Editing Twilight Town

{{distinguish|Twilight City|DS Twilight House}}
{{location infobox
|image=[[File:PMTTYD Twilight Town First Area.png|250px]]
|greater_location=[[Rogueport]]'s surrounding areas
|inhabitants=[[Twilighter]]s, [[Crow]]s
|ruler=[[Mayor Dour]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
}}
{{quote|My [[Mario|traveling]] [[Party member|friends]]... Welcome to Twilight Town. Well, I'd LIKE to welcome you... But "welcoming" people is generally a good thing, and it's nothing but bad here.|Mayor Dour|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
[[File:PMTTYD Pigs.png|thumb|left|Mario and Goombella encountering one of the residents that had been turned into a pig.]]
'''Twilight Town''' is a creepy, perpetually twilit town in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', and is mainly inhabited by [[Twilighter]]s, one of which, [[Mayor Dour|Dour]], serves as the mayor. [[Crow]]s inhabit Twilight Town as well, and players can listen to their conversations when Mario uses Vivian's field [[Veil]] ability. To enter Twilight Town through the pipe in [[Rogueport Underground]], Mario is required to have his name to be written on his clothes, otherwise the pipe will reject him.

While [[Mario]] and his friends are searching for the [[Ruby Star|fourth Crystal Star]], the Twilighters are turned into [[pig]]s by a distant bell in [[Creepy Steeple]]. After heading there, Mario finds a [[Duplighost]] named [[Doopliss]] who had been responsible for the chaos caused in Twilight Town. Despite putting up a good fight, and reverting all of the Twilighters to normal in the process, Doopliss managed to steal Mario's identity in an attempt to cause more havoc.

At around this time, [[Vivian]] had been looking for the [[Superbombomb]] after her sister [[Beldam]] framed her for "dropping" it. In his cursed state, Mario helped her find it, and as thanks Vivian decided to help him retrieve his identity. After listening in to a conversation of a [[Parrot (character)|parrot]] who Doopliss had locked up, the duo was able to correctly guess Doopliss's name, then battle him again back at Creepy Steeple, allowing Mario to win back his identity. The Twilighters, shocked over the fact that Doopliss had disguised himself as Mario, praised Mario for restoring peace to Twilight Town.

Later on, Lord Crump is seen looking for the Superbombomb when he gets stopped by [[Bowser]] and [[Kammy Koopa]]. After a brief confrontation between the [[X-Nauts (organization)|X-Nauts]] and  the [[Koopa Troop]], Bowser inadvertently ignites the Superbombomb, sending both groups flying.

==Inhabitants==
The town is inhabited almost entirely by [[Twilighter]]s, though there are also several [[Crow]]s. Many of the Twilighters are turned into pigs during the chapter.

;Main story
*[[Mayor Dour]]
*[[Battle Master]]
*[[Eve]] and her three sons
*[[Twilighter]] shop manager
*Twilighter shop manager's wife
*Twilighter gatekeeper
*Twilighter innkeeper 
*[[Gloomer]]

;Chapter 4 only
*[[Beldam]]
*[[Marilyn]]
*[[Vivian]]
*[[Dupree]]
*[[Traveling Sisters Three]]

==Items==
Some items are on sale in the [[Twilight Shop]] which is located in the east area.
{| class="wikitable"
!Item
!Location
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Boo's Sheet|game=NS}}
|In the second scene, in the storage room of the shop.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Defend Plus|game=NS}}
|In the second scene, in a chest box in the storage room of the shop.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Fire Flower|game=NS}} [[File:Nintendo Switch Logo.svg|15px|link=Nintendo Switch]]
|In the first scene, in the lowest leftmost bush. 
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Inn Coupon|game=NS}}
|In the second scene, behind the notice board in the right of the shop.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Jammin' Jelly|game=NS}}
|In the second scene, in the storage room of the shop.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Life Mushroom (Paper Mario series)|Life Mushroom|game=NS}}
|In the second scene, in the storage room of the shop.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Meteor Meal|game=NS}}
|In the second scene, given by [[Eve]] for doing [[Tell that person...|her trouble]].
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Peachy Peach|game=NS}}
|In the first scene, appearing in the left desk every time [[Mario]] sleeps at the [[inn]].
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Routing Slip|game=NS}}
|In the first scene, received from [[Mayor Dour]] while doing [[Newsletter...|his trouble]].
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|link=Shooting Star (item)|Shooting Star|game=NS}}
|In the second scene, given by Eve if Mario does a favor for her in Chapter 4.
|-
|rowspan=3|{{PMTTYD item|link=Star Piece (Paper Mario series)|Star Piece|game=NS}} (×3)
|In the first scene, behind the leftmost house.
|-
|In the first scene, in the southernmost bush in the southeast area.
|-
|In the second scene, behind the fence near the southeast tree.
|-
|{{PMTTYD item|Superbombomb|game=NS}}
|In the first scene, in the leftmost bush after [[Vivian]] dropped it.
|}

==Profiles==
*'''[[Tattle]]s'''
**''"This is Twilight Town. It's twilight here, which I guess makes sense, huh? That big moon gives me the heebie-jeebies. I guess the sky here is always the same... No morning, noon, or night... Wouldn't perpetual dusk get a little like, boring?"''
**''"This is Twilight Town. The people here are just as shadowy as the sky... I wonder if I'd get that way if I lived here long enough? ...Gross. Still, I guess being all gothed-out is better than being a pig..."''
*'''Map description'''
**"''A town stuck in a perpetual state of dim twilight. Even the townspeople have dim, gray complexions, not to mention dim expressions.''" (GCN)
**"''A town stuck in a perpetual state of dim twilight. Even the gloomy townspeople have dim expressions.''" (Switch)

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ウスグラ村
|JapR=Usugura Mura
|JapM=Dim Town
|ChiS=阴暗村
|ChiSR=Yīn'àn Cūn
|ChiSM=Dim Town
|ChiT=陰暗村
|ChiTR=Yīn'àn Cūn
|ChiTM=Dim Town
|Dut=Duisterdorp
|DutM=''Duister'' meaning dim or shady, ''dorp'' meaning village.
|Fre=Penocta
|FreM=Comes from ''pénombre'' ("shade"); ''nocta'' refers to the night
|Ger=Düsterdorf
|GerM=Gloomy Village; possibly a pun on {{wp|Düsseldorf}}, one of Germany's largest cities
|Ita=Casalcrepuscolo
|ItaM=Twilight Casale
|Kor=어둑어둑 마을
|KorR=Eoduk-eoduk Ma'eul
|KorM=Dusk Village
|Spa=Villa Sombría
|SpaM=Grim Town
}}

==Trivia==
*[[Goombella]] breaks the [[fourth wall]] when she tattles on the gatekeeper; she says that there is "a gatekeeper" in every town and if there was not, the [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|game]] would be much easier to beat.
*During the Bowser segment, an unseen item called the Twilight Blade can be found in the bushes, although Bowser then says "Just Joking". A similar occurrence also happens when checking one of the statues in [[Bowser's Castle]].
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