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There are many characters in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a video game by Nintendo released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2004.

Contents
1 Main characters 2 Party members 3 Other characters 4 Major bosses

Main characters

Mario

: Mario is the venerable hero of the Super Mario Bros. video game series, as well as various offshoot games. In The Thousand-Year Door, he is on a treasure hunt for seven Crystal Stars with a magical map sent to him by Princess Peach, and teams up with Goombella and Koops, among others, during the game. He is voiced by Charles Martinet.

Princess Peach

: Finding herself kidnapped is a primary feature of Princess Peach's life. Very few games go by where she is not the target of some ne'er-do-well's plots. Unlike most Mario games, however, this time she is kidnapped by Sir Grodus and his X-Nauts because she possesses a highly valued treasure map, which she sent to Mario prior to her kidnapping. One of the puzzling parts in the game is Grodus's unknown reason for keeping Princess Peach. It is later revealed in the game that he was keeping her to use her as the body for the Shadow Queen to possess. She is voiced by Jen Taylor.

Professor Frankly

: The good Professor consults with Mario and Goombella at various points during their quest, and helps them with hints on where to go next.

Lord Bowser

: Lord Bowser is Mario's nemesis, and is usually responsible for trouble in the Mushroom Kingdom. In this game, Bowser has many cutscenes where he is a playable character. These scenes are often quite humorous, and involve the music from the original 1985 Super Mario Bros. game . He is voiced by Scott Burns.

Sir Grodus

:Grodus is the villain and leader of the X-Nauts. He wants to obtain the Crystal stars and unleash the Shadow Queen, who was the demon that struck the ancient town before being sealed behind the Thousand-Year Door by the Crystal Stars, but lately his X-Nauts haven't been doing a very good job. He wears the traditional goggles, but sports a cloak and a massive head made of electronics. He also carries a magic scepter, which is his main form of attack in Mario and co.'s battle against him. Like most arch-villains, he plans to conquer the world. After Mario and company beat him in the Palace of Shadow, he reveals Peach but then Bowser crashes through the roof with his Magikoopa lackey Kammy Koopa (who may be related to Kamek from Yoshi's Island) and fights Mario and his friends. After that, Grodus escapes with Peach into the final room. When Mario and company get there, Grodus unleashes the Shadow Queen, who possesses Peach. When Grodus tries to command the Shadow Queen, she annihilates him. After the Shadow Queen wastes him, it is revealed that Beldam, the leader of the Shadow Sirens and older sister of Vivian, is friends with the Shadow Queen. In the ending, he appears as the head alone. He apperantly still lives despite the fact he was apperantly elecyrocuted out of existence by The Shadow Queen. Little beyond that is currently known about this character, as he has only appeared in a single game. His fortress is located on the Moon.

Lord Crump

:Lord Crump is this game's analogue to Paper Marios Jr. Troopa in that he is a strong enemy (relative to common enemies) who appears in mostly odd-numbered Chapters and in the Prologue, and though a miserable failure, is completely focused on trashing Mario
and his friends.

:He is massively built, wearing a purple uniform with a white X, a purple bandanna, goggles and a red and ragged scarf. He serves, or tries to serve, his master Sir Grodus, but fails most of the time because of Mario. His catchphrase is "And with that, pow, I'm gone". For some reason, he has a habit of saying "Buh" and "Huh" in rhythms, most often being "Buh! Huh! Huh huh huh!" This is likely some kind of impeded or strongly accented laughing.

:Though Lord Crump is first sighted in Rogueport near the beginning of the game in the form of a tutorial fight, he is not formally introduced as a major character until Chapter 2. Grodus sends Crump and the Shadow Sirens to the Great Tree after hearing news that a Crystal Star is located there. Crump and the X-Nauts take advantage of a war between rival insect-like tribes, the Punies and the Jabbies. As the X-Nauts had learned that the Crystal Star belongs to the Punies and that the Punies will never reveal its location, they team up with the Jabbies to imprison the Punies and perform an extensive search, though unsuccessful until Mario and company arrive on the scene and accidentally stumbles across a secret underground room. Crump immediately catches wind of this, takes the Crystal Star as it emerges, or specifically the Emerald Star, and sets a time bomb for five minutes. Lord Crump is stopped at the Great Tree's entrance by the Puni Elder, who convinces Crump to stop the bomb. When Mario and his friends help the Puni Elder corner Crump, he unleashes the Magnus von Grapple, the Chapter's boss, in an attempt to defeat Mario and co., at least long enough for him to escape with the Emerald Star. He fails, of course.
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