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{{Catch Card #1
|image=[[File:Flowercreature.jpg|200px]]<br>Artwork from ''Super Paper Mario''<br>In-game, his smaller heads do not actually have thorns, except in one of their attacks.
|image=[[Image:Flowercreature.jpg|220px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
|hp=50
|species=[[Floro Sapien]]
|atk=2
|def=
|card type=Uncommon
|tattle=King Croacus cares about making the world beautiful. Too bad drinking polluted water has made him insane.
|tippi=That's King Croacus.  He leads the Floro Sapiens, and loves beautiful things... Max HP is 50.  Attack is 2.  He attacks with his head, like other Floro Sapiens... I don't think you can damage him when his face is closed off like that... Using Thoreau to grab stuff, then jumping into him works pretty well, though...
|before=[[Francis|185]]
|#=186
|after=[[Bonechill|187]]
}}
}}


{{quote|Trash is garbage, no matter how you dress it. This world is made for BEAUUUUUTY!|King Croacus IV|Super Paper Mario|King Croacus the Fourth}}
{{quote|Trash is garbage, no matter how you dress it. This world is made for BEAUUUUUTY!|King Croacus IV|Super Paper Mario|King Croacus the Fourth}}


'''King Croacus IV''', usually just called '''King Croacus''', is a boss in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''. The flamboyant king of the [[Floro Sapien]]s, Croacus adores beauty and spends most of his time brainwashing [[Cragnon]]s to rebuild his castle full of jewels. He is also the owner of the sixth [[Pure Heart]]. As told by the description under the painting in his palace, he was the regent for [[King Croacus III]] until he came of age. When the young ruler wilted, Croacus IV, popular due to his stabilizing influence, was appointed King. He does not care for fighting, but when [[Mario]], [[Princess Peach]], and [[Bowser]] enter his chambers, he decides to dispose of them. He resembles a giant flower and is named after the real life {{wp|Crocus}} plant. His obsession with beauty may be a nod to another flower named [[Rosie]], from the first ''[[Paper Mario]]''.
'''King Croacus IV''' is a boss in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''. The flamboyant king of the [[Floro Sapiens]], Croacus adores beauty and spends most of his time brainwashing [[Cragnon]]s to rebuild his castle full of jewels. He is also the possessor of the sixth [[Pure Heart]]. He was the regent for [[King Croacus III]] until he came of age, and when the young ruler wilted, Croacus IV, popular due to his stabilizing influence, was appointed King. He doesn't care for fighting, but when [[Mario]], [[Peach]], and [[Bowser]] enter his chambers, he decides to dispose of them.


King Croacus is fought in two phases. In both, his head is normally protected by impenetrable petals, but will frequently expose itself, allowing him to be damaged. In the first phase, he fights with three extra heads, all attached to a single point via vines, the one holding the main head being covered in thorns. His main head sways above while the others attempt to crush the heroes by dropping on top of them. Croacus can also converge all three to the main root, then cause their vines to grow thorns as they quickly spread out in a grid pattern until hitting the heroes or a wall. The heads can be used as platforms to reach his main head, and can also be picked up and thrown by [[Thoreau]]. After taking enough damage, his entire body will disappear other than his head, which will now float around the room, periodically releasing shuriken-like petals to bounce around with him. These can also be picked up by Thoreau and used against Croacus.
He is defeated by jumping onto his smaller heads and then jumping on his normal head when it becomes exposed, or just throwing the smaller heads at the exposed head. His central head is invincible unless exposed, no matter what the heroes do. Then, he loses the rest of his body and floats around on his head, throwing sharp petals at the heroes who must dodge or destroy them and attack Croacus' flying head straight on. He could also be defeated by using [[Thoreau]] to grab a smaller head and throwing it at his normal head when it was exposed.


[[File:King Croacus IV.png|thumb|left|King Croacus's original form.]]
After he is eventually defeated, it is revealed that the Cragnons were polluting the waters that the Floro Sapiens drank from, and that King Croacus was trying to save his people by mind-controlling the Cragnons with [[Floro Sprout]]s. Upon witnessing the scene, [[Flint Cragley]] declares that he will show his tape to the Cragnons, ending the war between the two races.
After he is eventually defeated, it is revealed that the Cragnons were polluting the waters that the Floro Sapiens drank from, and that King Croacus was trying to save his people by mind-controlling the Cragnons with [[Floro Sprout]]s. Upon witnessing the scene, [[Flint Cragley]] declares that he will show his tape to the Cragnons, ending the war between the two races.


If the player visits Croacus after Chapter 5 but before completing Chapter 7, he will still lie on the same spot on the floor, supposedly dead (or wilted, since he looks like a flower). The Floro Sapien who is watching over him says that he thinks that Croacus will revitalize, which he eventually does.
Later, King Croacus is seen in healthy spirits and less insane than before. He jokingly threatens the heroes with another battle, but states that the waters have become less polluted while he was sleeping. He says that he hopes he can help the Cragnons in the future. This suggests that, as the Floro Sapiens say, he is actually benevolent and was driven insane only due to the dirty water.


