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 an imported Yoshi Egg; however, Mr. Hoggle struggled with the egg as it was alive and bounced all over the place. Noticing this, Mario intervened, and the egg jumped up to the roof of the Hot Dog Stand. Mario used a nearby Plane Panel to glide to the stand's roof and saved the egg. Mr. Hoggle agreed to relinquish the egg to Mario, asserting that nobody wanted to eat moving stuff.
If Mario speaks to Mr. Hoggle with a Yoshi that hatched from the aforementioned egg as his active partner for the first time, Mr. Hoggle recognizes the Yoshi as what used to be the egg he failed to catch, expressing gladness over 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". |
