Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Story
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is a GameCube video game released in 2004. The sequel to Paper Mario. In this game, Mario is hunting the 7 Crystal Stars to open the Thousand-Year Door, while Princess Peach has been kidnapped by a gang of aliens called X-Nauts.

Prologue: A Rogue's Welcome
As you reach Rogueport, you'll meet up with Goomba named Goombella and she'll join your team. She'll take you to see Prof. Frankly and you'll head to the sewers, where the Thousand-Year Door awaits. When you reach the bottom floor of the sewers, you'll have to learn a new paper ability from a Black Chest Demon to reach the door. After you reach the Thousand-Year Door, stand on the pedestal and hold up the map. The magic will show you the location of one of the Crystal Stars

Chapter 1: Castle and Dragon
The first Crystal Star is found at Hooktail Castle. To get to Hooktail Castle, Mario and Goombella had to find the two stone keys at Shhwonk Fortress. After finding the stone keys, you'll have to fight off a Gold Fuzzy. As you leave Petalburg, a koopa troopa named Koops will join your team so he can avenge his father, Koopley's death. When you get to Hooktail Castle, you'll have to avoid Hooktail's traps to reach the tower, and even learn a new paper ability from one of the Black Chest Demons and run into Ms. Mowz, who will give you tips on how to defeat Hooktail. Upon reaching Hooktail's lair, you must fight her to get the Diamond Star, and even free Koops' dad, who was swallowed whole.

After the battle with Hooktail, Peach is kidnapped, as usual. Not by King Bowser, but the X-Nauts and its leader, Grodus. When an X-Naut tells Grodus Mario nabbed the first Crystal Star, Peach knows it was him. Grodus then knows Mario has the map and orders the Shadow Sirens to steal the map from Mario. Peach meets up with the main computer of the X-Naut HQ, TEC-XX, aka TEC.

At Bowser's Castle, Kammy will tell Bowser Mario's hunting the seven Crystal Stars and will also tell him Peach was captured. Bowser is outraged at this and leaves for Rogueport to kidnap her back.

Chapter 2: The Great Boggly Tree
The next Crystal Star is found at the Great Tree in Boggly Woods. Upon reaching the entrance to Boggly Woods, Mario, Goombella and Koops meet up with a Puni named Punio. Punio thinks Mario and his team are working for the X-Nauts, who have taken over the Great Tree. Mario and his teammates found out that the X-Nauts were behind Princess Peach's kidnapping and offer to Punio to help drive the X-Nauts out of the tree. When they reach Boggly Woods, they see the Shadow Sirens talking. Vivian is showing Beldam Flurrie's necklace. Marilyn notices Mario is on his way, but Beldam and Vivian ignore her.

As Mario, Goombella, Koops and Punio make it to the Great Tree, they notice the door is locked, so they enlist the help from the cloud spirit Flurrie to help them, only they must defeat the Shadow Sirens to rescue her necklace. After giving the necklace back to Flurrie, she joins the team. As they comb the great tree for the Emerald Star, they must fight off Yuxs, X-Nauts and even the Punies' rivals, the Jabbi Tribe, who have teamed up with Lord Crump, and of course, get the Super Boots to resuce the other Punies after Mario and his team fall into a trap set by Lord Crump. As the team makes it to the basement, they finally reach the Crystal Star, but Lord Crump steals it and activates a 5-minute self-destruct mechanism, which will destroy the Great Tree and its inhabitants! As Mario and his team catch up to Crump, Crump deactivates the detonator and summons Magnus Von Grapple to attack. After Mario and the team defeat Magnus, the X-Nauts are driven out of the tree and Mario and his team are given the Emerald Star as a reward.

At the X-Naut HQ, the X-Nauts tell Grodus Mario took the Emerald Star and TEC has Peach do a little dance in the computer room.

As Bowser and Kammy reach Petal Meadows, Bowser goes through one of the places Mario has visited in Super Mario Bros. and upon reaching Petalburg, they manage to find the Princess, only they discover it's actually a poster.

