Stalking Piranha Plant
- This article is about the enemy. For the similarly named Rock-Candy Mines course, see Walking Piranha Plants!
| Stalking Piranha Plant | |||
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 Model from New Super Mario Bros. Wii | |||
| First appearance | New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) | ||
| Latest appearance | New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (2019) | ||
| Variant of | Ptooie | ||
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Stalking Piranha Plants are enemies introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They are Piranha Plants that often have the ability to stretch their necks and walk around, not unlike Elasto-Piranhas in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, though they are designed more closely to Ptooies. At some point, even, in various official social media posts, Nintendo consistently misidentified the Ptooies in the GBA Riverside Park course in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as Stalking Piranha Plants.[1] These mistakes were later corrected.[2]
History[edit]
Super Mario series[edit]
New Super Mario Bros. Wii[edit]
Stalking Piranha Plants are enemies in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They appear only in World 5-1, World 6-3, and the World 5 Enemy Course. When the player characters are not nearby, they walk around on two legs, like Ptooies, and when the player characters approach a Stalking Piranha Plant, it stretches out its necks up and downwards, attempting to block their path. These enemies can be defeated by a fireball, a Star, or a shell, or by being ground-pounded when frozen by an iceball. Like most Piranha Plants, these enemies cannot be picked up when frozen.
New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe[edit]
Stalking Piranha Plants are enemies in New Super Mario Bros. U, New Super Luigi U and their shared port. They act the same as they did in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They appear as rare enemies in Bramball Woods and are much more common in Walking Piranha Plants! and Rising Piranhas.
In New Super Luigi U, they appear in Spinning Sandstones and Rising Piranhas.
Yoshi's Woolly World / Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World[edit]
Stalking Piranha Plants are enemies in Yoshi's Woolly World and its port, being made of yarn and ribbon. They mainly appear in the level Naval Piranha's Sewer. In this game, if the stalk of the plant is hit, then the head will fall down next to the body, and the two will rejoin each other shortly after. When the head and body rejoin, a sound plays similar to that of a Dry Bones' regeneration sound. Attacking the head will permanently defeat the Stalking Piranha Plant. They attack similarly to how they attack in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
Mario & Luigi series[edit]
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions[edit]
- Main article: Fire Stalking Piranha Plant
While Stalking Piranha Plants do not appear in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions, a new variant of Stalking Piranha Plants known as Fire Stalking Piranha Plants appear in the Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser mode.
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey[edit]
Fire Stalking Piranha Plants reappear in the Bowser Jr.'s Journey mode in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Piranha Plant has an attack where it stretches its stem to bite distanced opponents, which is based off of Stalking Piranha Plants and Elasto-Piranhas. On Palutena's Temple, Stalking Piranha Plants (just called Stalking Piranhas) are mentioned briefly by Viridi during Palutena's Guidance dialogue for Piranha Plant.
Gallery[edit]
Screenshot from New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Artwork from New Super Luigi U
Screenshot from New Super Luigi U
Additional names[edit]
Internal names[edit]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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| New Super Mario Bros. Wii New Super Mario Bros. U |
1 Data/files/Object/pakkun_walk.arc content/Common/actor/pakkun_walk.szs |
pakkun_walk | Walk Piranha; compare water and running versions |
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | テクテクパックン[?] Tekuteku Pakkun |
「テクテク」is an onomatopoeia meaning "to walk trudgingly", and「パックン」is from the Japanese name of Piranha Plant; following the naming of「フーフーパックン」(Fūfū Pakkun, Ptooie) | |
| Chinese | 漫步吞食花[?] Mànbù Tūnshíhuā |
Stroll Piranha Plant | |
| Dutch | Stalking Piranha[?] | - | |
| French | Plante Piranha errante (Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia)[?] | Errant Piranha Plant | |
| French (NOA) | Plante Piranha chasseuse[?] | Huntress Piranha Plant | |
| French (NOE) | Plante Piranha trotteuse[?] | Trotter Piranha Plant | |
| German | Pirsch-Piranha[?] | Stalking Piranha | |
| Italian | Pianta Piranha vagante[?] | Vagrant Piranha Plant | |
| Korean | 총총뻐끔[?] Chong-chong Ppeokkeum |
Trotting Piranha Plant | |
| Portuguese (NOE) | Piranha-Lapa[3] | - | |
| Russian | растение-пиранья на стебле[?] rastenie-piran'ya na steble |
Piranha Plant on a Stalk | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Piraña peatona[?] | Pedestrian Piranha | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Planta Piraña Acechadora[?] | Stalker Piranha Plant |
References[edit]
- ^ @NintendoUK (March 8, 2023). Time to make a splash! Dodge the Stalking Piranha Plants and burst through the waterfall of Mario Kart: Super Circuit’s Riverside Park, coming in Wave 4 of the #MarioKart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass.. X (British English). Archived March 8, 2023, 15:36:58 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- ^ @NintendoUK (March 9, 2023). Looks like we need to brush up on our botany! Thanks for letting us know that we got our Stalking Piranha Plants and Ptooies mixed up when we originally posted this.. X (British English). Retrieved March 9, 2023.
- ^ Canal New Super Mario Bros. U (April 4th, 2013). New Super Mario Bros. U - Desafios: Perigo em Corrente (Wii U). YouTube (European Portuguese). Retrieved August 9, 2024.
