Since when is Bowsers average height 7 ft? I want proof.
1st picture: that's OoT Link and ganon, I believe. US is using TP Ganon and Link.
I wasn't even taking SSBM into consideration, brawl heights are skewed.
Ganon's actually taller in TP than OoT.
Let's start from Bowser's first actual appearance.
He's 8'7 feet tall here.
Hard to tell exactly how large Bowser was in 1991, what with his baffling, surely drug induced contraption that defies categorization. However, we can see his spiky hair has blossomed into a mousse-caked Royal Mane of the Mushroom Kingdom.
Bowser somehow shrunk himself down to roughly the same size as Mario for a friendly putting about on the go-kart course in Super Mario Kart.
You probably never heard of Mario's Time Machine before, because barely anyone played it. Mario's roughly the same size as Bowser.
This Mario sprite found in the remake of the first SMB game stayed about the same, but Super Mario actually drops a few pixels from his original size. As seen at the very first picture, he used to be ALOT taller.
Mid 90s. It may look like Bowser's squatting down, but that's how he stands. Roughly the same size.
Mamma mia! Now this is a drastic departure from every previous game. Bowser has grown tremendously and it’s plainly clear why that is – Nintendo needed Mario 64 to blow everyone away, and a same-sized villain just wouldn’t resonate as much as a towering, fire-breathing menace. They had the technology, they rebuilt him.
As you can see, Mario, who once saw eye to eye with King Bowser, now neatly fits in the latter’s mouth. Amazingly enough, he becomes even larger in the sequel.
Mario and Bowser are back to their regular heights again, less than a year after Super Mario 64’s king-sized baddie.
Dear lord, what is Bowser suppose to be here? He looks like seven orange rectangles trying to get it on with a beehive. He's almost twice the size as Mario here.
Mario's sitting down and they still look roughly the same size. Either that or Mario's feet are hella small.
Cripes man, you’re
huge! As strange as it is to have the final battle take place in a giant septic bathtub, it’s even stranger to see how little regard Nintendo placed on the duo’s relative size.Realize how far away the camera is – if you pull in, and had Mario lay at Bowser’s feet, this would be the biggest he’s ever been by a long shot.
Another sports game, another roughly equivalent pair of competitors. Funny how Bowser’s only scaled down when other people are looking; when it’s just him and Mario squaring off, poof, he’s suddenly huge.
Mentioned this in a few pictures back, Bowser isn't squatting, he's standing up.
Eh.
Hm, he’s certainly quite large, probably more so than the N64 Bowser, yet he’s significantly tinier than Sunshine. Maybe it was the warm tropical air of Delfino Island that swelled him to such great heights – who knows?
Well, there you have it. If you average his size from all these games, he'd only be 1-2 feets taller than Mario. How tall is that? - Around 7 feet.