X-Naut
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| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Enemy | |
| X-Naut | |
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| Max HP | 4 |
| Attack | 3 |
| Defense | 0 |
| Location(s) | The Great Tree Keelhaul Key X-Naut Fortress |
| Log | A foot soldier that uses potions and attacks by ramming. This X-Naut is the lowest of Grodus's underlings. |
| Items | Dizzy Dial, Stopwatch |
| Moves | Ground Pound (3), Tackle (3), Potion (Huge) |
| Tattle | That's an X-Naut. Says here it's classified as an `enemy combatant'. This description stinks... You think it means they're just low-level foot soldiers? Max HP is 4, Attack is 3 and Defense is 0. They drink these potions that make them all big and burly and they attack! One's easy, but if there's two or more, better watch out! Use special moves and items! |
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“You rang, dude? I mean, sir? You rang, Sir Grodus, dude? Grodus? Sir Grodus, sir? ”
—X-Naut, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
X-Nauts are aliens that work for Grodus and Lord Crump of the Secret Society of the X-Nauts; they all appear in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. These guys are short and individually weak, but rush to defend their threatened leader, often Lord Crump.
In recent years, X-Nauts have (according to Super Paper Mario) been featured in two sci-fi TV shows: Starship X-Naut and The Grodus Chronicles (the latter of which is only known to have featured one X-Naut whose lover had dumped him). There have been many seasons of Starship X-Naut, and the show is a favorite of geeks such as Francis. Apparently, he favors people who would dump somebody over a conversation about the propulsion system of the X-Nauts' spaceship on the show. An X-Naut made a cameo appearance on the Nintendo Monopoly board.
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[edit] Varieties of X-Nauts (I.E. Sub-Species)
- X-Naut Troopers are the lesser X-Nauts, also the weakest. These types of X-Nauts are field troops and the lowest of Grodus' underlings. When led by high-ranking commanders, such as Lord Crump, they can use more attacks.
- Elite X-Nauts
- X-Naut PhDs
[edit] Notable X-Nauts
- Sir Grodus – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Lord Crump – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Johnson – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
[edit] X-Naut Platoon Stats
- HP: 10
- Attack: 5 (Decreases as HP is lost)
- Defense: 0
- Location: Keelhaul Key
- Tattle: That's an X-Naut platoon. Crump commands them all. Where'd they come from? Their Max HP depends on their condition, but Attack is 5 and Defense is 0. They're gonna come at us with coordinated group maneuvers, I'm sure. ...But they're pretty wimpy, so we should be able to handle it, don'tcha think?
[edit] Trivia
- The X-Nauts' name was possibly derived from the letter "X" (or the word "cross") and the word "astronaut".
- Due to the lack of voice acting in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (aside from small voice clips from Mario, Peach, and Bowser), the actual pronunciation of "X-Naut" is unknown. It's possible that it's pronounced "ex", like the letter "X", or it could be pronounced "cross", like the X-Yuxes. Although the word "an" was applied to the X-Nauts, it should also be noticed that it was incorrectly applied to the X-Yuxes in Goombella's Tattle, as well (unless she pronounced it "Ex-Yux" first, before revealing its actual pronunciation).
- In Super Paper Mario, there is a Sammer Guy by the name of "Laughing X-Naut."
- The only two X-Nauts with names are Lord Crump and a random X-Naut named Johnson. Perhaps by coincidence, Crump and Johnson are also the names of two of the Big Five from the Yu-Gi-Oh anime. In addition, during Goombella's email at the ending scene of the game, five X-Nauts (a regular X-Naut, a PhD, two Elite X-Nauts, and Crump) are seen alongside Grodus in Poshley Heights.
[edit] Names in Other Languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| French | Cruxitroufion | Portmanteau of "cruxi-" (a prefix referring to a cross) and "troufion" (low-ranked soldier) |
