Yoshi Kid

This article is about Mario's Yoshi partner in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. For the infant Yoshis referred to as Yoshi Kids in Paper Mario, see Fearsome 5. For the infant Yoshis also referred to as "Mini-Yoshis" or "Mini Yoshis", see Baby Yoshi.

Yoshi Kid
The green version of the Yoshi, from the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Full name	Yoshi, The Great Gonzales Jr.
Species	Baby Yoshi
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)

“Let's rock, Gonzales! I'm ready to chew this dude up and spit him out!”

—Yoshi, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

The Yoshi Kid, identified as Mini-Yoshi in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, is Mario's fourth party member in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. He is a spunky Yoshi baby and the youngest of Mario's party members, being newborn. His purpose in the overworld is to allow Mario to ride him to travel around much faster and use a Flutter Jump-like ability to cross gaps.

The Yoshi Kid is named by the player within the text space of eight characters, which incidentally makes "Yoshi Kid" and "Mini-Yoshi" too long to fit. The default name is simply "Yoshi", which is used in most appearances.

History

Paper Mario series

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Yoshi hatching out of his egg.

While Mario, Goombella, Koops and Flurrie are fighting in Glitzville's Glitz Pit, they find that one of the fighting teams, The Iron Adonis Twins, appears to be impervious to any attack they use. At an earlier time, Mario had found a Yoshi's Egg bouncing around, being chased by an owner of the Hot Dog Stand, Mr. Hoggle (who had hopes of making a Southern Fried Egg Dog of Tastiness with it). After Mario caught the egg, it jumped onto a roof of the Hot Dog Stand, requiring Mario to glide down to the roof to recover the egg; Goombella's Tattle on the egg is viewable before Mario interacts with the egg. Mr. Hoggle allowed Mario to keep the egg as most people "don't like eating stuff that jumps all over the place". Following this, the living and bouncy egg joined Mario's party.

After Mario returns from his problematic battle with the Iron Adonis Twins, the egg hatches into a newborn Yoshi baby who thanks Mario for saving his life. He then joins Mario (who he knows as Gonzales), who proceeds to name him. The Yoshi can defeat the Iron Adonis Twins by eating them and spitting them at each other, as the gulp attack ignores enemy defense. He travels with Mario for the rest of the game.

At the end of the adventure, he goes solo at the Glitz Pit, going under the name "The Great Gonzales Jr.", and is stated to be getting close to the title match. In Goombella's letter, the Yoshi challenges the "Great Gonzales" by saying "I could totally take you in the ring now, so bring it!" He is notable for calling Mario "Gonzales" throughout the entire course of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (in a manner similar to other non-player characters such as Goldbob and his family); his odd familiarity with this name is due to Mario's pseudonym, "Great Gonzales" (upon Grubba and Jolene's insistence) while fighting in the Glitz Pit. By the end of the game, though, the Yoshi would appear to have slowly realized that "Gonzales's" real name was Mario, but he states that Mario will always be Gonzales to him.

Super Paper Mario

The Yoshis' plushies from Super Paper Mario

In Super Paper Mario, Yoshi appears as a Catch Card won by winning the Duel of 100 in the Sammer's Kingdom. Francis has a collection of seven Yoshi dolls, each one a different color. Lastly, Yoshi, along with all the other partners from the previous Paper Mario titles appear in a photograph at the Mario Bros.' House during the introduction.

Super Smash Bros. series

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, there is a sticker, which names him "Yoshi," while in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, there is a trophy of Mini-Yoshi, the first game to give him this name.

Super Mario Run

Yoshi had a minor cameo in Super Mario Run (ver. 3.2.0) on promotional artwork in the game during its celebration of the release of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch), though his presence on the in-game alert for the event was his only appearance in the game.

