It is possibly based on a dinosaur or a dinosaur fossil, and like dinosaurs, nobody has ever seen a Cubone's real face; only its mother's skull.
It is possibly based on a dinosaur or a dinosaur fossil, and like dinosaurs, nobody has ever seen a Cubone's real face; only its mother's skull.
====Name origin====
====Name origin====
Cubone's name might be a combination of ''cute'' and ''bone'', ''cub'' and ''bone'', or ''{{wp|Billiard ball|cue ball}}'' (a reference to its pale white head) and ''bone''. ''Karakara'' may be taken to mean からから, clattering. It is worth noting that ''karakara'' denotes lighter clattering than ''{{p|Marowak|garagara}}''.
Cubone's name might be a combination of ''cute'' and ''bone'', ''cub'' and ''bone'', or ''{{wp|Billiard ball|cue ball}}'' (a reference to its pale white head, or to the fact that its bone resembles a snooker cue) and ''bone''. ''Karakara'' may be taken to mean からから, clattering. It is worth noting that ''karakara'' denotes lighter clattering than ''{{p|Marowak|garagara}}''.
Cubone appears to be a small, brown theropod-like Pokémon, that constantly wears a skull (supposedly the skull of its mother) like a helmet. The skull masks its true face from view, which makes it a puzzlement for many Trainers and researchers. It carries another bone, which it uses to attack with moves like Bone Club.
Cubone has a plump body with a paler-colored underbelly, with strong, clawed limbs to carry its bone as a weapon around wherever it goes. Cubone has a single, nailed toe on each foot, with two spikes on its back. A small tail is also present for balance, but it can be used for attacking.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
It has the ability to wield its bone as an effective weapon, or throw it in the same manner as a boomerang.
It is constantly lonely, due to the fact that it's without its mother, and moans plaintively. It dislikes keeping company or making new friends, and its social skills are almost non-existent.
During the night, it cries for its lost mother and it is unable to let go of the memory of her. Its cries echo within the skull and it comes out as a pained and sad melody that can travel for miles around its mountain homeland. Sometimes, it can emit mournful sounds during the day. On the night of a full moon, its cries are the loudest - for it seems to recognize its mother's face in the moon.
The exact whereabouts of the mothers are unknown; however, the people of Lavender Town acknowledge that Marowak skulls are considered highly expensive. Team Rocket has been blamed for killing Marowak in exchange for money, and the claim is supported by the ghost of a Marowak haunting the Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town. These deaths may set the basis of personality for all Cubone.
Cubone live in rocky areas where they can easily find bones in old sediment that can be millions of years old. They use the bones they find as weapons. Sometimes, they prefer to live in dark caves where they can mourn alone.
A Cubone was among the four Pokémon that were causing trouble for Pikachu and co. during Pikachu's Vacation.
A Cubone was helping Meowth preparing his party in Pichu Bros. in Party Panic. This Cubone played drums in Meowth's band and got easily sad and gloomy when Meowth chewed it out, but it was also easily consolable.
Crystal owns a Cubone, who has a star-shaped crack in its skull. Cubone's main role in the team is to take out targets from afar using its bone-based attacks.
In the Pokémon Stadium 2 stage, a Cubone can be seen on the Ground Terrain standing atop the highest platform built into a rock. Dugtrio and Pokémon fossils can also be seen on the Ground Terrain.
Merchandise
Cubone was one of the first four Pokémon designs revealed when the Pokémon 151 brand was first announced. In the shirt design, Cubone's skull is in the center of the shirt, with two Thick Clubs in crossing below it.
Game data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
Cubone pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull the Pokémon wears are made by the tears it sheds.
Cubone pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull the Pokémon wears are made by the tears it sheds.
It pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of its mother in the full moon, it cries. The stains on the skull it wears are from its tears.
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Cubone's name for English audiences was originally going to be "Orphon," a reference to how it's orphaned at birth.
Despite the Pokédex's statement that it wears the skull of its dead mother, Cubone can be bred in the games with no ill effects on its mother. This is due to Cubone being created before breeding in the games was possible.
Cubone is one of the five Pokémon to appear in the Pokémon 151 clothing line.
It is possibly based on a dinosaur or a dinosaur fossil, and like dinosaurs, nobody has ever seen a Cubone's real face; only its mother's skull.
Name origin
Cubone's name might be a combination of cute and bone, cub and bone, or cue ball (a reference to its pale white head, or to the fact that its bone resembles a snooker cue) and bone. Karakara may be taken to mean からから, clattering. It is worth noting that karakara denotes lighter clattering than garagara.
In other languages
German: Tragosso - A combination of tragen (to carry or wear) or tragisch (dramatically), and oss, a form of the Latin word for bone.
French: Osselait - A combination of osselet (small bone) and lait (milk), referring to the young age and need for a mother.
This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.
Thick Club (8%)
For other sprites and images, please see Cubone images on Bulbagarden Archives.
