Editing Pearl

{{about|the collectible in Luigi's Mansion|the character from [[Super Paper Mario]]|[[Pearl (character)]]}}
[[File:LM Pearls.png|thumb|Some pearls in the [[Study (Luigi's Mansion)|Study]]]]
'''Pearls'''<ref>[https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_GameCube/Manual/formated/Luigi-s_Mansion_-_2002_-_Nintendo.pdf ''Luigi's Mansion'' instruction booklet], page 24.</ref> in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] have appeared as both items and objects.

==History==
===''Donkey Kong Country'' / ''Donkey Kong Land''===
In ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Land]]'', pearls are spit out by [[Clambo]]s as an attack. When spit out, pearls travel straightforward in only a single direction.

===''Donkey Kong 64''===
In ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'', the [[Mermaid]] owns pearls that had been stolen by [[Oyster]]s, and [[Tiny Kong]] has to retrieve them for a [[Golden Banana]].

===''Luigi's Mansion'' series===
====''Luigi's Mansion''====
In ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'' and [[Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)|its Nintendo 3DS remake]], pearls are collectible items dropped by non-area boss [[portrait ghost]]s. Pearls determine which frame a portrait ghost has and the portrait photo after being returned to the [[Gallery (Luigi's Mansion)|Gallery]]. There are three sizes of pearls: '''small pearls''',<ref name=PG78>Sinfield, George. ''Luigi's Mansion'' Player's Guide. Page 78. "''Every non-boss gallery ghost starts with 100 hit points. If you extract 90 hit points in a single pull, the ghost will drop a large pearl. For 50 points in a pull, you’ll get a medium pearl. For every 10 points you pull from a ghost, you’ll earn a small pearl.''"</ref> worth 50,000G; '''medium pearls''',<ref name=PG78/> worth 100,000G; and '''large pearls'''<ref name=PG78/> (or '''Big Pearls'''), worth 1,000,000G.<ref>Sinfield, George. ''Luigi's Mansion'' Player's Guide. Page 95.</ref> The smaller ones are awarded for every 10 [[Heart Point|HP]] that [[Luigi]] vacuums from a portrait ghost, up until reaching 50 HP, which is when it begins to drop medium-sized pearls per 10 HP vacuumed. The cycle reverts to small pearls if Luigi unsuccessfully captures the portrait ghost on the first turn, unless he can vacuum another 50 HP from it. This is unlikely, because portrait ghosts have 100 HP, meaning it must break free from Luigi precisely halfway (with 50 HP remaining). If Luigi successfully captures a portrait ghost on the first try, it drops four small pearls, four medium pearls, and one large pearl, totaling 1,600,000G in value.

The only non-boss portrait ghosts not to drop pearls are paired with another ghost. The blue [[Clockwork Soldiers|Clockwork Soldier]] drops pearls, therefore the pink and green ones do not. Between [[Henry and Orville]], the latter one drops the pearls. [[The Floating Whirlindas]] are simultaneously vacuumed, meaning that they share dropped pearls.

After completing an area, Luigi releases the captured portrait ghosts into the [[Ghost Portrificationizer]]. Their frames and photographs are based on which pearls were collected by Luigi. A frame turns bronze if Luigi collects only small pearls, silver for both small and medium ones, and gold if he collects every pearl of each size.

Luigi can earn up to 76 small pearls, 76 medium pearls, and 19 large pearls in [[Luigi's Mansion (location)|the entire mansion]] if he manages to successfully vacuum up every portrait ghost in one turn. These pearls all add up to 30,400,000G in total. Luigi can earn up to 171 small pearls if he does not collect medium or large pearls. Like with the other collected items, Luigi can check the pearls he has collected from the [[Game Boy Horror]].

Pearls are absent from the [[Boss Rush]] mode of the Nintendo 3DS remake, though Luigi can still achieve higher frames based on his performance when fighting a portrait ghost.

====''Luigi's Mansion 3''====
Pearls reappear as collectible items in ''[[Luigi's Mansion 3]]'', where they are the rarest and most valuable collectible. Unlike in ''Luigi's Mansion'', the pearls are worth 100G.

==Official profiles==
===''Luigi's Mansion'' (Nintendo 3DS)===
*'''Digital manual description:''' "''These are dropped by portrait ghosts. They come in small, medium, and large sizes, and earning them will improve the frames and portraits in the gallery.''"

==Gallery==
<gallery>
SmallPearl.png|Small pearl icon (''Luigi's Mansion'')
MediumPearl.png|Medium pearl icon (''Luigi's Mansion'')
BigPearl.png|Large pearl icon (''Luigi's Mansion'')
Small Pearl LM 3DS.png|Small pearl icon (Nintendo 3DS remake)
Medium Pearl LM 3DS.png|Medium pearl icon (Nintendo 3DS remake)
Big Pearl LM 3DS.png|Large pearl icon (Nintendo 3DS remake)
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Spa=Perla
|SpaM=Pearl
|Fre=Perle
|FreM=Pearl
}}

==References==
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