Editing Gloomtail

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:PMTTYDNS Tattle Log - Gloomtail.png|250px]]<br>Sprite of Gloomtail from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)
|species=Dragon
|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|WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!? You destroyed [[Hooktail|my precious younger sister]]?!? I wondered why she hadn't written recently... Quake in fear, mortals! For I am Gloomtail! I will avenge my sister by taking your lives...and then gnawing on your bones!|Gloomtail|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door}}
'''Gloomtail''' is the middle sibling in the "tail" family in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. He is the older brother of [[Hooktail]] and the younger brother of [[Bonetail]], and according to [[Grifty]], once served as a pet of the [[Shadow Queen]]. Gloomtail is the only male sibling out of the trio (although Gloomtail is female as well in the Dutch localization of the remake, Bonetail is male in the English script of the original GameCube release, and Hooktail is male in the European Spanish localization of the original and remake) and the only one to not have a ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' equivalent. He lives in the [[Palace of Shadow]] and guards the [[Star Stone (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Star Stone]], which is needed to unlock the pedestals in the [[Palace of Shadow Tower]] (and activate its doors in the [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|remake]]).

==History==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
When Mario first encounters Gloomtail, his partner confuses him for Hooktail and questions why she is back:
*[[Goombella]]: "''Hey! Isn't that Hooktail? We totally beat {{hover|her|it (GCN)}} before! What's {{hover|she|it (GCN)}} doing back?''"
*[[Koops]]: "''Ummm… Isn't that Hooktail? I KNOW we beat {{hover|her|it (GCN)}} before! {{hover|She|It (GCN)}} coughed up [[Koopley|my dad]]! What's {{hover|she|it (GCN)}} doing back?''"
*[[Flurrie]]: "''My, what a fearsome dragon... But isn't this Hooktail, whom you said you beat before? Yes, big, with nasty eyes and ripe breath... It sounds just like what you described.''"
*[[Yoshi Kid]]: "''Whoa! Now, THAT'S a dragon! Hey, but isn't that Hooktail? I thought you beat {{hover|her|it (GCN)}}! Yeah, huge, dragonish, gnarly... Sounds just like what you described, dude!''"
*[[Vivian]]: "''Uh... That's a big dragon. But, Mario, isn't that Hooktail, the one you said you beat? Gigantic, with mossy teeth... Yes, this monster fits the bill, all right!''"
*[[Bobbery]]: "''Now who's this {{hover|dragon|dragon fellow (GCN)}}? I say, isn't that Hooktail, the thing you beat before? Yes, enormous, with rather grimy toes... Yes, that suits this {{hover|creature|fellow (GCN)}} to a T!''"
*[[Ms. Mowz]]: "''Isn't that Hooktail, dearie? I thought you beat Hooktail... What's {{hover|she|it (GCN)}} doing here{{hover|?|??? (GCN)}}''"

Upon hearing this, Gloomtail vows to destroy Mario and company and avenge his sister. After defeating Gloomtail, he coughs up the [[treasure chest]] containing the Star Stone.

[[File:PMTTYD Gloomtail Room.png|thumb|left|Gloomtail in his room.]]
Gloomtail is stronger than his sister. He attacks by breathing [[poison (status effect)|poison]] on Mario and his partner (taking at least ten turns to wear off), and stomping or chomping the character in front. His earthquake move can be dangerous, but it does not work on [[Vivian]] and [[Flurrie]]. He can also [[Charged|charge up]] for his signature and strongest attack: his megabreath move, which does up to 16 damage. He shares his attack and defense stats with Bonetail.
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===''Super Mario-kun''===
{{Rewrite-expand|section=yes|Summary of what he does}}
Gloomtail appears in volume 35 of ''Super Mario-kun'' during its ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' arc.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Gloomtail|align=horizontal|image=[[File:Gloomtail.png|250px]]}}

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

==Gallery==
<gallery>
GloomtailBattle.png|Mario and his partners battling Gloomtail
Palace of Shadow Treasure Chest 9.png|Gloomtail defeated
PMTTYDNS Gloomtail.jpg|Gloomtail in the Nintendo Switch remake
TTYDNS Megabreath.jpg|Gloomtail's megabreath attack in the remake
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ブンババ<ref>{{cite|quote=『ブンババ』よ|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo Co.|language=ja}}</ref>
|JapR=Bunbaba&nbsp;
|JapM=From「ゴンババ」(''Gonbaba'', "[[Hooktail#Names in other languages|Hooktail]]") and possibly「ブラック」(''burakku'', "black")
|Chi=蹦巴巴<ref>{{cite|quote=这是“蹦巴巴”哦。|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo (Hong Kong)|language=zh-hans}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=他是「蹦巴巴」喔。|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo (Hong Kong)|language=zh-hant}}</ref>
|ChiR=Bèngbābā
|ChiM=Transliteration of Japanese name
|Dut=Taupé<ref>{{cite|quote=Dat is Taupé.|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=nl}}</ref>
|DutM=From ''taupe'' (a grayish brown color)
|Fre=Toxicroc<ref>{{cite|quote=C'est Toxicroc.|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=fr-ca}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=C'est Toxicroc.|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=fr}}</ref>
|FreM=Portmanteau of ''toxique'' ("toxic") and ''croc'' ("fang")
|Ger=Lohbert<ref>{{cite|quote=Das ist Lohbert.|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=de}}</ref>
|GerM=Portmanteau of ''Lohe'' ("blaze") and the masculine name "Bert"
|Ita=Fosco<ref>{{cite|quote=È Fosco!|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=it}}</ref>
|ItaM=Gloomy; shared with [[Woodrow]]
|Kor=깜자잔<ref>{{cite|quote=『깜자잔』이야|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo of Korea|language=ko}}</ref>
|KorR=Kkamjajan
|KorM=From "곤자잔"(''Gonjajan'', "Hooktail") and "까만색" (''kkamansaek'', "black")
|Spa=Bumbaba<ref>{{cite|quote=Es Bumbaba. |title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=es-419}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=Es Bumbaba.|title=''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=es-es}}</ref>
|SpaM=Taken from the Japanese ''Bunbaba'', but with the "m" before "b", because in Spanish, "n" should not come directly before "b"
}}

==Trivia==
[[File:LargeHoleInGloomtailRoom.png|thumb|The large hole behind Gloomtail's room, leading directly to Grodus' room]]
*The room [[Grodus]] is fought in is directly below Gloomtail's room, which would mean that [[Bowser]] was in Gloomtail's room when he fell through the floor. In fact, if the player uses cheats or glitches to go to the hidden area behind Gloomtail's room after defeating the [[Shadow Queen]], a large hole can be seen. The hole can be jumped down to enter the aforementioned Grodus room.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tag_geM08 Paper Mario: TTYD Visiting Gloomtail secret room postgame], ''ht Zheng'' (April 30th, 2021). Retrieved February 17th, 2023.</ref>
**Goombella's tattle when inside Gloomtail's room acts as though Gloomtail is not present, despite the fact that he is always present until the player lowers the floor of the rooms that lead to his room. This implies that Gloomtail's room was intended to be accessible at any time.
*Gloomtail explains that he was in contact with his sister (some translations specifying via letters<ref>"''Ora capisco perché non mi arrivavano le sue epistole...''" ("That's why I didn't get her letters...") -Gloomtail in the Italian version of ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''</ref>), despite being locked behind [[the Thousand-Year Door]], which itself was sealed for a thousand-year span.
**Considering also how Bonetail died, likely due to starvation, it's plausible that time behind the Thousand-Year Door was frozen while it was sealed, saving Gloomtail from the same fate as his oldest sibling.

==References==
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