Smorg

Smorg
A black (left) and magenta (right) Smorg from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)

“SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORG!!!”

—Smorg, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Smorgs are small, black, cloud-like enemies with yellow eyes. They appear in the sixth chapter of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Later, they collectively form a large entity of the same name, who serves as the chapter boss. Their name is derived from "smog," based on their dark, cloudy appearance, and possibly "org," short for "organization," referencing their swarming behavior. Their vocabulary consists only of the word "Smorg."

History

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Individual Smorgs are first seen at Riverside Station, where they lift the drawbridge to stop the Excess Express from progressing. Mario discovers a large group of them hidden within the station, who are trying to conceal a switch controlling the bridge. Mario fends off the Smorgs, causing them to retreat. With that, Mario activates the switch that lowers the bridge, allowing the train to pass. The next day, it is revealed that the Smorgs stowed away on the train and kidnapped the passengers. Mario saves the conductor and the waitress from the Smorgs, which makes them realize that everybody must have been attacked in their sleep. Mario makes his way towards the front of the train on top the train cars to rescue the rest of the passengers. When the Smorgs are cornered on the top of the train, they combine into a large Smorg horde that attacks Mario and his party.

As a boss, Smorg is made up of massive hordes of individual Smorgs. In the GameCube version of the game, the base is made up of a cluster of magenta Smorgs while black ones consist the external parts of the boss. In the Nintendo Switch remake, all of the individual Smorgs are black. At the beginning of the battle, three tentacles, referred to as Smorg Miasmas, surround the main body. Once the tentacles are defeated, the magenta Smorgs making up the base will become exposed (in the Nintendo Switch version, the black Smorgs making up the base will turn magenta), reducing its defense. After Smorg takes a significant amount of damage, the tentacles change shape into a pincer claw, which deals a large amount of damage to Mario and his partner. Once defeated, the individual Smorgs blow away in the wind, releasing the passengers. It is the only chapter boss aside from the Shadow Queen that does not guard a Crystal Star.

Super Mario-kun

Smorg in Super Mario-kun

In volume 34 of Super Mario-kun, Smorg takes over the Excess Express and must be defeated by Mario. Unlike in the game, individual Smorgs can already be seen collecting inside the train shortly after Mario boards.

When defeated, Smorg is revealed to be a tiny mustached creature that guards the train: he was trying to direct people's attention towards the dust that had accumulated the entire time, resulting in the Smorg monster. The Sales Stall employee decides to help him by cleaning the train, getting help from Mario as payment for the items he gave to him during the battle.

Profiles and statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Smorg
	Max HP	Smorg: 50 Smorg Miasma: 4 Smorg Miasma (Pincher): 6	Attack	Smorg Miasma: 5 Smorg Miasma (Pincher): 10	Defense	Smorg Miasma (Both): 1
	Location(s)	Excess Express	Role	Boss	Level	78
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Tentacle Slap (5), Pinch (10)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	N/A	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 106	Log	A monster made up of tons of smaller Smorgs. It uses Smorg tentacles to attack.
	Tattle	That's a Smorg. Lots of Smorgs gathered to create this huge monster. Max HP is 50, Attack is 5, and Defense is 1. It attacks with weird tentacles. Defeating the tentacles will drop the body's Defense to 0, making it easier to attack. The tentacles will regenerate, but use that time to deal a ton of damage, OK? It may also take other forms with higher Attack powers, I don't really know. Let's just hurry and beat this thing down so we can save those trapped passengers! That's a Smorg Miasma. Max HP is 7, Attack is 7, Defense is 0.2 That's a Smorg Miasma. Max HP is 8, Attack is 6, Defense is 0.2

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

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Smorg
	Max HP	Smorg: 50 Smorg Miasma: 4 Smorg Miasma (Pincher): 6	Attack	Smorg Miasma: 5 Smorg Miasma (Pincher): 10	Defense	Smorg Miasma (Both): 1
	Location(s)	Excess Express	Role	Boss	Level	78
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Tentacle Slap (5), Pinch (10)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	50	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 110	Log	A monster made up of tons of smaller Smorgs. It uses Smorg tentacles to attack. You can't damage the body until you defeat the tentacles.
	Tattle	That's a Smorg. Lots of Smorgs gathered to create this huge monster. Max HP is 50, Attack is 5, and Defense is 1. It attacks with weird tentacles. We won't do any damage to the main body unless we defeat the tentacles first. That's simple biology. The tentacles will regenerate, but use that time to deal a ton of damage, OK? It may also take other forms that expose more of its gross body but boost its Attack power! Let's just hurry and beat this thing down so we can save those trapped passengers!

Gallery

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  Mario prepares to fight the Smorgs

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  The Smorg boss in pincher form

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  The Smorgs, as seen in the Nintendo Switch remake

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  Battle with the Smorgs in the remake

Names in other languages

Smorg

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	モアモア[?] Moamoa	Possibly a mutation of「もやもや」(moyamoya, "murky")
Chinese (simplified)	摩亚摩亚[?] Móyàmóyà	Transliteration of the Japanese name
Chinese (traditional)	摩亞摩亞[?] Móyàmóyà	Transliteration of the Japanese name
Dutch	Smorg[?]	-
French	Moahmoah[?]	French pronunciation of the Japanese name
German	Fluffy[?]	-
Italian	MoaMoa[?]	Same as Japanese name
Korean	모아모아[?] Moamoa	Transliteration of the Japanese name; possibly means "모아" (moa, "gather something")
Spanish	Miomio[?]	From the masculine form of "miasma" + mío ("mine")

Smorg Miasma

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	モアモアのしょくしゅ[?] Moamoa no Shokushu	Smorg's Tentacles
Chinese (simplified)	摩亚摩亚的触手[?] Móyàmóyà de chùshǒu	Smorg's Tentacles
Chinese (traditional)	摩亞摩亞的觸手[?] Móyàmóyà de chùshǒu	Smorg's Tentacles
Korean	모아모아촉수[?] Moamoa Choksu	Smorg's Tentacles

Trivia

• Larry's boss fight in Paper Mario: Color Splash almost perfectly parallels the Smorgs. They both serve as chapter bosses to obtain the second-to-last major star in the game; instead of guarding the star, however, they are both fought on top of a train prior to the train arriving at the star's location.
• In Chapter 6, when the Smorgs appear while talking to the Engineer on the Excess Express, they do not cover the right part of the window in the Japanese version.

Interwiki links

• Fluffy, the German MarioWiki article on the Smorg chapter boss
• Fluffy (Spezies), the German MarioWiki article on the Smorg species
• MoaMoa, the Mario Castle article on the Smorg chapter boss
• MoaMoa (specie), the Mario Castle article on the Smorg species