Editing Businessman

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:PMTTYD Ratooey Businessman Sprite.png]]<br>Sprite from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#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]])
|species=[[Ratooey]]
}}
{{quote|I'm traveling on business, so everything goes on the expense account! Yes!|Businessman|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
The '''businessman''' is a thirty-year-old<ref>[[List of e-mails in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#RDM Issue 6|"RDM Issue 6" email]]</ref> [[Ratooey]] who appears in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' as a passenger aboard the [[Excess Express]]. He appears to work for a hot sauce company and is married.

==History==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
The businessman first appears aboard the Excess Express in Cabin 007, happy that he can charge everything to his business account as he is riding the train for business reasons. He appears to abuse this privilege, with [[Goombella]] referring to his spending habits as "sketchy".  He hopes to complete all of his work on the first day of the travel so that he can rest for the remainder of the trip.

On the second day, he loses his [[briefcase]], which contains contracts for his company's next deals, one of which is written on the [[Vital Paper]], and their new product prototype, [[Nitro Honey Syrup]]. He is confident he will get fired, or worse, for losing such a key asset.  The businessman enlists the help of detective [[Pennington]] to locate the stolen prototype, though Pennington delegates the investigation to [[Mario]] as his assistant.  Mario finds the Vital Paper in Cabin 001, occupied by [[Doopliss]], who is disguised as [[Zip Toad]], and later catches "Zip Toad" in his own cabin (005).  Doopliss stole the Nitro Honey Syrup at the behest of [[Beldam]] of the [[Three Shadows]] in hopes of using it to create a bomb. The businessman expresses profound gratitude to Mario for returning the briefcase and its contents, saving his career, his marriage (as his wife would have "let [him] have it" if he lost his job), and possibly his life.

At the start of the third day, the businessman, along with the other passengers and staff, goes missing, being absorbed into a hoard of [[Smorg]]s that attacks the train. Mario eventually defeats the Smorgs, causing them to blow away in the wind. After the incident, the businessman safely arrives in Poshley Heights. Since his associates are running late, he contemplates doing sightseeing at [[Poshley Sanctum]]. He leaves Poshley Heights at the end of the chapter.

Later on, the businessman appears in [[Glitzville]] selling [[Hot Sauce]] for ten [[coin]]s. Before Mario can purchase his goods, the plumber has to complete the Ratooey's [[Trouble Center]] request.  For unknown reasons, the businessman has a love of chairs that borders on outright fanaticism. In fact, [[Security code...|his trouble]] (posted in [[Trouble Center]] after Chapter 6) consists of Mario having to tell him how many chairs are in certain houses spread out across the world, such as [[Don Pianta]]'s office and [[Flurrie's House]]. The reason for this is because he has forgotten the security code to his briefcase, which consists of the numbers of chairs in four houses.

In the "Rogueport Today" section of "[[Rogueport Direct Mail Service|RDM]] Issue 6", which Mario can read using his [[Mailbox SP]], it is stated that the businessman was taken into custody by port authorities for trying to board the [[blimp|Cheep Blimp]] with large quantities of Hot Sauce (the report refers to it as a "volatile red liquid" and a "spicy condiment"). After being released, the businessman advertised his company's product with the statement: "Buy our new Hot Sauce, folks!"

In the remake, the businessman cheers on Mario alongside other Glitzville residents during the final battle against the [[Shadow Queen]].

In the original game's end credits [[Parade|parade]], the businessman's silhouette can be seen with the Poshley Heights characters. In the remake, he, [[Chef Shimi]], the [[Excess Express waitress]], [[Toodles]], [[Zip Toad]], and [[Heff T.]] follow behind [[Pennington]] as he investigates the stage. This is until [[Ghost T.]] appears and spooks at them, resulting in them all fleeing in horror as Ghost T. ascends into a bright light.

===''Super Mario-kun''===
[[File:Excess Express Passengers SuperMarioKun.png|thumb|The businessman in ''Super Mario-kun'']]
The businessman is briefly seen as one of the passengers onboard the Excess Express in volume 34 of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''.

==Tattle==
;Excess Express
*"''He's a Ratooey businessman. He's on the Excess Express for business, obviously. I bet he's putting everything on an expense account, huh? Is that a fringe benefit?''"
;Poshley Heights
*"''That's the Ratooey businessman who was on the Excess Express. He's still trying to put everything on his expense account. SKETCHY!''"
;Glitzville
*"''That's the business Ratooey who was on the train with us. I don't know what, but I just feel like crying when I think of the lives of businessmen.''" (GCN)
**"''That's the Businessman who was on the train with us. I don't know why, but I just feel like crying when I think of the lives of businessmen.''" (Switch)

==Gallery==
<gallery>
PMTTYD Smorg screenshot.png
SecurityCode PMTTYD.png
PMTTYD NS Screenshot of Glitzville Shadow Queen Cutscene.png|The businessman with the Gold Star in Glitzville in the remake
PMTTYDNS concept art characters 9.png|Concept art of the [[Excess Express]] passengers and staff, including the businessman, who originally had a far more weasel-like appearance. 
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=サラリーマン
|JapR=Sararīman
|JapM=Office worker; the word「サラリーマン」(salaryman) is a typical example of「和製英語」(''wasei-eigo''), a Japanese term formed by English words.
|Chi=上班族
|ChiR=Shàngbān Zú
|ChiM=Office Worker
|Fre=Businessman
|Ger=Handelsvertreter
|GerM=Sales representative
|Ita=Impiegato
|ItaM=Employee; shared with [[Clerk]] and [[Staff Member]]
|Kor=회사원
|KorR=Hoesawon
|KorM=Office Worker
|Spa=Comercial
|SpaM=Commercial
}}

==References==
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