#spm Squirps

[hyperpocky28]

I played Super Paper Mario for the first time!! Gonna 100% soon, just need to finish recipes.

In the meantime, I doodled Squirps and Luvbi because they’re my boyfriend’s and my favorites characters respectfully. Live Laugh Luvbi!!

[starferret]

Super Mario x Ace Attorney au

I finished playing Investigations a while ago and I loved it! So I of course had to add on to my silly au

(Spoilers for the final case of AAI2 ahead!!)

Squirps as Eustace Winner, King Croacus IV as Exelsius Winner, Queen Jaydes as Verity Gavèlle, Luvbi as Shaun Fenn, Queen Bean as Gregory Edgeworth, and Dimentio as Simeon Saint!

[o-chunks-appreciation]

ooo spm art suggestions…… how about human luvbi or squirps? maybe even both of them, talking about their parent-related issues?

🥺🥺 falling to the floor thinking about what they’ve been though

[misschimotosuwa-blog]

[legobiwan]

YOU CAN'T JUST GO AROUND BEATING UP ANCIENT ALIEN SPACE CHILDREN, LUIGI

[spmcomic]

the squirps formerly known as prince

[drydrydesert]

funnies

[darkclouud9]

have some random hc x spm doodles. I was meant to colour them and then post but I got too excited whoops. also drew spider Mimi-Cleo but I didn't like how she looked so i went with Tippi n Bleck instead

funnily enough, I already drew Stress with butterfly eyeliner (?) and even the little antennae.

right at the end i started properly naming them so everyone else just gets. their name. and the person they take the role of :/

also I'm so in love with Astro-Squirps. silly guy.

also just the guys in case you don't know em. also some descriptions for them :))

[probablyaseamonster]

After a lifetime of foolishly and dickishly thinking low of the Mario franchise, I have been converted to the fandom by SPM specifically.

I repent for my sins. Lore is love, lore is life.

[pixies-and-poets]

@misschimotosuwa-blog

Squoah

(I’m prob gonna draw luvbi and whoever else in a bit but fr nobody ever talks abt squirps

[hyperpocky28]

All hail Prince Squirp Korogaline Squirpina!!

Silly piece of the alien of all time

[year2000electronics]

i really like how spm has this theme of heroism-as-burden. don't get me wrong, it's clearly a story of hope and light and love conquering all, but i think it's one of the only times mario springing into action as a hero is treated as Prophetic. which is a lot different from doing it out of the goodness of your heart. especially because the game takes great lengths to have the four heroes as the "outsiders"- not only does mario have to save ALL the worlds, but these worlds are entirely alien, foreign, unfamiliar to him

but HE'S very familiar to THEM. everywhere he goes, everyone's like "oh you're THE hero! you better save those worlds huh! i really don't wanna die!!" and not only that, but SO MANY PEOPLE dedicate their entire LIVES for the sake of upholding the hero. squirps is never gonna see his mama again. merlumina haunts the halls of the first pure heart chamber. fracktail was built for only one purpose and then mario had to beat him up.

hell, even the prophecy itself is dreary! it's just a countermeasure to the dark prognosticus, not a TRUE prophecy! and even BEYOND that, BECAUSE of the fact that you're The Hero, you have to play the role of The Hero. The Hero has to destroy The Man In Green. (mario has to fight his own family.)

and that's why it's cool that tippi and the rest say that maybe the dark prognosticus wasn't true in the end, anyways. that they won because of their own power, not the power of the prophecy. because even though bleck made himself a puppet to the whims of the dark prophecy, we were too, in a way. saving all worlds because we had to. because there was no other way.

mario and co. refusing to play by the prophecy's rules when one of their own is in danger, not accepting this as the true ending- i think that's cool.

tldr this is how i see SPM mario in my head

[celestialpaperhaze]

Now that more people have played TTYD, I wanted to compare and contrast a few things between that game and Super Paper Mario. In particular, this post will focus on...

PARTNERS AND SIDE CHARACTERS!

The Thousand-Year Door really shines with its partners and side characters, in part because every chapter allows one of these side characters to be a protagonist. This also ties into the "each chapter has its own subplot" idea that SPM lacks, at least in the beginning.

! SPOILERS FOR THE THOUSAND YEAR DOOR !

(and minor spoilers for Super Paper Mario)

Chapter 1 allows Koops to have a mini-arc where he’s avenging his father. Even though his father turns out to be alive, this adventure to defeat Hooktail marks an important development in his character that leads him to continue traveling with Mario. In SPM, while the first chapter does drop a few key pieces of information on the Ancients, there's not really a clear subplot or side character to follow.

