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Paper Girls
Paper Girls: creator-owned Image Comics series (2015-2019, 30 issues) by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang about four 12-year-old paper delivery girls in 1988 Ohio caught in a time war; adapted for Prime Video in 2022.
Paper Girls (2022 TV series)
Paper Girls (2022) is a Prime Video science fiction drama adapted from Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's Image Comics series, following four 1988 paper girls caught in a time-travel war; eight episodes, cancelled after one season.
Paper marbling
Paper marbling: floating colors on a thickened liquid bath and transferring the pattern to paper. Traditions include Japanese suminagashi (12th c.), Persian abri and Turkish ebru, and European bookbinding marbling from the 17th century.
Paper Mario
Paper Mario: Nintendo/Intelligent Systems RPG series starring a papercraft Mario, begun on N64 (2000) with timed action-command turn-based combat; best known entry The Thousand-Year Door, remade on Switch in 2024.
Paper Mario: Color Splash
Paper Mario: Color Splash is a 2016 action-adventure role-playing game for the Wii U, developed by Intelligent Systems, in which Mario restores color to Prism Island with a paint hammer.
Paper Mario: The Origami King
Paper Mario: The Origami King (Nintendo Switch, July 17, 2020; Intelligent Systems/Nintendo). Mario and Olivia battle King Olly's Folded Soldiers using timed ring-puzzle battles, the 1,000-Fold Arms, and confetti repairs; Metacritic 80.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is Intelligent Systems' turn-based Mario RPG, released on GameCube October 11, 2004 and remade for Switch May 23, 2024; known for stage-audience battles, Action Commands, badges, and 1.94 million Switch units sold.
Paper money
Paper money, also called paper currency, is currency in the form of printed banknotes issued by a monetary authority, first appearing in China between the 7th and 11th centuries.
Paper Moon (film)
Paper Moon (1973) is Peter Bogdanovich's black-and-white comedy-drama starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as Depression-era Kansas con artists, adapted from Joe David Brown's novel Addie Pray; Tatum O'Neal won the Oscar at age 10.
Paper plane
A paper plane, also called a paper airplane, is a toy glider made by folding a sheet of paper, typically thrown by hand and flown without an engine.
Paper Planes (M.I.A. song)
Paper Planes: 2007 M.I.A. song from Kala, produced with Diplo and Switch, sampling the Clash's Straight to Hell; triple platinum, Billboard Hot 100 No. 4, Grammy Record of the Year nominee, famous for gunshot and cash-register chorus.
Paper recycling
Paper recycling converts used paper and paperboard into pulp that can be manufactured into new paper products; the United States recycled about 45 million tons in 2025.
Paper Rocket
Paper Rocket (பேப்பர் ராக்கெட்) is a 2022 Tamil-language Zee5 web series written and directed by Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi, starring Kalidas Jayaram and Tanya Ravichandran; six therapy-group strangers take a road trip across Tamil Nadu.
Paper sack
A paper sack is a flexible packaging container made of paper, used to ship and store bulk dry goods such as cement, flour, and animal feed.
Paper size
Paper size, also known as paper format, is a standardized sheet dimension, best known through the ISO 216 A series, whose A4 is the international standard for correspondence.
Paper sizing
Paper sizing is the treatment of paper with chemicals to control how liquids wet or penetrate it, keeping ink held out for writing and printing.
Paper sons
Paper sons (纸生仔, zhishengzai) were Chinese immigrants who entered the United States under false documents claiming citizenship-derived or merchant-family status, a practice opened by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake's destruction of birth records and ended by the 1965 Immigration Act.
Paper spray ionization
Paper spray ionization (PSI) is an ambient mass spectrometry method introduced at Purdue University in 2010 that ionizes analytes on paper with solvent and high voltage.
Paper spray mass spectrometry
Paper spray mass spectrometry (PS-MS) is an ambient ionization method in which a wetted, voltage-biased paper triangle holding the sample produces ions directly for analysis.
Paper tiger
Paper tiger (zhilaohu, 纸老虎) means something seemingly powerful but actually fragile. Mao Zedong coined its political use in 1946, calling the atom bomb and all reactionaries paper tigers; the phrase later spread into English political rhetoric.
Paper Tiger (2026 film)
Paper Tiger is James Gray's 2026 American crime drama, his ninth feature, starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller as a 1986 Queens family entangled with the Russian mafia; it competed at Cannes 2026 and opened NYFF64, released by Neon in November 2026.
Paper towel
A paper towel is a disposable, absorbent sheet of tissue paper used for drying hands and wiping spills, first marketed in 1907 by the Scott Paper Company of Philadelphia.
Paper Towns (film)
Paper Towns (2015), Jake Schreier's adaptation of John Green's 2008 novel, stars Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne; screenplay by Neustadter and Weber, $31.9M US gross, PG-13, 109 minutes.
Paper Trail
Paper Trail is T.I.'s sixth studio album (2008, Grand Hustle), written under house arrest on firearms charges. It debuted at number one with 568,000 copies, sold 4,222,500 total, and spawned the Hot 100 chart-toppers "Whatever You Like" and "Live Your Life".
Paper wasp
Paper wasp (Polistes): primitively eusocial vespid wasp with open paper nests, linear dominance hierarchies, face recognition in P. fuscatus, and the invasive P. dominula.
Paper wasp colony cycle
The paper wasp colony cycle is the annual sequence of stages a Polistes colony passes through: spring nest founding, worker emergence, production of reproductives, and autumn decline.
Paper wasp nest
A paper wasp nest is the open, single-comb nest that Polistes queens build from chewed plant fiber and saliva, suspended by a stalk and lacking any envelope.
Paper wasps and humans
Paper wasps, also called umbrella wasps, are wasps of the genus Polistes that build umbrella-shaped nests on buildings, sting only in defense, and eat pest caterpillars.
Paperback
Paperback (softcover): a glue-bound book with a flexible cardboard cover. Covers the mass-market paperback (small, cheap, about 4 by 7 inches) pioneered by Albatross in 1932 and Penguin in 1935, versus larger trade paperbacks; mass-market unit sales fell about 84 percent from 2004 to 2024.
Paperback Writer
"Paperback Writer" is a 1966 Beatles single, also known as "Rain"'s A-side, written mainly by Paul McCartney as a letter to a publisher, recorded 13-14 April 1966 at EMI with a loudspeaker-as-microphone bass technique, and a number one in the US and UK.