Ms. Mowz: Difference between revisions

'''Ms. Mowz''', originally named '''Ms. Mouse''',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070428033214/http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=3640b1f1-82f7-4c42-8aea-d8299816f8c4 ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' summary (Wayback Machine archive)]. ''Nintendo''. Retrieved March 31, 2021.</ref> is a [[Little Mouser|Squeek]] thief that appears in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. She is a [[badge]] thief that Mario encounters repeatedly in his quest to find the seven Crystal Stars; towards the end of the game, [[Mario]] can even recruit her as an ally, where she serves as the game's sole optional [[Partner|party member]] and either the sixth or seventh member of the group depending on the player's actions. Mischievous and sultry, Ms. Mowz constantly flirts with Mario whenever she encounters him, much to the annoyance of [[Flurrie]] and [[Goombella]] (the latter occasionally calls Ms. Mowz a floozy), as well as making [[Koops]] and [[Mini-Yoshi|the Yoshi]] envious on at least one occasion.  

Mario first encounters Ms. Mowz in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' while exploring the armory of [[Hooktail Castle]] in the game's first chapter. She introduces herself as the "globe-trotting thief" and came here to collect valuable badges. She also heard Mario is on a quest for the [[Diamond Star|first Crystal Star]], but she has not seen it. She gives Mario a farewell kiss and mentions there is a [[Attack FX R|badge]] that can defeat [[Hooktail]] before she leaves. Ms. Mowz reappears again in the following two chapters, hunting for elusive badges in [[the Great Tree]] of [[Boggly Woods]] and in storerooms of the [[Glitz Pit]] colosseum. Concurrent with and after these events, Mario and the party can actually encounter an unmasked Ms. Mowz in her legitimate [[Rogueport]] shop, the [[Lovely Howz of Badges]] - used by the thief to sell her lucrative badge finds. The locals of Rogueport, who sometimes see the undisguised Ms. Mowz wearing the standard black bandana of Squeeks, refer to her as the "Badge-Ninja".

After completing the game's fourth chapter, an anonymous request is posted to the [[Trouble Center]] in east Rogueport. Should Mario choose to answer this trouble, marked "[[Elusive Badge!]]", he is instructed to meet with the requester a short walk away from the Lovely Howz of Badges, who turns out to be Ms. Mowz. She asks Mario to locate a badge in Hooktail Castle; she knows it is in Hooktail's room, but says she is unsure of its exact hiding spot. She shares her single clue: "Use The Power of the Wind...". Should the player then re-visit Hooktail's room and uses Flurrie's ability, a paper flap will blow away, revealing a chest that has the [[Attack FX B (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Attack FX B]] badge inside. When Mario returns with the badge to Ms. Mowz, she reveals that the request was a ruse to test Mario's skills, and if he can find a badge she had hidden so well, then she must journey with him to find more, and promptly joins the party. The Lovely Howz of Badges is ran exclusively by Ms. Mowz's assistant from this point onwards. At the very end of the adventure, Ms. Mowz is shown to have returned to running the shop.  

As a partner, Ms. Mowz has the ability to sniff out any type of [[List of items|item]] (similar to [[Watt]]'s ability to show [[Hidden Block|hidden]] [[? Block]]s in the first ''[[Paper Mario]]''), ranging from [[coin]]s, items, [[Star Piece (Paper Mario series)|Star Pieces]], and [[List of hidden blocks in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|invisible ? blocks]]; however, this ability is more like playing hot-and-cold, as straight answers are not given beyond a backflip when the player is very close. She does, however, indicate whether the item is to the left or right of Mario by the direction she faces when she is finished sniffing. In battle, Ms. Mowz's [[Love Slap]] attack cuts through enemy [[defense]], her [[Kiss Thief]] can steal enemies' items and badges, her [[Tease]] move can make enemies [[dizzy]], and her [[Smooch (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Smooch]] move replenishes Mario's [[Heart Point|HP]].

In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Ms. Mowz appears on a [[Catch Card]] won by winning the [[Duel of 100]] in [[Sammer's Kingdom]]. An image of her can also be spied very briefly during the intro, where she among all the other partners from the previous two ''Paper Mario'' titles are in a photo at the [[Mario Bros.' House]]. Lastly, during the third chapter, [[Francis]] made a "things to buy" list, and one of them was a Ms. Mowz doll "with real smooching action".

Ms. Mowz has sprite data in the internal files to ''Super Paper Mario'', even though she does not physically appear in the game.

|Slaps an enemy and ignores defense.

|Steals enemies' items or badges.

|Makes enemies [[Dizzy]].

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*She and [[Admiral Bobbery|Bobbery]] are the only two partners in the game who never fight Mario (although like Bobbery, her initial encounters with Mario include some tension or hostility): [[Vivian]] attacks Mario and the early party with [[The Shadow Sirens|her sisters]], while [[Goombella]], [[Koops]], [[Flurrie]] and [[Mini-Yoshi]] may appear alongside [[Doopliss]] while his Mario disguise has fooled them.

*If the player recruits Ms. Mowz into the party before Bobbery and then uses a healing item on a partner outside of battle, Bobbery's name is listed above Ms. Mowz, even if he has not joined the party yet.