Peeka

Not to be confused with Peepa.

Peeka
Artwork from the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Species	Boo
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)

“Hi there, cutie! Welcome to Westside Goods!”

—Peeka, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Peeka is Lahla's sister who runs the Westside Goods shop in Rogueport in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Peeka acts as a sort of "bouncer" for the Pianta syndicate. Anyone wishing to see Don Pianta (and later Frankie) must buy a Dried Mushroom then a Dizzy Dial in that order as a sort of password to gain access to him. Peeka then asks for a password in the form of a question to make sure someone did not just stumble on the order by accident and to further secure the syndicate's main building. The question is "what is your favorite color", and the correct answer is "yellow". Before asking this however, she asks Mario "what color is your mustache?"; no matter what Mario answers, Peeka realizes that was not the right question, and asks the right one. There is a door at the back of the shop Peeka opens if everything is answered correctly. This door leads to the secret back alley that is linked to the only entrance to the main building of the Pianta syndicate. She likes jewelry and bags. Her name is a play on the phrase "peekaboo", as in Peeka "Boo".

In the Japanese version of the original, Lahla and Peeka wear bunny ears which, coupled with their cuffs and bow-tie, resembles a bunny suit. In other versions of the original and all versions of the remake, they wear cat ears.

Profiles

• Tattle: That's Peeka, a Boo that works at Westside Goods. She's so pretty... for a Boo. (GCN)/and surprisingly un-shy! (Switch) I think her sister's Lahla, the Boo who works at the Pianta Parlor.

Gallery

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  Peeka's sprite from the Japanese version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

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  Peeka's sprite from international releases of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ユーノ[?] Yūno	From「幽霊」(yūrei, "ghost") and the name suffix「の」(-no)
Chinese (simplified)	尤诺[?] Yóunuò	Transliteration of the Japanese name
Chinese (traditional)	尤諾[?] Yóunuò	Transliteration of the Japanese name
Dutch	Kieke[?]	From kiekeboe, the Dutch version of peekaboo
French	Boony[?]	Play on "Boo" and "bunny"
German	Zwinky[?]	Diminutive of zwinkern ("to blink")
Italian	Boonita[?]	Play on "Boo" and bonita (Spanish word for "pretty")
Korean	유노[?] Yuno	From the Japanese name
Spanish	Mari[?]	Diminutive of the Spanish name "Maria"; with her sister's name they're a reference to Maria del Pilar

Trivia

• Peeka and Lahla have a similar face to Lady Bow.