The Underwhere

This article is about Chapter 7-1. For the beveragarium in Flipside, see The Underwhere (bar).

Level
The Underwhere
Level code	7-1
Game	Super Paper Mario
Music track	The Underwhere
Music sample
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“Hey, new face! So tell me... First time down here in The Underwhere? ...HA! Just a little joke. People don't arrive HERE twice! Hahahahahaha!”

—Shayde, Super Paper Mario

The Underwhere is the setting of chapter seven in the game Super Paper Mario. It is also called "World -1" by one of the residents, a reference to the famous "Minus World" glitch from the original Super Mario Bros. Ruled by Queen Jaydes, The Underwhere makes up one half of the "afterlife" dimensions (the other being The Overthere), and is where people who have been neither good nor bad from "all worlds" go when they die. Once there, the people become ghost-like creatures known as Shaydes.

The Underwhere and The Overthere follow a similar opposite-naming theme to Flipside and Flopside. In addition, there is a "beveragarium" that serves milk beneath Flipside named "The Underwhere", and another in Flopside named "The Overthere."

Chapter 7 is the only chapter where none of Count Bleck's minions are fought.

Chapters and locations

Image	Name	Description
	The Underwhere (Chapter 7-1: Subterranean Vacation)	A dark, dull dimension filled with strange creatures. Queen Jaydes rules this land. This area is first visited during Chapter 6's interlude. Mario finds Luigi and has the previous world's Pure Heart restored, but loses Bowser and Peach. The Bros. then return here for Chapter 7's first level and are tasked with escorting Luvbi to The Overthere.
	Underwhere Road (Chapter 7-2: The Sealed Doors Three)	The way to the Overthere Stair. This level requires the player to move upward. Three Dorguy challenges must be completed and much backtracking is required. Bowser rejoins the party after he is fought here. The Underchomp is also fought.
	Overthere Stair (Chapter 7-3: The Forbidden Apple)	A blue-skied area consisting of hundreds of clouds. Like the previous level, the heroes must ascend vertically, only this time, they do so via a series of clouds referred to as “stairs”. Many apples with magical effects are found here. Princess Peach rejoins the party after being awakened.
	The Overthere (Chapter 7-4: A Bone-Chilling Tale)	The kingdom of Grambi and the Nimbis, which is under attack by Skellobits. Bonechill is fought as the chapter's boss.

Pre-Chapter 7

Mario crossing the River Twygz in Charold's boat

Mario meeting Luvbi for the first time

Before Chapter 7, Mr. L, a brainwashed Luigi, fails to defeat the heroes. Dimentio, believing Mr. L incapable to show his face after such a failure, summons a gigantic fireball that blasts Mr. L, undoing the hypnosis. Believed to be dead, Luigi is sent to the Underwhere. Afterward, Dimentio arrives on Flipside and repeats the process with Mario, Princess Peach, and Bowser, seemingly "ending their games" as well. Mario awakens near the The Underwhere fountain without any of his Pixls, while Princess Peach and Bowser are nowhere to be found. A Shayde approaches him and tells Mario about the Underwhere, where people with ended games go. When Mario rejects the claim that his game has ended, the Shaydes tells him to go to Queen Jaydes to "weigh his sins".

The first area contains The Underwhere fountain, which fully restores Mario's HP. There several Shaydes, a Save Block, and a door to the next area. Mario does not go far before he is stopped by Luvbi, a Nimbi, who hopes to meet her "special someone". She disregards Mario as being a "mustachioed fatty" and ignores him.

This area includes several, spikes, pits and tall pipes, too high to jump. Mario must find a winding path in 3-D to pass this area. Many Dry Bones are found here. At the end of the path is a door, as well as a Super Shroom Shake on top of a pipe, which can be reached with a flipping block.

