Dull Bones

“We're gonna take the skin off YOUR bones!”

—Dead Bones, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Dull Bones are enemies found in Hooktail Castle in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. They are a weaker version of Dry Bones and wear green shoes. Dull Bones attack by throwing bones at Mario and his partners. Despite having very low HP, their defense power makes them slightly harder to defeat. Despite this, they are easily taken out by simply using the Hammer. Using a POW Block or Koops’s Power Shell is also very efficient, especially when there are many Dull Bones in battle. Unlike Dry Bones, they cannot reassemble once they are smashed. However, Dull Bones can construct other Dull Bones to help in the fight. Three of them appear in the Glitz Pit called the Dead Bones. They were also in the Riddle Tower as the weakest Dry Bones-esque enemy. They also appeared in the Pit of 100 Trials.

Dull Bones and Dark Dull Bones also appear in Super Paper Mario. Dull Bones can be found in The Underwhere, Castle Bleck and in the Flipside Pit of 100 Trials. Unlike Dry Bones, however, Dull Bones can also throw bones, they are also very weak against Bowser's Fire Breath, although overall, they are much stronger in this game than they were in the predecessor.

Several Dull Bones make a cameo appearance in the Nintendo Monopoly board game.

Profiles and statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Dull Bones
	Max HP	1	Attack	2	Defense	1
	Location(s)	Hooktail Castle, Glitz Pit, Palace of Shadow, Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 1, 4-6, 9)	Role	Support, common	Level	9
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	50%	Confuse?	50%
	Tiny?	100%	Stop?	95%	Soft?	95%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	90%	Fright?	10%
	Gale Force?	90%	KO?	50%	Moves	Bone Throw (2), Build (summons Dull Bones)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	1	Items	Dried Shroom (drop only), Fire Flower, Fright Mask (drop only), Mushroom, POW Block (drop only)
Tattle Log #: 20	Log	A Koopa Troopa that became a skeleton. It throws bones to attack and builds buddies to help it fight.
	Tattle	That's a Dull Bones. Sort of a skeleton thing. It was a Koopa Troopa...once. Max HP is 1, Attack is 2, and Defense is 1. These creeps throw bones to attack. Oh, and they build reinforcements, too! Attacks that can strike multiple Dull Bones at once are the most effective.

Super Paper Mario enemy
Dull Bones
	Max HP	15	Role	Common	Location(s)	Underwhere Road (7-2), Castle Bleck Entry (8-1), Flipside Pit of 100 Trials (Room 62)
	Attack	4	Card type	Common
	Defense	0	Items		Card location(s)	Card Shop; Catch Card/SP
	Score	800
	Card description	This undead Koopa walks around with a blank stare. It's not too psyched out about being dead. It mostly throws bones out of sheer spite.
List of Catch Cards     26      27      28	Tattle	This is a Dull Bones. It's a lifeless Koopa that enjoys throwing bones... Max HP is 15 and Attack is 4. No matter how many times you stomp it, it will keep getting back up... I have heard that they are not too fond of fire, though...

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ホネノコ[?] Honenoko	「骨」 (hone) means "bone", and -noko is taken from 「ノコノコ」 (Nokonoko), the Japanese name for Koopa Troopa.
German	Knochen-Koopa[?]	Bone Koopa
Italian	Kooposso[?]	Pun on "Koopa" and "osso" (bone).
Spanish	Koopa Esqueleto[?]	Sketeton Koopa