Editing Rip Cheato

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:Rips.png]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2000|2000]])
}}
{{quote|I, the eminent Rip Cheato, will sleep better knowing you've bought this, for you are a man of great taste.|Rip Cheato|Paper Mario}}
'''Rip Cheato''' is a shady character that appears in ''[[Paper Mario]]''. His name is derived from "rip-off" and "cheater". He sells [[Mario]] items for 64 [[coin]]s (a reference to the [[Nintendo 64]], the console ''Paper Mario'' was released for) in the last room of [[Toad Town Tunnels]]. He has a few [[Star Piece (Paper Mario series)|Star Piece]]s for sale, but he also has junk items such as [[Dried Mushroom|Dried Shroom]]s that Mario must buy first in order to collect all his finer wares.

The [[Warp Pipe|pipe]] in his room leads to the blue locked house in [[Toad Town]], known as the [[Odd House]], which is near [[Tayce T.]] The pipe makes a convenient secondary entrance to the tunnels.
==List of Items==
The items are always acquired in a set order, as follows:
#Star Piece
#[[Life Mushroom (Paper Mario series)|Life Shroom]]
#[[Bump Attack]] [[Badge]]
#[[Repel Gel]]
#Star Piece
#[[Super Mushroom|Super Shroom]]
#[[Mushroom]]
#[[Dried Mushroom|Dried Shroom]]
#Dried Shroom
#Star Piece
#(and onwards) Dried Shroom

==Tattle==
*"''He's a merchant by the name of Rip Cheato. Who knows why he set up here... I guess it doesn't matter. People can sell stuff wherever they want. It's their choice. I actually kind of like it here. It's like a secret fort!''"

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ボッタクール<ref>Goombario's tattle on Rip Cheato states '''ボッタクール'''って　名前の　しょうばいにんなんだ　なんで　こんなところに　いるんだろ from the Japanese version of ''Paper Mario''. See also [http://themushroomkingdom.net/pm_j-e.shtml]</ref>
|JapR=Bottakūru
|JapM=Comes from「ぼっ手繰る」(''bottakuru'', to rip off)
|Fre=Rip Cheato
|Ger=R. Ozzo.
|GerM=Mirror name of "Z. Orro", German name of [[Chet Rippo]]
|Chi=掠奇多
|ChiR=Lǜeqíduō
|ChiM=From the English name
|Spa=Rip Truco
|SpaM="Truco" means "trick" or "cheat".
}}

==Trivia==
*His counterpart, [[Chet Rippo]], also appears in ''Paper Mario'', as well as in the sequel, ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', where he looks much different.
*Rip's appearance is unique in the series in that he is a noseless humanoid wearing a lamp on his head; as such, it is unknown what species he is. [[Charlieton]] and [[Wonky]] from ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' slightly resemble him, but neither of them have lamps and the latter is spherical.
*Charlieton from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' and [[Flimm]] from ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' are merchants similar to Rip Cheato from later games in the ''[[Paper Mario (series)|Paper Mario]]'' series.

==References==
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