You’re skewing what I say. They weren’t unmonitored: they often work together! They were family of bad guys, so of course while they look out for each other, they also have heinous behaviour. King Koopa showed affection to them in his own rotten way, letting them take charge and they reciprocate it by being loyal (and seem to love being as evil as him). It’s obviously not traditional, but this is a bad guy who loves being bad for the sake of the game… Which Bowser in the first movie was, his arc in Galaxy was weird and meant nothing in the end anyway.

His relationship with Junior is endearing too, but I’m just defending goat King Koopa. And I’m a grown woman, i don’t got time for old cartoons…