Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door/Characters

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Mario's Partners

 * Badass Crew
 * Character Development: All of them receive mild to moderate development as the game progresses.
 * Deadpan Snarkers: All of them have their moments, but Goombella takes the cake in snarkiness.
 * Expies: All of them are expies of the first Paper Mario's partners barring Madame Flurrie, whom even then shares her hairstyle with Ludwig von Koopa.
 * Multinational Team: All of them represent a particular region within the Mushroom Kingdom, with them being all different species to boot.
 * Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The party consists of: a Goomba Archaeology Student; a Diffident Breakdancing Koopa; a Wind Spirit Actress; a Newborn Yoshi; a Living Shadow Girl; a Salty Bob-Omb Sailor; and maybe a Classy Little Mouser Thief.
 * True Companions

Goombella
""Never, ever give up! That's the most important thing I've learned from you, Mario.""

Like in the first game, Mario's first partner is an intellectual Goomba who provides information about the world (and enemies). This time around, it's a college-aged gal named Goombella. Although she sounds like a bit of a Valley Girl, she's sharp as a tack.


 * Aborted Declaration of Love: She seems ready to do this in the closing words of her mail to Mario in the epilogue, but chooses to keep it to herself.
 * Action Girl: Even without Mario's help, she's always up for adventure!
 * Adventurer Archaeology Student
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: She does this for some character descriptions, sometimes apologizing for doing so.
 * Cute Little Fangs: All Goombas have fangs, but unlike others of her species, she only has one, and it's smaller than usual. Thus, cute and little.
 * Deadpan Snarker: To set herself apart from Goombario.
 * Distaff Counterpart/Expy: She's like Goombario, possessing his Tattle ability... BUT PINK!
 * Enemy Scan: Her Tattle ability, like Goombario. All scans are recorded in her Tattle Log.
 * Epilogue Letter: Writes an email to Mario about what everyone's up to.
 * Great Big Book of Everything: She has a book called the Tattle Log that has information on everything you can possibly encounter.
 * Except one. She finds an entry with a picture that matches, but it's a little short on info...
 * Ladyella
 * Use Your Head: She actually has a helmet, unlike Goombario.
 * Valley Girl: Subverted. She is like this in speech patterns, but not in mentality.

Koops
""Listen Mario! Traveling with you has taught me bravery... I will fight to the end!""

Mario's second partner is a Koopa once again, this time wearing a hoodie. Koops, however, is a diffident and awkward fellow who's unsure on his feet. He joins Mario in order to help save his father, but stays around so that he can become stronger for his girlfriend, Koopie Koo.


 * Adorably Precocious Koopa: Has shades of this in the beginning, with his father missing, and most of Petalburg considering him to be a crybaby of sorts. Koopie Koo even lampshades this if you speak to her in a certain portion of the game.
 * Adorkable: A shy, awkward, koopa with confidence issues, whom often fumbles on his words in front of Ms. Mowz? He definitely qualifies.
 * Armor-Piercing Attack: His Shell Slam attack completely nullifies enemy defenses.
 * Barrier Warrior: His Shell Shield ability is an odd example of this, due to the shield itself being a completely visible koopa shell. Despite this however, in terms of offensive capabilities, he's still on par with the other party members.
 * Cowardly Lion: He starts out as a coward, but will gladly take on a multitude of enemies and everything else to come.
 * Crippling Overspecialization: He has great single-hit damage, but is almost useless against flying enemies, since all of his attacks are ground-based.
 * Dance Battler: Not exactly fighting, but his hidden stylish moves consist of breakdance spins and handstands.
 * Expy: He's similar to Kooper; sharing mostly the same skills, but has a vastly different personality.
 * The Fifties: Speech patterns including Gee Whiz and Golly? Check. The only thing he's missing is the mentality of a fifties kid/teen.
 * Grew a Spine: Throughout the game, he tries to be more self-assertive.
 * Pointless Band-Aid
 * Shrinking Violet: He's first introduced as this, but eventually becomes a...
 * Socially Awkward Hero / Determinator
 * Speech Impediment: Has a mild stutter at first, but gradually fades as the game progresses. He still frequently uses "um" when speaking however.
 * Stone Wall / Glass Cannon: A surprising mix of both. Unlike the other party members he has one extra defense point by default; but has the lowest HP out of them. In addition to this, he's still certainly capable of dealing out damage.
 * Weaksauce Weakness: Stomp and earthquake attacks knock him on his back like any other koopa, eliminating his defense and rendering him unable to battle for a while.
 * Amusingly, you can use this to your advantage when facing, where   can copy him AND inherit the weakness as well.
 * When All You Have Is A Koopa Shell: All of his abilities involve his shell in some form, and all but one involves plowing it into enemies.
 * Your Cheating Heart: It never amounts to anything, really, but he's quite jealous of Mario getting all of Ms. Mowz's attention whenever they cross paths.

