Editing Hole Punch

{{:Paper Mario: The Origami King bestiary|transcludesection=Hole Punch}}
{{quote|[[Olivia|Lady]], I couldn't stop groovin' now if I wanted to. So I guess we're gonna have to... FACE. OFF.|Hole Punch|Paper Mario: The Origami King}}
[[File:PMTOK Hole Punch Treasure.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Hole Punch's Collectible Treasure in the [[Musée Champignon]].]]

'''Hole Punch''', '''The Disco Devil''' is a member of the [[Legion of Stationery]] who guards the end of the yellow [[streamer]] and serves as the boss of the [[Temple of Shrooms]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Origami King]]''. He is an oversized, yellow hole puncher featuring [[King Olly]]'s logo on his black lid.

When [[Mario]] reaches the top of the temple, he finds himself in a disco room with a large disco ball, a [[Toad (species)|Toad]] as the [[DJ Toad|disk jockey]], and an [[Folded Soldiers|origami]] [[Goomba]], [[Shy Guy]], and [[Boo]] out on the dance floor. Suddenly, someone behind a large set of doors calls out and stops the music, demanding a better piece to groove to, threatening to punch out his face, as he did with all the other Toads in the temple. The disk jockey begs for a second chance and asks Mario to help him find a better record.

Mario must bring the disk jockey records for him to play for Hole Punch. If he does not like the piece, he insults it and wants a different piece. After playing [["Thrills at Night"]], the Hole Punch becomes satisfied and requests an audience to join on the dance floor. The disk jockey gives [[Professor Toad]] a boom box, allowing him to explore the temple and pick up the Toads within.

Once all of the Toads are found and returned to the disco room, they hit the dance floor, eventually getting the attention of Hole Punch, who bursts out of his room and slams the dance floor, frightening the Toads away. He challenges Mario to a literal face-off on the dance floor. Upon defeat, he counts down from three and explodes, launching the faces he collected from the Toads. With everyone back to normal, Mario can use the [[Magic Circle]] that appears to destroy the yellow streamer. Doing so drops the disco ball, breaking it open to release the sun, revealing it as its source of light. This returns the desert to its regular state.

==Battle==
{{quote|I am PUMPED. I'm gonna own this dance floor till the break of dawn. And, seeing as there's no sun to rise in here, that means this groove is never gonna end! HEY! C'mon!|Hole Punch|Paper Mario: The Origami King}}

Before each normal ring movement, Hole Punch uses the move Hole Punch, raising the ring closest to him to repeatedly punch out holes in four different spaces, removing any icons on them, then spinning to slightly scramble the spaces. This process, at the beginning of the battle, damages and deactivates, but does not remove, the ON button. Falling into any other holes causes Mario to trip, wasting his turn, after which Hole Punch uses Main Squeeze, dealing 16 or 17 points of damage.

Hitting the front or side of Hole Punch does not deal any damage, so Mario must instead navigate behind his lid and use a Hammer attack to deal damage, in the process also releasing 2 or 3 of his punches, which restore random holes.

When Hole Punch attacks, if Mario is close enough and Hole Punch either does not have any punches from Mario or was damaged that turn, he will use Hole Punch to punch out a part of Mario, reducing his maximum HP and attack power, then use Base Slap, dealing 12-13 damage. For each part of Mario's body missing, Mario's maximum HP is specifically set to (Max. HP) ÷ 2 + 10; below is an example table, assuming a starting maximum HP of 145:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Parts punched out !! Mario's maximum HP
|-
| 0 || 145
|-
| 1 || 83
|-
| 2 || 52
|-
| 3 || 36
|}

Any of Mario's body can be recovered when Hole Punch drops punches, at which point one of Mario's body punches will appear as a space, which when picked up, restores as much maximum HP and attack power as the previous Hole Punch removed. If Mario is out of range and Hole Punch does not have any punches from Mario, he will use Gettin' Down, dealing 7 damage. If Hole Punch does have punches from Mario, he will instead use Throwing Punches, ejecting all of his punches from board spaces at Mario for 2 damage each, and then charging up any punches from Mario's body for 5 damage each. The punches are then placed on the board using the same formula, the process also restoring the ON button if it is still deactivated.

