Choropū the Picasso
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| Choropū the Picasso | |
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| General information | |
| Species | Monty Mole |
| Appearances | |
| First appearance | Super Mario-kun Volume 44 (sneak peeks only) (2012) |
| Latest appearance | Super Mario-kun Volume 45 (2012) |
Choropū the Picasso (チョロプー・ザ・ピカソ Monty Mole the Picasso) is a Monty Mole who wears a beret and works as a painter for Bowser (specializing in cardboard). Choropū the Picasso makes his only appearance in Super Mario-kun Volume 45 (excluding the sneak peeks shown in the prior volume). His name is a reference to the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
While Mario and Toad travel through World 2-1, they stumble upon Choropū the Picasso. As Mario and Toad walk past him, they come across a giant cardboard cutout of ice cream, only for it to actually be a pile of faeces and emit the smell of one. Mario and Toad would then get farted on by a cardboard bottom of someone. After Mario and Toad run into a cardboard wall, Choropū the Picasso proceeds to hit Mario with a cardboard handle of a bomb before becoming extremely angry and then becoming a much more muscular version of himself called Macchoropū (マッチョロプー). However, this form is quickly revealed to just be a cardboard cutout as Mario kicks it away.
Mario tries hiding among a number of fake faces of himself, though Choropū the Picasso still manages to stomp on his face. Choropū the Picasso then runs over Mario with his Road Roller (ロードローラー), which is labeled "Nachunaru" (ナチュナル) and depicts what appears to be a Morty Mole on the front. He then picks up the flattened Mario to scribble on it and drop into a box with other cardboard cutouts. Mario, however, finds a cardboard Super Mushroom that he eats to return to normal and proceeds to Ground Pound on Choropū the Picasso. World 2-1 is then revealed to be made of cardboard cutouts, as all of the level (including the sign for the level) starts to collapse. Mario then asks Choropū the Picasso where they are and demands him to speak up. However, it is shortly revealed that it was actually not Choropū the Picasso and just a cardboard cutout of him, which then proceeds to collapse. It is unknown where Choropū the Picasso went (though it is likely he ran off and had a cardboard cutout of himself as a decoy to escape).
Gallery
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The Macchoropū cutout
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Choropū the Picasso's Road Roller
Trivia
- Choropū the Picasso is one of the only Monty Mole characters to be named after a real life person (in this case being Pablo Picasso).
- Despite this, Choropū the Picasso shares little to no similarities to Pablo Picasso besides the both of them being artists.
- At the end of the chapter, a man says「『世にも微妙な物語』でした。」("'Yo ni mo Bimyō na Monogatari' deshita.", "This was 'Tales of the Subtle.'"), which is a reference to the Japanese TV series Tales of the Unusual (世にも奇妙な物語, Yo ni mo Kimyō na Monogatari).
