Chap (green)

Chap.

Chap is an inhabitant of Flipside who appears in Super Paper Mario.

Chap can be found on the second floor of Flipside. He greatly enjoys peace, commonly ranting on Flipside's enjoyable prosperity. However, he eventually grows tired of peace, wishing for more out-of-the ordinary events to happen. (Ironically, every "unusual" event he thought of has already happened to Mario and the other heroes, and the events occasionally even happened in "peaceful" Flipside itself.) By the end of the game, he repeats his typical lines about loving peace, claiming shortly afterward that he still does find peace "all you can really ask out of life," though it's implied that he is still bored of it. Chap is additionally stated by Tippi and Tiptron to have dreams of becoming an author, though all of his book ideas have apparently previously been done. This Chap's counterpart in Flopside is the ever-lovesick Slim, who strangely has no naming or personality similarities with Chap, indicating that one of the characters (perhaps most likely Chap, considering that his name is claimed by two Flip-Flop Folk) was misnamed. His name might actually be a joke name coinciding with the other Chap in that almost everything thinks of has either already happened, or (in terms of literacy) been taken, and that even his name is not original. In the PAL version of the game, this character is called Glim, which is closer to his counterpart's name, Slim.

Trivia

• The word "chap" is a slang term for a male person. Perhaps interestingly, this namesake of Chap's is actually used elsewhere in Super Paper Mario, such as in Flamm's nickname "the Map Chap."