Audience

The Audience (or Crowd) are minor characters that appear in every battle sequence in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and in Super Paper Mario when the player performs a stylish move. They can either be allies or enemies during the battles. They appear in the bottom of the screen, giving Mario Star Points when he attacks enemies. These Star Points can be powered up to release a special move on the opponent. There's also special crowd members.

For example, a Crazee Dayzee may sing to put all audience members around her/him asleep. A Bulky Bob-omb may become fused, and make an explosion, killing the audience members around him/her. Bosses such as Hooktail may use the audience as a power source, re-healing HP. The crowd may also throw objects at Mario. It can either be an item that will aid Mario, or hurt him. The stuff that will aid him can range from one Coin to a Boo's Sheet. The stuff that will hurt him ranges from rocks to crushed soda cans. Mario can press the X button to get them out of the theater.

Also Luigi, Punis, and Toads often appear in the crowd. Luigi, Punis, and the Toads will never do anything to hurt Mario or his Partners and will throw helpful stuff such as coins and mushrooms. Also, the X-Nauts refuse to give Mario helpful items.

The maximum capacity of the crowd depends on Mario's level. Also getting a Bingo will cause the crowd to fill in, but however if the player hits a poison mushroom during an Bingo round, the crowd will usually runs away, and Mario party health and FP will be cut in half.
 * Rising Star: 50
 * B-List Star: 100
 * A-List Star: 150
 * Superstar: 200

In the game Super Paper Mario, the Audience will appear whenever Mario or another playable character attacks an enemy and does a stylish move, which is done by shaking the Wii Remote when stomping on an enemy. They appear on the sides of the screen and say "Nice", "Great", "Wonderful" and "Excellent". This approval of the Crowd gives the player a higher score than if they had just jumped on and enemy. The audience in this game only has a handful of species from the previous game, taking out most of the species and adding only one new species in the Crowd (Koopas).

Characters in the Audience

 * Dry Bones (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door only)
 * Hammer Bros. (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door only)
 * X-Nauts (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door only)
 * Punis (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door only)
 * Toads (Both Super Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
 * Luigi (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door only)
 * Bulky Bob-ombs (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door only)
 * Boos (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door only)
 * Piranha Plants (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door only)
 * Crazee Dayzees (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door only)
 * Shy Guys (Both Super Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
 * Goombas (Both Super Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
 * Koopas (Super Paper Mario only)