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|image=[[File:PMTTYD NS TECXX.png|250px]]
|image=[[File:TEC-XX Face.png]]
|species=Computer
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|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]])
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{{quote|Good night, [[Princess Peach]].|TEC-XX|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
{{quote|How amusing. I am right here, before your eyes. I am this laboratory's main computer. I am the TEC-XX. Many call me TEC. You may. Sir Grodus created me to be a perfect computer, one that is flawless in its reason.|TEC|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}


'''TEC-XX''', better known as '''TEC''', is the main computer of the [[X-Naut Fortress]] during the events of ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. TEC was designed to be "flawless and perfect", though a sort of glitch resulted in him apparently feeling love, which led to him ultimately revolting against the [[X-Nauts (organization)|X-Nauts]].
The '''TEC-XX''', more commonly known as '''TEC''', is the main computer of the [[X-Naut Fortress]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. TEC was designed to be "flawless and perfect," though a sort of glitch resulted in him feeling love, which led to him ultimately revolting against the [[X-Nauts (organization)|X-Nauts]]. After each chapter, he talks to [[Princess Peach|Peach]] in an intermission. TEC is likely based on {{wp|HAL 9000}} from ''{{wp|2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey}}'', because of his intelligence and security systems. However, TEC makes no attempt to harm anyone on the station, unlike with HAL's attempts at self-preservation following logic errors. In the Japanese version of the original game and the [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch remake]] in all regions, TEC's camera "eye" is red, further emulating HAL. Since "X" can be pronounced "Cross" according to the [[X-Yux]] tattle log, his name can be interpreted as "TEC-Doublecross"—foreshadowing how he double-crosses [[Grodus]] near the end of the story.


==History==
==History==
TEC is typically seen after [[Mario]] and his [[partner]]s complete a chapter; more specifically, TEC is most often glimpsed during scenes where Princess Peach is controlled. As stated above, a strange glitch gave TEC a crush on the princess, although TEC himself could not fully understand love. This particularly annoyed TEC, who had apparently been told earlier that he was designed to fully understand everything known to the universe. Peach was also one of TEC's only companions and therefore the only person who could possibly teach him about love, and TEC saw an opportunity in this: Peach greatly sought TEC's ability to e-mail anyone (which was her only way to contact Mario, who had armed himself with a [[Mailbox SP]] sometime before the events of ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''), so TEC offered her to use this e-mail feature in return for lessons about love. He would also often request that Peach go undercover and retrieve secret information from [[Sir Grodus]], his master, for he wished the know the X-Nauts' secret plans as to reveal them to the heroes. (This was because his apparent love for Princess Peach had slowly converted him to her side.)
{{quote|I am unsure. An unusual program deviation occurred when I observed you earlier. My higher-brain circuitry malfunctioned and nearly overheated at your image. Also, an unidentified impulse sped through my processors. These events are new to me. There is more to this phenomenon, as well. I ran diagnostic programs...and their solution was...I want to know more about you. I want to observe you. Such a compulsion has no precedence. Cause unknown. I, the perfect computer... I must diagnose this unusual situation. I will not fail. That is why I led you here.|TEC|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}


By the end of Chapter 6, TEC (thanks to Peach's escapades) manages to decipher what is on Grodus's data disk and completely understands his plot. TEC reveals exactly why Peach is being held captive (which was actually so the X-Nauts could let the [[Shadow Queen]] possess her later on), but just as Peach is typing an e-mail to Mario, Grodus unexpectedly bursts into the room. Peach and TEC are both in shock as Grodus, stating his awareness of TEC being a traitor, orders two of his [[X-Naut]]s to press the red buttons on TEC's sides at the same time, permanently shutting him down. The X-Nauts succeed in their plans, and Peach was taken off to unknown parts, but it was revealed that TEC had apparently learned of love and its acquisitions at this point, for he said to Peach "I love you" as his last words.
When Peach is first kidnapped by the X-Nauts and held in the X-Naut Fortress, two doors leading to TEC automatically open for her. When she meets TEC, he first praises Grodus, then explains that he had a special reaction to Peach and wants to "observe" and learn more about her. Peach finds this weird and questions if TEC is in love with her; he reveals that he cannot comprehend the idea of love and is incapable of feeling it. Wanting to be the world's most perfect computer, TEC asks Peach to help him feel love, offering to grant her wishes in exchange. Peach asks to be able to contact [[Mario]], and TEC allows her to do so on his keyboard, sending a message to Mario's [[Mailbox SP]]. He states that he does not have any need for Peach at the moment and allows her to leave.


