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[[Image:Kroop.png|frame|'''Kroop'''.]]

{{quote|I appreciate that, Murphy! They ARE nice eyebrows.|Kroop|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}

'''Kroop''' is a [[Koopa Troopa]] and the mayor of [[Petalburg]]. He is an elderly Koopa, and, as such, has much life experience. This experience serves him and the citizens of Petalburg during times of peace and during times of crisis. Kroop has large, bushy eyebrows, a wrinkled face and green skin.

Kroop's hearing is not what it used to be. As such, the old Koopa calls [[Mario]] by the name "Murphy" throughout the plumber's adventure. Kroop also had a [[Trouble Center#Mayor Kroop|trouble]] in the game. He wanted someone to talk to him. After Mario listened to his long speech, Kroop rewarded the plumber with a [[Turtley Leaf]].

Later on, if Mario was to accept Kroop's trouble, the elderly Koopa would mention "dating the missus back before she was the missus." Apparently, his wife's father was very strict, always requesting that Kroop's wife be brought home before [[sun]]down. As such, on dates, Kroop would constantly watch the sun (even more so than he did his date), which was "kind of blinding, in a painful sort of way." He would also mention that he first told his wife he loved her (apparently by stating something about her [[Koopa Shell|shell]] in a loud voice) on a boarding platform as she left on a nearby train; situations such as this happen to be a movie stereotype, as Kroop himself notes. Before ending his long conversation with Mario, he would also talk about how he and his wife were madly in love and about how his wife used to comb his eyebrows in a tender manner that he enjoyed.

Like all implied characters, little is known about Kroop's wife. Due to Kroop's protectiveness of his pictures of her and his profound love of his memories of her (as well as the fact that she never appears in any other form in the game), it is quite obvious that she is dead. Kroop also has three pictures set up in his house, and, while these are possible candidates for his "pictures of him and the missus," it is hard to make out what they depict (if they even depict anything in particular at all).

==Tattle Information==

* ''That's Kroop, the mayor of Petalburg. He just babbles, whether he's alone or not. I just can't tell if he's really senile, or if he's just working that angle, y'know?''

==Names in other Languages==

{{Foreignname|

|Fra=Patriache

|FraM=Patriarch (Kroop was not given an actual name in the French version: [[Goombella]] only refers to him as the patriarch of Petalburg)

|Jap=カメサブロウ<br>''Kamesaburō''

|JapM=''Kame'' ("turtle") + Saburō (三郎, old-fashioned Japanese male name).

|SpaM=Portmanteau of Koopa and the Spanish name "Pablo".

|ItaM=From "tartaruga" (turtle) and the given name "taddeo". His name is only revealed in the Thwomp's quiz}}

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