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|image=[[File:SPM Thoreau.png|200px]]<br>Artwork from ''Super Paper Mario''
|image=[[File:SPM Thoreau.png|200px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
|first_appearance=''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
|species=[[Pixl]]
|species=[[Pixl]]
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{{quote|No matter! Details do bore me!|Thoreau|Super Paper Mario}}
{{quote|No matter! Details do bore me!|Thoreau|Super Paper Mario}}
[[File:SPM Thoreau Sprite.png|left|thumb|100px|Thoreau's in-game sprite.]]
'''Thoreau''' is a character in the [[Wii]] video game ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''. He is the second of the many [[Pixl]] creatures that [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Princess Peach|Peach]], and [[Bowser]] will find in the game and the first Pixl partner to be unlocked. This Pixl resembles a hand, with his head as the palm and the five circles being the fingers, which is a nod to his ability, which is grabbing and throwing enemies. This attack first originated in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' on the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]. The player can use Thoreau to knock an enemy back into another one, which ignores Defense power, making it a useful technique against enemies that take very little damage through normal means. Some enemies such as the [[Cursya]] cannot be picked up. Other than grabbing enemies, Thoreau can also activate switches from afar (just like [[Kooper]] or [[Koops]]), and snatch [[Shroom Shake]]s from [[Mr. L]] and [[Shadoo]] in battle.
'''Thoreau''' is the second [[Pixl]] the player encounters in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' after [[Tippi]], the first Pixl partner to be unlocked, and one of the twelve original Pixls created by the [[Tribe of Ancients|Ancients]]. Thoreau resembles a hand, with his head as the palm and the five circles being the fingers. This indicates his ability to grab and throw most enemies (although some, such as the [[Cursya]], cannot be picked up), an ability originating in ''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]''.  
[[File:SuperMarioKun v. 37 Thoreau.png|thumb|left|Thoreau's appearance in the ''Super Mario-Kun''.]]
His name was revealed in the 214th issue of [[Nintendo Power]] magazine, which also joked that Thoreau was once a part of a tacky wall paper design. According to [[Tippi]], Thoreau "sounds posh and upper class, but he's not afraid to get his hands dirty." Thoreau's name is a corruption of the word "throw", and is also shared with [[wikipedia:Henry David Thoreau|Henry David Thoreau]], whose famous quote, "''Simplify, simplify, simplify!''", was referenced when the Pixl mentions that details bore him.


Thoreau can be used to pick up specific objects to aid with puzzles (e.g. a block that must be thrown to exit a room), grab items and activate switches from afar (like [[Kooper]] and [[Koops]]), and steal [[Shroom Shake]]s from [[Mr. L]] and [[Shadoo]] as they are about to use them in battle.  The player can use Thoreau to throw enemies into each other, which [[Piercing attack|pierces Defense]] (similar to [[Yoshi Kid|Yoshi]]'s [[Gulp]]), making it a useful technique against enemies that take very little damage through normal means. Grabbing an enemy before it recovers from being thrown or picking up a defeated enemy will make it appear [[Dizzy]], though in the latter case the enemy is properly defeated upon hitting the ground or an object.
He claims to have been locked away by the Ancients for 1,500 years when Mario saves him from his imprisonment in a [[Treasure Chest|treasure chest]] in the first chapter. Thoreau believes that a "great being" (a reference to the player) listens to him, and believes that it would wish to know that Mario can use him to grab things with the {{button|wii|1}}. This breaks the [[fourth wall]], like how [[Bestovius]] did in Chapter 1-1, and is not done by any other Pixl.


[[File:SuperMarioKun Volume 37 Thoreau.png|thumb|left|Thoreau's appearance in ''Super Mario-kun'']]
Thoreau makes an appearance in the ''Super Paper Mario'' story arc of volume 37 of the ''[[Super Mario-Kun]]''. Here, he attempts to defend Tippi from Mario's yelling at her. He eventually rescues Mario from being defeated by [[O'Chunks]].
Thoreau's name was revealed in the 214th issue of ''[[Nintendo Power]]'', which also joked that he was once a part of a tacky wall paper design. According to Tippi, Thoreau "sounds posh and upper class, but he's not afraid to get his hands dirty." Thoreau's name is a play on the word "throw", and his statement that details bore him alludes to [[wikipedia:Henry David Thoreau|Henry David Thoreau]]'s quote, "Simplify, simplify, simplify!"
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Thoreau is rescued from a [[treasure chest]] in [[Yold Town]] during Chapter 1-2, and claims that the [[Ancients]] locked him away for 1,500 years. He is the only Pixl to break the [[fourth wall]]: he states that a "great being", the player, is listening and would wish to know to press {{button|wii|1}} to use him.
==[[Catch Card]]==
 
[[File:SPM Thoreau Catch Card.png|frame]]
Thoreau also appears in the ''Super Paper Mario'' story arc of volume 37 of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''. Here, he attempts to defend Tippi from Mario's yelling at her. He eventually rescues Mario from being defeated by [[O'Chunks]].
*'''Card Type:''' Rare
*'''Card Description:''' This handy Pixl can pick things up and throw them. He's very... handy.
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==Profiles==
===[[Catch Card]]===
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*'''Card Type:''' Rare
*'''Card Description:''' ''This handy Pixl can pick things up and throw them. He's very... handy.''
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===Tattle===
*"''That's Thoreau. He's a Pixl that can help you pick up and throw things... Thoreau was stuffed in a box 1,500 years ago, but now he has been released. He sounds posh and upper class, but he's not afraid to get his hands dirty...''"


==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|Jap=トるナゲール<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsmmB7gsdGQ&t=656 【純潔の愛、黒き渇望】　スーパーペーパーマリオ　実況プレイpart3 - YouTube]「いえーす！　ボクモンは　フェアリン　トるナゲールどえーす！！」</ref>
|Jap=トるナゲール<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsmmB7gsdGQ&t=656 【純潔の愛、黒き渇望】　スーパーペーパーマリオ　実況プレイpart3 - YouTube]「いえーす！　ボクモンは　フェアリン　トるナゲールどえーす！！」</ref>
|JapR=Toru-nagēru
|JapR=torunagēru
|JapM=Stylistic variant of「取る」(''toru'', to take) and「投げる」(''nageru'', to throw)
|JapM=''Toru'' (取る) means "take" or "bring", and ''nageru'' (投げる) means "throw".
|Fre=Lanceloin
|Fra=Lanceloin
|FreM=Throwfar
|FraM=Throwfar
|Ger=Wurfowitz
|Ger=Wurfowitz
|GerM=From "wurf" (to throw) and "-witz" (a Germanic name ending and also meaning "joke")
|GerM=''Wurf'' means "throw", ''witz'' is a suffix. It also stands for "joke".
|Ita=Manolo
|Ita=Manolo
|ItaM=A given name, likely a play on "mano" (hand)
|ItaM=A given name, pun on ''mano'' (hand).
|Spa=Lanci
|Spa=Lanci
|SpaM=From "lanzar" (to throw)
|SpaM=From the verb ''lanzar'' (to throw)
|Kor=자바더언저
|Kor=자바더언저
|KorR=Jabadeo'eonjeo
|KorR=Jabadeoeonjeo
|KorM=From "잡다" (''japda'', to grab) and "던지다" (''deonjida'', to throw)
|KorM=From Korean word ''japda'' (잡다), meaning "grab", and ''deonjida'' (던지다), meaning "throw".
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