Private Goomp

"You like that, buddy? It's called teamwork! Unless you KO all 3 of us at once, we can't lose!"

- Private Goomp

Private Goomp is a Goomba who wears blue pajamas, and a minion of Bowser in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
In the game, he is first seen with Corporal Paraplonk and Sergeant Guy trying to take back Bowser's Castle with a Banzai Bill Blaster. However, they don't have ammo, leaving their king to get some. When Bowser acquires a Banzai Bill, his three underlings fire it into the castle.

Later, Bowser runs into Private Goomp wandering around alone outside Tower of Yikk. In talking with Private Goomp, Bowser learns that one of the three Star Cures is stored in his Treasure Chamber beneath his own castle. Bowser hastily leaves for said Treasure Chamber without Private Goomp.

At the Treasure Chamber, Private Goomp returns with his former companions, watching as Bowser defeats the Fawful Express, and as Mario and Luigi repair Bowser's memory of the combination. Once he opens the safe, however, the three quickly push him inside, stating that Fawful bribed them with extra rations. This same safe is later found in Peach's Castle.

Private Goomp is later seen after the closing credits of the game. Private Goomp and his two companions visit Bowser, who is bedridden after a fight with the Mario bros. They apologize for their treason and ask to rejoin the Koopa Troop. Bowser pardons them along with the rest of his minions on the condition that they help with repairs on his Castle.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, it is revealed that Private Goomp was promoted along with his associates to "Bowser's Royal Guard", and now has a black hat with a Bowser emblem on it. He travels with Bowser to Pi'illo Island to find Princess Peach. Private Goomp also helps Kamek disguise as Princess Peach forming a lower section of the disguise. It is also shown that he and his associates dream of bossing around Kamek and Bowser one day. The trio are also fought in a boss battle as the Elite Trio.

After Private Goomp and his allies have been defeated, Kamek demotes them to janitors and sends them back to the castle. After Bowser is defeated, he, Kamek, Private Goomp, Sergeant Guy and Corporal Paraplonk decide to retreat. Although Bowser is mad that his plan failed and that it was Antasma's fault, he tells his three minions that they did pretty well by their usual standards, much to their joy.

Trivia

 * His Italian name, along to Corporal Paraplonk and Sergeant Guy's ones, references the Italian terminology "Tizio, Caio and Sempronio", meaning "three random guys." An English equivalent could be "Tom, Dick and Harry."
 * Private Goomp shares the rank and coloration of Tamama from the anime Sgt. Frog.
 * How Private Goomp summons Sub-Goombas at the beginning of the battle is similar to how Big Massif summons Hooraws.

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