This article is about the crowd of enemies inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. For other uses, seeX-Nauts (disambiguation).

X-Nauts
The X-Naut platoon surrounds Mario in their debut scene inPaper 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)
Species	X-Naut
Leader	Lord Crump
Members Johnson

“Yeah?You like that? Kind of a lot ofdudes, huh? You feel like talking yet?”

—Lord Crump,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

TheX-Naut platoon is a recurring group of enemy soldiers inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and itsNintendo Switch remake, and a subset of theX-Naut organization. They are summoned byLord Crump at several points in the game but are only directly battled once. There appears to be an arbitrarily large amount of X-Nauts making up the platoon, as the exact number varies greatly.

The X-Naut platoon first appears in the Prologue. When Mario defeats Crump the first time at theRogueport dock, he summons the X-Nauts (which included a regular X-Naut namedJohnson) to attack Mario, but they accidentally attack Crump instead while Mario and Goombella escape.

Later, onKeelhaul Key, Crump brings the army of X-Nauts with him on abattleship to attack Mario and take theSapphire Star back from him. They fight against the Toads andCortez's Embers, and eventually Crump calls them in to assist him in the fight against Mario. Throughout the fight, Crump has them deployed in different formations, depending on how much damage he has been dealt. Defeating them is optional, as Crump can summon replacements, while the next formation will replace them after Crump's health drops enough regardless of if they have been defeated or not.Superguarding does not damage them, and theSuper Hammer does not spin them into Crump.

• In their first formation, six X-Nauts pile in front of Crump, having 6 HP. Sometimes, they spawn with aSuper Shroom orStopwatch. They all attack Mario by leaping into him at once.
• In their second formation, a huge line hangs from a girder on the ceiling, again having 6 HP but making them difficult to attack. They attack by shaking the girder, making giant forks fall onto random places on the battlefield below to hit the combatants (which sometimes includes Crump). Alternatively, they can all file off to pile onto Mario or his partner, doing 1 damage five times. This phase can be skipped by depleting Crump's health all the way early.
• In their third formation, which only happens when Crump's HP fully drops and is then healed, a huge crowd of X-Nauts surround Crump, now having 10 HP. They combine together to form a massive ball with Crump balancing on top, running through Mario and his partner to cause damage to both (while Crump still has his separate attack turn).

Once Crump is defeated, the X-Naut platoon flees again.

Shortly afterward, when Crump encountersBowser andKammy Koopa inTwilight Town, Crump summons the army of X-Nauts again. Bowser and Kammy retaliate by summoning various members of theKoopa Clan (Hammer Bros.,Koopatrols, andMagikoopas). Crump throws the recoveredSuperbombomb at them, but since it is broken, it fails to explode. Bowser then ignites it with his fiery breath, destroying both armies. X-Nauts are only seen in small amounts later in the game (aside from as members of theaudience), including in theX-Naut Fortress, so the incident in Twilight Town seems to have incapacitated most of them.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

GameCube[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
X-Nauts
	Max HP	6 (first round),10 (second round)	Attack	5 (Decreases as HP is lost)	Defense	0
	Location(s)	Keelhaul Key	Role	Support	Level	0
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Team Body Slam (5), Individual Fall (1x5), Ceiling Forks (4, both characters), Combined Roll (5, both characters)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	N/A	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 107	Log	N/A
	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?

Similar to aFuzzy Horde, Goombella can useTattle on the X-Naut platoon, but it will not be recorded in herTattle Log, instead using the same entry as an ordinary X-Naut in this case.

Nintendo Switch[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
X-Nauts
	Max HP	6 (first round),10 (second round)	Attack	5 (Decreases as HP is lost)	Defense	0
	Location(s)	Keelhaul Key	Role	Support	Level	0
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	0%	Moves	Team Body Slam (5), Individual Fall (1x5), Ceiling Forks (4, both characters), Combined Roll (5, both characters)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	N/A	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 112	Log	Platoon members summoned by Crump. Their Max HP depends on their condition. As long as Crump is still standing, he'll always summon more to replace the ones you defeat. There's no telling how many hours of exhaustive training it took to coordinate their team-up attacks under Crump's commands.
	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?

Gallery[edit]

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  The X-Naut platoon after the second battle with Lord Crump

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  The X-Naut platoon against the Koopa Clan

Names in other languages[edit]

• X-Nauts
• Enemy groups
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemies

• Articles with unsourced foreign names