The Iron Adonis Twins

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The Iron Adonis Twins
The Iron Adonis Twins – the younger in green and the elder in red
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2004)
Species	Iron Clefts

“We're gonna blendyou up into a smoothie, pal! And then we're gonna drink ya!”

—The Iron Adonis Twins,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

The Iron Adonis Twins, also known asThe Armored Harriers, is a team consisting of the only twoIron Clefts that appear inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door along with itsNintendo Switch remake. They are brothers, with the older one wearing red shoes and the younger one wearing green shoes, referencing Mario and Luigi's primary colors. This combination of red and green appears often in theSuper Mario franchise.

History[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

Initially, the Iron Adonis Twins are ranked 10th inGlitz Pit. They hold a grudge againstMario afterGrubba tells them some trash talk that he accredits to Mario (namely the reference to outies running in the family, since their mother has an outie). The Iron Adonis Twins are made of iron that Mario cannot break through. He is only able to defeat these two Iron Clefts with the help ofYoshi Kid, who can take an enemy into his mouth with his tongue and spit them back at the other enemy with hisGulp attack. The Iron Adonis Twins are downgraded to the Minor League after Mario and his allies beat them, and they form a grudge against Mario.

When Mario has to visit the Minor League locker room while searching for theDubious Documents, the Iron Adonis Twins threaten to fight outside the ring. When Mario defeatsthe Shellshockers, the Iron Adonis Twins barge into the ring and pick another fight with Mario. Despite the twins' grudge against Mario, they, along withJolene,King K,Rawk Hawk, and a few others cheer him on in his battle against theShadow Queen.

In the Nintendo Switch remake, the battle condition against the Iron Adonis Twins during Chapter 3 is always to use a partner move at least once. Mario can be given different battle conditions when fighting the Iron Adonis Twins after Chapter 3.

Super Mario-kun[edit]

The Iron Adonis twins appear in volume 33 ofSuper Mario-kun, in which Yoshi Kid defeats them.

Enemy Statistics[edit]

GameCube[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Iron Cleft (Red)
	Max HP	6	Attack	4	Defense	Special; immune to all attacks except Gulp
	Location(s)	Glitz Pit	Role	Boss	Level	18
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Charge (4, resists counter,Piercing)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	3	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 80	Log	No attacks can pierce the Defense of this hard, metallic Cleft. Are they impossible to defeat???
Tattle Log #: 80	Tattle	That's an Iron Cleft. That guy is SCARY. Period! Max HP is 6, Attack is 4, and Defense is...UNKNOWN?!? What's WITH this book? It says no attack will work against Iron Clefts! It says nothing in the world is as hard as an Iron Cleft, so its Defense is impenetrable. If that's true, the only way to beat one is to whack it with the other one... Running away may not be a bad idea at this point.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Iron Cleft (Green)
	Max HP	6	Attack	4	Defense	Special; immune to all attacks except Gulp
	Location(s)	Glitz Pit	Role	Boss	Level	18
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Charge (4, resists counter,Piercing)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	3	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 81	Log	No attacks can pierce the Defense of this hard, metallic Cleft. Are they impossible to defeat??? Since this one is wearing green shoes, it must be the younger brother.
Tattle Log #: 81	Tattle	That's an Iron Cleft. That guy is SCARY. Period! Max HP is 6, Attack is 4, and Defense is...UNKNOWN?!? What's WITH this book? It says no attack will work against Iron Clefts! It says nothing in the world is as hard as an Iron Cleft, so its Defense is impenetrable. If that's true, the only way to beat one is to whack it with the other one... Running away may not be a bad idea at this point.

