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—TEC-XX, 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. After each chapter, he talks to Peach in an intermission.

History

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 her keyboard, sending a message to Mario's Mailbox SP. He states that he does not have any need for Peach left 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. In order 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 analyzes the data. Saying that he will tell Peach when the data is figured out, she lets him send Mario an email 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 follow Grodus. TEC says that Peach must escape as fast as possible, telling her that 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.

While exploring the X-Naut Fortress in chapter 7, Mario 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. He opens the door to the teleporter leading to Rogueport Sewers, instructing Mario to save Peach and give her his thanks, before shutting off.

In an email sent to Mario by Goombella in the game's ending, it is revealed that TEC is still alive. Goombella says that TEC really wants to see Mario and Peach again.

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.

#	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.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ＴＥＣ－ＸＸ (テック)^[?] Tī Ī Shī - Ekkusu Ekkusu (Tekku)	TEC-XX (Tech)
German	TEC-XX (Tech)^[?]	?
Spanish	CIM Computador Inteligente de Mega X^[?]	XIC X-Naut's Intelligent Computer

Trivia

TEC is likely based off of HAL 9000 from 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.
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.

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-'''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]].
+'''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]]. After each chapter, he talks to [[Princess Peach|Peach]] in an intermission.
 ==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.)
+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 her keyboard, sending a message to Mario's [[Mailbox SP]]. He states that he does not have any need for Peach left at the moment and allows her to leave.
-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.
+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.
-[[File:PMTTYD TEC-XX.jpg|thumb|Princess Peach talking to TEC-XX. Note the red eye.]]
+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.
-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.
+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. In order 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 analyzes the data. Saying that he will tell Peach when the data is figured out, she lets him send Mario an email 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 follow Grodus. TEC says that Peach must escape as fast as possible, telling her that 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.
+While exploring the X-Naut Fortress in chapter 7, Mario 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. He opens the door to the teleporter leading to [[Rogueport Sewers]], instructing Mario to save Peach and give her his thanks, before shutting off.
+In an email sent to Mario by [[Goombella]] in the game's ending, it is revealed that TEC is still alive. Goombella says that TEC really wants to see Mario and Peach again.
 ==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.
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[Edit] 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 Mush^a • Whacka^a
Minor characters	Arfur • Audience • Bandy Andy • Battle Master^a • 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 • Doopliss's parrot • 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 Foomus^a • 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 • 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 salesman^a • 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) • Goomboard^a • 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-Naut 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 Gallery^a • 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 Hints^a • 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 Gallery^a • 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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