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{{species infobox
|image=[[File:YS StiltGuy.jpg|102px]]<br>A Shy Guy On Stilts from ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' ([[List of games by date#1995|1995]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' ([[Yoshi Tour (2023)|Yoshi Tour]]) (2023)
|variant_of=[[Shy Guy]]
|notable=[[Big Guy the Stilted]]
}}
{{quote|Go! Attack, Stilt Guys! Fight! Fight! Fight!|General Guy|Paper Mario}}
'''Stilt Guys''', also known as '''Shy-Guys on Stilts'''<ref name=guide>Miller, Kent, and Terry Munson. ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' Player's Guide. [[media:SMW2 Guide 128.jpg|Page 128]].</ref> (alternatively '''Shy Guys On Stilts''' or '''Shy Guys on Stilts'''<ref>Williams, Drew. ''Yoshi's Island DS'' Player's Guide. Pages 55, 94, 103, 131.</ref>) or '''Stilted Shy Guys'''<ref>"'''Stilted Shy Guys''': These Shy Guys oversee their courses on stilts of various heights. You can knock them off or jump on top of them."- ''Nintendo 64 Game Secrets, 1999 Edition'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 109.</ref>, are a variant of [[Shy Guy]]s that walk on [[stilts]], which are mostly shoed with what look like large Shy Guy boots.

==History==
===''Yoshi'' franchise===
====''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' / ''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''====
Shy-Guys on Stilts first appear in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' and ''[[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3]]''. The [[Shy-Guys On Stilts|World 1-6]] is named after them and contains color variations. They walk along the terrain, changing direction when they encounter an edge or wall. If [[Yoshi]] attempts to eat a Shy-Guy on Stilts, he will not be able to grab it into his mouth, instead pushing the enemy a little further. They lose their stilts when they are jumped on, becoming regular Shy-Guys that can be eaten and turned into [[Yoshi's Egg|eggs]]. A faster way to defeat a Shy-Guy on Stilts is hitting it with an egg. Bumping Shy-Guys on Stilts into water will cause them to sink, but if the water is shallow they will slowly walk on the bottom of the water's bed and emerge on the shore.

====''Yoshi's Story''====
{{quote2|He's tough and high, but you can hurt him if you're sly.|[[Message Block]] in Rail Lift, ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''}}
Shy Guy On Stilts also appear in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]'', with the stilts now coming in three different lengths. Like in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', Yoshi has to land on their heads to make them fall off their stilts, leaving them no choice once again. Blue-robed variants make their debut in this game.

====''Yoshi's Island DS''====
Shy Guys on Stilts also appear in ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]'', along with [[Big Guy the Stilted]], a giant, mechanical version. As with ''Yoshi's Story'', the length of the stilts varies, with the longest taking up both screens of the [[Nintendo DS]]. This game also introduces [[stilts]] as an item that Yoshi can use for himself. If [[Baby Bowser]] spits a fire ball on the stilts without killing the Shy Guy, the Shy Guy will bump down to the middle of the stilts' length.
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====''Yoshi's New Island''====
Stilt Guys are also found in ''[[Yoshi's New Island]]''. Just like in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', when they are on their stilts and Yoshi attempts to stick his tongue on their front sides, they get pushed backwards. They need to be jumped on in order to lose their stilts and become normal [[Shy Guy]]s. Yoshi can also eat them if he sticks his tongue onto their back sides. The pink-robed variants make their first appearance since the original ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', now having the same modern design as the pink Shy Guys. Unlike ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', the Stilt Guys' shoes match the shoes of Shy Guys themselves.

====''Yoshi's Woolly World'' / ''Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World''====
[[File:YWW Stilt Guys.jpg|290px|thumb|Several Stilt Guys stroll around Yarn Yoshi in ''[[Yoshi's Woolly World]]'']]
Stilt Guys return in ''[[Yoshi's Woolly World]]'' and ''[[Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World]]''. In order to keep the game's prime aesthetics, Stilt Guys are now crafted out of wool strings and walk on two long, thin weaving sticks, resembling stilts. The enemies retain the behavior seen in previous games. Yarn Yoshi can lick a Stilt Guy from the front side to push it a small distance, or lick the enemy from behind to grab it into his mouth. He can also throw a [[yarn ball]] at its stilts and wrap it around them, immobilizing the Stilt Guy. Yoshi can lick away the wool string formed around the stilts or wait a certain time before the Stilt Guy becomes able to move again. Tossing a yarn ball directly at the Stilt Guy will result in the enemy getting caged inside a tangled string, dropping its stilts and getting defeated. The Stilt Guys' shoes match the color of Shy Guys for the first time since ''Yoshi's Island DS''.

===''Paper Mario''===
In ''[[Paper Mario]]'', two Stilt Guys are the second wave of [[Shy Guy]]s fought before the boss battle with [[General Guy]], following the [[Shy Squad]] and preceding the [[Shy Guy Tower|Shy Stack]]s. After they are ordered by General Guy to fight against [[Mario]] and his friends, they walk towards the heroes and attempt to bounce on them with their long stilts. Nevertheless, the enemies might miss the characters. If Mario [[jump]]s on top of them or use [[Quake Hammer]], they fall off their stilts and become normal Shy Guys. The tattle contains a nod to their original name.

===''Mario Kart'' series===
====''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''====
[[File:YoshisIslandMk8Stilt.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Stilt Guys on the Yoshi's Island course]]
Stilt Guys appear in the [[Yoshi's Island (race course)|Yoshi's Island]] course in the  [[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|Booster Course Pass]] for ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]''. They act as obstacles near the start of the course, walking back and forth as they do in the ''Yoshi's Island'' series, and come in multiple colors, though the regular red-robed Stilt Guys' stilt shoes are now yellow, while the green Stilt Guys' stilt shoes are still green.<ref>"February 8th, 2023 Nintendo Direct [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMdUSVSEp7U]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved February 8, 2023.</ref>

====''Mario Kart Tour''====
Stilt Guys appear in ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' as obstacles in the Yoshi's Island course just like in ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''.

===Other appearances===
In ''[[Minecraft]]'', the Super Mario Mash-up replaces the skins of the Endermen to skins of Stilt Guys. The Stilt Guys also have stilt-like arms, to fit the model of an Enderman.

''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' contains unused graphical data of a Stilt Guy.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Yoshi's Island'' series===
====''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''====
*'''Shogakukan guide:''' 舌でつっつくと、竹馬でバックするところはさすが。タマゴやヒップドロップで倒せるが、頭を踏んで竹馬から落とさないと食べられない。<ref name=Sho/> (''Poking him with your tongue and pushing him back on stilts is as good as it gets. You can defeat him with an egg or a hip drop, but you can't eat him unless you step on his head and drop him off the stilts.'')
*'''[[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]]:''' ''What'll those smarties think of next? Watch for them wading in water and climbing rocks.''<ref name=guide/>

====''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''====
*'''Shogakukan guide:''' 舌でつっついても、バックするだけ。頭をふみ、竹馬から落ちたところを食べよう。タマゴやヒップドロップで倒すこともできる。<ref name=Advance/> (''Poke them with your tongue and they will just go back. Step on their heads and eat them as they fall from their stilts. You can also defeat them with an egg or hip drop.'')

====''Yoshi's New Island''====
*'''Shogakukan guide:''' 足の長い竹馬に乗ったヘイホー。舌を伸ばしても正面からは食べることができない。タマゴにするときは、敵の背後に回りこんでから食べる必要がある。<ref name=YNI>「ヨッシー New アイランド 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's New Island Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''), {{media link|Yoshi New Island Shogakukan P21.jpg|page 21}}.</ref> (''A Shy Guy on long-legged stilts. They cannot be eaten from the front, even with your tongue outstretched. When you want to turn it into an egg, you need to get behind the enemy before you eat it.'')

===''Paper Mario''===
{{:Paper Mario bestiary|transcludesection=Stilt Guy|image=[[File:PM Stilt Guy idle.gif]]|align=horizontal}}

