Editing Blooper (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)

{{italic title|Blooper (''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'')}}
{{character infobox
|image=[[File:PMTTYDNS Tattle Log - Blooper.png|200px]]<br>Tattle Log sprite from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)
|title=Blooper
|species=[[Big Blooper]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games#2004|2004]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
}}
{{quote|Bloobloobloobloop! (Who just up and whacks someone's tootsies like that?)|Blooper|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}

'''Blooper''', also known as '''Big Blooper''' in its ''[[Super Smash Bros. (series)|Super Smash Bros.]]'' cameos, is the main prologue boss fought in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' and its [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch remake]]. 

==History==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
{{quote|BlooblooblooblooblooBLOOP! (I'll give [[Mario|him]] a taste of the old tentacle trample!)|Blooper|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
[[File:PMTTYD Blooper Battle.png|thumb|Mario and Goombella battling Blooper]]
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''===
[[File:TTYD Blooper SuperMarioKun.png|thumb|Blooper in ''Super Mario-kun'']]
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 {{wp|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===
====''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS''====
[[File:SSB4 3DS SSFlavion.jpg|thumb|The Blooper in ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS'']]
In ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'', the Blooper, referred to as the Big Blooper, appears in the background of the [[Paper Mario (stage)|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''====
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==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Blooper|align=horizontal|image=[[File:First Blooper.png|100px]]}}
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Tentacles|align=horizontal|image=[[File:PMTTYD Blooper Battle.png|100px]]}}

===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)===
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|transcludesection=Blooper|align=horizontal}}
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|transcludesection=Tentacles|align=horizontal}}

===Field Tattle===
[[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==
<gallery>
PMTTYD tentacle screenshot.png|Mario and Goombella notice its tentacle 
PMTTYD Angry Blooper.png|The Blooper emerges 
File:TTYDNS Blooper Tentacle.png|Blooper's tentacle in the remake
PMTTYD Remake Blooper screenshot.jpg|The Blooper in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)
TTYD NS Credits Blooper.jpg|The Blooper in the credits of the remake
File:PMTTYDNS Bingo.jpg|Scoring a [[Bingo!]] in the remake
Paper Mario SS Flavion SSBU.jpg|''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Ita=Calamako
|ItaM=Blooper
}}
;Big Blooper
{{foreign names
|Dut=Reuzen-Blooper
|DutM=Giant Blooper
|Fre=Maxi-Bloups
|FreM=Maxi-Blooper
|Ger=Mega-Blooper
|GerM=Mega Blooper
|Ita=GigaCalamako
|ItaM=GigaBlooper; shared with [[Big Blooper (Super Paper Mario)|Big Blooper]]
|Rus=огромный блупер
|RusR=ogromnyy bluper
|RusM=Great Blooper
|SpaE=Blooper Gigante
|SpaEM=Giant Blooper
}}
;L. Tentacle
{{foreign names
|Jap=左あし
|JapR=Hidari Ashi
|JapM=Left Leg
|Spa=Tentáculo Izquierdo
|SpaN=''The Thousand-Year Door''
|Spa2=Tentáculo izquierdo
|Spa2N=''The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)
|SpaM=Left Tentacle
|Spa2M=Left tentacle
|Ita=Tentacolo sx
|ItaN=''The Thousand-Year Door''
|Ita2=Tentacolo sinistro
|Ita2N=''The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)
|ItaM=L tentacle; ''sx'' is short for ''sinistra/o'' ("left")
|Ita2M=Left tentacle
}}
;R. Tentacle
{{foreign names
|Jap=右あし
|JapR=Migi Ashi
|JapM=Right Leg
|Spa=Tentáculo Derecho
|SpaN=''The Thousand-Year Door''
|Spa2=Tentáculo derecho
|Spa2N=''The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)
|SpaM=Right Tentacle
|Spa2M=Right tentacle
|Ita=Tentacolo dx
|ItaN=''The Thousand-Year Door''
|Ita2=Tentacolo destro
|Ita2N=''The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)
|ItaM=R tentacle; ''dx'' is short for ''destra/o'' ("right")
|Ita2M=Right tentacle
}}

==Trivia==
*While in the English version the Blooper speaks of Mario like "some saucy mustached guy", in the Italian version he explicitly remembers him<ref>"''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''</ref>, possibly suggesting he is one of the three Bloopers met in ''[[Paper Mario]]''.
==References==
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[[Category:Bloopers]]
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[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bosses]]
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