Chapter 3: Of Glitz and Glory
Mario and his team learn that the next Crystal Star is located in Glitzville and must locate Don Pianta's daughter Francesca and one of his mobsters, Frankie to get the tickets to the airship. After a little conflict, Francesca and Frankie were engaged and Mario got his ticket.

As Mario and his team reach Glitzville, they visit the Glitz Pit. Only then, Mario and company learn that the champ, Rawk Hawk has the Crystal Star, located on his champ's belt. Their task at getting the Crystal Star: fight their way to the top. Mario heads into Grubba's office and goes under the name "The Great Gonzales". As Mario and his team get up to rank 15, they find an egg being chased by the guy at the Hot Dog Stand. The egg decides to come along and help Mario and company. As Mario and his team get ready to battle the Armored Harriers, two Iron Clefts, they chicken out of the match and then, the egg hatches into a Yoshi Kid! During the rematch with the Iron Clefts, Yoshi manages to put a dent in their defenses by gulping one Iron Cleft and spitting it at its brother.

Mario and his team finally make it to the major league and keep receiving annonymous e-mails from a mysterious person named X, telling them that someone has been making the fighters disappear, and someone keeps sending Mario and his team threatening e-mails saying that Mario and his team shouldn't get their hands on the Crystal Star they're looking for. As Mario and his team rise to rank 8, X tells them to visit the juice bar and Mario will get his Super Hammer and find a Dubious Paper hidden in the minor league locker room.

After Mario and his team defeat an opponent at the Glitz Pit to raise their rank to 5, King Bowser shows up and challenges Mario and his team to fight! After Mario and his team raise the rank to 4, X tells them to go to the phone booth, where they will find the key to the Glitz Pit Storeroom. They'll have to sneak into the vent system to spy on Grubba.

As their rank reaches 1, Mario and his team must remove the Great Gonzales posters in the lobby using Flurrie's wind and find a key to the storeroom on the second floor. There, you'll find two of your fellow fighters, King K and Bandy Andy lying on the ground, injured. When you get ready for the champion match, the security guard will escort you to a minor-league locker room and lock you in there. You must blow away the Princess Peach poster to reach the major league locker room and flush yourself down the toilet to reach the designated major league locker room and visit the ring to face Rawk Hawk, who is responsible for sending security to lock Mario and his team in the minor league locker room and sending that poisoned cake before the rank 2 match.

When the Hawk is defeated, you'll receive an e-mail from X, telling you to find the ghost in the vent, which is actually Grubba. When Grubba goes away, comb his desk for clues to find the paper you found in the minor league locker room. You'll discover the paper is actually a blueprint for a machine powered by the Gold Star. Grubba will enter his room and rush into the ring, where his machine dwells. The machine turns him into Macho Grubba and you'll have to fight him for the Crystal Star. After you defeat him, Jolene will tell Mario and his team she was X all along, and it was because the loss of his younger brother, the first champ of the Glitz Pit, Prince Mush. Prince Mush comes out of Grubba's machine unharmed and Mario and his team are given the Gold Star as a reward.

At the X-Naut base, TEC tells Princess Peach to disguise herself as an X-Naut to find out what Grodus is planning. They learn Grodus is planning to use the treasure behind the Thousand-Year Door to take over the world.

Meanwhile, Bowser is searching for one of the Crystal Stars at the Great Tree in Boggly Woods.

Chapter 8: The Thousand-Year Door
Now that you have received all 7 Crystal Stars, the time has come to open the Thousand-Year Door and enter the Palace of Shadow to rescue Princess Peach from Grodus.

Goombella
A female goomba who studied at Goom U. She joins Mario's team after Mario defeats Lord Crump. She has the same ability to uncover an enemy's stats, like Goombario has.

Attacks
 * Headbonk (0 FP)
 * Tattle (0 FP)
 * Multi-bonk (3 FP)
 * Rally Wink (0 FP)

Koops
A timid koopa who lives in Petalburg. To prove to Petalburg he is not a coward, he joins Mario's team to avenge his dad, Koopley's death. He has the same ability Kooper has outside of battle, using his shell toss move to flip switches, grab items and attack enemies.

