Rubber Band (Paper Mario)

“	Ooooh, I have HAD it with your show stealing and grandstanding! You wish to be the STAR? Fine! Come on up and face the MUSIC!	„
	~ Rubber Band before engaging Mario in battle

“	Ooooh, I have HAD it with your show stealing and grandstanding! You wish to be the STAR? Fine! Come on up and face the MUSIC!	„
	~ Rubber Band before engaging Mario in battle

Paper Mario: The Origami King - The Elastic Entertainer

Background

Rubber Band, The Elastic Entertainer, is a member of the Legion of Stationery who guards the end of the blue streamer and the boss of Big Sho' Theater in Paper Mario: The Origami King. Unlike the other Legion of Stationery members, while Rubber Band itself is a singular large yellow rubber band with King Olly's insignia on it, it initially appears to be a vague humanoid entirely composed out of small rubber bands, mostly yellow, with blue for its large joints, and black for its hands, legs, and the top of its head, with the actual Rubber Band on the inside creating the frame. The Toads in the audience appear to be unnerved by its appearance, as evidenced by their screaming when it first appears, and the unique quotes of the battle, including some quotes indicating them being scared.

Rubber Band, prior to Mario arriving to the show, traps a large group of Toads with rubber bands, effectively forcing them to watch its show, except for one that is forced to narrate. After each act, Rubber Band yells from backstage that the act was supposed to defeat Mario. Once the show reaches the fourth and final floor where the spool for the blue streamer is found, Mario is invited onstage as the star of the show. However, once he gets on stage, Rubber Band objects, claiming it is the star, and appears from a stage lift. It performs a short song and dance routine before confronting Mario and Olivia and battling them.

After being defeated, a spotlight shines on Rubber Band as it dramatically proclaims its final words, asking why it had to be defeated, claiming to want to make the theater grand, and finally, accepting defeat, before falling over and exploding. This destroys the rubber bands trapping the Toads and releases a Magic Circle that Mario can use to destroy the streamer.

Codex Statistics

Tier: 2-C

Name: Rubber Band

Origin: Paper Mario: The Origami King

Sex: Inapplicable

Age: Unknown

Classification: Rubber Band, The Elastic Entertainer, Member of the Legion of Stationary

Status: Deceased (Was destroyed after being defeated by Mario)

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Rubber Band is a member of the Legion of Stationary, a group of office supply tools made sentient by King Olly. They work for him, guarding each of the streamers to help stop Mario and others from stopping King Olly from reshaping the world in his own image.)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Universe level (Is able to harm Mario. Mario was able to defeat King Olly who was folding the very fabric of reality in order to reshape the world into his own image)

Durability: At Least Universe level (Can take attacks from Mario. It's True Form is completely immune to Mario's attacks) It's Rubber Band Body and Absorption makes it hard to kill or even damage its true form.

Striking Strength: Universe Class

Lifting Strength: At least Multi-Stellar (Is able to tie up Mario to the degree that he can't move.)

Travel Speed: Faster Than Light (Should scale to Mario)

Combat Speed: Faster Than Light (Can keep up with Mario in combat)

Reaction Speed: Faster Than Light

Stamina: High (Was able to take many hits against Mario and could still fight.)

Range: Several Meters through Large Size, Higher by flinging rubber bands

Intelligence: Above Average (Is portrayed as a talented actor who can direct stage plays and set up several of them made just to kill Mario)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Inorganic Physiology, Large Size (Type 0. Is this big compared to Mario), Body Control (Can control all of its rubber bands at will), Absorption and Fusionism (Rubber Band can absorb and fuse with all of its rubber bands to heal and repair it's rubber band body back to perfect condition), BFR and Law Manipulation (Folded soldiers in the Origami King are able to send their opponents to a ringed battlefield regardless of where they are and forces their opponents to align the rings to fight. Rubber Band is able do this as well along with being able to affect how the ring system works like other bosses. It can also put several rubber bands on tiles to make movement harder for opponents), Paint Manipulation which includes: Conceptual Manipulation (Paint makes up everything, anyone in Mario can remove paint by attacking), Life Manipulation & Death Manipulation (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), Blood Manipulation (Paint makes up all of blood within someone, removing it is the same as removing their blood), Mind Manipulation & Memory Manipulation (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), Spatial Manipulation (Paint makes up all of space. Removing it makes space as if it was solid), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; Paint makes up souls and ghosts. Removing it is the equivalent of destroying your soul), Empathic Manipulation (Paint makes up all emotions. Removing it would mean the removal of emotion), Power Nullification (Paint makes up the ability to use powers. Removing it would mean the removal of using powers).
Resistance to Paint Removal, Cosmic Radiations, Fire Manipulation (Is unaffected by Mario's Fire Hammer outside of normal damage), Vibration Manipulation (Is unaffected by Mario's POW Block attack)

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Equipment

Its Rubber Bands

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Notable Techniques

Fused Form

• Injury Immunity: No actual damage was able to be done to the Rubber Band until it was flung out of the arena. Any damage shown on its health bar was just health deducted from his collective total with the other Rubber Bands.
• Direct Attack Immunity: The Rubber Band could not be attacked by direct attacks from Mario (eg Boots, Fire Flower, Hammer etc.) since those would take away a lot of its health, but it could immediately reabsorb them to render the attack void.
• Bumper Bands: The very first thing the Rubber Band did in its battles was fling rubber bands to send random arrows flying off of the stage and replace them.
• Absorption Dance: After each turn, the Rubber Band would perform a special dance that would allow it to reabsorb any and all rubber bands across its arena into their body.
  • Health Regeneration: Doing so also regained the health the Rubber Band lost by ejecting them from its body.
• Rubber Bind: The Rubber Band would walk up to Mario and fling rubber bands to bind him in place which could be dodged by well timed blocked.
  • Turn Skipping: Getting bound by the Rubber Bind restrains Mario for a whole turn which is automatically skipped due to him being unable to move.
    • Trapped Snapback: After that wasted turn, the Rubber Band would walk up to Mario and bend back one of the rubber bands on him and release it to smack back into him for massive damage. Jumping five times would free Mario and prevent this however.
• Snapback: A more powerful version of the Rubber Bind where the Rubber Band generated one big rubber band to fling at Mario for heavy damage.

True Form

• Jump Immunity: Using Mario's Boots to jump on the Rubber Band did no damage to it whatsoever due to its durable rubber nature.
• Ranged Attack Immunity: Using any of the Flowers (Fire or Ice) would have no effect on the Rubber Band as it would pass straight through its middle. This happens even if Mario is aiming from Rubber Band's side and not the gaping hole in the middle.
• Agility: The Rubber Band's true form was extremely agile and fast which made it hard for Mario to grab with the 1000-Fold Arms. Failing to grab them in twenty seconds resulted in it performing its Solo Snapback.
• Solo Snapback: The Rubber Band's most powerful attack in either form where it bent back whilst energizing itself with yellow energy before snapping forward to deal devastating damage to Mario.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Rubber Band BFRs their opponent to a ringed battlefield and flicks several rubber bands on specific tiles. It then attacks with rubber bands which can be flicked and even trap opponents within them. If any rubber bands are knocked off it's protective rubber band body, it will heal itself by absorbing all of them to return to original condition.

Weaknesses: Flinging its rubber bands off the battlefield prevents Rubber Band from absorbing them back.

Battle Records

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