Editing Shellshock

{{distinguish|[[Tread Carefully (minigame)|Tread Carefully]], formerly known as Shell Shocked}}
{{character infobox
|image=[[File:Sky Blue Troopa.png|100px]]<br>Sprite from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
|species=[[Shady Koopa]]
|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]])
}}
{{quote|Hey. You. [[Mario|Gonzales]]. Since you didn't want that [[Cake#Paper_Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|cake]], I ate it. Best cake I ever had, man. Sprinkles, frosting, the works. You're an idiot.|Shellshock|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
'''Shellshock''' is a minor character in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. He is a [[Shady Koopa]] who became a contracted fighter in the [[Glitz Pit]], the martial arts arena of the floating town of [[Glitzville]]. Shellshock and his fighting team, [[The Shellshockers]], are ranked #7 in the fighting roster and thus are a part of the major-league. Both his and his team's name are a reference to {{wp|Shell shock|an archaic term}} for {{wp|post-traumatic stress disorder}}, coined in 1915 to describe the heightened and prolonged psychosomatic distress experienced by soldiers fighting in {{wp|World War I}}. Shellshock often ends his sentences with the word "baby." After Mario defeats Shellshock in battle, he begins talking about how he loses motivation when he sees how Mario is progressing.

[[Mario]] encounters Shellshock in the midst of [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#Chapter 3: Of Glitz and Glory|Chapter 3]], while he is searching for the [[Gold Star]]. After Mario defeats [[The Iron Adonis Twins]], Mario switches to the major-league and he and Shellshock become roommates. If Mario manages to rise his rank up to #8, the player has the opportunity to battle Shellshock's fighting team, and if he wins, his ranking goes up further. 

At some other points in Chapter 3, Mario receives two [[cake]]s that were apparently sent by a fan, one of which is a [[Poisoned Cake]]. Mario can eat the first one, which replenishes his stats. If he decides to eat the second one however, Mario's partner is disabled by [[Poison (status effect)|Poison]]. The player can also choose to ignore the cakes, which results in Shellshock eating them while Mario is away fighting. He mocks Mario how he enjoyed his meal after ignoring the first cake. When Mario returns from his match after having declined the second cake, he finds Shellshock in a disabled state, lying on the ground and squirming, probably from a stomachache, and also vows never to have another cake after the experience. He recovers from this after Mario ends another match.

A Shady Koopa, presumably Shellshock, appears in the cutscene during the final fight against the [[Shadow Queen]], alongside other athletes. There he can be seen cheering Mario on through the Gold Star. It is, however, very likely that this character was originally supposed to be [[King K]] and his sprite was simply misplaced with that of a Shady Koopa; said character uses terms in his speech that were used exclusively by King K throughout the game (like "G-man"). This was corrected in [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|the Nintendo Switch remake]]. 
==Profiles and statistics==
===GameCube===
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Shady Koopa|align=horizontal|image=[[File:Sky Blue Troopa.png]]}}

===Nintendo Switch===
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|transcludesection=Shady Koopa|align=horizontal}}

===Field Tattle===
*"''That's Shellshock. He seems to be totally on top of his game. For some reason, though, I think he's just a big softie. Maybe I'm thinking too much...''"

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Shady Koopa faints from cake.jpg|Shellshock in pain after eating the [[Poisoned Cake]] in the remake.
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=リバース
|JpnR=Ribāsu
|JpnM=Reverse
|JpnC=<ref>[https://themushroomkingdom.net/pmttyd_j2e.shtml TMK. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - From Japanese to English.]</ref>
|Chi=里巴斯
|ChiR=Lǐbāsī
|ChiM=Transliteration of the Japanese name
|Dut=Klopper
|DutM=From ''kloppen'' ("to beat")
|Fre=Paul
|FreM=Male given name
|Ger=Morris
|GerM=Male given name
|Ita=Koopasso
|ItaM=Portmanteau of "Koopa" and ''asso'' ("ace")
|Kor=리버스
|KorR=Libeoseu
|KorM=Reverse
|SpaA=El Ejecutador
|SpaAM=The Executor
|SpaE=El Matador
|SpaEM=The Killer
}}

==Notes==
*Shellshock's name comes from shell shock, an outdated term for [[wikipedia:Posttraumatic stress disorder|posttraumatic stress disorder]]. Strangely, while the name of the ''Mario Party'' series minigame [[Tread Carefully (minigame)|Tread Carefully]] was changed from Shell Shocked to remove this connection, Shellshock and his team have their original names retained in the remake of ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''.

==References==
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