Bloopers are squid-like creatures who appear in every Paper Mario game. In Paper Mario for the N64, they appears in the Toad Town Pipes. Every time Mario tries to navigate a new area in the sewer, a Blooper will appear, each one getting an increased amount of health and damage it can deal. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, he appears in the Rogueport Sewers. Before Mario can get to chapter one, Mario must fight a large Blooper. They appear as a common underwater enemy in Super Paper Mario and an even huger one appears at the end of the level. The Bloopers in Paper Mario can also produce little Bloopers known as Blooper Babies. In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, they appear once the poison curse has been lifted in World 3. In Color Splash, they are found within the waters of the Purple Region.
Paper Mario[]
In Paper Mario three versions of Blooper appear. With each one having their own gimmick. Electro Blooper can surround itself in electricity and use it to attack. Flying Party members such as Bow, Parakarry or Watt should have a great time handling them. Goombario is also useful as well. Super Blooper has two baby Bloopers it summons, Parakarry or Bow is your best option there. Watch out for the Charge attack it does. Their HP varies. Blooper has 30 HP, Electro has 50 HP and Super has 75 HP.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[]
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, only one appears in the game which is Rogueport, and it's the Mini-Boss of the prologue. It stops Mario and Goombella from progressing to Chapter 1. It is defeated by attacking its tentacles.
Strategy[]
The Blooper displays two attacks, in the first phase while its up, the Blooper's primary attack is swiping at Mario and/or Goombella with one of its tentacles by first lowing one of the two tentacles at the character its gonna swipe at, wind up, then swipe, it can be tricky for Players to block them as they have a wind up animation before they attack, tho it only does one damage. The strategy for this phase for the Player to attack its two tentacles, the left one can only be hit by Jumping, while the right one can be damage by any means, after Blooper's tentacles are defeated, it will fall down and be stun for two a turn, allowing the Player to go all out on Blooper, after it gets back up, Blooper will display one attack, which is by jumping and spraying ink, which can damage both Mario and Gombella, tho much like the Tentacle Swipe, it can be block for no damage, this phase is more straight forward then the previous phase as all Mario and Gombella have to do is attack like normal.
Super Paper Mario[]
In Super Paper Mario, Bloopers appear in The Tile Pool. They act like Bloopers from the original Super Mario Bros. series. A Big Blooper also appears as the mini-boss of said level.
Paper Mario: Sticker Star[]
In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, normal Bloopers become Poison Bloopers due to a curse enacted by the Violet Royal Sticker. It should be noted that normal Bloopers are not seen or fought in this game.
Paper Mario: Color Splash[]
In Paper Mario: Color Splash, Bloopers are commonly found in the Purple Region. They come out of the water a chase Mario. A new 10-Stack Blooper also appears.
Tattles[]
Paper Mario: This is a Blooper. Bloopers lurk in the dank pools of Toad Town Tunnels. Max HP: 30, Attack Power: 3, Defense Power: 0 They seem pretty unremarkable. Although... You have to wonder how they float in the air like that...
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: That's a Blooper...and a really super-humongous one, too! EWWWW! It's all slimy!!! I just totally can't STAND slimy, nasty, icky things. G-R-O-S-S, gross! Max HP is 12, Attack is 1, and Defense is 0. It attacks with tentacles and ink. Once you damage both its tentacles, it'll fall down... And then it's attack time! By the way, the tentacles each have 3 HP. Now relax and house on that slimy, nasty Blooper!
Super Paper Mario: That's a Blooper. This squiddy foe happily bobs up and down in the ocean... Max HP is 1 and Attack is 2. It will try to eat you if it sees you... But I hear that it won't try to attack you if you stand on the bottom of the ocean.
Trivia[]
- The Blooper in Paper Mario: The Thosuand-Year Door marks the first (and so far only) Mini-Boss in the Paper Mario series to serve as a Prologue Mini-Boss, as a posse to being a Boss.
- Starting with Super Paper Mario and on wards so-far, Bloopers are now seen as regular enemies, and no longer serve as Mini-Bosses.
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