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{{species-infobox
{{species infobox
|title=Fiery Walking Piranha
|image=[[File:Fire Nipper Plant.png|100px]]<br>Sprite from ''Super Mario Bros. 3''
|image=[[File:Fire Nipper Plant.png]]
|parent_species=[[Nipper Plant]]
|related=[[Fire Piranha Plant]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' ([[List of games by date#1988|1988]])
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' ([[List of games by date#1988|1988]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]'' ([[List of games by date#2013|2013]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition]]'' ([[List of games by date#2010|2010]])
|variant_of=[[Nipper Plant]]<br>[[Fire Piranha Plant]]
|variants=[[Petit Piranha]]
|comparable=[[Panser]]
}}
}}
 
'''Fire Nipper Plants''',<ref name=Guidance>Palutena's Guidance for Piranha Plant in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' (set to Chinese or Korean)</ref> also known as '''Fiery Walking Piranhas'''<ref>{{cite|title=''Nintendo Power'' Volume 13|page=71|language=en-us|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=June 1990}}</ref> or '''Walking [[Ptooie]]s''',<ref>{{cite|quote=The rarest enemy that you'll come across in any Super Mario game is the Walking Ptooie. This odd plant only appears once in World 7-8 of Super Mario Bros. 3. The second rarest enemy is the Yellow Koopa Troopa. You'll find three of them in Super Mario World.|title=''[[Mario Mania]]''|page=168|language=en-us|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=August 1991}}</ref> are a rare fire-breathing version of [[Nipper Plant]].
'''Fiery Walking Piranhas'''<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' Nintendo Power Strategy Guide, pg. 71.</ref>, also known as "'''Walking [[Ptooie]]s'''"<ref>"''The rarest enemy that you'll come across in any Super Mario game is the Walking Ptooie. This odd plant only appears once in World 7-8 of Super Mario Bros. 3. The second rarest enemy is the Yellow Koopa Troopa. You'll find three of them in Super Mario World.''" - ''Mario Mania'', pg. 168.</ref>, are rare fire-breathing versions of [[Nipper Plant]]s.


==History==
==History==
==='' Super Mario Bros. 3''===
==='' Super Mario Bros. 3''===
In ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', they only appear in [[Pipe Land]], in [[World 7-8 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 7-8]]. Once they spot [[Mario]] they will attack him by spitting fireballs similar to [[Fire Piranha Plant]]s, though a Fiery Walking Piranha can shoot up to four fireballs at once. They are extremely rare since only one appears in the entire game.
In ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', only one Fiery Walking Piranha appears in the entire game, near the end of [[World 7-8 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 7-8]]. It stays in place, and when [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] approaches, it attacks him by spitting [[fireball]]s that arc in his direction. It acts similarly to a red [[Panser]] from ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', though a Fiery Walking Piranha can shoot up to four fireballs at once instead of two.  


===''Mario & Luigi: Dream Team''===
===''Mario & Luigi: Dream Team''===  
Fiery Walking Piranhas appear as background enemies in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]''. In battle, a [[Piranha Plant]] may spit out [[Nipper Spore]]s into the background, each one instantly becoming a Fiery Walking Piranha. Once created, they shoot fireballs at [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] individually, which they must deflect with his hammer to avoid taking damage and to also randomly hit the Piranha Plants in the process.
Although they are never explicitly called Fire Nipper Plants, regular Nipper Plants are depicted as being able to breath fire in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]''.
 
===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''===
In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', Fire Nipper Plants are mentioned briefly by [[icaruspedia:Viridi|Viridi]] in the Japanese [[List of Palutena's Guidance conversations|Palutena's Guidance]] dialogue for [[Piranha Plant#Super Smash Bros. Ultimate|Piranha Plant]]. They are not mentioned at all in the English version; however, when the game is set to Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or Korean, the subtitles include the name Fire Nipper Plant in English.<ref name=Guidance/>


Occasionally, a Piranha Plant will spit a fireball towards the Fiery Walking Piranhas, who will bounce the fireball about until each Fiery Walking Piranha has touched the fireball at some point, where the last Fiery Walking Piranha to touch it sends the fireball towards Mario, who must [[hammer]] it back at the Piranha Plant who created it to counter-attack and avoid taking damage. The Fiery Walking Piranhas are defeated when the Piranha Plant that spawned them is defeated.
{{:Mario & Luigi: Dream Team bestiary|transcludesection=Fiery Walking Piranha|align=horizontal}}
==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|SpaE=Blantita (M&L:DT)
|Jap=ファイアプチパックン<ref>{{cite|language=ja|publisher=Shogakukan|date=2015|title=''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' section|page=37}}</ref>
|SpaEM=[[Nipper Plant]]}}
|JapR=Faia Puchi Pakkun
|JapM=Fire Nipper Plant
|Spa=Blantita
|SpaM=Nipper Plant
|FreEM=Nipper (same as Nipper Plant)
|Ger=Feuer-Zangen-Piranha
|GerM=Fire Pliers Piranha
|Rus=Грызоцвет
|RusR=Gryzotsvet
|RusM=Nipper flower (same as Nipper Plant)
|Ita=Pianta tenaglia sputafuoco<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|page=37}}</ref>
|ItaM=Fire-spitting nipper plant
}}
 
==Trivia==
*In ''[[Paper Mario: The Origami King]]'', the description for Nipper Plants in [[Musée Champignon]] says that they spit fire, but they never do this in-game.


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 10:13, October 20, 2024

Fire Nipper Plant
Fiery Walking Piranha
Sprite from Super Mario Bros. 3
First appearance Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
Latest appearance Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition (2010)
Variant of Nipper Plant
Fire Piranha Plant
Variants
Comparable

Fire Nipper Plants,[1] also known as Fiery Walking Piranhas[2] or Walking Ptooies,[3] are a rare fire-breathing version of Nipper Plant.

History[edit]

Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]

In Super Mario Bros. 3, only one Fiery Walking Piranha appears in the entire game, near the end of World 7-8. It stays in place, and when Mario or Luigi approaches, it attacks him by spitting fireballs that arc in his direction. It acts similarly to a red Panser from Super Mario Bros. 2, though a Fiery Walking Piranha can shoot up to four fireballs at once instead of two.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team[edit]

Although they are never explicitly called Fire Nipper Plants, regular Nipper Plants are depicted as being able to breath fire in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Fire Nipper Plants are mentioned briefly by Viridi in the Japanese Palutena's Guidance dialogue for Piranha Plant. They are not mentioned at all in the English version; however, when the game is set to Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or Korean, the subtitles include the name Fire Nipper Plant in English.[1]

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ファイアプチパックン[4]
Faia Puchi Pakkun
Fire Nipper Plant
German Feuer-Zangen-Piranha[?] Fire Pliers Piranha
Italian Pianta tenaglia sputafuoco[5] Fire-spitting nipper plant
Russian Грызоцвет[?]
Gryzotsvet
Nipper flower (same as Nipper Plant)
Spanish Blantita[?] Nipper Plant

Trivia[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Palutena's Guidance for Piranha Plant in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (set to Chinese or Korean)
  2. ^ June 1990. Nintendo Power Volume 13. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 71.
  3. ^ "The rarest enemy that you'll come across in any Super Mario game is the Walking Ptooie. This odd plant only appears once in World 7-8 of Super Mario Bros. 3. The second rarest enemy is the Yellow Koopa Troopa. You'll find three of them in Super Mario World." – August 1991. Mario Mania. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 168.
  4. ^ 2015. Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook, Super Mario Bros. 3 section. Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 37.
  5. ^ Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Page 37.