Dark Lakitu

The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Dark Lakitu
Location(s)	Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 61, 64-66, 69)
Max HP	13
Attack	5
Defense	0
Moves	Pipe Flip (5), Charge Up (ATK+5), Thunder Throw (10), Pipe Hatch (Summons Sky-Blue Spiny)
Items	Thunder Rage, Shooting Star, Super Shroom, Volt Shroom
Coins	1 - 3
Log	A Lakitu on a dark cloud. It throws pipes[sic] at you that sometimes hatch into Sky-Blue Spinies.
More Level 26 Exp. points 1 Sleep? 60% Dizzy? 95% Confuse? 60% Tiny? 85% Burn? 100% Freeze? 80% Stop? 70% Soft? 90% Fright? 70% Gale Force? 80% KO? 50%
Tattle That's a Dark Lakitu. It rides a rain cloud. Max HP is 13, Attack is 5, and Defense is 0. It attacks by throwing pipes at you. If it's holding up a pipe[sic] when you jump on it, you'll get hurt. And sometimes the pipes[sic] it throws turn into Sky-Blue Spinies. Whoa! If you only attack the Spinies, you'll never win, so go after the Dark Lakitu!
Tattle Log #: 28

Dark Lakitus are stronger variants of normal Lakitus. They are not found in the main quest, but instead are found in the Pit of 100 Trials between floors 61-69. Unlike normal Lakitus, Dark Lakitus throw Sky-Blue Spinies instead of the normal Spinies. Compared to Lakitus, they are also darker in skin tone and have red shells. It is implied in one of Goombella's tattles that it rides a rain cloud, most likely explaining how it's slightly darker than the original Lakitu cloud, although the cloud itself never demonstrates the ability.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	クモリジュゲム[?] Template:Nowrap	「曇り」 Kumori means "cloudy" and Jugemu is the Japanese name of Lakitu.
German	Hyper-Lakitu[?]	Hyper Lakitu
Italian	Lakitu Nuvolo[?]	Cloudy Lakitu

Trivia

• In the English localization, it is mistakenly stated that Dark Lakitu's Sky-Blue Spinies hatch from "pipes" in Goombella's Tattle for both enemies. However, the supposed "pipes" which spawn Sky-Blue Spinies bear no resemblance to the conventional pipes of the Mario franchise and instead appear as regular blue Spiny Eggs. Their name is the result of a mistranslation: Spinies are referred to as ｢パイポ｣ Paipo in Japanese, which comes from a well-known Japanese folktale but can also be interpreted (incorrectly, in this case) as an approximation of the English "pipe" into Japanese katakana. While ｢パイポ｣ Paipo was correctly rendered as "Spiny Egg" elsewhere in the English script of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - namely, with regard to the standard species of Spiny fought in the game - the translation team seems to have overlooked the established convention with this variant, resulting in the "pipe" name.