Madame Flurrie
""Here we go, darling! Time to shine!""

Mario's third partner, a wind spirit of a kind not seen before or since in the series (though she might actually be a modified Puff). She's a former star who decided to quit early for the sake of her health. She lives peacefully in the Boggly Woods until joining Mario to help the Punis. She can blow things away with her powerful wind-breath.


 * Blow You Away: Her Gale Force blows enemies out of the battle when it works.
 * Big Beautiful Cloud Woman
 * Expy: Averted, which is worth mentioning because almost all of your other party members are expies of the first game's partners. Her personality is unique and her abilities are only slightly similar to Lakilester's, although her field ability is unique.
 * Played straight with her hair to another Mario character. It's Ludwig von Koopa's 'do.
 * Gainaxing: Of all the characters in the game to have it... though some may not mind.
 * Her breasts have their own sound effect as well.
 * Large Ham: Comes with being a former actress!
 * Life Drain/Kiss of Death: Her Lip Lock ability.
 * Smooch of Victory: She tries to give one to Mario. He's... not very receptive.
 * Spoony Bard: Not terrible, but her attacks are less powerful than those of other partners, and she has few advantages apart from hitting enemies at the top of the battlefield, which is later replaced by Vivian. She does become a goodStone Wall due to her higher HP and her Life Drain ability, but in other areas she's outclassed by other partners.
 * Stone Wall: When used properly, she can be a very good tank.
 * Super Breath
 * White Dwarf Starlet: Apparently, she used to, erm, have less stage presence. Nevertheless, she remains popular, and even returns to the stage at the end.

Yoshi
""Lemme at 'em! Yeah! Bring it! You ready for a beating?""

Mario first meets this baby Yoshi in the Glitz Pit, where he hatches from a strange egg. "Yoshi" isn't his real name, though—his name is whatever the player decides to name him! He can carry Mario across gaps, functionally equivalent to Parakarry's ability, and Mario moves much more quickly while riding him.


 * Badass Adorable: For someone fresh out of the egg, he can hold his own in a fight.
 * Boisterous Bruiser: Again, for someone just born, he's strong in a fight.
 * Cute Bruiser: Friggin' adorable even by Yoshi standards, but being hatched in the Glitz Pit seems to have rubbed off on him.
 * Cherry Tapping: His attacks do 1 point of damage several times over.
 * Except for his Gulp attack, which does the opposite by ignoring armor.
 * Easter Egg: The official art always shows a green Yoshi baby, but he comes in eight different colors in-game! However, getting a specific color requires getting from the point where you save him from the hotdog vendor to when you run away from the Iron Clefts in a certain amount of time (or waiting a long time for the timer to reset).
 * Real Men Wear Pink: One possible, and common result.
 * Egg McGuffin: How Mario first meets him.
 * Expy: In terms of field abilities, he's an expy of Parakarry, being able to carry Mario across gaps. Outside of that, he completely averts this.
 * Hello, Insert Name Here: The only character in the series to be so! Justified in that he had no name prior to meeting Mario.
 * Huge Rider, Tiny Mount: He's barely half the size of Mario, but he lets the guy ride him anyway...
 * And then there's when Flavio follows you and you both jump on Yoshi.
 * Then again, are they not just made of paper?
 * Pint-Sized Powerhouse
 * Powerup Mount
 * Sword of Plot Advancement: The last minor league Glitz Pit fight is a Hopeless Boss Fight before you get him.
 * Passing the Torch - In the epilogue, he calls himself "The Great Gonzales Jr.".