Attacks
 * Shell Toss (0 FP)
 * Power Shell (3 FP)
 * Shell Shield (4 FP)
 * Shell Slam (6 FP)

Madam Flurrie
She can blow wind at enemies to make them dizzy and blow fake walls away, revealing secret passages. She also dreams of becoming an actress.

Attacks
 * Body Slam (0 FP)
 * Gale Force (4 FP)
 * Lip Lock (3 FP)
 * Dodgy Fog (4 FP)

Yoshi Kid
Call him by any name you wish and people will call him by that name. Press X to ride on his back like most yoshis and hit A to fly briefly over places that have no solid ground, which is the same ability Parakarry possesses in Paper Mario.

Attacks
 * Ground Pound (0 FP)
 * Gulp (4 PF)
 * Mini-Egg (3 PF)
 * Stampede (6 FP)

Vivian
One of the Shadow Sirens. At first, worked for Grodus, but joined Mario's team to help Mario get his name, appearance and teammates back, because Mario treated her a lot nicer than Beldam and/or Marilyn. She can hide Mario from enemy attacks, in which that is the same ability Lady Bow has.

Attacks
 * Shade Fist (0 FP)
 * Veil (1 FP)
 * Fiery Jinx (6 FP)
 * Infatuate (4 HP)

Admiral Bobbery
A retired admiral who refused to help Mario at Keelhaul Key, but decided to help him after Mario gave him his late wife's letter. After Mario saves him from Cortez's underlings and gives him Chuckola Cola, he joins Mario's team. He has the same ability Bombette has outside of battle: with his bomb attack, he can destroy fake walls, flip switches and attack enemies.

Attacks
 * Bomb (0 FP)
 * Bomb Squad (3 FP)
 * Hold Fast (4 FP)
 * Bob-Ombast (9 FP)

Ms. Mowz
A cat burglar/badge hunter and the assistant shopkeeper at the Lovely Howz of Badges. Mario and his teammates encounter her at Hooktail Castle, the Great Boggly Tree, and the Glitz Pit Storeroom. She joins Mario's team after Mario gets the Attack FX B badge in Hooktail's lair and gives it to Ms. Mowz. She can also seek out hidden items and penetrate enemy's defenses like Watt does.

Attacks


 * Slap (0 FP)
 * Kiss Thief (2 FP)
 * Tease (3 FP)
 * Smooch (10 FP)

Diamond Star
The first Crystal Star that Koopley, Koops' father found in Hooktail's belly. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Earth Tremor".

Emerald Star
The second Crystal Star that was found in The Great Tree. Stolen by Lord Crump, but given to Mario by the Puni Elder after driving the X-Nauts out of the tree. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Clock Out".

Gold Star
The third Crystal Star. It was used to power Grubba's Strengthening Machine to turn him into Macho Grubba. Was given to Mario by Jolene after defeating Macho Grubba and reuniting her with Prince Mush. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Power Lift".

Ruby Star
The fourth Crystal Star that Doopliss holds. Was given to Mario after Shadow Siren Vivian joined his team to help him get his name, appearance and teammates back. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Art Attack".

Sapphire Star
The fifth Crystal Star found in the Pirate's Grotto. Cortez gives this Crystal Star to Mario when Mario tells Cortez he is not interested in his treasure. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Sweet Feast".

Garnet Star
The sixth Crystal Star found at Detective Pennington's home, the Poshley Sanctum. This was hidden in the painting at the Sanctum while a red herring, a fake one, was put out in the open to fool the Shadow Sirens, King Bowser and Kammy Koopa (only Bowser and Kammy weren't fooled-- Pennington told them the Crystal Star they grabbed was a red herring). This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Showstoppers".

Crystal Star
The final Crystal Star found in X-Naut HQ and is guarded by Lord Crump and the new and improved Magnus Von Grapple robot Magnus 2.0. This Crystal Star will teach you the move "Supernova".

Lord Crump
A high-ranking X-Naut that is second-in-command of the X-Naut Legion.

