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1Welcome to the SugarWiki/FunnyMoments page for Paper Mario!
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3Here's the [[Funny/SuperMarioBros Funny Moments page]] for the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' franchise as a whole.
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5List of games with their own subpages:
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8* ''Funny/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''
9* ''Funny/SuperPaperMario''
10* ''Funny/PaperMarioStickerStar''
11* ''Funny/PaperMarioColorSplash''
12* ''Funny/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing''
13[[/index]]
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16[[AC:All Games]]
17* Any time the [[SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness fourth wall]] is brought into play.
18* Mario falling asleep from the extremely long "[[BlatantLies short versions]]" of the stories.
19* The interchangeability of "paper" physics and "real" physics.
20* At least in ''Thousand-Year Door'', ''Super'', and ''Origami King'', Bowser is consistently a bringer of much joy when he's onscreen.
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22[[AC:Paper Mario]]
23* Before your HopelessBossFight with Bowser, Peach gloats that Bowser ''always'' loses to Mario. She is left visible throughout the fight, [[OhCrap making expressions]] that make clear [[TemptingFate she knows she should have kept her big mouth shut]].
24* Try to eat a Dry Shroom in battle. While it does have some recovery yield, Mario hilariously sticks his tongue out due to how unappetizing it was. The Fire Pop does the same thing to Mario as it's so hot that he would lose HP.
25* "And then...Oh dear! What the...? Who stuck that weird thing into this story?"
26* After you thrash the Goomba King and his servants, Red Goomba and Blue Goomba, they retreat to inside his fort. Listening at the window, you hear how the Goomba Bros. hid an important switch where no one will find it...''[[{{TooDumbToLive}} outside]]''.
27* Using Goombario's Tattle on the male {{Sickeningly Sweetheart|s}} Toad in Toad Town results in this little gem.
28-->"This Toad claims that he and his girl are in love. But just the other day, he told me [[{{Cuckold}} he liked a different girl]]! What a cad!"
29* Bombette breaks out by demonstrating her abilities as a Bob-omb on a cracked wall. None of them thought to try this despite how desperate they were for an escape.
30* Reading Bowser's diary reveals that he hopes that Peach legitimately likes him.
31* Goombario does not enjoy [[ShiftingSandLand Dry Dry Desert]].
32-->"You know what I just realized? I hate the desert! Yup! Sand gets in my eyes so I can't see. I feel like I've eaten a couple pounds of sand, and my feet itch. I'm freaking out here!"\
33"Ah, yes! Some more sand and some more cacti! How do you stand such a boring landscape? Look, when I signed on for this adventure, I was under the impression that there would be no boredom involved."\
34"You know, there sure are a lot of rocks in the desert. Before I came here, I thought there was just sand. But there are rocks, too. Whoopee."\
35"So hot... I feel dizzy... Where are we going again? Who are you, anyway?"\
36"So blue...the desert sky... They ought to call it... 'Big Ol' Super Blue Sky'!"
37* Tutankoopa's increasingly pathetic attempts to scare Mario away.
38** Despite his constant boastings about being a powerful wizard, his one magic attack can hurt and daze him. Mario's grin and thumbs up makes it all the better.
39*** When Tutankoopa snaps out of it, he [[NeverMyFault blames Mario as if he were the one who cast the spell]]!
40* "Bow joined the party - [[ButThouMust like it or not!]]"
41* The way Bow's eyes spin when she is dazed, [[TheComicallySerious especially considering how dignified she usually is]].
42* If you go to Mario's House after acquiring the Super Boots but before beating Chapter 3, you can catch Luigi in the middle of writing in his diary. After a long, awkward pause he runs out of the room, and acts like nothing happened.
43* If you head back to Tubba Blubba's Castle after Chapter 3 you will find it completely deserted, save for one sleeping Clubba who apparently slept through the evacuation of the castle! If talked to he at first seems alarmed that everyone left, but then shrugs and goes right back to sleep.
44* In the Peach interlude between Chapters 3 and 4, Bowser interrogates Peach on Mario's weaknesses so that he can have Kammy Koopa station them in Shy Guy's Toy Box at key spots. Every set of options contains two enemies and a useful item. Normally, you would claim that [[BlatantLies Mario is afraid of a simple mushroom]], but the first set of options contains a standard [[TheGoomba Goomba]] as one of the enemies. At that point in the game, regular Goombas are virtually harmless and can be taken out in one hit [[CherryTapping without even using Action Commands]]. If you choose the Goomba, Kammy will rightfully voice her skepticism after deploying it, seeing as Mario has been stomping on them for years. While the other enemies are [[UnderestimatingBadassery overconfident that they can beat Mario]] (which may be justified in the case of the Hammer Bro and Koopatrol, both of whom are final chapter enemies and the former is a notorious DemonicSpider in platformers), the Goomba is the exception. Once the Goomba realizes he's fighting Mario, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck he knows he's lost already]]. To further sell how hopeless the Goomba's situation is, he's the only enemy option who fights Mario alone, whereas the others come in packs.
