Moon Cleft

This article is about the enemy from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. For the enemy mistakenly referred to as a Moon Cleft in the English localization of Super Paper Mario, see Cleft.

Moon Cleft
Sprite 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)
Variant of	Cleft

Moon Clefts are a very powerful lunar species of Clefts found in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its Nintendo Switch remake. Aside from the increase of power, they look and act nearly identically to normal Clefts. Moon Clefts are found during the portion of Chapter 7 that takes place on the moon. These Clefts have high statistics but are easy to beat when an explosion, such as from Admiral Bobbery, flips them over, lowering their Defense down to 0. Like their relatives, they disguise themselves as rocks, but they reveal their true form when Mario comes close enough. Moon Clefts attack by charging at their opponents, and cannot be stomped because of their spikes. This enemy’s coloration is similar to that of ordinary Clefts as they appear in Paper Mario and Super Paper Mario (which themselves were misidentified as Moon Clefts in Western localizations of Super Paper Mario), whereas ordinary Clefts are pale gray in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, matching the color scheme of the Boggly Woods. Their tattle also states them to simply be a basic Cleft found on the moon. They have the highest defense power in the game, alongside Chain Chomps and Elite Wizzerds.

Profiles and statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

GameCube

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Moon Cleft
	Max HP	6	Attack	5	Defense	5
	Location(s)	The Moon, Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 52, 55, 57)	Role	Common	Level	26
	Sleep?	30%	Dizzy?	30%	Confuse?	30%
	Tiny?	60%	Stop?	80%	Soft?	100%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	50%	Fright?	30%
	Gale Force?	20%	KO?	95%	Moves	Charge (5)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	1 - 4	Items	Earth Quake, Mini Mr. Mini, Mushroom (drop only), Stopwatch, Super Shroom
Tattle Log #: 83	Log	A Cleft living on the moon. Its Defense is high, but if you turn it over with an explosion, its Defense goes down to 0.
	Tattle	That's a Moon Cleft. It's your basic Cleft living on the moon. Max HP is 6, Attack is 5, and Defense is 5. Defense is high, as usual... and fire attacks don't work against it. If you can turn it over with an explosion, though, its Defense goes down to 0.

Nintendo Switch

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Moon Cleft
	Max HP	6	Attack	5	Defense	5
	Location(s)	The Moon, Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 52, 55, 57)	Role	Common	Level	26
	Sleep?	30%	Dizzy?	30%	Confuse?	30%
	Tiny?	60%	Stop?	80%	Soft?	100%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	50%	Fright?	30%
	Gale Force?	20%	KO?	95%	Moves	Charge (5)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	1 - 4	Items	Earth Quake, Mini Mr. Mini, Mushroom (drop only), Stopwatch, Super Mushroom
Tattle Log #: 86	Log	A Cleft living on the moon. Its Defense is high, but if you turn it over with an explosion, its Defense goes down to 0.
	Tattle	That's a Moon Cleft. It's your basic Cleft living on the moon. Max HP is 6, Attack is 5, and Defense is 5. Defense is high, as usual... and fire attacks don't work against it. If you can turn it over with an explosion though, its Defense goes down to 0.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ツキノシンエモン[?] Tsuki no Shin'emon	Lunar Cleft
Chinese	月岩石怪[?] Yuè Yánshí Guài	Moon Cleft
French	Cleftlunair[?]	Lunar Cleft
German	Mond-Kirk[?]	Moon Cleft
Italian	Teschiolito lunare[?]	Lunar Cleft
Korean	달가시돌턱[?] Dal Gasi Dolteok	Moon Cleft
Spanish	Cleft Lunar[?]	Lunar Cleft

Trivia

• The respective internal file names for Moon Clefts and normal Clefts in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door indicate that at some point in development, Moon Clefts were intended to be the "base" version of Cleft while the final game's normal Cleft was intended as a variant, explaining Moon Cleft's usage of the original coloration.