Following the defeat of the [[Super Dimentio|final boss]], King Croacus can be found in healthy spirits once again; initially, he will claim his intentions are to wage war upon Mario and the Cragnons again. However, he quickly makes it clear that he is only joking and reverts to a more normal personality, saying that most of the polluted water was drained while he 'slept'. He then expresses his desire to begin a new era of peace between the Cragnons and Floro Sapiens.
==Names in Other Languages==
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{{Foreignname|
 
|Jap=キング・ハナーン<br />''Kingu Hanān''
==Profiles and statistics==
|JapM=King Hanān, pun on "hana" (花, flower)
===''Super Paper Mario''===
|Ger=König Krokus IV
{{:Super Paper Mario bestiary|transcludesection=King Croacus IV|align=horizontal}}
|GerM=King Crocus IV
 
|Ita=Re Cardo IV
====In-game painting description====
|ItaM=Re means King, Cardo is a given name and the Italian word for thistle
''King Croacus the Fourth (Reign: 1385-present). Formerly a regent for King Croacus III, he ruled in place of the frail child king. After Croacus III's wilting, his service was recognized, and he was made king. His stabilizing influence and politicial savvy made him popular and well-known. His recent achievements include: In Flora year 1625, he invented a method for mind-controlling Cragnons. In Flora year 1626, he spearheaded an initiative to enslave Cragnons en masse.''
|Spa=Rey Marchitus IV
 
|SpaM=King Witthered IV}}
==Gallery==
<gallery>
SPM King Croacus Catch Card.png|[[Catch Card]]
SPM King Croacus IV Painting Sprite.png|Portrait
SPM King Croacus attendant.png|King Croacus lying on the floor and attended to by a [[Floro Sapien]]
</gallery>


==Names in other languages==
==Quotes==
{{foreign names|
*''Ooooooo-weeee-ooooooo! Where, oh, where are my pants?!''
|Jap=キング・ハナーン4{{hover|世|せい}} / キング・ハナーン
*''Pretties... Beautiful things... Ooo-wee! Bring them to me... More! More! More!''
|JapR=Kingu Hanān 4-Sei / Kingu Hanān
*''...Ooo? What is THIS hideous, clashing thing?''
|JapM=King [[Floro Sapien]] IV
*''Ooooo-weeeee-oooooooooo! So you must be the intruders I've heard SO much about...''
|Fre=Roi Crocus IV / Roi Crocus
*''Well, I will NOT forgive the great trashening of my beautiful kingdom!''
|FreM=King Crocus IV
*''NOO-WEE-OO!''
|Ger=König Krokus, der Vierte / König Krokus
*''...Thus you are warned!''
|GerM=King Crocus IV
*''NEVER! Their sturdy bodies make them SUCH fine workers, Exquisite!''
|Ita=Re Cardo IV / Re Cardo
*''I need them to dig up more gems so I can build a bejeweled palace. Ooo-weee!''
|ItaM=''Re'' means King, ''Cardo'' is a given name and the Italian word for "thistle". Maybe a pun on the Italian name "Riccardo".
*''Trash is garbage, no matter how you dress it. This world is made for BEAUUUUUTY!''
|Kor=화모사피킹 4세 / 화모사피킹
*''And if you need some proof... then have a look at this! "Takes out the pure heart"''
|KorR=Hwamosapi King 4-se / Hwamosapi King
*''I can hear it in your voice... You want is SO badly, you can barely think, mmmmm?''
|KorM=Floro Sapien King IV
*''Seems we all seek beauty... So how DARE you take a high horse over me?!''
|Spa=Rey Marchitus IV / Rey Marchitus
*''Your blabber hurts my ears! And your smell is wilting me! I can stand you no longer.''
|SpaM=King Wittherus IV
*''I rarely stoop to such things, but I'll destroy you myself. Consider it an honor!''
}}
*''"After using power of pure heart to form into flower" Oooooo-weee-OOOOOOOO! Here I COME!''
*''Beauuuuuu... tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiful...''
*''Even as I wilt... I am...I am... BEEEEEAUUUUUTIIIIIIIFUUUUL!''


==Trivia==
*[[Dimentio]] brainwashed [[O'Chunks]] and [[Luigi]] (and [[Mario]] if he chose to assist Dimentio)the same way that King Croacus brainwashed the Cragnons. It is also possible that King Croacus is the "acquaintance" of Dimentio, as he strangely managed to get three of Croacus' Floro Sprouts.
*Croacus's appearance and obsession with beauty also makes him similar to [[Rosie]] from the first [[Paper Mario]], except on a more insane scale.
*King Croacus IV's name comes from the flower of the same name, [[wikipedia:Crocus|Crocus]].
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