Mr. Hoggle
- “MOST AWFULLY BAD!!!”
- —Mr. Hoggle, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Mr. Hoggle is a pig-like character found in Glitzville in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. He is famous for his Hot Dogs. He is found at the Hot Dog Stand, where his Hot Dogs can be bought by Mario for ten Coins each. Mr. Hoggle's name is a pun on "hog" and "haggle," meaning to argue over a price. According to Goombella, Mr. Hoggle has sold his hot dog for three decades.
During Chapter 3, Mr. Hoggle's only other known menu item was the Southern Fried Egg Dog of Tastiness, which he was going to make out of a Yoshi Egg; however, the egg was alive and bouncing all over the place, and Mr. Hoggle struggled to catch the egg. Noticing this, Mario intervened, and the egg ended up on the top of the Hot Dog Stand. Mario used a nearby Plane Panel to glide to the top of the stand, where he saved the egg. Mr. Hoggle agreed to relinquish the egg to Mario, as nobody wanted to eat bouncy stuff.
If Mario speaks to Mr. Hoggle with the Yoshi that hatched from the aforementioned egg as his active partner, Mr. Hoggle seemingly recognizes the Yoshi as what used to be the egg he failed to catch and is glad about not cooking it.
Field Tattle
- "That's Mr. Hoggle from the Hot Dog Stand. He's sold dogs for like, 30 years! Nobody's as hot for Hot Dogs as him. He's always looking for the next miracle Hot Dog! Anyway, his dogs are famous. Nobody comes to visit here without having one."
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ミスター・チン Misutā chin |
Mister Chin |
| German | Bra Ten |
Pun on "Braten" (roast) |
| Spanish | P. Orcino |
"Porcino" means "piglike". |
