- "DANGER!!! DO NOT ENTER! This pipe is the entrance to the Pit of 100 Trials! First Attack and Bump Attack badges don't work, so BEWAAAAAAAAAAARE!"
- —Sign
The Pit of 100 Trials is a long and dangerous dungeon found in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the name says it all – the Pit is a 100-floor dungeon that looks as if it were built for torture. It is found near the entrance to the Palace of Shadow. It appears as if it were closed off, (as Mario has to turn into an airplane and fly over a fence before he can reach the entrance) as there are enemies that get stronger when Mario progresses through the floors such as the powerful Amazee Dayzee. Bonetail awaits at the bottom of this dungeon in the TTYD. This area, however, does not appear in Paper Mario. The Pit of 100 Trials reappears in Super Paper Mario.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[]
Story[]
According to Grifty, the Shadow Queen created the Pit of 100 Trials during her reign and filled it with deadly creatures. Any people who drew the Queen's ire were cast into the Pit and left to fend for themselves against the monsters within. After the Shadow Queen was sealed away, the Pit was closed off however Mario and his partners would later gain access to the Pit of 100 Trials during their adventure to find the Crystal Stars.
Overview[]
The Thousand Year Door's pit is a very difficult one. Whether or not Mario and his allies goes into the Pit is left up to you, the player, but if the you do decide to enter, you had best be prepared and stock up on items (offensive, defensive, and healing items) there are also no Save Blocks in the Pit, meaning that if you die while in the Pit, you will lose everything that you won. Throughout the pit, Mario fights enemies which are stronger the lower you go. The pit starts out with a gray subterranean setting (like that of the entrance) but as you get deeper, the rocks start getting more green, mossy, and fungi-like, and on the last 10 floors, the area starts getting darker. After every 10 levels, there is a checkpoint. This checkpoint contains a treasure chest with a badge inside it, and the option to go further or go back to the entrance. At these ten Floor checkpoints, a shopkeeper named Charlieton can often be seen who sells Mario and his partners various items which can help them down in the pit for a hefty price. At almost any floor in the Pit, a mysterious Puni by the name of Mover who could guide Mario into the Pit's entrance, down 2 levels, or down 5 levels. The monsters within the Pit become stronger with each floor and Mario's party can only leave the Pit after clearing all monsters on every tenth floor. If you are lacking in healing items and power-ups, it is recommended to leave and return another time after stocking up sufficiently.
Levels 1 through 10 are fairly easy and have basic enemies from Chapter 1 and new enemies like the Gloomba. The 1st level always starts with a Gloomba Levels 11 through 20 have plenty of foes from Chapter 2 and feature the new Paragloomba, while levels 21 through 30 house enemies seen in Chapter 3 and the powerful Spiky Gloomba. The next ten levels contain enemies from Chapter 3 and chapter 4 as well a new enemy; which is the Dark Koopa. Levels 41 to 50 contain enemies from Chapter 5 and Chapter 6, along with the new Dark Paratroopa. Levels 51 to 60 contain enemies from Chapter 6 and 7 along with original enemies like the Badge Bandit. Levels 61 through 70 feature new powerful enemies never seen before like the Dark Lakitu, enemies from Chapter 7 and the Palace of Shadow, as well as some powerful miniboss-like characters seen earlier in the game. Levels 71 through 80 contain original enemies, along with stronger enemies from the Palace of Shadow and the Dark Koopatrol. Levels 81 through 90 feature fully original enemies like Arantulas and others and are all quite difficult. The final ten levels are the most difficult featuring fully original enemies (all of which are incredibly powerful) such as the Swampire and Elite Wizzerd. Occasionally in the last few rounds, an Amazee Dayzee could appear.
At the very bottom of the pit one the hundredth bottom floor lies Bonetail, the strongest and hardest boss in the game with 200 HP and 8 Attack. He uses many different breathe attacks as well as various physical attacks, and can heal some of his HP when on low health. The Return Postage badge is given after completion.
Enemies by Floor[]
Below is a list of all the enemies found on every 10 floors. Keep in mind that on each floor only one enemy appears on the field however it may be teamed up with another enemy (or more) in battle.
