Editing Kroop

[[File:Kroop.png|frame|Kroop]]
{{quote|I appreciate that, [[Mario|Murphy]]! They ARE nice eyebrows.|Kroop|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}

'''Kroop''' (also known as '''Mayor Kroop''' in the Trouble Center list) is a [[Koopa Troopa]] and the mayor of [[Petalburg]]. He is an elderly Koopa, and, as such, has much life experience. This experience serves him and the citizens of Petalburg during times of peace and during times of crisis. Kroop has large, bushy eyebrows, a white beard, a wrinkled face and green skin.

During the events of the game ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', Kroop provides Mario access to [[Shhwonk Fortress]], the site of the [[Moon Stone|Moon]] and [[Sun Stone|Sun]] Stones needed to open the path to [[Hooktail Castle]].

Kroop's hearing is not what it used to be. For example, the old Koopa calls [[Mario]] by the name "Murphy" throughout the plumber's adventure, or calls Mario unselfish if Mario tries to accept a reward. Kroop also had a [[Listen to me!|trouble]] in the game. He wanted someone to talk to him. After Mario listened to his long speech, Kroop rewarded the plumber with a [[Turtley Leaf]].

==Family==
Kroop had a wife in his past. She is only necessarily brought up when Mario first enters Kroop's house. After this entrance, Kroop (who seems to be afflicted with bad eyesight) swiftly "identifies" Mario as a thief. After some ramblings, he eventually tells Mario that he can take any of his belongings; everything but his "pictures of him and the missus." After this is stated, he begins trailing off about memories before quickly getting back to the point.

Later on, if Mario was to accept Kroop's trouble, the elderly Koopa would mention "dating the missus back before she was the missus." Apparently, his wife's father was very strict, always requesting that Kroop's wife be brought home before sundown. As such, on dates, Kroop would constantly watch the sun (even more so than he did his date), which was "kind of blinding, in a painful sort of way." He would also mention that he first told his wife he loved her (apparently by stating something about her [[Koopa Shell|shell]] in a loud voice) on a boarding platform as she left on a nearby train; situations such as this happen to be a movie stereotype, as Kroop himself notes. Before ending his long conversation with Mario, he would also talk about how he and his wife were madly in love and about how his wife used to comb his eyebrows in a tender manner that he enjoyed.

Like all implied characters, little is known about Kroop's wife. Kroop has three pictures set up in his house, and, while these are possible candidates for his "pictures of him and the missus," it is hard to make out what they depict (if they even depict anything in particular at all).

==Tattle==
*"''That's Kroop, the mayor of Petalburg. He just babbles, whether he's alone or not. I just can't tell if he's really senile, or if he's just working that angle, y'know?''"

==Names in other Languages==
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|Jap=カメサブロウ<br>''Kamesaburō''<br>ハナハナ村の村長<br>''Hanahana Mura no Sonchō''
|JapM=Portmanteau of「亀」(''kame'', turtle) and「三郎」(''Saburō'', an old-fashioned but common Japanese name)<br><br>(Trouble Center list and field Tattle name)Petalburg Mayor
|Fra=Koopert
|FraM=
|Spa=Koopablo
|SpaM=Portmanteau of "Koopa" and the Spanish name Pablo.
|Ita=Tartaddeo
|ItaM=From "tartaruga" (turtle) and the given name "taddeo". His name is only revealed in the Thwomp's quiz
|Ger=Kooperich
}}

==Trivia==
*Kroop's name is the word ''croup'' misspelled to appear similar to the word ''Koopa''. {{wp|Croup}} is a disease that ordinarily affects children no older than three years old (which is quite odd, considering Kroop's implied age). The fact that croup involves the breakdown of the lungs (a scenario commonly associated with rather old people) is probably the reason Kroop is named after it. It could also be sarcasm directed at Kroop's old age.{{ref needed}}
*Kroop has unused eyes hidden behind his eyebrows.<ref>https://www.spriters-resource.com/gamecube/pmttyd/sheet/93587/</ref>

==References==
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