Black paint
- “I have harnessed the power of the black paint! Nothing can stop me now!”
- —Black Bowser, Paper Mario: Color Splash
Black paint is a sentient, evil, corrupted, and toxic form of paint in Paper Mario: Color Splash. It is created when all six of the normal colors of paint are haphazardly mixed together, as shown when Roy Koopa mixes up all of Mario's paint in the former's battle and when Bowser spins around in his shell in the Prisma Fountain, mixing all of the colors together. Throughout the events of the game, black paint possesses Bowser (turning him into Black Bowser) into stealing the Big Paint Stars of Port Prisma and ordering his minions to drain Prism Island and its inhabitants of their color. Roy also used black paint in his battle against Mario and Huey, but it did not seem to impact Roy's thoughts.
Black Lava Bubbles also form from the black paint that drops from Black Bowser in the latter's battle against Mario and Huey.
The substance is painful to touch, as Mario takes 30 HP of damage when he touches it in Sunglow Ridge. Huey can get rid of large portions of the substance by himself in a short time, though how he does so is kept offscreen. He can also absorb direct black paint attacks while in his Thing form; however, even when black paint is successfully absorbed, Huey can withstand only ten of these attacks.
GalleryEdit
Bowser carelessly mixes the paint.
Black paint corrupts Bowser.
Roy mixes the paint in his cannon.
The room covered in black paint
The paint is mixed together.
Black paint bombs are filled.
NotesEdit
- A similar substance that also created a similar form to Black Bowser called Fury Bowser was later used in the Bowser's Fury campaign of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. The main difference, however, was that Fury Bowser's creation was not Bowser's fault at all (as Bowser Jr. had painted Bowser while the latter was asleep).
- Concept art suggests the black paint was going to be fought or encountered as a separate entity from Bowser, being worn by him as a cape.