Magnus von Grapple 2.0

Magnus von Grapple 2.0
Sprite from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)

“Yeah, last version was buggy, so we made improvements... One...two...a DOZEN!!! Get ready for a whole new way to experience pain, you junior-varsity losers!”

—Lord Crump while in Magnus von Grapple 2.0, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Magnus von Grapple 2.0 (or Magnus 2.0) is the improved version of Magnus von Grapple controlled by Lord Crump and built by X-Naut Scientists in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It is the seventh Chapter Boss in the game, and the last boss to hold a Crystal Star. In the original game, Magnus 2.0 shares its battle music with the original Magnus, but in the remake, it has a new arrangement of the theme.

Lord Crump was assigned to guard the Crystal Star in the X-Naut Fortress located on the moon. He controlled an upgraded version of the Magnus von Grapple, with new attacks (a flying drill attack instead of the stomp, an ability to inhale audience members and open its front to fire many audience members at the person in front, and a higher HP, attack and defense). After defeat, the robot explodes, sending Lord Crump into deep space.

Magnus von Grapple 2.0 still retains its rocket punch and just like its weaker counterpart, it has the ability to summon an X-Punch, a stronger version of the original version's X-Fists. They deal 9 damage each and can be blown away by Flurrie's Gale Force. Magnus von Grapple 2.0's main attack is flying off-screen and then diving down at Mario and his partner, which does six damage. Another one of its attacks is flying to the audience arena, revealing the vacuum from its bottom, sucking up the audience, and then opening its front to fire audience members at whomever is in front, which deals 10 hits of three damage each.

Profiles and statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Magnus 2.0
	Max HP	70	Attack	6	Defense	2
	Location(s)	X-Naut Fortress	Role	Boss	Level	84
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	40%	Confuse?	40%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	40%	Soft?	80%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	20%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Magnus Drill Attack (6), Flying Disk (6), Flying X-Fists (9), Rapid Fire Cannon (3 per hit)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	N/A	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 118	Log	The biggest upgrades seem to be the flying features. Watch out for the improved machine guns!
	Tattle	Ah! Magnus Von Grapple 2.0. The upgraded version of Magnus Von Grapple. Max HP is 70, Attack is 6, and Defense is 2. Its basic attack is a drill move that drops from above. It also sometimes releases its fists for flying X-Punches. Each X-Punch has a Max HP of 5, and Attack of 9, and a Defense of 0. When those fists are flying, you may get attacked by the fists and body in one turn... Take care of those low-HP fists early on, trust me. When the body's HP gets low, it'll also fire machine guns and who knows what else. It may not look too different from the last version, but it's much stronger, so be careful! I still think the whole design is a little ridiculous, though...

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
X-Punch
	Max HP	5	Attack	9	Defense	0
	Location(s)	X-Naut Fortress	Role	Support	Level	0
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	70%	Confuse?	70%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	70%	Soft?	85%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	70%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	100%	KO?	0%	Moves	Flying X-Fists
	Exp. points	0	Coins	N/A	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 118	Log	N/A
	Tattle	N/A

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

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Magnus 2.0
	Max HP	70	Attack	6	Defense	2
	Location(s)	X-Naut Fortress	Role	Boss	Level	84
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	40%	Confuse?	40%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	40%	Soft?	80%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	20%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Magnus Drill Attack (6), Flying Disk (6), Flying X-Fists (9), Rapid Fire Cannon (3 per hit)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	100	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 123	Log	The biggest upgrades seem to be the flying features. Watch out for the new machine gun.
	Tattle	Ah! Magnus von Grapple 2.0. The upgraded version of Magnus von Grapple. Max HP is 70, Attack is 6, and Defense is 2. Its basic Attack is a drill move that drops from above. It also sometimes releases its fists for flying X-Punches. Each X-Punch has a Max HP of 5, and Attack of 9, and a Defense of 0. When those fists are flying, you may get attacked by the fists and body in one turn... Take care of those low-HP fists early on—trust me. When the body's HP gets low, it'll also fire machine guns and who knows what else. It may not look too different from the last version, but it's much stronger, so be careful! I still think the whole design is a little ridiculous though...

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
X-Punch
	Max HP	5	Attack	9	Defense	0
	Location(s)	X-Naut Fortress	Role	Support	Level	0
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	70%	Confuse?	70%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	70%	Soft?	85%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	70%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	100%	KO?	0%	Moves	Flying X-Fists
	Exp. points	0	Coins	N/A	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 123	Log	N/A
	Tattle	N/A

Gallery

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  Mario and Goombella battling Magnus von Grapple 2.0

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  Magnus von Grapple 2.0 in the Nintendo Switch remake

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  Two X-Punches fired by Magnus von Grapple 2.0 in the Nintendo Switch remake

Names in other languages

Magnus von Grapple 2.0

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	バッテンダー・マーク２[?] Battendā Māku Tsū	Magnus von Grapple Mk. II
Chinese (simplified)	X军团机器人2号[?] X Jūntuán Jīqìrén Èr Hào	X-Nauts Robot 2
Chinese (traditional)	X軍團機器人2號[?] X Jūntuán Jīqìrén Èr Hào	X-Nauts Robot 2
Dutch	Kruisbot 2.0[?]	Crossbot 2.0
French	Cruxobot 2[?]	Pun on crux- (a prefix referring to a cross) and "robot"
German	Neo-Crucibot[?]	Pun on crux (which means "cross"), "-bot" (a common suffix for robots) and "neo" for "new"
Italian	Justo II[?]	Magnus the 2nd
Korean	엑스다마크2[?] Ekseuda Makeu Tu	From the Japanese name
Spanish (NOA)	Neo-Robo X[?]	-
Spanish (NOE)	Mazinrobo X2[?]	Mazin from Mazinger Z, that was very popular in Spain, Robo from Robot and "X" from the "X" of the X-Nauts

X-Punch

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	バッテンパンチ[?] Batten Panchi	X Punch (batten is from the Japanese name of the X-Nauts)
Dutch	Kruisknuist 2.0[?]	X-Fist 2.0
French	Cruxopoing[?]	Portmanteau of crux (Latin word for "cross") and poing ("fist")
German	Düsenpranke[?]	Jet Mauler
Italian	Pugno Incrociato[?]	X(-Naut) Punch
Spanish	Puño X[?]	Fist X

Trivia

• Magnus von Grapple 2.0 is the third boss in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door to directly use the audience during battle. The first was Hooktail, the second was Cortez, and the fourth is the Shadow Queen. It is the only one of the four to use them offensively.