Francis

Francis is a nerdy chameleon and the main antagonist in Chapter 3 in Super Paper Mario. He is also the hidden true main antagonist of the 2nd half of the Anime Arc.

History
His first appearance was a brief cameo in "SMG4: AREA 64" at Bowser's birthday party.

In SMG4: Doki Doki Mario Club, he, along with Fishy Boopkins and Lemmy, protested that his waifu be made real. However, he and Lemmy were both shot by a giant minigun, while Fishy Boopkins escaped.

In SMG4: Mario's Illegal Operation, he makes a reappearance as the boss of the Anime Cartel, a faction whose purpose is to smuggle anime ever since its ban in SMG4: Mario and the Anime Challenge. He gets angry when Mario loses the merchandise, so he has SMG4, Fishy Boopkins, and Bob escort Saiko Bichitaru to Japan, while he makes Mario stay and open a lemonade stand to recover his lost profits and merch.

In "SMG4: Mario's Lemonade Stand", he and the rest of the Anime Cartel arrived at the street where Mario sells lemonade across the Moo Milk Factory to fight with Jeeves and his gang. After Meggy arrives to harshly lecture them for their behavior, he and Jeeves eventually reconcile.

In "SMG4: The Japan Trip", Saiko shows a video on her phone to Axol where the Anime Cartel fought with the A.S.S. when the Anime ban passes for 3 weeks, which leads to a disaster.

In "SMG4: Mario Saves Anime", Saiko called them to show them Axol, a famous manga artist. He and the rest of gang praises him and later helped them unban anime.

In "SMG4: Mario and the Experiment", it is revealed that Francis is the kidnapper of the Inklings and Axol, and is using the Ink Weaver for his own desires. He plans to use the Inklings' ink to fully power up Ink Weaver so with it he can create his own “Waifu Island”.

In SMG4: World War Mario, he draws up Sephiroth and reveals himself as the real mastermind, but gets "defeated" by Mario and SMG4's teamwork, and the Ink Zuccer 2000 stops draining Meggy's ink. However, he suddenly went as far to kill Desti via Sephiroth impaling her on his katana, much to everyone's horror of what he just committed, all while laughing about it.

Personality
Francis is known to be an obnoxious, egoistical chameleon, who has an obsession towards two things; anime and his waifus. He is also shown to be very stingy and commanding, as he forbade Mario to join with his friends to go to Japan and ordered him to recover his profit that he lost to him.

It was later revealed that he is a power hungry and sociopathic person, who is very possessive of the Ink Weaver and is obsessed with his plans to create an island full of waifus for his own greedy desire. It is possible that the Ink Weaver drove him insane with power, and may probably betray the rest of the Anime Cartel and not grant their wishes, as Axol attempts to warn two members of the Cartel that he will do so.

He is also completely heartless and sadistic, as he went far to stab Desti at the hands of his own creations, and even laughed insanely at the group for not paying attention to him. He also didn't care about the risk of Meggy dying via The Ink Zuccer 2000, even stating that she would live anyways, much to Axol's disgust.

Appearances

 * SMG4: AREA 64
 * SMG4: Doki Doki Mario Club
 * SMG4: Mario's Illegal Operation
 * SMG4: Mario's Lemonade Stand
 * SMG4: The Japan Trip
 * SMG4: Mario Saves Anime
 * SMG4: Mario and the Experiment
 * SMG4: World War Mario

Trivia

 * Francis being the antagonist was foreshadowed. Tari warned Mario that the Anime Cartel were bad news, as she mentioned in SMG4: Mario's Lemonade Stand. Furthermore, Bob asked if someone who liked waifus would ever resort to kidnapping, though it was also a joke. He also knew of the Ink Weaver. His base of operations is known as Anime Island.