Doopliss
- “You got it now, Slick? Your body and name belong to me now!”
- —Doopliss, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Doopliss is a Duplighost living in the Creepy Steeple in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. He appears as an enemy of Mario several times throughout the game, and is the boss of Chapter 4.
History
After the Boo of the four legendary heroes hid the Ruby Star in Creepy Steeple, Doopliss at some point obviously obtained it. Doopliss enchanted the bell of the Creepy Steeple, so that each time it rang, it would transform an inhabitant of the nearby Twilight Town into a pig. Mario, whose Magical Map told him that the Ruby Star was inside the Creepy Steeple, sought to help the inhabitants of the village and went to the steeple via the Twilight Trail. When Mario and his partners encountered Doopliss on the highest tower of the steeple, he was apparently watching TV, trying to find new prank ideas, suggesting he is a very extreme prankster.
In the fight, Goombella was unable to tell Doopliss's name, as it didn't appear in her log. Doopliss fought by transforming himself into a shady outline of Mario and attacking with his moves. Some time during this battle, Doopliss took on Mario's actual form and left Mario as the shadow of himself. Doopliss, as Mario, claimed to have defeated himself and won the Crystal Star. Having successfully tricked Mario's partners, he marched of to Twilight Town, leaving the actual Mario defeated on the floor.
The actual Mario followed Doopliss back to Twilight Town, where he met the ghost at the village's entrance. He claimed that if he can correctly guess his name, his original form will be restored. At the moment, he was unable to correctly guess because of a missing lower case "p". Because of this, he challenged Mario and ordered him not to run. However, because neither Mario or Doopliss could damage each other, he was forced to do the opposite.
While in Mario's body, Doopliss decided to claim Mario's efforts for his own. He presented himself to Twilight Town as their savior who defeated the steeple's demon and lifted the pig curse. He visited Mayor Dour, who invited him for a meal. None of the villagers noticed Mario's true identity.
With the help of Shadow Siren Vivian, who was currently in Twilight Town looking for the Superbombomb and did not recognize him, the actual Mario heard from a crow in the village that a being in the basement of the Creepy Steeple would know Doopliss's name. Back in the steeple, they heard about the name "Doopliss" from the parrot living there. However, the the lower-case letter p was not available in the name selection screen provided by Doopliss, so they had to collect it from a treasure chest and were finally able to name the ghost correctly.
The two cornered Doopliss at the entrance of Twilight Town and told him his real name. Doopliss's magic was, however, not fully broken by this and he fled back to the tower of the Creepy Steeple. In the tower room, Doopliss and Mario's fooled partners fought the actual Mario. Vivian only then realized he was Mario, but chose to abandon her sisters and joined Mario in the fight. Doopliss was defeated and both him and Mario returned to their original forms. Doopliss fled and left back the Ruby Star. While on the run, he met Beldam and Marilyn in Twilight Town, who were currently looking for Vivian at that place.
Doopliss joined the Shadow Sirens and filled in Vivian's place. This meant that he, too, was mistreated by Beldam, who insisted on calling him a "freak-in-a-sheet", despite the fact that he is no longer secretive about his name. He helped the Shadow Sirens at their disruption on the Excess Express. Aptly disguised as the star Zip Toad, he stole the Nitro Honey Syrup from the Ratooey Businessman. This special syrup would cause an enormous explosion when mixed with calcium and gold. He prepared its use as a bomb, stealing the Shell Earrings of the Toad Waitress for the calcium part and Toodles's Gold Ring for the gold part, but was stopped in last minute by Mario. When Pennington arrested Zip, and took him off the train at Riverside Station, he shocked Pennington by turning back and dashing away. Doopliss, Beldam and Marilyn reappeared in Poshley Heights, where they broke into the Poshley Sanctum by smashing a window and stole the Garnet Star, which turned out to be a red herring created by Pennington.
Doopliss reappeared after Chapter 7 in the Rogueport Sewers, where he had taken on the disguise of Professor Frankly and tricked Mario and his partners to open the Thousand-Year Door and go into the Palace of Shadow. The Shadow Sirens and Doopliss fought Mario and company in front of Riddle Tower in the Palace of Shadow. In this battle, Doopliss was a little tougher, and had the ability to transform into one of Mario's partners and attacking as them. After their defeat, Beldam, Marilyn and Doopliss watch Mario's battle against the Shadow Queen.
At the end of the game, Doopliss changes his mind and becomes an actor, being on stage together with Flurrie. He plays the role of Mario (and possibly others) in the play.
Trivia
- Doopliss's name comes from Duplighost, the name of his species, and a corruption of the word duplicitous, an adjective describing one who deliberately deceives others.
- Doopliss's Japanese name is Ranperu, which translates to Rumpel, which is Doopliss's name in the German, French and Spanish versions of the game, and comes from the fairy tale character Rumpelstiltskin, as both offer the same challenge: to have another guess his name.
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