W Emblem
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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. This also applies if W Emblem is equipped when fighting Doopliss in the Palace of Shadow.
Mario equipped with the W Emblem
Mario equipped with the W Emblem and the L Emblem
Doopliss's Mario form with W Emblem applied in the remake
Doopliss's Mario form with W Emblem and L Emblem applied in the remake
A female Twilighter describing W Emblem's colors in the remake
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| 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[edit]
- 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.