[[File:PMTTYD TEC-XX.jpg|thumb|Princess Peach talking to TEC-XX. Note the red eye.]]
After Chapter 2, Peach is heard in her room, wondering if she will ever be able to dance in the Mushroom Ball again. TEC calls Peach into her room and assures her that Mario has received the email, then admits to eavesdropping on her. TEC explains that, having heard Peach, he now wants to dance with her, and creates a holographic clone of Peach for her to dance with. After the dance, TEC realizes that he had fun doing it, and lets Peach send another email to Mario before sending her back to her room.
The last scene involving TEC occurs during Mario's infiltration in the [[X-Naut Fortress]], specifically right after Mario has destroyed [[Magnus von Grapple 2.0]] and collected the last [[Crystal Stars|Crystal Star]]. Here, he locks all of the doors except the one leading to his own chamber (which had previously been unavailable), eventually leading Mario and his partners to the room he is in. He then tells the gang that he is running on backup power and cached memory, and, while such rations allow him to survive, they are running out and affecting the quality of his operations. (Indeed, TEC speaks in a strange, pause-filled sequence in this form and seems immensely weak, although he is still able to remember Peach and his apparent love for her, even being able to produce an image of the princess standing in her room.) After explaining a few things to Mario and telling him that Grodus has taken Peach to the [[Palace of Shadow]], TEC releases the room lock in the Fortress and commands Mario and friends to save Peach, giving them the specific order to tell her "thank you" on his behalf. He then reveals that, in order to let Mario and friends escape the X-Naut Fortress, he will be forced to send all of the AI energy programmed into himself to the teleporter room (presumably because the X-Nauts had somehow disabled it in hopes of trapping Mario), causing him to "cease to exist as an artificial consciousness". This, however, is a price he was willing to pay for Peach, and he ultimately shuts down after his speech as an unknown voice reports a "TEC system failure". TEC's final words are "Peach... Goodbye...", before a great explosion engulfs the [[The Moon|Moon]] and he is seemingly destroyed. However, at the very end of the adventure, TEC reboots and the X-Naut Fortress is up and running again, although the whole place is deserted. (This is because it was apparently TEC himself who detonated the Fortress as to remove all traces of the X-Nauts, though he seemingly destroyed himself in the process.) He seems to have been restored to his original state after Peach gave Mario the last of her power during the battle with the Shadow Queen, which is implied by the fact that he claimed to have seen a bright light and heard Peach's voice as he awoke, though he himself did not know how he had survived.
 
During the intermission after chapter 3, TEC again calls Peach over. This time, he asks her to question Grodus on an issue. TEC opens the elevator and instructs Peach to wear an X-Naut uniform, then talk to Grodus. While in disguise, Peach asks what Grodus plans to do with her, and he responds to keep her in her room but not harm her, although refusing to say why she is needed. Grodus unknowingly tells Peach about their plan to conquer the world. Upset at TEC, Peach returns and asks why he intends to take over the world. TEC asks Peach if she likes the world she lives in, and she answers that she does. TEC refuses to tell Peach about how the Crystal Stars are involved in the plan but allows her to send Mario a message about it.
 
Peach returns to TEC after chapter 4. TEC is quiet and asks if it is more important to carry out Grodus's order or continue keeping Peach safe. For her to send Mario a message, TEC asks her five questions about Grodus's plan. After doing so, she is shocked but continues to send a message, then goes back to her room.
 
While initially angry at TEC, Peach goes to his room after chapter 5. TEC requests a data disk from Grodus's office and makes Peach go to a laboratory and mix an invisible potion so she can sneak into the room. When Peach changes the disks, TEC is allowed to view info from other computers and analyze the data. Saying that he will tell Peach when the data is figured out, he lets her email Mario and then tells her to leave.
 
After Chapter 6, TEC has finished analyzing the data and calls Peach into his room. He explains Grodus's plan and realizes that it is more important to ensure Peach's safety than to follow Grodus. TEC says that Peach must escape as fast as possible, telling her she is on the [[Moon]]. As Peach writes an email to Mario before escaping, Grodus enters with two X-Nauts and calls TEC a traitor. The X-Nauts shut off TEC and delete his data, to Peach's horror.
 
After defeating [[Magnus von Grapple 2.0]] and claiming the [[Crystal Star]], Mario finds himself locked in the X-Naut Fortress with seemingly no way to exit. Mario soon comes across TEC on the bottom floor. Running on backup power, TEC tells Mario that Peach has been taken to the [[Palace of Shadow]] with Grodus. After imploring Mario to save Peach and give her his thanks, TEC activates the door to the teleporter, allowing Mario and company to teleport themselves back to [[Rogueport Underground]]. Once Mario and company are safe, TEC detonates several explosives to ensure the base can no longer be used for evil, destroying himself in the process.
 