Stats:


 * Rogueport Battle: HP: 6, Attack: 1, Defense: 0
 * Keelhaul Key Battle: HP: 30, Attack: 5, Defense: 0

Hooktail
A dragon that's been terrorizing Petalburg and eating many of its residents who came to her castle to slay her, like Professor Kolorado's dad and Koops' dad. When Mario, Goombella and Koops came to her castle to obtain the first Crystal Star, the Diamond Star, they learned she got food poisoning from something that starts with cr- and ends with -icket. They learned her weakness was the sound of a cricket's chirp. Upon reaching the tower, they slayed her and freed Koops' dad, who was swallowed whole and obtained the Crystal Star, which Koops' dad found in her stomach. She has two older brothers named Bonetail and Gloomtail. Bonetail resides in the bottom floor of the Pit of 100 Trials and Gloomtail guards a key in the Palace of Shadow.

Stats: HP: 20, Attack: 5, Defense: 0

Three Shadow Sirens
Three shadow-like witches whose names are Beldam, Marilyn, and Vivian. They aid the X-Naut Legion on their hunt for the Crystal Stars. After Vivian joined Mario's team, Doopliss the Duplighost took her place.

Stats:

-Beldam: HP: 9, Attack: 1, Defense: 0 -Marilyn: HP: 12, Attack: 2, Defense: 0 -Vivian: HP: 10, Attack: 1, Defense: 0
 * Boggly Woods Battle:

-Beldam: HP: 30, Attack: 5, Defense: 0 -Marilyn: HP: 40, Attack: 7, Defense: 0 -Doopliss: HP: 40, Attack: 7, Defense: 0
 * Palace of Shadow Battle:

Magnus Von Grapple
A giant robot controlled by Lord Crump.

It first appears in Chapter 2: The Great Boggly Tree. When Lord Crump steals the Emerald Star and activates a 5:00 self-destruct mechanism, Mario and his teammates must catch up to him before the Great Tree detonates. The minute Mario and his teammates catch up to Crump, Crump deactivates the detonator and summons Magnus Von Grapple to attack. After Mario and his comrades defeats Magnus, Lord Crump and the X-Nauts are driven out of the tree.

Magnus Von Grapple appears again as Magnus 2.0 at the X-Naut Headquarters in Chapter 7: Mario Shoots The Moon, in which Lord Crump was assigned by Grodus to guard the Crystal Star. Magnus 2.0 is pretty tough than the Magnus Von Grapple you faced at the Great Tree. You must be careful of its "Audience Blaster", because that'll deal a lot of damage. After the robot is defeated, it will explode, shooting Lord Crump into space.

Stats:
 * Great Tree Battle (Chapter 2: vs. Regular Version) -HP: 30, Attack: 2, Defense: 1


 * X-Naut HQ Battle (Chapter 7: vs. Magnus 2.0) -HP: 70, Attack: 6, Defense: 2

Macho Grubba
Grubba is the manager of the Glitz Pit. When Mario (aka the Great Gonzalez!) and his team learn from a mysterious person named X that Grubba has been making the fighters disappear, Mario and company must follow all the clues if he is going to get to the Gold Star, especially if that meant fighting Grubba's alter ego, MACHO GRUBBA!! After they defeat Grubba, Jolene confesses to Mario and his team that she was their X buddy and upon Grubba's defeat, Prince Mush, Jolene's younger brother comes out of the machine unharmed. Mario is given the Crystal Star as a reward for defeating Grubba.

Stats: HP: 60, Attack: 4, Defense: 0

Doopliss
A duplighost who's been causing trouble at Twilight Town, turning the residents into pigs and stealing Mario's identity and teammates, leaving Mario his shadow. To defeat Doopliss, you must find the Superbombomb and give it to Shadow Siren Vivian. Vivian will join your team and help you get your identity and teammates back and to do that, you must do what the characters did in Rumpelstiltskin: guess Doopliss' name. The only thing Mario and Vivian were missing was the lower-case letter P. The letter P was hidden somewhere in Creepy Steeple. After Mario and Vivian guess Doopliss' name, Doopliss flees back to Creepy Steeple. When Mario and Vivian fight Doopliss at Creepy Steeple, Vivian discovers she was helping Mario and does a little time to think it over. She joins the team for real, because Mario treated her a lot nicer than Beldam and/or Marilyn. After they defeat Doopliss, Mario gets his identity and friends back and gets the Ruby Star. Doopliss runs of in humiliation and joins forces with the Shadow Sirens for revenge. He becomes a lot nicer at the end of the game and pursues a career in acting alongside Flurrie.

