Flee: Difference between revisions

'''Flee''', also known as '''Run away'''<ref>''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars'' English instruction booklet, pg. 29</ref> ('''Run Away''' in ''Paper Mario'' and ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''), and '''Run''' in ''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga'', is an action used in the ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' [[Genre#Role-playing|role-playing games]]. Flee allows the player to attempt to run away from battle, leaving the enemy behind. However, some enemies, or more specifically bosses, cannot be fled from. In some games, the player will lose [[coin]]s when they flee; however, they can pick them right back up in a few games. After the player flees, the enemy will freeze in place while flashing for a few seconds, making it so that the player cannot enter a battle with them for a moment. Fleeing can be used by enemies as well, mainly those who give off a lot of [[coin]]s and [[Experience Point|experience points]] when defeated.

In ''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]'', the player can flee by pushing {{button|snes|b}} and selecting the option in the menu. If successful, all party members will run off-screen away from the enemies, with the screen fading to black and transitioning back to the overworld. If not successful, the player will waste that character's turn. Enemies like [[Crook]]s and [[Sackit]]s can also flee from battle, most of the time before the player even gets a turn due to their high [[speed]]. The enemies in [[Bowser's Castle#Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars|Bowser's Keep]], like [[Gu Goomba]]s, will also flee if [[Bowser]] is in the party at the time.

The "Run Away" command is disabled in mini-boss and boss battles; Mario must win those battles at all costs in order for the game to progress.

Like in the previous installment, Mario cannot flee from mini-boss and boss battles. Unlike the first ''Paper Mario'', a "Can't flee this fight!" message appears when Mario enters such battles to indicate that he must win those battles at all costs in order for the game to progress.

When Mario is reduced to a shadow, he is required to flee when he enters a battle with [[Doopliss]] (who has taken Mario's appearance) after failing to guess the latter's real name (due to having removed [[The letter "p"|the lower-case letter P]]), despite Doopliss ordering him not to run.

In ''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]'', fleeing works similarly to how it did in ''Paper Mario: Sticker Star''. [[Sombrero Guy]]s have a high chance of fleeing from battle but can be defeated with powerful [[Battle Card (Paper Mario: Color Splash)|cards]]. The [[Compass]] also allows Mario to flee any enemy battle.