Editing Lord Crump

{{character infobox

|image=[[File:PMTTYDNS Lord Crump Artwork.png|250px]]<br>Artwork from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)

|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]])

|species=[[X-Naut]]

Second in command of the X-Nauts, Lord Crump is always willing to follow Grodus' command. Even though Lord Crump is second in command, Grodus calls him his most incompetent underling in Chapter 8. Lord Crump frequently appears in the story, often getting in Mario's way.

Lord Crump appears as soon as Mario enters [[Rogueport]] and catches him interrogating [[Goombella]] in search of her knowledge of the [[Crystal Stars]]. Mario, with Goombella's help, defeats Lord Crump in a tutorial fight, but Crump has a trick up his sleeve, calling the rest of the X-Nauts to "punish him", prompting a cloud fight until Mario and Goombella flee the scene.

[[File:PMTTYD Magnus screenshot.png|thumb|Crump insults Mario during the fight.]]

In Chapter 2 of the game, Grodus sends him and the [[Three Shadows]] to [[Boggly Woods]], knowing a Crystal Star is located somewhere within [[the Great Tree]]. Knowing the Crystal Star belongs to the [[Puni]]es in the tree, Crump and his men imprison the Punies, team up with the Punies' enemies, the [[Jabbi]]es, and perform a search throughout the tree. Their search for the Star does not go well when Mario, Goombella, [[Koops]], [[Flurrie]], and [[Punio]] interfere with his plans, liberate the Punies and fight the Jabbies in a battle for the tree. After Mario and the Punies find the Emerald Star, Crump steals it and activates a time bomb. As Mario and company reach the entrance to the tree, they see that the [[Puni elder]] has blocked off Crump's escape, giving them the opportunity to force Crump to deactivate the time bomb. However, he refuses to hand the Emerald Star over, instead activating [[Magnus von Grapple]] to attack in an attempt to destroy Mario and company and make his getaway with the Emerald Star. His attempt to defeat Mario and company proves totally unsuccessful and Magnus von Grapple is destroyed instead. Upon the defeat of Magnus von Grapple, Lord Crump and his men are driven out of the Great Tree, and the Puni elder gives Mario and his team the Emerald Star as a reward.

{{quote|It may be pretty obvious to [[fourth wall|you]] who I really am, but no telling Mario! Or else!|'''Four-Eyes'''|[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]}}

[[File:PM2 LordCrump.jpg|150px|thumb|Lord Crump disguised as Four-Eyes]]

In Chapter 5, Lord Crump disguises himself as a pirate named Four-Eyes and follows Mario and company to [[Keelhaul Key]] to find the [[Sapphire Star]]. Shown in the picture, his disguise is very bad, and Crump even breaks the [[fourth wall]], telling the player that even though they might see through his disguise, they should not tell Mario of it. He secretly follows Mario and company through the [[Pirate's Grotto]] as Mario and company search for the Star. While Lord Crump is disguised, [[Goombella]] has two field [[tattle]]s on Lord Crump.

 

After Mario and his friends beat [[Cortez]] and obtain the Star, Lord Crump removes his disguise and threatens to blow Keelhaul Key to the bottom of the sea unless Mario gives him the Sapphire Star. Mario, [[Flavio]] and company enlist Cortez's help to fight Crump. While Cortez's pirates (with help from Mario and Flavio's deckhands and [[Francesca]] and [[Frankie]]) and Crump's X-Nauts raid each other's ships, Mario and his partners fight Lord Crump. This time, Crump uses his X-Nauts as backup. Lord Crump and his X-Nauts lose and are forced to retreat.

 

[[File:PMTTYD Twilight Town battle.png|thumb|left|X-Nauts vs. [[Koopa Troop]]]]

It is not long after the events at Keelhaul Key that Lord Crump returns to [[Twilight Town]] in search of the [[Superbombomb]]. He manages to find it, and gloats over how it will help him with the search for the Crystal Stars. Unfortunately, [[Bowser]] and [[Kammy Koopa]] are around and overhear him. This results in a battle against the X-Nauts and the [[Koopa Troop]] that almost begins, until Bowser uses his [[Fire Breath]] to set off the Superbombomb, blasting both armies into submission. This is the only time Crump gets to meet Bowser.

