Editing Gourmet Guy

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:PM Gourmet Guy.png]]<br>Sprite from ''Paper Mario''
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2000|2000]])
|species=[[Fat Guy]]
}}
{{quote|Everybody calls me Gourmet Guy. I don't know why. I'm just an ordinary, food-loving Shy Guy. Sigh... I'm hungry...|Gourmet Guy|Paper Mario}}
'''Gourmet Guy''' is an always-hungry [[Fat Guy]] who works for [[Bowser]] and appeared in the game ''[[Paper Mario]]''. He can be easily bribed by giving him a delicious [[Cake]]. He says he does not know why people call him Gourmet Guy, saying he is just an ordinary food-loving [[Shy Guy]]. Despite being one of Bowser's henchmen, he actually helps [[Mario]] and [[Princess Peach]].

==History==
{{quote|I'm too hungry to move. I'm famished! I must eat! I need a sweet, sweet Cake! Sweet Cake...with frosting...and cookie crumbles...|Gourmet Guy|Paper Mario}}
Gourmet Guy is first seen in [[Shy Guy's Toy Box]] during the events of [[Paper Mario#Chapter 4: Trials in the Toy Box|Chapter 4]], blocking a railroad crossing in the Pink Station area. He does not let [[Mario]] pass him due to his hunger and cannot move unless Mario gives him a [[Cake#Paper Mario|Cake]]. If any other food item is given to him, he spits it out and says his palate is too refined for that kind of food. [[Tayce T.]] will cook a Cake for Mario when he returns her [[Frying Pan]] (additional Cakes can be made using [[Cake Mix]]es). When Gourmet Guy eats the Cake, he is so stunned by its taste that he starts flying around the area and jumps offscreen, dropping a [[Cookbook]] that Mario can give to Tayce T., allowing her to make additional recipes.

[[File:Peach and Gourmet Guy PM64.png|thumb|left|Gourmet Guy waits for his cake.]]
Gourmet Guy later appears in [[Peach's Castle]] in an intermission after Chapter 4. When [[Princess Peach]] enters a room, she finds Gourmet Guy, who first thinks that he should report to [[Bowser]] that Peach had escaped her room. However, deciding he is hungry instead, he says he will keep the event a secret if Peach bakes him something sweet. Since Peach does not have any ingredients ready to cook, Gourmet Guy gives Peach the [[Castle Key (Peach's Castle)|Castle Key]] to the kitchen. After she obtains the Castle Key, he warns that there are guards on the first floor and she must be careful.

When Peach and [[Twink]] come back to the room with the [[Special Strawberry Cake]], they give it to Gourmet Guy, who then eats the cake. If Peach has not followed the recipe, Gourmet Guy will spit out the cake and demand Peach to remake the cake correctly. If Peach has followed the recipe, he starts going wild, rushing around the area on the screen in the same manner as before. When Gourmet Guy is done with his sugar rush, he tells Peach and Twink that one of the [[Star Spirits]], [[Misstar]], is currently inside [[Mt. Lavalava]] on [[Lavalava Island]], but there is a [[Lava Piranha]] guarding the Star Spirit. He recommends that Twink pass on the information to Mario. Lastly, he briefly mentions that he really does not dislike Mario before leaving.

During the end [[Victory parade|parade]], the [[Fearsome 5]] partially devour [[Huff N. Puff]] and 2 [[Ruff Puff]]s, causing them to shrink. Seeing this, Gourmet Guy chases them with a knife and a fork.
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====Tattle====
[[Goombario]] can use [[Tattle]] on Gourmet Guy only while he is blocking the railroad crossing in the Pink Station area of Shy Guy's Toy Box before Mario gives him a Cake.
*"''That's Gourmet Guy. Woow! He's huuuuge! Does this guy ever stop eating? He looks like he'd eat until his stomach blew up!''"

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=グルメヘイホー
|JpnR=Gurume Heihō
|JpnM=Gourmet Shy Guy
|Fre=Maska'goinfre
|FreM=Mix of ''Maskass'' (Shy Guy) and ''goinfre'' (guzzler)
|Ger=Gourmet Guy
|Ita=Gourmet Guy
|Chi=美食家嘿虎
|ChiR=Měishíjiā Hēihǔ
|ChiM=Gourmet Heiho (Heiho is from the Japanese name of Shy Guys)
|Spa=Tragón Guy
|SpaM=Greedy-Guts/Glutton Guy
}}

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