Floors 1 - 9[]
Floors 11 - 19[]
Floors 21 - 29[]
Floors 31 - 39[]
Floors 41 - 49[]
Floors 51 - 59[]
Floors 61 - 69[]
Floors 71 - 79[]
Floors 81 - 89[]
Floors 91 - 99[]
Floor 100[]
Pit Prizes[]
- Floor 10: Sleepy Stomp Badge
- Floor 20: Fire Drive Badge
- Floor 30: Zap Tap Badge
- Floor 40: Pity Flower Badge
- Floor 50: Strange Sack
- Floor 60: Double Dip Badge
- Floor 70: Double Dip P Badge
- Floor 80: Bump Attack Badge
- Floor 90: Lucky Day Badge
- Floor 100: Return Postage Badge (after defeating Bonetail)
Tattles[]
- This is the Pit of 100 Trials. That pipe just seems to lead down forever... Still, the air seems kinda fresh here. I guess it's flowing down from above, huh?
- This is the Pit of 100 Trials, but I don't see any enemies in this room. At least there's a pipe to take us back to the entrance if you wanna bail. Then again, we'd have to fight our way back down to this level again... Better think it through before we do anything hasty, know what I mean?
- This is an intermediate floor in the Pit of 100 Trials. These appear every 10 floors. At least there's a pipe to take us back to the entrance if you wanna bail. Then again, we'd have to fight our way back down to this level again... Better think it through before we do anything hasty, know what I mean?
- This is the Pit of 100 Trials. We just gotta keep on fighting and descending... But this endless repetition of rooms is starting to totally wear me out, y'know? I guess we gotta soldier on, though...
- This is the Pit of 100 Trials. We've come pretty far, looks like. The air's getting super-dank... Who knows how deep it goes, but let's keep going as long as we can...
- This is the lowest floor in the Pit of 100 Trials. A zombified dragon named Bonetail used to protect this room. Yuuuuuck. Mario, I bet you're the first person to make it this far! I totally knew you'd do it! Now let's get out of this creepy place and back to the world above, OK?
Super Paper Mario[]
Flipside[]
Mario fighting Wracktail in the Flipside Pit of 100 Trails in Super Paper Mario.
The Pit of 100 Trials in this game has a larger emphasis on platforming than the previous pit. The player has to navigate a series of platforms in a large rectangular room, fighting enemies and locating keys. Every ten floors, a rest floor can be found where a large chest the is waiting in the center. The chest contains a Catch Card of one of the many pixels that followed Mario around throughout his quest. Occasionally, a Flipside salesmen appears on the break floor and offers to sell Mario various useful items. The look of the pit is based on the old Game & Watch Gallery games. At the bottom of the Flipside Pit of 100 Trials is Wracktail, a powerful dragon boss very similar to Fracktail, the first boss of the game.
Flopside[]
The Flopside Pit of 100 Trials is a challenge of 100 rooms in Super Paper Mario. The Flopside Pit of 100 Trials was designed by Merlight to test the powers of the power of the enemies who guard them. This Pit of 100 Trials is an optional area in Flopside that tests Mario's abilities if he chooses to go into it. The Pit is made up of room after room, each filled with one or more enemies. These enemies are dark versions of enemies fought in the game, although there are dark versions of enemies not found in Super Paper Mario as well. The room is filled with enemies, floors, one door where you came from and a locked door to the next room. One of the enemies chosen at random drops the key when defeated. You need to find this enemy, get the key and open the door before five minutes have passed. However, there is no way to tell what enemy has the key, and so the Heroes of Light has to defeat enemies until the key appears.
The rooms in the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials have different images, too. The Flopside Pit of 100 Trials contains images of the final four Pure Hearts and the Flipside Pit of 100 Trials contains images of the first four Pure Hearts. Floors 1-25 of the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials have a picture of the cyan Pure Heart. Floors 26-50 of the Pit of 100 Trials have a picture of the blue Pure Heart. Floors 51-75 show the purple Pure Heart. Floors 76-99 show the white Pure Heart. Room 100 is a complete white void, similar to the World of Nothing, the place that was created when The Void destroyed the fifth level.
