Shooting Star (item)

Shooting Star
Paper Mario description	Shooting stars that hit all enemies. Attack Power: 6
The Thousand-Year Door description	Drops shooting stars on all enemies and confuses them. (GCN) Drops shooting stars on all enemies and does 6 damage. (Switch)
Super Paper Mario description	Showers enemies with a flurry of shooting stars.

A Shooting Star is an item found in the Paper Mario series.

It first appears in Paper Mario, where it is very valuable and somewhat rare. It deals six damage to all opponents in the form of showering them with shooting stars; the only enemy who is immune to this item is Monstar. One can be obtained by talking to a Hammer Bro during the Chapter 6 Intermission at the leftmost point of the library while Princess Peach is disguised using the Sneaky Parasol, which she can put in the Mysterious Treasure Chest for Mario to collect later.

This item reappears in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. The item's description claims that the Shooting Star makes enemies confused, but this is false. This item can also be cooked by mixing a Thunder Rage with a Point Swap. It can be cooked with a Mushroom Fry to produce a Meteor Meal.

When used in Super Paper Mario, players have to aim the remote at the screen and fire at all the stars that appear. The attack grows in strength in proportion to the amount of stars hit. A single Shooting Star can be cooked to make a Meteor Meal, which has the same effect but automatically does the maximum amount of damage without an action command, making it a straight upgrade. One can be found in Outer Limits inside a brick block, another can be found in The Overthere in Sector 5, and enemies such as Fotons and Hogarithms drop them on occasion. It can also be purchased from Flimm.

Recipes

Name	Ingredient(s)	Effect(s)	Game
Meteor Meal	Shooting Star	Damages enemies on screen.	Super Paper Mario
	Mushroom Fry + Shooting Star Mushroom Roast + Shooting Star Mushroom Steak + Shooting Star	Replenishes 7 HP and gradually regenerates HP for 2 turns.	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Shooting Star	Point Swap + Thunder Rage	In battle causes 6 damage to all enemies.
Thunder Rage1	Point Swap + Shooting Star	Inflicts damage on all enemies and reduces Attack power.

¹ - only have a 50% chance of being successfully cooked (failure will result in a Peachy Peach or a Dizzy Dial being given instead)

Locations

Paper Mario

The hidden block way to the Shooting Star in Shy Guy's Toy Box

The hidden block containing the Shooting Star in Flower Fields

• After Mario visits the Shooting Star Summit, one Shooting Star appears on the balcony of the house in Goomba Village.
• One Shooting Star can be found in Shy Guy's Toy Box one screen east of Red Station. Mario can get it by hitting a hidden coin block and then tossing Kooper on it, or executing a Tornado Jump.
• One Shooting Star can be found in a hidden block above the visible blocks on the southwestern path of Flower Fields.
• Another Shooting Star can be found in the bush in the northwestern area of Flower Fields.
• Given by the Hammer Bro at the end of the library in Peach's Castle during the Peach intermission of Chapter 6 when approached while in disguise with the Sneaky Parasol. It can then be sent to Mario via the Mysterious Treasure Chest during that same intermission.
• In a high ? Block on the way to the Shiver City entrance in Toad Town Tunnels.
• In a stone cavern on Shiver Mountain.
• In a chest at the end of the path to the north of the entrance hall of Crystal Palace.
• In a ? Block at the end of a path in the grotto part of Bowser's Castle.
• On sale at Shiver Shop for 30 coins each, and the Star Haven Shop for 15 coins each.
• Have a chance to be dropped by Embers and the star-spotted Li'l Oinks.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

• On sale at Northwinds Mart in Fahr Outpost (30 coins).
• Can be randomly sold once by Charlieton (36 coins).
• Given by Eve if the player feeds her children before she gets pigified in Chapter 4.
• One is in a ? Block in the third scene from the entrance of the Palace of Shadow.
• One is in a chest in the room across descended hallways 2 and 3 in the area beyond Palace of Shadow Tower.
• One is on a pedestal in the room before the Sir Grodus fight in the area beyond Palace of Shadow Tower.
• Used by shops as a reward for collecting 70 Shop Points.
• Dropped by Dark Koopatrols, Magikoopas, Dark Craws, Amazy Dayzees, Elite Wizzerds, X-Naut PhDs, and the Glitz Pit Fuzzies.

Super Paper Mario

• Chapter 2-1 (Map 12), use Fleep on a seven-point star in the background near the Star Block, the one with five rays converging on it.
• Chapter 4-3, behind the second column of brick blocks in the first area.
• Chapter 5-3 (Map 34), use Fleep above the tallest protruding blue crystal in the area where the Star Block is.
• Chapter 7-4, at the top of the infested second structure in Sector 5, across the gap using the first structure with a red ! Switch.
• Chapter 8-4, in a chest at the southeast corridor near a few Goombas and red Koopa Troopas, which is also right in front of a door to the next room.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	キラキラおとし Kirakira Otoshi	Sparkling Drop; shared with the Star Rain move
Chinese (simplified)	流星[?] Liúxīng	Shooting Star	Paper Mario
	流星陨落[?] Liúxīng Yǔnluò	Shooting Star Fall; shared with the Star Rain move	The Thousand-Year Door remake
Chinese (traditional)	流星隕落[?] Liúxīng Yǔnluò	Shooting Star Fall; shared with the Star Rain move
Dutch	Sterrenregen[?]	Meteor shower; literally: star rain
French	Étoile filante[?]	Shooting star
German	Sternenwind[?]	Star-wind
Italian	Stella cadente[?]	Shooting star; shared with the Star Rain move
Korean	반짝유성[?] Banjjak-Yuseong	Sparkling Shooting Star; shared with the Star Rain move
Spanish	Estrella Fugaz[?]	Shooting Star