Colored Pencils

The Origami King enemy
Colored Pencils
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Description	The first big boss of King Olly's Legion of Stationery. Talented, but not as talented as he thinks.
HP	150
Type	Normal
Role	Boss
Item drops	None
Moves	Primary Target (3), Reloading... (reloads pencils), Pencil Rain (3 per pencil), Snap Shut (base 13, range 4, only hits on two closest rings), Rainbow Roll (4 × 12), Worst Case (2)
Location(s)	Overlook Tower

“Feast your eyes upon my art-senal! Twelve colored pencils, ready to make your paper bodies my canvas!”

—Colored Pencils, Paper Mario: The Origami King

Colored Pencils, The Missile Maestro (also referred to as Color Pencil), is a member of the Legion of Stationery who guards the end of the red streamer and the boss of Overlook Tower in Paper Mario: The Origami King. He is an oversized red tin pencil case sporting King Olly's logo on the front. He normally holds 12 colored pencils inside, whose colors are, from left to right, white, lime, green, cyan, blue, purple, pink, red, yellow, beige, brown, and black. These are used as missiles. His dialogue is displayed with each symbol being semi-randomly picked from those colors, or, when severely damaged, a light gray.

By the time Mario has entered Overlook Tower, Colored Pencils has created drawings on the walls and floors, including one at the entrance displaying King Olly. As Mario scales the tower, Colored Pencils continually tries to stop him. First, the boss damages the elevator by piercing it with colored pencils, which, after being removed, cause the elevator to plunge back to the first floor. Second, when Mario reaches the cafe over the third floor, Colored Pencils retaliates by launching large salvos of pencils. The pencils also block the doorway out of the tower.

Once Mario reaches the streamer, he attempts to dislodge it by jumping into it, to no avail. Afterwards, two colored pencils are launched, forcing Olivia to shove Mario out of the way. The case then reveals himself, Mario pulling Olivia away when he is about to flatten her. Colored Pencils expresses his hate of people erasing his work, introduces himself, and fights Mario.

After being defeated, Colored Pencils groans that Mario was better as a side-scroller, and explodes, erasing his drawings off screen and releasing a Magic Circle Mario can use to destroy the streamer.

Battle

In the first phase of the battle, Colored Pencils will launch four to six pencils prior to Mario lining up rings. The pencils signal their landing spot by placing targets over spaces on the board. The targets do not move. Merely walking over a targeted tile will cause Mario to be struck by a pencil, though it will not cancel his turn. After Mario finishes moving, any pencil that's still airborne will strike its target. After Mario attacks, Colored Pencils will attempt to launch a Pencil Rain, launching his remaining pencils at Mario for 2 damage each, and then using Reloading, receiving 12 new pencils in time to launch and set more targets. However, if his lid was closed, which is achieved by Mario stopping behind the case and either using a strong enough Hammer attack or using the 1,000-Fold Arms to close the lid, the pencils will explode inside the case, dealing 3 damage each to Colored Pencils and stunning him, leaving him unable to reload. The next turn, Colored Pencils will instead use a Snap Shut, dealing 6 damage to Mario should he be close enough, then use Reloading again.

After taking enough damage, Colored Pencils will start using Rainbow Roll attacks, dealing 3 damage twelve times when able to, in bursts of three pencils, before Reloading. The technique also prevents Mario from closing the lid as he charges up during his turn. Instead, Mario can use the 1,000-Fold Arms and grab the pencils, then initiate a rush attack by slamming the case with them. If the Colored Pencils still has HP left afterwards, the severely damaged case will be rendered permanently unable to reload, attacking with Worst Case for the rest of the battle, dealing 2 damage.

Gallery

• ColoredPencils.png

  Colored Pencils

• PMTOK Colored Pencils Hammer.png

  Mario using his Hammer on the Colored Pencils

• Missile Maestro.jpg

  Colored Pencils' debut before battle

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	イロエンピツ ジャン＝ピエール・イロエンピツ １２世 Iroenpitsu Jan-Piēru Iroenpitsu 12-sei	Colored Pencils Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th
Chinese (simplified)	彩色铅笔 Cǎisèqiānbǐ 让·皮埃尔·彩色铅笔12世 Ràng-Pí'āi'ěr Cǎisèqiānbǐ 12 Shì	Colored Pencils Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th
Chinese (traditional)	彩色鉛筆 Cǎisèqiānbǐ 尚-皮耶爾·彩色鉛筆12世 Shàng-Píyē'ěr Cǎisèqiānbǐ 12 Shì	Colored Pencils Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th
Dutch	Kleurpotloden KLaudius KLementinus KLeurpotloden XII[?]	Colored Pencils The "KL" in each of his names is capitalized, and alliterate with "kleurpotloden". "XII" is the Roman numeral for 12, and at the end of a name, is pronounced as "de 12e" (the 12th)
German	Buntstifte Buntward von und zu Stiftius der 12[?]	Colored Pencils Name mixed with puns on either "Bunt" (colorful) and "Stift" (pen / pencil), or "Buntstift" (colored pencil)
Italian	Astuccio di pastelli Duccio Astuccio della Matitesca XII[?]	Pastel Case Duccio is a given name that rhymes with astuccio (pencil case), della Matitesca sounds like an ancient family name and contains the word matita (pencil).
Russian	Цветные карандаши[?] Tsvetnyye karandashi	Colored Pencils
Spanish (NOE)	Lápices de colores Doce Lores[?]	Colored pencils Twelve Lords. "Lores" is a pun on "colores" (colors) and "lores" (lords)

The Missile Maestro

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ミサイルアーティスト[?] Misairu Ātisuto	Missile Artist
Chinese (simplified)	导弹艺术家[?] Dǎodàn Yìshùjiā	Missile Artist
Chinese (traditional)	飛彈藝術家[?] Fēidàn Yìshùjiā	Missile Artist
French	Le coloriste balistique[?]	The Ballistic Colorist
German	Der Kunststifter[?]	Mix of "Kunst stiften" (donating art to a museum) and "Stift" (pencil), probably also "Unruhestifter" (troublemaker)
Italian	L'artista missilista[?]	The missile artist
Spanish (NOE)	El artillero virtuoso[?]	The Virtuous Gunner