Audience

The Audience(Or Crowd) are minor characters that appear in ever battle sequence in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. They can either help or not help mario when fighting an enemy. They appear in the bottom of the screen, giving mario star points when he attacks enemys. These Star Points can be powered up to release a special move on the opponent. There's also speacial crowd members. For example, a Crazyee Daisy may sing to put all audience members around her/him assleep. A Bulky Bo-Bomb may become fused, and make an explosion killing the audience members around him/her. Bosses such as Hooktail may use the audience as a power source, re-healing HP. The crowd may also throw stuff at mario. It can either be an item that will aide mario, or hurt him. The stuff that will aide him range from one Coin to a Boo's Sheet. The stuff that will hurt him range from rocks to Soda cans. Mario can press the X button to get them out of the theater.