Editing Red Key

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|image=[[File:Redkey.gif|The key in Paper Mario]] [[File:Red Key.PNG|The key in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]] [[File:MLBIS Red Key.png|The key in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2000|2000]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' ([[List of games by date#2009|2009]])
|description=''"A key that opens the red cell door."''
}}
The '''Red Key''' is an item found in several ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' RPGs.

In the original ''[[Paper Mario]]'', the Red Key unlocks the red door in the [[Crystal Palace]]. The Red Key is to the south of the entrance room. [[Mario]] must first go to the north side and break a wodden floor with a [[Tornado Jump]]. After doing this, where a red cross appears on the floor in the south side will become a hole. The Red Key is in a chest at the end of the road down this hole. The in-game description reads, ''"A big red key."''

In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', another Red Key unlocks the cage the [[Puni Elder]] was imprisoned in during [[Lord Crump]]'s invasion of the [[Great Tree]]. It is held by an [[X-Naut]] in the storage room just west of the prison. After [[Mario]] enters the storage room, the X-Naut becomes conscious, mistakes Mario for hitting him, and gets in battle. Defeated, the X-Naut drops this key.

In ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'', a red key can be found on the second floor in [[Peach's Castle]]. It is carried by a [[Fawfulcopter]] which [[Bowser]] chases after. When Bowser chases it to the highest spot on the cliff using the [[Spike Ball]] ability, the Fawfulcopter has nowhere to go and Bowser can hit it for the key.

==Names in other languages==
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|Jap=あかいカギ (''Paper Mario'')<ref>[http://themushroomkingdom.net/pm_j-e.shtml "Paper Mario: From Japanese to English"]. (June 17, 2013). ''The Mushroom Kingdom.'' Retrieved February 4, 2015.</ref><br>''Akai Kagi''<br>{{nowrap|赤いろうやのカギ (''The Thousand-Year Door'')}}<ref>[http://themushroomkingdom.net/pmttyd_j2e.shtml "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door From Japanese to English"]. (June 1, 2014). ''The Mushroom Kingdom.'' Retrieved February 2, 2015.</ref><br>''Akairo Uya no Kagi''<br>赤のカギ<ref>[http://themushroomkingdom.net/mlrpg3_j2e.shtml "Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story: From Japanese to English"]. (July 19, 2010). ''The Mushroom Kingdom.'' Retrieved October 16, 2016.</ref><br>''Aka no Kagi''
|JapM=Red Key<br><br>Red Key of Reverence, from 「恭しい」 ''uyauyashii'', meaning "respectful/deferential/reverent" or 「敬う」 ''uyamau'', meaning "to respect/revere/venerate".<br><br>Red Key
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