Awesome / Paper Mario: Color Splash

• A villainous one for a team of Shy Guys; after you coerce a Shy Guy to repaint the Mini Paint Star on Ruddy Road, he and his cohorts roll up the entire level in an attempt to kill you.
• After spending a lot of the stage as a Fake Ultimate Hero, Justice Toad proves himself useful when he spontaneously grows a key out of his head and uses it to help you get a Mini Paint Star.
• The blue Toad who wants to sail to the edge of the world becomes an awesome surfboarder when you use the Fan Thing to help him get back to shore.
• The Mountain Sage Toad demonstrates his power by speeding to the top of a cliff and leveling an entire rock formation with one psychic impact that leaves a massive crater in the side before the top half breaks off outright. He could take on Bowser himself, but Chosen Toads aren't supposed to use their powers for "such savagery."
• A Soggy Shy Guy is bullied for not being part of the crowd, but determines to be himself and stay a single-layer Shy Guy of awesomeness. He also thanks Mario for saving him from the waterwheel.
• Getting through Iggy's coliseum trap of waves of enemies is awesome, especially if you use a Super Star to even the odds and plow through them.
• The Big Blue Paint Star repaints the ocean's colorless expanse, which extends to the horizon. While it doesn't happen until the end of the Purple chapter, the world map's entire ocean is filled in after clearing Fortune Island, which implies that the wave of blue paint stretched all the way through the ocean around Port Prisma's continent.
• The Koopaling battles do not disappoint. Not only do they have awesome backing music, but their attacks are very unique, and even after using the correct Thing, most of them still manage to give it their all.
• For a Toad, the Sunset Express's conductor proves quite awesome when serious during the train level. Instead of just standing around in panic like the rest of the Toads when Larry hijacks his train, the conductor grabs a handcar with Mario and takes chase. Then during the boss fight, he joins in to chase off the Shy Guy who keeps healing Larry through the smokestack. Even Larry himself remarks on how courageous this is for a Toad.
• Roy went to night school and fights smart, stealing Mario's paint before he can even attack, using it against him to hinder his actions, then covering the screen in black paint.
• After all the Big Paint Stars are saved, Mario tries to reach Bowser's castle, but the rainbow to get there is too steep to climb. Who comes to the rescue? Luigi, in a powered-up Kart complete with the infamous death stare.
• The entire raid on Black Bowser's castle. After Mario falls through a trap door, he fights off Roy, then poses as a bucket-carrying Shy Guy on an assembly line to sneak into where they're making bombs. He sets off giant Bob-Ombs with smaller ones, destroying the black paint tank, but also making the paint chase him by rising and flowing down a hallway. After escaping, he returns to where he fell to face off with Bowser once and for all. The music and scenery really make the whole thing.
• The final battle with Bowser has amazing music for the second half and involves Mario using a three-dimensional Huey as a shield after activating his Thing card to block his attacks and steal the black paint off him, with a time limit to how much Huey can take before he collapses. His pre-battle speech is also worth mentioning, even if his Exposition Fairy trait peeks through:
  "Thanks, Mario. I feel kind of... heavy... but I also feel strong! So, here's the plan. You need to use me as a shield to block Bowser's black-paint attacks. Don't worry about me. I feel stronger than ever right now! I should be able to steal a little paint from him every time you block an attack. You got that? Focus on blocking his attacks by pressing A at just the right time. LET'S DO THIS."
  • After the battle and the escape, Huey manages to wring out the entire castle and take the black paint so far away it can never hurt anyone again.

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