Killing Professor Frankly in the Tutorial Battle

Nicely done, Mario! Excellent Action Command! That was perfect timing! dies

[@nightsky4897]

I thought that was so funny when Frankly ran to the enemy's side when you damaged him. He's like "alright you gonna betray me now I'm your enemy too."

[@TravistarYT]

And then he turns his back to you like "I can't even look at you, you make me sick!"

[@PieCreeper12]

@@TravistarYT Quite literally.

[@Ninetails2000]

@@TravistarYT "You don't even have the sense to heed my warnings about spiky goombas? You're not even worth fighting."

[@morgin2609]

@@TravistarYT If he had arms they'd be crossed lmao

[@SegaDisneyUniverse]

That part had me freaking laughing my teeth out!!🤣

[@Slenderquil]

Who would've guessed that someone might try to switch sides after you try to kill them with poison. It just makes sense.

[@StupidMarioBros1Fan]

"You can probably guess what's going to happen." I just watched multiple similar situations having vastly different results, I have no idea what's about to happen.

[@Keepsake66]

I think he thought everyone picked up on the game crashing whenever a textbox from a dead character is called upon. that's why he assumed we'd know what would happen. in that scenario, goombella would have said something after you hit crump.

[@Koopatrol]

@@Keepsake66 Correct.

[@sophiefilo16]

@@Keepsake66 Oh, the game crashed? I was wondering why the video froze on that last scene...

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

@@sophiefilo16 It can happen also without game hacks. If you do the hazard respawn glitch under Rogueport to enter and exit Keelhaul Key before beating the chapter normally, you can actually complete the rest of the game, as long as you got the Paper Boat ability. If you leave and do Chapter 6 before freeing the Toads in Pirate's Grotto, trying to save them will crash the game since they won't be on screen.

[@Enaronia]

"Goombella dies, using the enemy spinning defeat animation but not using her own defeat animation at all, and then the game crashes but not immediately" was not on my list. Except "Goombella dies."

[@Rudymc-du7or]

“Wha-! You poisoned me! That’s it, I’m joining their side, you jerk!”

[@bennel3588]

Professor Frankly: You dweaves poisoned me. I'm joining the enemy side. I think when you poison him, the game suggests that he's an enemy you battle, so that's why he moves to the enemy. Professor Frankly looks to the right when telling to not jump on the spiny Goomba, so that's why he's facing right. It's kind of like these pokemon characters facing a certain direction, even if you glitch out of the way they were programmed to face.

[@bakubaku4333]

If frankly is invincible why didn't he just save the world himself

[@purplekt1722]

Because he can't attack.

[@Quario]

He's senile

[@robertanderson9447]

To him, cheating is a much greater offense than literally erasing the world from existence.

[@rjante2236]

Maybe he was the true villain.

[@Jason.Johnson]

One bump on the head from the shadow sirens and he's conked out in a closet somewhere and has his appearance stolen

[@TheDendran]

Competitionists would *_KILL_* for that sweet one extra EXP from Goombella

[@Makitru]

They’d sure LOVE her then.

[@NathanKent01]

@@Makitru heh......Nude alert joke

[@nathoghazi5026]

and frankly

[@finnvaneekelen4966]

Yes they whould kill. Goombella to be specific

[@Saethori]

Alternative title: Killing Bystanders Crashes Paper Mario.

[@xxsegaxx]

And also "Killing Professor Frankly as an enemy is perfectly acceptable"

[@theprofesser9797]

Terra Saethori ok Stryder7x

[@jpbrother]

Playing Paper Mario crashes Paper Mario...

[@angelsilva2480]

@@jpbrother Owning Paper Mario crashes Paper Mario

[@gotomyotjerchannelcasual]

*stryder7x intro intensifies*

[@CinderBeams]

Lmfao I found that 1 star point after killing Goombella so insulting

[@tntalchemist]

Frankly takes damage from the poison, says "F this" and joins the enemy. Then when you fail to do anything right against the trio, he looks away in disgust, like a father who is disappointed in his son

[@SegaDisneyUniverse]

LMFAO!😂

[@Campaign2024]

This is a photoshopped Doopliss abuse video and you know it.

[@Jason.Johnson]

I love how you poisoned him, so he joined the enemies. And then turns away when he sees you jump on the spiny goomba and hurt yourself

[@classymarowak7001]

I'm more bewildered by the fact that Frank has any "Hit/Death" animations at all.

[@rmsmith122198]

I actually may be able to explain this... in a complicated way. The way animations work in this game is that sprites are just moved and swapped out, insteadof actually being animated. Each enemy type most likely has a base animation set that is used for all the enemies of that type (koopas, fuzzies, etc), so the devs probably just gave frankly the default goomba animations to save time.

