Editing Punio

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:PMTTYD Punio Artwork.jpg|215px]]<br>Artwork for ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
|species=[[Puni]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
}}
{{quote|Don't worry, [[Flurrie|Madame Flurrie]]! I'm sure [[Mario]] can find your [[Necklace (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|necklace]]. Word is, he's super!|Punio|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
'''Punio''' is a timid [[Puni]] who lives in [[the Great Tree]] located in [[Boggly Woods]], with his sister [[Petuni]], in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. He is the future leader of the Puni tribe.
==History==
{{rewrite-expand|section=y|Improve writing and add information about his role during the Shadow Queen battle and the ending at the pier}}
While Punio was away in [[Rogueport]], the [[X-Nauts (organization)|X-Nauts]] attacked [[the Great Tree]] and imprisoned most of the Punies. Meanwhile, Punio met [[Mario]] in Rogueport. Mario proceeded to follow him to the entrance to [[Boggly Woods]]. Punio then took Mario to the Great Tree. When they arrived, they noticed a red door on the tree that was installed sometime while Punio was gone. Punio makes it very clear to Mario it had never been there before. Punio remembers a secret entrance that the [[Puni elder]] notified him about sometime in the past. However, he has trouble finding it. He decides he must seek the aid of [[Flurrie|Madame Flurrie]]. When they arrive, Flurrie is beside herself. She is overcome with distraught over losing her [[Necklace (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Necklace]]. She is very taken by Punio's cuteness, however, but still refuses to help until they get her valuable jewelry back. After Mario defeats the [[Three Shadows]], Punio, Mario and his party return her priceless necklace. She joins Mario's party and finds the secret entrance to the Great Tree. The secret entrance turns out to be just a small hole in the tree.  Punio enters the secret entrance and proceeds to open the red door, allowing access for Mario and his party. Upon their entrance, they find the Great Tree crawling with [[X-Naut]]s. None of the other Punies trust Mario, and believes Mario to be in league with the X-Nauts. Punio profusely and desperately plead with the other Punies to accept this "hairy old man", and they obstinately refuse to do so until the Puni elder comes and chews them out. Ultimately, Mario, Mario's partners, and the Punies drive the X-Nauts out; Punio rescues his beloved sister Petuni and the Puni elder; the Punies and the Jabbies settle their differences; and the Great Tree continues to live in harmony.

==Tattle information==
*(Rogueport Sewers) ''That's Punio, who lives in the Great Tree of Boggly Woods. And hey, he must be the one we saw earlier, right?  Yeah, totally!''
*(The Great Tree) ''That's Punio of the Punies. He sure is a hardworking little fella, huh? Don't you just wanna cheer him on?  I always root for the underdog. Or whatever he is.''

==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
====''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''====
<gallery>
PMTTYD Mario Spots a Puni 1.png
PMTTYD Mario Spots a Puni 2.png
PMTTYD Mario Confronts Puni.png
PMTTYD Punio Navigates 1.png
PMTTYD Mario Before Boggly Woods 2.png
PMTTYD Boggly Woods Punio Background.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Blocked Entry.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Brainstorm.png
PMTTYD Boggly Woods Is Flurrie There 1.png|Punio speaks with [[Flurrie]]
PMTTYD Boggly Woods Is Flurrie There 5.png
PMTTYD Flurrie kiss.png|Punio fainting as Mario is being kissed by Flurrie
PMTTYD The Great Tree Punio Going Inside Secret Entrance.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Punio Opens Locked Door.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Punies Out of Hiding 1.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Punies Out of Hiding 6.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Ignoring Puni Elder.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Blue Cage Punio Upset.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Punio Confronts Elder.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree FOOLISH CHILD.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Sleeping Mario with Elder.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Petuni Petuni Dried Shroom Punio.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Punio Eats Dried Shroom.png
PMTTYD The Great Tree Petuni Hugs Punio.png
</gallery>

====''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)====
<gallery>
TTYDNS Mario mean to Punio.jpg
TTYDNS Leaving Punio Behind.jpg
TTYDNS Foolish Child.jpg
TTYDNS Punio Leadership Skills.jpg
TTYDNS 101 Punies.jpg
TTYD NS Shadow Queen Emerald Star.jpg
</gallery>

===Miscellaneous===
<gallery>
NintendoVIP Star Catalog Corridor.png|Punio in a 2005 Nintendo VIP 24:7 Star Catalog live wallpaper
Nintendo Magazine Summer 2024 TTYD Relationship Chart.png|Punio on the Nintendo Magazine for summer 2024, showing a relationship chart featuring many characters from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=プニオ
|JpnR=Punio
|JpnM=From "[[Puni]]" and「お」(''-o'', Japanese masculine name ending)
|ChiS=普尼奥
|ChiSR=Pǔníào
|ChiSM=Transliteration of the Japanese name
|ChiT=普尼奧
|ChiTR=Pǔníào
|ChiTM=Transliteration of the Japanese name
|Dut=Pimini
|DutM=From the name "Pim" and "mini" or ''Ini'' ("Puni")
|Fre=Pounio
|FreM=A mixture between "Mario" and ''Pouni'' ("Puni")
|Ger=Bubulio
|GerM=From ''Bubu'' ("Puni") and possibly the male name "Lio"
|Ita=Fufo
|ItaM=From ''Fufini'' ("Puni") and the masculine name suffix "-o"
|Kor=말랑군
|KorR=Mallanggun
|KorM=From "말랑" (''Mallang'', "Puni") and "~군" (-gun), the Korean translation of the honorific suffix「~くん」(-kun)
|Spa=Puniel
|SpaM=Portmanteau of "Puni" and the male name "Daniel"
}}

==Notes==
*In the Japanese version of ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'', Punio's textbox when he thinks about how to reveal the secret entrance does not pause.
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