Editing Mayor Penguin

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:MayorPenguinPM.png]]<br>Sprite from ''Paper Mario''
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2000|2000]])
|species=[[Bumpty]]
}}
{{quote|Ummm... I have the best intentions, but for some reason I always end up causing a ruckus.|Mayor Penguin|Paper Mario}}
'''Mayor Penguin''' is a [[Bumpty|penguin]] who is the mayor of [[Shiver City]]. He appears only in ''[[Paper Mario]]''.

==History==
Mario can first meet Mayor Penguin during a party at [[Peach's Castle]] during the opening of the game. The Mayor is one of the few guests to escape the castle's hijacking by [[Bowser]]. Soon thereafter, he returns safely to Shiver City.

When Mario attempts to leave Shiver City to get to [[Starborn Valley]], he learns that he has to get the mayor's permission to leave. While searching for the Mayor, Mario finds him lying on the floor of his back room, unmoving. Upon further inspection, he finds a memo with "[[Herringway]]" written on it in his hand. The [[Mayor Penguin's wife|Mayor's wife]] then enters the room and sees him on the floor. She initially thinks he is sleeping there, but becomes shocked once she approaches him. She returns with the [[penguin patrol]] and accuses [[Mario]] of murdering Mayor Penguin. After Mario denies killing the Mayor, the penguin patrol decides to give him a chance to prove his innocence by finding the true killer.

When Herringway is brought to Mayor Penguin's house, Mario tells the patrol about the Mayor's memo and he interprets it as a message about his death. As the patrol and Herringway argue, the Mayor suddenly springs to life, having only been unconscious the whole time. The Mayor explains that he had only fallen and knocked himself out while getting a gift for Herringway. He proceeds to give the gift to him and makes plans to talk about [[Toad Town]] with him. After that, he allows Mario to leave the city and towards Starborn Valley.

While searching for the penguin that murdered the Mayor, an alternate music track is played in place of the normal Shiver City theme. This is the only time that music can be heard in the game.

Mario later goes back to Shiver City to get a [[Bucket (Paper Mario)|Bucket]] from the Mayor to gain access to [[Shiver Mountain]]. There is a [[List of letters in Paper Mario#Normal Letters|letter]] addressed to him in a tree at [[Shiver Snowfield]]. Delivering this letter with [[Parakarry]] rewards Mario with a [[Star Piece (Paper Mario series)|Star Piece]].

After Mario defeats Bowser, Mayor Penguin and his wife are seen outside of Peach's Castle, where he expresses his high hopes that this party will be more successful than the previous one. During the ending parade, he walks past some penguin ice skaters with his wife.

==Profiles and statistics==
*'''[[Tattle]]:''' "''This is the mayor of [[Shiver City]], Mayor Penguin. He's a good friend of [[Herringway]], another penguin. Everyone in the village relies on him. He's a little absentminded, but he does his job well. I know I've seen him in [[Toad Town]] before. I wonder if he's been to the castle? Ever seen him before, Mario?''"

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=サムイサムイ村の　村長
|JpnR=Samuisamui-mura no sonchō
|JpnM=[[Shiver City#Names in other languages|Shiver City]] mayor
}}
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[[Category:Bumpties]]
[[Category:Mayors]]
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