Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door

## Controversy

* people have noted how Mario appears to squeeze Flurrie's breasts to use Flurrie's wind powers
* people have noted how the X-Nauts appear to resemble Nazis
* a noose appears in the first area of the game
* people have noted the large size of Flurrie's breasts
* TEC watches Peach when she is showering and falls in love with her
* One guy in Rogueport has wine bottles in his trash can
* There is a lottery in the game
* The Piantas are a parody of the Sopranos, including mentioning at the end of resolving the deal with the daughter and her boyfriend that the whole deal was like a soap opera
* Blubba asked where his secretary Jolene is going. This could be interpreted as sexual harassment
* In Luigi's story, Luigi crossdresses
* Mayor Koops is depicted as senile
* There is a bar in the game, complete with liquor bottles and beer kegs
* Flavio calls Pa-Patch a cyclops
* In one part of the game, Peach has to make herself invisible to sneak into Grodus room. The potion cannot make her clothes invisible, so she has to undress.
* There is a place to gamble in Rogueport
* In one cutscene, Bowser refers to the Puni elder's hearing problem as a sign of senility
* Blubba smokes cigars. There is even an ashtray in his office.
* Hoggle appears to be stereotypically Asian
* In one boss battle, Crump uses audience members as ammunition

## Censorship

* In Japan, Vivian is transgendered and is mocked for this. The insults were kept for the Western version, albeit watered-down.
* people have noted how Mario's confirmation gesture appears to resemble the Nazi salute. This was censored in Europe

## Remake

A remake has been announced for the Switch, to be released next year.

## trivia

### Mario

* Paper Mario: Color Splash begins similarly to Thousand-Year Door
* The X ringtone is a remix of the ice world theme from Super Mario Bros. 3
* Wearing the W emblem will change Mario's clothes to Wario's clothes. Wearing it with the L emblem will change it to Waluigi's clothes
* Upon entering the dressing room on the moon base via the ceiling grate, once you leave the dressing room, you and your partner will be in 8-bit accompanied by the original Super Mario Bros. music and sound effects. Mario, however, will be unable to use any special abilities or his hammer. You return to normal upon leaving the room.
* The Ultra Hammer resembles the Golden Hammer hammer from Wrecking Crew
* The Bowser minigames are based of of Super Mario Bros. levels
* The spin jump in this game is different from the original in Mario World
* When Dooplis is battling Mario, he refers to himself as Super Mario
* The Piantas are based on the people from Super Mario Sunshine
* one of the punies describes Mario as super
* The Shine Sprites were originally seen in Super Mario Sunshine
* Peach's ringtone is the theme song to Super Mario World
* The data disk Peach retrieves looks and acts like a Famicom cartridge for Super Mario Bros.

### Nintendo

* The game begins similarly to The Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker
* Mario receives email on a Game Boy Advance SP
* The way the areas appear on the map are similar to how they do in Super Mario World
* During the battle with Rawk Hawk, Mario is referred to as Jumpman, his name in Donkey Kong. There is also a badge called Jumpman
* One toad claims he is playing Fire Emblem. In the end, he claims he has heard rumors of an upcoming game called Super Paper Mario
* This is one of only a few instances where Yoshi actually speaks
* The terminals in the locker rooms are Game Boy Advances
* When TEC is quizzing Peach, one of the questions asks what is required to seal the demon. One of the responses is a legendary sword, something found in The Legend of Zelda.
* The name Petalburg is also used in a Pokemon game.

### Other

* there are several fourth-wall breaks throughout the game
* considered by many to be the best in the franchise
* TEC is based on HAL from 2001: a Space Odyssey
* Grubba says Mario has the eye of a tiger, a reference to a song by Survivor
* "Get yourselves ready to battle" is a parody of "Let's get ready to rumble" from pro wrestling matches
	+ The way certain contestants barge in and you have to battle them without notice is similar to the drama of pro wrestling matches
* If you adjust the clock of your GameCube to manipulate the lottery, the bob-omb running it will go nuts and ultimately either end your game or charge a major premium
* There is a murder mystery on the Excess Express, a reference to Murder on the Orient Express
* The Koopinator is a parody of the Terminator
* The chapter For Pigs the Bell Tolls is named after For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway
* The name Twilight Town is also used in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories