Paint

Paper Mario: Color Splash is one of the games where it focuses on paint as the main mechanic.

Background

Paint, also referred to as goop, is a concept within the Mario series that has appeared in Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario: Color Splash, Paper Mario: The Origami King, and Bowser's Fury.

Paint has shown to have a variety of effects when either applied or removed, primarily being that a being with no paint cannot function and is devoid of all.

Potential Types

• Removal: Anyone and everyone within the Mario series can remove paint by simply attacking you.

Users: Everyone within the Super Mario Bros. franchise.

• Splashing: Certain characters can return or splash paint at you, which can cause different effects.

Users: Mario, Bowser Junior, Roy

Capabilities

• Non-Standard Interaction: Abstract Interaction; Paint makes up everything, with characters in Mario can remove paint from anyone with any attack. Paint is all of life, and removal of it can cause a person or object to have no life within, having their concept of life be removed. Metaphysical interaction; Paint makes up the mind, as paint beings can directly speak to your mind by coloring your thoughts. Loss of paint can also remove your mind and memories. Paint makes up souls and ghosts. Removing it is the equivalent of destroying your soul. Paint makes up all emotions. Removing it would mean the removal of emotion. Spatial Interaction (3-D); Paint makes up all of space. Removing it makes space as if it was solid.

RemovalSplashing

• Blood Manipulation: Paint makes up all of blood within someone, removing it is the same as removing their blood.

• Power Nullification: Paint makes up the ability to use powers. Removing it would mean the removal of using powers.

• Portal Creation: Paint can create portals to different locations.

• Pseudo-Forcefield Creation: Paint can create thick substances to block attacks.

• Electricity Manipulation: Paint can create electric goop.

• Fire Manipulation: Paint can create fire goop.

• Water Manipulation: Paint can create slimy water that damages anyone inside.

• Acid Manipulation: Paint can create acid.

• Mind Control, Corruption, Size Manipulation, & Power Bestowal: Black paint can control someone's mind and corrupt them, while also increasing their size and gain new abilities.

• Creation: Paint can create creatures, ghosts, and objects made out of paint.

• Pocket Reality Manipulation: Paint can create pocket dimensions.

• Sealing: Paint can seal people or objects within paint.

• Matter Manipulation: Paint can reduce matter.

• Empathic Manipulation: Paint can change people's emotions.

• Broadway Force Paint can force others to dance along.

• Power Nullification: Paint can make it so you can only use abilities that are the same color as the paint on you.

• Poison Manipulation: Paint can inflict poison.

• Regeneration: Mid-Godly. Paint has shown regeneration properties, and since it can restore non-physical things, it should be able to regenerate your concept as well.

Users

• Everyone within the Super Mario Bros. franchise.