History FanFic / PaperMarioTheTempleOfTheSun

* AdaptationalBadass: Kammy Koopa fights Mario and his party all on her own in their first and second encounters, and puts up quite a fight. This stands in a little bit of contrast to the two games she appears in, where she's either bested by Twink (PM1) or fights alongside Bowser (PM2).

It starts out much like ''[[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Thousand-Year Door]]'' does, with Mario learning that Peach wants him to join her on a trip to a far-off land, Chronoside. A Goomba thief steals Mario's hammer, and Mario chases the the thief into the Temple of the Sun. There, they witness King Shroude kill the six Guardians of Day in an attempt to create a world of perpetual night, separating Chronoside into Dayside, where it's always Day, and Nightside, where it's always night. Now Mario must recover the six Sun Souls and find six new Guardians of Day in order to reunite the two worlds.

* AdaptationalBadass: Kammy Koopa fights Mario and his party all on her own in their first encounter, and puts up quite a fight. This stands in a little bit of contrast to the two games she appears in, where she's either bested by Twink (PM1) or fights alongside Bowser (PM2).

** ActionMom: [[spoiler:Maizee]] joins the party too, hut her status as both a partner and a mother are a bit of a spoiler.

%%* ActionGirl: Hanner and Dulia.
%%** ActionMom: [[spoiler:Maizee]].
%%** DarkActionGirl: Rizz and her minions, Sall and Bess. Also Maizee [[spoiler:before her Heel Face Turn]]. Kammy Koopa too.

* ActionGirl: Hanner and Dulia.
** ActionMom: [[spoiler:Maizee]].
** DarkActionGirl: Rizz and her minions, Sall and Bess. Also Maizee [[spoiler:before her Heel Face Turn]]. Kammy Koopa too.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Maizee]] post-HeelFaceTurn.
* BarBrawl: Naturally started by Goomblaine.
* BigBad: King Shroude
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Dulia. Actually, Diavelli can do this to all of his performers.]]

* CastingAShadow: The Darkstriders
* CircusOfFear: Starshine Circus

* CowboyEpisode: Chapter 3.

* TheDragon: Jaff.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Goomblaine]] briefly has one of these in Chapter 7.

* {{Greed}}: Clefford.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Maizee]] turns out to be one of the Guardians.

* IllBoy: Daymien

* IronicFear: Benny is a Boo who is easily frightened.
* IShallTauntYou: How Mario eventually manages to beat [[spoiler:Blackout Bowser]].

* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:Bulbin]]'s death leads to the Poisoned Factory collapsing.
* LookBehindYou: "Hey, look over there! Is that Zip Toad?"

* MamaBear: Maizee, to the Putrid Piranhas.
** [[spoiler:More literally, her reason for opposing the heroes turns out to be because her son was threatened by Bulbin.]]

* NoIndoorVoice: Clefford the Bald Cleft.
* NonSequiturThud: A Mouser does this in Chapter 3. Clefford also has some non sequitur sleeptalking in Chapter 2.
* PaletteSwap: {{Lampshaded}} in Chapter 8.
** PartyInMyPocket: Also lampshaded in Chapter 8, but unlike in other Paper Mario games, it's defied.
* PowerUpFullColorChange: [[spoiler:Blackout Bowser]]

* ShrinkingViolet: Dulia
* SouthernGentleman: Snatchel

* SurferDude: BUMPTY BOARDERS FOREVER!

* TerribleTrio: Jaff, Pell, and Nobb. Later Rizz, Sall, and Bess.

* TotallyRadical: Ferdinand and the other Bumpty Boarders

* [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]]: While ''Temple of the Sun'' is DarkerAndEdgier than most Paper Mario games starting fairly early on, Chapter 5 is where things start getting really heavy.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: The partners mistake the Ultra Stone for this.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Frieda Iceberg talks like this though as she's an Abominable Snowlady, this isn't too unexpected.

-->'''Peach:''' Let me guess- you're trying to resurrect and ancient demon, and you need my body for it to possess? Or maybe you're trying to destroy the universe, and you need me to marry someone in order to create an interdimensional rift that will swallow everything up?

* RecurringBoss: Jaff, Pell, and Nobb are fought multiple times, as are Maizee and her Putrid Piranhas.

This fanfic provides examples of:

* BreatherLevel: Chapter 5 takes place at the Poisoned Factory. Chapter 6 takes place at the Seashell Hotel. [[spoiler:Subverted when the hotel is filled to the brim with Darkstriders.]]

** DarkActionGirl: Rizz and her minions, Sall and Bess. Also Maizee [[spoiler:before her Heel Face Turn]].

* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler: Goomblaine turns out to be this in Chapter 7.]]

** "ATTENTION, PESKY PLUMBER! The Darkstriders and I have taken over the Palmy Balmy Beach! [[HotelMario The vacationers are now all permanent guests at one of my seven Seashell Hotels!]]" Moments later he corrects himself, as they only have one hotel.

** The sixth chapter takes place at the Seashell Hotel, reminiscent of ''SuperMarioSunshine'''s Sirena Beach.

* MeaningfulName: The hub of the game is Soluna Town.

* ActionGirl: Hanner
** ActionMom: [[spoiler:Maizee]]
** DarkActionGirl: Rizz and her minions, Sall and Bess. Also Maizee [[spoiler:before her Heel Face Turn.]]

** A villager suggests that to save their home, they [[SpongeBobSquarePants should push it somewhere else.]]

* WorthlessYellowRocks: The partners mistake the Ultra Stone for this.

* [[spoiler: CorruptPolitician: Mayor Bulbin turns out to be behind the Poisoned Factory, as well as the one responsible for sending Maizee after the Sun Souls.]]

* [[spoiler:MagnificentSeven: Yeah, there are actually ''seven'' Sun Souls, not six--six for the Guardians of Day, and one for the Master of Day. King Shroude believes Peach to be the Master of Day. ''He's wrong''.]]

* [[spoiler: NarratorAllAlong: Goomblaine.]]
** Dialogue from the last chapter implies that [[spoiler: Goomblaine]] may actually be the narrator from the four ''[[VideoGame/PaperMario Paper]] [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Mario]]'' [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario ga]][[VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar mes]]

* [[spoiler:PrinciplesZealot: The Guardians are somewhat of a religion in Chronoside. Goomblaine's parents were nonbelievers. They had their house burned down and were killed by religious zealots. Goomblaine stopped believing in the Guardians after that, feeling that if they were real, they wouldn't have allowed that to happen.]]

** A villager suggests that to save their home, they [[SpongeBobSquarePants push it somewhere else.]]

** A villager suggests that to save their home, they [[SpongeBobSquarePants should take it and push it somewhere else.]]

* ShoutOut: When Mario finds the Zap Tap badge, Hanner says, "Awesome! A [[{{Earthbound}} Franklin Badge]]!"

-->'''Peach:''' Let me guess- you're trying to resurrect and ancient demon, and you need my body for it to possess? Or maybe you're trying to destroy the universe, and you need me to marry someone in order to create an interdenominational rift that will swallow everything up?

** [[OneHitKill Clean Sweep]] has a giant broom sweep all enemies out of the fight and instantly defeat them, like Up & Away and Showstopper.