X-Yux
Sprite fromPaper 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	Yux

X-Yux is an upgrade of the originalYux found inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and itsNintendo Switch remake. According toGoombella, its name is pronounced "Cross-Yux" instead of "Ex-Yux", although she opens her tattle with "That'san X-Yux", suggesting that she used the incorrect pronunciation before reading the correction.

A solitary X-Yux is used as the guard of Grodus' room in theX-Naut Fortress. Additionally, if three questions of the66th Trivia Quiz-Off are answered incorrectly, the player will have to face two X-Yux. In battle, a X-Yux spawns twoMini-X-Yux each round, up to a maximum of four per X-Yux. As such, it is invincible while Mini-X-Yux are surrounding it. When a X-Yux is surrounded by four Mini-X-Yux, it shoots five beams atMario and his partner. They will likely be immobilized, being set up for an endless combo, and thus preventing retaliation.

The X-Yuxes, as with the rest of the Yux family, are notable in that their beam attacks pierce all Defend Plus and Damage Dodge badges that Mario and his partner have equipped. This means that their attacks and immobilization can only be defended against with the use ofGuards andSuperguards.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

GameCube[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
X-Yux
	Max HP	10	Attack	3	Defense	1
	Location(s)	X-Naut Fortress	Role	Common	Level	32
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	10%	Moves	Ring Toss (3,Piercing, Stop), Zap (2x5,Piercing, Stop)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	5	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 114	Log	A new Yux designed to protect important areas. Its attacks will sometimes immobilize you.
	Tattle	That's an X-Yux. I hear this is read as "Cross"-Yux, not as "Ex"-Yux. Anyway, this is a new Yux designed to protect extra-important areas... They were designed to be unbeatable. They're not. Max HP is 10, Attack is 3, and Defense is 1. It can produce two Mini-X-Yuxes at once. AND, it has an excellent success rate of immobilizing opponents. We gotta do something about that if we're gonna win.

Nintendo Switch[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
X-Yux
	Max HP	10	Attack	3	Defense	1
	Location(s)	X-Naut Fortress	Role	Common	Level	32
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	0%	Confuse?	0%
	Tiny?	0%	Stop?	0%	Soft?	0%
	Burn?	0%	Freeze?	0%	Fright?	0%
	Gale Force?	0%	KO?	10%	Moves	Ring Toss (3,Piercing, Stop), Zap (2x5,Piercing, Stop)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	5	Items	None
Tattle Log #: 119	Log	A new Yux designed to protect important areas. Its attacks will sometimes immobilize you.
	Tattle	That's an X-Yux. I hear this is read as "Cross"-Yux, not as "Ex"-Yux. Anyway, this is a new Yux designed to protect extra-important areas... They were designed to be unbeatable. They're not. Max HP is 10, Attack is 3, and Defense is 1. It can produce two Mini-X-Yuxes at once. AND it has an excellent success rate of immobilizing opponents. We gotta do something about that if we're gonna win.

Naming and localization[edit]

Goombella's Tattle varies in each localization to match each language's name for X-Yux:

• In the French translation, she instead sarcastically comments that the X-Nauts are obsessed with crosses.
• In the German translation, she says that "XX" is just pronouncedKreuzkreuz ("crosscross").
• In the Italian translation, she says that "XX" is pronounced "per per", interpreting them as multiplication signs.
• In the Spanish translation, Goombella wonders if the XX in the enemy's name means a "double X" or if it is actually 20 inRoman numerals.

Names in other languages[edit]

• Aliens
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemies

• Articles with stub sections
• Articles with unsourced foreign names