Editing Pixl

{{species-infobox
|title=Pixl
|image=[[Image:Tippi.png]]<br>[[Tippi]], the first '''Pixl''' who Mario meets.
|sub_species=
|first_appearance=''[[Super Paper Mario]]''
|related=
|notable=[[Tippi]]<br>[[Tiptron]]<br>[[Thoreau]]<br>[[Boomer (Pixl)|Boomer]]<br>[[Slim]]<br>[[Thudley]]<br>[[Carrie]]<br>[[Fleep]]<br>[[Cudge]]<br>[[Dottie]]<br>[[Barry]]<br>[[Dashell]]<br>[[Piccolo]]<br>[[Pixl Queen]]<br>[[Breadward]]<br>[[Shadoo]] (possibly)
|affiliation=[[Tribe of Ancients]]<br>[[Pixl Queen]]<br>[[Mario]]
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Paper Mario]]''
}}
'''Pixls''' are an ally [[species]] of [[Mario]] and company. Their first, and currently only, appearance is in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''. In this game, the Pixls help [[Mario]], [[Peach]], [[Bowser]] and [[Luigi]] by giving them special moves, like picking up [[items]] or [[enemies]] and throwing them, serving as explosives, or even acting as a floating platform for Mario and the others to ride on. The playable Pixls are [[Tippi]], [[Thoreau]], [[Boomer (Pixl)|Boomer]], [[Slim]], [[Thudley]], [[Carrie]], [[Fleep]], [[Cudge]], [[Dottie]], [[Barry]], [[Dashell]], and [[Piccolo]].  Tippi stays on the player's team all the time, except on a few occasions, such as when she is captured by [[Francis]]. Later, [[Tiptron]] replaces her, and it always stays active.

Each Pixl is very bright and has its own unique shape. Tippi looks like a butterfly and Thoreau is a hand (a square with five small circles on its top half). Boomer resembles a bomb with wings. Slim is an upside down triangle (he also strangely resembles a spiral) with wings. Thudley looks like a 100-ton steel block with two circular eyes floating above. Carrie is made up of a bunch of small squares, that, when folded the right way, turns into a cube platform. Her face is the middle square, and she also has wings. Fleep looks like a big rectangle with wings and a tail. Cudge looks like a [[hammer]] with wings. Dottie is a ball with many long rectangles spread around her. Barry is a spiky circle with a sad face. Dashell looks like a missile with two eyes. Piccolo is a music note with wings.

Pixls apparently do not need oxygen; When the heroes first enter [[Outer Space]], Tippi and the other Pixls are not bothered by their lack of air. Even when they acquire the [[Space Helmet]], the Pixls have no breathing device. It would also appear that Pixls have immensely long (or perhaps even infinite) lifespans, as most of Mario's Pixls existed for at least 1,500 years.

==Pixl Uprising and Creation==
3,000 years before the setting time of ''Super Paper Mario'', a powerful magician among the [[Ancients]] created the first twelve Pixls. He accomplished this by transferring a spirit (thought at a time to be those of people, possibly [[human]]s or [[Flip-Flop Folk]], who had been given [[Game Over]]s, though this theory has apparently been disproven) into a vessel that he created for a specific purpose. Even after his death, his apprentices learned how to make many more Pixls based on the powerful magician's original twelve. They became known as "thinking tools" for the Ancients, who eventually became rather dependent on their Pixl helpers. Through the work of many Pixls, the Ancients prospered as they never had before.

One day, however, a catastrophe occurred. A huge Pixl, calling herself the [[Pixl Queen]], suddenly appeared. At her command, Pixls everywhere (seemingly under mind control) rebelled against their Ancient masters. Most Pixls were well-contained spirits, but she was a demonic spirit (apparently one of a human) contained in a Pixl vessel. She had the power to command all the other Pixls, and the Ancients had become so dependent on the Pixls that they were devastated. They suddenly lost their ability to effectively build and rule their empire. The Pixl Queen enslaved the Ancients.

In the midst of the ruin, the inheritors of the twelve original Pixls appeared, defeated wave after wave of Pixl soldiers, and freed the enslaved Ancients. They used [[Catch Cards]] to trap the mind-controlled Pixl soldiers and then healed them. They saw their friends fall in battle one by one, yet persevered anyway. The last survivor managed to make it to the castle of the Pixl Queen.