Mario then reaches the River Twygz. He may either pay Charold four coins to ferry the river or simply swim across. On the other side of the river is Queen Jaydes's palace. Once there, Jaydes starts weighing his sins, but then feels "strange energy" emitting from Mario. Mario shows Queen Jaydes the stone, powerless Pure Heart obtained in the World of Nothing and she begins questioning Mario about how he obtained it. A phone call from Grambi of The Overthere interrupts her, informing her of their missing daughter, Luvbi. With her and her D-Men busy, Jaydes entrusts the task of locating Luvbi to Mario. Jaydes then takes the Pure Heart for the time being and gives Mario the key to the tunnels under the River Twygz, stating that she was notified of a "strange fellow dressed in green" who has fallen into the river. She asks Mario to check there first.

Mario swims to the bottom of the river, avoiding several Underhands, and finds a secret tunnel in 3-D, leading to the locked door his key is for. The door leads to an underwater room with an Underhand next to a pillar with a block on top of it. On the other side of the pillar is a lever that drains the water in the room and some Brick Blocks blocking the way ahead. As the blocks cannot be broken underwater, Mario must push the block off the pillar, drain the water, then use the block to reach the bricks and destroy them so he can swim ahead. Mario reaches a dead end, but finds a path in 3-D to a large room. There is a path in 3-D, but it is blocked by Underhands. Mario must go to the other side of the room, shove down another pushable block in an alcove, then drain the water with a lever to make the Underhands disappear. He can then take the path and enter a room with a pipe and a door. The pipe leads to a room with several coins. The door is the way ahead.

Mario eventually reaches an outside area. Crossing several fountains, he finds Luigi, who was sent there by Dimentio after Chapter 6. He does not remember anything that happened since he was hypnotized by Nastasia into Mr. L. Mario explains that he has arrived in The Underwhere and asks Luigi to help him find Luvbi. Luigi eagerly accepts and joins Mario's party.

The Bros. must make their way back to the second room in the level. Luigi's super jump can be used to clear the pipes. At the left end of the room, the super jump must be used to reach another floor. There are some Dry Bones and Frost Piranhas here, as well as a door leading to another area. One of the pipes leads into the background, where there is pipe leading to an underground area with a Gigabite, which awards the player with Peach's third Catch Card when defeated.

In the next area, there are many pipes, each with a Frost Piranha inside. At the edge of the area is Luvbi. She is still searching for a prince and growls when the Bros. approach. After learning that they came to find her and bring her home, she asks them her name. When they answer correctly, she flies back to Jaydes in shock. The Bros. follow and Jaydes thanks them for finding Luvbi. She gives Mario the Pure Heart, which she was able to revitalize. She then tells them that their games were never ended and they were simply sent to The Underwhere. She asks them if they would like to return to Flipside and they agree.

Merlon and Tippi met up with Mario and Luigi at Flipside Tower. At Merlon's house, Mario explains what happened and introduces Luigi. With the Pixls back, they placed the revitalized Pure Heart into the seventh Heart Pillar in Flopside B1 Outskirts, revealing the purple door. Once they are ready, they enter the door on Flipside Tower but find that they are back in the Underwhere.

Chapter 7-1: Subterranean Vacation

Storyline text

Dimentio's savage attack had separated Mario from his friends...

He had reunited with Luigi, yes, but Peach and Bowser were still missing.

Just where were those two? And what new dangers lay ahead?

It was time to venture through the door opened by the seventh Pure Heart.

Once again, Mario saw a nightmarish landscape beyond imagination...

Tippi questioning Mario about his alleged Game Over taking him back here after entering the 7th dimensional door

Queen Jaydes revealing the door to the Underwhere Road

The group venture towards Queen Jaydes's palace once more. Surprised, Queen Jaydes asks why Mario and Luigi have returned. Tippi explains that they are trying to find the Pure Heart hidden in The Underwhere. After realizing that they are the heroes mentioned in the Light Prognosticus, Jaydes tells them that the Pure Heart's location is top secret and the heroes will need to consult with Grambi in The Overthere. At that moment, Luvbi arrives, ready to return to The Overthere. Queen Jaydes asks the heroes to accompany Luvbi to The Overthere, as a monster has recently escaped from his prison in the Underwhere due to a recent earthquake, and Luvbi needs protection. Mario and company accept the task, hoping to speak to Grambi when escorting Luvbi, and Queen Jaydes opens the way to Underwhere Road. Through the door is the Star Block, which ends the chapter.

