Editing Rawk Hawk

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|image=[[File:PMTTYD NS Rawk Hawk Artwork.png]]<br>Artwork from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)

|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]])

}}

'''Rawk Hawk''', also known as "'''The Feral Nuclear Reactor'''" ("'''The Golden Grandstander'''" in the [[Nintendo Switch]] [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|remake]]), is the reigning champion in the [[Glitz Pit]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', until [[Mario]] arrives to take his title. Mario does this in order to obtain the [[Gold Star]], which is supposedly found on the [[Champ's Belt]], which only the champion is allowed to wear. He is a parody of pro wrestlers, particularly {{wp|Hulk Hogan}}.

Rawk Hawk appears in [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#Chapter 3: Of Glitz and Glory|Chapter 3]] in [[Glitzville]]. When Mario and his partners arrive, they find Rawk Hawk squaring off against [[The Koopinator]], whom he manages to defeat easily. [[Grubba]], the Glitz Pit promoter (and referee) congratulates Rawk Hawk for his victory. Rawk Hawk then holds up the Champ's Belt, which gets the attention of Mario and his partners. Shortly afterwards, Mario and his partners decide to become official fighters in the Glitz Pit in order to win the championship and obtain the Crystal Star. When Mario and his partners make their way into the major league, however, the Crystal Star in Rawk Hawk's belt is revealed to be a fake. Rawk Hawk overheard the comment about it being fake, which incensed him due to misinterpreting their remarks as them implying he was an incompetent fighter.

As Mario and his partners continue climbing their way up the ranks, the audience begins to take their attention away from Rawk Hawk and starts to focus on Mario and his party. Rawk Hawk, jealous, threatens them, though they continue to ignore threats. Rawk Hawk then sends Mario and his partners a [[Poisoned Cake]] (after they have received a real [[cake]]), which will cause Mario's partner to fall sick and thus not participate in the next round if it is eaten.

His likeness makes a small cameo in the ending of the Bowser intermission for Chapter 4, as a decoration on Kammy Koopa's hat (implied to be part of souvenirs she got at the Glitz Pit).

During the intermission after Chapter 6, [[Bowser]] and [[Kammy Koopa]] finds Rawk Hawk's secret training area, which is located somewhere underneath [[Rogueport]]. When they arrive, they see the Champ's Belt hanging up on the wall and mistake it for the real Crystal Star. Just when they are about to grab it, however, Rawk Hawk enters the room. He expresses his amusement at how Bowser cleared his "secret training facility", stating that he "imported some super-freaks" to make it more difficult to get through, possibly alluding to the [[X-Naut]] soldiers that Bowser encountered in the prior level. During their fight, the false Crystal Star on the belt breaks into two. Kammy realizes that the Star is a fake and questions Rawk Hawk about the real Star's whereabouts. Rawk Hawk tells them that "The Great Gonzales" has it, but Bowser fails to realize that "The Great Gonzales" is Mario.

During the seventh chapter, Rawk Hawk sends Mario an [[Mailbox SP#Rawk Hawk: YOU!!!|email]] saying that he has not forgotten about their last battle and that he "feels the rage all over again" on rainy days. He then calls him a coward for giving up the belt and threatens him, saying that if he ever comes back, he will get "Rawked". Rawk Hawk reappears during the cutscene that takes place during Mario's final battle with the [[Shadow Queen]]. He, [[Jolene]], and all the other Glitz Pit fighters began cheering Mario on, encouraging him and his partners to defeat the Shadow Queen and save the world.

 

=====Email=====

[[File:PMTTYD RawkHawk Mail.png|thumb|An attached image of Rawk Hawk in his email to Mario (GCN)]]

[[File:PMTTYDNS RawkHawk Mail.png|thumb|Attached image (Switch)]]

Number 1 (GCN)<br>

Number 1, (Switch)<br>

Rawk Hawk, over the course of the game, proves himself to be extremely arrogant, egotistical, and self-centered. He has a crude, obnoxious personality and frequently barges in out of nowhere to start trash-talking people. He constantly brags about his skill and looks down on the other Glitz Pit fighters, labeling them all as complete wimps. Up until Mario and his partners showed up at the Glitz Pit and made their way up the ranks, he was a hundred percent convinced that no one could defeat him. Rawk Hawk is also willing to cheat if necessary in order to win, portraying the typical wrestling role of a "{{wp|Heel (professional wrestling)|heel}}." This is shown when he had a security guard lock Mario and his partners in an old, abandoned minor league locker room before the title match started, as well as sending Mario that poisoned cake, while he honestly denied knowing about Grubba's hate mail and the real Crystal Star. However, after Mario defeats him in battle, Rawk Hawk ends up gaining a lot of respect for him as a fighter (as he demonstrated during the Crystal Star intermission cutscene that took place during the final battle, but even then he was still showing a display of arrogance) and makes a decision to fight fair and square from then on. He also gets enraged whenever people imply that he is weak, as one of the reasons why he wanted to beat Mario no matter the cost was because he felt insulted when he heard them apparently imply that his belt was fake (although they were actually referring to the Gold Star on the belt), and also attempted to do a high kick suplex on Bowser after the latter mockingly called him an "adorable little weakling", while he actually ended up being flattened by Bowser.

As it says in his [[Tattle]] information, Rawk Hawk mainly specializes in aerial attacks. His attacks consist of a jumping flip attack, a flying elbow attack, and his only ground-based attack, which is a slide kick. For his last attack, he will stomp the ground (which causes a rail to appear), hang on to the ceiling, and start shaking down a bunch of objects very quickly, which all deal 1 HP to Mario and his party, except for [[Koops]], who is immune to the attack. Judging from his attacks, Rawk Hawk seems to use the {{wp|lucha libre}} method of wrestling, involving flashy acrobatic moves. In terms of wrestling, he is also considered to be a heel, a villainous wrestler who uses dirty, underhanded methods to win, regardless of popular opinion.

*"''Har har har har har!''"

*"''Feel the RAAAAAWWWK…''"

*"''Rawk out, [[Mario|Great Gonzales]]!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAWK! Listen to me, Gonzales! Anybody who's beat me is not ALLOWED to lose!!!''"

*"''That's all ancient history! There's only one true champ, and that guy is Rawk Hawk!''"

*"''One of us is walking out of [[Glitz Pit|here]] with [[Champ's Belt|the belt]], and the other one's getting RAWKED!''"

*"''Hey, shut [[Jolene|your]] trap or this Gonzales won't be the only one feeling the RAAAAWK!''"

*"''Harharharharharharhar! Everyone wants a piece of the Rawk! It's a tough life!''"

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

PMTTYD NS Fighter Rawk Hawk.png|Glitz Pit fighter screen in the remake

Nintendo Magazine Summer 2024 TTYD Relationship Chart.png|Rawk Hawk on the Nintendo Magazine for summer 2024, showing a relationship chart featuring many characters from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''

|Chi=金色霍克

|ChiR=Jīnsè Huòkè

|DutM=The Gold Hawk

|FreM=Like the Japanese name

|Ger=Aurelius

|GerM=Male form of the Roman {{wp|gens}} name Aurelii, meaning "the golden"

===The Feral Nuclear Reactor / The Golden Grandstander===

|Fre=Le Guerrier Nucléaire

|FreM=The Nuclear Warrior

*After defeating [[The Koopinator]], Rawk Hawk says "You weaklings might as well stick to videogame fighting, OK?" in most languages. In the original version's Spanish localization, he says "The weaklings should stay home playing ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]!''". In the remake's Iberian Spanish localization, he instead refers to ''[[Super Smash Bros. (series)|Super Smash Bros.]]'' in general.