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 | |||||
- “I'm sick and tired of Philistines like you ERASING all of my hard work, man. You probably haven't heard of me, right? Figures. When was the last time you even went to a gallery? Pfft. Don't answer. I'm gonna give you an art lesson for free. The name's Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th. I represent the Legion of Stationery, I'll have you know! Anyway, I'm guarding this streamer, and I'll scribble on your flat face if that's what it takes to stop you.”
- —Colored Pencils, Paper Mario: The Origami King
Colored Pencils, The Missile Maestro (also referred to as Color Pencil[1] and his real name Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th), is a member of the Legion of Stationery who guards a spool for the red streamer and serves as 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, and possibly speaks with a French accent, due to him having a French name. 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 character being semi-randomly picked from those colors, making him one of the only two characters possessing this trait, the other being Olivia when she is soaking in the Spring of Rainbows. When he is defeated, his dialogue characters are shown light gray.
By the time Mario has entered Overlook Tower, Colored Pencils had vandalized the walls and floors, including a drawing at the entrance displaying King Olly. As Mario ascends the tower, Colored Pencils continually tries to stop him. First, Colored Pencils sabotages 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 on the third floor, Colored Pencils launches large salvos of pencils at him. The pencils also block the doorway out of the tower.
Once Mario reaches the red streamer's spool, 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 itself, and Mario pulls Olivia away when Colored Pencils is about to flatten her. Colored Pencils expresses detest of people erasing his work, introduces himself, and fights Mario.
After being defeated, Colored Pencils says that Mario was better as a side-scroller, and explodes, erasing his drawings offscreen and releasing a Magic Circle that Mario can use to destroy the spool.
Battle
- “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
In the first phase of the battle, Colored Pencils launches 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 when rings are rotated or slid. Merely walking over a targeted tile causes Mario to be struck by a pencil for 3 damage, though it does not cancel his turn. After Mario finishes moving, any pencils that are still airborne strike their targets. After Mario attacks, Colored Pencils attempts to launch a Pencil Rain, launching his remaining pencils at Mario for 3 damage each, and then using Reloading, receiving 12 new pencils in time to launch and set more targets. However, if his lid is 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, rendering himself unable to reload. During the next turn, Mario can damage the open case by jumping, and Colored Pencils attacks him with Snap Shut, dealing 10–16 damage should Mario be in the inner two rings, then uses Reloading again. If Mario closes the lid when the case is empty, Colored Pencils will taunt him before attacking him with Snap Shut.
At half HP or less, Colored Pencils starts using Rainbow Roll attacks, dealing 4 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 in front of Colored Pencils and grab the pencils, then initiate a rush attack by slamming the case with them. If Colored Pencils still has HP left afterwards, the damaged case will be rendered permanently unable to reload, attacking with Worst Case for the rest of the battle, dealing 2 damage, 1 damage if blocked.
Gallery
Colored Pencils
Colored Pencils' debut before battle
Colored Pencils unleashing the Rainbow Roll attack
Mario using his Hammer on the Colored Pencils
The Legion of Stationery on the Origami Craftsman's workbench
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | イロエンピツ[2] Iroenpitsu |
Colored Pencils | |
| ジャン＝ピエール・イロエンピツ １２ Jan-Piēru Iroenpitsu Jūnisei |
Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th | ||
| Chinese (simplified) | 彩色铅笔[3] Cǎisèqiānbǐ |
Colored Pencils | |
| 让·皮埃尔·彩色铅笔12世[?] Ràng-Pí'āi'ěr Cǎisèqiānbǐ Shí'èr Shì |
Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th | ||
| Chinese (traditional) | 彩色鉛筆[4] Cǎisèqiānbǐ |
Colored Pencils | |
| 尚-皮耶爾·彩色鉛筆12世[?] Shàng-Píyē'ěr Cǎisèqiānbǐ Shí'èr Shì |
Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th | ||
| Dutch | Kleurpotloden[?] | Colored Pencils | |
| KLaudius KLementinus KLeurpotloden XII[?] | The "KL" in each of his names is capitalized and alliterated with kleurpotloden. "XII" is the Roman numeral for 12, and at the end of a name, is pronounced in Dutch as de 12e ("the 12th") | ||
| French | Boîte de crayons[?] | Pencils box | |
| Côme Raoul Aimé Yves Oscar Nicolas Siméon de Couleur, 12ème du nom[?] | Acrostic for Crayons de Couleur, 12ème du nom, meaning "Colored Pencils, the 12th" | ||
| German | Buntstifte[?] | Colored Pencils | |
| Buntward von und zu Stiftius der 12[?] | Name mixed with puns on either Bunt ("colorful") and "Stift" ("pen" / "pencil"), or Buntstift ("colored pencil") | ||
| Italian | Astuccio di pastelli[?] | Pastel Case | |
| Duccio Astuccio della Matitesca XII[?] | 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"). | ||
| Korean | 색연필[?] Saeng-nyeonpil |
Colored Pencils | |
| 장 피에르 색연필 12세[?] Jang Piereu Saeng-nyeonpil Sibise |
Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th | ||
| Russian | Цветные карандаши[?] Tsvetnyye karandashi |
Colored Pencils | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Lápices de colores[?] | Colored pencils | |
| Fabio Colorel XII[?] | Colorel comes from the word colores ("colors") and coronel ("colonel"). | ||
| Spanish (NOE) | Lápices de colores[?] | Colored pencils | |
| Doce Lores[?] | Twelve Lords. "Lores" is a pun on colores ("colors") and lores ("lords"). |
The Missile Maestro
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| 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 | El artillero virtuoso[?] | The Virtuous Gunner |
Trivia
- Because of the limited range of Colored Pencils' Snap Shut attack, if Mario is in the outer rings, it is possible to fight him without receiving any damage,[5] making this the only boss to grant both the No-Damage Bonus and the 1000-Fold Arms Finisher coin bonuses if Mario defeats him.
- Colored Pencils is one of the two only members of the Legion of Stationery to be addressed with male pronouns, the other being Hole Punch.
- When Colored Pencils shoots missiles at Mario, they are about half the length than the pencils in the case.
- In Overlook Tower, there is a drawing of King Olly on the first floor and a carrot in the restaurant kitchen. However, Colored Pencils does not have an orange pencil nor a purple pencil.
References
- ^ Nintendo of America (July 9, 2020). Post from Nintendo of America. YouTube (American English). (Archived July 11, 2020, 00:13:04 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ Nintendo 公式チャンネル (June 9, 2020). 【ペーパーマリオ オリガミキング】360°バトル：ブンボー軍団. YouTube (Japanese). Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- ^ June 12, 2020. 《纸片马力欧:折纸国王》介绍视频公开! 详细介绍马力欧的新冒险、同伴和战斗. Nintendo (Simplified Chinese). Retrieved June 17, 2020.
- ^ June 12, 2020. 《紙片瑪利歐：摺紙國王》介紹影片公開！詳細介紹瑪利歐的新冒險、同伴和戰鬥. Nintendo (Traditional Chinese). Retrieved June 13, 2020.
- ^ Looygi Bros. (July 24, 2020). Colored Pencils - NO DAMAGE | Paper Mario: The Origami King. YouTube. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
