About

Chain Chompette refers to Super Crown fan art of the Super Mario character Chain Chomp as a woman. Alongside Bowsette and Princess Boo, the character became one of the most popular subjects of Super Crown fan art in late September and early October of 2018.

Origin

Chompette was inspired by the "Super Crown" mechanic which turns the character Toadette into a Princess Peach lookalike, which Nintendo showed during a Nintendo Direct advertisement for New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe on September 13th, 2018 (shown below, left). Six days later, Twitter user @ayyk92 posted a comic Bowser undergoing a similar transition (shown below, right), leading to a surge of Super Crown fan art drawings of that character as well as other Nintendo characters.

The creation of Bowsette led to the creation of multiple Nintendo characters drawn in fan art. On September 22nd, 2018, Twitter user @Zanamaoria posted art of Chain Chomp as a princess, saying "If it works on bowser it should work on other characters as well." The tweet gained over 1,300 retweets and 5,800 likes (shown below).

Spread

The character saw a flood of fan art in the coming days; really taking off on the 24th that month. Popular examples from that date include pieces by Twitter users @angstrom, @saekiyahiro and @kamindani (shown below, left to right). The pieces managed to gather respectively over 8,200, 19,900 and 13,000 retweets; alongside 32,200, 67,500 and 46,000 likes as of October 3rd.

Whereas Bowsette and Princess Boo kept their features fairly consistent in fanart, showing mostly small outfit changes or colour differences, Chain Chompette fanart instead was inspired by the various initial designs alongside other original approaches.

On September 27th, 2018, the art was covered by Nintendo Enthusiast,^[1] who called the character a challenger to Bowsette. They also showcased cosplayer @MiizaHime who dressed as the character (shown below).

The trend also saw some spread on YouTube. User GabaLeth animated a Chompette cartoon, gaining over 75,000 views (shown below, left). User Mairusu posted a video review going over the myriad Super Crown parodies, including Chompette (shown below, right).

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