Editing Professor Frankly

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|image=[[File:PMTTYD NS Professor Frankly Artwork.png|200px]]
|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=[[Goomba]]
}}
{{quote|Are [[Party member#Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|all of]] [[Mario|you]] ready? And [[Fourth wall|you]] there! In front of the TV! You listen up, too!|Professor Frankly|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
[[File:PMTTYD Goomba trio.png|thumb|left|200px|Professor Frankly advising Mario and Goombella about enemy Goombas]]
'''Professor Frankly''' is [[Goombella]]'s and [[Kolorado]]'s old teacher at [[U Goom]] in the game ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. He is an elderly [[Goomba]] with grayish brown puffs of hair and eyebrows and wears thick glasses, as indicated by the swirls in the glass, which is a common motif used in Japanese media (other ''Super Mario'' characters with swirled glasses include [[Toady|Toadies]], [[Professor E. Gadd]], [[Iggy Koopa]], [[Fawful]] and [[Francis]]). Professor Frankly is one of two known Goombas to have square teeth rather than pointed teeth, the other being [[Goombario]]. Frankly's name is derived from the qualifier "frankly", a word used to signify blunt honesty.

==History==
[[File:PMTTYD Professor Frankly Gate.png|thumb|left|Professor Frankly opening up the gate to [[Rogueport Sewers]].]]
[[Mario]] first meets Professor Frankly after he rescues [[Goombella]] from a gang of [[X-Naut]]s who are attacking her. When Mario and Goombella arrive at the professor's house, Goombella tells him that they need his help to study the legendary treasure of [[Rogueport]]. After learning that Mario possesses the [[Magical Map]], he takes the pair to [[the Thousand-Year Door]]. When the group leaves his house, the professor removes a rotten piece of a fence blocking a green [[Warp Pipe]] leading to the [[Rogueport Sewers]]. Before they enter, the professor asks Mario if they know about the battle system and the Action Commands, where the player has the option to learn about them in a tutorial.

When Mario, Goombella, and Frankly visit the Thousand-Year Door for the first time, the Magical Map in Mario's hands indicate the location of the [[Diamond Star|first]] [[Crystal Stars|Crystal Star]] inside [[Hooktail Castle]] in [[Petal Meadows]]. Frankly mentioned that he met [[Princess Peach]], when she was on a journey of her own and he also mentions another "[[X-Nauts (organization)|strange group]]" is doing the same. Each of Mario and his partners' subsequent visit to the Thousand-Year Door to use the Crystal Star they collected to uncover the location of the next Crystal Star is immediately followed by their visit to the professor and study it out. Before Goombella and Mario starts their quest, Frankly gives him the [[Power Smash]] badge, and serving a tutorial on how to equip and use badges on the pause menu. During each visit, Frankly, who is making progress in his research about the ancient city that preceded [[Rogueport]] as well as an ancient demon that plunged that city into darkness, talks about the latest e-mail from [[Princess Peach]] (that Mario receives after each chapter) and tells Mario and his partners the exact location of the Crystal Star they must collect next. In addition, tattle log entries that the player may have missed can be found in Frankly's bin. On the back shelf of his house, a miniature version of the head-shaped rocks at the entrance to Pirate's Grotto can be seen, as well as spherical objects bearing the Sun, Moon, Star and Puni designs seen in the Great Tree.

After Mario and co. obtain the [[Crystal Star|final]] [[Crystal Stars|Crystal Star]] from the [[X-Naut Fortress]] on the [[Moon#Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|Moon]], the [[Shadow Sirens]] abduct Frankly, knock him unconscious, and then locked him up in a closet. [[Doopliss]] takes the guise of the professor in order to trick Mario into opening the Thousand-Year Door so [[Sir Grodus]] can enter the [[Palace of Shadow]]. Frankly later escapes and gives chase into the palace. After the [[Shadow Queen]] is awakened and possesses Princess Peach, the real Frankly is seen in one of the palace's darkened rooms, distressed at the thought of her revival. Following the Shadow Queen's defeat, he reunites with Mario and co. and reveals his discovery of a large treasure chest containing the true treasure. When Mario visits him post-game, Frankly reveals the contents of this chest to be a seemingly insignificant [[Dried Shroom]]; however, Frankly is excited nonetheless by it, as it proves that residents of the ancient city ate [[Mushroom]]s.

