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Aided by her sycophantic assistant Fawful, Cackletta attempted to steal Princess Peach'svoice and use it to steal the Beanstar — a mystical object of the Beanbean Kingdom that can grant wishes. Beanbean lore states that only one with a beautiful voice can activate the Beanstar's mysterious powers to grant any wish — and Cackletta hopes to use this power to conquer Beanbean Kingdom and soon after, the Mushroom Kingdom. Cackletta's plans backfire, however, when she actually attempts to use Peach's voice. She finds that Toadsworth and the Mushroom retainers anticipated the ambush and switched Peach with Birdo, whom they dolled up like Peach. As a result, the Beanstar was infuriated by Birdo's squawking voice and did not grant Cackletta her wish.
Mario and Luigi soon caught up to Cackletta at Woohoo Hooniversity and fought her. She attacked ferociously, with black holes and lightning bolts, but, ultimately, was defeated by the Mario Bros. Her body was battered up so badly, she could no longer move around on her own, and was close to her turn in death. Fawful absorbed Cackletta's spirit into a vacuum cleaner-like device to save her and tried to attack the Mario bros. He was stopped by Prince Peasley, who shot them out of the Hooniversity. King Bowser was suffering from amnesia for some time after being shot out of a large cannon and was wandering idly around Beanbean Kingdom. Just when he remembered who he was, Fawful met him and sent Cackletta's spirit into his body. Cackletta promptly renamed herself "Bowletta", a combination of Bowser's name and hers.
Armed with the new alias, Bowletta continued her plan to obtain the Beanstar and Peach's voice. The Mario Bros. eventually caught up with Bowletta, and after fighting through the notoriously spoiled Koopalings (Bowser's malicous children), and Fawful, they fought Bowletta. Bowletta gave up without really giving a fight, and it seemed too easy, until Bowletta swallowed them whole. Inside Bowser's stomach, Mario and Luigi encountered Cackletta's spirit inside of the body, and defeated her. After defeating the specter, it left Bowser's body, returning him to normal. It can be assumed that Cackletta is dead and retired from Nintendo games.
File:Bowletta.gifCackletta possessed Bowser as a spiritual puppet to become Bowletta.File:Cackletta2.gifCackletta before the Mario Bros. destroyed her original body.
Cackletta is the first female character in a Mario game to be the main villain. Though Captain Syrup and the Golden Diva technically appeared before her, they appeared in games in the Wario Land series. Cackletta was followed by the Shadow Queen of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Princess Shroob from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. This sudden inclusion of more female villains (the presumably female Dark Samus from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes also being among them suggests that Nintendo may have realized the "sexism" their games might be taken to promote to some (portraying characters such as Peach and Daisy as helpless damsels and Mario as their fearless rescuer). Both Peach and Daisy have become quite headstrong over time, and Samus Aran of Metroid has always been a popular symbol of gender equality in video games.
