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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:38:51 PM No.712754702
Mario_Entering_Toad_Town_(Paper_Mario)
Mario_Entering_Toad_Town_(Paper_Mario)
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Is Toad Town the most utopian location in a video game? It's literally an ethnostate
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:40:09 PM No.712754820
You could say that about all the town locations
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:41:24 PM No.712754927
they have no means of defending themselves whatsoever, they should be extinct by now
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:48:11 PM No.712755480
>>712754702 (OP)
The postman and mailman are Koopas, and Goombario's family goes there to ship.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:53:23 PM No.712755919
>>712754702 (OP)
There is no humanoid food, thats how they scare away foreigners.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:54:32 PM No.712756005
>>712754702 (OP)
>ethnostate
>mostly Toads but lots of other Mario universe species openly and peacefully live there and interact with each other
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:59:52 PM No.712756450
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>>712754702 (OP)
>Merlon is a shaman there
>Goomama and Goombaria visit
>Rowf and Rhuff open a Badge Shop there
>Parakarry and Postmaster work the mailing system
>Fishmael and Fuzzipede are near the docks
>Chan and Lee are at the Dojo
>A Bub-ulb is there to give a seed
>Rip Cheato is also there, whatever he is
>A Ninji very briefly visits Merlon too if you want to count that
>All of the NPCs from around the entire game's world are in Peach's Castle in the beginning and end of the game
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 10:59:54 PM No.712756454
>>712754702 (OP)
Paper mario 64 might unironically be the most comfy game of all time right up there with pokemon GSC and spyro on the ps1
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:00:29 PM No.712756508
>>712756450
this
OP outing himself as a secondary who never played the game
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:04:49 PM No.712756886
>>712756450
Chet Rippo too
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:07:51 PM No.712757181
>>712754702 (OP)
Toad Town is the worst example. You could have at least pointed out other towns like Shiver City or Koopa Village, Yoshi Village or even Flower Fields, hell even the gusty gulch area has segregation between white boos and brown boos
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:10:11 PM No.712757381
>>712756886
Wasn't sure to include him since he's in the sewers, I guess the blue house probably belongs to him though.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:12:47 PM No.712757563
>>712754927
They have mario you DINGUS
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:14:53 PM No.712757716
>>712757563
>never around when bowser attacks
>can't even stop him when he does

defund mario he is a useless institution
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:20:07 PM No.712758141
>>712754927
They're mushrooms. They reproduce via spores.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:22:37 PM No.712758362
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>ethnostate
>the ruler is a different race than her subjects
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:23:52 PM No.712758473
>>712758362
Just like real life! Haha! Ha... er...

*crickets chirping*

Okay, I'll show myself out.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:24:19 PM No.712758509
>>712754702 (OP)
Ethnostate was the Nu games
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:25:27 PM No.712758602
>>712758509
sticker makes the perfect case against the ethnostate. no one likes it.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:27:04 PM No.712758741
>>712755919
Every resident is literally humanoid food.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:29:44 PM No.712758979
>>712758602
Generally Bowserโ€™s kingdom actually has a huge variety while peach only has toads as mainstays. Makes you think
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:39:39 PM No.712759737
>>712758979
bowser is WOKE
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:43:47 PM No.712760035
>>712759737
Bowser's Kingdom is the fucking ghetto, man. It's the reservation for everyone who couldn't be an NPC race. #GoombaLivesMatter
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:49:52 PM No.712760475
>>712756450
shy guys are the urban youths
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:57:40 PM No.712761048
>>712760035
goombas and koopas have their own communities in paper mario though. bowser's kingdom is more like a cult that all creatures can join, while the good goombas and koopas are in goomba and koopa village
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 12:09:56 AM No.712761997
exposed
exposed
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>>712756450
>>Chan and Lee are at the Dojo
I always took those two for straight up Koopa Troop deserters. Call me a bleeding heart hippie but after seeing how Paper Mario 64 and TTYD handled all the Mushroom Kingdom races living in harmony and having clear delimitations as who the bad and good ones are, every other Mario RPG comes off as really stupid and kinda tasteless when they try to get tropey with Mario enemies. It's so idyllic in 64 and even the sequel, then Color Splash went back to those stupid Hotel Toads cowering in fear at a single regular Koopa Troopa in a cage, or that Shy Guy giving you that empty speech abouty how "he's a bad guy who walks back to right and you kill him most of the time but we're having a peaceful moment XDDD" it comes off super groanworthy to me.

>good koopa are regular koopa, bad koopa have bowser armor or sunglasses
>goomba are basically like country bumpkins
>TTYD's Rogueport is a melting pot shithole but you still see lots of species as NPCs for the first time like Bandits, not to mention Toads as immigrants for the first time in the series
>some species are altogether good and always your allies, you never fight a Cheep Cheep, a Boo(in the first game anyways) a Ninji or a Shaman
>speaking of Boos the ones in Gusty Gulch are tan comapred to the ones in forever forest because it's an arid mesa inspired by southern Spain
>you never fight a Shy Guy in TTYD but they still show up as troublemakers in your audience

Not that it was a very high bar but it's the best depiction of the Mario World bar none imo.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 12:19:07 AM No.712762607
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>>712761997
>not to mention Toads as immigrants for the first time in the series
UM ACTUALLY
SUPERSTAR SAGA CAME OUT FIRST
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 12:22:52 AM No.712762894
>>712757181
>Koopa Village
Don't forget Koopa Village has some Bob-ombs in it.

>>712762607
Ah but Little Fungitown is a bonefide Toad settlement, those Toads were born and raised there, and it's mostly Toads except for the one Magikoopa. Rogueport's are otherwise migrant workers like sailors and hotel clerks, in a completely foreign and wildly diverse city.
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 12:23:38 AM No.712762957
Kent_C._Koopa
Kent_C._Koopa
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