Smorg

“SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORG!!!”

—Smorg, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Smorg
Location(s)	Excess Express
Max HP	Smorg: 50 Smorg Miasma: 4 Smorg Miasma (Pincher): 6
Attack	Smorg Miasma: 5 Smorg Miasma (Pincher): 10
Defense	Smorg Miasma (Both): 1
Moves	Tentacle Slap (5), Pinch (10)
Items	None
Coins	N/A
Log	A monster made up of tons of smaller Smorgs. It uses Smorg tentacles to attack.
More Level 78 Exp. points 0 Sleep? 0% Dizzy? 0% Confuse? 0% Tiny? 0% Burn? 0% Freeze? 0% Stop? 0% Soft? 0% Fright? 0% Gale Force? 0% KO? 0%
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!
Tattle Log #: 106

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

History

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. The base is made up of a cluster of magenta Smorgs while black ones consist the external parts of the boss. At the beginning of the battle, three tentacles surround the main body. After taking 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.

Gallery

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  A black Smorg

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  A magenta Smorg

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  Mario prepares to fight the Smorgs

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  Smorg in pincher form

Names in other languages

Smorg

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	モアモア Moamoa	Possibly from English word "more", referencing the vast number of individual creatures, or "loa loa", a real-life parasite capable of infiltrating tissues
German	Fluffy	-
Italian	MoaMoa	Variation of Japanese name.
Spanish	Miomio	Mio from "miasma" and the word "mío" (mine).

Smorg Miasma

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	モアモアのしょくしゅ Moamoa no Shokushu	Smorg's Tentacles

Trivia

• Larry's boss fight in Paper Mario: Color Splash almost perfectly parallels the Smorg's. 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.

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