45--> "Oh… [[OhCrap Mario!?]] I have to fight Mario?! By myself? Why me? I'm toast…but I have to try! Feel my, uh…wrath, I guess!"
46** There’s also the scene before where Peach enters Bowser’s room just as Kammy Koopa is informing him of Mario defeating Tubba Blubba. The secret passage changes to Peach’s side and Peach, upon realizing Bowser is in the room, looks around nervously.
47*** The fact that neither Bowser nor Kammy Koopa noticed, even though the mantle is obviously different (and with a giant red button), and the passage changing wasn't exactly quiet.
48* In Chapter 4, the Shy Guys take over all of Toad Town. Wandering into one of the local stores reveals that a Shy Guy has commandeered it...
49-->'''Shy Guy''': Tee hee hee hee! Welcome to Shy Guy's Shop. Too bad I'm not gonna sell anything to ''you'', [[BullyingADragon Mario]]!
50** And how does Mario deal with the little crook? He smacks him upside the head with his hammer.
51-->'''Shy Guy''': Oh no! Poor me!
52* Instead of giving the Storeroom Key directly to the clerk in the second shop, Mario can unlock the door himself. The man gives Mario a stern lecture, only to happily realize that Mario essentially saved his business.
53* If you try to bring the Toy Train directly to the conductor instead of tossing it into Shy Guy's Toy Box from the outside, you get this line from him:
54--> "Look, we can't very well ride in a tiny little toy train! That'd be impossible. Put that back in its toy box!"
55* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV1ka2Du3Qs Feeding Gourmet Guy cake for the first time]].
56** Gourmet Guy will spit out anything other than cake, but he especially freaks out if you try to feed him a non edible item.
57-->'''Gourmet Guy''': That was disgusting! That wasn't even food! I can't believe I ate that!
58* Watt has different responses based on how you break her lantern. Opting to [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer blow it to smithereens with Bombette]] will prompt her to [[WhatTheHellHero reprimand you for it]].
59-->"Cough cough... You're crazy, mister! Did ya have to, um, blow it up to get me out? Jeepers!"
60* The Shy Guys screaming, especially when they do so while running from Mario.
61* If you use Watt's Electro Dash on General Guy's tank, you get this gem right here.
62-->"Grrrrrrr! My high-tech tank defenses don't seem to stand up to that electric attack! Quit doing that! It's... It's too powerful! ''You're breaking the rules of war!''"
63* "WHERE'D YOU LEARN HOW TO COOK, TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL?!" The result of feeding Gourmet Guy a bad cake. As in, a "cake" made entirely of salt and uncooked eggs, or burned strawberries, or ''detergent''.
64** It's enough to make one suspect that they allowed the selection and usage of non-recipe specified "ingredients" just for players to get a quick laugh out of results like this. And it's all the more hilarious.
65** And if you utterly screw up the cake, he mutters about you trying to poison him.
66** The easiest part about baking the cake is the final step of adding cream and strawberries, literally. As in you have to add the cream first. If you add the strawberries first, he rejects it.
67** Notice that if/when he rejects the cake, he spits it out whole.
68* After waking the whale up via spin jump he moans about his upset stomach and then angrily complains that now he also has a headache from Mario jumping all over him.
69** Hammering or spin jumping the Whale's insides achieves a few funny lines.
70--> '''Whale''': Aw, my tongue! What are you doing?!?
71--> '''Whale''': Ouch, that hurt! What are you doing in there?
72* Chapter 5 allows for a little VideoGameCrueltyPotential regarding [[LeeroyJenkins Kolorado]].
73** He'll blindly rush ahead of Mario and wind up getting menaced by a foe, which you can save him from, or you can choose to ignore them and keep going, after which Kolorado will catch up and chew Mario out for it.
74---> "That was frightful… Have you no manners, Mario?! Going on without me!! You boor! …Well, not everyone is noble."
75** Or you can always just stand and watch the Spear Guy whack (not stab) the poor Koopa with his spear over and over and over.
76** Notably, if you attack the Spear Guy to get a First Strike, it won't stop attacking Kolorado even through the FightWoosh, as if it doesn't even know Mario's there.