There are no places to heal in the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials, except for healing items that you dropped or that enemies dropped. If you die in the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials, you cannot start over from where you were. Also, the only way to escape is to use the Warp Pipes found on each tenth floor. If you escape the Pit of 100 Trials or die, you have to start from the beginning. The enemies get stronger as you go deeper into the Pit, and so the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials is difficult to pass, even more so than the Flipside Pit of 100 Trials.
There are 100 rooms, but each room divisible by 10 has no enemies. Those rooms contain a treasure chest with a catch card of one of Mario’s partners from Paper Mario, except for the 10th room and the 100th room. At room 10, the Heroes of Light receive a catch card of Dashell. At room 100, the Heroes of Light see Shadoo.
Rooms 001-010[]
- Room 001-contains Dark Goombas
- Room 002-contains Dark Koopas and Dark Goombas.
- Room 003-contains Dark Goombas, Dark Paragoombas and Dark Tech Cursyas.
- Room 004-contains Dark Paragoombas.
- Room 005-contains Dark Koopas and Dark Spiked Goombas.
- Room 006-contains Dark Cherbils and Dark Squiglets.
- Room 007-contains Dark Squiglets and Dark Spinys.
- Room 008-contains Dark Cursyas, Dark Goombas and Dark Spinys.
- Room 009-contains Dark Koopas and Dark Spike Tops.
- Room 010-contains the Catch Card of Dashell.
Rooms 011-020[]
- Room 011-contains Dark Fuzzys and Dark Squiglets.
- Room 012-contains Dark Stone Buzzys.
- Room 013-contains Dark Clefts, Dark Paratroopas and Dark Heavy Cursyas,
- Room 014-contains Dark Clefts and Dark Paragoombas.
- Room 015-contains Dark Spanias and Dark Goombas.
- Room 016-contains Dark Dull Bones, Dark Spinys and Dark Tech Cursyas.
- Room 017-contains Dark Stone Buzzys and Dark Spike Tops.
- Room 018-contains Dark Fuzzys and Dark Spiked Goombas.
- Room 019-contains Dark Goombas and Dark Dull Bones.
- Room 20-contains the Catch Card of Goombario.
Rooms 021-030[]
- Room 021-contains Dark Pokeys, Dark Fuzzys and Dark Reversya Cursyas.
- Room 022-contains Dark Spanias.
- Room 023-contains Dark Longators and Dark Fuzzys.
- Room 024-contains Dark Pokeys, Dark Dull Bones and Dark Paragoombas.
- Room 025-contains Dark Clefts and Dark Ruff Puffs.
- Room 026-contains Dark Dark Boos.
- Room 027-contains Dark Ruff Puffs, Dark Heavy Cursyas and Dark Squiglets
- Room 028-contains Dark Spanias and Dark Stone Buzzys.
- Room 029-contains Dark Goombas and Dark Dark Boos.
- Room 030-contains the Catch Card of Kooper.
Rooms 031-040[]
- Room 031-contains Dark Shlurps and Dark Ruff Puffs.
- Room 032-contains Dark Squiglets and Dark Sproing-Oings.
- Room 033-contains Dark Choppas and Dark Pokeys.
- Room 034-contains Dark Boomboxers.
- Room 035-contains Dark Growmebas, Dark Reversya Cursyas and Dark Squiglets.
- Room 036-contains Dark Cursyas and Dark Boomboxers.
- Room 037-contains Dark Growmegas.
- Room 038-contains Dark Cherbils.
- Room 039-contains Dark Dark Boos and Dark Megabites.
- Room 040-contains the Catch Card of Bombette.
Rooms 041-050[]
- Room 041-contains Dark Strikers.
- Room 042-contains Dark Cursyas, Dark Heavy Cursyas and Dark Shlurps.
- Room 043-contains Dark Boomboxers and Dark Choppas.
- Room 044-contains Dark Reversya Cursyas, Dark Sproing-Oings and Dark Tech Cursyas.
- Room 045-contains Dark Shlurps.
- Room 046-contains Dark Goombas and Dark Hammer Bros..
- Room 047-contains Dark Boomerang Bros. and Dark Paragoombas.
- Room 048-contains Dark Fire Bros. and Dark Spiked Goombas.