Vivian
""Mario! I'm fighting by your side from now on! I've made my choice… and I'm not turning back!""

This shadowy witch first shows up as a mini-boss in the "care" of her older sisters. However, she eventually decides that she's had enough of it and becomes Mario's ally because he showed her kindness. She can pull him into the shadows to hide, and attack with fire.

"Vivian: I'm with Mario all the way! Today, Sis, I am going to punish YOU, do you hear me?"
 * Aborted Declaration of Love: Appears to be ready to make a love confession to Mario in the ending, but stops herself.
 * Action Girl
 * Anti-Villain: Type II.
 * Because You Were Nice to Me: Why she joins Mario in the end.
 * Cute Witch: She is absolutely adorable.
 * Dark Action Girl: Subverted. She ends up joining Mario's team, and isn't cut out to being evil—plus, she can't stand being picked on by Beldam.
 * The Dark Chick: When on the side of the villains.
 * Expy: She's an expy of Bow in terms of her shadow-evasion field ability, though her fire abilities are unique to her.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * The Hecate Sisters: She was the Maiden in the Shadow Sirens.
 * Living Shadow
 * Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: The last straw is finding out that the grenade Beldam tasked her with finding is broken.
 * Playing with Fire: Some of her attacks can ignite your enemies.
 * Redemption Promotion: She can end up much stronger when she was when she first fought you. The only element of Redemption Demotion is her not having Fiery Jinx until you upgrade her (and when she uses it, it's much stronger).
 * She's A Friend: Mario has to explain this to the party even after they realize that Doopliss has tricked them. Her being with Mario is seen as evidence against him being the real one.
 * She's a Man In Japan: Vivian's gender is a biologically male while she is a transwoman in the Japanese version, but just plain female in the English release.
 * Shipper on Deck: Ships Mario/Peach in the ending.
 * Ship Tease: Doopliss taunts Mario, suggesting that he's having a "fight with (his) girlfriend," when she becomes hesitant to fight alongside him after learning his identity.
 * The Dog Bites Back: If the player has her as Mario's partner when facing the Shadow Sirens again.

Admiral Bobbery
""I suggest you try a bit harder against the likes of us, hm?""

A Bob-Omb sailor with an explosive personality and a killer mustache. He used to sail the high seas freely, until Like Bombette, he can explode at will. However, he has some additional abilities, including defense and time-release bombs.


 * Action Bomb
 * Badass Grandpa: He must be well into his late sixties or something.
 * Badass Mustache: Just look at it!
 * Distaff Counterpart / Expy: Of Bombette, but has some different abilities.
 * Father Neptune
 * For Massive Damage: His Bomb-ombast is his most powerful attack, and also your most damaging multi-target move not counting Supernova.
 * Retired Badass: Well, you sorta bring him out of it.
 * Stock British Phrases: He uses quite a few of them, mostly "old boy".

Ms. Mowz
""Who is this handsome piece of cheese?""

This thief has a tendency to keep popping up wherever Mario is. She hunts down rare badges and other treasures. But is it possible to win her over to your side...? (Yes, it is.) Her nose can literally sniff out treasure, and in battle, she can steal items, which becomes an excellent source of income.


