Dark Bones
- This article is about the enemy from the Paper Mario series. For the playable character in Mario Super Sluggers, see Dry Bones § Mario Baseball series.
- Not to be confused with Dark Dull Bones.
| Dark Bones | |
|---|---|
 Artwork from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door | |
| First appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) |
| Latest appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024) |
| Variant of | Dry Bones |
- “Let those who would disturb her sleep fall into the depths of endless darkness...”
- —Dark Bones, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Dark Bones are enemies in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its Nintendo Switch remake. They are the most powerful type of Dry Bones. Instead of being pale gray with red shoes, they are indigo with purple shoes. Dark Bones are only found in the Palace of Shadow, where they are seen twice, once in a corridor and yet again in Palace of Shadow Tower.
The first Dark Bones' pre-battle speech seems to indicate that it has been ordered to keep the Shadow Queen from awakening. Once Mario interacts with the inanimate Dark Bones pile, a horde of Dry Bones fills the room and Mario must use his hammer to drive them off and reach the Dark Bones. During the battle, the Dark Bones fights alongside four Dry Bones. In the remake, a different arrangement of the Event Battle 2 theme plays in this battle.
The second Dark Bones appears in a room with a Dull Bones, a Red Bones, and a Dry Bones. To obtain the room's Palace Key, Mario must defeat each enemy from weakest to strongest, with the Dark Bones being the strongest.
In battle, Dark Bones behave like regular Dry Bones, having the same moves and stats except much higher HP. After being defeated in both areas they appear in, they cannot be fought again.
In the Super Mario Mash-up in Minecraft, the Wither Skeletons resemble Dark Bones.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]
GameCube[edit]
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Bones | ||||||||
|
Max HP | 20 | Attack | 5 | Defense | 2 | ||
| Location(s) | Palace of Shadow | Role | Boss, common | Level | 34 | |||
| Sleep? | 0% | Dizzy? | 20% | Confuse? | 20% | |||
| Tiny? | 80% | Stop? | 65% | Soft? | 80% | |||
| Burn? | 100% | Freeze? | 60% | Fright? | 0% | |||
| Gale Force? | 60% | KO? | 85% | Moves | Bone Throw (5), Multibone (3x3), Shake (N/A), Get Up (+20HP), Build (Summons Dry Bones) | |||
| Exp. points | 0 | Coins | 6 | Items | Fire Flower (drop only), Palace Key (drop only) | |||
| Tattle Log #: 23 |
Log | It's the baddest of the Bones bunch, so its HP is really high. When its HP get down to 0, it might rise again. | ||||||
| Tattle | That's a Dark Bones. It's the baddest of the Bones gang. Max HP is 20, Attack is 5 and Defense is 0. When its HP goes down to 0, it collapses into a pile, but it'll eventually rise again. Fire and explosions will put a permanent end to it getting back up, though. Its HP is high so it's hard to take it down. Like any other Bones, it sometimes builds friends if it feels outnumbered. It's a tough enemy. You better take it and its buddies out all at once. | |||||||
Nintendo Switch[edit]
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Bones | ||||||||
|
Max HP | 20 | Attack | 5 | Defense | 2 | ||
| Location(s) | Palace of Shadow | Role | Mini-Boss | Level | 34 | |||
| Sleep? | 0% | Dizzy? | 20% | Confuse? | 20% | |||
| Tiny? | 80% | Stop? | 65% | Soft? | 80% | |||
| Burn? | 100% | Freeze? | 60% | Fright? | 0% | |||
| Gale Force? | 60% | KO? | 85% | Moves | Bone Throw (5), Multibone (3x3), Shake (N/A), Get Up (+20HP), Build (Summons Dry Bones) | |||
| Exp. points | 0 | Coins | 6 | Items | Fire Flower (drop only), Palace Key (drop only) | |||
| Tattle Log #: 24 |
Log | It's the baddest of the Bones bunch, so its HP is really high. When its HP get down to 0, it might rise again. | ||||||
| Tattle | That's a Dark Bones. It's the baddest of the Bones gang. Max HP is 20, Attack is 5 and Defense is 0. When its HP goes down to 0, it collapses into a pile, but it'll eventually rise again. Fire and explosions will put a permanent end to it getting back up though. Its HP is high, so it's hard to take it down. Like any other Bones, it sometimes builds friends if it feels outnumbered. It's a tough enemy. You better take it and its buddies out all at once. | |||||||
Field Tattle[edit]
Outside of battle, Goombella can use Tattle on Dark Bones only in Palace of Shadow before Mario examines it.
- "Those are some weird-colored bones. Very suspicious! ...But I feel like I've seen something like them before. I guess we're not gonna get much farther without checking them out, are we?"
Gallery[edit]
The Tattle Log image for Dark Bones in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
A Dark Bones in the Super Mario Mash-up
Related[edit]
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ブラックカロン[?] Burakku Karon |
Black Dry Bones, may allude to the Japanese name of Red Bones | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 黑色碎碎龟[?] Hēisè Suì Suì Guī |
Black Dry Bones | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 黑色碎碎龜[?] Hēisè Suì Suì Guī |
Black Dry Bones | |
| Dutch | Dark Bones[?] | - | |
| French | Skelangoisse[?] | Portmanteau of squelette ("skeleton") and angoisse ("dread") | |
| German | Geistertrocken[?] | Portmanteau of geister ("ghosts") and Knochentrocken ("Dry Bones") | |
| Italian | Tartosso nero[?] | Black Dry Bones | |
| Korean | 블랙와르르[?] Beullaek Wareureu |
Black Dry Bones | |
| Spanish | Koopa Esq. Negro[1] | Black Skeleton Koopa; "esq." is the abbreviated form of esqueleto ("skeleton"). Koopa Esqueleto is Dull Bones' Spanish name. |
References[edit]
- ^ aacglucas (September 18, 2013). Paper Mario: La puerta milenaria 100% Paper Luigi, recetas, medallas y más (34/34). YouTube. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
| Dry Bones | |
|---|---|
| Characters | Bones • Dry Bones • Kāmenētā • Sphinx Zō • The Dead Bones |
| Species | Dark Bones • Dark Dull Bones • Dry Bones • Dry Bones 5-Stack • Dull Bones • Elite Dry Bones • Mega Dry Bones • Paper Dry Bones • Parabones • Red Bones • Sad Dry Bones • Suppon no Karon • Vomer |
| Related items | Banisher • Dry Bones Dasher • Dry Bones Shell |
