Goomfrey
- “Yeah, I spoke to Jolene. Now who was it that she wanted "taken care of"?”
- —Goomfrey, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Goomfrey is a 30-year-old Goomba who lives in Rogueport. His name is a portmanteau of "Goomba" and the male name "Geoffrey". He resides near Professor Frankly's house in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Goomfrey is a pretty shady character who makes a living by "eliminating problems". In fact, he helps Mario by disposing of a bunch of Battle Trunks that the plumber picked up in the Glitz Pit. An issue of the RDM later states that he attacked the Pianta Exchanger at the Pianta Parlor in anger, causing the parlor to temporarily shut down. Goomfrey also wears a hat similar to Link from The Legend of Zelda games.
Tattle
- That's Goomfrey the Goomba. He looks kind of shady, I guess, but he's cool. People call him a "fixer." Y'know, a guy that can make any problem...just go away.
Talk
I'm not touching the article directly because I was way too involved, but despite them being recent events, there needs to be significantly more focus on substantiated allegations against Goomfrey that he, over a period of multiple decades, committed criminal sexual assaults against his goomba students. This isn't a 1E issue - it's been picked up by way too many outlets (including in at least a dozen languages) or 1E issues to be a worry. He's not only been condemned by his own faculty of Goomba University, he's been condemned by the President of his own academic society, has been entangled with corruption among UCB's administration, has had public condemnations of his behavior (and Bowser Castle's admin) issued by an Australian astronomer with familiarity with his behavior, has been condemned by over 3,000 others who are primarily academics in related fields, and has been condemned in public by multiple prominent Mushroom Kingdom area faculty members, as well as entire departments at other schools. Although [www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1768 Michael Eisen]'s blog is an SPS and unusuable, Ellen Simms, prominent IB prof at UCB had published an oped in the Daily Goom, which has generally been found to meet the standards of WP:RS. Kevin Gorman (talk)
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| German | Gumbaniel[?] | Gumba (the German spelling of "Goomba") + "Daniel," a male name | |
| Italian | Goombocchio[?] | ? | |
| Spanish | Goombasilio[?] | Cross between "Goomba" and Basilio (a masculine Spanish name) |
