Mimi

“I like getting what I want, so I do whatever I need to get it.”

—Mimi, Super Paper Mario

Mimi is a villain in the Wii game Super Paper Mario. She is one of Count Bleck's main lackeys, and has the appearance of an innocent young girl, though she has a violent and cruel temper. She possesses the ability to shape-shift, often taking the guises of Merlee and other characters. Her true identity, however, is shrouded in mystery (although she states her true form to be her arachnid transformation). According to Carson, some say she's a failed Pixl, possibly even the first Pixl ever created, which had revolted against the Tribe of Ancients. Others say she's the unintended creation of a witch who was researching potions that would allow shape shifting. If Mario flips to 3-D while Mimi is "True Mimi", one could see gears inside of her, possibly meaning that she is a robot, a fact that is further implied by her violent explosions upon defeat. However, near the end of the game, Mimi's love, along with Count Bleck's, Tippi's, and O'Chunks', repair the Pure Hearts, meaning that Mimi is not a robot, since robots can't have feelings, that means that the her arachnid form may be Mechanical implants.

Taking the guise of a maid for Merlee, she orders Mario to work off a debt of one million Rubees after he breaks a vase. Mario discovers a secret stash of Rubees, allowing him to pay off the debt and causing Mimi to flee. During her search for the Pure Heart in Merlee's Mansion, Mimi enslaved many guests and forced Merlee to hide in a toilet in the women's restroom. She also trapped Gnaw.

Mimi was originally invincible thanks to Count Bleck. However, in Chapter 2-4 Merlee removes the invincibility with her cheerleader-like chants. She is the boss of Chapter 2, where she morphs into a giant, spider-like creature. The transformation seems to make this game darker than other Paper Mario titles, as its animation features Mimi cracking her neck and letting her head spin around, dangling on the rest of her body. She also appears as a mini-boss in the sixth and eighth chapters.

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Mimi's true form.

Mimi is fought again in Chapter 6. Posing as King Sammer, she tells Mario that the Pure Heart is in a chest on the twenty-sixth gate. When opening a Treasure Chest at gate twenty-six, Mario finds a bomb, and, when he isn't phased by the explosion that erupts from it, she battles him to waste the rapidly declining time before Sammer's Kingdom is destroyed by The Void. Although she loses in the battle, she succeeds in her goal as Sammer's Kingdom is destroyed.

In Chapter 8, Peach battles Mimi solo. After her inevitable defeat, Mimi is saved by Peach and eventually comes to Count Bleck's aid after Dimentio takes over. After the game is beaten, she gets a job working as Merlee's actual maid, and, since Merlee rarely uses her mansion (as she had moved to Flopside far earlier in the game), she decided to use it as a stable for cutie pies. Interestingly, Lock stated that (even at this point) she was still forcing him and the mansion's other prisoners to work as a way to repay her for the home and board they had taken in Merlee's Mansion during her absence. Despite this, though, Mario and friends could not get into the generator rooms, and one message triggered by attempting to access one actually suggested that that room was closing down.

Trivia

• Mimi's name derives from the word "mimic", which fits in with her ability to copy others. It may also derive from a backwards form of "I'm," the contraction of the words "I am," referring to how she attempts to take on the personality of others.
• According to Dimentio, Mimi's dream of a perfect world is a gem-filled pool with hunky lifeguards, which Mimi had written down in her diary.
• Mimi gives a lot of information about herself in the game show "That's My Merlee!". Whether it is true or not is debatable, as she was disguised as Merlee at the time and may have been attempting at making Mario and friends think that she was the charmer.
  • Her birthday is May 5.
  • Her childhood nickname was the "Odd Porpoise".
  • She likes to watch reruns of Super Ultra Goomba Bros.
  • Her favorite smell is Old Cheese.
  • When showering, she washes off the mildew.
  • Her favorite food is tangerines.
  • Mario matches her type of guy.
  • Her favorite animal is a demon.
  • She wants a boyfriend.
  • Her best feature is her effervescent personality.
• Mimi's outfit changes frequently throughout the course of the game.
• She has transformed into Merlon, Merlee, King Sammer, Princess Peach, Bowser, O' Chunks, and Count Bleck.
• Her Catch Card says that she has a crush on Bleck, which is also implied in one of the game's early cutscenes and another cutscene during the final battle.
• When she transforms to her true form, Mimi turns her head like to be possessed like in the movie "The Exorsist".
• Mimi's true form as a spider may possibly be a reference to the 1986 Stephen King Novel "It".
• The speach bubbles of Mimi's true form and the Shadow Queen are the same.