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The Hole Punch (パンチ Panchi?, lit. Punch), also known as The Disco Devil (ノリノリあなあけフリーク Norinori Ana-ake Furīku?, lit. Groovy Hole-Making Freak), is a boss in Paper Mario: The Origami King. He guards the Green Streamer. He is the guardian of the Yellow Streamer, and serves as the boss of the Temple of Shrooms.
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Physical description[]
The Hole Punch is an oversized, yellow hole puncher featuring King Olly's logo on his black lid.
History[]
When King Olly and his forces took the Mushroom Kingdom over, the Hole Punch was tasked with guarding the Yellow Streamer. He punched out the sun that hung over the Scorching Sandpaper Desert so that the Temple of Shrooms would collapse into the sand, making it difficult to reach the yellow streamer's end.
Due to this obsession, they held a large group of Toads hostage in order to have both an audience and extra set of dance performers for an everlasting party in the Temple of Shrooms.
When Paper Mario reaches the top of the temple, he finds himself in a disco room with a large disco ball, a Toad as the disk jockey, and an origami Goomba, Shy Guy, and Boo out on the dance floor. Suddenly, someone behind a large set of doors calls out and stops the music, demanding a better piece to groove to, threatening to punch out his face, as he did with all the other Toads in the temple. The disk jockey begs for a second chance and asks Mario to help him find a better record.
Mario must bring the disk jockey records for him to play for Hole Punch. If he does not like the piece, he insults it and wants a different piece. After playing "Thrills at Night", the Hole Punch becomes satisfied and requests an audience to join on the dance floor. The disk jockey gives Professor Toad a boom box, allowing him to explore the temple and pick up the Toads within.
Once all of the Toads are found and returned to the disco room, they hit the dance floor, eventually getting the attention of Hole Punch, who bursts out of his room and slams the dance floor, frightening the Toads away. He challenges Mario to a literal face-off on the dance floor. Upon defeat, he counts down from three and explodes, launching the faces that he collected from the Toads. With everyone back to normal, Mario can use the Magic Circle that appears to destroy the yellow streamer. Doing so drops the disco ball, breaking it open to release the sun, revealing it as its source of light. This returns the desert to its regular state.
In Paper Mario: The Origami King[]
Combat[]
Before each normal ring movement, Hole Punch uses the move Hole Punch, raising the ring closest to him to repeatedly punch out holes in four different spaces, removing any icons on them, then spinning to slightly scramble the spaces. This process, at the beginning of the battle, damages and deactivates, but not removes, the ON button. Falling into any other holes causes Mario to trip, wasting his turn, after which Hole Punch uses Main Squeeze, dealing 16 or 17 points of damage.
Hitting the front or side of Hole Punch does not deal any damage, so Mario must instead navigate behind his lid and use a Hammer attack to deal damage, in the process also releasing 2 or 3 of its punches, which restore random holes.
When Hole Punch attacks, if Mario is close enough and Hole Punch either does not have any punches from Mario or was damaged that turn, it will use Hole Punch to punch out a part of Mario, reducing his maximum HP and attack power, then use Base Slap, dealing 12-13 damage. Any of Mario's body can be recovered when Hole Punch drops punches, at which point one of Mario's body punches will appear as a space, which when picked up, restores as much maximum HP and attack power as the previous Hole Punch removed. If Mario is out of range and Hole Punch does not have any punches from Mario, it will use Gettin' Down, dealing 7 damage. If Hole Punch does have punches from Mario, it will instead use Throwing Punches, ejecting all of his punches from board spaces at Mario for 2 damage each, and then charging up any punches from Mario's body for 5 damage each. The punches are the placed on the board using the same formula, the process also restoring the ON button if it is still deactivated.
After taking enough of damage, Hole Punch will start to charge. At this point, Mario must use an Earth Vellumental Magic Circle to dodge his attack, which will stun Hole Punch; otherwise the boss will use The Whole Punch, which will deal 19 damage, Hole Punch Mario twice, and use Throwing Punches, all in one turn. If the move is dodged, all punches are released and Hole Punch is flipped over, allowing Mario to use the 1,000 Fold Arms to rush attack him and attempt to peel off his lid, the allotted time corresponding to his current HP. If the lid is successfully peeled off, Hole Punch is defeated. If not, Hole Punch uses Hole Punch and Base Slap and returns to his regular pattern.
