Dark Bones

Not to be confused with Dark Dull Bones.

The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Dark Bones
Location(s)	Palace of Shadow
Max HP	20
Attack	5
Defense	2
Moves	Bone Throw (5), Multibone (3x3), Shake (N/A), Get Up (+20HP), Build (Summons Dry Bones)
Items	Fire Flower (drop only), Palace Key (drop only)
Coins	6
Log	It's the baddest of the Bones bunch, so its HP is really high. When its HP get down to 0, it might rise again.
More Level 34 Exp. points 0 Sleep? 0% Dizzy? 20% Confuse? 20% Tiny? 80% Burn? 100% Freeze? 60% Stop? 65% Soft? 80% Fright? 0% Gale Force? 60% KO? 85%
Tattle That's a Dark Bones. It's the baddest of the Bones gang. Max HP is 20, Attack is 5 and Defense is 0. When its HP goes down to 0, it collapses into a pile, but it'll eventually rise again. Fire and explosions will put a permanent end to it getting back up, though. Its HP is high so it's hard to take it down. Like any other Bones, it sometimes builds friends if it feels outnumbered. It's a tough enemy. You better take it and its buddies out all at once.
Tattle Log #: 23

“Let those who would disturb her sleep fall into the depths of endless darkness...”

—Dark Bones, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Dark Bones are the most powerful type of Dry Bones. Instead of being a pale gray with red shoes, they are a bluish violet with purple shoes. Dark Bones are only found in the Palace of Shadow (where they are seen twice, once in a corridor and yet again in Riddle Tower) in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Showstopper, the special move, can actually destroy the Dark Bones.

It is unknown whether Dark Bones affiliate with Bowser or not, but they appear to be affiliated with the Shadow Queen. However, a certain Dark Bones's pre-battle speech seems to indicate that it has been ordered to keep the Shadow Queen from awakening.

Dark Bones in Mario Super Sluggers.

Dark Bones returns in Mario Superstar Baseball and Mario Super Sluggers as a playable character and alternate team player of Dry Bones. In the former, he is called Red Dry Bones, and in the latter's challenge mode, he kidnaps Dixie Kong and battles Mario and Co. In these games, he wears red-tinted gloves and shoes, hence his name in the former. Unlike the other Dry Bones, he has a spike on his nose, as well has having several on the back of his shell.

Dark Bones also made a cameo in Minecraft, where the Wither Skeletons are reskinned as them.

Related

• Dry Bones
• Red Bones
• Dull Bones

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ブラックカロン[?] Template:Nowrap	Black Dry Bones
German	Geistertrocken[?]	Portmanteau of "Geister" (Ghosts) and "Knochentrocken (German name of Dry Bones)
Italian	Tartosso Nero[?]	Black Dry Bones

Trivia

File:Minecraft Wii U Dark Bones.jpg

Dark Bones in Minecraft: Wii U Edition.

• In the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack in Minecraft, Wither Skeletons are replaced by Dark Bones.