Editing Pennington

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|image=[[File:Pennington.png]]<br>Pennington, the Bumpty detective
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|species=[[Bumpty]]
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]]) (cameo)
}}
{{Quote|Now, Luigi! We will reduce this case to rudimentary facts and deduce the truth!|Pennington|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}

'''Pennington''' (or, as he prefers to be called, '''The Penguin with The Improbably Large Brain''') is a [[Bumpty]] detective from [[Poshley Heights]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. [[Mario]] first meets Pennington on the [[Excess Express]], where he takes Mario (whom he mistakenly refers to as [[Luigi]]) under his wing. Pennington and Mario must solve the many mysteries that occur on the train. Of course, Mario solves all the mysteries with no help from Pennington, who often takes the credit for solving them and treats Mario as an apprentice. His catchprase, "Rudimentary," bears resemblance to Sherlock Holmes's, "Elementary."

==History==
[[File:Pennington on Excess Express TTYD.png|thumb|left|End scene of Pennington riding the [[Excess Express]]]]
During the ride on the Excess Express, if Mario talks to Pennington before warning the conductor about the sticky yummy threat, he says that he is on his way back home. After the Stew Pot is stolen, Pennington gathers the train passangers to find the thief, and assumes that Mario was the suspect. Pennington then has Mario find the real thief to prove his innocence, which turns out to be [[Heff T.]] who stole it because he was hungry. Pennington congratulates Mario, and begins to work with him to find out who left the threat about a sticky yummy doom.

The next day, the culprit is revealed to be a [[Zip Toad]] imposter, which Pennington takes into custody. However, after getting off the train at [[Riverside Station]], the imposter is revealed to be [[Doopliss]] who reverts back to his normal form and escapes from Pennington. During the last day on the Excess Express, Pennington is among those who is captured by the [[Smorg]]s. Mario destroys the creatures and saves Pennington and the others.

When the Excess Express arrives in Poshley Heights, Mario heads to [[Poshley Sanctum]] to find the [[Garnet Star]]. However, the sanctum curator is unavailable and the entrance is locked. Though this is to Mario's dismay, Pennington soon arrives and unlocks the door, revealing that his real profession is being the manager of the sanctum (being a detective is just a hobby of his).

Although he is the curator of the sanctum, he does not know where the Garnet Star is located. The only item on display is a replica of the Garnet Star (which Pennington calls a "red herring"), probably to protect the real star from falling into the wrong hands. This red herring is taken by the [[Shadow Sirens]], although after Mario retrieves the real Garnet Star, Pennington allows him to take it and puts another fake on display.

When [[Bowser]] and [[Kammy Koopa]] go to the Poshley Sanctum to steal the Garnet Star, Pennington catches them and informs them that what they have is a red herring, and that he gave the real one to "Luigi". After Bowser and Kammy depart to ambush Mario in the [[Palace of Shadow]], Pennington condemns Mario for his efforts.

When everybody is cheering Mario on when he's fighting the [[Shadow Queen]], [[Goldbob]], his family, and [[Toodles]] are shown cheering him on, and they call him both "Gonzales" (Mario's [[Glitz Pit]] pseudonym that some of them knew him exclusively by) and his actual name, which causes Pennington to be surprised and ask if it's Mario or Gonzales, and if it's not Luigi. Even after Mario beats the Shadow Queen and returns to Poshley Sanctum, he first calls Mario "Luigi" again but quickly corrects himself. {{br}}

==Tattle information==
*(Excess Express) ''That's Pennington, a train passenger. He SAYS he's a detective, but I don't know... I mean, why do detective types ALWAYS show up when something goes wrong, huh?''
*(Riverside Station) ''That's Pennington, a train passenger.  He SAYS he's a detective, but I don't know... Not to be, y'know, totally catty, but what kind of detective LOSES a suspect?''
*(Poshley Heights) ''That's Pennington. I guess sleuthing is just his hobby.  He's the sanctum-keeper. I knew that detective bit was fishy... but I guess a little sleuthing on the side is OK...''

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ポワン<ref>[http://themushroomkingdom.net/pmttyd_j2e.shtml "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door From Japanese to English"]. (June 1, 2014). ''The Mushroom Kingdom.'' Retrieved January 4, 2015.</ref>
|JapR=Powan
|JapM=Possibly derived from {{wp|Hercule Poirot}}
|Spa=Holmot
|SpaM=Possibly a portmanteau of Holmes (from {{wp|Sherlock Holmes}}) and Poirot (from Hercule Poirot)
|Fra=Pingrot
|FraM=Comes from "pingouin" (penguin) and "Poirot"
|Ger=Inspektor Ping
|GerM=First syllable of "pinguin" (penguin)
|Ita=Holmut
|ItaM=Pun on "Holmes" and possibly "Poirot" or "Helmut"}}

==Trivia==
*[[Francis]] in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' has a Pennington plush doll.
*Whenever Pennington says the word "Luigi," it appears in green text, as previously seen in the [[Mario & Luigi (series)|''Mario & Luigi'' series]], where Luigi's and [[Baby Luigi]]'s names and nicknames are almost always written in green.
*When all the game's characters are cheering on Mario before the fight with the [[Shadow Queen]] via the [[Crystal Stars]], he says "Go Luigi...err...Mario?"
*Pennington's character may be a reference to Hercule Poirot from 33 of Agatha Christie's murder mystery novels.
*In the Italian translation, his moniker is "the penguin with the little pink brain cells," a reference to Hercule Poirot's "little grey brain cells."

==References==
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