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|image=[[File:PMTTYD Hooktail Artwork.png|170px]]<br>Artwork of Hooktail
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'''Hooktail''' is a dragon featured in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. She resides in [[Hooktail Castle]], and serves as the boss of Chapter 1.
'''Hooktail''' is a dragon featured in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. She resides in [[Hooktail Castle]], and serves as the boss of Chapter 1.


==Description==
==History==
[[File:PMTTYD Hooktail Head Sprite.png|thumb|left|Hooktail's battle sprite.]]
===Background===
Hooktail is a large red dragon, with a cream-colored underside, jaw, and cheeks. She has small red-and-purple wings on her back, and antennae resembling ponytails on her head. She has large red feet with purple claws, and her tail is light purple, thin, and forked into three parts.
Much of Hooktail's background is unknown, though according to stories told by [[Grifty]], she, along with her [[Gloomtail|two]] [[Bonetail|siblings]] were once pets of the [[Shadow Queen]] who traveled around the world terrorizing people before the Shadow Queen was imprisoned behind [[The Thousand-Year Door]]. Grifty's stories also mention that Hooktail Castle was created to contain one of the [[Crystal Star]]s, implying Hooktail may have been placed there in order to guard it.
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==History==
===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
As explained by the residents there, Hooktail terrorized [[Petalburg]] for a long time, devouring many of its residents. Those who tried to stop her were ultimately devoured as well, including [[Kolorado]]'s [[Kolorado's father|father]] and [[Koopley]]. However, her victims discovered that her weakness was [[Attack FX R|cricket chirps]], noting that she became nauseated and weakened upon hearing them.
As explained by the residents there, Hooktail terrorized [[Petalburg]] for a long time, devouring many of its residents. Those who tried to stop her were ultimately devoured as well, including [[Kolorado]]'s [[Kolorado's father|father]] and [[Koopley]]. However, her victims discovered that her weakness was [[Attack FX R|cricket chirps]], noting that she became nauseated and weakened upon hearing them.


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Hooktail was later referenced nearing the end of the game when encountering her brother [[Gloomtail]], where one of the party members will briefly mistake him for her and question how she survived the encounter. This promptly outraged him and had him decide to fight Mario to avenge his sister.
Hooktail was later referenced nearing the end of the game when encountering her brother [[Gloomtail]], where one of the party members will briefly mistake him for her and question how she survived the encounter. This promptly outraged him and had him decide to fight Mario to avenge his sister.


==Other appearances==
===''Super Mario-kun''===
[[File:SMKun Hooktail.jpg|left|thumb|Hooktail appearing in the ''[[Super Mario-Kun]]'' series.]]
[[File:SMKun Hooktail.jpg|left|thumb|Hooktail appearing in ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''.]]
Hooktail also appeared in ''[[Super Mario-Kun]]'' in issue 32 of the series, the ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' issue.
Hooktail appears in ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' in volume 32 of the series, the ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' issue. In it, she attacks Mario, Goombella, and Koops. As this manga is based on the original Japanese game, she gets weak by a frog's croak rather than a cricket's chirp.
In it, she attacks Mario, Goombella, and Koops. As this manga is based on the original Japanese game, she gets weak by a frog's croak rather than a cricket's chirp.


===''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===
Hooktail appears as a [[Sticker (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)|Sticker]] in the game ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. The sticker is usable in [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl#The Subspace Emissary|The Subspace Emissary]] by every character and increases resistance to fire-based attacks by 36 points.
Hooktail appears as a [[Sticker (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)|Sticker]] in the game ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. The sticker is usable in [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl#The Subspace Emissary|The Subspace Emissary]] by every character and increases resistance to fire-based attacks by 36 points.
===Unused appearances===
====''Minecraft''====
[[File:Hooktail minecraft.jpg|thumb|150px|Hooktail as the Ender Dragon.]]
In the files for the Super Mario Mash-up in ''[[Minecraft|Minecraft: Wii U Edition]]'', there is an unused image of Hooktail as the Ender Dragon. In the final version, the Ender Dragon is [[Gobblegut]] instead.
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{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|align=horizontal|transcludesection=Hooktail|image=[[File:PMTTYD Hooktail Head Sprite.png]]}}
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|align=horizontal|transcludesection=Hooktail|image=[[File:PMTTYD Hooktail Head Sprite.png]]}}


