Legion of Stationery
The Legion of Stationery is a group of giant sentient office tools allied with King Olly in Paper Mario: The Origami King. They are the game's main bosses aside from King Olly himself, with five of them guarding the ends of the streamers wrapped around Peach's Castle while the sixth one serves as Olly's personal guard. They were originally inanimate tools belonging to the Origami Craftsman before King Olly took them, enlarged them, and made them sentient. They can be considered a villainous counterpart to the Things in Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Paper Mario: Color Splash, being large, realistic-looking, three-dimensional objects.
After Mario defeats a member of the Legion of Stationery, its Collectible Treasure form will be available for purchase from a Rocky Wrench at a pier behind a red warehouse in Toad Town. Each member will also become available for a timed refight using a Bossotronic Fighter in the town's Battle Lab.
In a series of photos that scrolls through during the credits, the penultimate one shows all members of the Legion of Stationery in the Origami Craftsman's workshop in their original, inanimate, regular-sized forms.
Members
Each of the members has a different title:
Member | Title | Image | Streamer | Location |
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Colored Pencils | The Missile Maestro | Red | Overlook Tower | |
Rubber Band | The Elastic Entertainer | Blue | Big Sho' Theater | |
Hole Punch | The Disco Devil | Yellow | Temple of Shrooms | |
Tape | The Shifty Sticker | Purple | Sea Tower | |
Scissors | The Dual-Bladed Duelist | Green | Bowser's Castle | |
Stapler | The Fanged Fastener | N/A | Origami Castle |
Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Japanese | ブンボーぐんだん[?] Bunbōgundan |
Legion of Stationery; a portmanteau of「文房具」(bunbōgu, stationery) and「軍団」(gundan, legion) | |
Chinese (simplified) | 文具军团[1] Wéjù Jūntuán |
Stationery Corps | |
Chinese (traditional) | 文具軍團[2] Wéjù Jūntuán |
Stationery Corps | |
Dutch | Kantoorlogstuig[?] | A portmanteau of "kantoor" (office) and "oorlogstuig" (war weaponry). Additionally, the word "tuig" means both "utensils" and "thugs". | |
German | Bürobedarfsbrigade[?] | Office Supplies Brigade | |
Italian | Brigata Cancelleria[?] | Stationery Brigade | |
Korean | 문방군단[?] Munbanggundan |
Same as Japanese | |
Portuguese (NOA) | Legião de Estacionário[?] | Legion of Stationary | |
Spanish (NOA) | Ejército de Papelería[?] | Stationery Army | |
Spanish (NOE) | Huestes de papelería[?] | Stationery hosts |
Trivia
- Most of the members of the Legion of Stationery include a color in their design that corresponds with the color of the streamer they are guarding. The lid of Colored Pencils' tin case is red, Rubber Band wears a few blue rubber bands across its body, Hole Punch has a yellow lever, Tape's dispenser is purple, and Scissors has green handles. Stapler is the only member that does not guard a streamer, so it is colored entirely black, the same color as the border for Origami Castle that shows up when checking the map and the warp pipe in Musée Champignon leading to it.
- The face of King Olly is where they weak points are for every member of the legion except for scissors. You have to close Colored Pencils' tin case, at the end you have to shoot the Rubber Band's real body, rip of Hole Punch's bottom part, destroy Tape's dispenser and snap Stapler's back.
References
- ^ 《纸片马力欧:折纸国王》介绍视频公开! 详细介绍马力欧的新冒险、同伴和战斗 Nintendo. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ 《紙片瑪利歐:摺紙國王》介紹影片公開!詳細介紹瑪利歐的新冒險、同伴和戰鬥 Nintendo. Retrieved July 7, 2020.