Editing Dark Bones

{{distinguish|Dark Dull Bones}}
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Dark Bones|image=[[File:PMTTYD_Dark_Bones.png|150px]]}}
{{quote|Let those who would disturb [[Shadow Queen|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]]''. 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 [[Riddle Tower]]. A certain Dark Bones's pre-battle speech seems to indicate that it has been ordered to keep the Shadow Queen from awakening.

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.

Dark Bones returns in ''[[Mario Superstar Baseball]]'' and ''[[Mario Super Sluggers]]'' as a playable character and alternate team player of [[Dry Bones]]. In the former, he is called '''Red Dry Bones''', and in the latter's challenge mode, he kidnaps [[Dixie Kong]] and battles [[Mario]] and Co. In these games, he wears red-tinted gloves and shoes, hence his name in the former. Unlike the other Dry Bones, he has a spike on his nose, as well has having several on the back of his shell.

Dark Bones also make a cameo in ''[[Minecraft]]'', where the Wither Skeletons are reskinned as them in the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack.
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
DarkBones-MSS.png|Dark Bones in ''[[Mario Super Sluggers]]''
Minecraft_Wii_U_Dark_Bones.jpg|Dark Bones in ''Minecraft: Wii U Edition''
</gallery>

==Related==
*[[Dry Bones]]
*[[Red Bones]]
*[[Dull Bones]]

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ブラックカロン
|JapR={{nowrap|Burakku Karon}}
|JapM=Black [[Dry Bones]]
|Fra=Skelangoisse
|FraM=Portmanteau of "squelette" (skeleton) and "angoisse" (dread)
|Ger=Geistertrocken
|GerM=Portmanteau of "Geister" (Ghosts) and "Knochentrocken (German name of Dry Bones)
|Ita=Tartosso Nero
|ItaM=Black Dry Bones
}}

{{Dry Bones}}
{{PMTTYD}}
[[Category:Dry Bones]]
[[Category:Mini Bosses]]
[[Category:Mario Super Sluggers Playable Characters]]
[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Bosses]]
[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Enemies]]
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-{{about|the enemy from the ''Paper Mario'' series|the playable character in ''Mario Super Sluggers''|[[Dry Bones#Mario Baseball series|Dry Bones § Mario Baseball series]]}}
 {{distinguish|Dark Dull Bones}}
-{{species infobox
+{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Dark Bones|image=[[File:PMTTYD_Dark_Bones.png|150px]]}}
-|title=Dark Bones
-|image=[[File:PMTTYD_Dark_Bones.png|150px]]<br>Artwork from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
-|variant_of=[[Dry Bones]]
-|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
-|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
-}}
 {{quote|Let those who would disturb [[Shadow Queen|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 [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|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]].
+'''Dark Bones''' are enemies in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. 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 [[Riddle Tower]]. A certain Dark Bones's pre-battle speech seems to indicate that it has been ordered to keep the Shadow Queen from awakening.
-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 (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|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 Pack in ''[[Minecraft]]'', the Wither Skeletons resemble Dark Bones.
+Dark Bones returns in ''[[Mario Superstar Baseball]]'' and ''[[Mario Super Sluggers]]'' as a playable character and alternate team player of [[Dry Bones]]. In the former, he is called '''Red Dry Bones''', and in the latter's challenge mode, he kidnaps [[Dixie Kong]] and battles [[Mario]] and Co. In these games, he wears red-tinted gloves and shoes, hence his name in the former. Unlike the other Dry Bones, he has a spike on his nose, as well has having several on the back of his shell.
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-==Profiles and statistics==
+Dark Bones also make a cameo in ''[[Minecraft]]'', where the Wither Skeletons are reskinned as them in the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack.
-===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
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-====GameCube====
-{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Dark Bones|image=[[File:PMTTYDDarkBones.png]]|align=horizontal}}
-====Nintendo Switch====
-{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|transcludesection=Dark Bones|align=horizontal}}
-===Field Tattle===
-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 [[Red Bones|something]] like them before. I guess we're not gonna get much farther without checking them out, are we?''"
 ==Gallery==
 <gallery>
-PMTTYD Tattle Log - Dark Bones.png|The [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|Tattle Log]] image for Dark Bones in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
+DarkBones-MSS.png|Dark Bones in ''[[Mario Super Sluggers]]''
-Minecraft Mario Mash-Up Wither Skeleton Render.png|A Dark Bones in the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack
+Minecraft_Wii_U_Dark_Bones.jpg|Dark Bones in ''Minecraft: Wii U Edition''
 </gallery>
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 ==Names in other languages==
 {{foreign names
-|Jpn=ブラックカロン
+|Jap=ブラックカロン
-|JpnR=Burakku Karon
+|JapR={{nowrap|Burakku Karon}}
-|JpnM=Black [[Dry Bones]], may allude to the Japanese name of [[Red Bones]]
+|JapM=Black [[Dry Bones]]
-|ChiS=黑色碎碎龟
+|Fra=Skelangoisse
-|ChiSR=Hēisè Suì Suì Guī
+|FraM=Portmanteau of "squelette" (skeleton) and "angoisse" (dread)
-|ChiSM=Black Dry Bones
-|ChiT=黑色碎碎龜
-|ChiTR=Hēisè Suì Suì Guī
-|ChiTM=Black Dry Bones
-|Dut=Dark Bones
-|Fre=Skelangoisse
-|FreM=Portmanteau of ''squelette'' ("skeleton") and ''angoisse'' ("dread")
 |Ger=Geistertrocken
-|GerM=Portmanteau of ''geister'' ("ghosts") and ''Knochentrocken'' ("Dry Bones")
+|GerM=Portmanteau of "Geister" (Ghosts) and "Knochentrocken (German name of Dry Bones)
-|Ita=Tartosso nero
+|Ita=Tartosso Nero
 |ItaM=Black Dry Bones
-|Kor=블랙와르르
-|KorR=Beullaek Wareureu
-|KorM=Black Dry Bones
-|Spa=Koopa Esq. Negro<ref>{{cite|author=aacglucas|date=September 18, 2013|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=famiW_LaKdU|title=Paper Mario: La puerta milenaria 100% Paper Luigi, recetas, medallas y más (34/34)|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=June 5, 2023}}</ref>
-|SpaM=Black Skeleton Koopa; "esq." is the abbreviated form of ''esqueleto'' ("skeleton"). ''Koopa Esqueleto'' is [[Dull Bones]]' Spanish name.
 }}
-==References==
-<references/>
 {{Dry Bones}}
 {{PMTTYD}}
 [[Category:Dry Bones]]
-[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemies]]
+[[Category:Mini Bosses]]
+[[Category:Mario Super Sluggers Playable Characters]]
+[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Bosses]]
+[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Enemies]]
 [[de:Geistertrocken]]
 [[it:Tartosso nero]]