Editing The Thousand-Year Door

{{about|the eponymous door from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''|the aforementioned game|[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]|the last chapter in said game also known as "The Thousand-Year Door"|[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#Chapter 8: The Thousand-Year Door|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door § Chapter 8: The Thousand-Year Door]]}}
[[File:PMTTYD The Thousand-Year Door.png|thumb|250px|An angled view of the Thousand-Year Door]]
{{quote|It's the Thousand-Year Door spoken of in the legends! I can't believe it's real!|Professor Frankly|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
'''The Thousand-Year Door''' is a massive door in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' that is said to have a treasure behind it. Generations of locals have created myths about what is behind it, and nobody knew that it turned out to be the entrance of the [[Palace of Shadow]]. The only character who knows [[Rogueport]]'s true history is [[Grifty]].

[[File:PMTTYD The Thousand-Year Door pedestal.png|thumb|left|The pedestal in front of the Thousand-Year Door]]
The Thousand-Year Door, like the [[Crystal Stars]] and the Palace of Shadow it leads to, was created to hold back [[Shadow Queen|a horrifying demon]] that had destroyed the town that once stood within Rogueport's boundaries. The [[List of implied characters#Four heroes|four heroes]]' design made it so that the Crystal Stars were required to open this door. However, their seal on the door would last for only 1,000 years and was, therefore, continually weakening before the game's events. When [[Mario]] places all seven Crystal Stars before the door, the dark power causes the door and walls around it to crack. A vortex spews out, and the entrance to the Palace of Shadow is opened. The so-called treasure spread in rumors is revealed as the Shadow Queen herself, but the ending shows a [[Dried Mushroom]]. Its discoverer, [[Professor Frankly]], is still happy with his finding because it proves that civilizations ate mushrooms 1,000 years ago.

[[File:TTYDNS Door is Real.jpg|thumb|260px|The Thousand-Year Door in the [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch remake]]]]
Because of the legends surrounding it, very few people have even dared to touch the door.

During the fight with the Shadow Queen, the pedestal in front of the door is shown to be directly underneath the center of Rogueport (the gallows). During the long cutscene halfway through the battle, the player sees, around the gallows, the pedestal's lights, as well as each of the Crystal Stars.
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==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=１０００{{ruby|年|ねん}}のトビラ
|JapR=Sennen no Tobira
|JapM=The Thousand-Year Door
|ChiS=千年之门
|ChiSR=Qiānnián zhī Mén 
|ChiSM=The Thousand-Year Door
|ChiT=千年之門<ref>(September 14, 2023). [https://www.nintendo.com.hk/topics/article/2oaPZMa3UqmUCS82wHDP8f 《紙片瑪利歐RPG》的最新資訊公開！本作預定於2024年發售。] ''Nintendo HK''. Retrieved September 17, 2023.</ref>
|ChiTR=Qiānnián zhī Mén 
|ChiTM=The Thousand-Year Door
|Dut=Millenniumpoort<ref>[https://www.nintendo.nl/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/Paper-Mario-The-Thousand-Year-Door-2445545.html nintendo.nl]</ref>
|DutM=Millennium Gate
|Ger=Äonentor
|GerM=Aeon Gate
|Fre=La porte millénaire
|FreM=The millennium door
|Ita=Portale Millenario
|ItaM=Millennium Door/Portal
|Kor=1000년의 문
|KorR=Cheon-nyeon-ui Mun
|KorM=The Thousand-Year Door
|Spa=La puerta milenaria
|SpaM=The millennium door
}}

==Trivia==
*A [[Sammer Guy]] in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' is called [[List of Sammer Guys#Thousand-Year Roar|Thousand-Year Roar]], referencing either the Thousand-Year Door itself or ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''{{'}}s subtitle.
*In the final scene in which the player takes control of [[Bowser]], [[Kammy Koopa]] immediately recognizes the Thousand-Year Door and its rumored treasure when Bowser asks what it is. Kammy seems to be the only non-Rogueport resident who knew of the Thousand-Year Door before the game's events.

==References==
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