Any character would have been better than a Mario enemy nobody really knows. All it did was open his big mouth and shot out a huge stick of spikes from it, nothing really going for that, a goomba would have been a better choice than that. At least a Goomba is well known.
Hack, Pink Gold Peach would have been better. Mario spin-off games were having awful, and I mean AWFUL character choices in their games lately, Mario tennis smash with the green fairy, like...Nintendo has a great bunch of characters, and they use ones nobody likes.
Ashley for Mario spin-off games!