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{{item infobox
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|image=[[File:Letter P TTYD.png]]
|image=[[File:Letter P TTYD.png]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
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{{quote2|And making me guard [[Doopliss|the name]]'s stupid missing letter...No way to treat a parrot!|[[Parrot (character)|Parrot]]|[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]}}
{{quote2|And making me guard [[Doopliss|the name]]'s stupid missing letter...No way to treat a parrot!|[[Parrot (character)|Parrot]]|[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]}}


'''The letter "p"''' is an [[Key item|Important Thing]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. It is found in a chest in [[Creepy Steeple]], in a room locked from the inside and guarded by a [[Parrot (character)|parrot]]. To enter the room, [[Mario]] must use [[Vivian]]'s [[Veil]] ability and his own [[Tube Mode]] to access a secret passage under the well outside. Once in the room, the parrot can be eavesdropped on via Veil to learn the true name of [[Doopliss]]. The letter "p" can be found and taken in order to guess the name later.
The letter "'''p'''" is a special item in the game ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. [[Mario]] and [[Vivian]] need the letter "p" to guess [[Doopliss]]'s name, because previously while guessing his name, the letter options lack this letter. Although a capital "P" is always available when Doopliss prompts Mario and Vivian to guess his name, the spelling is case sensitive and, therefore, fails to work. To find the letter, Mario must use Vivian to access a secret portion under the well in [[Creepy Steeple]], using her [[Veil]] ability. There, Mario can roll up into a tube and access a treasure room, where one of the chests contains the letter. By using Veil again, the [[Parrot (character)|parrot]] in the room reveals Doopliss's name for the player.
 
The purpose of the letter "p" is to ensure the game's plot cannot be altered by the player knowing Doopliss's name beforehand. Although the uppercase "P" remains, the lowercase "p" is missing from the input screen when Mario must guess Doopliss's name. The guess is case-sensitive, so the player is forced to progress as normal until the point where the name is supposed to be learned, which is the same place where the parrot is guarding the "missing letter".


==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|Jap=『ン』のもじ
|Jap=『ン』のもじ
|JapR="N" no Moji
|JapR="N" no moji
|JapM=The character "ン" (Katakana "n")
|JapM=The character "ン"
|Fre=p
|FreM=p
|Ger="p"
|Ger="p"
|GerM="p"
|GerM="p"
|Ita=Lettera p
|Ita=Lettera p
|ItaM=Letter p
|ItaM=Letter p
|Spa=Letra P
|SpaM=Letter P
}}
}}


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*Doopliss is called "Rumpel" (ランペル ''Ranperu'') in Japan, and the missing letter is ン ("n" in the katakana syllabary) rather than the English "p". This is a reference to the fairytale of {{wp|Rumpelstiltskin}}, in which the titular character makes a deal with someone to guess his name, and they eventually discover it after hearing Rumpelstiltskin talk to himself. In other languages, where Doopliss is called "Rumpel" or "Rampel", the "p" is also the missing letter.
*Doopliss is called "Rumpel" (ランペル ''Ranperu'') in Japan, and the missing letter is ン ("n" in the katakana syllabary) rather than the English "p". This is a reference to the fairytale of {{wp|Rumpelstiltskin}}, in which the titular character makes a deal with someone to guess his name, and they eventually discover it after hearing Rumpelstiltskin talk to himself. In other languages, where Doopliss is called "Rumpel" or "Rampel", the "p" is also the missing letter.
**In the Japanese version, despite the missing letter being the katakana variant of "n", the hiragana variant of "n" is missing in the name input screen as well.


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{{PMTTYD Items}}
[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door special items]]
[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Special Items]]
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