Colored Pencils

"Feast your eyes upon my art-senal! Twelve colored pencils, ready to make your paper bodies my canvas!"

- Colored Pencils

Colored Pencils, The Missile Maestro (also referred to as Color Pencil) , is a member of the Legion of Stationery who guards the end of the red streamer and the boss of Overlook Tower in Paper Mario: The Origami King. It is an oversized red tin pencil case sporting King Olly's logo on the front. It normally holds 12 colored pencils inside, whose colors are, from left to right, white, lime, green, cyan, blue, purple, pink, red, yellow, beige, brown, and black. These are used as missiles. Its dialogue is displayed with each symbol being semi-randomly picked from those colors, or, when severely damaged, a light gray.

By the time Mario has entered Overlook Tower, Colored Pencils has created drawings on the walls and floors, including one at the entrance displaying King Olly. As Mario scales the tower, Colored Pencils continually tries to stop him. First, the boss damages the elevator by piercing it with colored pencils, which, after being removed, cause the elevator to plunge back to the first floor. Second, when Mario reaches the cafe over the third floor, Colored Pencils retaliates by launching large salvos of pencils. The pencils also block the doorway out of the tower.

Once Mario reaches the streamer, he attempts to dislodge it by jumping into it, to no avail. Afterwards, two colored pencils are launched, forcing Olivia to shove Mario out of the way. The case then reveals itself, Mario pulling Olivia away when it is about to flatten her. Colored Pencils expresses its hate of people erasing its work, introduces himself, and fights Mario.

After being defeated, Colored Pencils groans that Mario was better as a side-scroller, and explodes, erasing its drawings off screen and releasing a Magic Circle Mario can use to destroy the streamer.

Battle
In the first phase of the battle, Colored Pencils will launch four to six pencils prior to Mario lining up rings. The pencils signal their landing spot by placing targets over spaces on the board. The targets do not move. Merely walking over a targeted tile will cause Mario to be struck by a pencil, though it will not cancel his turn. After Mario finishes moving, any pencil that's still airborne will strike its target. After Mario attacks, the Colored Pencils will attempt to launch a Pencil Rain, launching its remaining pencils at Mario for 2 damage each, and then Reloading, receiving 12 new pencils in time to launch and set more targets. However, if its lid was closed, which is achieved by Mario stopping behind the case and either using a strong enough Hammer attack or by him using the 1,000-Fold Arms to close the lid, the pencils will explode inside the case, dealing 3 damage each to Colored Pencils and stunning it, leaving it unable to reload. The next turn, Colored Pencils will instead use a Snap Shut, dealing 6 damage to Mario, then Reload.

After taking enough damage, Colored Pencils will start using Rainbow Roll attacks, dealing 3 damage twelve times when able to, in bursts of three, before reloading. The technique also prevents Mario from closing the lid as it charges up during his turn. Instead, Mario can use the 1,000-Fold Arms and grab the pencils, then initiate a rush attack by slamming the case with them. If the Colored Pencils still has HP left afterwards, the severely damaged case will be rendered unable to reload, attacking with Worst Case for the rest of the battle, dealing 2 damage.