Tape (boss)

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“HEY! I'm not tacky! I'm STICKY! DAT'S IT! Ya want a piece of me? Well, you're gonna get it!”

—Tape, Paper Mario: The Origami King

Tape, The Shifty Sticker, is a member of the Legion of Stationery who guards the end of the purple streamer and is the boss of the Sea Tower in Paper Mario: The Origami King. Tape is a pressure-sensitive tape who sits in a purple dispenser, which acts as armor in the first phase of its fight. In its second phase, Tape gains a dispenser blade.

It speaks with a stereotypical Italian-American Brooklyn accent; often slurring its speech with words like "goil" for girl and "hoits" for hurts. Out of all the members in the Legion of Stationery, Olivia expresses the most dislike for Tape; describing it as a "no-good, cheating gangster". Tape uses its tape to stick many Toads to the side of the tower, which vanishes when it is defeated.

When it is defeated, Tape unconvincingly claims to have turned over a new leaf, dramatically asks King Olly to avenge it, then indifferently replies with "fuhgeddaboudit".

Tape resembles the Tape Thing from Paper Mario: Sticker Star, though with a purple dispenser rather than a blue one.

Battle

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Tape with its dispenser blade

Tape begins the battle sitting in its dispenser, using Dispenser Smack and Dispenser Slam to hit Mario with its blunt plastic edge. Mario needs to destroy the Tape's case by using the hammer ability or the 1,000-Fold Arms to hit the case from all angles. Tape is immune to jumps as it can grab Mario with its adhesive tape and throw him away. After the case is attacked from every angle, Mario gets a fake victory animation as the Tape vanishes. It then falls back down to the arena and summons its dispenser blade, while taunting Mario and Olivia for destroying its case.

In its second phase, Tape uses Roll Out to cover the arena with tape, which uses up its HP similar to Rubber Band's band throwing ability. It can also recall the sticky tape to heal its HP. This tape limits the actions Mario can take in shuffling the arena as several rings and rows are treated as one. Tape also uses Sticky Drill to barrage Mario with attacks. The Fire Vellumental's ability is needed to burn through the sticky tape, permanently damaging Tape's health.

When Mario reaches the appropriate Magic Circle, he can use a 1,000-Fold Arms attack to pull out Tape's adhesive tape, heavily damaging it. However, sometimes it will charge up an attack while spinning rapidly, making it unfeasible to grab and use the 1,000-Fold Arms attack, and also immune to hammer strikes. The Fire Vellumental can be used again to counter this ability.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	セロハンテープ Serohan Tēpu	Cellophane Tape