77** You can also hit Kolorado with the Hammer instead of the enemy attacking him, which results in some gems from him:
78--->'''Kolorado:''' Ow! Mario! You're supposed to attack the other guy, old bean! Do you have any issues with me? A bit of jealousy, perhaps?\
79'''Kolorado:''' Ow! Get ahold of yourself! What do you say you attack the enemies instead of me, hmmm?
80* Jr. Troopa swimming to Lavalava Island to attack Mario, only for Mario to leave immediately after via the whale.
81** Then in the next cutscene, we see Mario, his partner, and Kolorado on the whale, and then after they go off screen, we see Jr. swimming after them.
82** Then when Jr. Troopa finally catches up with them, it turns out he's so worn out from all the swimming that his HP takes a dive before the battle even begins.
83** And what really seals the deal is that he had the power to sprout wings at this point. If he had flown instead of swam, he wouldn't have been nearly as worn out. He even says this himself.
84* When you first talk to Rosie, she’ll show off the Water Stone to Mario and his companion. Mario eagerly starts running in place with his hands stretched out for the Water Stone.
85* After the fight with Lakilester, his girlfriend Lakilulu asks Mario to forgive him. If you choose not to [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend she will hit Mario with a Spiny]] [[ButThouMust and then present him with the question again until he says yes.]]
86* If Peach speaks to the sleeping Clubba outside her castle while disguised as it via the sneaky parasol, he gives us this gem:
87--> '''Clubba''': Oh it's you! Oh, it's just me. Hello me! (goes back to sleep)
88* Kammy when she sees Peach disguised as the aforementioned Clubba: "Mmm!! You there! You're doing a fine job."
89** In the ''very next line of dialogue'', Kammy deduces that the Clubba is actually Peach in disguise because the Clubba ''smells too nice.''
90* At the start of Chapter 7, if you try to break through the frozen pond in order to get the Warehouse Key before starting the murder mystery sequence, you'll get reprimanded by the Penguin Patrol for unsafe behavior:
91-->"What are you doing? Stop that! Have you lost your wits? What if the ice breaks?"
92** And if you ignore him and Ultra Jump on the ice a second time:
93---> '''Penguin Patrol''': (blowing a whistle) "No! Are you a complete idiot?! I told you not to do that! That's really dangerous!"
94---> (he drags Mario off the ice)
95---> '''Penguin Patrol''': "Don't you ever listen?! You're a public nuisance! Take a hike!" (he kicks Mario out)
96** The whole "Murder mystery" debacle, especially the twist ending; [[spoiler:the mayor wasn't murdered at all! He just fell, knocked himself out, and his wife overreacted]].
97--->'''Mayor's wife:''' ''My husband's returned! He's a ghost!!! Eeeeek!''
98** When Mario is suspected of murdering Mayor Penguin and is getting interrogated by the detective, the party members all have unique dialogue trying to prove Mario's innocence. Most of them are rather generic statements about how Mario couldn't have done it, but Bow gets this little gem.
99--->'''Bow:''' I swear [[GallowsHumor on my own grave]]! Mario's innocent!
100** If you talk to the penguins before and during the mystery, a few of them will mention that a "weirdo" (Jr. Troopa) was recently running around the city screaming. One even suspects that Jr. was the one who killed the mayor, and is actually ''disappointed'' when this turns out not to be the case!
101* The Monstar. At first, it looks like a powerful and intimidating enemy until it actually attacks. Its attack is sending a starstorm at you that only does one damage or if you have the Defend Plus badge equipped, [[NoSell no damage.]]
102* When fighting Duplighosts, have Bombette as your partner and wait for them to transform into her then use her Power Bomb or Kooper's Fire Shell. Instant victory.
103** If you have Goombario, they might use tattle. It's about as useful to them as it can get for a RedShirtArmy.
104* The first Duplighost found in the level disguises as Kooper. After Mario smacks him with his hammer, Kooper calls the Duplighost a crybaby and taunts him for trying to trick them and we get this gem.
105-->'''Duplighost''': Wh-what? Shut up! [[IWillShowYouX I'll trick you]]!
106** If you hit the real Kooper, the two Koopers get into a slap fight.
107* At one point in Crystal Palace, a bunch of Duplighosts try to mimic Kooper, [[EpicFail and end up mimicking completely different characters]][[note]]Luigi, Goompa, Kolorado, and Koopa Koot, for the curious[[/note]].
108** As an added bonus, if you tag Kooper as the fake regardless, he'll get angry and accuse you of doing that on purpose.
109* As the party ascends to Bowser's Castle, they hear the wishes of the Mushroom people. While most of these are heartwarming, one is from a Toad who wants to eat Shroom Cake.
110* After Bowser is defeated, the bulletin board next to Merlon's house insists that [[BlatantLies Bowser is definitely finished for good.]]

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