Paper Mario 5: The Rise of Shadow/Tropes

This is a listing of tropes found in Paper Mario 5: The Rise of Shadow.

Tropes

 * Big Bad: Lord Cloak.
 * Doing It For The Art: Supposedly, the origin of the entire project was due to Pyrostar's dissatisfaction with Sticker Star. Especially the lack of partners.
 * Downloadable Content: The other games in the trilogy were originally intended to be this before becoming standalone games.
 * Heel Face Turn:
 * Loads and Loads And LOADS of Characters: There are an absolutely massive amount of partners in the first game. See Ragtag Group of Heroes entry for more details.
 * Ragtag Group of Heroes: Let's see, we have And that's only the first game!
 * Secret Boss:.
 * Spiritual Sequel: Paper Mario: Legend of the Sun Flower. It has virtually nothing to do with the plot of PM5 at all, but the development team is the same.