Editing Ms. Mowz

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:PMTTYD Ms Mowz Artwork.png|200px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|species=[[Little Mouser|Squeek]]
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' (as a [[Catch Card]] and picture) ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
}}
{{quote|Well, it is time for us to part, [[Mario|my little cheese-hunk]].|Ms. Mowz|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
'''Ms. Mowz''', originally named '''Ms. Mouse''',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070428033214/http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=3640b1f1-82f7-4c42-8aea-d8299816f8c4 ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' summary (Wayback Machine archive)]. ''Nintendo''. Retrieved March 31, 2021.</ref> is a [[Little Mouser|Squeek]] thief that appears in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. She is a [[badge]] thief that Mario encounters repeatedly in his quest to find the seven Crystal Stars. Mischievous and sultry, Ms. Mowz constantly flirts with Mario whenever she encounters him, much to the annoyance of [[Flurrie]] and [[Goombella]] (the latter occasionally calls Ms. Mowz a floozy), as well as making [[Koops]] and [[Mini-Yoshi|the Yoshi]] envious on at least one occasion.

Midway through the game, [[Mario]] may recruit her as an ally; she serves as the game's sole optional [[Partner|party member]] and either the sixth or seventh member of the group depending on the player's actions. She is the first optional party member in the [[Paper Mario (series)|''Paper Mario'' series]], followed only by the optional [[Pixl]]s of ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'': [[Barry]], [[Dashell]], [[Piccolo]], and [[Tiptron]].

==History==
===''Paper Mario'' series===
====''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''====
[[File:Ms Mowz Kiss 1.png|thumb|left|Mario gets kissed by Ms. Mowz.]]
Mario first encounters Ms. Mowz in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' while exploring the armory of [[Hooktail Castle]] in the game's first chapter. She introduces herself as a "globe-trotting thief", and reveals that she came here to collect valuable badges. Also, she heard that Mario is on a quest for the [[Diamond Star|first Crystal Star]], but she has not seen it nor is interested in getting it. She gives Mario a farewell kiss, and mentions there is a [[Attack FX R|badge]] hidden in the castle that can defeat [[Hooktail]] before she leaves. Ms. Mowz reappears again in the following two chapters, hunting for elusive badges in [[the Great Tree]] of [[Boggly Woods]] and in storerooms of the [[Glitz Pit]]. Concurrent with and after these events, Mario and the party can actually encounter an unmasked Ms. Mowz in her legitimate [[Rogueport]] shop, the [[Lovely Howz of Badges]] — used by the thief to sell her lucrative badge finds. The locals of Rogueport, who sometimes see the undisguised Ms. Mowz wearing the standard black bandana of Squeeks, refer to her as the "Badge-Ninja".

After completing the game's fourth chapter, an anonymous request is posted to the [[Trouble Center]] in east Rogueport. Should Mario choose to answer this trouble, marked "[[Elusive Badge!]]", he is instructed to meet with the requester a short walk away from the Lovely Howz of Badges, who turns out to be Ms. Mowz. She asks Mario to locate a badge in Hooktail Castle; she knows it is in Hooktail's room, but says she is unsure of its exact hiding spot. She shares her single clue: "Use The Power of the Wind...". Should the player then re-visit Hooktail's room and use Flurrie's ability, a paper flap will blow away, revealing a chest that contains the [[Attack FX B (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Attack FX B]] badge. When Mario returns with the badge to Ms. Mowz, she reveals that the request was a ruse to test Mario's skills, and if he can find a badge she had hidden so well, then she must journey with him to find more, and promptly joins the party. The Lovely Howz of Badges is ran exclusively by Ms. Mowz's assistant from this point onwards. At the very end of the adventure, Ms. Mowz is shown to have returned to running the shop.

As a partner, Ms. Mowz has the ability to sniff out any type of [[List of items|item]] (similar to [[Watt]]'s ability to show [[Hidden Block|hidden]] [[? Block]]s in the first ''[[Paper Mario]]''), ranging from [[coin]]s, items, [[Star Piece (Paper Mario series)|Star Pieces]], and [[List of hidden blocks in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|invisible ? blocks]]; however, this ability is more like playing hot-and-cold, as straight answers are not given beyond a backflip when the player is very close. She does, however, indicate whether the item is to the left or right of Mario by the direction she faces when she is finished sniffing. In battle, Ms. Mowz's [[Love Slap]] attack cuts through a single grounded enemy's [[Defense|defense]], her [[Kiss Thief]] can steal enemies' items and badges, her [[Tease]] move can make enemies [[dizzy]], and her [[Smooch (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Smooch]] move replenishes Mario's [[Heart Point|HP]].

[[Goombella]] can use [[Tattle]] on Ms. Mowz when she is in her [[Lovely Howz of Badges|badge shop]] in [[Rogueport]], when Mario comes across her in the lobby of [[Glitz Pit]], and when Mario takes on her [[Elusive Badge!|trouble]] on the roof of [[Zess T.]]'s house.

====''Super Paper Mario''====
[[File:MsMowz-SPM.png|thumb|Ms. Mowz's unused sprite in ''Super Paper Mario'']]
In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Ms. Mowz appears on a [[Catch Card]] won by winning the [[Duel of 100]] in [[Sammer's Kingdom]]. An image of her can also be spied very briefly during the intro: she, along with all of the other partners from the previous two ''Paper Mario'' titles, is in a photo at the [[Mario Bros.' House]]. Lastly, during the third chapter, [[Francis]] made a "things to buy" list, and one of them was a Ms. Mowz doll "with real smooching action".

Ms. Mowz has sprite data in the internal files of ''Super Paper Mario'', even though she does not physically appear in the game.

