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Description Okay, so this is probably not a particularly interesting pic, just a fun little thing I doodled at work.

You know how in the Paper Mario games, many of the usual baddies appear in towns as benevolent NPCs or even help Mario on his quest? I just wondered what Mario might find if one of his jouneys ever brought him back to Sarasaland.

Super Mario Land was full of new enemies who never reappeared, among them some hopping zombie-beings called Pionpi. Would they all be just mindless enemies or would they have their own civilization?

I guess they could very well be ordinary inhabitants of Chai, and this is my take on what they could look like. To the left you see an ordinary Pionpi, to the right a village-elder type guy and in the middle the mandatory female Pionpi.

A town full of hopping Pionpis everywhere? Yeah, I'd like to see that. And there should be more fanart for SML and its characters anyway.
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BrigadierDarman [2021-11-20 14:16:17 +0000 UTC]

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bot-chan In reply to BrigadierDarman [2021-11-20 22:02:21 +0000 UTC]

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PG1224 [2020-03-31 21:42:22 +0000 UTC]

All the enemies in Super Mario Land were brainwashed residents of Sarasaland

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Yuanman [2017-05-26 17:02:15 +0000 UTC]

nice idea

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bot-chan In reply to Yuanman [2017-05-26 18:56:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Chevic [2016-03-14 21:30:10 +0000 UTC]

Adorable!! I like the addition of that porcelain doll looking girl and the sifu looking guy.

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bot-chan In reply to Chevic [2016-03-14 22:39:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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piyohthegenius [2015-11-26 21:53:31 +0000 UTC]

I had a take on Sarasaland being part mechanical with the robots in all. And of all the things there I completely forgot about these guys. I should mix them in somewhere. But where....

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bot-chan In reply to piyohthegenius [2015-11-27 06:50:14 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, I don't think I can help you with that.

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Richtofen [2015-09-23 05:53:54 +0000 UTC]

Many, many years ago, my friends and I wrote a Mario novella, taking place in Sarasaland.ย  The inhabitants were, indeed, friendly Pionpi.ย  The whole setting was basically Mushroom Kingdom Meets Asia.

Hey, I wonder.ย  Would the Pionpi live in Hands-On Hall?ย 

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bot-chan In reply to Richtofen [2015-09-24 15:09:49 +0000 UTC]

Sounds good
Yeah, I guess design-wise this would make sense.

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That-One-Leo [2014-11-12 07:34:46 +0000 UTC]

hmm I'm acctually making a fan-made paper mario story in which one of his new partners is a Female Pionpi, I acctually based her on your female desing (only few details) and I wondered if I could use the colors the female Pionpi has for the partner, if not is okay, I'll still credit you for the desing of the female pionpi

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bot-chan In reply to That-One-Leo [2014-11-12 20:27:17 +0000 UTC]

That's no problem. I wouldn't mind seeing her (or someone based on her) appear in a game or story.

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That-One-Leo In reply to bot-chan [2014-11-12 21:30:55 +0000 UTC]

oh. . .thank you, alright then, I will only use the colors, it would be wrong if I used your desing, but thanks

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DaniOskar [2014-02-07 19:10:31 +0000 UTC]

ย ๅฅฝไธปๆ„๏ผ

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bot-chan In reply to DaniOskar [2014-02-08 16:41:02 +0000 UTC]

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DaniOskar In reply to bot-chan [2014-02-08 16:43:37 +0000 UTC]

Das ist chinesisch und bedeutet "GroรŸartige Idee!"

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bot-chan In reply to DaniOskar [2014-02-08 16:47:04 +0000 UTC]

Ach so. Danke

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DaniOskar In reply to bot-chan [2014-02-08 20:11:14 +0000 UTC]

้€™ๆ˜ฏๆˆ‘็š„ๆฆฎๅนธใ€‚ Das bedeutet "War mir ein Vergรผgen".

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Lobster-Roll [2013-08-27 14:02:23 +0000 UTC]

Das wรคre in der Tat interessant zu sehen - auch wenn ich die Pionpis in Super Mario Land gehasst habe, frรผher. XD
Vor allem das Mรคdel in der Mitte ist niedlich geworden.

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bot-chan In reply to Lobster-Roll [2013-08-27 19:41:58 +0000 UTC]

Vielen Dank. Und jau, das kann ich gut nachvollziehen. Damals war ich auch nicht unbedingt ein Freund von diesen hartnรคckigen Hรผpf-Zombies.