 

Lord Crump reappears at the end of the X-Naut Fortress where he attacks Mario and friends in the [[Magnus von Grapple 2.0]], which he claims to have at least a dozen new abilities. Mario defeats Crump and sends him into space. Grodus reveals that the results of the battle were irrelevant for his plans and admits that he tricked Lord Crump.

 

During the ending, it is revealed that Lord Crump survives after his defeat. He was last seen in [[Poshley Heights]], along with Grodus (who is reduced to his robotic head), and four X-Naut troopers. As with [[Beldam]], Lord Crump and the X-Nauts reportedly reformed for the better.

Lord Crump appears during the ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' arc of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''.

In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', one of the names in the random name selection is "CRUMP", which is a possible reference to Lord Crump.

Lord Crump had a minor cameo in ''[[Super Mario Run]]'' (ver. 3.2.0) on promotional artwork in the game during its celebration of the release of ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]), though his presence on the in-game alert for the event was his only appearance in the game.

==General information==

Lord Crump, throughout the course of the game, has been shown to be somewhat of a clown and bumbling; and as a result, he is often looked down on by Grodus, even going so far as to label him as his "least-competent underling". Despite this, there are many instances where he proves himself to be quite intelligent, such as in Chapter 2 when he sets a trap for Mario and his [[partner]]s, in Chapter 5, where he disguises himself as Four-Eyes and uses Mario and company to defeat Cortez for him so that he can obtain the Crystal Star, and even in Chapter 7, where he (according to himself) uses the last Crystal Star to lure Mario and the others up to the X-Naut Fortress so that he can take theirs and add to the X-Nauts' collection (even though he does not know he is being taken advantage of himself by Grodus). Lord Crump has also shown some displays of arrogance in the aforementioned scenes. Lord Crump's speech pattern is seen as irritating to Grodus.

*''"Looks like I'm going to have to give [[Mario|you]] a little taste of the old CRUMP-A-BOMB!"''

*''"Whoa. What's your problem, [[Puni elder|gramma]]? You got an ear hair tickling your brain, or what?"''

 

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Nintendo Magazine Summer 2024 TTYD Relationship Chart.png|Lord Crump on the Nintendo Magazine for summer 2024, showing a relationship chart featuring many characters from ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''

==Names in other languages==

===Lord Crump===

{{foreign names

|JapM=Derived from「ペケ」(''peke'', meaning "useless" or an "X" mark) and possibly Dutch suffix ''-der'' (an alternate form of English suffix "-er")

|ChiSM=From the Japanese name;「艾克斯」(''àikèsī'', one possible translation of "X") +「达」(''dá'')

|ChiT=艾克斯達

|ChiTM=From the Japanese name;「艾克斯」(''àikèsī'', one possible translation of "X") +「達」(''dá'')

|Dut=Knerp

|DutM=From ''knerpen'' ("to crunch")

|FreM=Portmanteau of ''crux'' (Latin word of "cross") and ''féroce'' ("ferocious")

|GerM=From ''crux'' (Latin word for "cross") with ''-illus'' (Latin suffix used for forming adjectives)

|Spa=Peke X

|KorM=From the Japanese name; 엑스 (''ekseu'', "X") + 다 (''da'')

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*It is impossible to lose the first fight against Lord Crump, because even if Mario repeatedly falls into the water to lose 9 HP, he starts the battle with at least 5 HP, and his only options are attacking and defending.

*If Lord Crump is frozen or put to sleep during the second phase of his third fight (on [[Keelhaul Key]]), he will not board the X-Nauts as they perform their giant ball attack, but the attack will work as normal.

*The beginning of Lord Crump's theme (titled "Invasion of the X-Nauts!" in the remake) uses the death soundbit from the {{wp|Atari 2600}} version of ''{{wp|Pac-Man (Atari 2600)|Pac-Man}}''.

**In the original game, his theme only plays during two cutscenes in Chapter 2. In the remake, it also plays while speaking to him in the post-Chapter 5 Bowser intermission and during the cut to the X-Nauts in Poshley Heights when Mario reads Goombella's email at the end of the game.

 

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