Editing Lady Bow

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|image=[[File:Bow.png|150px]]<br> Bow as she appears in ''[[Paper Mario]]'' 
|full_name=Lady Bow
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2000|2000]])
|species=[[Boo]]
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' ([[Sticker (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)|Sticker]] Cameo) ([[List of games by date#2008|2008]])
}}
{{LLQuote|But what a nice surprise to see [[Mario|you]]! Feel free to be overwhelmed by my beauty.|Lady Bow|[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]}}

'''Lady Bow''' is the leader of the [[Boo]]s of [[Boo's Mansion]] in ''[[Paper Mario]]''. She is aided by her butler, [[Bootler]].  She is very strong-headed and a tad snooty due to her princess-like status in life, but is also kind-hearted in wanting to aid [[Mario]] so that he can save Peach and the world's wishes. She can slap enemies with both her hand and, when ultra ranked, her fan. She can also protect Mario from attacks with her [[Outta Sight]] attack and, at super rank, can also try to scare away enemies with an ability called Spook. Outside of battle, she can turn Mario invisible, protecting him from enemy attacks. However, Mario cannot move while in this state.

==History==
===''Paper Mario'' series===
====''Paper Mario''====
[[File:Pm chap3 bowandbootler.png|thumb|left|Mario meeting '''Lady Bow''' for the first time.]]
[[File:LadyBowPortraitPM.png|thumb|right|Lady Bow's portrait in ''Paper Mario'']]
In ''Paper Mario'', seeing too much suffering caused by the Boo-eating monster [[Tubba Blubba]], Lady Bow decides to have Mario defeat him. She has ordered the Boos to capture [[Skolar]], the [[Star Spirit]] Mario is going to save, and uses it as leverage to get Mario to eliminate Tubba Blubba. Bow joins [[Mario]] after he solves the puzzles in Boo's Mansion. The main reason that she joins him at first is that Mario needs her help to defeat Tubba Blubba. After Tubba Blubba was defeated Bow remained true to her word and gave Skolar to Mario. She then decided to accompany Mario ("like it or not") for the rest of his adventure.

In Chapter 4, Lady Bow is referred to in [[List of Toad Town News in Paper Mario#After Mario gets Storeroom Key back|a scribble]] by a [[Boo]] from [[Boo's Mansion]], who is crazy about her. At the end of the game, a Boo from Boo's Mansion, maybe the one who posted the scribble, came to the party "to see Lady Bow dressed up in all her finery". He also thinks that Bow is prettier than [[Princess Peach]].

Lady Bow receives [[List of letters in Paper Mario#Lady Bow|two letters]] at the [[Post Office]] in [[Toad Town]]: one from [[Bootler]] wishing her safe, and the other one from the [[Boo]]s at [[Gusty Gulch]], thanking her for rescuing them from [[Tubba Blubba]].
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=====Start Menu description=====
*''Bow is a princess of a Boo who has a castle in Forever Forest. Press {{button|n64|Cdown}} to make the team invisible so it can elude attack. Her specialty is slapping the sense into enemies.''

====''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''====
[[File:BowBootlerPoshleySanctum.PNG|thumb|right|250px|Bow and [[Bootler]] at the [[Poshley Sanctum]].]]
Lady Bow and Bootler make a cameo appearance in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. They are taking a vacation at [[Poshley Heights]] after Mario and friends save the [[Mushroom Kingdom]]. She is quite glad to see Mario again. Earlier in Mario's adventure, a young [[Toad (species)|Toad]] from [[Petalburg]] called Bow "the cutest Boo OF ALL TIME!!!"

