Dull Bones
| Dull Bones | |||
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 Artwork of a Dull Bones for 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 | Dry Bones | ||
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- “We're gonna take the skin off YOUR bones!”
- —Dead Bones, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
A Dull Bones is a chartreuse variant of Dry Bones first seen in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
History[edit]
Paper Mario series[edit]
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door along with its Switch remake, a Dull Bones is weaker than a Dry Bones and appear commonly in Hooktail Castle, appearing among many identical lifeless piles. It attacks by throwing bones at Mario and his partners. Despite having very low HP, their defense power makes them slightly harder to defeat. Still, they are easily taken out by simply using the Hammer. Using a POW Block or Koops’s Power Shell is also very efficient, especially when there are many Dull Bones in battle. Unlike a Dry Bones, it cannot reassemble once they are down. However, a Dull Bones can construct other Dull Bones to help in the battle. A stronger variant, the Red Bones, appears as a mini-boss and summons an enormous horde of Dull Bones to repel Mario, though these are not fought in the typical way and instead must be pushed through. Three of them later appear in the Glitz Pit called the Dead Bones. One is also seen at the Palace of Shadow Tower, a sub-dungeon of the Palace of Shadow, as the weakest Dry Bones-esque enemy, which must be defeated first. It also appears in the first ten floors of the Pit of 100 Trials. It is also a potential member of the Audience, where they have the gimmick of only providing Star Power when appealing.
Super Paper Mario[edit]
A Dull Bones also appears in Super Paper Mario, where it is now stronger than Dry Bones and can be found in The Underwhere, Castle Bleck, and in the Flipside Pit of 100 Trials. Unlike a Dry Bones, Dull Bones can throw bones to attack. It is very weak against Bowser's Fire Breath. A shadowy version called the Dark Dull Bones appears in the Palace of Shadow.
Nintendo Monopoly[edit]
Several Dull Bones make a cameo appearance in the Nintendo Monopoly board game.
Unused appearances[edit]
Super Mario Strikers[edit]
In the game files for Super Mario Strikers, there is an unused model of a Dull Bones medic, which would have marked the enemy's first 3D appearance.[1]
Statistics[edit]
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy | ||||||||
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| Dull Bones | ||||||||
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Max HP | 1 | Attack | 2 | Defense | 1 | ||
| Location(s) | Hooktail Castle, Glitz Pit, Palace of Shadow, Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 1, 4-6, 9) | Role | Support, common | Level | 9 | |||
| Sleep? | 0% | Dizzy? | 50% | Confuse? | 50% | |||
| Tiny? | 100% | Stop? | 95% | Soft? | 95% | |||
| Burn? | 100% | Freeze? | 90% | Fright? | 10% | |||
| Gale Force? | 90% | KO? | 50% | Moves | Bone Throw (2), Build (summons Dull Bones) | |||
| Exp. points | 0 | Coins | 1 | Items | Dried Shroom (drop only), Fire Flower, Fright Mask (drop only), Mushroom, POW Block (drop only) | |||
| Tattle Log #: 20 |
Log | A Koopa Troopa that became a skeleton. It throws bones to attack and builds buddies to help it fight. | ||||||
| Tattle | That's a Dull Bones. Sort of a skeleton thing. It was a Koopa Troopa…once. Max HP is 1, Attack is 2, and Defense is 1. These creeps throw bones to attack. Oh, and they build reinforcements, too! Attacks that can strike multiple Dull Bones at once are the most effective. | |||||||
Super Paper Mario[edit]
| Super Paper Mario enemy | |||||||||
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| Dull Bones | |||||||||
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Max HP | 15 | Role | Common | Location(s) | Underwhere Road (7-2), Castle Bleck Entry (8-1), Flipside Pit of 100 Trials (Room 62) | |||
| Attack | 4 | Card type | Common | ||||||
| Defense | 0 | Items | Card location(s) | Card Shop; Catch Card/SP | |||||
| Score | 800 | ||||||||
| Card description | This undead Koopa walks around with a blank stare. It's not too psyched out about being dead. It mostly throws bones out of sheer spite. | ||||||||
| List of Catch Cards 26 27 28 |
Tattle | This is a Dull Bones. It's a lifeless Koopa that enjoys throwing bones... Max HP is 15 and Attack is 4. No matter how many times you stomp it, it will keep getting back up... I have heard that they are not too fond of fire, though... | |||||||
Gallery[edit]
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| Japanese | ホネノコ Honenoko |
Portmanteau of「骨」(hone, "bone") and「ノコノコ」(Nokonoko, "Koopa Troopa") |
| Chinese (simplified) | 骨头慢慢龟 Gǔtou Mànmàn Guī |
Bone Koopa Troopa |
| Chinese (traditional) | 骨頭慢慢龜 Gǔtou Mànmàn Guī |
Bone Koopa Troopa |
| French | Koopa Skelet |
From "Koopa" and squelette ("skeleton") |
| German | Knochen-Koopa |
Bone Koopa |
| Italian | Kooposso |
Portmanteau of "Koopa" and osso ("bone") |
| Korean | 좀비와르르 Jombi Wareureu |
Zombie Dry Bones |
| Spanish | Koopa Esqueleto |
Sketeton Koopa |
References[edit]
- ^ TCRF. Super Mario Strikers/Unused Models § Medic. The Cutting Room Floor. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
| Dry Bones | |
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| Characters | Bones • Dead Bones • Dry Bones • Kāmenētā • Sphinx Zō |
| Species | Big Dry Bones • Dark Bones • Dark Dull Bones • Dry Bones • Dry Bones 5-Stack • Dull Bones • Elite Dry Bones • Paper Dry Bones • Parabones • Red Bones • Sad Dry Bones • Suppon no Karon • Vomer |
| Related items | Banisher • Dry Bones Dasher • Dry Bones Shell |
