Armored Harriers

Armored Harriers
The Armored Harriers – the younger in green and the elder in red
Species	Iron Cleft
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)

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

—Armored Harriers, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

The Armored Harriers (a.k.a. The Iron Adonis Twins) is a team consisting of the only two Iron Clefts that appear in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. They are brothers, with one wearing red shoes and the other wearing green shoes. This combination of red and green appears often in the Super Mario franchise.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Initially, the Armored Harriers are ranked 10th in Glitz Pit. They hold a grudge against Mario after Grubba tells them some trash talk that he accredits to Mario (namely the reference to outies running in the family, since their mother apparently had an outie). The Armored Harriers are made of iron that Mario cannot break through. He is only able to defeat these two Iron Clefts with the help of Mini-Yoshi, who is able to take an enemy into his mouth with his tongue and spit them back at the other enemy with his Gulp attack.

The Armored Harriers are downgraded to the Minor League after Mario and his allies beat them. They form a grudge against Mario and attempt revenge by ambushing him after he reaches 7th rank.

When Mario has to visit the Minor League locker room while searching for the Dubious Paper, the Armored Harriers threaten to fight outside the ring.

Despite the twins' grudge against Mario, they, along with Jolene, King K, Rawk Hawk, and a few others cheer him on in his battle against the Shadow Queen. It seems though that they let the grudge go, realizing Grubba lied, but still see Mario as a rival.

Enemy Statistics

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	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	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.

Field Tattles

Outside of battle, Goombella can use Tattle on the Armored Harriers only when Mario revisits the minor-league locker room for a mission given by Jolene (under the alias of "X") after receiving the Super 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?"

Names in other languages

Armored Harriers

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	こうてつウォリアーズ Kōtetsu Woriāzu	Steel Warriors
French	Têtes d'Acier	Steel Heads
German	Stahl-Brüder	Steel Brothers
Italian	Los Hermannos	Come from the Spanish translation for "brothers".
Spanish	Los Hermanos Tachuela	The Tack Brothers

The Iron Adonis Twins

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	パーフェクト　アイアンボディ Pāfekuto Aian Bodi	Perfect Iron Body
French	Inoxydables	Unstainables
Italian	Le teste dure da rompere	The knuckleheads (literally "hard heads") hard to break
Spanish	Una pareja dura de pelar	A hard nut pair