 * Action Girl: As a thief/treasure hunter, she's quite proactive even before joining Mario, and being able to steal items and pierce through enemy defenses with her attacks doesn't hurt either.
 * Armor-Piercing Slap: Quite literally. One of her attacks is a slap that bypasses defense.
 * Classy Mouse Burglar
 * Dating Catwoman: In the first few dungeons, she shows up as a rival treasure hunter who is indeed competing with Mario for certain treasures. Nonetheless, she openly flirts with him.
 * Expy: In terms of combat and field abilities, she's somewhat like a Nerfed Watt. She has attacks that are somewhat similar to Watt's from the first game: Out of battle, she reveals secrets, and in it, she can bypass defense. However, since Watt's defense-piercing abilities were a total Game Breaker, her damage is cut, making her the physically weakest party member with a maximum of 4 damage done by her base attack.
 * She's also somewhat similar to Rouge the Bat.
 * Intimate Healing: Her final skill is a kiss that restores HP to Mario.
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: The mouse running the badge shop may be lacking the most obvious parts of the costume, but her color and tail are a giveaway.
 * Recurring Traveler: In the first few dungeons, anyway. She stops appearing when she becomes an...
 * Optional Party Member
 * The Nose Knows: She can sniff out treasure.
 * Video Game Stealing: She can steal items (and badges!) off enemies. She apparently does this by, um, "distracting" them while she rifles through their pockets.

Grodus
""Once you fools are gone, no one will stand in my way! Grodus will rule the world!""

Leader of the shadowy X-Naut group, Grodus already has one Crystal Star in his possession and plans to gather the rest, preferably by gaining the magical map. To this end, he employs armies of X-nauts and the Shadow Sirens.


 * Big Bad: The main villain of the game, leader of the X-Nauts, and plans on world conquest.
 * Evil Laugh: Gack ack ack ack!
 * Evil Sorcerer: Also probably counts as a Technopath.
 * I Have Your Wife:.
 * In Their Own Image: Yep. Provides the page quote, as a matter of fact.
 * Magic From Technology: He's a robot, or at the very least a cyborg, but he's one of the strongest mages in the game.
 * Oh Crap: When he realizes that
 * Shock and Awe: His attacks are primarily lightning-based.
 * Take Over the World: His main goal.
 * Oh Crap: When he realizes that
 * Shock and Awe: His attacks are primarily lightning-based.
 * Take Over the World: His main goal.

Lord Crump
""I've got some ammo to spare! How's THAT for boom–bassa–boom?!?""

A high-ranking agent of the X-Nauts, Lord Crump is a rather weird fellow who is your first fight in the game. He eventually develops a grudge against Mario for his repeated defeats.


 * Cloudcuckoolander: Most of the X-Nauts are kind of weird, but Crump takes the cake.
 * The Dragon: Sir Grodus's righthand man.
 * Evil Laugh: Buh! Buh! Buh! Buh! Buh huh huh huh!
 * Expy: Could easily be one of Dr. Eggman because:
 * He wears round goggles like Eggman (but then again so do all of the other X-Nauts).
 * The red collar of his outfit makes it look like he has a large red moustache.
 * He fights in a Humongous Mecha with a spherical cockpit.
 * He's also one of Darth Vader... If Vader was an incompentent fool, mind you. After all this is Lord Crump, second in commander to Grodus (who's basically the Emperor).
 * Flunky Boss: At the end of Chapter 5.
 * Goldfish Poop Gang
 * Humongous Mecha: Magnus Von Grapple.
 * Number Two for Brains: Sort of. He is a bigger Cloudcuckoolander than the mooks, which is saying something.
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: In the 5th chapter, on the island, his disguise as an ordinary sailor is... not great.
 * Recurring Boss: Twice on foot (Prologue and Chapter 5), and twice in Magnus Von Grapple (Chapters 2 and 7).
 * Warmup Boss

Beldam
""We would've won if you two lumps had pulled your weight! Both of you, prepare for a world–class punishment session when we get home!""

The bossy eldest sister of the Shadow Sirens. She has a tendency to make errors and blame her sisters—generally Vivian—for them. She seems to be in Grodus's employ.