[@pit2643]

Also, you can actually see Professor Frankly getting damaged in-game normally under either one of two conditions: 1. The random stage effects have the stage fall on both Mario and Professsor Frankly during the SP tutorial. This one unintentionally happened to me by pure chance in a casual playthrough. 2. You use Chapter sequence breaking tricks to bring Professor Frankly to later points of the story, and then fall into any harmful deep water, since it also plays the hurt animation for the temporary ally during that time. This is the only way you'll see Flavio's unique hurt animation, by the way, although that one doesn't need glitches due to deep water being there at Keelhaul Key.

[@ryanredacted9841]

Mario: *brutally murders his friend Goombella* PMTTYD: Wow! Fantastic job! Here is a single starpoint!

[@R.P.Genocraft]

I was about to comment about how finding glitches to kill the tutorial opponents without hacks could help with speedrunning, then I remembered both of those are optional lol

[@donkarasu-9644]

Next time, Frankly needs to check on what he's about to eat

[@wyattskinner697]

It’s hilarious that you can kill Gombella or Frankly and the game just accepts it.

[@BigEvy]

You know when you just kill your partner at the beginning of the game and completely change the feel of the game.

[@masterofadapting]

Alternate title: Mario murders elderly man

[@MaladaptiveDaydreamerr]

I like how the audio just cuts when it crashes.

[@veldhuis94]

What surprises me is that he does have a death animation.

[@mariobroultimate1808]

Either he was originally gonna be a partner, or he just recycles the animation from other Goombas since he is a Goomba.

[@seanbroderick2224]

2:53 “That won’t do. Perform like that and the audience will feel ripped off. Trust me.” *proceeds to take 99 damage*

[@jakestar121]

It’s all fun and games until tutorial Goombella shows up to fight

[@Emboarbof]

Frankly got Thanos Snapped during a tutorial lol

[@ironnatepup]

Alternative Title: Hitting Professor Frankly Crashes Paper Mario

[@renakunisaki]

Can't mistime your attack if you don't attack.

[@PFGFrankly]

WHY. Why would you kill me. Im helping you how to fight but a YOU KILL ME.

[@safetytheflamewolf]

I'm sure Carbon would want to kill you lol

[@PFGFrankly]

And i forgot my full name because it's super long

[@PFGFrankly]

@@safetytheflamewolf ps its honesty professor caesar reality. Thats my name

[@brolytriplethreat]

@@PFGFrankly because the pursuit of knowledge, I guess

[@williamd4866]

Frankly thinks he's offstage

[@idk-ov9oh]

killing background caracthers crashes paper mario

[@gamenwatch6269]

I guess goombella is worth 1 star point

[@gferrol118]

2:19 he turned around, since he was annoyed you didn't listen to him

[@DrunkenCoward1]

Elderly Professor has heart attack in public.

[@skull8093]

Apparently this can freeze your phone just for watching it. I know this because that's exactly what happened to me just now.

[@christianboustani8284]

He looks like he's in such pain when he dies

[@mrspiffy8587]

"Poisoning a goomba crashes Paper Mario"

[@gaddlight541]

"Mario, what have you done? You changed the future. You've created a time paradox!"

[@isecodude6114]

Oh my god did he just die? Oh god oh fuck

[@EmiTV]

worth 1 star point

[@dustykh]

*Prof Frankly:dies* Mario: thonk

[@supercrazymario404]

Someone needs to make a rom hack where Mario kills everybody using these methods and it’s a genocide route

[@moronichybrid]

Mario's on the wrong part of town

[@RapidPhantom293]

Breaking news: A red dressed dude kills a old goomba

[@barbarictearemedy]

Amazing content. Thank you for sharing this fascinating stuff!

[@gi5897]

"No stop he is already dead"

[@dontatmeimmoody2895]

Professor Frankly: *dies* Oh no! Anyway

[@supertoast4946]

Where am I? Hey you’re not stryder

[@cullenlatham2366]

but what about the cutsene battle in the credits with doopless and flurrie?

[@stevenpaulboii]

You know? It would be interesting to see what happens if you scan the Partners in the last Doopliss fight in chapter 4..

[@Koopatrol]

You can't. It's greyed out

[@stevenpaulboii]

@@Koopatrol Ohh Well damn..

[@harley_trader]

1:19 Quality content!

[@Arkatox]

Wow, Caesar Reality is very difficult to kill.

[@sethspringborg991]

oh..Franklin got the coronavirus RIP

[@visualcreativemt]

You... MONSTER!!!! O.O

[@JadeiteMcSwag]

That's insane

[@AkaiAzul]

What if Goombella dies the same turn Crump dies?

