Zombone

Zombone
Species	Lava Babble
First appearance	Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996)
Latest appearance	Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) (2023)

Zombone is the skeletal counterpart and second form of the Czar Dragon in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and its remake. When Czar Dragon is damaged enough, it falls in the lava, loses its skin, and becomes its other form, Zombone. Zombone has plenty of dangerous attacks, such as sending out boulders to attack Mario, Mallow, Geno, Bowser, and Peach, or headbutting them. After the gang defeats Zombone, Zombone explodes and collapses into the lava, never to be seen again.

While Zombone has stronger attacks than the Czar Dragon, it has less defense and a weakness to Jump and Thunder, so regular attacks, as well Mario's Super Jump or Mallow's Shocker can do decent damage. It also loses the power to use fire attacks or summon Helios. Being an undead enemy, Zombone is also vulnerable to the Pure Water item. However, Pure Water only causes a fixed damage of 130 points to Zombone instead of defeating the enemy entirely, like other non-boss undead.

Profiles and statistics

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy
Zombone
	HP	1800	FP	100	Speed	6
	Location(s)	Barrel Volcano	Attack	190	Magic attack	80
	Role	Boss	Defense	60	Magic defense	100
	Bonus Flower	None	Yoshi Cookie	None	Morph rate	0%
	Evade	0%	Magic evade	10%	Spells	Blast, Storm, Boulder
	Weak	Jump, Thunder	Strong	Fire, Ice, Fear, Poison, Sleep, Critical	Sp. attacks	Scream
	Coins	0	Exp. points	50	Items	None
Psychopath	"Hey! We're not done yet!"

Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)

Super Mario RPG enemy
Zombone
	HP	1800	Weak Elements		Drops	N/A
	Exp.	50	Weak Statuses		Rare Drops	N/A
	Found in	Barrel Volcano
	Monster List profile	The character designer's reasoning for giving it tattered clothing only after it becomes zombified is because it didn't look like a zombie without it.
	Thought Peek	"I'm not as dead as you might have thought."
	Animations

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ドラゴンゾンビ[?] Doragon Zonbi	Dragon Zombie
Chinese (simplified)	龙丧尸[?] Lóng Sàngshī	Dragon Zombie
Chinese (traditional)	龍喪屍[?] Lóng Sàngshī	Dragon Zombie
Dutch	Zombiedraak[?]	Zombie Dragon
German	Klapperdrache[?]	Rattling Dragon
Italian	Zar Zombone[?]	Portmanteau of "Zar Dragone" (Czar Dragon) and "zombi" (zombie)
Korean	드래곤좀비[?] Deuraegon jombi	Dragon Zombie
Spanish	Dracozombi[?]	Dragon Zombie

Trivia

• In the Final Fantasy series by Square, Dragon Zombie is a recurring type of enemy. This enemy was localized as Zombone in the SNES release of Final Fantasy VI (renamed Final Fantasy III in the west), although it was retranslated as "Zombie Dragon" in Final Fantasy VI Advance. The name of its first form, Czar Dragon, is also derived from Final Fantasy VI.
• Zombone shares, and may have inspired, the transformation undergone by Bowser in New Super Mario Bros., who becomes Dry Bowser after being dropped into a pool of lava.