Princess (Paper Mario: Color Splash)

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Princess
Artwork of Princess in Paper Mario: Color Splash
Artwork from Paper Mario: Color Splash
Species Chain Chomp
First appearance Paper Mario: Color Splash (2016)
“Boy, Princess really lives up to her name, doesn't she? Of course, she could also live up to the name Bruiser or Crusher or Goliath...”
Huey, Paper Mario: Color Splash

Princess is a female Chain Chomp who appears in Paper Mario: Color Splash. During the game, she and her owner, Prof. Kinopio, go for a walk through Mondo Woods but never return. When Mario finds the professor weeping in the woods, it is revealed that Princess had escaped from her chain and ran away. After Mario and Huey reach Marmalade Valley, it is implied that Princess had grown to huge proportions as a side effect of the magic Kamek had used to do the same to Mondo Woods. After escaping her destructive attack through the construction site, Mario and Huey must use the Cutout technique in Château Chanterelle and the Bone Thing to bait her back home. She acts very similar to a rolling Chomp after growing huge.

Château Chanterelle from Paper Mario: Color Splash
Princess rampages in Château Chanterelle.

Princess reappears when using the Bone Thing card on an enemy, where she rolls over and damages them to get the bone.

She also briefly shows up during the Toad celebration in Port Prisma after Mario collects the Yellow Big Paint Star.

There are also pictures of Princess when she was smaller in the professor's house at Château Chanterelle, which show her and the professor playing. Here it is shown that Princess lacks the trapezoid-shaped connector between the chain and body, which were previously shown with Chain Chomps in Paper Mario: Sticker Star. This lack of connector would later be shared with Princess from Paper Mario: The Origami King.

An unused sprite of Princess is present in the game's data, resembling the design of Chain Chomps in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, as opposed to the more recent design in Paper Mario: Sticker Star and the pictures of the younger Princess in the final game, due to the Chomp Shark-like mouth with narrower fangs. The pink bow that Princess is wearing in the unused sprite is also shaped differently compared to that of Princess in the pictures.

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Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese オチビちゃん[?]
Ochibi-chan
From「チビ」(chibi); while「オ」(o-) and「ちゃん」(-chan) are honorific terms
French (NOE) Chompinette[?] From "Chomp" and "choupinette" (an affectionate term for girls)
German Ketterinchen[?] From Kette (chain) and the suffix -inchen denoting a diminutive female form
Italian Caterina[?] Catherine; similar to "Categnaccio" (Chain Chomp)
Portuguese Fifi[?] -
Russian Принцесса[?]
Printsessa
Princess
Spanish (NOE) Princesita[?] Little Princess