==Gallery==
{{Main-gallery}}
<gallery>
Shyguystilts.jpg|Artwork from ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''
SMW2 Stilt Guy.jpg|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SMW2 Red Shy Guy on Stilts.png|Red Shy-Guy on Stilts sprites from ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SMW2 Green Shy Guy on Stilts.png|Green Shy-Guy on Stilts sprites from ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SMW2 Pink Shy Guy on Stilts.png|Pink Shy-Guy on Stilts sprites from ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SMW2 Yellow Shy Guy on Stilts.png|Yellow Shy-Guy on Stilts sprites from ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
Icon SMW2-YI - Shy-Guys On Stilts.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
Puzzle1.jpg|Artwork used for a puzzle based on ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
Yoshi's Island Christmas Puzzle Artwork.jpg|Artwork used for a Christmas-themed puzzle based on ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SuperMarioYoshiIslandVolume2.jpg|A pink Stilt Guy on the cover of volume 2 of the [[Super Mario (Kodansha manga)|Kodansha manga]]'s ''Yoshi's Island'' arc
Story Shy Guy on Stilts short red.png|''[[Yoshi's Story]]''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts medium red.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts tall red.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts short yellow.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts medium yellow.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts tall yellow.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts short green.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts medium green.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts tall green.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts short blue.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts medium blue.png|''Yoshi's Story''
Story Shy Guy on Stilts tall blue.png|''Yoshi's Story''
SMA3-ShyGuyonStilts.png|''[[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3]]''
SMA3-ShyGuyonStiltsYellow.png|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
SMA3-ShyGuyonStiltsGreen.png|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
SMA3-ShyGuyonStiltsPink.png|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
SMA3 Shy-Guys On Stilts Cave.png|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
SMA3 Shy-Guys On Stilts Outside.png|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
YIDS Red Stilt Guy.png|Shy Guy on Stilts sprite from ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]''
YIDS Blue Stilt Guy.png|Shy Guy on Stilts sprite from ''Yoshi's Island DS''
YIDS Green Stilt Guy.png|Shy Guy on Stilts sprite from ''Yoshi's Island DS''
YIDS Yellow Stilt Guy.png|Shy Guy on Stilts sprite from ''Yoshi's Island DS''
Icon YIDS - Yoshi on Stilts.png|''Yoshi's Island DS''
Metal Eggdozers on a Roll.png|''[[Yoshi's New Island]]''
YNI Stilt Guy red.png|''Yoshi's New Island''
YNI Stilt Guy pink.png|''Yoshi's New Island''
Stilt Guy YWW.jpg|A Stilt Guy on the stage of [[Scrapbook Theater]] in ''Yoshi's Woolly World''
Stilt Guy SPM unused.png|Unused sprite of a Stilt Guy in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''
Minecraft Mario Mash-Up Stilt Guy.jpg|''[[Minecraft]]''
Birdo MK8DX.jpg|''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]''
MKT Stilt Guy.jpg|''[[Mario Kart Tour]]''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap={{ruby|竹馬|たけうま}}ヘイホー<ref name=Sho>「スーパーマリオヨッシーアイランド任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario: Yossy Island Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''), [[media:Super Mario Yossy Island Shogakukan P5.jpg|page 5]].</ref><ref name=Advance>「スーパーマリオアドバンス3任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario Advance 3 Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''), [[media:Advance 3 Shogakukan P17.png|page 17]].</ref><ref>「ヨッシーアイランドDS任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's Island DS Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''), page 65.</ref> / たけうまヘイホー<ref name=YNI/>
|JapR=Takeuma Heihō
|JapM=Stilt Shy Guy
|ChiS=高跷嘿虎 <small>(prior to ''Mario Kart Tour'')</small><br>''Gāoqiào Hēihǔ''<br>踩高跷的嘿呵<br>Cǎigāoqiào de Hēihē
|ChiSM=Stilt Shy Guy<br><br>Shy Guy on Stilts
|ChiT=踩高蹺的嘿呵
|ChiTR=Cǎigāoqiào de Hēihē
|ChiTM=Shy Guy on Stilts
|Fra=Mass'chasses<br>Maskéchass
|FraM=Portmanteau of "Maskass" (Shy Guy) and "échasses" (stilts)
|Ger=High Shy Guy
|Ita=Tipo Trampolo<br>Tipo Trampoli
|ItaM=Stilt Guy<br>Stilts Guy
|Kor=죽마헤이호
|KorR=Jugma Heiho
|KorM=Stilt Shy Guy
|Por=Perna de pau Guy
|PorM=Stilt Guy
|SpaA=Guy en zancos<br>ZancGuy
|SpaAM=Guy on Stilts<br>Portmanteau of Shy Guy and "zanco" (stilt)
|SpaE=ZancGuy
|SpaEM=Portmanteau of "Shy Guy" and "zanco" (stilt)
}}

==References==
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