Editing Mayor Dour

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{{character infobox
|image=[[File:Mayor Dour TTYD artwork.jpg|200px]]<br>''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' artwork
|species=[[Twilighter]]
|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]])
}}
{{quote|I'm the mayor of this poor town. Some call me Dour.|Mayor Dour|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
'''Mayor Dour''' is a [[Twilighter]] and the mayor of [[Twilight Town]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. In keeping with the ragdoll-esque appearance of the Twilight Towners, patches of fluff and loose threads can be seen on his head. [[Darkly]] is his grandson.<ref>"Did you know that the mayor of Twilight Town is my grandfather? Yeah, he is." - [[Darkly]]</ref>

==History==
Mayor Dour helps [[Mario]] during his visit to Twilight Town by explaining the pig problem. Mario needs his permission to pass the gate into the [[Twilight Trail]] to [[Creepy Steeple]]. Before Mario can request permission, however, Dour turns into a pig, but the guard blocking the Twilight Trail additionally turns into a pig, thus granting Mario access to Creepy Steeple.

After Mario supposedly defeats [[Doopliss]], who was causing the pig curse by use of a bell in the Creepy Steeple, the citizens are turned back into normal, including Dour. A little later, Dour posts a [[Newsletter...|trouble]] at the [[Trouble Center]] in [[Rogueport]] (available after Chapter 4 in the original and Chapter 7 in the remake), in which he is asking for someone to deliver a Silver Club newsletter routing slip for him. If Mario takes on the trouble, he needs to visit Dour to receive the [[Routing Slip]] from him. The Routing Slip then needs to be delivered to the [[Puni elder]] inside [[the Great Tree]] in [[Boggly Woods]], who then asks Mario to deliver the slip to Mayor [[Kroop]] in [[Petalburg]]. Kroop then asks Mario to deliver the slip to Dour, and when Mario does so, Dour rewards him with thirty [[coin]]s.

During the final battle with the [[Shadow Queen]], Mayor Dour, along with other Twilight Town residents, cheer on Mario.

===Tattle===
*"''That's the Twilight Town mayor. He doesn't seem too reliable, though. I guess he's been through a lot, though, so maybe I oughta cut him some slack.''"
;As a pig
*"''Even the mayor got turned into a pig! At this rate, they'll all be pigs soon. And then... maybe even us... NO WAY!''"

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Doury.png|''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' sprite
PMTTYD Doopliss with Mayor Dour.png|[[Mayor Dour]] talking with "Mario"
TTYD NS Shadow Queen Ruby Star.jpg|Mayor Dour with the [[Ruby Star]] in the remake
</gallery>

==Naming==
The word "dour" is a synonym for "gloomy", which is an appropriate description of Mayor Dour and his town.
===Names in other languages===
{{foreign names
|Jpn=村長
|JpnR=Sonchō
|JpnM=Village Chief
|ChiS=阴暗村村长
|ChiSR=Yīn'àn Cūn Cūnzhǎng
|ChiSM=Twilight Town Village Head
|ChiT=陰暗村村長
|ChiTR=Yīn'àn Cūn Cūnzhǎng
|ChiTM=Twilight Town Village Head
|Dut=
|DutM=
|Fre=Doyen
|FreM=Elder (Mayor Dour was not given an actual name in the French version: [[Goombella]] only refers to him as the Elder of Twilight Town)
|Ger=Düsterdorfer Dorfvorsteher
|GerM=Twilight Town's village chief
|Ita=Sindaco di Casalcrepuscolo
|ItaM=Twilight Town's Mayor
|Kor=어둑어둑 마을 촌장
|KorR=Eoduk-eoduk Ma'eul Chonjang
|KorM=Twilight Town Village Chief
|Spa=Tenebrosio
|SpaM=From ''tenebroso'' ("gloomy") and possibly the Spanish male name "Ambrosio"
}}

==References==
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[[Category:Mayors]]
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