Paper Mario (series)

The Paper Mario series is one of the many sub-series of the Mario series. Only three games have been released in this series: Paper Mario, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario, with an upcoming fourth game. All of the games in the series are RPGs with platforming elements, except for Super Paper Mario, which was a sidescroller that did not have RPG battles, but retained similar elements. The three games have been released on separate consoles, The Nintendo 64, the GameCube, and the Wii, with the fourth game to be released on the Nintendo 3DS.

Trivia

 * Paper Mario is directly referenced by name in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga; one of the four blocks in the examination rooms of Woohoo Hooniversity is that of Paper Mario, and is identified as such when struck.
 * An odd part in the first two installments is when Mario's partner falls in water, they won't get damaged. However, when Mario falls into water, he loses one HP.
 * In all three games, the player is accompanied by an explorer during Chapter 5, Kolorado in Paper Mario, Flavio in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and Flint Cragley in Super Paper Mario in hopes of gaining something from the adventure. For Kolorado and Flavio they hoped to find treasure while Flint Cragley seeked ratings for his show Flint Cragley's Cragtrotter and to rescue the kidnapped Cragons.
 * All three games have the final boss being invincible at first and the stars (or hearts) Mario has collected making them vulnerable.
 * All three games each have a person telling a long story with Mario falling asleep. When he wakes up, the storyteller asks if he's been listening, followed by Mario lying by nodding. In Paper Mario, Madam Merlar tells the story. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the shopkeeper in Twilight Town tells the story. In Super Paper Mario, Merlumina tells the story.