===''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' sticker===
===''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===
{| class=sortable align=center width=100% cellspacing=0 border=1 cellpadding=3 style="text-align:center; border-collapse:collapse; font-family:Arial;"
{{SSBB sticker
|-
|name=Hooktail
!width="150px"|Name
|image=[[File:Hooktail Sticker.png|100px]]
!width="100px"|Image
|game-''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]
!Artwork from
|effect=[Flame] - Resistance +36
!Effect in [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl#Subspace Emissary|The Subspace Emissary]]
}}
|-
|Hooktail
|[[File:Hooktail Sticker.png]]
|''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]
|align=left|[Flame] - Resistance +36
|}


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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Hooktail Finished! PMTTYD.png|Hooktail defeated.
Hooktail Finished! PMTTYD.png|Hooktail defeated.
Hooktail Last Burp.png|Hooktail spitting [[Koopley]]'s shell out
Hooktail Last Burp.png|Hooktail spitting [[Koopley]]'s shell out
PMTTYD NS Hooktail.png|Hooktail as seen in the Nintendo Switch version
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|Jap=ゴンババ
|Jap=ゴンババ
|JapR=Gonbaba
|JapR=Gonbaba
|JapM=From ウンババ ''Unbaba'' ([[Blargg]]), and possibly ドラゴン ''doragon'' (dragon). The ''Unbaba'' pun was also used on every dragon boss in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' and ''Super Paper Mario''.
|JapM=From「ウンババ」(''Unbaba'', "[[Blargg]]"), and possibly「ドラゴン」(''doragon'', "dragon"); the play on「ウンババ」was also used on every dragon boss in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' and ''Super Paper Mario''.
|Fra=Carbocroc
|Chi=
|FraM= Pun on "carboniser" (burn, char) and "croc" (fang)
|ChiR=
|ChiS=
|Dut=Vermila
|DutM=Pun on ''vermiljoen'' ("vermilion") and the feminine name "Mila"
|Fre=Carbocroc
|FreM= Pun on ''carboniser'' ("burn", "char") and ''croc'' ("fang")
|Ger=Lohgard
|Ger=Lohgard
|GerM=Portmanteau of "Lohe" (blaze) and the feminine name suffix "gard" (e.g. "Hildegard" or "Irmgard")
|GerM=Portmanteau of ''Lohe'' ("blaze") and the feminine name suffix "-gard" (e.g. "Hildegard" or "Irmgard")
|Ita=Crimilde
|ItaM=Portmanteau of "crimson" and the feminine name suffix "-hilde"
|Kor=
|KorR=
|KorM=
|Spa=Gombaba
|Spa=Gombaba
|SpaM=Taken from the Japanese ''Gonbaba'', but with the "M" before "B" because, in Spanish, "N" does not come directly before "B".
|SpaM=Same as Japanese name
|Ita=Crimilde
|ItaM=Portmanteau of "crimson" and the feminine name suffix "hilde".
}}
}}


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
[[File:Hooktail minecraft.jpg|thumb|150px|Hooktail as the Ender Dragon.]]
*There will always be eight Toads seated in the lower right seats in the [[audience]]. Hooktail will eat these Toads to replenish herself for the second round, but two of them will escape from being eaten.
*There will always be eight Toads seated in the lower right seats in the [[audience]]. Hooktail will eat these Toads to replenish herself for the second round, but two of them will escape from being eaten.
**Jumping on Hooktail or using [[Goombella]]'s [[Headbonk]] during that round will make her spit out the Toads she has eaten, two per hit. Up to six Toads can be released from Hooktail's mouth.
**Jumping on Hooktail or using [[Goombella]]'s [[Headbonk]] during that round will make her spit out the Toads she has eaten, two per hit. Up to six Toads can be released from Hooktail's mouth.
*In the Spanish localization, Hooktail is depicted as a male.
*In the Spanish localization, Hooktail is depicted as a male.
*In the Japanese version, Hooktail's weakness is frogs and not crickets like in the international versions. However, in the American ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' demo included in the Demo Disc Version 18 for the GameCube, Hooktail is weak to frogs like in the Japanese version.
*In the Japanese version and all other versions except English, Hooktail's weakness is frogs and not crickets like in the English version. However, in the American ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' demo included in the Demo Disc Version 18 for the GameCube, Hooktail is weak to frogs like in the Japanese version.
*In the files for the Super Mario Mash-up in ''[[Minecraft|Minecraft: Wii U Edition]]'', there is an image of Hooktail as the Ender Dragon. The concept for Hooktail as the Ender Dragon was scrapped before release, where the Ender Dragon is [[Gobblegut]] instead.  


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