Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Difference between revisions

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: There are two badges you can collect to change Mario's outfit. One is the L Emblem, found in the Poshley Sanctum, which makes Mario's outfit have Luigi's color scheme. The other can be bought from Charlieton, the W Emblem, which gives Mario Wario's color scheme. {{spoiler|Wear them at the same time, and you get Waluigi's color scheme.}}

* [[Anti-Grinding]]: Eventually, you'll only get 1 star point from battles, so it's best to move on with the plot rather than stick around and fight.

* {{spoiler|[[Apocalypse Maiden]]: Princess Peach}}.

* [[Autobots Rock Out]]: The fight music for Chapter 3's miniboss, Rawk Hawk, is made of this. Listen to it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1CDK_JnMa4 here]. (The other battles in the Glitz Pit have the standard battle music.)

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Bobbery.

* [[Badass Mustache]]: Mario, Luigi, and Bobbery.

* {{spoiler|[[Bigger Bad]]: [[Eldritch Abomination|The Shadow Queen]].}}

* [[Big Bulky Bomb]]: The Bulky Bob-ombs and their Pit of 100 Trials [[Underground Monkey|equivalent]] Bob-ulks.

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Mayors Kroop and Dour.

* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: An isolated instance: Sky-Blue Spinies that have curled up into balls are referred to by the game as "Sky-Blue Pipes". ''Paipo'' is the Japanese name for Spiny Eggs, which may be where the confusion came from.

* [[Book Ends]]: It ends how it started, with Peach wanting to treasure hunt again.

* [[Boss Remix]]: Lord Crump, Sir Grodus, and Bowser all get this treatment.

** "You out there in front of the TV!" If Goombella is your partner when Professor Frankly says this, she'll lampshade it with "Why do we always have to break through the fourth wall?"

** When asked to describe Stewart in Glitzville, Goombella will mention that Cheep-Cheeps have been around since the first Mario game, and then say "I just broke through the fourth wall there, didn't I?". If you get her to describe the gatekeeper in Twilight Town, she'll mention that the game would be too easy without him.

* [[Call a Hit Point a Smeerp]]: Heart Points and Flower Points are HP and FP, respectively.

** Star Points for EXP. Which is kind of confusing when you've got Star Power as your [[Limit Break]] points.

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Last game, Mario and company were just putting the stomp on Bowser, standard Mario heroics. For this go-round, Mario gets to prevent [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. And then in the third one, he helps prevent the end of all dimensions in existence.

* [[Character Development]]

* [[Elopement]]: One subplot involves the daughter of a Pianta mafia don eloping with one of his underlings. The first time you meet, he agrees to secure you a ride to the place where the next [[Plot Coupon]] is if you bring them back. On finding them, they return of their own accord and he tells them to get lost but gives them his blessing in a roundabout way. They settle on a tropical island a few chapters later. {{spoiler|In the next chapter you need a ride once again, so you return and find him sick (literally) with worry about them. One subquest later and you have [[Not Rare Over There|your ticket]], the couple and the Don reconcile and everyone's happy.}}

* {{spoiler|[[The End of the World as We Know It]]: What Mario is trying to prevent.}}

* [[Epic Fail]]: When asked about Luigi's adventures his "[[Beleaguered Assistant|sidekicks]]" tell Mario that they're pretty much an [[Up to Eleven]] series of this.

** Except [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Hayzee.]] But he's a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] from a village full of more [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Crayzee Dayzees [[It Makes Sense in Context|who LOVED his "role" of grass.]]

* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: {{spoiler|Peach to the Shadow Queen, thanks to the Crystal Stars.}}

* [[Fighting Your Friend]] : When Doopliss steals your identity, you very own friends, who don't recognize you, fight alongside him. You don't have to kick their asses, but still. {{spoiler|There's also Peach getting possessed by the Shadow Queen at the end of the game.}}

** [[The Evil Genius]]: Beldam, who also counts as [[The Dragon]]. {{spoiler|...To The Shadow Queen, that is. She ends up being [[The Man Behind the Man|The Woman Behind The Man]] to Grodus and ends up manipulating him.}}

** [[The Dark Chick]]: Vivian, who pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]] and joins Mario.

* [[Floating Continent]]: Glitzville

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Variation; instead of actual missiles, Magnus Von Grapple 2.0 [[Grievous Harm with a Body|sucks up your audience members and uses them as projectiles.]]

* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|Mario Can Breathe In Space]]

* [[The Mafia]]: Yes, really: the Pianta Syndicate.

** [[The Family for the Whole Family|They never really]] [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|do anything]], though, aside from the minor scene in the beginning and selling (scalping?) tickets.

* [[Optional Party Member]]: {{spoiler|Ms. Mowz}}.

* [[Overly Long Gag]]: In a rare case of one being able to ''harm you,'' near the climax of chapter 2, a time bomb is set off in the Great Boggly Tree. When you reach the base of the tree, the Puni elder confronts Lord Crump, resulting in her spending some time complaining about her back. Oh, did I mention that the clock is still ticking, and can run out during this scene?

*** Some GC controllers have a turbo function. Thankfully this means you can just hold A down.

* [[Overused Running Gag]]: WHEE HEE! FOOOOOLS! It's made clear that Mario has gotten tired of this by the fourth chest. "Spare me the prologue and just [[Cursed with Awesome|curse]] me already."

* [[Recurring Extra]]: The Toad Sisters and Dupree.

* [[Repeating So the Audience Can Hear]]: Since Mario himself [[Heroic Mime|never speaks]] aside from a few stock lines of dialogue, the other characters have to talk for him.

* [[Rich Boredom]]: Flavio

* [[Robinsonade]]: Chapter 5.

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Bub the Bob-Omb.

* [[Strange Salute]]: The X-Nauts have one.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: On the {{spoiler|moon base}}, it's revealed that X-Naut is pronounced Cross Naut, meaning that TEC-XX becomes {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn|TEC-double cross]]}}.

** One of Luigi's companions is a red Bob-omb named Jerry. {{spoiler|Cherry bomb.}}

* [[Storybook Opening]]

* [[Stronger Sibling]]: {{spoiler|Gloomtail and Bonetail}}.

* [[Surprise Creepy]]: In particular, the final boss is a pretty jarring development in a Mario-branded game.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Several of Mario's party members in this game are functionally identical to the ones in the first game. This is most obvious with party members that are the same species, such as Goombario and Goombella, or Kooper and Koops.