However, in the game's ending, it is revealed in an email sent to Mario from [[Goombella]] that TEC is still functional and wants to see Mario and Peach again. After the game is completed, Mario can return to the X-Naut Fortress via the teleporter in Rogueport Underground to revisit TEC, who expresses pleasure to see him again and explains both the circumstances behind his destruction and that, some time after, he regained consciousness for a reason even he is unaware of, though he recalls seeing white and hearing Peach's voice shortly before awakening.
 
In the Nintendo Switch remake, TEC can also be seen at the top of the stage when it is zoomed out at the very conclusion of the credits when the "The End" screen appears behind the main cast.


==Quiz==
==Quiz==
In a Peach intermission after Chapter 4, TEC is in a conflicted mood and asks Peach to have a quiz. If Peach answers a question incorrectly, TEC will restart the quiz.
In the Peach intermission after chapter 4, TEC is in a conflicted mood and asks Peach to have a quiz. If Peach answers a question incorrectly, TEC will restart the quiz. In the remake, answering a question incorrectly stays on the current question.
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!'''Answer 1
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!'''Answer 2
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!'''Answer 3
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|1
|data-label="#"|1
|What will happen if you collect seven [[Crystal Stars]]?
|data-label="Question"|What will happen if you collect seven [[Crystal Stars]]?
|Your wish is granted.
|data-label="Answer 1"|Your wish is granted.
|style="background: #f0f0f0;"|[[The Thousand-Year Door]] opens.
|data-label="Answer 2" style="background:#99ff99"|[[The Thousand-Year Door]] opens.
|A thousand [[coin]]s appear.
|data-label="Answer 3"|A thousand [[coin]]s appear.
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|-
|2
|data-label="#"|2
|What is the goal of [[Sir Grodus|Grodus]], leader of the [[X-Nauts (organization)|X-Nauts]]?
|data-label="Question"|What is the goal of [[Grodus]], leader of the [[X-Nauts (organization)|X-Nauts]]?
|style="background: #f0f0f0;"|To conquer the world.
|data-label="Answer 1" style="background:#99ff99"|To conquer the world.
|To get rich.
|data-label="Answer 2"|To get rich.
|To become a superhero.
|data-label="Answer 3"|To become a superhero.
|-
|-
|3
|data-label="#"|3
|What is the legendary treasure that waits behind the Thousand-Year Door?
|data-label="Question"|What is the legendary treasure that waits behind the Thousand-Year Door?
|100,000,000 coins.
|data-label="Answer 1"|100,000,000 coins.
|An extremely rare [[badge]].
|data-label="Answer 2"|An extremely rare [[badge]].
|style="background: #f0f0f0;"|A 1,000-year-old [[Shadow Queen|demon]]'s soul.
|data-label="Answer 3" style="background:#99ff99"|A 1,000-year-old [[Shadow Queen|demon]]'s soul.
|-
|-
|4
|data-label="#"|4
|What does Sir Grodus wish to do with this ancient demon's soul?
|data-label="Question"|What does Sir Grodus wish to do with this ancient demon's soul?
|Cherish it always.
|data-label="Answer 1"|Cherish it always.
|style="background: #f0f0f0;"|Bring the demon back to life.
|data-label="Answer 2" style="background:#99ff99"|Bring the demon back to life.
|Hang out with it.
|data-label="Answer 3"|Hang out with it.
|-
|-
|5
|data-label="#"|5
|What is required to seal up the demon again?
|data-label="Question"|What is required to seal up the demon again?
|A legendary sword.   
|data-label="Answer 1"|A legendary sword.   
|A magic spell.
|data-label="Answer 2"|A magic spell.
|style="background: #f0f0f0;"|Crystal Stars.
|data-label="Answer 3" style="background:#99ff99"|Crystal Stars.
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|}
==Gallery==
<gallery>
TEC-XX Face JP.png|TEC's camera in the Japanese version of ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
TEC-XX Face US.png|TEC's camera in the International versions of ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
PMTTYD Staff Credits 12.png|TEC-XX, as seen in the end credits.
PMTTYD TEC-XX Surveillance 1.png|TEC's screen, showing Peach captured
PMTTYD TEC-XX Surveillance 2.png|TEC's screen, showing Peach captured
PMTTYD TEC-XX Surveillance 3.png|TEC's screen, blank
PMTTYD TEC-XX Opens Door 1.png|TEC opening a door for Peach
PMTTYD TEC-XX Opens Door 2.png|TEC opening a door for Peach
PMTTYD Peach TEC-XX First Encounter.png|Peach's first encounter with TEC
PMTTYD Peach Typing on Keyboard.png|Peach typing on TEC's keyboard
PMTTYD Grodus Orders TEC Shutdown.png
TTYDNS TEC Glitch.png|TEC seeing Peach for the first time in the remake
TTYDNS TECs Malfunction Seeing Peach.png|TEC explaining his malfunction in the remake
PMTTYD NS TECXX 2.jpg|TEC-XX and Peach in the remake
TTYDNS TEC Final Email.jpg|TEC getting shut down in the remake
PMTTYDNS The End.jpg|TEC at the end of the Nintendo Switch version's credits
Nintendo Magazine Summer 2024 TTYD Relationship Chart.png|TEC-XX on the Nintendo Magazine for summer 2024, showing a relationship chart featuring many characters from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
</gallery>