Chapter 2 starts out with Punio and his desire to rescue his sister, and branches out (heheh) into the Punies trying to defend their home. Meanwhile in SPM, there's a bit of a sub-plot with Mimi and Merlee that places them both in the spotlight, but that's mostly it. If the chapter had given a little more attention to the other prisoners of Mimi's debt scheme, then maybe it could've come close to establishing the environment in the same manner as TTYD.

Chapter 3 kind of puts the entire cast of the Glitz Pit in the limelight, since you don’t really know who’s who until nearing the end. I can’t really argue that it makes Jolene the protagonist because that reveal comes only once the chapter ends--but after you realize Jolene's role in the mystery of the Glitz Pit, it becomes clear that she is a key protagonist in chapter 3, and the revival of Prince Mush serves as the completion of her arc. Again, chapter 3 of SPM could've pulled this off by giving characters like Carrie some more involvement in defeating Francis; after all, she was a victim of his weirdness too, right?

After playing the first three chapters of TTYD, you begin to feel more invested in the plot of the game. However, the first three chapters of SPM are weaker in terms of establishing interest, which is largely why many people who first played the game didn't stick with it past this point. However, around chapter four, the tides begin to turn!

Chapter 4 of TTYD follows the people of Twilight Town, as you are immediately introduced to the plight of their pig curse. However, after the first battle with Doopliss, the chapter places Vivian in the spotlight. Vivian becomes the protagonist in this chapter as she finally learns to overcome her fear of her sisters and fight for what she believes in. Chapter 4 of SPM actually has Squirps as a side-protagonist, so it comes pretty close to matching TTYD's pattern here.

Chapter 5 puts Flavio in the spotlight. He is...quite the personality! He's a flamboyant, arrogant coward who's given a Brave Moment during the climax of the chapter. In SPM, we have the conflict of the Cragnons and Floro Sapiens in the forefront of the chapter, which helps better establish the world of chapter 5.

Chapter 6, being all about solving mysteries, puts your partnership with Pennington in the spotlight, thus making The Penguin With the Improbably Large Brain a protagonist of the chapter. In SPM, chapter 6 focuses on the Sammer Guys as their world is on the verge of erasure.

Chapter 7 puts the main plot of the Thousand-Year Door back in focus, so there's not much of a sub-plot. However, you could still argue that TEC is made into a protagonist for this chapter, given his act of sacrifice at the end. And of course, Super Paper Mario has Luvbi as a protagonist, and her arc with Jaydes and Grambi as a sub-plot of sorts.

In chapter 8 for both games, all the strings tie together and the focus is placed primarily on the climax and conclusion of the main plot! For SPM, this includes focuses on each villain in turn (O'Chunks, then Mimi, then Dimentio, then Count Bleck and, to a lesser extent, Nastasia).

Because TTYD's writing allows you to be close with all of the partners and side characters you meet, parting with them at the end feels like a real goodbye. Even though you know you can just reload your save file, you still have the sense that you'll miss these people and this world you've gotten to know so well.

Despite all my love for the game, I do have mixed feelings on how effectively SPM pulls this off. I think they definitely give enough attention to the game's main cast to make the players curious about them after completing the main story, but I don't feel that this sense carries over to all of the side characters and worlds from throughout the game. I'm still fond of the characters in Super Paper Mario, of course, but it's not in the same "I feel I experienced something with them" kind of way that the Thousand-Year Door does so well.

TL;DR - Each chapter in The Thousand-Year Door gives some side character a chance to serve as that chapter’s protagonist, which helps better establish the characters and worlds in that game. However, Super Paper Mario does not do this to the same extent, especially in the earlier chapters, which I believe is part of the reason many people found SPM less engaging than TTYD when it first released.

[pixies-and-poets]

.....I never put this together. I love it when something you've known for a long time suddenly makes sense on a different level

I think japanese pop culture had the right idea establishing the war of the worlds martians as the default alien.

this is what your average guy looks like out in space.

[misschimotosuwa-blog]

Because I doodle him when I'm bored

[interdimensionalvoid]

I haven’t posted about this in a while but here are som doodles from the spooky month spm au! @crossover-enthusiast came up with the idea of making Johns’ daughter (who crossie named Judy :) Squirps in this au and it was such a good idea fjdjjdjdjdn