X-Naut

This article is about the goggled footsoldier enemies in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. For the organization they work for, see X-Nauts (organization). For the horde made up of several of them, see X-Nauts (platoon).

X-Naut
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) artwork
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Variants Elite X-Naut X-Naut PhD
Notable members Johnson Lord Crump Sir Grodus X-Nauts (platoon)

“You rang, dude? I mean, sir? You rang, Sir Grodus, dude? Grodus? Sir Grodus, sir?”

—X-Naut, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

X-Nauts are soldiers of the eponymous organization that are under the command of Sir Grodus and Lord Crump in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its remake. They are short and individually weak, but rush to defend their leader, Lord Crump, if he is threatened; a large army of X-Nauts (exceeding any count of X-Nauts seen where they are standard enemies) is often summoned by Lord Crump. It is unknown what is behind their uniform, as they do not show their true appearance, just like a Shy Guy.

X-Nauts are known in a pre-release English localization of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door as Boomer Gangers.

History

Paper Mario series

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

An X-Naut uniform.

In battle, X-Nauts attack by charging into Mario or jumping on top of him. They can also use potions to heal each other or make themselves huge; increasing their Attack. They also appear in Bowser's platforming levels, where they attack by charging at Bowser if they spot him.

Several X-Nauts are encountered in the Great Tree as they and Crump search for the Emerald Star. The remaining X-Nauts are forced to retreat once Crump is defeated. Also, some are encountered in the X-Naut Fortress, including X-Naut PhDs and Elite X-Nauts. At least four X-Nauts aside from Crump remain by the end of the game, and are shown in the ending sequence: A regular X-Naut soldier, an X-Naut PhD, and two Elite X-Nauts.

X-Nauts also appear as members of the Audience during some battles. They typically throw rocks at Mario if the battle drags for too long or if Mario receives contact damage and/or his attack deals no damage.

Super Paper Mario

According to Super Paper Mario, X-Nauts have been featured in two sci-fi TV shows: Starship X-Naut and The Grodus Chronicles (the latter of which is only known to have featured one X-Naut whose lover had dumped him). There have been many seasons of Starship X-Naut, and the show is a favorite of geeks such as Francis. Apparently, he favors people who would dump somebody over a conversation about the propulsion system of the X-Nauts' spaceship on the show.

A Sammer Guy goes by the name of Laughing X-Naut.

Nintendo Monopoly

An X-Naut makes a cameo appearance on the Nintendo Monopoly board.

Super Mario Run

Two X-Nauts 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), though their presence on the in-game alert for the event was their only appearance in the game.

Profiles and statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
X-Naut
	Max HP	4	Attack	3	Defense	0
	Location(s)	The Great Tree, X-Naut Fortress	Role	Common	Level	13
	Sleep?	90%	Dizzy?	90%	Confuse?	90%
	Tiny?	95%	Stop?	90%	Soft?	95%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	80%	Fright?	100%
	Gale Force?	80%	KO?	95%	Moves	Ground Pound (3), Tackle (3), Potion (Huge)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	1 - 2	Items	Dizzy Dial, Fire Flower, Honey Syrup (drop only), Maple Syrup (drop only), POW Block (drop only), Stopwatch, Super Shroom, Volt Shroom (drop only), HP Plus
Tattle Log #: 107 1151	Log	A foot soldier that uses potions and attacks by ramming. This X-Naut is the lowest of Grodus's underlings.
	Tattle	That's an X-Naut. Says here it's classified as an "enemy combatant." That description stinks... You think it means they're just low-level foot soldiers? Max HP is 4, Attack is 3, and Defense is 0. They drink these potions that make them all big and burly...then they attack! One's easy, but if there's two or more, better watch out! Use special moves and items!

Gallery

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  Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

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  Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

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  X-Nauts in the battle against Lord Crump in chapter five of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

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  X-Naut cameo in Super Mario Run

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ぐんだんいん[?] Gundan'in	From「軍団員」(gundan-in, "corps member")
Chinese (simplified)	军团成员[?] Jūntuán chéngyuán	Corps member
Chinese (traditional)	軍團成員[?] Jūntuán chéngyuán	Corps member
Dutch	Kruistronaut[?]	From kruis ("cross") and astronaut
French (NOA)	Cruxonaute[?]	From crux (Latin word for "cross") with the suffix -naute ("-naut")
French (NOE)	Cruxitroufion[?]	Portmanteau of crux (Latin word for "cross") and troufion ("low-ranked soldier")
German	Fußsoldat[?]	Foot soldier
Italian	Executore[?]	X-ecutioner
Korean	군단원[?] Gundan Won	Corps member
Spanish	Soldado X[?]	Soldier X

Trivia

• Due to the lack of voice acting in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the pronunciation of "X-Naut" is unknown. It may be pronounced like the letter "X", which is supported by Goombella's tattles using the article "an" and by Koops saying "tissues... to the extreme" (i.e. phonetically "ex snot") when first meeting Punio. However, it can also be pronounced "cross", as suggested by Goombella's tattle on X-Yux, in which case it may be a play on noughts and crosses, an alternative name for tic-tac-toe.