==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|Jap=ＴＥＣ－ＸＸ (テック)
|Jap=ＴＥＣ－ＸＸ
|JapR=Tī Ī Shī - Ekkusu Ekkusu (Tekku)
|JapR=Tī Ī Shī Batsu Batsu
|JapM=TEC-XX (Tech)
|JapM=TEC-XX
|Spa=CIM <br> Computador Inteligente de Mega X
|Jap2=テック
|SpaM=XIC <br> X-Naut's Intelligent Computer
|Jap2R=Tekku
|Ger=TEC-XX (Tech)
|Jap2M=Tech
|GerM=
|Chi=ＴＥＣ－ＸＸ
|Chi2=提克
|Chi2R=Tíkè
|Chi2M=Transliteration of the Japanese name
|Dut=Perfecte Computer
|DutM=Perfect Computer
|Dut2=PC
|Fre=TECH XX
|Fre2=Tech
|Ger=TEC-XX
|Ger2=Tech
|Ita=TEC XY
|Ita2=TEC
|Kor=TEX-XX
|KorR=Ti I Ekseu Ekseu Ekseu
|KorM=TEX-XX
|Kor2=테크
|Kor2R=Tekeu
|Kor2M=Tech
|SpaA=Computadora Inteligente de Mega X
|SpaAM=X-Naut's Intelligent Computer
|SpaA2=CIM
|SpaA2M=XIC
|SpaE=Computador Inteligente de Mega X
|SpaEM=X-Naut's Intelligent Computer
|SpaE2=CIM
|SpaE2M=XIC
}}
}}


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*TEC is likely based off of [[wikipedia:HAL 9000|HAL 9000]] from ''[[wikipedia:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', because of his intelligence and security systems. However, unlike HAL, TEC is not insane or malevolent.
**In the Japanese version of the game, TEC's camera "eye" is red, further emulating HAL.
*In the Japanese version of ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', TEC's words are given completely in katakana and kanji with katakana furigana, a common trope in Japanese media used for a robotic or hypnotized character. However, Princess Peach is able to send emails that contain hiragana characters.
*In the Japanese version of ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', TEC's words are given completely in katakana and kanji with katakana furigana, a common trope in Japanese media used for a robotic or hypnotized character. However, Princess Peach is able to send emails that contain hiragana characters.
*The music that plays when Peach dances with her holographic clone created by TEC is an arrangement of the middle section of Waltz Op. 64 No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin.
*The music that plays when Peach dances with her holographic clone created by TEC is an arrangement of the middle section of ''{{wp|Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (Chopin)|Waltz Op. 64 No. 2}}'' by Polish Romantic composer {{wp|Frédéric Chopin}}.


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Latest revision as of 17:19, October 13, 2024

TEC
TEC in the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Species Computer
First appearance Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
“How amusing. I am right here, before your eyes. I am this laboratory's main computer. I am the TEC-XX. Many call me TEC. You may. Sir Grodus created me to be a perfect computer, one that is flawless in its reason.”
—TEC, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

The TEC-XX, more commonly known as TEC, is the main computer of the X-Naut Fortress in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. TEC was designed to be "flawless and perfect," though a sort of glitch resulted in him feeling love, which led to him ultimately revolting against the X-Nauts. After each chapter, he talks to Peach in an intermission. TEC is likely based on HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, because of his intelligence and security systems. However, TEC makes no attempt to harm anyone on the station, unlike with HAL's attempts at self-preservation following logic errors. In the Japanese version of the original game and the Nintendo Switch remake in all regions, TEC's camera "eye" is red, further emulating HAL. Since "X" can be pronounced "Cross" according to the X-Yux tattle log, his name can be interpreted as "TEC-Doublecross"—foreshadowing how he double-crosses Grodus near the end of the story.

