Editing The Shy Bandit

{{character-infobox
|image=[[File:PMCS Shy Bandit.png|150px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]'' ([[List of games by date#2016|2016]])
|species=[[Black Shy Guy]]
}}
'''The Shy Bandit''' is a mini-boss that appears in ''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]''. He is a [[Black Shy Guy]] who was banished from his homeland, according to a rumor.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190703060216/http://papermario.nintendo.com/manual/page_MapMenu.html#chapter-4 World Map and Menus - Paper Mario: Color Splash Game Manual]. ''Nintendo''. Retrieved July 3, 2019.</ref> He wears a red, masquerade-like mask over the usual Shy Guy mask.

When he appears, he will throw a marker on the level he intends to suck all the color from, and begin running toward that spot. Usually, he is a sizable distance from that area. [[Mario]] must then race him to the marker. If Mario picks up the marker before the Shy Bandit gets there, he disappears, and Mario gets 300 coins. If the Shy Bandit reaches his destination first, he will begin sucking the color from the level, his progress shown by a tiered splotch that empties as he drains. If Mario fails to reach the Shy Bandit before he has sucked all the paint from a level, the "colorless spots cleared" marker on the level will revert to the default 0% (with a few exceptions). The Shy Bandit can attack even areas colored back to 100%.

If Mario manages to reach the Shy Bandit before he finishes draining the level's color, or intercepts him before he reaches the marker, he will initiate a battle; at this point, the Shy Bandit will attack first by blinding Mario with paint, or summon three random enemies to attack. By default, the Shy Bandit can summon the following enemies:
*[[Spike Guy|Red Spike Guy]]s
*[[Shield Guy|Red Shield Guy]]s
*[[Goomba]]s
*[[Koopa Troopa]]s
*[[Koopa Paratroopa]]s
*[[Cheep Cheep]]s
*[[Snifit|Red Snifit]]s
*[[Spiny|Spinies]]
*[[Buzzy Beetle]]s
*[[Hammer Bro]]s
*[[Sledge Bro]]s

In addition, the following enemies can be summoned after Mario has visited their respective areas:
*[[Bone Goomba]]s
*[[Blooper]]s
*[[Spike]]s
*[[Dry Bones]]
*[[Boo]]s
*[[Scaredy Rat]]s
*[[Ninji]]s
*[[Spike Top]]s
*[[Pokey]]s
*[[Piranha Plant]]s
*[[Ptooie]]s
*[[Fire Bro]]s
*[[Ice Bro]]s

He has his own theme that plays during battle, which is a jazz-styled piece and an homage to spy and criminal themes in old movies, and contains Shy Guy "vocals". If Mario defeats the Shy Bandit, he receives 300 coins and has a chance to get his card, and all the color he had drained from the level (if Mario was not able to get to him before he reached the marker) will be returned, meaning that the previous colorization progress of that level will remain intact.

When summoned in battle, The Shy Bandit attacks by draining an enemy's color. This is similar to [[Slurp Guy]]s, the big difference being that an enemy defeated by this attack has a chance of becoming a card. The Shy Bandit is ineffective against mini-bosses, bosses, and certain enemies such as [[Lava Bubble]]s, which the Shy Bandit will only burn himself attempting to drain.

==Statistics==
===''Paper Mario: Color Splash''===
{{:Paper Mario: Color Splash bestiary|transcludesection=The Shy Bandit|align=horizontal|image=[[File:PMCS The Shy Bandit Idle Animated.gif]]}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Shy Bandit PMCS artwork.jpg|Artwork of the Shy Bandit
PMCS The Shy Bandit Card.png|The Shy Bandit card
PMCS The Shy Bandit card unpainted.png|Unpainted card
PMCS Shy Bandit appears.png|The Shy Bandit appears on the world map
PMCS Art 23.png|Concept art showing various early designs
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ドロボーヘイホー
|JapR=Dorobō Heihō
|JapM=Thief Shy Guy
|SpaE=Bandidoguy
|SpaEM=Bandit Guy
|FreA=Maskache masqué
|FreAM=''Maskache'', Shy Guy's French NOA name, and Masked
|FraE=Maskass masqué
|FraEM=''Maskass'', Shy Guy's French NOE name, and Masked
|SpaA=Guy Enmascarado
|SpaAM=Masked Guy
|Ger=Ganoven Guy
|GerM=Crook Guy
|Rus=Скромный бандит
|RusR=Skromnyy bandit
|RusM=Modest bandit
|Ita=Tipo Timido mascherato
|ItaM=Masked Shy Guy
|Por=Masquito Ladrão
|PorM=Thief Shy Guy
}}

==Trivia==
*Despite being a mini-boss, enemies summoned with enemy cards do not run away in front of the Shy Bandit. They attack him as normal instead.
*The player can use a previously obtained Shy Bandit card while fighting the Shy Bandit.
*The marker the Shy Bandit uses to indicate his target is a type of {{wp|Calling card (crime)|calling card}}, a token left behind by particularly devious (and self-absorbed) criminals at the scene of their crimes.

==References==
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[[Category:Shy Guys]]
[[Category:Paper Mario: Color Splash bosses]]