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[[File:PMTTYD2.png|thumb|500px|All possible Audience members in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'']]

The '''Audience''' (or '''Crowd''') are minor characters that appear in every battle sequence in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' and in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' when the player performs a [[Stylish Move]].

In ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'', every battle is performed on a stage in front of the Audience. They can either be allies or enemies during the battles. The Audience appears in the bottom of the screen, giving Mario [[Star Power|SP]] when he attacks enemies, except when they are made up of [[Dull Bones]]. SP is used to refill Mario's Star Power which he needs to use [[Crystal Stars|Crystal Star]] moves.

However, audience members are not only useful for restoring Star Power. Some will interact with the combatants or other members. Additionally, bosses such as [[Hooktail]] may use the members as a power source, restoring [[Heart Point|HP]] upon eating the members. [[Magnus von Grapple 2.0]] will even suck up members of the Audience and launch them at Mario and his partners.

The Audience may also throw objects at Mario. It can either be an item that will assist him or injure him. The items that will aid Mario can range from one [[Coin]] to items such as the [[Boo's Sheet]]. Even powerful items such as [[Jammin' Jelly|Jammin' Jellies]] can be received, albeit rarely. In any case, if an item is thrown onstage and his inventory is full, the item will simply fall on the stage and disappear. The items that will hurt him range from rocks to crushed soda cans, never doing more than a few points of damage. In either case, a warning will flash before an Audience member is about to throw something at Mario. The player has a few seconds to press {{button|gcn|X}} to attack the offending member and have them temporarily flee the theater. Alternatively, the player can choose to do nothing to receive the item. The warning does not differentiate between good and bad items, so it is possible to attack an Audience member offering a helpful item. When this happens, not only will this member flee, but several others will as well, but it is temporary. The player can also attack the Audience member while the object has already been thrown. If the item is harmful, Mario can also switch places with his partner just before the item hits him, successfully dodging the item.

The maximum capacity of the Audience depends on Mario's level. The bigger the crowd, the more Star Power he and his party can restore each turn. Mario rises one rank every ten levels, beginning the game with the Rising Star level.

A similar audience appears in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' and its remake, ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey]]'', during the second battle with [[Midbus]], which takes place in [[Fawful Theater]]. The audience is made up of Bowser's brainwashed minions. During the battle, the audience will throw coins at Bowser if he lands an "Excellent!" hit, and will throw food if Midbus damages Bowser, which Bowser can [[Vacuum Block|inhale]] to restore his [[Heart Point|HP]] and/or [[POW-Up|increase his attack power]] before Midbus eats them.

 

All throughout the game, every battle takes place on a stage which will upgrade every 10 levels the player goes up, the first being the Rising Star stage, and the last being the Superstar stage. However, the stages are not purely cosmetic: they also greatly affect battles, with each stage introducing new mechanics, both positive and negative.

*On the Rising Star stage, the props onstage may become unstable either randomly or after a tremor ([[POW Block]], [[Earth Quake]], etc), dealing 1 damage to Mario and his partner if not guarded against, as well as the enemies, asssuming they do not have defense. However, in some areas, the falling props may only deal damage to certain sides, such as in [[Boggly Woods]], where the only prop large enough to cause damage is a tree on the enemies' side of the stage. In addition to this, random objects may also fall from the ceiling, doing 1 damage and likely inducing a status effect. If a bucket falls, the target will take 1 damage and is also likely to get the dizziness status. If a light falls, damage is dealt, but the target will also get the electric status effect. If a basin falls, it will do 1 damage and not cause any status effects. Similar objects may also fall into the audience, causing some of them to flee.

