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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!
~ The Rubber Band challenging Mario upon his survival of the third play.
No, no, NO! The star of the show isn't Mario, you uncultured HACKS! The real superstar... is MEEE!
~ Rubber Band shortly before formally introducing itself.

Rubber Band, also known as the Elastic Entertainer, is a major antagonist in the 2020 role-playing game Paper Mario: The Origami King.

A member of King Olly's Legion of Stationery. It is the guardian of the blue origami streamer, and the second member of the Legion to fight Mario. Like all members of the Legion of Stationary, it is a sentient object, with itself being a rubber band.

Biography[]

Rubber Band was once a regular pair of rubber bands used by the Origami Craftman to make his origami. He and the rest of the Legion of Stationary were granted life by King Olly to serve as his minions in guarding the streamers, with Rubber Band sent to guard the blue streamer in Shogun Studios.

Prior to their battle, Rubber Band trapped the Toads with his rubber bands within Big Sho' Theater, forcing them to watch his show. Mario shows up and tries to steal the show, but he gets chastised by Rubber Band for winning, as that was not part of the show's script. This provokes Rubber Band into making his entrance in a rather extravagant fashion. While Olivia admitted that he knows how to make an entrance, she still considers Mario the biggest star of the show, Mario and Rubber Band then duel.

Rubber Band has a unique defense mechanic where he launches some of his rubber bands onto the stage. If Mario steps on these bands, he will be ejected one space in the direction the band was pointing. Mario will be forced to forfeit his turn should his path cross the same rubber band twice.

Rubber Band attacks by throwing his rubber bands at Mario with the Rubber Bind technique, attempting to trap him, but this can be easily guarded. If Rubber Band does succeed in trapping Mario, he will then follow up with a technique called Trapped Snapback, which is more powerful than his regular Snapback technique, although it can be dodged by jumping at the right time. Normal attacks that hit his body will deal very little damage, but will cause it to drop rubber bands, which will crawl back to his body to refill the lost stamina. Mario has to use his 1,000-Fold Arms technique to really deal damage to Rubber Band by pulling on his head. After his health bar drops to half, Rubber Band will attack faster.

Once Mario depletes Rubber Band’s health bar enough, Rubber Band will collapse and reveal his core, which can attack by snapping at Mario with the Solo Snapback technique. Mario has to use his 1,000-Fold Arms to send Rubber Band's core flying out of its stage.

After his defeat, Rubber Band yells his final words, claiming his goal was to truly make the theater great. He then finally accepts defeat, falls dead and explodes, freeing the captive Toads.

After Olivia's wish reverts her brother's actions, Rubber Band turns back into normal rubber bands.

Appearance[]

Rubber Band has the shape of a humanoid figure at first, with a mainly yellow body with black and light blue highlights made of rubber bands. Its core is a large, yellow rubber band imbued with King Olly's face that hides at the center.

Powers and Abilities[]

Fused Form[]

Rubber Band Manipulation: It can manipulate and control rubber bands.

  • Injury Immunity: No actual damage was able to be done to Rubber Band until it was flung out of the arena. Any damage shown on its health bar was just health deducted from its collective total with the other Rubber Bands.
  • Direct Attack Immunity: 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 useless.
  • Bumper Bands: The very first thing Rubber Band did in its battle was fling rubber bands to send random arrows flying off of the stage and replace them.
  • Absorption Dance: After each turn, Rubber Band will perform a special dance that would allow it to reabsorb any and all rubber bands across its arena back into its body.
    • Health Regeneration: Doing so also regained the health Rubber Band lost by ejecting them from its body.
  • Rubber Bind: 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, 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 Rubber Band generated one big rubber band to fling at Mario for heavy damage.

True Form[]

Rubber Band Manipulation: It can manipulate and control rubber bands.

  • Jump Immunity: Using Mario's Boots to jump on Rubber Band did no damage to him whatsoever due to its durable rubber nature.
  • Ranged Attack Immunity: Using any of the Flowers (Fire or Ice) would have no effect on 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: 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 20 seconds resulted in him performing its Solo Snapback.
  • Solo Snapback: 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. This attack cannot be avoided.

Weaknesses[]

  • Bumper Bands: Despite removing the traditional arrows, the rubber bands flung by Rubber Band served the same purposes as the traditional arrows, so they did nothing to stop Mario from defeating it.
  • Rubber Band Projection: For every one of the rubber bands fired by Rubber Band, it lost some of its health. Although minimal at first, when combined with its critical weakness to 1000-Fold Arms, this was easily exploited to quickly whittle down its health.
  • 1000-Fold Arms: Despite being able to absorb its rubber bands to regain health, preventing the player from attacking directly, Mario's 1000-Fold Arms would send a bunch of them flying off the stage and leave him unable to absorb them for health. How much health taken off depends on what ring the Arms are used from (outermost ring causes the least amount of damage whereas the innermost did the most damage).
  • Elasticity: Rubber Band was so elastic Mario's 1000-Fold Arms were easily able to ping it off the stage to its death.

Quotes[]

ATTENTION, honored guests of Big Sho' Theater! Your attention, if you please! Today's VERY special performance will begin VERY shortly. So fill those seats before I SNAP! My patience is stretching thin! I shan't tell you TWICE!
~ Rubber Band's first words, albeit over a loudspeaker.
ARGH! That's NOT how that scene was written! They were supposed to POP you to SMITHEREENS! Ugh. I DESPISE improvisation.
~ Rubber Band's angered response to Mario surviving the first play.
UGH! That's NOT how that act was supposed to end! I mean, really! There's no way Mario is actually THAT strong! Talk about a STRETCH! You Paper Macho goons had better band together in the NEXT act... or I may SNAP!
~ Rubber Band upon Mario surviving the second play.
Ah, such a long monologue... yet you didn't flub a single line! Have you ever considered a career in acting? Oh, never mind. Your SKILL at the performing arts shouldn't trip ME up!
~ Rubber Band when Olivia berated him for his horrible actions.
Behold the power of my rubber bands! Let's see how well you take stage direction, ha ha!
~ Rubber Band after it launches its rubber bands onto the stage to redirect Mario's movement when he begins the battle.
Oooh, your PITIFUL attacks have no effect on my BOUNCY body!
~ Rubber Band when Mario tries a regular attack on its merged form. He only says this the first time it is attempted.
Ow! Hey! Don't YANK on my rubber bands like that! That's no way to treat a star!
~ Rubber Band reacting the first time to Mario's 1,000-Fold Arms Attack.
Prepare yourselves! Here comes my Rubber Bind attack!
~ Rubber Band shooting its rubber bands to attack the first time.
Olivia: Ew! It's all wiggly and wobbly!
Rubber Band: The curtain's pulled back! I've been EXPOSED! You've reduced my ensemble to a one-man band! You'll pay for that!
~ Rubber Band exposing its core after Mario pulls off all the boss's rubber bands.
(Groaning) It wasn't supposed to end like this, Mario... The AGONY! The BRUTALITY! The sheer injustice of it all! Oh, muses! Oh, bard! Have you TRULY forsaken me for these flimsy, flat PAPERY beings!? I wanted to make things GRAND! Eliminate things DULL and bland! Alas, this was my FINAL stand. It's curtains for poor Rubber- (dramatically gasps and explodes)
~ Rubber Band's last words before its defeat.

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