History[edit]

“I am unsure. An unusual program deviation occurred when I observed you earlier. My higher-brain circuitry malfunctioned and nearly overheated at your image. Also, an unidentified impulse sped through my processors. These events are new to me. There is more to this phenomenon, as well. I ran diagnostic programs...and their solution was...I want to know more about you. I want to observe you. Such a compulsion has no precedence. Cause unknown. I, the perfect computer... I must diagnose this unusual situation. I will not fail. That is why I led you here.”
—TEC, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

When Peach is first kidnapped by the X-Nauts and held in the X-Naut Fortress, two doors leading to TEC automatically open for her. When she meets TEC, he first praises Grodus, then explains that he had a special reaction to Peach and wants to "observe" and learn more about her. Peach finds this weird and questions if TEC is in love with her; he reveals that he cannot comprehend the idea of love and is incapable of feeling it. Wanting to be the world's most perfect computer, TEC asks Peach to help him feel love, offering to grant her wishes in exchange. Peach asks to be able to contact Mario, and TEC allows her to do so on his keyboard, sending a message to Mario's Mailbox SP. He states that he does not have any need for Peach at the moment and allows her to leave.

After Chapter 2, Peach is heard in her room, wondering if she will ever be able to dance in the Mushroom Ball again. TEC calls Peach into her room and assures her that Mario has received the email, then admits to eavesdropping on her. TEC explains that, having heard Peach, he now wants to dance with her, and creates a holographic clone of Peach for her to dance with. After the dance, TEC realizes that he had fun doing it, and lets Peach send another email to Mario before sending her back to her room.

During the intermission after chapter 3, TEC again calls Peach over. This time, he asks her to question Grodus on an issue. TEC opens the elevator and instructs Peach to wear an X-Naut uniform, then talk to Grodus. While in disguise, Peach asks what Grodus plans to do with her, and he responds to keep her in her room but not harm her, although refusing to say why she is needed. Grodus unknowingly tells Peach about their plan to conquer the world. Upset at TEC, Peach returns and asks why he intends to take over the world. TEC asks Peach if she likes the world she lives in, and she answers that she does. TEC refuses to tell Peach about how the Crystal Stars are involved in the plan but allows her to send Mario a message about it.

Peach returns to TEC after chapter 4. TEC is quiet and asks if it is more important to carry out Grodus's order or continue keeping Peach safe. For her to send Mario a message, TEC asks her five questions about Grodus's plan. After doing so, she is shocked but continues to send a message, then goes back to her room.

While initially angry at TEC, Peach goes to his room after chapter 5. TEC requests a data disk from Grodus's office and makes Peach go to a laboratory and mix an invisible potion so she can sneak into the room. When Peach changes the disks, TEC is allowed to view info from other computers and analyze the data. Saying that he will tell Peach when the data is figured out, he lets her email Mario and then tells her to leave.

After Chapter 6, TEC has finished analyzing the data and calls Peach into his room. He explains Grodus's plan and realizes that it is more important to ensure Peach's safety than to follow Grodus. TEC says that Peach must escape as fast as possible, telling her she is on the Moon. As Peach writes an email to Mario before escaping, Grodus enters with two X-Nauts and calls TEC a traitor. The X-Nauts shut off TEC and delete his data, to Peach's horror.

After defeating Magnus von Grapple 2.0 and claiming the Crystal Star, Mario finds himself locked in the X-Naut Fortress with seemingly no way to exit. Mario soon comes across TEC on the bottom floor. Running on backup power, TEC tells Mario that Peach has been taken to the Palace of Shadow with Grodus. After imploring Mario to save Peach and give her his thanks, TEC activates the door to the teleporter, allowing Mario and company to teleport themselves back to Rogueport Underground. Once Mario and company are safe, TEC detonates several explosives to ensure the base can no longer be used for evil, destroying himself in the process.

However, in the game's ending, it is revealed in an email sent to Mario from Goombella that TEC is still functional and wants to see Mario and Peach again. After the game is completed, Mario can return to the X-Naut Fortress via the teleporter in Rogueport Underground to revisit TEC, who expresses pleasure to see him again and explains both the circumstances behind his destruction and that, some time after, he regained consciousness for a reason even he is unaware of, though he recalls seeing white and hearing Peach's voice shortly before awakening.