 * An Ice Person
 * Dark Action Girl
 * The Evil Genius
 * : In the ending,.
 * Jerkass: First to Vivian, then to Doopliss. Even Marilyn gets treated poorly on occasion.
 * Living Shadow
 * Never My Fault: Loses things and blames Vivian for it, despite explicitly saying that she can't be trusted with it.
 * Squishy Wizard: The weakest statistics-wise of the Shadow Sirens, but specializes in status buffs and debuffs.
 * Wicked Witch
 * Never My Fault: Loses things and blames Vivian for it, despite explicitly saying that she can't be trusted with it.
 * Squishy Wizard: The weakest statistics-wise of the Shadow Sirens, but specializes in status buffs and debuffs.
 * Wicked Witch
 * Squishy Wizard: The weakest statistics-wise of the Shadow Sirens, but specializes in status buffs and debuffs.
 * Wicked Witch

Marilyn
"""GUUUUUUHH!"""

One of the shadow sirens. The biggest and quietest of the three, who is unintelligible when she does try to speak.


 * The Brute
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Living Shadow
 * Poor Communication Kills: Actually recognizes Mario when they first encounter him, but can't convey this to Beldam until he comes back to get Flurrie's necklace.
 * Shock and Awe (notice a pattern here?)
 * The Unintelligible: She says only two real words in the whole game.
 * Wicked Witch

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""Well, all right then, Slick. Fine. Yes. I turned the villagers into pigs. Big deal.""

A prankster Duplighost who lives in Creepy Steeple. He cursed the residents of Twilight Town so that whenever its bell tolls, someone becomes a pig! He "becomes" Mario and intends to erase him, but is foiled. He later joins the Shadow Sirens.


 * Anticlimax Boss: After the first fight with him, Mario's partner will comment that he was disappointingly easy to beat. He's slightly harder in the rematch.
 * Baleful Polymorph: The effect of the curse, which often strikes just the wrong (and sometimes, right) person.
 * Bedsheet Ghost
 * Butt Monkey: In later chapters, he replaces Vivian as the primary target of Beldam's abuse.
 * Cut Lex Luthor a Check:
 * Ditto Fighter:
 * For the Evulz
 * I Know Your True Name: The key to victory.
 * Interface Screw: To ensure that you don't guess his name before the storyline wants you to, a letter is removed from the text-entering screen. It turns out that he's actually removed it himself, and you have to find it in a treasure chest.
 * Jerkass
 * King Mook: Sorta. The Duplighosts were late-game Mooks found in the first Paper Mario, but in the sequel, he's the only one.
 * Nigh Invulnerable: If you don't state his true name, you enter a battle where he cannot take any damage. It's not hopeless, as he can't deal any damage either. The only option is to run.
 * Nightmare Retardant: His abilities remain terrifying throughout the chapter, but that doesn't change the fact that the one responsible for the town's curse is a Bedsheet Ghost in a party hat and bowtie who is sitting in an easy chair watching TV when you first meet him. Your partner tends to agree.
 * The Sixth Ranger: To the Shadow Sirens.
 * This Cannot Be!: After Mario successfully states his true name.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting: Like all Duplighosts, he is able to do this.

The Shadow Queen
""You are foolish to oppose me. Yesss... and that foolishness... will have to be punished...""

A being that was sealed away by the Crystal Stars a thousand years ago. Grodus is trying to revive her in order to use her power to take over the world.


 * Dark Action Girl
 * Demonic Possession
 * Eldritch Abomination: Has all the hallmarks of one;
 * On top of that,
 * Giant Hands of Doom: Her hands can attack separately.
 * God Save Us From the Queen
 * Sealed Evil in a Can
 * Shock and Awe/Casting a Shadow: Her main attack is firing bolts of dark lightning.
 * We Can Rule Together: Not exactly together, but
 * Your Soul Is Mine:
 * We Can Rule Together: Not exactly together, but
 * Your Soul Is Mine:
 * Your Soul Is Mine:

Hooktail
""Snack time, my little appetizers! But which one of you morsels should I taste first?""

