Excess Express conductor
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| Excess Express conductor | |
|---|---|
 Sprite fromPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door | |
| Species | Toad |
| First appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) |
| Latest appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024) |
- “Someone's lifted the drawbridge! The train can't leave the station like this!”
- —Excess Express conductor,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
TheExcess Express conductor is aToad who works on theExcess Express inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. He takes care of the passengers' needs. Unlike other Toads, the conductor sports a black cap with red spots, instead of the usual white cap.
History[edit]
When Mario boards the Excess Express, he reports the sticky, yummy threat to the conductor, who then reports toPennington, the only detective on board. After Mario gives anautograph of thetrain engineer toBub theBob-omb kid, Mario must talk to the conductor, who reports that he found himself one blanket short when distributing them to the passengers as he had given his own to the last passenger, meaning that one of the passengers came aboard without a ticket. As he won't be able to sleep comfortably without his blanket, he asks Mario to look for the unticketed passenger and get the blanket. Mario has to go to Cabin 004 and useVivian tohide in the shadows, which makesGhost T. appear. Mario must ask the ghost for the blanket, but Ghost T. asks Mario to fetch his diary that is in the baggage car first. Mario must return to the conductor, to whom he has to explain the situation for access into the baggage car, which the conductor grants him as he steps aside. In the baggage car, Mario must use Paper Mode to squeeze through two crates to find aragged diary (If Mario reads the diary, he will get an automaticGame Over). Mario must hand the diary to Ghost T., who gives him the blanket as promised, and Mario must give it to the conductor, who rewards him with aMushroom. Afterward, the conductor tells Mario that he should go to bed for the night.
On the third day, the conductor gets absorbed into a hoard ofSmorgs that attack the train. Mario fends off the Smorgs in the baggage car and free the conductor, along with thewaitress. After Mario defeats the Smorgs, causing them to blow away in the wind, the conductor expresses his surprise that everything Mario did over the three days aboard the train was to save everybody on board.
Later,Ghost T. possesses him so he can write anemail toMario.
In theremake on theNintendo Switch, the conductor is added to the group in Poshley Heights as they shout support into the Crystal Star to aid Mario and his partners during the final battle.
Tattle[edit]
- "That's the conductor of the Excess Express. He takes care of passengers' needs. Keeping this train running smoothly is not just the engineer's job, y'know."
Goombella has an alternatetattle for the conductor after Mario rescues him from theSmorgs in the baggage car.
- "That's the conductor of the Excess Express. I bet he didn't expect all this today!"
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian | Controllore del Fasto-Express[1] | Excess Express [ticket] inspector |
References[edit]
- ^«Lui è il controllore del Fasto-Express.» – Goombella (2004).Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.Nintendo of Europe (Italian).
