Pig
- This article is about the pigs from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. For other pigs, see Category:Pigs.
| Pig | |
|---|---|
| A pig in Twilight Town in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door | |
| First appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) |
| Latest appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024) |
- “Will my loved ones become swine? Will I, too, become a curly-tailed oinker? I'm so worried, I can't sleep at night.”
- —Mayor Dour , Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Pigs are a species which appear in Chapter 4 of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door . They are the cursed forms assumed by various NPCs in Twilight Town.
A Duplighost known as Doopliss enchants the bell of the Creepy Steeple so that every time it rings, a citizen of Twilight Town would be transformed into a Pig. Once he is defeated, everyone is turned back and pigs can no longer be encountered. Unlike most characters in the game, the pigs of Twilight Town are fully three-dimensional in nature, and are visually reminiscent of Li'l Oinks from Paper Mario , albeit with visible ears and tails as well as red eyes likely to denote their cursed status.
In the Nintendo Switch remake, Pigs bare a more prominent papercraft aesthetic to match the artstyle of later entries. A few pigs also appear in the reworked credits sequence.
Affected characters[edit ]
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- Info on the other transformed residents of Twilight Town, and info on where they can be found, and any dialogue said while under this state.
As Chapter 4 progresses, various characters are affected by Doopliss' curse. The following is a list of all characters in the story who are changed into pigs.
| Image | Character | Tattle | Time of transformation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pigs | Gloomer | "That's Gloomer the pig... I mean... Gloomer, the guy who got turned into a pig. When I think of him having to live like this, I get oinked up... I mean, choked up..." | During the cutscene which plays after entering Twilight Town. |
| Eve's children after Eve becomes a pig. | Eve | "I KNOW she didn't turn into a pig to feed her hungry children... That would be TOO gnarly! But that is some spooky timing, I swear..." | Shortly after Mario gives food to her children. |
| Used in case of images missing from a section gallery, table, bestiary box, or certain infoboxes. | Mayor Dour | "Even the mayor got turned into a pig! At this rate, they'll all be pigs soon. And then... maybe even us... NO WAY!" | After Mario seeks him out to get the gatekeeper to let him enter Twilight Trail |
| Mario finding thr Shop Key in Twilight Trail of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. | Twilight Shop manager | "This pig is a Twilighter. The shock of being cursed made him lose his way, I bet." | Already transformed when first encountered. |
| Screenshot from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Nintendo Switch | Traveling Sisters Three | "I feel like I've met these pigs before... How is that possible?" | Already transformed when first encountered. |
| Used in case of images missing from a section gallery, table, bestiary box, or certain infoboxes. | Battle Master (Nintendo Switch only) | "This little fella seems oddly relaxed, don't you think? Something tells me this is not a normal pig..." | Already transformed when first encountered. |
| Used in case of images missing from a section gallery, table, bestiary box, or certain infoboxes. | Dupree | ""That's the shop manager... who's now a pig. Yuck. What a totally awful fate..." | Already transformed when first encountered. Initially mistaken for the Twilight Shop manager. |
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Gallery[edit ]
Nintendo Switch remake credits
Concept artwork
Concept artwork for Twilight Town
Names in other languages[edit ]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| French | Cochon | Pig | [?] | |
| German | Schwein | Pig | [?] | |
| Spanish | Cerdo | Pig | [?] |
Notes[edit ]
- The title of the chapter in which these events take place is called "For Pigs the Bell Tolls", which is a reference to the novel written by Ernest Hemingway called For Whom the Bell Tolls .
- In Volume 7 of Super Mario-kun a disease known as Influenza tontonbū-gata causes the inhabitants of Mura Mura to transform into pigs, which is similar to the curse on the residents of Twilight Town.