- Room 049-contains Dark Magikoopas, Dark Squiglets and Dark Strikers.
- Room 050-contains the Catch Card of Parakarry.
Rooms 051-060[]
- Room 051-contains a Dark Muth.
- Room 052-contains Dark Chomps.
- Room 053-contains Dark Clubbas.
- Room 054-contains Dark Squiglets.
- Room 055-contains Dark Spanias and Dark Squiglets.
- Room 056-contains Dark Boomerang Bros., Dark Tech Cursyas and Dark Squiglets.
- Room 057-contains Dark Tileoids.
- Room 058-contains Dark Cursyas and Dark Hammer Bros.
- Room 059-contains Dark Magikoopas and Dark Strikers.
- Room 060-contains the Catch Card of Bow.
Rooms 061-070[]
- Room 061-contains Dark Chomps and Dark Magikoopas.
- Room 062-contains Dark Eeligons, Dark Magikoopas and Dark Pigarithms.
- Room 063-contains Dark Heavy Cursyas, Dark Magikoopas and Dark Tileoids.
- Room 064-contains Dark Ninjoes.
- Room 065-contains Dark Chomps and Dark Fire Bros.
- Room 066-contains Dark Hammer Bros.
- Room 067-contains Dark Clubbas and Dark Tech Cursyas.
- Room 068-contains Dark Clubbas and Dark Koopatrols.
- Room 069-contains Dark Cherbils and Dark Megabites.
- Room 070-contains the Catch Card of Watt.
Rooms 071-080[]
- Room 071-contains Dark Jawbuses.
- Room 072-contains Dark Koopas and Dark Koopatrols.
- Room 073-contains Dark Barribads.
- Room 074-contains Dark Choppas and Dark Eeligons.
- Room 075-contains Dark Dayzees and Dark Pigrithms.
- Room 076-contains Dark Koopatrols.
- Room 077-contains Dark Ninjoes and Dark Tileoids.
- Room 078-contains Dark Ninjoes and Dark Skellobits.
- Room 079-contains Dark Skellobits and Dark Spiky Skellobits.
- Room 080-contains the Catch Card of Sushie.
Rooms 081-090[]
- Room 081-contains Dark Cursyas and Dark Spiky Skellobits.
- Room 082-contains Dark Cherbils and Dark Magikoopas.
- Room 083-contains Dark Skellobits and Dark Spiky Skellobits.
- Room 084-contains Dark Jawbuses.
- Room 085-contains Dark Magiblots.
- Room 086-contains Dark Koopatrols and Dark Reversya Cursyas.
- Room 087-contains Dark Squiglets and Dark Strikers.
- Room 088-contains Dark Longators.
- Room 089-contains Dark Tileoids.
- Room 090-contains the Catch Card of Lakilester.
Rooms 091-099[]
- Room 091-contains all kinds of Dark Cursyas.
- Room 092-contains Dark Magikoopas and Dark Squiglets.
- Room 093-contains all kinds of Dark bros.
- Room 094-contains Dark Cherbils, Dark Dayzees and Dark Magiblots.
- Room 095-contains Dark Headbonk Goombas.
- Room 096-contains Dark Jawbuses and Dark Megabites.
- Room 097-contains Dark Skellotibts and Dark Spiky Skellobits.
- Room 098-contains Dark Muths.
- Room 099-contains Dark Koopatrols and all kinds of Dark bros.
Room 100[]
The boss in the hundredth room is Shadoo, arguably the hardest boss in the game. The first time the Heroes of Light reach the bottom of the Flopside Pit of 100 Trials, you do not even see Shadoo. Shadoo says that she will fight you if you go through a second time. The heroes are forced to leave. Once Mario and Co. enter the pit a second time, they get a chance to fight Shadoo at the bottom.
After Shadoo is defeated, eight chests will appear. These chests have a catch card of each of the four heroes and their dark selves. These cards will double the attack of all four main characters and let Mario stay in the third dimension without losing life. A Warp Pipe appears and the heroes can leave with their prizes.
Trivia[]
- Areas similar to the Pit of 100 Trials appear in various games in The Legend of Zelda series.