In the Nintendo Switch remake, TEC can also be seen at the top of the stage when it is zoomed out at the very conclusion of the credits when the "The End" screen appears behind the main cast.

Quiz[edit]

In the Peach intermission after chapter 4, TEC is in a conflicted mood and asks Peach to have a quiz. If Peach answers a question incorrectly, TEC will restart the quiz. In the remake, answering a question incorrectly stays on the current question.

# Question Answer 1 Answer 2 Answer 3
1 What will happen if you collect seven Crystal Stars? Your wish is granted. The Thousand-Year Door opens. A thousand coins appear.
2 What is the goal of Grodus, leader of the X-Nauts? To conquer the world. To get rich. To become a superhero.
3 What is the legendary treasure that waits behind the Thousand-Year Door? 100,000,000 coins. An extremely rare badge. A 1,000-year-old demon's soul.
4 What does Sir Grodus wish to do with this ancient demon's soul? Cherish it always. Bring the demon back to life. Hang out with it.
5 What is required to seal up the demon again? A legendary sword. A magic spell. Crystal Stars.

Gallery[edit]

  • TEC's camera in the Japanese version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

    TEC's camera in the Japanese version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

  • TEC's camera in the International versions of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

    TEC's camera in the International versions of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

  • TEC-XX, as seen in the end credits.

    TEC-XX, as seen in the end credits.

  • TEC's screen, showing Peach captured

    TEC's screen, showing Peach captured

  • TEC's screen, showing Peach captured

    TEC's screen, showing Peach captured

  • TEC's screen, blank

    TEC's screen, blank

  • TEC opening a door for Peach

    TEC opening a door for Peach

  • TEC opening a door for Peach

    TEC opening a door for Peach

  • Peach's first encounter with TEC

    Peach's first encounter with TEC

  • Peach typing on TEC's keyboard

    Peach typing on TEC's keyboard

  • PMTTYD Grodus Orders TEC Shutdown.png
  • TEC seeing Peach for the first time in the remake

    TEC seeing Peach for the first time in the remake

  • TEC explaining his malfunction in the remake

    TEC explaining his malfunction in the remake

  • TEC-XX and Peach in the remake

    TEC-XX and Peach in the remake

  • TEC getting shut down in the remake

    TEC getting shut down in the remake

  • TEC at the end of the Nintendo Switch version's credits

    TEC at the end of the Nintendo Switch version's credits

  • TEC-XX on the Nintendo Magazine for summer 2024, showing a relationship chart featuring many characters from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

    TEC-XX on the Nintendo Magazine for summer 2024, showing a relationship chart featuring many characters from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ＴＥＣ－ＸＸ[?]
Tī Ī Shī Batsu Batsu 		TEC-XX
テック[?]
Tekku 		Tech
Chinese ＴＥＣ－ＸＸ[?] -
提克[?]
Tíkè 		Transliteration of the Japanese name
Dutch Perfecte Computer[?] Perfect Computer
PC[?] -
French TECH XX[?] -
Tech[?]
German TEC-XX[?] -
Tech[?]
Italian TEC XY[?] -
TEC[?]
Korean TEX-XX[?]
Ti I Ekseu Ekseu Ekseu 		TEX-XX
테크[?]
Tekeu 		Tech
Spanish (NOA) Computadora Inteligente de Mega X[?] X-Naut's Intelligent Computer
CIM[?] XIC
Spanish (NOE) Computador Inteligente de Mega X[?] X-Naut's Intelligent Computer
CIM[?] XIC

Trivia[edit]