A huge dragon residing in a castle named for her, Hooktail is one of few remaining vestiges of the age in which the Shadow Queen ruled, and continues to guard a Crystal Star until Mario puts an end to her once and for all. As her gender is not mentioned when she is faced, Hooktail is mistakenly assumed by the party to be male. With her queen gone, Hooktail has taken to terrorising the nearby village of Petalburg, the skeletal remains of many former Koopa inhabitants of which may be found in her castle.


 * Big Eater: Is capable of devouring a huge portion of the audience during her fight.
 * Evil Is Burning Hot: Capable of powerful fire breath.
 * Whether or not you, she
 * Really 700 Years Old: She's been around since the Shadow Queen's time as one of her pet dragons. This puts her around at least 1000 years old.
 * Samus Is a Girl: What a shocker.
 * Warmup Boss: The first proper boss in the game.
 * Weaksauce Weakness: Cricket sounds, of all things.
 * Self-Imposed Challenge: Defeating her without this weakness. It can be done, but you'll need to go in well-equipped, as she is quite the hard-hitting Stone Wall normally.
 * Self-Imposed Challenge: Defeating her without this weakness. It can be done, but you'll need to go in well-equipped, as she is quite the hard-hitting Stone Wall normally.

Grubba
""One day, you'll look back on all them small–dreamers 'n LAUGH!""

A sixty year-old Clubba and fight promoter


 * Blood Knight: He is heavily implied to have enjoyed fighting in the ring when he was younger.
 * Cool Shades
 * Nice Guy: He's incredibly friendly and genial to just about everyone he meets, and takes a special liking to Mario.
 * Older Than They Look: Can you believe he's sixty?!
 * The Reveal: A shocking one, too.
 * Southern-Fried Genius: For someone who likely hails from the south, he's definitely a hell of a technical master.
 * Walking Spoiler: There is a LOT more to this guy than meets the eye.
 * The Reveal: A shocking one, too.
 * Southern-Fried Genius: For someone who likely hails from the south, he's definitely a hell of a technical master.
 * Walking Spoiler: There is a LOT more to this guy than meets the eye.
 * Walking Spoiler: There is a LOT more to this guy than meets the eye.

Rawk Hawk
""Feel the horror of a world–class RAAAAAWWWKING!""

A giant, yellow bird and champion of the Glitz Pit, a fighting arena. He's loud, brash, obnoxious, and thinks he's the best fighter around. He uses some dirty tricks during fights, but insists that he'll fight clean once Mario finds the Crystal Star.


 * Combat Pragmatist: Launches himself from the walls of the arena, and even grabs onto the ceiling beam at one point (putting him beyond the reach of most attacks) and shakes it to drop objects down on Mario.
 * Defeat Means Friendship: Well, not so much friendship, but Rawk Hawk garners a begrudging respect for Mario after losing to him.
 * Large Ham
 * Shout-Out: Obviously a parody of professional wrestlers, but likely a parody of Hulk Hogan and The Rock in particular.
 * In fact, for the Spanish dub, Rawk Hawk is actually called Hawk Hogan.
 * Small Name, Big Ego: In spite of all of his bragging, his boss fight is quite easy. (And he doesn't get any tougher for rematches.) In addition, when he later challenges Bowser to a fight, Bowser curb stomps him. (Literally!)

Cortez
""Hear my voice, spirits! Take their ship and show them the meaning of fear!""

An old pirate that has long since died. All that remains of Cortez is a giant, floating skull wearing a pirate hat, although he can possess a pile of bones to get some form of a body again. Upon defeat, Cortez befriends the heroes and provides travel to a deserted island.


