Editing Koopley

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:Koopley.jpg|165px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
|species=[[Koopa Troopa]]
}}
{{quote|Well, I came here a while back to deal with Hooktail, and all was well and good... But just before my finishing blow, he played a trick on me and gobbled me down whole!|Koopley|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
[[File:Koops and Koopley.png|thumb|left|Koops reunited with Koopley]]
'''Koopley''' is [[Koops]]' father and a resident of [[Petalburg]].

==History==
Ten years before the events of ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', Koopley went to [[Hooktail Castle]] to slay the dragon, only to end up with [[Hooktail]] swallowing him whole. Believing his father to be dead, Koops joins [[Mario]]'s team to avenge him. After Mario, [[Goombella]] and Koops defeat Hooktail, Koopley emerges from her stomach with the first [[Crystal Stars|Crystal Star]], the [[Diamond Star]], which he gives to Mario in gratitude for saving him. Koopley had survived in Hooktail's belly for ten years by hiding in his [[Blue Shell|shell]].

After returning to Petalburg, Koopley, alongside his son's girlfriend [[Koopie Koo]], wishes Koops a successful quest. Koopley later sends an [[Mailbox SP#Koopley: How's life?|e-mail]] to Mario, checking on Koops while surprised by a technology that can send messages. He is also mentioned in Koopie Koo's [[Mailbox SP#Koopie Koo: Miss you!|e-mail]], in which she is grossed out by Koopley's odor, presumably from being stuck in Hooktail's belly.

===E-Mail===
;How's life?
[[File:PMTTYD Koopley Mail.png|thumb|Attached image]]
<blockquote>
I'm just amazed...I had no idea a machine like this could be used to send messages! Technology! Wow!<br>
<br>
I'm doing great, drinking fresh springwater, picking wildflowers, polishing my shell...this town seemed so boring ten years ago, but I see the world differently now. I bet you'll like [[Petalburg]] more than you used to once you get back from YOUR adventure, [[Koops]]!<br>
<br>
So, where are you headed next? I want you to see the wide world, son; it'll
be good for you! But don't go TOO far past that front door! Aah ha ha ha!<br>
<br>
From, Koopley</blockquote>

===Tattle===
*"''That's Koops's dad, Koopley. He seems kind of out of it. Are all Koopas space cadets? Then again, Koops is really with it... Maybe that's 'cause his dad is like this... Anyway, Koopley does worry about Koops a lot, so I guess he's a good dad after all.''"

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ノコキチ
|JapR=Nokokichi
|JapM=Portmanteau of「ノコノコ」(''Nokonoko'', "Koopa Troopa") and「吉」(''kichi'', meaning "good luck" and also a Japanese masculine name suffix), likely alluding to all the time he was trapped inside Hooktail and came out alive
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|ChiR=
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|Dut=
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|Fre=Koopak
|FreM=
|Ger=Koopador
|GerM=Portmanteau of "Koopa" and German male name "Theodor"
|Ita=Koopericle
|ItaM=Portmanteau of "Koopa" and "Pericle" (Greek male name "Pericles")
|Kor=
|KorR=
|KorM=
|Spa=Koopol
|SpaM=Portmanteau of "Koopa" and "-pol" (a Spanish male name derived from English male name "Paul")
}}

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