Editing Dark Bristle

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:PMTTYD_Dark_Bristle.png]]<br>Sprite from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
|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]])
|variant_of=[[Bristle]]
}}

The '''Dark Bristle''' is a more powerful version of the [[Bristle]] fought in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' and its [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch remake]]. Dark Bristles are only found in the [[Pit of 100 Trials (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Pit of 100 Trials]], on levels 81-89. They are immune to all fire-based attacks and cannot be blown away by [[Flurrie]]'s [[Gale Force]].

The [[Quake Hammer]] [[badge]], [[POW Block]]s, and [[Earth Quake]]s will flip them over for two turns, dropping their Defense to 0.

If [[Mario]] is wearing the [[Spike Shield]] badge, they will not extend their spears to poke him if he readies his hammer. Being stomped with Spike Shield also works; however, unlike [[Koopa Troopa]]s, this will not flip them over. If Mario uses the [[Super Hammer|Super]] or [[Ultra Hammer]] to land the [[First Strike]] outside of battle, their spikes will not extend, either. This is no longer the case in the remake as it is impossible to land a First Strike on them with the aforementioned hammers.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
====GameCube====
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Dark Bristle|align=horizontal}}

====Nintendo Switch====
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|transcludesection=Dark Bristle|align=horizontal}}

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ヤミトゲダルマー
|JapR=Yami Togedarumā
|JapM=Dark Bristle
|Chi=黑暗尖刺球
|ChiR=Hēiàn Jiāncì Qiú
|ChiM=Dark Spiked Ball
|Dut=
|DutM=
|Fre=Sombrépic
|FreM=Portmanteau of ''sombre'' ("dark") and ''pic'' ("spike")
|Ger=Schwarzer Dornhart
|GerM=Black Bristle
|Ita=Tetrapalla Spina
|ItaM=The Italian name of Bristles + ''tetra'' ("gloomy")
|Kor=어둠가시뚜기
|KorR=Eodum Gasittugi
|KorM=Dark Bristle
|Spa=Bolapincho Oscuro
|SpaM=Dark Spike Ball
}}

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[[Category:Animate objects]]
[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemies]]
[[de:Schwarzer Dornhart]]
[[it:Tetrapalla Spina]]