King Olly, also known as the Origami King, is the titular main antagonist of Paper Mario: The Origami King. He is the ruler of the Origami Kingdom, the elder brother and arch-nemesis of Olivia, the leader of the Folded Soldiers, and commander in chief of the Legion of Stationery.
Biography[]
Background[]
King Olly was created by the Origami Craftsman to fit an origami castle during the Toads' origami festival, granting him life by using the forbidden Fold of Life technique. The Origami Craftsman wrote a message on Olly's body, encouraging him to grow into a great king. However, Olly misinterpreted the message on his body as a careless scribble and developed a hatred for the Toads and all those made of flat paper instead of origami. Sealing the Origami Craftsman within his basement wall and crafting his younger sister, Olivia, with the Fold of Life to serve alongside him, Olly turns the office stationary into his elite warriors known as the Legion of Stationary and leaves for the Mushroom Kingdom.
Paper Mario The Origami King[]
On the morning of the Origami Festival, King Olly raids Princess Peach's Castle, planning to turn it into a replica of his castle and folds Peach into his origami servant. What happens next is unknown but Bowser most likely attacked with a large army of minions to try and kidnap Peach only to be defeated by the Legion of Stationary. He is then stapled into a small square and hung on a peg in the dungeons and forced to watch as King Olly uses a Stapler to keep brainwash his minions and turn them into his Folded Soldiers, using in place and following his command. He also seals Olivia behind the dungeon wall for not sharing her brother's beliefs on domination.
King Olly waits until Mario and Luigi arrive at the castle, intent on keeping Luigi prisoner and converting Mario with Peach dropping Mario into the castle dungeon for refusing to fold himself, he meets Olivia behind the dungeon wall. King Olly himself is first seen under the disguise of a yellow origami Shy Guy when he accompanies Origami Peach to confront Mario, Olivia, and Bowser on the roof of Peach's Castle after they escape from the dungeons. He sends some Shy Guys and an Origami Goomba (who Mario met earlier) on them only for them all to be destroyed. The Shy Guy then reveals himself as Olly, having conquered the Mushroom Kingdom in order to create a new kingdom of origami and curses the castle and the nearby settlements with five long streamers. They carry the castle to the top of a volcano at which point Mario, Olivia, and Bowser escape via a Shy Guy piloted Clown Car but are separated when it flips upside down because of having to dodge a Streamer. Mario lands in the Whispering Woods and finds Olivia and teams up with her to stop her brother's mad plans. During their quest, Olly sends his Folded Soldiers and Paper Macho Soldiers out to stop them.
At some time between this and Sweetpaper Valley, King Olly deploys the Legion of Stationary to defend the streamer spools protecting Origami Castle. He sends Colored Pencils to Overlook Tower where he establishes himself at the top, Rubber Band to Shogun Studops where he bases himself in Big Sho Theater, Hole Punch to Scorching Sandpaper Desert where he throws a rave in the Shroom Temple, Tape is sent to the Great Sea where is based at the very top of the Sea Tower, Scissors leads an attack on Bowser's Castle which crashlands in Shangri-spa thanks to Kamek sabotaging it, and Stapler is kept at Peach's Castle to serve as a bodyguard.
After a trip through the Eddy Rapids, King Olly meet Mario and Olivia once more in Sweetpaper Valley as they follow the Yellow Streamer. Olly attempts to convince Olivia once last to rejoin him but she refuses. King Olly is disappointed in not being able to share his glory with her but laments her "blindness" before crushing her flat under a gigantic boulder which also blocks the way to Scorching Sandpaper Desert and leaving. King Olly is then completely absent from the game until the final area although Bobby the Bob-omb sacrifices himself to destroy the boulder and save Olivia.