Enemies

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  Dry Bones

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  Frost Piranhas

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  Ice Cherbil

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  Lava Bubbles

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  Poison Cherbil

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  Squog

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  Underhands

• Gigabite

Items

Item	Image	Location
Super Shroom Shake		On top of a tall pipe at east end of the second area, a flip block may be used to acquire it.
Long-Last Shake		Behind a rock in the same area where Mario found Luigi.
Caught Card		Dry Bones, in a small alcove in 3D to the left of the moving fountains near when Mario found Luigi. Underhand (Map 39), use Fleep in the east bank of River Twygz.
Super Card		Peach (3), in a chest after defeating the Gigabite in an area via pipes starting from the one next to three Brick Blocks at the top of the second area. Jaydes (Map 38), use Fleep on top of the Underwhere fountain.

Menu description

• "Jaydes rules the sad souls whose games are over. Mario and his brother Luigi finally reunited here. After that, they headed with Luvbi up to The Overthere."

Parallels to mythology

The Underwhere can be compared to the Asphodel Meadows of the ancient Greek underworld, hence its name, which is a play on the words "underworld" and "underwear". However, the Underwhere's counterpart, The Overthere, where the sinless can spend eternity as angelic Nimbis, is more heavily based on Heaven than the Greek Elysian Fields. Bonechill's prison, the place where people go when they have been very bad in life, is equivalent to Tartarus, also from Greek mythology, although the fact that he was a fallen Nimbi and his association with ice does bear resemblance to the story of Lucifer, who, according to Dante's Inferno, is trapped in ice in the deepest circle of Hell.

Several characters and elements in the underworld are direct counterparts to mythology, mostly Greek myths:

• Shaydes are analogous to shades, spirits residing in the underworld.
• Jaydes is a parody of Hades, ruler of the underworld.
• The River Twygz, pronounced "twigs", is analogous to the River Styx, pronounced "sticks".
  • Charold, the man who runs the ferry across the River Twygz, fulfills a similar role to River Styx's Charon.
• D-Man, derived from "demon".
• The Underchomp is a reference to Cerberus (both act as three-headed dogs who guard the gates to the underworld).
• The three hags reference the three Moirai, or the Fates, in Greek mythology.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	アンダーランド[?] Andā Rando	Under Land
French	L'En-dessous[?]	The underside
German	Untendrunten[?]	Underdownthere
Italian	Il Mondodigiù[?]	World of below/Under-world
Korean	언더랜드[?] Eondeo Raendeu	Under Land
Spanish (NOA)	El Inframundo[?]	The Underworld
Spanish (NOE)	Masacá[?]	From más acá (literally, "closer" or "further here") and a pun on más allá ("beyond", often used to refer to the afterlife), which is also the name of the Overthere in European Spanish, forming together a pun on acá ("here") and allá ("there").

Subterranean Vacation

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	またまた来たよ！地のそこへ[?] Matamata Kita yo! Chi no Soko e	We're Back Once Again! To the Bottom of the Earth
French	Vacances souterraines[?]	Subterranean Vacations
German	Unterirdische Erholung[?]	Subterranean Vacations
Italian	Vacanze sotterranee[?]	Subterranean Vacations
Korean	또다시 땅속으로[?] Ttodasi ttangsok-euro	Into the ground again
Spanish	Vacaciones subterráneas[?]	Subterranean Vacations

Trivia

• The green vine-like plants seen hanging from the canopy of the Underwhere in the background resemble family trees, befitting the area's "afterlife" themes as most of these family trees shown in the Underwhere appear to have either ended completely (representing the end of a family line) or have lots of branches, but with those branches ending prematurely (representing a low survival rate).