Editing Prince Mush

|image=[[file:Prince Mush.png|150px]]<br>Sprite from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''

Once the player completes Chapter 3 and Jolene's trouble "Help wanted!", after some time, they will receive an email from her talking about new Exhibition Matches and that Mush is training. After some more time and completing another chapter (the earliest possible chapter being Chapter 4, including taking the Ruby Star to the Thousand-Year Door),<ref>{{cite|title=How Early Can You Beat Prince Mush in Thousand Year Door?|accessdate=July 10, 2024|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=vUCfTV3ty8g|publisher=YouTube}}</ref> Mario will receive another email, this time from Prince Mush, who, after becoming the champion of the [[Glitz Pit]] again, challenges him to an Exhibition Match arranged by Jolene. He can be found in the backstage corridor near the red locker rooms and spoken with, but Mario can initiate the fight at any point by approaching any league terminal and selecting Exhibition Match to reserve a fight against him. During the battle, the audience is composed entirely of Toads.

Prince Mush has a unique stance mechanic in combat, and during the first phase will switch between two different stances every turn. Mush's hopping stance allows him to fully evade grounded attacks, while his sidestep stance allows him to fully evade aerial attacks. Initially, Mush will attack using a dashing punch and a flashing dropkick. A successful [[superguard]] against these attacks will throw Mush off his stance, causing his Defense to drop to 0. As Mush's HP lowers, he will start to [[charged|charge]] attack power (sometimes on multiple turns in succession), before unleashing a powerful kicking combo that can hit Mario or his partner five times in a row. His moves have an initial attack power of 6, becoming 9 and 12 after a charge or two, respectively.

Once his HP drops by half or less, Mush will be able to power up tremendously, either doing so right before executing a standard attack or three times in a row to deliver a devastating kicking combo on the next turn. During this phase, if Mush's techniques are not superguarded against, he will remain in a defensive stance that fully blocks every incoming attack while creating two duplicates of himself after performing his own moves. In this powered-up state, he has an attack power of 20-24.

Mush is additionally immune to lightning attacks (preventing the [[Zap Tap]] badge or [[Volt Mushroom]]s from being effective) as well as counters and items that grant the [[Payback]] status such as [[Hold Fast]], a [[Spite Pouch]] and the [[Return Postage]] badge, while also being immune to all status effects, with the exception of the KO effect inflicted by [[Showstopper]]. Some of his attacks may also drain [[Flower Point]]s if connected.

Once defeated, he gives Mario [[Prince Mush's Belt|his belt]] as a token of appreciation, and can be rematched at any time. Goombella's [[Tattle]] implies that Prince Mush once fell victim to [[Rawk Hawk]]'s [[Poisoned Cake]] trick and thus dislikes said food as a result.

PMTTYDNS Prince Mush.png|Prince Mush in the remake

PMTTYDNS Prince Mush powering up.jpg|Prince Mush powering up in the remake

PMTTYD NS Screenshot of Glitzville Shadow Queen Cutscene.png|Prince Mush and the other Glitz Pit fighters supporting Mario in the final battle in the remake  

PMTTYD NS Fighter Prince Mush.png|Glitz Pit fighter screen in the remake

|Jap=プリンス・マッシュ

|JapR=Purinsu Masshu

|JapM=Prince Mush

|ChiM=From 「蘑菇」 (''mógū'', "mushroom"), 「魔力」 (''mólì'', "magical power"), and「王子」 (''wángzǐ'', "prince")

|DutM=from ''puik'' ("pretty nice")

|Jap=キノシチョフ

|JapR=Kinoshichofu

|JapM="Kinoshichev"; a portmanteau of「キノピオ」(''Kinopio'', "[[Toad]]") and "-ev" (a common masculine ending for Russian surnames)

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