W Emblem

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W Emblem
Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door
Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Badge Point BP 0 0
Price {{{price}}} Coin360
(GCN)
Coin432
(NS)
Effect The colors of Mario's clothes match Wario's.
Description(s)
Change Mario's clothes into Wario's clothes. (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)

The W Emblem is a badge in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its Nintendo Switch remake. It can be bought from Charlieton for 360 coins in the original or 432 coins in the remake. It can be sold for 150 coins. If Mario equips the badge, it changes the color scheme of his clothes to resemble Wario's, turning his hat and shirt yellow, his overalls purple, his shoes green, and his emblem blue. This look somewhat mirrors Mario's yellow costume from the Super Smash Bros. series (excluding Super Smash Bros. Ultimate). If combined with the L Emblem, Mario's clothes resemble Waluigi's, turning his hat and shirt purple, his overalls black, his shoes orange, and his emblem yellow.

In the remake, if W Emblem is equipped during the first battle with Doopliss when he steals Mario's name and body, his Mario disguise retains the badge's color scheme for the rest of Chapter 4, even if the badge is unequipped at any point before Mario gets his name and body back. Dialogue from certain Twilighters is also changed to describe W Emblem's color scheme rather than Mario's usual colors.

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese エムブレームW[?]
Emuburēmu Daburu
Emblem W
Chinese (simplified) 纹章W徽章[?]
Wénzhāng W Huīzhāng
Heraldic W Badge
Chinese (traditional) 紋章W徽章[?]
Wénzhāng W Huīzhāng
Heraldic W Badge
Dutch W-embleem[?] W Emblem
French Emblème W[?] W Emblem
German Dressman W[?] Male Model W
Italian Emblema W[?] W Emblem
Korean 엠브렘W[?]
Embeulem Deobeullyu
Emblem W
Spanish Emblema W[?] W Emblem

Trivia

Earlier sprite of the W Emblem from the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door demo on the Interactive Demo Disc 18.
  • In the demo version of the game, it was shown that the W Emblem was going to be purple.
  • This is the only reference to Wario and Waluigi in a Paper Mario game.
  • The W Emblem's price in the remake appears to be goroawase (Japanese number wordplay); 432 can be read as yomiji, or 黄泉路, meaning "the road to the land of the dead". This refers to Yomi ("the Yellow Springs"), which is the land of the dead or "underworld" in Japanese mythology. The connections to yellow and the underworld can be seen as references to Wario's characteristics.