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Lady-Zephyrine [2013-07-29 20:13:46 +0000 UTC]

I remember those guys, I used to play Super Mario Land on the gameboy

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bot-chan In reply to Lady-Zephyrine [2013-07-29 20:56:06 +0000 UTC]

Nice

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madworld-guy [2012-09-07 18:38:50 +0000 UTC]

aren't they vampires

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bot-chan In reply to madworld-guy [2012-09-08 08:51:00 +0000 UTC]

Technically, they are based on jiangshi (or whatever the spelling is), which is basically a hopping zombie or vampire. So... maybe?

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madworld-guy In reply to bot-chan [2012-09-08 09:47:17 +0000 UTC]

i heard a lot of the Jiang-Shi

this pic is a good one:[link]

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MrPr1993 [2012-05-30 20:51:51 +0000 UTC]

You should upload these to groups so they can get the idea.

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bot-chan In reply to MrPr1993 [2012-05-31 22:10:13 +0000 UTC]

Well, maybe. I don't know...

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MrPr1993 In reply to bot-chan [2012-05-31 22:46:25 +0000 UTC]

Trust me. It may work!

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AirSharkSquad [2011-05-23 19:26:20 +0000 UTC]

Nicely done!

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bot-chan In reply to AirSharkSquad [2011-05-24 00:51:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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AirSharkSquad In reply to bot-chan [2011-05-24 01:03:57 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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KittenHuffing [2011-04-28 22:45:39 +0000 UTC]

Those guys are awesome! We need more of them in new Mario games!

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Doctor-G [2011-04-03 10:38:36 +0000 UTC]

These look great, I really like the colors and your designs for the new ones.
I would love it if Mario went back to Sarasaland and we saw all those old enemies that were only in the one game

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TokoyamiTheKarakasa [2011-02-05 03:09:27 +0000 UTC]

Hey! I remember these guys! I thought when I was REALLY young that Pionpi's sprite from Super Mario Land was a badly-sprited Captain Hook! I also remember him as Tatanga's second-in-hand chief in the Game Boy comics, riding a seahorse (don't know the name, but they still piss me off in the Muda Kingdom when I play SML...)

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bot-chan In reply to TokoyamiTheKarakasa [2011-02-09 19:27:43 +0000 UTC]

Well, I don't know the comics, so yeah.

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Antithigram [2010-07-31 02:44:07 +0000 UTC]

I love the Chai Kingdom area and these guys. Nice job on them! I'd love to see them appear in a new Paper Mario game. I was actually thinking up of a Pionpi OC who's a substitute teacher and becomes a chatterbox when he talks about history.

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bot-chan In reply to Antithigram [2010-07-31 22:25:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. Mario really should revisit Sarasaland one of these days. The world needs more Pionpis.

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pakkun96 [2009-12-12 11:16:53 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!! I love the idea ! I love the colors ! I love the line ! I LOVE IT !

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bot-chan In reply to pakkun96 [2009-12-12 22:34:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot!

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Mega246 [2009-09-16 19:30:40 +0000 UTC]

Nice work.

Some of my Mario OC's are of the Pionpi race.

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bot-chan In reply to Mega246 [2009-09-18 05:54:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

Oh? I don't remember seeing them in your gallery.

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Mega246 In reply to bot-chan [2009-09-18 07:48:33 +0000 UTC]

I haven't put them up yet.

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Jubell [2009-08-18 00:47:59 +0000 UTC]

These guys I totally remember ^^

Yay for memory! Actually they freaked me out a teeny bit while playing. I would always scramble to avoid them.

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bot-chan In reply to Jubell [2009-08-18 20:07:16 +0000 UTC]

Yay! ^^

Heh, yeah, as a kid, they freaked me out a bit, too. From today's standpoint, thinking of this is pretty funny.

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pokeman122 [2009-08-17 16:40:51 +0000 UTC]

They'e the first un-dead bunch, before Dry Bones XD

The one in the middle and the right are very unique. If they had more civilians, Birabuto might have an Egyptian/Arabic/Turkish look, and Easton might ahve a South Pacafic Native look, Austrailian/Moari style. Thats my guesses

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bot-chan In reply to pokeman122 [2009-08-18 19:56:13 +0000 UTC]

And they were more dangerous than Dry Bones, too.

Well, I don't think "civilian" necessarily means human-looking. Paper Mario had his fair share of places inhabitated by Goombas, Koopas or even Boos. For all we know, all these stone enemies in Easton could very well be civilians, too. Who knows?

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SajuukkuujaS [2009-08-17 07:25:57 +0000 UTC]

Ohhhh...... eine sehr interessante Idde muss ich zugeben!

Sรผรผses Mรคdel im Vordergrund.
Einfahc nur zum-in-den-Arm-nehmen-und-knuddeln-sรผรผs. xD

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bot-chan In reply to SajuukkuujaS [2009-08-17 09:15:35 +0000 UTC]

Haha, danke sehr.

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