Blooper (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
| Blooper | |
|---|---|
 Tattle Log sprite from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) | |
| Species | Big Blooper |
| First appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) |
| Latest appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024) |
- “Bloobloobloobloop! (Who just up and whacks someone's tootsies like that?)”
- —Blooper, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
The Blooper, referred to as a Big Blooper in its Super Smash Bros. cameos, is the main prologue boss fought in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its Nintendo Switch remake.
History[edit]
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]
- “BlooblooblooblooblooBLOOP! (I'll give him a taste of the old tentacle trample!)”
- —Blooper, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
When Mario and Goombella are in Rogueport Underground to find the pipe to Petal Meadows, one of the Blooper's tentacles is blocking the way. Mario has to either hit it with his Hammer or jump on it, angering the Blooper and initiating a battle.
At the start of the battle, it hangs off the ceiling, leaving the player to attack its tentacles. This marks the first game in which a Blooper's tentacles are referred to as such and fought separately. After both the L. Tentacle and R. Tentacle are defeated, the Blooper will fall to the ground and become vulnerable, before standing back up and attacking with its ink.
Following its defeat, the Blooper starts to squirt itself up to the ceiling and crashes, absent for the remainder of the game. However, in the credits of the remake, where it shoots ink at some of Rogueport's residents, causing them to run off.
Normally sized Bloopers also appear in the game during Bowser's post-Chapter 4 intermission, in which he supposedly swallows one by accident.
Super Mario-kun[edit]
Blooper appears during the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door arc in volume 34 of Super Mario-kun. Goombella and Koops encounter the Blooper in Rogueport's sewers while searching for Mario's missing cap, and it appears that the Blooper is wearing it. It refuses to take the cap off because it is going on a date soon, so Goombella and Koops give it a makeover into an exaggerated geisha and trick it into thinking that period dramas are trendy. Happy with its new look, the Blooper runs off to its date, leaving what was actually Luigi's cap behind.
Super Smash Bros. series[edit]
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS[edit]
In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, the Blooper, referred to as the Big Blooper, appears in the background of the Paper Mario stage when it changes to the S.S. Flavion. It rocks the boat around, but does not inflict any direct damage to fighters.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the Big Blooper returns on the Paper Mario stage with the same name and role as it did previously. Proportionally, it now resembles the contemporary Blooper design rather than the design from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blooper | ||||||||
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Max HP | 12 | Attack | 1 | Defense | 0 | ||
| Location(s) | Rogueport Sewers | Role | Boss | Level | 41 | |||
| Sleep? | 100% | Dizzy? | 100% | Confuse? | 100% | |||
| Tiny? | 100% | Stop? | 100% | Soft? | 100% | |||
| Burn? | 100% | Freeze? | 100% | Fright? | 0% | |||
| Gale Force? | 0% | KO? | 0% | Moves | Ink Blast (1) | |||
| Exp. points | 0 | Coins | N/A | Items | None | |||
| Tattle Log #: 98 |
Log | A giant, squid like thing that attacks with its ink and tentacles. Based on its dialect, it may come from the western sea. | ||||||
| Tattle | That's a Blooper...and a really super-humongous one, too! EWWWW! It's all slimy!!! I just totally can't STAND slimy, nasty, icky things. G-R-O-S-S, gross! Max HP is 12, Attack is 1, and Defense is 0. It attacks with tentacles and ink. Once you damage both its tentacles, it'll fall down... And then it's attack time! By the way, the tentacles each have 3 HP. Now relax and house on that slimy, nasty Blooper! | |||||||
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tentacles | ||||||||
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Max HP | 3 | Attack | 1 | Defense | 0 | ||
| Location(s) | Rogueport Sewers | Role | Support | Level | 0 | |||
| Sleep? | 0% | Dizzy? | 0% | Confuse? | 0% | |||
| Tiny? | 0% | Stop? | 0% | Soft? | 0% | |||
| Burn? | 100% | Freeze? | 0% | Fright? | 0% | |||
| Gale Force? | 0% | KO? | 0% | Moves | Slap (1) | |||
| Exp. points | 0 | Coins | N/A | Items | None | |||
| Tattle Log #: 98 |
Log | N/A | ||||||
| Tattle | That's the Left Tentacle. Looks like it's waving us over, doesn't it? Max HP is 2, Attack is 1, Defense is 0. If we're not quick, it'll smash its tentacle down on both of us. Not that big a deal, though. We can't attack the Blooper's body right away, so let's go after those tentacles first to weaken it.2