  • In the Japanese version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, TEC's words are given completely in katakana and kanji with katakana furigana, a common trope in Japanese media used for a robotic or hypnotized character. However, Princess Peach is able to send emails that contain hiragana characters.
  • The music that plays when Peach dances with her holographic clone created by TEC is an arrangement of the middle section of Waltz Op. 64 No. 2 by Polish Romantic composer Frédéric Chopin.
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo GameCube) / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Main characters Bobbery • Flurrie • Goombella • Koops • Mario • Ms. Mowz • Princess Peach • Vivian • Yoshi Kid
Species Bub-ulb • Craw • Crow • Doogan • Duplighost • Glitz Pit Security • Jabbi • Little Mouser • Luff • Nibbles • Para-bomb • Penguin • Pianta • Pig • Puni • Ratooey • Smorg • Toad • Twilighter • Yoshi
Chapters Prologue • Chapter 1 • Chapter 2 • Chapter 3 • Chapter 4 • Chapter 5 • Chapter 6 • Chapter 7 • Chapter 8
Crystal Stars Diamond Star • Emerald Star • Gold Star • Ruby Star • Sapphire Star • Garnet Star • Crystal Star
Bosses Beldam • Blooper • Bowser • Doopliss • Gloomtail • Gold Fuzzy • Grodus • Kammy Koopa • Lord Crump • Marilyn • Rawk Hawk • The Iron Adonis Twins • Three Shadows • Vivian
Chapter bosses Cortez • Doopliss • Hooktail • Macho Grubba • Magnus von Grapple • Magnus von Grapple 2.0 • Shadow Queen • Smorg
Optional bosses Atomic Boo • Bonetail • Gus • Prince Musha • Whackaa
Minor characters Arfur • Audience • Bandy Andy • Battle Mastera • Blooey • The Bob-omb Squad • Bomberto • Bootler • Bub • Bub-ulber • Businessman • Charlieton • Chef Shimi • Chestnut King • Chet Rippo • Chomp Country • Cleftor • Craw-Daddy • Creepy Steeple Boo • Darkly • Dazzle • The Dead Bones • The Destructors • Doe T. • Don Pianta • Dupree • Eddy the Mask • Eve • Excess Express conductor • Excess Express engineer • Excess Express waitress • Fahr Outpost mayor • Flavio • Flo • Francesca • Frankie • Fred • The Fuzz • Garf • General White • Ghost T. • Glitzville reporter • Gloomer • Gob • Goldbob • Goom Goom • The Goomba Bros. • Goomez • Goomfrey • Goomther • Goose • Grifty • Grubba • Hamma, Bamma, and Flare • Hamma Jamma • The Hand-It-Overs • Hayzee • Heff T. • Herb T. • Ian Foomusa • Ishnail • Jabble • Jerry • Johnson • Jolene • King K • Kolorado's father • Koopie Koo • The Koopinator • Koopley • Koopook • The KP Koopas • Kroop • Lady Bow • Lahla • Laki • Larson • Lucky • Luigi • Lumpy • The Magikoopa Masters • Master Crash • Mayor Dour • McGoomba • Merlee • Merlon • Merluvlee • Maude • The Mind-Bogglers • Mousimilian • Mover • Mr. Hoggle • Niff T. • Nob • Pa-Patch • Parakarry • Parrot • Peeka • Pennington • Petuni • Pianta syndicate • Pierre • Pine T. Jr. • Pine T. Sr. • Plenn T. • Podler • Podley • The Poker Faces • The Pokey Triplets • Porter • Prince Mush • Professor Frankly • Pungent • Pungry • Punio • Puniper • Puni elder • The Punk Rocks • Rob • Robbo Thieves • Rocko • Scarlette • Screamy • Shellshock • The Shellshockers • Sir Swoop • Spike Storm • Spiky Joe • Stewart • Swindell • Swob • Sylvia • TEC • Thriff T. • The Tiny Spinies • Toad sailor • Toad sailor's brother • Toad salesmana • Toadette • Toadia • Toadsworth • Toce T. • Tony • Toodles • Torque • Traveling Sisters Three • Twilight Shop manager • Twilight Shop manager's wife • Vinny • Whacka • Wings of Night • Wonky • Zess T. • Zip Toad
Enemies Bandit (Badge · Big) • Bill Blaster (Bombshell) • Blooper • Bob-omb (Bob-ulk · Bulky) • Boo (Atomic · Dark) • Bristle (Dark) • Bullet Bill (Bombshell) • Buzzy Beetle (Parabuzzy (Spiky) · Spike Top (Red)) • Chain-Chomp (Red) • Cleft (Bald (Hyper) · Hyper · Iron · Moon) • Crazee Dayzee (Amazy) • Dark Craw • Dry Bones (Dark · Dull · Red) • Ember (Lava Bubble · Phantom) • Fire Bar • Fuzzy (Green · Flower · Horde) • Goomba (Gloomba (Para · Spiky) · Hyper (Para · Spiky) · Para · Spiky) • Goomboarda • Hammer Bro (Boomerang · Fire) • Koopa Troopa (Dark (Para) · Koopatrol (Dark) · KP (Para) · Para · Shady (Para)) • Lakitu (Dark) • Magikoopa (Green · Red · White) • Pale Piranha (Frost · Piranha Plant · Putrid) • Pider (Arantula) • Pokey (Poison) • Ruff Puff (Dark · Ice · Poison) • Spinia (Spania · Spunia) • Spiny (Sky-Blue) • Swooper (Swampire · Swoopula) • Wizzerd (Dark · Elite) • X-Fist (Punch) • X-Naut (Elite · PhD · Platoon) • Yux (Grodus X · Mini · X-Yux (Mini) · Z-Yux (Mini))