The Pixl Queen used her powers of illusion to hide and unleash horrific images upon the surviving freedom fighter. One of the Pixls at his side was immune to this effect and helped the survivor fight; this Pixl finally defeated the Pixl Queen, tragically ending its game in the process.

The vanquisher of the Pixl Queen was confronted with the truth: the Pixl Queen was actually the very first Pixl ever made. The master magician had made her after studying the [[Dark Prognosticus]]. The survivor, who was therefore likely to be one of the people who would later find the [[Tribe of Darkness]], decided to disappear with the book so that this type of disaster would not happen again. The Ancients continued to fear the Pixls, however. The Elders of the Ancients decided to limit the power of all Pixls and outlaw their creation. Eventually, the Ancients' influence and power declined until they were no more.

==The Pixls==
*Each Pixl's name comes from the ability they let the heroes use.
**''[[Tippi]]''/''[[Tiptron]]'' give the heroes ''tips''.
**''[[Thoreau]]'' allow the heroes to ''throw''.
**''[[Boomer (Pixl)|Boomer]]'' is used as a bomb with a ''boom''.
**''[[Slim]]'' allows Mario to go paper ''thin'' (in other words, ''slim'').
**''[[Thudley]]'' allows Mario to ground pound with a ''thud''.
**''[[Carrie]]'' turns into a platform to ''carry'' people over obstacles.
**''[[Fleep]]'' can be used to ''flip'' objects from one dimension into another.
**''[[Cudge]]'' allows Mario to use him as a hammer/''cudgel''.
**''[[Dottie]]'' has the ability to shrink Mario to the size of a ''dot''.
**''[[Barry]]'' creates a ''barrier'' around the heroes.
**''[[Dashell]]'' allow the heroes to ''dash''.
**''[[Piccolo]]'' plays music like the ''piccolo'' instrument that can cure status ailments.

==Trivia==
*The name "Pixl" comes from the word "pixel"; a pixel is the smallest possible portion of an image. It is also likely derived from "pixie", an alternate term for "fairy".
*When [[Mimi]] impersonates [[Merlee]] and tries to trick Mario into accepting an offer, she mentions "[[Breadward]], a Pixl made of oats and lard." 
*Yet another unseen (and, in this case, unnamed) Pixl is mentioned by [[Heronicus]]; speaking to him after the game is beaten will reveal that he spent much of his life seeking a legendary Pixl which he did indeed once find. However, a rockslide happened just as he had found the legendary Pixl, and he decided to save his comrade rather than it.
*While ''Super Paper Mario'' was [[Super Paper Mario/Beta elements|in production]], various unofficial websites referred to the Pixls as '''Fairens''' (likely basing on their Japanese name of '''Fairin''', which actually can mean "fairy" or "sprite" when translated from Japanese), although it is unknown if this name was ever actually in use by [[Nintendo]]. It is also known that, while ''Super Paper Mario'' was on the [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]], Pixls would be activated with the GameCube's X Button rather than the 1 Button of the Wii (although it is unknown how Tippi would be activated), and a mysterious, ladder-shaped Pixl not present in the final game also appeared in a certain beta screenshot.
*All the Pixls that contain mouths appear to be always frowning, despite any mood changes.
*In the original Japanese, each Pixl's name is written in [[Wikipedia:katakana|katakana]], but with one random character in [[Wikipedia:hiragana|hiragana]]. The only exceptions are Tippi and Tiptron.

==Pixls==
<center>
<gallery>
Image:SPM_Tippi.jpg|Tippi
Image:SPM_Thoreau.jpg|Thoreau
Image:BoomerPixl.PNG|Boomer
Image:Slim.PNG|Slim
Image:Thudley.PNG|Thudley
Image:Carrie.PNG|Carrie
Image:Fleep.PNG|Fleep
Image:Cudge.PNG|Cudge
Image:Dottie.PNG|Dottie
Image:Barry.PNG|Barry
Image:SPM Dashell.jpg|Dashell
Image:Piccolo.jpg|Piccolo
Image:SPM Tiptron.jpg|Tiptron
Image:Betapixl.PNG|Beta Pixl
</gallery>
</center>

==Names in Other Languages==
{{foreignname
|Jap=フェアリン<br>''Fearin''
|JapM=Fairy or Sprite
|Fra=Pixel
|FraM=-
|Spa=Pixelitos
|SpaM=Little Pixels}}
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