Hooktail

“	Snack time, little appetizers! But which of you morsels should I taste first?	„
	~ Hooktail

Background

Hooktail is a dragon featured in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. She resides in Hooktail Castle, and serves as the boss of Chapter 1.

General Information

Name: Hooktail

Origin: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Sex: Female

Age: Unknown

Classification: Dragon

Status: Deceased

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Hooktail constantly terrorizes Petalburg, while also eating the lives of various people as snacks without hesitation. She'll even lie at an attempt to eat others)

Codex Statistics

Tier: Varies. 6-C, up to 2-C

Cardinality: Varies

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Varies (Mario and his friends are noted to be akin to a troupe of actors, taking on different roles depending on the game, with his gimmick being attributed to the same as Mickey Mouse, with their strength and skills even being shown to vary with it being shown with Mario being unable to take on Wario in his pixelated form due to the Wario using a different physiology to make him be unable to interact requiring him to turn to a similar physiology to beat him). Island level, up to Universe level (Capable of harming Mario, Goombella, and Koops)

Durability: Varies. Island level, up to Universe level (Can survive attacks from Mario, Goombella, and Koops)

Striking Strength: Varies. Island Class, Up to Universe Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Varies. Supersonic to Faster Than Light (Comparable to Mario)

Combat Speed: Varies. Relativistic+ to Faster Than Light (Comparable to Mario)

Reaction Speed: Varies. Relativistic+ to Faster Than Light (Comparable to Mario)

Stamina: High

Range: Tens of Meters

Intelligence: Average

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Large Size (Type 1), Fire Manipulation & Durability Negation (Can breathe fire at enemies, which deals piercing damage. Piercing damage ignores the defense stat), Consumption & Healing (Hooktail can eat others whole to heal herself), Non-Standard Interaction (The Mario cast regularly interacts with ghosts), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance; The Mario cast can consistently breathe in space and water just fine), Regeneration (Mid; Should be comparable to every character in-battle who can recover from getting squished by the stage hazards).

Resistance to Conceptual Manipulation/Paint Manipulation

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)

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Equipment

None

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Notable Techniques

• Fire Breath: Hooktail breathes a stream of fire at enemies, causing piercing damage.
• Stomp: Hooktail will use her mass to stomp on an enemy.
• Chomp: Hooktail will eat an enemy, healing herself.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Hooktail would typically eat an enemy, use fire, or stomp them.

Weaknesses: Hooktail feels sick whenever being reminded of frogs.

Battle Records

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