Locations Boggly Woods • Broadshroom • Circuit Break Island • Creepy Steeple • Deepdown Depot • Excess Express • Fahr Outpost • Flurrie's House • Fresh Juice Shop • Glitz Pit • Glitzville • Goomstar Temple • Great Tree • Grimble Forest • Hatesong Tower • Herb T.'s place • Hooktail Castle • Hot Dog Stand • Inn • Item Shop • Jazzafrazz Town • Keelhaul Key • Keelhaul Galleria • Lovely Howz of Badges • Mario Bros.' House • Moon • Netherworld • Niff T.'s shop • Northwinds Mart • Palace of Shadow • Palace of Shadow Tower • Path to Fahr Outpost • Path to Shhwonk Fortress • Petalburg • Petal Meadows • Pianta Parlor • Pirate's Grotto • Pit of 100 Trials • Podley's Place • Plumpbelly Village • Poshley Heights • Poshley Sanctum • Pudding Continent • Pungent's Great Tree Shop • Rapturous Ruins • Riverside Station • Rogueport • Rogueport Underground • Rumblebump Volcano • Sales Stall • Shhwonk Fortress • Souvenir shop • Strudel Continent • Toad Bros. Bazaar • Trouble Center • Twilight Shop • Twilight Town • Twilight Trail • Waffle Kingdom • Westside Goods • X-Naut Fortress
Bowser levels World 1 • World 2 • World 3
Moves Action Command • Appeal • Art Attack • Boat Mode • Bob-ombast • Body Slam • Bomb • Bomb Squad • Charge • Clock Out • Dodgy Fog • Earth Tremor • Fiery Jinx • First Strike • Flee • Gale Force • Ground Pound • Guard • Gulp • Headbonk • Hold Fast • Infatuate • Jump • Kiss Thief • Lip Lock • Love Slap • Mini-Egg • Multibonk • Paper Mode • Plane Mode • Power Lift • Power Shell • Rally Wink • Shade Fist • Shell Shield • Shell Slam • Shell Toss • Showstopper • Smooch • Spring Jump • Stampede • Stylish move • Super Hammer • Superguard • Supernova • Sweet Feast • Sweet Treat • Tattle • Tease • Tube Mode • Ultra Hammer • Veil
Objects Badge • Big Bob • Black chest • Black Skull • Boat panel • Brick block • Candy Pop • Cheep Blimp • Chomp Rock • Cog • Coin • Coin block • Coral • Crystal Ball • Elevator • Flagpole • Flower • Heart • Hidden block • Koopa Clown Car • Meat • Metal Block • Pianta token • Plane panel • Power-draining machine • Recovery block • S.S. Flavion • Save Block • Shine Block • Star Piece • Stone Block • Stone keys • Switch • Teleporter • The Thousand-Year Door • Treasure chest • Warp Pipe • X-Ship • Yellow Block
Stats / statuses Allergic • Badge Point • Burn • Charged • Confused • Danger • Defense • DEF-Up • Dizzy • Dodgy • Electrified • Fast • Flower Point • Frozen • Heart Point • Huge • Immobilized • Invisible • Payback • Peril • Poison • Power • POW-Down • POW-Up • Prohibited Command • Regeneration • Sleep • Slow • Soft • Star Point • Star Power • Tiny
Miscellaneous 65th Trivia Quiz-Off • 66th Trivia Quiz-Off • Art Gallerya • Badges • Bestiary (Nintendo GameCube · Nintendo Switch) • Boom-bassa-boom Festival • Bingo! • Block locations (Hidden) • Enemy formations • Flash game • Gallery (Nintendo GameCube · Nintendo Switch) • Glitches (Nintendo GameCube · Nintendo Switch) • Goldbobbington's • Happy Lucky Lottery • Koopa Troop • Level up • Luigi Fan Club • Jazzafrazz Town Drama Slam • Mist • Parade • Partner Hintsa • Pre-release and unused content • Quotes (By character: A–F · G–K · L–R · S–Z) • Recipes • Rogueport Direct Mail Service • Rogueport Restoration Committee • Selling prices • Shine Sprites • Shops • Sound Gallerya • Staff (Nintendo GameCube · Nintendo Switch) • Star Pieces • Star Point amounts • Story predictions • Stump Petuni • Tattles (Nintendo Switch) • Treasure chest locations • University of Goom • Unnamed NPCs • X-Nauts
a Exclusive to the Nintendo Switch remake
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