X-Yux

X-Yux
Sprite from Paper 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 original Yux found in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. According to Goombella, its name is pronounced "Cross-Yux" instead of "Ex-Yux", although she opens her tattle with "That's an 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 the X-Naut Fortress. Additionally, if three questions of the 66th Trivia Quiz-Off are answered incorrectly, the player will have to face two X-Yux. In battle, a X-Yux spawns two Mini-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 at Mario 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 of Guards and Superguards.

Profiles and statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

GameCube

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

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.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	バリアーンＸＸ Bariān Batsu Batsu	Yux XX
French	Cruxirouge	Pun on crux- (a prefix referring to a cross) and rouge ("red")
German	Crucimat XXL	Yux XXL
Italian	Rostella XX	Yux XX
Spanish	Centinela XX	Yux XX

Trivia

• In the Spanish translation, an X-Yux is called a "Centinela XX". In her tattle, Goombella wonders if the XX means a "double X" or if it is actually twenty in Roman numerals. In the Italian translation, she says that "XX" is pronounced "per per". In the German translation, she says that "XX" is just pronounced "Kreuzkreuz" (crosscross). In the French translation, she sarcastically comments that the X-Nauts are obsessed with crosses.