Pider

Pider
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)
Variants Arantula

Piders are enemies in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its Nintendo Switch remake. They live in the Great Tree and are the only known natural predators of Punies. As their name indicates, they are a spider-like creature, and just like everything else in the Boggly Woods, Piders are monochrome in color. It has two attacks. The first one involves spitting a ball at Mario, dealing 2 damage. The second one involves it spitting out three webs in quick succession, each one taking away 1 HP from Mario's HP bar. Like Scuttle Bugs, Piders have round bodies and suction cups on their feet. In the Glitz Pit, a Pider appears as one of the members of The Mind-Bogglers. They also have stronger relatives known as Arantulas in the Pit of 100 Trials.

When Mario is leading the Punies, if a Pider is nearby several Punies will be frightened and run off, prompting Mario to defeat the Piders to move on.

Profiles and statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

GameCube

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Pider
	Max HP	5	Attack	2	Defense	0
	Location(s)	The Great Tree, Glitz Pit, Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 11-13, 15-18)	Role	Common	Level	12
	Sleep?	90%	Dizzy?	50%	Confuse?	90%
	Tiny?	90%	Stop?	90%	Soft?	95%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	90%	Fright?	100%
	Gale Force?	70%	KO?	95%	Moves	Spider-spit (2), Multispit (1x3)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	0 - 2	Items	Mushroom (drop only), POW Block (drop only), Ruin Powder
Tattle Log #: 62	Log	A spidery creature that drops down on webs. It can shoot out three web-wads to attack consecutively.
	Tattle	That's a Pider. ICK! They gross me out. Max HP is 5, Attack is 2, and Defense is 0. EWWWWWWWWW! Besides its normal attacks, it might spit three web-wads at you consecutively. You'd better have good timing if you wanna guard against its attacks. It also says here that the Punies can't stand Piders. So I'm not the only one! Just the sight of these things makes Punies flee in terror. I know how they feel!

Nintendo Switch

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Pider
	Max HP	5	Attack	2	Defense	0
	Location(s)	The Great Tree, Glitz Pit, Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 11-13, 15-18)	Role	Common	Level	12
	Sleep?	90%	Dizzy?	50%	Confuse?	90%
	Tiny?	90%	Stop?	90%	Soft?	95%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	90%	Fright?	100%
	Gale Force?	70%	KO?	95%	Moves	Spider-spit (2), Multispit (1x3)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	0 - 2	Items	Mushroom (drop only), POW Block (drop only), Ruin Powder
Tattle Log #: 65	Log	A spidery creature that drops down on webs. It can shoot out three web-wads to attack consecutively.
	Tattle	That's a Pider. ICK! They gross me out. Max HP is 5, Attack is 2, and Defense is 0. EWWWWWWWWW! Besides its normal attacks, it might spit three web-wads at you consecutively. You'd better have good timing if you wanna guard against its attacks. It also says here that the Punies can't stand Piders. So I'm not the only one! Just the sight of these things makes Punies flee in terror. I know how they feel!

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	パイダース[?] Paidāsu	Anagram of "spider"
Chinese	黑蜘蛛[?] Hēi Zhīzhū	Black Spider
French	Zarack[?]	Partial homophone of arachnide ("arachnid")
German	Fadula[?]	From Faden ("thread") and "tarantula"
Italian	Sragno[?]	From ragno ("spider")
Korean	파이더스[?] Paideoseu	From the Japanese name
Spanish	Aracnoide[?]	From arachnid combined with the suffix used for forming adjectives -oide

Trivia

• If there is an even amount of Piders in the battle, they will alternate between half being high up and half being down low. However, if there is an odd amount of Piders in the battle, they will all be at the same height.
  • If any Pider in battle is unable to move, all the other Piders will not move up or down.