History Characters / SuperPaperMario

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Carson states that he was once a general who led 1,000 men into battle, but they were all killed when one of his trusted advisors [[TheStarscream sold him out]] to the opposing army.

* PlayingWithFire: As Dark Bowser.

* DoubleTake: She delivers one when the heroes clear their debt in Chapter 2, pausing mid-sentence as she realises what's happened before going through a brief VillainiousBreakdown and teleporting away.

* MeaningfulName: His name in Japanese (Dodontasu) possibly comes from the word ''dodon'' (駑鈍), which means ''foolish''. Fitting for the brutish muscle.

* AmbiguousRobots: If those gears in her head are any indication...

* GemstoneAssault: Small, red crystals are her weapon of choice.

* IncomingHam: Whenever he appears, expect him to throw out a random simile or two.

* PsychoticSmirk: His default expression.

* RiddleForTheAges: Where did he come from?

* WalkingSpoiler: Truly, there's more to him than you'd think.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Thanks to Dimentio.

* RecurringElement: Of Hooktail from the second game.

* WordSaladHumor: His lines after being corrupted (also doubles as WordSaladHorror because it lets you know something ''bad'' is happening to him):

* ArcVillain: Of Chapter 3.

* TheCaligula: He more or less declares an incredibly one-sided war against the Cragnons and forces them into slavery to get him jewels to make everything, especially himself and his palace, "beautiful", and he noticeably makes no mention of a motive for enslaving the poor Cragnons beyond this during the heroes' confrontation with him. We later learn that he was a wise and just ruler in the past, and only started acting badly after he got poisoned from polluted waters. His last sane order was that none of the defeated Cragnons be killed, just held prisoner until they stop poisoning the water supply with their trash.

* AFatherToHisMen: When he's defeated, the Floro Sapiens are saddened by his supposed death and tell Mario and co. that he was trying to stop the Cragnons from polluting the water.

* SizableSnowflakes: Such snowflakes appear abundantly everytime Bonechill uses one of his ice attacks.

%%ZCE* ShadowArchetype: [[JustForPun Quite literally.]]

* MeaningfulName: His name is a play on the words "dimension" (referencing his RealityWarper powers) and "demented" (because he's [[AxCrazy batshit insane]]).

** Mimi: TheDarkChick

* TheDarkChick: The girliest of Count Bleck's minions, who also acts as a {{Foil}} to [[GirlyGirl Peach]].

* EvilCounterpart: He is pretty much this to Fracktail. While Fracktail was a victim of MindControl and was a devoted and ReasonableAuthorityFigure who only gave a warning while he believed Mario to be an intruder instead of the hero and only attacked against his will thanks to Dimentio's interference, Wracktail is an [[AGodAmI arrogant]] being who fully possesses free will when he attacks Mario and friends, and does so [[DisproportionateRetribution all because they had disturbed his slumber]].

* ShadowArchetype: [[JustForPun Quite literally.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Well, it ''is'' a OptionalBoss.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Dimentio quickly establishes his nature as a darker villain than most by corrupting Fracktail into fighting Mario, despite the fact that Fracktail was just about to let Mario obtain the red Pure Heart without a fight.

* LikeASonToMe: Merlon grew quite fond of her after he found her and saved her from death, even showing shades of being an OverprotectiveDad. He's crestfallen to hear of her sacrifice at the end of the game, but consoles himself with the hope that she is living happily with Blumiere.

* BodyHorror: She appears to ''snap her own neck'' at the beginning of her transformation.

* SuperPrototype: Wracktail is much stronger and more dangerous than Fracktail.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: You have to throw the Frackles on his back at his horn to defeat him.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: He shares the same dragon theme, a similar color scheme, has a name ending in "tail", and is the boss of the first chapter like [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Hooktail]]. But is very different otherwise. Hooktail is a female organic dragon, and is one of the Shadow Queen's three pets. She resides in a castle in an open grassy field and goes around eating whoever comes across her, with the carnage being visible with the amount of skeletons in her castle. Fracktail is a robotic male dragon who has no association with the villains. He is instead affiliated with the heroes and resides beneath the sands of an open desert, waiting a thousand years for Mario to arrive and claim the Pure Heart. Unlike Hooktail, who willingly attacked Mario out of sheer malice, Fracktail is stern but not aggressive, and only forced into attacking Mario after Dimentio hijacks his system. Hooktail has a more traditional dragon design with normal sized limbs and a tail with her head being the weak point, while Fracktail is much bigger with an elongated body, tiny limbs that are barely noticeable, and an antenna on his head which is his weak point.

* PoorCommunicationKills: His fight with Mario and co. and subsequent wilting could have likely been avoided entirely had he explained his motivations sooner, and it's implied by the Cragnon chief Marbald that the Floro Sapiens attacked instead of attempting a peaceful resolution. It's ironic given ''political savvy'' was mentioned as one of his strong suites in his portrait biography, though it's possible all of this is explained by SanitySlippage, which would line up with the fact he frames the jewels mined by the enslaved Cragnons as his priority.

* StandardEvilOrganizationSquad: They're the roster of bad guys who Mario and the gang face throughout the game.

* MonsterSobStory: Blumiere's transformation into Count Bleck may have made him a villain, but goddamn if the events that pushed him to follow that path weren't tragic.

* MeaningfulName: A portmanteau of the onomatopoeia for disgust and the word "black". In Japanese, he is known as Noir, which literally means "black" in French.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: It's very jarring to find a character who is as insane and murderous as he is in a ''Mario'' game, even with his LaughablyEvil tendencies. The only ones who could even compare to him are [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor the Shadow Queen]], [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Princess Shroob]], [[VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon King]] [[VideoGame/LuigisMansion3 Boo]], and the [[VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle Megabug]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Dimentio is easily one of the darkest villains the ''Mario'' series has produced, rivaling the Shadow Queen, the Shroobs, the post-SanitySlippage King Boo, and the Megabug in terms of sheer malice.

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** Mimi is this to Peach, being the PerkyFemaleMinion to match Peach's status as TheChick. Both of them appear respectively as a playable character and as an antagonist in the same chapter. Whereas Peach is a dignified and selfless leader [[SilkHidingSteel whose pretty exterior masks tremendous strength]], Mimi is a [[FakeCutie cutesy]] PsychopathicWomanchild who's prone to tantrums and overconfidently flaunting her terrifying-looking power, and the former is as [[NiceGirl genuinely sweet]] as the latter is [[FauxAffablyEvil shallowly friendly]].

* TheDarkChick: The girliest of Count Bleck's minions, who also acts as a {{Foil}} to [[TheChick Peach]].

* EvilerThanThou: He does pull this. Too bad for him Dimentio is much more vile and dangerous.