=====Tattle=====
"''That's Bow. Wait a second! [[Mario]]! Exactly WHAT is your relationship with her?!? Tell me NOW! Hee hee hee hee hee hee! Just kidding! I always wanted to say that. But you DID go on an [[Paper Mario|adventure]] with her, right? Tell me about it sometime, OK?''"
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====''Super Paper Mario''====
[[File:SPM Francisroomright.png|thumb|left|The poster of Bow from ''Super Paper Mario]]''
In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Lady Bow makes three cameos. Her first is at the beginning of the game; she, along with all the other partners from the first ''Paper Mario'' appeared in a photograph at Mario's house. Bow's second cameo was at [[Fort Francis]]. There is a poster of her and Bootler in one of [[Francis]]' secret, password-activated rooms. Lastly, she appears as a [[Catch Card]] in the sixtieth floor of the [[Flopside Pit of 100 Trials]] within a treasure chest. Like all other partners, with the exception of [[Sushie]], she has unused sprite data.
[[File:LadyBow-SPM.png|frame|right|'''Lady Bow's''' unused graphics in ''Super Paper Mario''.]]
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===''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===
In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' she appears as a [[Sticker (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)|Sticker]] that raises magic attack power by eight. It can only be used by [[Princess Peach]] and [[Princess Zelda]].

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==Attacks==
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|-style="background: #ABC;"
!width="10%"|Attack
!width="10%"|Flower Points Needed
!width="10%"|Effect
!width="10%"|To Attack
!width="10%"|Move Ranks
|-
|[[Smack]]
|None
|Smacks an enemy up to 4, 5 or 6 times.
|Repeatedly tilt {{button|n64|Stickleft}} to fill the gauge.
|Initial
|-
|[[Outta Sight]]
|2
|Makes Mario and Bow invulnerable to attacks. Bow must recharge the next turn after using this move. Outside of battle, she can use this move to hide Mario from danger.
|None
|Initial
|-
|[[Spook (move)|Spook]]
|3
|Scares enemies away from the battlefield.
|Repeatedly tilt {{button|n64|Stickleft}} to fill the gauge.
|Super Rank
|-
|[[Fan Smack]]
|5
|Smacks an enemy 5 times with a fan.
|Repeatedly {{button|n64|Stickleft}} to fill the gauge.
|Ultra Rank
|}

==[[Catch Card]]==
[[File:BowCard.png|thumb|75px|Bow's Catch Card.]]
*'''Card Type:''' Rare
*'''Card Description:''' This is Mario's goody buddy Bow from Paper Mario. The mistress of Boo's Mansion slapped foes with panache!

==Quotes==
===''Paper Mario''===
{{main|List of quotes in Paper Mario#Lady Bow}}
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
{{main|List of quotes in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#Lady Bow}}

==Sticker information==
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|-
!width=120px|Image!!|Game!!|Effect
|-
|[[File:Bow.png|100x100px]]
|''Paper Mario''
|[Magic] - Attack +7
|-
|}

==Names in other languages==
{{foreignname
|Jap=レサレサ
|JapR=Resaresa
|JapM=From ''Te'''resa''''', Boo's Japanese name.
|Spa=Dama Bow
|SpaM=Lady Bow
|Fra=Dame Bouh
|FraM=Lady ''Boo'' (not referring to the species)
|Ger=Lady Buu
|GerM=From ''Buu Huu'', the German name for the Boo species.
|Por=Senhorita Bow
|PorM=Lady Bow
|Chi=咻咻
|ChiR=Xiūxiū
|ChiM=Chuchu (iQue)
|Kor=천방부끄
|KorR=Cheonbangbukkeu
|KorM=Probably derived from '''천방'''지축 (''cheonbangjichuk'' / meaning 'recklessly') and 부끄부끄 (''Bukkeubukkeu'', which is Boo's Korean name).
}}

==Trivia==
*Bow's name is derived from the word "bow," which, depending on pronunciation, may mean "ribbon" (referring to the bows she wears) or can refer to a type of gesture often done in reverence to royalty. It is also likely that her name is a pun on "Boo".
*During the ending of ''Paper Mario'', Bow is mistakenly referred to as "'''Lady Boo'''" when Mario reads the back of the news board in Toad Town.
*Bow is the only character in ''Paper Mario'' that is incapable of doing any damage to [[Bowser]] in his powered up form. The same applies to the [[Crystal King]], as well as the sixth battle with [[Jr. Troopa]].
*Bow and Parakarry are the only partners in ''Paper Mario'' that have appeared in the first two ''Paper Mario'' games.
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