===''Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix''===
Though she does not appear in ''[[Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix]]'', one of the songs in the game is a new rendition of her theme song under the title "Ms. Mowz Song". This composition also incorporates the music to [[X-Naut Fortress]].

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
*'''In-game description:''' ''Ms. Mowz, the mouse thief, is actually the manager of the Lovely Howz of Badges shop in Rogueport. Press {{button|gcn|X}} to have her sniff for any nearby goodies. Her nose twitches when treasure is nearby.''
*'''[[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]]:''' ''To convince Ms. Mowz to join your party, you must complete the Elusive badge side quest that's posted in the Trouble Center after Chapter 4 (see page 124). Once she's in your company, press the X Button to have her sniff out any items or objects hidden nearby.''<ref>''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' Official Nintendo Player's Guide. [https://archive.org/details/papermariothethousandyeardoorplayersguide_201909/page/n13/mode/2up Page 17].</ref>
*'''[[Tattle]]s:'''
**'''Rogueport, Lovely Howz of Badges''': ''That's the badge manager at the Lovely Howz of Badges. For a manager, she sure is gone from the store a lot... Where do you think she goes? This shop's small, but it's totally adorable. She really knows how to decorate.''
**'''Glitz Pit, lobby''': ''That's Ms. Mowz, the thief. She jets off to exotic locales to hunt for rare badges. The fact that she's here means the Glitz Pit must have something special...''
**'''Rogueport, when taking on her trouble''': ''That's Ms. Mowz, the thief. Hmph. She jets off to exotic places to find rare badges. She's only like, the biggest flirt I've ever met in my entire life! It's weird that she's the anonymous requester of the super-secret badge...''

====Attacks and stats====
Ms. Mowz has the following attacks and stats:

;HP
*Initial: 15 HP
*Super Rank: 20 HP
*Ultra Rank: 25 HP

;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%"|Ms. Mowz's Hit Points
!width="10%"|Attack Power
!width="10%"|Move Ranks
|-
|[[Love Slap]]
|0
|Slaps a single grounded enemy and ignores defense.
|Repeatedly tilt the {{button|gcn|Stick}} left and right.
|Level 1: 15<br>Level 2: 20<br>Level 3: 25
|Level 1: 1-2<br>Level 2: 1-3<br>Level 3: 1-4
|Initial
|-
|[[Kiss Thief]]
|2
|Steals a single grounded enemy's item or badge.
|Press the {{button|gcn|A}} when the gauge hits OK, but don't let it overflow.
|Level 1: 15<br>Level 2: 20<br>Level 3: 25
|N/A
|Initial
|-
|[[Tease]]
|3
|Makes all enemies [[Dizzy]].
|Hold down the {{button|gcn|A}} to fill the gauge, but don't let it overflow.
|Level 2: 20<br>Level 3: 25
|N/A
|Super Rank
|-
|[[Smooch (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Smooch]]
|10
|Replenishes 10 of Mario's HP.
|Alternate by pressing {{button|gcn|A}} and {{button|gcn|B}} to fill the gauge.
|Level 3: 25
|N/A
|Ultra Rank
|}

===''Super Paper Mario''===
{| class="wikitable" align=center width=100%
|-
!colspan=2|[[Catch Card]]
|-
|[[File:SPM Ms Mowz Catch Card.png|center|70px]]
|
*'''Card Type:''' Rare
*'''Card Description:''' ''It's Ms. Mowz from the last Paper Mario adventure. This thief had a nose for rare badges. Great smoocher!''
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
MowzHooktailCastle.png
Ms. Mowz Introduction.png|Encountering Ms. Mowz
MsMowzMarioKoops.png|Mario meets Ms. Mowz.
PMTTYD Ms Mowz Window.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Surprise Ms. Mowz 1.png|[[The Great Tree]]
PMTTYD The Great Tree Surprise Ms. Mowz 2.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Ms. Mowz 1.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Ms. Mowz 2.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Ms. Mowz 3.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Ms. Mowz 4.png
Ms Mowz maskless.png|Ms. Mowz without her mask and her shoes, as seen in the Lovely Howz of Badges
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=チュチュリーナ
|JapR=Chuchurīna
|JapM=From「チューチュー」(''chū-chū'',  onomatopoeia for both the squeak of a mouse and kissing) and Italian/Spanish feminine diminutive "-ina"
|Fre=Carmina
|FreM=Feminine form of ''carmin'' ("carmine")
|Ger=Nagerine
|GerM=From ''Nager'' ("rodent") and the suffix for forming feminine nouns ''-ine''
|Ita=Squitty
|ItaM=Diminutive of ''Squit'' ("[[Little Mouser]]" and also an onomatopoeia for mouse's squeaking)
|Kor=찍찍리나
|KorR=Jjikjjikrina
|KorM=From 찍찍 (''jjik-jjik'', onomatopoeia for the squeak of a mouse) and the character's Japanese name
|SpaE=Lupina
|SpaEM=Feminine form of {{wp|Arsène Lupin}}
}}

==Trivia==
*She and [[Admiral Bobbery|Bobbery]] are the only two partners in the game who never fight Mario (although like Bobbery, her initial encounters with Mario include some tension or hostility): [[Vivian]] attacks Mario and the early party with [[The Shadow Sirens|her sisters]], while [[Goombella]], [[Koops]], [[Flurrie]] and [[Mini-Yoshi]] appear alongside [[Doopliss]] while his Mario disguise has fooled them.
*If the player recruits Ms. Mowz into the party before Bobbery and then uses a healing item on a partner outside of battle, a glitch may occur where Bobbery's name is listed above Ms. Mowz, even if he has not joined the party yet.

==References==
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