Americas)	Expreso Fawful	Fawful Express
Spanish (Europe)	Gracoexpress	From Grácovitz, which is Fawful's European Spanish name and Express

Trivia

• The Fawful Express battle is very similar to the battle with The Zeekeeper battle in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, as both battles have the player chase after the boss before stopping for a chance to attack.
• The Fawful Express is the only Giant Bowser boss battle to not have the opening directly show Bowser becoming larger (it instead shows the inside of the conductor's cabin with the Monty Bros. gloating about their success, and then reveals Bowser became large offscreen).
  • Likewise, it is also the only Super Bowser boss fight where the circumstances for Bowser assuming the giant form did not involve him being stepped on or crushed from above (he was instead smashed into a boulder).
• In the Gauntlet, sometimes it is impossible to defeat the Fawful Express due to the fast speed of the game, most notably when Bowser automatically punches the spiky mountain at a normal speed, even if the player repeatedly taps the screen.