The Origami King enemy
Colored Pencils
Streamers
Description	The first big boss of King Olly's Legion of Stationery. Talented, but not as talented as he thinks.
HP	150
Type	Normal
Role	Boss
Item drops	None
Moves	Primary Target (3), Reloading... (reloads pencils), Pencil Rain (3 per pencil), Snap Shut (base 13, range 4, only hits on two closest rings), Rainbow Roll (4 × 12), Worst Case (2)
Location(s)	Overlook Tower

“I'msickandtiredofPhilistineslikeyouERASINGallofmyhardwork,man.Youprobablyhaven'theardofme,right?Figures.Whenwasthelasttimeyouevenwenttoagallery?Pfft.Don'tanswer.I'mgonnagiveyouanartlessonforfree.Thename'sJean-PierreColoredPencilsthe12th.IrepresenttheLegion of Stationery,I'llhaveyouknow!Anyway,I'mguardingthisstreamer,andI'llscribbleonyourflatfaceifthat'swhatittakestostopyou.”

—Colored Pencils,Paper Mario: The Origami King

Colored Pencils' Collectible Treasure in theMusée Champignon

Colored Pencils,The Missile Maestro (also referred to asColor Pencil^[1] and his real nameJean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th), is a member of theLegion of Stationery who guards a spool for the redstreamer and serves as the boss ofOverlook Tower inPaper Mario: The Origami King. He is an oversized red tin pencil case sportingKing Olly's logo on the front. He normally holds 12 colored pencils inside, whose colors are, from left to right, white, lime, green, cyan, blue, purple, pink, red, yellow, beige, brown, and black. These are used as missiles. His dialogue is displayed with each character being semi-randomly picked from those colors, making him one of the only two characters possessing this trait, the other beingOlivia when she is soaking in theSpring of Rainbows. When he is defeated, his dialogue characters are shown light gray.

By the timeMario has entered Overlook Tower, Colored Pencils had vandalized the walls and floors, including a drawing at the entrance displaying King Olly. As Mario ascends the tower, Colored Pencils continually tries to stop him. First, Colored Pencils sabotages the elevator by piercing it with colored pencils, which, after being removed, cause the elevator to plunge back to the first floor. Second, when Mario reaches the cafe on the third floor, Colored Pencils launches large salvos of pencils at him. The pencils also block the doorway out of the tower.

Once Mario reaches the red streamer's spool, he attempts to dislodge it by jumping into it, to no avail. Afterwards, two colored pencils are launched, forcing Olivia to shove Mario out of the way. The case then reveals itself, and Mario pulls Olivia away when Colored Pencils is about to flatten her. Colored Pencils expresses detest of people erasing his work, introduces himself, and fights Mario.

After being defeated, Colored Pencils says that Mario was better as a side-scroller, and explodes, erasing his drawings offscreen and releasing aMagic Circle that Mario can use to destroy the spool.

Battle[edit]

“Feastyoureyesuponmyart-senal!Twelvecoloredpencils,readytomakeyourpaperbodiesmycanvas!”

—Colored Pencils,Paper Mario: The Origami King

In the first phase of the battle, Colored Pencils launches four to six pencils prior to Mario lining up rings. The pencils signal their landing spot by placing targets over spaces on the board. The targets do not move when rings are rotated or slid. Merely walking over a targeted tile causes Mario to be struck by a pencil for 3 damage, though it does not cancel his turn. After Mario finishes moving, any pencils that are still airborne strike their targets. After Mario attacks, Colored Pencils attempts to launch a Pencil Rain, launching his remaining pencils at Mario for 3 damage each, and then using Reloading, receiving 12 new pencils in time to launch and set more targets. However, if his lid is closed, which is achieved by Mario stopping behind the case and either using a strong enoughHammer attack or using the1,000-Fold Arms to close the lid, the pencils will explode inside the case, dealing 3 damage each to Colored Pencils and stunning him, rendering himself unable to reload. During the next turn, Mario can damage the open case by jumping, and Colored Pencils attacks him with Snap Shut, dealing 10–16 damage should Mario be in the inner two rings, then uses Reloading again. If Mario closes the lid when the case is empty, Colored Pencils will taunt him before attacking him with Snap Shut.

At half HP or less, Colored Pencils starts using Rainbow Roll attacks, dealing 4 damage twelve times when able to, in bursts of three pencils, before Reloading. The technique also prevents Mario from closing the lid as he charges up during his turn. Instead, Mario can use the 1,000-Fold Arms in front of Colored Pencils and grab the pencils, then initiate a rush attack by slamming the case with them. If Colored Pencils still has HP left afterwards, the damaged case will be rendered permanently unable to reload, attacking with Worst Case (a pun on "worst case scenario") for the rest of the battle, dealing 2 damage, 1 damage if blocked.

Gallery[edit]

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  Colored Pencils

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  Colored Pencils' debut before battle

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  Colored Pencils unleashing the Rainbow Roll attack

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  Mario using hisHammer on the Colored Pencils

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  Mario uses the 1,000-Fold Arms on Colored Pencils

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  TheLegion of Stationery on theOrigami Craftsman's workbench

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Names in other languages[edit]

The Missile Maestro[edit]

Notes[edit]

• Because of the limited range of Colored Pencils' Snap Shut attack, if Mario is in the outer rings, it is possible to fight him without receiving any damage,^[5] making this the only boss to grant both the No-Damage Bonus and the 1000-Fold Arms Finisher coin bonuses if Mario defeats him.
• Colored Pencils is one of the two only members of the Legion of Stationery to be addressed with male pronouns, the other beingHole Punch.
• When Colored Pencils shoots missiles at Mario, they are about half the length than the pencils in the case.
• In Overlook Tower, there is a drawing of a carrot in the restaurant kitchen. However, Colored Pencils does not have an orange pencil.

References[edit]

• Animate objects
• Paper Mario: The Origami King bosses

• Articles with unsourced foreign names