Once all streamers are lifted, Mario and friends reach Peach's Castle and confront Origami Peach once more but King Olly transforms the entirety of Peach's Castle into the Origami Castle. After killing two of his origami henchmen who cowardly flee by twisting around the past which drops them into a sea of paper eating plants, he is displeased by Mario and Olivia's presence so summons an Origami Sumo Bro to try and kill them like he did the two Origami Soldiers before collapsing the staircase and leaving. However, they easily make it through the Sumo Bro and the other guards and make it to a massive hall with munching plants and a massive red carpet across the room. King Olly arrives and tries to sabotage them by switching the carpet but they easily figure it out and easily reach the penultimate room of the castle. There, Olly sends the Stapler after the group but Mario manages to easily defeat it by ripping it's head in half. Once Mario, Olivia, and Bowser make their way up to Olly's throne room, he reveals that he stuck Peach's origami body on the wall (sarcastically claiming that Peach is happier this way) and has created a plentiful of origami cranes, being only one short to perform the Thousand Cranes technique and have a wish granted to erase the existence of all Toads on the planet, causing even Bowser to point out how far he is going with his plans. He taunts Mario about how he will turn his corpse into the last origami crane and prepares to kill him and his friends to use his body to succeed.
King Olly at first tries to defeat them by turning into each of the Vellumentals they have fought but is easily defeated but refuses any sympathy and reveals how betrayed he feels over Olivia betraying him. He then turns into a giant form similar to the statues of him throughout the castle and flips the ringed platform they fight on so that there are no more rings and sends the Toad audience spinning into the ether. Fortunately, Olivia folds Bowser into Mega Bowser who gains the upper-hand against Mega King Olly with Mario aiding him by using the 10000 Fold Arms to add momentum. Mega King Olly tries to kill Mario with boomerangs but that plan fails so he tries to crush Mario under an origami Thwomp but it is easily dodged and plunges off the platform to his supposed death. Unfortunately, King Olly's intense hatred for Mario allows him to enlarge into a ginormous form and flick Bowser clean off the platform although Olivia unveils an ultimate technique that she can use to defeat King Olly though it involves the whole board being a 1000 Fold Arms circle. Olly mixes up the symbols and tries to crush, bisect, and swat Mario to death but he avoids them all and completes the circle. Olly tries to destroy Mario by crushing him with his hammers, bisecting him with scissor blades, blasting him with paper aeroplanes and tries to crush him in a rapid attack barrage but Mario throws them all of and activates the Nagic Circle. Using it, he lays a devastating beat-down on King Olly with the 1000 Fold Arms before Olivia turns into the Olivia Hammer and Mario finishes off King Olly with three hits from it, sending King Olly plunging off the platform entirely.
After the battle, King Olly is still alive but mortally wounded and congratulates Olivia for besting him and has her read out the Origami Craftman's message to him. Realizing it was never a vandalizing scrawl, Olly apologizes to Olivia for going so far in his quest for vengeance, saying that his heart was only fueled by rage. Olivia finds the writing and he asks her to read it as one last humiliation but he finds it is a very nice message; "Dearest Olly, may you grow into a fair and kind king." Surprised by this, Olly finally atones for his sins and expresses regret for all of his actions. In his dying breath, he asks Olivia to turn his body into the last crane to set everything right. Shortly after, his body unfolds into generic lifeless paper.
Legacy[]
Upon her brother's death, Olivia turns Olly's paper body into a crane, performs the Thousand Cranes technique, and wishes to revert everything her brother caused. With that, all origami is lifted from the Mushroom Kingdom, turning everyone cursed by Olly back to normal, including Peach and her castle, but Olivia herself also ceases to exist in the process because she was brought to life by him. After her death, Mario was sent into a brief depression but his spirit is lifted upon seeing her and Olly's throne on a model Origami Castle during the Origami Festival. In a secret ending unlocked after clearing the game 100%, the Origami Craftsman places a miniature version of Olly and Olivia on his origami castle, fulfilling the role their creator intended them for.
In other media[]
Super Smash Bros.[]
King Olly appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an Ace-level attack-type spirit that grants no effect when used. His spirit battle is against Toon Link favoring air attacks and a giant metal Pac-Man (representing Stapler) on the Ω form of Peach's Castle. Only Toon Link needs to be defeated to win.