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{{about|the enemy|the similarly named [[Rock-Candy Mines]] course|[[Walking Piranha Plants!]]}}
{{about|the enemy|the similarly named [[Rock-Candy Mines]] course|[[Walking Piranha Plants!]]}}
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|image=[[File:NSLU StalkPlant.png]]<br>A Stalking Piranha Plant in ''[[New Super Luigi U]]''
|image=[[File:StalkingPPlantNSMBW.png|200x200px]]<br>Model from ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''
|first_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' ([[List of games by date#2009|2009]])
|first_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' ([[List of games by date#2009|2009]])
|latest_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe]]'' ([[List of games by date#2019|2019]])
|latest_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe]]'' ([[List of games by date#2019|2019]])
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[[File:NSLU Rising Piranhas Screenshot.jpg|thumb|left|Screenshot from ''New Super Luigi U'']]
[[File:NSLU Rising Piranhas Screenshot.jpg|thumb|left|Screenshot from ''New Super Luigi U'']]
Stalking Piranha Plants are enemies in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'' and their [[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe|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]].
Stalking Piranha Plants are enemies in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'' and their [[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe|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]].


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==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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StalkingPPlantNSMBW.png|Model from ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''
NSMBW World 5-Enemy Screenshot.png|Screenshot from ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''
NSMBW World 5-Enemy Screenshot.png|Screenshot from ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' ([[Enemy Course]])
NSLU StalkPlant.png|Artwork from ''[[New Super Luigi U]]''
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==Additional names==
==Additional names==

Latest revision as of 09:58, August 30, 2024

This article is about the enemy. For the similarly named Rock-Candy Mines course, see Walking Piranha Plants!
Stalking Piranha Plant
Model of a Stalking Piranha Plant from New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
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
Variants
Relatives

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]

NSMBW Stalking Piranha Plant Sprite.png

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]

Rising Piranhas from New Super Luigi U.
Screenshot from New Super Luigi U

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]

A Stalking Piranha Plant in the Scrapbook Theater
A Stalking Piranha Plant in Yoshi's Woolly World

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]

Additional names[edit]

Internal names[edit]

Game File Name Meaning

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
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]

  1. ^ @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.
  2. ^ @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.
  3. ^ 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.