===E-Mail===
;E-mail
[[File:PMTTYD Frankly Mail.png|thumb|An attached image of Frankly in his e-mail to Mario]]
<blockquote>
Hello Mario! Working hard? Professor Frankly here, in e-form!<br>
It’s highly likely you’ll receive e-mails like this one while you’re on your journey, so check your mail often!<br>
I actually have nothing more to say than that so I hope all goes well for you, and I look forward to getting more information on those [[Crystal Stars]]!

Professor Frankly</blockquote>

===Tattle===
*"''That's Professor Frankly, head of the archaeology department at U Goom. He's researching the legendary treasure here. I totally respect him. You know the famous Professor [[Kolorado]]? He was a student of Frankly's!''"

==Gallery==
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PMTTYD Professor Frankly Closed Mouth Artwork.jpg|''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''
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==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=フランクリ<br>''Furankuri''<br>フランクリ先生<br>''Furankuri sensei''
|JapM=Pun on「クリボー」(''Kuribo'', [[Goomba]]) and possibly the male name "Franklin"<br><br>Teacher Frankly
|ChiT=富朗克栗教授<ref>(September 14, 2023). [https://www.nintendo.com.hk/topics/article/2oaPZMa3UqmUCS82wHDP8f 《紙片瑪利歐RPG》的最新資訊公開！本作預定於2024年發售。] ''Nintendo HK''. Retrieved September 14, 2023.</ref>
|ChiTR=Fùlǎngkèlì Jiàoshòu
|ChiTM=Professor Frankly, while 「栗」 is also derived from 「栗寶寶」 (''Lìbǎobao'', Goomba)
|Dut=Professor Defranck<ref>(April 25, 2024). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9ZHfAQ-uQ Een uitgebreide blik op Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)] ''Nintendo Nederland's YouTube Channel''. Retrieved April 25, 2024.</ref>
|DutM=From the expression "de frank is gevallen" (''the [[wikipedia:Belgian franc|franc]] has dropped''). It's the Belgian equivalent of the English expression "the penny has dropped" (someone finally understanding something).
|Fre=Professeur Goomstein
|FreM=Pun on "Goomba" and "[[wikipedia:Albert Einstein|Einstein]]"
|Spa=Profesor Goomez
|SpaM=Pun on "Goomba" and the Spanish last name "Gómez" + "professor"
|Ger=Professor Gumbarth
|GerM=From "Gumba" (Goomba) and male name "Bartholomäus"
|Ita=Professor Goombastein
|ItaM=Pun on "Goomba" and "Einstein"
|Kor=프랭크리 교수
|KorR=Peulaengkeuli Gyosu
|KorM=Professor Frankly
}}

==Trivia==
[[File:Frankly np leaflet.jpg|thumb|100px|Artwork of Frankly, from a ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' subscription leaflet bundled with some late [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]] games.]]
*Professor Frankly breaks the [[fourth wall]] just before Chapter 5 by telling the player, the "person in front of the TV" to listen carefully about what he has to say about [[the Thousand-Year Door]]. Mario's current partner then comments about that, but Frankly tells them to disregard it. [[Lord Crump]] (under the alias of Four Eyes) also breaks the Fourth Wall during this chapter.
*In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', one of the items listed on [[Francis]]'s to-buy list is a radio-controlled Professor Frankly.
*Likely due to an oversight, if the player uses the phone booth in [[Glitzville]] after Professor Frankly is abducted, it is still possible to receive a call, supposedly from Frankly himself, warning Mario to be careful in his travels.

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