Full Name: Dark "Joe" Boo
Species: Boo (Dark Boo in particular)
Age: ???
Physical Description: Shaped exactly like a normal Boo, but the color is a little different; body is purple, eyes are an eerie yellow, tongue is blue
Appearances: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Favorite Food: Spaghetti
Favorite Games: Anything that features a ghost at any point
Favorite Characters: 1. Boo and King Boo, 2. Doopliss
Favorite Koopaling: Lemmy
Strength: More powerful than a normal Boo, but he's still just a ghost, so a little weak
Intelligence: Above average, but usually lowered by lollipops, overdosage of TV, and Gameboy
Previous Home: Poshley Heights Sanctum
Present Home: Lemmy's Land (an apartment near Lemmy's Interviews)
Idol: Dark Koopa (Shh! Don't tell him!)
Quote: "Lollipop!"

Simply called Joe before his death, he now prefers to be called Dark Boo. He is but one of many of his kind. Joe doesn't remember what he was before he died, but he likes to think he was a member of the Royal Family (Koopa Klan). He is not. As soon as his death occured, he was called out by the royal King Boo. At the time, he was an average Boo. Not knowing why, he simply joined the Boo Clan.

Being one of the more mischievous Boos, Joe made friends quickly. At the time, the Boo Clan resided in an old abandoned castle. Eventually he joined an exclusive group of Boos, all troublemakers. Yes, I know, all Boos are troublemakers, but these Boos were different. They were skilled at tricking and pulling pranks on their own kind, and King Boo thought they could be put to use. He was wrong.

One night, in a part of the castle reserved for these creeps, the Boos were trying to think up a new prank. They had mistreated every other ghost in the clan... except for one... Joe KNEW it was a bad idea to prank the king, but if he backed down, the others would think of him as a coward, and maybe even boot him out of the group. So, he went along relunctantly. At the time, the king had been sleeping in his private room. The troublemakers entered the highly-restricted lounge. For their prank, they needed to get some dirt on their boss.

The group searched high and low for something- anything they could use. Just as the group was about to give up, Joe called the group over to a well-hidden dresser. Wondering why a ghost would need clothes, they opened the drawer slowly. And there it was. The Mario Doll! It was perfect. The leader of the pack complimented Joe on his good work. Joe sighed in relief. As the Boos were about to exit the room, they heard a boom. They turned around, and to their horror, King Boo was floating there. King Boo was never sleeping. He was invisible. After screaming at the group for a while, he pondered for a moment. He couldn't have such a disrespectful bunch in his clan. It just wouldn't work. He had to get rid of them. Joe was scared to death (how ironic). He already feared the king, in a respectful sort of way. He feared for his afterlife.

King Boo brought the group to Poshley Heights. Joe and others wondered why he had taken them to a great place. It turns out it was punishment. King Boo explained that they were to stay in the Poshley Heights Sanctum's secret painting area until he had cooled off. The group of ghosts realized they couldn't disobey the head-honcho. So, they willingly entered the painting. Time passed.

Over time, the Boos wondered what an orange (garnet) star was doing on a pedestal, but they ignored it. Joe had smuggled in a Gameboy. Oddly, the batteries lasted those hundred years. About 50 years inside, they all noticed something. While the group was busy annoying each other, the leader had swiped Joe's Gameboy as a prank. The bunch began taunting him. Filled with rage, Joe had dashed forward, knocking the leader to the ground. Their boss moaned and groaned. It was obvious: They were now stronger! Joe could NEVER have done that before! The Boos looked at each other and realized they had lost their chalky paleness, and were turning purple. The tongues had been turning from red to blue. Also, the eyes had changed as well. Now they had glowing, creepy, yellow eyes. The pack noticed that the air looked leaky... as if paint was dripping from the ceiling. Then it hit one of them. It was the oils! The chemicals in the painting they were now in had leaked into their ecto-plasmic skin. They decided to call themselves Dark Boos. They were about to leave... but yet... they feared their king...

One day, unexpectedly, a chubby-looking man with a mustache, overalls, and a hat with an M on it (you'd better know who this is) came through the doors to the painting world. Not knowing he wanted nothing to do with them, the group attempted to attack Mario. They figured since they were stronger than before, they could take this newcomer. They were wrong. Mario POUNDED them. When Dark Joe realized he was the last one left, he fled to hide behind the pedestal. Fearing the worst, he waited for the inevitable. But nothing happened. Dark Joe looked around, and noticed that Mario was gone, as well as the orange star. Dark Joe pondered to himself, and realized it was time for him to leave. He left the others lieing there.

After leaving Poshley Heights, Dark Joe wandered into an area (AKA Lemmy's Land) that looked busy. He ran into a rainbow-haired Koopa riding on a ball (Lemmy!, and decided to ask for a few answers. Lemmy explained everything: Mario, Bowser, Lemmy's Land, etcetera. When Dark Joe heard something about an Interview, he was intrigued. After Lemmy had left, Dark Joe decided to lounge around the Interviews, sneaking in backstage and watching the Interviews. Then he felt ready to reintroduce himself to the new society.

As an Interview was about to start, Dark Joe cut the power. He snuck into the studio and introduced himself. A few audience members were peeved. Lemmy gave the ghoul a chance, however. Dark Joe then decided he would just be called Dark Boo from then on. When his first Interview began, he almost had a heart attack at the sight of his old master, though he tried to keep his cool. However, King Boo had forgotten the incident and the show wasn't bad for Dark Boo's first try, except for the part where he destroyed the studio. He hosted a few more Interviews after that, and is still interviewing poor saps today. He even took on Doopliss as his permanent partner, if he doesn't end up in the hospital. He recently hired some security, who don't show up often, and is doing great for himself. Dark Boo feels a bit intimidated by the other interviewers, though.

Only one mystery remains: How did he get a Gameboy before they even existed? Who knows. Maybe that will be revealed in the future.

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