[@mscup8814]

Why would you kill Goombella? *Because that's optimal*

[@andrewmihovich4252]

3:35 Stands to reason.

[@tanzinitetheterrible4910]

Didn't see this coming!

[@___8241]

I've gotta learn how to hack this game..imagine somehow replacing fights with other bosses and whatnot. Is there a tutorial to this?

[@GrotesqueIy]

Why does he even have HP and the ability to die if he never fights?

[@sagacious03]

Can Life Shrooms trigger for Goombella or Frankly here? Also, how were you already taking 0 damage from Spiny Goombas?

[@PhazonSpear]

Guard + Action Command activation negates 2 points of damage, iirc, which is the exact amount a Spiny Goomba does.

[@sagacious03]

@@PhazonSpear Somehow, I forgot about the defense boost from the Defend Command. Thank you! Now I just have to hope we'll learn if Life Shrooms work here....

[@Joeybott]

bye frankly

[@jjzeme3537]

Eat your cereal

[@wizard1370]

NICE!

[@keeoth4613]

Was the oldhead always green?

[@Thebes]

No, it’s just the poison.

[@marioman3143]

Crash

[@fhuckgoogle4171]

3:01 “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.”

[@axcsmithgmail]

when frankly runs to the enemy side(or any other time) could you use bobbery's bomb throw to damage him? It doesn't require you to specifically target anyone.

[@tvs26]

@Yoshi’s Woolly World no but with the power of hacks it’s probably possible

[@mirroredchaos]

mario: stands around confused frankly: outstanding move!

[@Simon0]

But it was an epic Mario confusion.

[@eeveemaster5794]

I guess Frankly was also confused.

[@Slenderquil]

Who would've guessed that someone might try to switch sides after you try to kill them with poison. It just makes sense.

[@bluespy4050]

*with this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed*

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

*They say shootings are the smell of society*

[@SpinachSALLAD]

Only one star point for beating up an old man? I feel cheated.

[@runningoncylinders3829]

Honesty Professor Caesar Reality is evil, so good on you for thwarting a minion of the Shadow Queen so early in the game.

[@-racine-9485]

I see you are a man of culture!

[@jackwilson5050]

I guess I’m not one, because I’m confused? Would either of y’all mind explaining?

[@-racine-9485]

@@jackwilson5050It's from Book of Mario, a romhack created by Fatguy where the text is translated into different languages, and then back in English. In this rom, Frankly became Honesty Professor Reality, then Professor Caesar, so he is Honesty Professor Caesar Reality in the lore! book-of-mario.fandom.com/wiki/Honesty_Professor_Caesar_Reality He is also evil.

[@jesalt8230]

At least he is not a terrorist.

[@runningoncylinders3829]

@@jesalt8230 Flavio is full of terrorism.

[@robertanderson9447]

I had no idea that Frankly says something if you jump on that Spiny Goomba...

[@crazyfire9470]

Probably because Mario looks like a idiot, jumping on spike

[@Ngcdswii]

Prof. Frankly switching sides is very interesting. What would happen if you gave him a Life Shroom though? (Both when he switches sides and when his death freezes the game)

[@adamzero_]

i now want to see if professer frankly can just straight up use items. i want to see frankly murder mario in cold blood.

[@grabthebagnow]

life shrooms are another glitchy bag of worms. quite a lot more examples there

[@marioman3143]

I don't think he can even get attacked or use items.

[@petersun6451]

What of Prof. Frankly is the boss on the 101st floor of the Pit of 100 Trials and the Shadow Queen was his pawn the whole time 🤔

[@scrowfunk8109]

I believe Mario and every other object that can fight are based off the same object class, meaning most base systems for attacking, using items, having stats etc. are shared amongst all objects that can fight. Because of this, you could probably put a life shroom in franklys inventory and have him be revived. Atleast, that's my guess. There could be a Mario fighter and enemy fighter object class respectively since enemies only carry 1 item max

[@purs3it]

This is so sad y'all I can't believe Frankly's dead

[@corb5905]

Frankly, I dont care

[@ndt_dynamite2247]

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." - Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), Gone With the Wind

[@XarathDominion]

@@ndt_dynamite2247 "Frankly Mi'dear, I dun geer damn." Gone with the wind, unofficial Yorkshire production version (credit to the ZF clan)

[@ndt_dynamite2247]

@@XarathDominion A man of culture i see

[@bennel3588]

I wonder why Mario is being evil. He's probably been brainwashed by Bowser or Doopliss. He is fighting Lord Crump, so none of the x-nauts brainwashed him,

[@gsvproductions8171]

I find it really funny that the developers would have enough foresight to put in "[NO MESSAGE ENGLISH]" for when Mario is forced to speak without Partners or for when Partners speak despite not having assigned dialogue yet they never considered putting in a fail-safe in case Frankly or Goombella die during the tutorials.

