Blue Key (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
| Blue Key | |
|---|---|
 
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| Description | |
| "A key that opens the blue cell door." | |
| First appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) |
| Latest appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024) |
- “Yes! With this key, we should be able to open the cell my people are locked in. Hurry! We have to free my sister and the others!”
- —Punio, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
The Blue Key is a key found in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It is located inside the Great Tree, in the room after the small Jabbi army. The key opens the cage where ninety Punies (including Petuni, Punio's sister) are imprisoned, increasing Mario's Puni army from eleven to one-hundred and one.
In the Japanese version when unlocking the blue cage, the game checks for and removes the Strange Sack from the player's inventory if the player has it (which will permanently prevent it from being obtained again as there is only one in the game). This does not happen in the international versions.
In the remake, a glitch can be performed when entering the second sublevel for the first time. After the Jabbi holding the Blue Key leaves the room, the player can fire Koops' shell into the entrance to the room with the first hive and retrieve the Blue Key.[1]
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 青いろうやのカギ Aoi Rōya no Kagi |
Blue Prison Key |
| Chinese (simplified) | 蓝色牢房钥匙 Lánsè Láofáng Yàoshi |
Red Cell Key |
| Chinese (traditional) | 藍色牢房鑰匙 Lánsè Láofáng Yàoshi |
Red Cell Key |
| Dutch | Blauwe sleutel |
Blue Key |
| French | Clé cage bl. |
Cage key + abbreviation of bleu ("blue") due to space restrictions |
| German | Schl. (blau) (original) Schlüssel (blau) (remake) |
Abbreviation of Schlüssel ("key") + "blue" Key (blue) |
| Italian | Chiave blu |
Blue key |
| Korean | 파랑감옥의 열쇠 Parang Gamok-ui Yeolsoe |
Blue Prison Key |
| Spanish | Llave Azul |
Blue Key |