*On the B-List Star stage, special effects are introduced, however, the only effect that is unlocked on the B-List Star stage is ice. In the beginning of the battle, the special effects will spray into the air, doing nothing. However, they are very easily tipped over by nearly any action, and will face random directions. Should the special effects go off, they will cause the frozen status effect, immobilizing the target(s) unless guarded against or if the player has a status that protects them from attacks. Fog is also introduced, blanketing the entire stage and lowering the accuracy of both the player and the enemies. Fortunately, the fog can be cleared by [[Flurrie]]'s gale force or an explosive attack, such as Bobbery's bomb or an [[Egg Bomb]]/[[Coconut Bomb]]. However, the attack is still not guaranteed to succeed. Water may also rush down from the ceiling, affecting only one target and alleviating any negative status effects. Though the effect in only beneficial, it can be guarded against if the player wishes to do so.

Getting a [[Shine Sprite]] "[[Bingo!]]" will cause every seat in the Audience to fill. Any other "Bingo!" with the exception of the [[Poison Mushroom]] one will fill half the capacity of the crowd. If three Poison Mushrooms are matched, every Audience member will run away and Mario and his current partners' HP, [[Flower Point|FP]], and SP will be cut in half. Players can always attract Audience members again by doing well in the battle, and the next battle will always have a new crowd with other characters and usually the same species of characters.

[[File:SPM Blobule Stylish.png|thumb|250px|''Super Paper Mario''{{'}}s audience.]]

In ''Super Paper Mario'', an Audience of sorts will appear whenever Mario or another playable character attacks an enemy and does a Stylish Move, which is done by shaking the [[Wii#Wii Remote|Wii Remote]] when [[stomp]]ing on an enemy. They appear along the edges of the screen as paper cutouts. This approval of the Audience gives the player a higher [[Point|score]] than if they have just jumped on an enemy. The crowd in this game only has a handful of species from the previous game, taking out most of the species.

===''Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door''===

In this game, characters will not appear in the Audience until the Chapter they're introduced in. For example, Punis will not appear until [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#Chapter 2: The Great Boggly Tree|Chapter 2]], Bulky Bob-ombs will not appear until [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door#Chapter 5: The Key to Pirates|Chapter 5]] (with the exception of the [[Macho Grubba]] fight), and so on. The only exception is inside the [[Pit of 100 Trials (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Pit of 100 Trials]], where all possible types of members can appear in the lower floors. Upon returning to previous areas, the battles there can still only have the types of Audience members they originally had - for example, the lone [[Spiked Goomba|Spiky Goomba]] in [[Rogueport Sewers]] can only ever have Toads, Goombas, Shy Guys, and/or Luigi in its battles' audiences.<br><br>* means they always help the player<br>** means they always harm the player.<br>*** means they can do both.<br>**** means they throw nothing.

 

*[[Boo]]s *** (May turn a character in the battle [[Invisible]] for 1 turn.)

*[[Bulky Bob-omb]]s **** (May explode, causing many audience members to run away. Each one takes up two seats.)

*[[Crazee Dayzee]]s ** (May sing, causing most of the audience to fall asleep, preventing them from providing Star Power.)

*[[Dull Bones]] ** (Provide Star Power only when using the [[Appeal]] command. They are the only audience members that throw bones.)

*[[Goomba]]s **

*[[Hammer Bro]]s. ** (The only audience members that throw hammers.)

*[[Koopa Troopa]]s *** (Groups hide in their Shells, causing them to not give any Star Points.)

*[[Luigi]] ***<ref>Luigi usually throws helpful items, but he does have a small chance of throwing a stone, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMbHU5Lg0oo&t=3m15s as shown here], though it is unclear who Luigi's target is.</ref> (Throws very rare items if satisfied.)

*[[Piranha Plant]]s **** (May devour nearby audience members.)

*[[Puni]]es * (All Punies in the audience will flee at once upon certain loud noises occurring.)

*[[Shy Guy]]s *** (May jump onstage and trigger a random event.)

*[[Toad (species)|Toad]]s * (Give three times as much Star Power as other audience members.)

*[[X-Naut]]s ** (May team up with other X-Nauts in the audience to throw rocks at the front character, dealing a large amount of damage. If the first X-Naut is knocked out, the others will also put their rocks down.)

==References==

[[Category:Paper Mario Characters]]

[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Characters]]

[[Category:Super Paper Mario Characters]]