[@suddenllybah]

as non-enemies in particular. Bella dying as a enemy when she be unkillable doesn't crash the game.

[@Tuxfanturnip]

When a partner speaks in a cutscene, they probably read from a message table in memory that gives every partner lines for every cutscene. If you fill empty entries in such a table with an obvious placeholder message, it's easy to spot missing lines when testing the translation. If they're never used, you just leave the placeholder. The code assumes that every character has lines in the table, and the data backs that up with at least *something,* which is easy enough. I would guess that the code for having characters speak pretty fundamentally assumes that they have a location on screen, so when you mess that up, who knows what happens.

[@figboot]

@@Tuxfanturnip I'm just imagining the game right after the Japanese text was removed and before the English was translated. Everything is "No messages.[English]"!

[@renakunisaki]

@@figboot Diddy Kong Racing has an unused "Japanese" setting in which every text is literally the word "Japanese".

[@scrowfunk8109]

It's trying to make a non-existent professor frankly speak a message. The game can't make an entity that doesn't exist speak, so it crashes.

[@megagallade4757]

Paper Mario: TTYD genocide route

[@joshuafoote5144]

Rogueport needs a better legal system.

[@PFGFrankly]

Oop

[@grabthebagnow]

kinda why its called rogueport

[@PCFROMVCS]

Make Rogueport great again

[@kayak6034]

Does it even have a legal system????

[@joshuafoote5144]

@@kayak6034 Well, West Rogueport does, but it's not that much better than Central Rogueport.

[@GamerFourFun]

“Nicely done, Mario! Excellent Action Command! That was perfect timing!” Indeed, it was.

[@MAYOFORCE]

It's so bizarre to see Frankley run over to the enemy lineup correctly after all these life shroom glitch videos

[@nicholasdaisyawesomeness1291]

Mario: does nothing Professor Frankly: Perfect action command timing!

[@Enaronia]

Well, he didn't do it wrong.

[@Lugmillord]

Goombella is only worth 1 star point? that's rough.

[@steveh1474]

"you can probably guess whats going to happen" if Goombella dies against Crump. she spins around and dies, just like an ordinary enemy. NO thats NOT what i was expecting! why tf would i think that? game crashes. okay, thats believable. i could see why someone might expect that.

[@nicholasdaisyawesomeness1291]

3:25 Mario: takes no damage Also Mario: dies

[@somerandomhandle]

its cause he had no hp

[@asparagusoreo3280]

He got crumpled a tiny bit and that triggered his OCD, so he died.

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

0-0=0

[@williamhrivnak7345]

3:12, Frankly is low key embarrassed about getting his ass kicked and tries to change the subject

[@hunt7533]

Frankly: Dies Game: *HOLD UP*

[@sonicdude210]

frankly: *dies* mario: hmmmmmm... game: *crash* mario: well shit.

[@BePostiveStayHydrated]

Goombella and Mario: do nothing due to confusion Frankly: outstanding!

[@sophiefilo16]

So, Frankly switches allegiances if you poison him. Understandable...

[@thatguy7248]

Dang even frankly got corona

[@primarygavr]

4:06 hahahahaha, that was so close...indeed!

[@wannabestrega]

He’s so disgusted he can’t even look at you

[@Quario]

Rip Honesty Professor Caesar Reality

[@tominatorK]

Frankly just couldn’t take the abuse so he joined the enemies.

[@marxiplier4322]

Every time the game crashes, I keep expecting a jumpscare for some reason.

[@Empereur-Franc]

WE WANT PAPER MARIO THE THOUSAND YEAR DOOR REMAKE

[@Saiyan254]

From the future it’s out

[@Empereur-Franc]

​@@Saiyan254 insane I don't even remember writing this comment. I finished the remake and we got what we wanted it is very good🗿

[@dylanzlol7293]

mario murdered a pink goomba and an old man

[@metalex64]

What if you were to use Goombella's tattle on these tutorial enemies (Lord Crump in Rogueport, Goombella, Frankly), and against "Mario Doopliss" (before guessing his name and back at his home for the rematch) and your partners?

[@jamesonshekmeister]

I’m surprised no one has made a top 10 Anime Betrayal/Saddest Anime Death joke yet. Until now, of course.

[@OroborOSX11]

Exactly what I would expect to happen from any of these scenarios. There’s no way they would have programmed any kind of weird cases like this.

[@mannofdober873]

Professor Frankly has a heart attack and dies during a tutorial.