Bub

This article is about the character from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. For the enemy known as "Bub" in Super Mario 64, see Cheep Cheep.

Template:Character-infobox Bub is a spoiled, orange Bob-omb kid in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. He is always with his dad Goldbob and his mother Sylvia. Mario first sees him and his parents in Glitzville, then the Excess Express, and lastly at their home in Poshley Heights.

Bub wishes to work on a train when he grows up, possibly as an engineer. His fascination with trains is made obvious when he states that he would rather have an autograph of the Excess Express engineer for a birthday present rather than getting a car, a house, or an encyclopedia set (all three being things his parents thought he wanted). When Mario gets the autograph from the engineer and hands it over to Bub, the Bob-omb kid thanks Mario and rewards him with a Shine Sprite.

On the third day, Bub and his parents are among the passengers who are absorbed into a hoard of Smorgs that attacks the train. After Mario defeats the Smorgs, they blow away in the wind, freeing the passengers. With that, the rich family of Bob-ombs safely return to Poshley Heights.

When Bowser and Kammy Koopa visit Poshley Heights during an intermission after Chapter 7, Bowser can optionally talk to Bub, who will ask him for his name: Evil King Extraordinaire, Businessman of Legend, or Koopa Koot. If Bowser chooses "Evil King Extraordinaire", Bub will then become terrified and flee.

In Bub's trouble (posted at the Trouble Center in Rogueport), he gets into a fight with Sylvia and needs Mario's help to make up. He has written her a letter and wants any item listed within the trouble: Shroom Cake, Keel Mango, or Fright Mask; if Mario chooses Shroom Cake, he will need Zess T. to mix a Mushroom with a Cake Mix (bought from Pianta Parlor) to make one. After delivering the item to Bub, he makes a present out of the item and his letter, and asks Mario to deliver the present to Sylvia, which Mario does so. The letter reveals that the fight occurred because Bub did not do his homework. For solving the trouble, Bub rewards the player with three Coins, which he says are his "entire fortune", showing that Bub himself does not possess much money, despite Bub's overly generous parents and posh upbringing.

Field Tattles

• "That's Bub the Bob-omb. He's from a very rich family, so he's kind of spoiled. Still, kids are kids, no matter how big their trust fund is... Aren't they?" - Default tattle.
• "That's Bub the Bob-omb. He's from a very rich family, so he's kind of spoiled. He put in a request to help him make up with a certain someone." - After taking on Bub's trouble, but before solving it.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	コナリキン Konarikin	Combination of the words 小 ko (child) and 成金 narikin (new rich, parvenu)
German	Bronzemuth	Bronze plus the German name "Helmuth"
Italian	Bomb-ottino	From "Bob-omb" and bottino (booty).
Spanish	Bombino	A pun of bomba (bomb) and bambino (Italian for "kid")