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{{articleabout|the town in [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]|the battle stage in [[Mario Kart DS]]|[[Twilight House|here]]}}
{{distinguish|Twilight City|DS Twilight House}}
{{Distinguish|Twilight City}}
{{location infobox
{{location-infobox
|image=[[File:TTYDNS Twilight Town.png|250px]]
|image=Twilighttown.png
|greater_location=[[Rogueport]]'s surrounding areas
|width=250px
|inhabitants=[[Twilighter]]s, [[Crow]]s
|greaterloc=[[Rogueport]]'s surrounding areas
|ruler=[[Mayor Dour]]
|inhabitants=[[Twilight Towner]]s, [[Crow]]s
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[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]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'' ([[2008]])
}}
}}
'''Twilight Town''' is a perpetually twilit town in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. While [[Mario]] and his friends were searching for the [[Ruby Star|fourth Crystal Star]], the [[Twilight Towner|residents]] here were turned into [[pig|pigs]] by [[Doopliss]], who eventually stole Mario's identity and tricked his friends (the team was unaware that the Mario they were with was actually Doopliss) and caused trouble here. However, [[Vivian]] the [[Shadow Siren]] joined Mario's team to help Mario break the curse and get his appearance back, abandoning her sisters in the process.
{{quote|My traveling 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}}
'''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.


[[File:Pigified.PNG|thumb|left|Several residents turned into pigs.]]
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.
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A small section of Twilight Town called [[Twilight House]], a reoccurring battle course in the [[Mario Kart (series)|''Mario Kart'' series]], is a large mansion suspended above the [[Twilight Trail]]. The battle course first appeared in ''[[Mario Kart DS]]'' and was later brought back as a retro battle course in ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]''.


When [[Goombella]] tattles on the gatekeeper (who makes sure nobody goes past the gate to [[Twilight Trail]] which leads to the [[Creepy Steeple]]), she says that there is "a gatekeeper" in every town and if there wasn't, the [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|game]] would be much easier to beat (because the player wouldn't have to deal with the mayor or get past the gatekeeper, they would just run to [[Doopliss]]). The mentioning of the "game," which refers to ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'', breaks the [[Fourth Wall]].
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.
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==Area Tattles==
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.
*''"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..."''


==Trivia==
==Inhabitants==
*The chapter in which this town is featured is entitled "For Pigs the Bell Tolls". This is a play on "For Whom the Bell Tolls", a famous novel by author Ernest Hemmingway.
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.
*This is one of few locations in the game to use three dimensional characters instead of flat, paper-like characters. In this case, the pigs are rendered in 3D.
 
;Main story
*[[Mayor Dour]]
*[[Battle Master]]
*[[Eve]] and her three sons
*[[Twilight Shop manager]]
*[[Twilight 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)
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
PMTTYD Pigs.png|Mario and Goombella encountering one of the residents that had been turned into a pig.
PMTTYD Twilight Town First Area.png
</gallery>


==Names in Other Languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreignname
{{foreign names
|Jap=ウスグラ村<br>''Usugura Mura''
|Jap=ウスグラ{{ruby|村|むら}}
|JapR=Usugura Mura
|JapM=Dim Town
|JapM=Dim Town
|Spa=Villa Sombría
|ChiS=阴暗村
|SpaM=Grim Town
|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
|Ger=Düsterdorf
|GerM="Gloomy Village" Possibly a pun on Düsseldorf, one of Germany's largest cities
|GerM=Gloomy Village; possibly a pun on {{wp|Düsseldorf}}, one of Germany's largest cities
|Ita=Casalcrepuscolo
|Ita=Casalcrepuscolo
|ItaM=Twilight Casale
|ItaM=Twilight Casale
|Fra=Penocta
|Kor=어둑어둑 마을
|FraM=Comes from "pénombre" (shade); "nocta" refers to the night}}
|KorR=Eoduk-eoduk Ma'eul
{{BoxTop}}
|KorM=Dusk Village
{{PM2}}
|Spa=Villa Sombría
[[Category:Places]]
|SpaM=Grim Town
[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Locations]]
}}
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]
 
[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]
==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]].
{{PMTTYD}}
[[Category:Towns]]
[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door locations]]
[[de:Düsterdorf]]
[[it:Casalcrepuscolo]]

Revision as of 18:48, August 11, 2024

Not to be confused with Twilight City or DS Twilight House.
Twilight Town
A view of Twilight Town shown when visiting for the first time.
First appearance Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Greater location Rogueport's surrounding areas
Ruler Mayor Dour
Inhabitants Twilighters, Crows
“My traveling 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

Twilight Town is a creepy, perpetually twilit town in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and is mainly inhabited by Twilighters, one of which, Dour, serves as the mayor. Crows 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 fourth Crystal Star, the Twilighters are turned into pigs 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 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 and the Koopa Troop, Bowser inadvertently ignites the Superbombomb, sending both groups flying.

Inhabitants

The town is inhabited almost entirely by Twilighters, though there are also several Crows. Many of the Twilighters are turned into pigs during the chapter.

Main story
Chapter 4 only

Items

Some items are on sale in the Twilight Shop which is located in the east area.

Item Location
Boo's Sheet Boo's Sheet In the second scene, in the storage room of the shop.
Defend Plus Defend Plus In the second scene, in a chest box in the storage room of the shop.
Fire Flower Fire Flower Nintendo Switch In the first scene, in the lowest leftmost bush.
Inn Coupon Inn Coupon In the second scene, behind the notice board in the right of the shop.
Jammin' Jelly Jammin' Jelly In the second scene, in the storage room of the shop.
Life Mushroom (Paper Mario series) Life Mushroom In the second scene, in the storage room of the shop.
Meteor Meal Meteor Meal In the second scene, given by Eve for doing her trouble.
Peachy Peach Peachy Peach In the first scene, appearing in the left desk every time Mario sleeps at the inn.
Routing Slip Routing Slip In the first scene, received from Mayor Dour while doing his trouble.
Shooting Star (item) Shooting Star In the second scene, given by Eve if Mario does a favor for her in Chapter 4.
Star Piece (Paper Mario series) Star Piece (×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.
Superbombomb Superbombomb In the first scene, in the leftmost bush after Vivian dropped it.

Profiles

  • Tattles
    • "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)

Gallery

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ウスグラむら[?]
Usugura Mura
Dim Town
Chinese (simplified) 阴暗村[?]
Yīn'àn Cūn
Dim Town
Chinese (traditional) 陰暗村[?]
Yīn'àn Cūn
Dim Town
Dutch Duisterdorp[?] Duister meaning dim or shady, dorp meaning village.
French Penocta[?] Comes from pénombre ("shade"); nocta refers to the night
German Düsterdorf[?] Gloomy Village; possibly a pun on Düsseldorf, one of Germany's largest cities
Italian Casalcrepuscolo[?] Twilight Casale
Korean 어둑어둑 마을[?]
Eoduk-eoduk Ma'eul
Dusk Village
Spanish Villa Sombría[?] 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 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.