 * Badass Spaniard
 * Defeat Means Friendship: He becomes fast friends with Mario upon defeating him when he finds out Mario wasn't after his gold.
 * Ghost Pirate: Or skeleton pirate.
 * Multi-Armed and Dangerous
 * Sequential Boss: Has a relatively small HP pool, but has three different phases and it refills for each one.
 * Your Soul Is Mine: His surprise healing method if you don't finish him off quickly enough. Poor audience.
 * Actually, that's unavoidable. However, he only uses it in his third phase.

The Smorg
Strange creatures inhabiting an abandoned train station. When Mario chases them off to throw a switch, the creatures stow away on the train he is riding and take all of the passengers hostage, growing into a multi-tentacled monster. The Smorg flee the train when defeated.


 * Cognizant Limbs
 * Giant Space Flea From Nowhere: Originally, Smorg was something Beldam sent after Mario (you were supposed to fight the Sirens in Riverside Station), but this was cut, leaving Smorg's appearance a damn near Non Sequitur Scene. Using this information, just believe that the Sirens summoned this thing off-screen behind the scenes.
 * Synchronized Swarming: They're intelligent little creepers, for one.
 * Tentacle Rope: It can even form into a CLAW!

Punio
A member of a race called Punis. A headstrong little guy that is apparently intended to lead the tribe one day. He doubts himself and, when the X-Nauts invade his home, he enlists Mario's help to get rid of them.


 * Big Brother Instinct: He is very concerned about his little sister Petuni's safety when the Great Tree gets taken over.
 * Unlikely Hero: A lot of conversations imply that the other Punis generally don't think the world of him, or at least think he's a little dimwitted.

Jolene
A Toad woman and secretary of Grubba in the Glitz Pit. Mysteries surround her, and it's apparent that there's more to her than meets the eye.


 * Cool Big Sis
 * Sugar and Ice Personality: Is all business while on the job, but shows a warmer side around and in her email response to Mario after he finishes her Trouble Center request.
 * Sugar and Ice Personality: Is all business while on the job, but shows a warmer side around and in her email response to Mario after he finishes her Trouble Center request.

Flavio
A flamboyant, eccentric, rich adventurer that lives in Rogueport for reasons unknown. He claims to be a fearless sailor, but in reality, is a complete coward that makes Mario do all the dangerous things.


 * Dirty Coward: Yes, he's a complete coward, but in the end, he still risks his neck to save his crew by going to reason with Cortez.
 * Small Name, Big Ego: He insists that he's responsible for everything good that's happened in chapter 5 and also seems to assume that everybody in the group loves him.

Pennington
""Rudimentary, my dear Luigi!""

A penguin that resides in a town for the rich. He runs a museum, but secretly pines to be a detective, which he isn't really that good at.


 * Expy: Of the various penguins that were involved in the murder mystery in the first game.
 * Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: He spends the entire game believing that he is talking to Luigi, and there's no telling him otherwise.
 * He does overhear somebody referring to Mario as Mario at the end of the game, at which point he seems to realize his mistake.

TEC-XX
""Princess Peach, teach me this feeling you call... "love."""

The world's best computer, designed to be absolutely perfect, which runs the X-Naut Fortress. After Princess Peach was kidnapped and placed in her holding cell, TEC observes her and begins to fall in love with her. TEC tries to understand this feeling, and in exchange TEC allows her to contact Mario.


 * : Inverted.
 * Could Say It, But...: Gives Peach a "quiz" that. after a few questions to which she already knows the answer, reveals the villains' true plan.
 * Plot-Based Voice Cancellation: After Chapter 6, when telling Peach.
 * Rapid-Fire Typing: When Princess Peach types up her message to Mario on TEC's keyboard.
 * Stealth Pun: On the, it's revealed that the X-Yux is pronounced Cross Yux, meaning that the X-Nauts and TEC-XX could be the same, so TEC-XX becomes.
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?
 * Rapid-Fire Typing: When Princess Peach types up her message to Mario on TEC's keyboard.
 * Stealth Pun: On the, it's revealed that the X-Yux is pronounced Cross Yux, meaning that the X-Nauts and TEC-XX could be the same, so TEC-XX becomes.
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?