After taking enough of damage, Hole Punch will start to charge. At this point, Mario must use an [[Earth Vellumental]] [[Magic Circle]] to dodge his attack, which will stun Hole Punch; otherwise the boss will use The Whole Punch, which will deal 19 damage, Hole Punch Mario twice, and use Throwing Punches, all in one turn. If the move is dodged, all punches are released and Hole Punch is flipped over, allowing Mario to use the [[1,000-Fold Arms]] to rush attack him and attempt to peel off his lid, the allotted time corresponding to his current HP. If the lid is successfully peeled off, Hole Punch is defeated. If not, Hole Punch uses Hole Punch and Base Slap and returns to his regular pattern.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
PMTOK Disco Devil.png|Hole Punch's debut before battle
PMTOK Hole Punch Creating Holes.jpg|Hole Punch creates holes in the ground
PMTOK Hole Punch Punches Out Mario.jpg|Hole Punch uses the attack Hole Punch on Mario
PMTOK Hole Punch 1000 Fold Arms.jpg|Mario uses the 1,000-Fold Arms on Hole Punch
PMOK Legion of Stationery.png|The [[Legion of Stationery]] on the [[Origami Craftsman]]'s workbench
File:PMTOK Hole Punch Render.png
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
===Hole Punch===
{{foreign names
|Jpn=パンチ
|JpnR=Panchi
|JpnM=Punch
|JpnC=<ref name=BossJP>{{cite|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=2woQaOIUzPM|title=【ペーパーマリオ オリガミキング】ボス パンチ戦【プレイ動画】|author=Gachok|date=July 17, 2020|publisher=YouTube|language=ja|accessdate=October 5, 2024}}</ref>
|Spa=Perforadora
|SpaM=Hole Punch
|Fre=Perforatrice
|FreM=Hole Punch
|Dut=Perforator
|DutM=Hole Punch
|Ger=Locher
|GerM=Hole Punch
|Ita=Perforatrice
|ItaM=Hole Punch
|ChiS=打孔机
|ChiSR=Dǎkǒngjī
|ChiSM=Hole Punch
|ChiT=打孔機
|ChiTR=Dǎkǒngjī
|ChiTM=Hole Punch
|Kor=펀치
|KorR=Peonchi
|KorM=Punch
}}

===The Disco Devil===
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ノリノリあなあけフリーク
|JpnR=Norinori Ana-ake Furīku
|JpnM=Groovy Hole-Punching Freak
|JpnC=<ref name=BossJP/>
|Spa=La agujereadora díscola
|SpaM=The wayward hole punch
|Ger=Der Discoteufel
|GerM=The Disco Devil
|Ita=Discola della disco
|ItaM=The Disco Bratty
|Dut=De discoduivel
|DutM=The Disco Devil
|Fre=La fan de disco infernale
|FreM=The infernal fan of disco
|ChiS=热舞打孔怪
|ChiSR=Rèwǔ Dǎkǒng Guài
|ChiSM=Hot Dance Punching Monster
|ChiT=熱舞打孔怪
|ChiTR=Rèwǔ Dǎkǒng Guài
|ChiTM=Hot Dance Punching Monster
|Kor=구멍 뚫기 마니아
|KorR=Gumeong Ttulki Mania
|KorM=Making-hole Mania
}}

==Notes==
* In the game's Japanese version, the Toads in the audience shout certain phrases in English (albeit most of them are written in {{wp|katakana}}) due to the battle being disco-themed, which is associated with the United States. Some of the phrases are:「レッツパーリィー！」("Let's party!"),「チェケラッチョ！！」("Check it out yo!!"),「ＨＥＹ　ＹＯ！」,「アウチ！」("Ouch!"),「オーマイガッ！」("Oh my god!"),「クール！」("Cool!"),「セクシー！」("Sexy!"),「ハンマー、カモン！」("Hammer, come on!"),「キュート！」("Cute!"),「フィーバー！」("Fever!"),「ハブサムカーフィー！？」("Have some coffee!?"), and「コングラチュレーション！」("Congratulation[s]!").<ref name=BossJP/> This is retained in the traditional Chinese version, except that the English phrases are always written in Latin characters: {{lang|zh-Hant|"Ｈｅｙ　ｙｏ！", "Ｌｅｔ’ｓ　ｐａｒｔｙ！", "Ｃｈｅｃｋ　ｉｔ　ｏｕｔ！　Ｙｏ！", "鎚子！Ｃｏｍｅ　ｏｎ！", "跳啊！Ｂａｂｙ～！", "Ｃｏｎｇｒａｔｕｌａｔｉｏｎｓ！", "超級Ｔｈａｎｋ　ｙｏｕ！", "Ｈａｖｅ　ｓｏｍｅ　ｃｏｆｆｅｅ！？", "Ｃｏｏｌ！", "Ｓｅｘｙ～！", "Ｙｅｓ！神祇之手！", "Ｃｕｔｅ！", "Ｆｅｖｅｒ！", "Ｏｈ　ｍｙ　Ｇｏｄ！", and "Ｏｕｃｈ！"}}
*In the English version of the game, Hole Punch is addressed as "he". However, in different language variations of the game (such as Italian), Hole Punch is addressed as "she". He is the only member, along with [[Colored Pencils]], to have male pronouns in the game.

==References==
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