Editing Moon Cleft

{{Species-infobox
|image=[[File:Moon Cleft.png]]
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
|parent_species=[[Cleft]]
|derived_species=[[Dark Cleft]]
}}

'''Moon Clefts''' are a very powerful lunar species of [[Cleft]]s. Aside from the increase of power, they look and act nearly identically to normal Clefts.

==History==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', Moon Clefts are found during the portion of Chapter 7 that takes place on the [[moon]]. These Clefts have high statistics but are easy to beat when an explosion, such as from [[Admiral Bobbery]], flips them over, lowering their Defense down to 0. Like their relatives, they disguise themselves as rocks, but they reveal their true form when [[Mario]] comes close enough. Moon Clefts attack by charging at their opponents, and cannot be stomped because of their spikes. This enemy has colors similar to a normal [[Cleft]] from ''[[Paper Mario]]'', whereas those are pale gray in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' in fitting with the color scheme of [[Boggly Woods]]. Their tattle also states them to simply be a basic Cleft found on the moon. They have the highest defense power in the game, alongside [[Chain Chomp]]s and [[Elite Wizzerd]]s.

===''Super Paper Mario''===
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Moon Clefts, sometimes simply called '''Clefts''' in passing such as by [[Flint Cragley]], appear in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' in Chapter 5-1, near [[Downtown of Crag]]. Their attack pattern remains the same: they charge at Mario and his allies as soon as they get close enough. They still have the same weakness, as [[Boomer (Super Paper Mario)|Boomer]] can flip them over. Moon Clefts will occasionally drop a [[Cake Mix]] when they are defeated. In the original Japanese script, these are considered normal Clefts, though the localization calls them Moon Clefts despite not being on the moon. A shadowy version, called [[Dark Cleft]], appears in the [[Flopside Pit of 100 Trials]].

==Statistics==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Moon Cleft|image=[[File:Moon Cleft.png]]|align=horizontal}}
===''Super Paper Mario''===
{{:Super Paper Mario bestiary|transcludesection=Moon Cleft|align=horizontal}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
SPM Moon Cleft Catch Card.png|[[Catch Card]]
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ツキノシンエモン<br>''Tsuki no Shin'emon''<br>シンエモン<br>''Shin'emon''
|JapM=Lunar Cleft (''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'')<br><br>Cleft (''Super Paper Mario'')
|SpaE=Cleft Lunar
|SpaEM=Lunar Cleft
|FraE=Cleftlunair
|FraEM=Lunar Cleft
|Ger=Mond-Kirk
|GerM=Moon Cleft
|Ita=Teschiolito lunare
|ItaM=Lunar Cleft
|Kor=가시돌턱
|KorR=Gasi Dolteok
|KorM=Spike [[Bald Cleft|Stone Jaw]]}}

==Trivia==
*The respective internal file names for Moon Clefts and normal Clefts in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' indicate that at some point in development, Moon Clefts were intended to be the "base" version of Cleft while the final game's normal Cleft was intended as a variant, explaining Moon Cleft's usage of the original coloration.<ref><tt>c_sinemon</tt> and <tt>c_sinemon_w</tt>, respective file names for Moon Cleft and Cleft in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''</ref>

==References==
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