Editing Showstopper

{{about|a special attack in [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]|[[Pauline]]'s [[Special Shot (Mario Tennis Aces)|Special Shot]] in [[Mario Tennis Aces]]|[[Special Shot (Mario Tennis Aces)#Showstopper|Special Shot (Mario Tennis Aces) § Showstopper]]}}
{{PM move infobox
|game=[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]
|image=PMTTYD Showstopper.png
|mastered_by=[[Mario]]
|attack=N/A
|star=[[Garnet Star]]
|effect=Attempts to instantly KO all enemies.
|range=All
}}
'''Showstopper''' is a special attack in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. Unlike most attacks which deal a certain amount of [[Heart Point|HP]], this attack applies the "Instant KO" status effect, which has a random chance of immediately defeating each enemy in the battle. It is learned when [[Mario]] obtains the [[Garnet Star]] in [[Poshley Sanctum]] at the end of Chapter 6. The [[Action Command]] requires the player to press a random sequence of buttons that appear on the screen, in the order they appear. Getting the whole sequence correctly brings up another sequence with one additional button, up to a total of 5 sets of buttons. Once a player completes all five sequences, or they make a single error, they will stop and the attack will commence, its chance of success dictated by the number of sequences the player completed. This move uses 2 [[Star Power|SP]].

As a status effect-inflicting attack, every enemy has a different rate of success of being affected, which is then modified by the success of the action command. In general, weak enemies such as [[Goomba]]s are easy to defeat with the move even when the action command is not perfect (having a success rate of 150%), while stronger enemies (especially those in the deeper floors of the [[Pit of 100 Trials (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Pit of 100 Trials]]) have success rates that vary between 80% and 20%, while the majority of bosses and minibosses cannot be affected at all - the main exceptions being all but the final boss of the [[Palace of Shadow]], each one having a success rate of either 5% or 1%. [[Crazee Dayzee]]s and [[Boo]]s (and their variants) also have a very strong resistance to the effect.<ref>http://ml.techyoshi.com/index.php/topic,149.msg2633.html#msg2633</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Showstopper_NS.jpg|The attack in the [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|remake]].
Showstopper_PMTTYDNS.png|Preview in the remake.
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=イチゲキコロリ
|JapR=Ichigeki Korori
|JapM=One Attack, Sudden Change
|ChiS=一击震倒
|ChiSR=Yī Jī Zhèn Dào
|ChiSM=Knocked down with one blow
|ChiT=一擊震倒
|ChiTR=Yī Jī Zhèn Dào
|ChiTM=Knocked down with one blow
|Dut=Spelbreker
|DutM=Game Breaker
|Fre=Coud'étoile
|FreM=Pun on ''coup d'état'' and ''étoile'' ("star")
|Ger=Sternenblitz
|GerM=Star Flash
|Ita=Sentenza
|ItaM=Judgement
|Kor=일격에 벌러덩
|KorR=Ilgyeog-e Beolleodeong
|KorM=Open in one blow
|Spa=Golpe Final
|SpaM=Final Blow
}}

==Trivia==
*Despite normally not being able to obtain the Showstopper until the end of Chapter 6, the second form of [[Doopliss]] (the one fought on Twilight Trail and the Creepy Steeple rematch) has a 3% chance to get KOed by Showstopper. All other bosses fought before obtaining Showstopper are immune to the attack.

==References==
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