Stats:


 * Creepy Steeple Battle: HP: 40, Attack: 4, Defense: 0
 * Palace of Shadow Battle: HP: 40, Attack: 7, Defense: 0

Cortez
The holder of the fifth Crystal Star. He is a very old pirate who once sailed the seas in the marauding Black Skull. He thinks Mario is after his treasure and fights him. After he is defeated, Mario will tell him he's not interested in hie treasure, just the Sapphire Star. After getting the Crystal Star, Lord Crump and the X-Nauts will attack Keelhaul Key. Your only option: ask Cortez if he can lend you his ship, and give Cortez the Skull Gem, which Flavio's ancestors stole from him. After you defeat Lord Crump, Cortez will give you lifts to Keelhaul Key and back to Rogueport.

Stats: HP: 20, Attack: 4, Defense: 1

Smorg
This boss doesn't hold a Crystal Star, but it attacks the Excess Express during the trek to Poshley Heights. This monster is made up of smaller smorgs, disc-like creatures with yellow eyes. They were first seen at the Riverside Station, where they lift the drawbridge, trying to stop Mario and his comrades from reaching the Garnet Star at the Poshley Sanctum (It's obvious they're working for the Shadow Sirens-- they were ordered to stop the train from going far after the Honey Syrup Bomb plan failed). Later on, they stow away onto the train and kidnap the passengers and make the train go out of control. Mario and his teammates fight the tribe on top of the train and free the passengers.

Stats:


 * Smorg: HP: 50, Attack: 5 (Miasma Strike), 10 (Miasma Pinch), Defense: 1


 * Smorg Miasma: HP: 4 (Miasma Strike), 6 (Miasma Pinch), Attack: 5 (Miasma Strike), 10 (Miasma Pinch), Defense: 1

Gloomtail
Gloomtail is the older brother of Hooktail and the younger brother of Bonetail. After Mario slays Hooktail to get the first Crystal Star, he wants revenge for the death of his sister. He is seen at the Palace of Shadow, guarding a key to Grodus' lair.

-Stats: HP: 80, Attack: 8, Defense: 2

Bonetail
Bonetail is a large Dragon, living at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials.

He is the oldest member of the "tail" family, older than both Gloomtail and Hooktail. As his name implies, he is merely a skeleton of a Dragon, implying that he has been living far longer than the other members of the family. He was once a minion of Shadow Queen, but has apparently stopped serving her. Any actions outside of the Pit of 100 Trials, if any, are unknown.

-Stats: HP: 200, Attack: 8, Defense: 2

Grodus
He is the supreme leader of the extraterrestrial organization called the X-Naut Legion. He kidnaps Princess Peach and he wishes to capture all of the Crystal Stars before Mario does to unleash the spirit of the 1,000-year-old demon known as the Shadow Queen. His base is located on the Moon.

Stats:
 * Grodus: HP: 50, Attack: 7, Defense: 1
 * Grodus X: HP: 3, Attack: 4, Defense: 0

King Bowser and Kammy Koopa
King Bowser is Mario's archest enemy of them all and Kammy is Bowser's right-hand Magikoopa. After Kammy told Bowser Grodus abducted Princess Peach (even though the Magikoopas don't know who it was that kidnapped her), Bowser went to Rogueport to kidnap her back. Bowser first fought Mario at the Glitz Pit and he and Kammy fight Mario again in the Palace of Shadow.

Stats: -Glitz Pit Battle: HP: 30, Attack: 3, Defense: 1 -Palace of Shadow Battle: HP: 70, Attack: 7, Defense: 2
 * Bowser


 * Kammy Koopa: HP: 50, Attack: 5, Defense: 0

Shadow Queen
The 1,000-year-old demon who lives behind the Thousand-Year Door. Was sealed by the Crystal Stars and released by Sir Grodus.

Stats: HP: 150, Attack: 7, Defense: 0