That's the Right Tentacle. Looks like it's waving us over, doesn't it? Max HP is 2, Attack is 1, Defense is 0. If we're not quick, it'll smash its tentacle down on both of us. Not that big a deal, though. We can't attack the Blooper's body right away, so let's go after those tentacles first to weaken it.2 | |||||||
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)[edit]
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blooper | ||||||||
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Max HP | 12 | Attack | 1 | Defense | 0 | ||
| Location(s) | Rogueport Underground | Role | Mini-Boss | Level | 41 | |||
| Sleep? | 100% | Dizzy? | 100% | Confuse? | 100% | |||
| Tiny? | 100% | Stop? | 100% | Soft? | 100% | |||
| Burn? | 100% | Freeze? | 100% | Fright? | 0% | |||
| Gale Force? | 0% | KO? | 0% | Moves | Ink Blast (1) | |||
| Exp. points | 0 | Coins | 50 | Items | None | |||
| Tattle Log #: 101 |
Log | A giant, squidlike thing that attacks with its ink and tentacles. Based on its dialect, it may come from the western sea. | ||||||
| Tattle | That's a Blooper...and a really super-humongous one too! EWWWWW! It's all slimy! I just totally can't STAND slimy, nasty, icky things. G-R-O-S-S, gross! Max HP is 12, Attack is 1, and Defense is 0. It attacks with tentacles and ink. Once you damage both its tentacles, it'll fall down... And then it's attack time! By the way, the tentacles each have 3 HP. Now relax and make seafood out of that slimy, nasty Blooper! | |||||||
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tentacles | ||||||||
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Max HP | 3 | Attack | 1 | Defense | 0 | ||
| Location(s) | Rogueport Underground | Role | Support | Level | 0 | |||
| Sleep? | 0% | Dizzy? | 0% | Confuse? | 0% | |||
| Tiny? | 0% | Stop? | 0% | Soft? | 0% | |||
| Burn? | 100% | Freeze? | 0% | Fright? | 0% | |||
| Gale Force? | 0% | KO? | 0% | Moves | Slap (1) | |||
| Exp. points | 0 | Coins | N/A | Items | None | |||
| Tattle Log #: 101 |
Log | N/A | ||||||
| Tattle | N/A | |||||||
Field Tattle[edit]
Goombella can use Tattle only on Blooper's exposed tentacle in Rogueport Underground before Mario attacks it.
- "Hmmm... It seems to be almost inviting us to do something, doesn't it? But what? You could jump on it, but you'd totally ruin your shoes, so I'd just hammer it!"
Gallery[edit]
Mario and Goombella notice its tentacle
The Blooper emerges
Blooper's tentacle in the remake
The Blooper in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
The Blooper in the credits of the remake
Scoring a Bingo! in the remake
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian | Calamako[?] | Blooper |
- Big Blooper
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Reuzen-Blooper[?] | Giant Blooper | |
| French | Maxi-Bloups[?] | Maxi-Blooper | |
| German | Mega-Blooper[?] | Mega Blooper | |
| Italian | GigaCalamako[?] | GigaBlooper; shared with Big Blooper | |
| Russian | огромный блупер[?] ogromnyy bluper |
Great Blooper | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Blooper Gigante[?] | Giant Blooper |
- L. Tentacle
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 左あし[?] Hidari Ashi |
Left Leg | |
| Italian | Tentacolo sx[?] | L tentacle; sx is short for sinistra/o ("left") | The Thousand-Year Door |
| Tentacolo sinistro[?] | Left tentacle | The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) | |
| Spanish | Tentáculo Izquierdo[?] | Left Tentacle | The Thousand-Year Door |
| Tentáculo izquierdo[?] | Left tentacle | The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) |
- R. Tentacle
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 右あし[?] Migi Ashi |
Right Leg | |
| Italian | Tentacolo dx[?] | R tentacle; dx is short for destra/o ("right") | The Thousand-Year Door |
| Tentacolo destro[?] | Right tentacle | The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) | |
| Spanish | Tentáculo Derecho[?] | Right Tentacle | The Thousand-Year Door |
| Tentáculo derecho[?] | Right tentacle | The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) |
Trivia[edit]
- While in the English version the Blooper speaks of Mario like "some saucy mustached guy", in the Italian version he explicitly remembers him[1], possibly suggesting he is one of the three Bloopers met in Toad Town Tunnels during Paper Mario.
References[edit]
- ^ "Ma io ti conosco! Tu sei quell'impertinente baffuto"; "I remember/know you! You are that pesky mustached guy [from a while back]!" -Calamako, Paper Mario: Il Portale Millenario
| Bloopers | |
|---|---|
| Characters | Big Blooper (Super Paper Mario) • Blooey • Blooper (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door) • Electro Blooper • Gooper Blooper • King Calamari • King Gessō • Legendary Blooper • Paper Macho Gooper Blooper • Stone Blooper • Super Blooper |
| Species | Big Blooper • Bloopad • Blooper • Blooper Baby • Blooper Nanny • Blooper Racer • Blooper 10-Stack • Bloopurn • Bubble Blooper • Dried Blooper • Glad Blooper • Mecha-Blooper • Poison Blooper • Takko |
| Blooper-based items | Blooper • Blooper Chopper • Blooper Diver • Blooper-Go-Round • Blooper Hanafuda • Blooper Shuttle • Blooper Wingtip • Super Blooper |