Nintendo Switch[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Iron Cleft (Red)
	Max HP	6	Attack	4	Defense	??? (immune to all attacks except Gulp)
	Location(s)	Glitz Pit	Role	Mini-Boss	Level	18
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Charge (4, resists counter,Piercing)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	3	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 83	Log	No attacks can pierce the Defense of this hard, metallic Cleft. Are they impossible to defeat?
Tattle Log #: 83	Tattle	That's an Iron Cleft. That guy is SCARY. Period! Max HP is 6, Attack is 4, and Defense is...UNKNOWN?! What's WITH this book? It says no attack will work against Iron Clefts! It says nothing in the world is as hard as an Iron Cleft, so its Defense is impenetrable. If that's true, the only way to beat one is to whack it with the other one... Running away may not be a bad idea at this point.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Iron Cleft (Green)
	Max HP	6	Attack	4	Defense	??? (immune to all attacks except Gulp)
	Location(s)	Glitz Pit	Role	Mini-Boss	Level	18
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Charge (4, resists counter,Piercing)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	3	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 84	Log	No attacks can pierce the Defense of this hard, metallic Cleft. Since this one is wearing green shoes, it must be the younger brother.
Tattle Log #: 84	Tattle	That's an Iron Cleft. The green shoes mean...this one must be the younger brother! Max HP is 6, Attack is 4, and Defense is...UNKNOWN?! What's WITH this book? It says no attack will work against Iron Clefts! It says nothing in the world is as hard as an Iron Cleft, so its Defense is impenetrable. If that's true, the only way to beat one is to whack it with the other one... Running away may not be a bad idea at this point.

Field Tattles[edit]

Outside of battle,Goombella can useTattle on the Iron Adonis Twins only when Mario revisits the minor-league locker room for a mission given byJolene (under the alias of "X") after receiving theSuper Hammer.

Red shoes

"That's the older of the Iron Adonis Twins. You can tell he's older by his red shoes. I don't think they took their loss to you too well, Mario. I'd be careful around them..."

Green shoes

"That's the younger of the Iron Adonis Twins. He and his brother totally hate you. Is it a rule that older brothers wear red shoes and younger brothers wear green?"

Gallery[edit]

Yoshi Kid battling the Iron Adonis Twins
The Iron Adonis Twins with the Gold Star in Glitzville in the remake

Names in other languages[edit]

The Armored Harriers[edit]

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	こうてつウォリアーズ^[?] Kōtetsu Woriāzu	Steel Warriors
Chinese(Simplified)	钢铁勇士^[?] Gāngtiě Yǒngshì	Steel Warriors
Chinese(Traditional)	鋼鐵勇士^[?] Gāngtiě Yǒngshì	Steel Warriors
Dutch	De Valse Spitsen^[?]	The Mean Prongs
French	Têtes d'Acier^[?]	Steel Heads
German	Stahl-Brüder^[?]	Steel Brothers
Italian	Los Hermannos^[?]	Come from the Spanish translation for "brothers".
Korean	강철 워리어즈^[?] Gangcheol Worieojeu	Steel Warriors
Spanish	Los Hermanos Tachuela^[?]	The Tack Brothers

The Iron Adonis Twins[edit]

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	パーフェクト　アイアンボディ^[?] Pāfekuto Aian Bodi	Perfect Iron Body
Chinese(Simplified)	完美的钢铁躯体^[?] Wánměi de Gāngtiě Qūtǐ	Perfect Iron Body
Chinese(Traditional)	完美的鋼鐵軀體^[?] Wánměi de Gāngtiě Qūtǐ	Perfect Iron Body
Dutch	De Hardnekkige Hartenbrekers^[?]	The Stubborn Heart Breakers
French	Inoxydables^[?]	Unstainables
German	Die Unverwüstlichen^[?]	The Indestructible
Italian	Le teste dure da rompere^[?]	The knuckleheads (literally "hard heads") hard to break
Korean	퍼펙트 아이언 보디^[?] Peopekteu Aieon Bodi	Perfect Iron Body
Spanish(Latin American)	Los mellizos de hierro^[?]	The iron twins
Spanish(European)	Una pareja dura de pelar^[?]	A hard nut pair

[Edit] Clefts
Characters	Cleftor •The Iron Adonis Twins •The Punk Rocks
Variants	Bald Cleft •Cleft •Dark Cleft •Hyper Bald Cleft •Hyper Cleft •Iron Cleft •Moon Cleft

[Edit] Glitz Pit teams (at the end of Chapter 3)
Champion	The Great Gonzales
Major League	Rawk Hawk •The Koopinator •Chomp Country •Hamma, Bamma, and Flare •Craw-Daddy •The Fuzz •The Magikoopa Masters •The Shellshockers •The Poker Faces •The Tiny Spinies
Minor League	The Iron Adonis Twins •The Bob-omb Squad •The Punk Rocks •The Mind-Bogglers •The Hand-It-Overs •Spike Storm •The Dead Bones •The Pokey Triplets •The KP Koopas •The Goomba Bros.
Replacement teams	Wings of Night •The Destructors

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