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Characters | Protagonists | Mario • Olivia • Bowser • Bowser Jr. |
Antagonist | King Olly | |
Other Characters | Luigi • Kamek • Ol' Grandsappy • Princess Peach • Sap Sisters | |
Enemies | Enemies | Folded Soldier • Paper Macho Soldier • Big Cutout Soldier • Black Shy Guy • Blooper • Bone Goomba • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Buzzy Beetle • Chargin' Chuck • Cheep Cheep • Co Gasagoso • Crowber • Dry Bones • Fire Bro • Fly Guy • Galoomba • Goomba • Hammer Bro • Ice Bro • Jumping Piranha Plant • Jumping Venus Fire Trap • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Li'l Cutout Soldier • Mechakoopa • Ninji • Nipper Plant • Parabomb • Paragoomba • Podoboo • Pokey • Ptooie • Rocky Wrench • Scaredy Rat • Scuttlebug • Shoe Goomba • Shy Guy • Sidestepper • Sledge Bro • Snifit • Snow Spike • Spike • Spike Top • Spiny • Stingby • Stone Spike • Sumo Bro • Swooper • Venus Fire Trap |
Bosses | Legion of Stationery | King Olly • Colored Pencils • Hole Punch • Rubber Band • Scissors • Stapler • Tape |
Bosses | Earth Vellumental • Fire Vellumental • Ice Vellumental • Water Vellumental | |
Others | Boss Sumo Bro • Handaconda • Mega Paper Macho Pokey • Paper Mistake Buzzy Beetle | |
Locations | Red Streamer | Earth Vellumental Temple • Graffiti Underground • Overlook Mountain • Overlook Tower • Picnic Road • Toad Town (Musée Champignon) • Whispering Woods |
Blue Streamer | Autumn Mountain • Big Sho' Theater • Chestnut Valley • Eddy River • Ninja Attraction • Shogun Studios • Water Vellumental Shrine | |
Yellow Streamer | Breezy Tunnel • Fire Vellumental Cave • Scorching Sandpaper Desert • Scorching Sandpaper East • Scorching Sandpaper Far East • Scorching Sandpaper Far West • Scorching Sandpaper Minor • Scorching Sandpaper West • Shroom City • Sweetpaper Valley • Temple of Shrooms • | |
Purple Streamer | Bonehead Island • Club Island • Diamond Island (Ice Vellumental Mountain • Trial of Wisdom )• Full Moon Island/Moon Island • Mushroom Island • Minor Islands (? Island • Scuffle Island • Hammer Island) • Spade Island • The Great Sea • Sea Tower • The Princess Peach | |
Green Streamer | Bowser's Castle • Spring of Jungle Mist • Spring of Rainbows • Shangri Spa | |
Final Zone | Hotfoot Crater • Origami Castle/Princess Peach's Castle | |
Unsorted | Desert East • Desert Far West • Desert Major • Desert Minor • Sensor Lab | |
Items | Items | 10-Coin • Ally Tambourine • Bibliofold • Big Shell • Boots • Canned Heart • Coin • Coin Step Counter • Confetti Vacuum • "Deep, Deep Vibes" • Diamond Jewel • Diamond Key • Faded Fire Flower • Fire Flower • Giant coin • Gold Guard Plus • Gold Heart Plus • Gold Time Plus • Guard Plus • Hammer • Heart • Heart Plus • "Heartbeat Skipper" • Hidden Block Alert • Ice Flower • Key to Bowser's Castle • Key to Peach's Castle • "M-A-X Power!" • Manhole Hook • MAX UP Heart • Membership Card • Mushroom • Mushroom Handle • Petal Bag • POW Block • Red Gem • Retro Soundbox • Round Jewel • Royalty Pass • Shell Stone • Shriveled MAX UP Heart • Shriveled Mushroom • Shriveled Seed • Silver Guard Plus • Silver Heart Plus • Silver Membership Card • Silver Time Plus • Soul Seed • Square Jewel • Sun Incense • Starman • "Thrills at Night" • Time Plus • Toad Alert • Treasure Alert • Triangle Jewel |
Objects | Objects | ? Block • Boot Car • Brick Block • Magic Circle • Not-Bottomless Hole • POW Block • Warp Pipe |
Miscellaneous | Game mechanics | 1,000-Fold Arms • Airship • Flashy • Shiny |
Other | Gallery • Mario Mandate |