Red Bones

Red Bones
Artwork of a Red Bones
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Variant of	Dull Bones

“You'll go no farther, and from this moment on... You'll be nothing but bones!”

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

A Red Bones is an enemy that first appeared in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It is slightly stronger than a Dull Bones, and if its HP reaches zero, it could come back to life after a few turns unless finished off by fire, lightning, or explosive elements. They act the same as others in the Bones family, except a Red Bones can summon some Dull Bones a little more frequently. It has the same body frame as a Dull Bones, except that the palette coloration is different with the bones of its body being a pale violet red color, while the shell and shoes are a standard red color, and its eyes glow cyan. One of these appears as a mini-boss in Hooktail Castle and another one appears as a standard enemy for a certain puzzle in the Palace of Shadow's Riddle Tower, although the tattle of a Red Bones can be found in Frankly's trash can after Chapter 1. The Japanese name and their field tattle in the French version indicate that they are red due to being bloodstained.

Statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Red Bones
	Max HP	5	Attack	3	Defense	1
	Location(s)	Hooktail Castle, Palace of Shadow	Role	Boss, common	Level	14
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	40%	Confuse?	40%
	Tiny?	90%	Stop?	85%	Soft?	90%
	Burn?	90%	Freeze?	80%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	80%	KO?	0%	Moves	Bone Throw (3), Multibone (1x3) Build (Summons Dull Bones), Shake (N/A), Get Up (+5HP)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	3	Items	Dried Shroom (drop only), Honey Syrup (drop only)
Tattle Log #: 21	Log	This ugly, red Dull Bones is stronger than a normal Dull Bones. Even if its HP drops to 0, it can come back to life.
	Tattle	That's a Red Bones! A little TOO red, I think. No fashion sense, y'know? Max HP is 5, Attack is 3, and Defense is 1. Unlike your average Dull Bones, even if you pound it to O[sic] HP and it crumbles… It totally might revive! Like a zombie! My advice is to get rid of all the Dull Bones, then attack the Red Bones. Oh, and one more thing! Once its friends start to fall, it may create some more!

Field Tattle

Outside of battle, Goombella can use Tattle on Red Bones only in Hooktail Castle before Mario examines it.

• "What a creepy pile of bones. I mean, they're ALL creepy, but this one's SUPER-creepy! I don't really feel like taking a look at it, but if we don't, we'll never get farther..."

Related

• Dry Bones
• Dull Bones
• Dark Bones

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ブラッディホネノコ Buraddi Honenoko	Bloody Dull Bones
French	Skelécarlate	Pun on "squelette" (skeleton) and "écarlate" (scarlet)
German	Roter Knochen-Koopa	Red Bone Koopa
Italian	Kooposso Rosso	Red Dull Bones
Spanish	Koopa Esqueleto Rojo	Red Skeleton Koopa

Trivia

• In the trailer to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, several scenes involving Red Bones were present, including one where he is selected in battle. This particular scene reveals that Red Bones was known as Red Koopa Skeleton in one of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door's early versions.
• Red Bones is the only enemy in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door that's fought more than once and can have its Tattle Log entry appear in Professor Frankly's trash can. The player can obtain Red Bones' Tattle Log entry after defeating it in Chapter 1, even though the player is forced to fight another Red Bones in the Tower of Riddles. This implies that the second Red Bones battle was added later in development.
• Red Bones is the only enemy in the game to have a susceptibility to the Burn status ailment that is between 0% and 100%.