Glitz Pit Security

Glitz Pit Security
Sprite from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for Nintendo Switch (2024)

“Sorry, bub, but authorized people only past this point.”

—Glitz Pit Security, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

The Glitz Pit Security, or just Security, is a team of guards that appears in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Their main function is to control access to the various rooms of the Glitz Pit, including barring Mario from entering rooms that the player is not supposed to access. Security members are also tasked with escorting fighters from the locker rooms to the ring before matches. The species of the Security is unknown, but all of them are muscular, blue-skinned, have yellow tufts of hair, wear black shades and suits, and hold their hands behind their backs (which are made visible in certain poses in the game's remake). They resemble real-world personal bodyguards, who are tasked with protecting moguls and other kinds of important people.

Before the championship fight, one of the security members leads Mario to a deserted locker room and locks him inside, minutes before the fight. This leads to the conclusion that Rawk Hawk cheated and somehow convinced the security to lock Mario in and prevent him from fighting in the championship match.

Tattles

In the original game, each individual security guard has a unique Tattle, though they all share an introduction and conclusion. Except in one instance, the remake updates them all to share the first variation.

• "This guy is Glitz Pit Security. He has to keep watch on this particular area."
  • "You can tell this guy works out all the time." (Left guard in lobby)
  • "Look at the huge pipes on this guy! Wowsers." (Right guard in lobby)
  • "Muscles here definitely hits the weights." (Guard at red minor-league locker room entrance)
  • "Boy, this guy must work out all the time, huh?" (Guard at red Glitz Pit entrance)
  • "This guy must do like, a million sit-ups daily." (Guard at red major-league locker room entrance)
  • "This guy has arms as big as your thighs, Mario." (Guard at promoter's room entrance, still used in the remake)
  • "This guy probably works out eight hours a day." (Guard at champion's room entrance)
  • "This guy could probably bench our whole party." (Guard at blue major-league locker room entrance)
  • "This guy must be a former Mr. Mushroom Kingdom." (Guard at blue Glitz Pit entrance)
  • "This guy must eat nothing but protein shakes." (Guard at blue minor-league locker room entrance)
  • "This guy looks like he could turn folks into pretzels." (Minor-league locker room match escort guard)
  • "I sure wouldn't want to get on this guy's bad side." (Major-league locker room match escort guard)
  • "Ten to one this guy has a professional trainer." (Guard blocking left lobby door in hallway before the fights against Rawk Hawk and Macho Grubba)
  • "Now THERE is a man who's lifted a few weights." (Guard blocking right lobby door in hallway before the fights against Rawk Hawk and Macho Grubba)
  • "This guy could probably bench-press a Thwomp." (Champion's room match escort guard)
• "I bet he's buffer than the fighters."

Gallery

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  Sprite from the original game

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  Three security guards in the Glitz Pit hallway

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  Concept art of a Glitz Pit security guard

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  A security guard reprimanded by Jolene in the remake

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ガードマン[?] Gādoman	Guardsman
Chinese (simplified)	守卫[?] Shǒuwèi	Guardsman
Chinese (traditional)	守衛[?] Shǒuwèi	Guardsman
Italian	Guardia dello stadio[?]	Stadium guard