General information

Physical appearance

Yoshi's coloration is determined by the amount of time that passes between the point where his egg joins Mario's party atop the Hot Dog Stand to when Mario eventually meets the newborn after fleeing from or losing to the Iron Adonis Twins. Initially, Yoshi is green, has a red mohawk, and wears orange pants with white polka dots (giving it a Yoshi's Egg-like pattern) and a pair of his species' signature boots. While in his egg, however, Yoshi's color scheme changes every few minutes, as shown in the chart below. If more than twenty minutes pass before Yoshi hatches, the cycle restarts. Each coloration is for aesthetic purposes only, and will stay the same for the rest of the game upon Yoshi's hatching.

Time	Color
0-6 Minutes	Green
6-9 Minutes	Red
9-12 Minutes	Blue
12-15 Minutes	Orange
15-18 Minutes	Pink
18-19 Minutes	Black
19-20 Minutes	White

Profiles and statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

• In-game description: This newborn Yoshi baby may be small, but he's got quite an attitude. Press to hop on his back and move more quickly. Press when riding to float through the air.
• Player's Guide: You'll name the newborn Yoshi yourself when he hatches in Chapter 3, but for the sake of clarity, we'll refer to him by the name of his species. Press X to hop on the little guy's back and he'll move more quickly. While you're riding him, you can press the A Button to float through the air for a brief time.
• Tattle: "Gosh, what a colorful egg! Must be a good one, huh? I mean, look at it jump! But jeepers creepers, I sure wouldn't want to try to eat it... I mean, EWWWWWW! I don't eat moving things. Let's hurry up, grab it, and give it back to Mr. Hoggle."

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Yoshi
	Max HP	10-20	Attack	1	Defense	0
	Location(s)	Creepy Steeple	Role	Support	Level	0
	Sleep?	N/A	Dizzy?	N/A	Confuse?	N/A
	Tiny?	N/A	Stop?	N/A	Soft?	N/A
	Burn?	N/A	Freeze?	N/A	Fright?	N/A
	Gale Force?	N/A	KO?	N/A	Moves	Ground Pound (1, hits up to 4 or 5 times)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	N/A	Items	none
Tattle Log #: N/A	Log	N/A
	Tattle	N/A

The following is Yoshi's attacks and default stats:

HP

• Initial: 10 HP
• Super Rank: 20 HP
• Ultra Rank: 30 HP

Attacks

Attack	FP Needed	Effect	Action Command	Attack Power	Move Ranks
Ground Pound	0	Bounces on a single enemy.	Repeatedly press .	This attack does 1 damage 4/5/6 times (initially and on Super and Ultra Ranks, respectively)	Initial
Gulp	4	Swallows an enemy and spits it at another enemy.	Press and hold until the red star lights up.	Initial: 4 Super: 5 Ultra: 6	Initial
Mini-Egg	3	Throws eggs at all the enemies, and if successful, shrinks them.	Press when the red stars light up.	This attack does 1 damage three or four times (on the Super or Ultra Ranks, respectively)	Super Rank
Stampede	6	Summons a Yoshi herd to attack all enemies.	Repeatedly press and alternately.	This attacks does 1 damage six times.	Ultra Rank

Super Paper Mario

Catch Card
	Card Type: Rare Card Description: It's Yoshi from the last Paper Mario adventure. This scrappy Yoshi was the only way to travel!

Super Smash Bros. series

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Sticker Yoshi
	Artwork from: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
	Effects in The Subspace Emissary: [Throwing] - Attack +5
	Usable by: Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Peach, Bowser

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Trophy Mini-Yoshi

Category: Series Related

() Appears in: GCN Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (10/2004)

() Trophy Box: 13: Paper Mario

How to unlock: Random

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, this young Yoshi first appears as just an egg. After breaking out of his shell, though, the rascal's cheek and ultra-competitive nature run rampant. He's strong for a little lad and can even carry Mario, who he calls Gonzales. There's a funny reason for that, and it's—oh, we've run out of space. Sorry. (American English)

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, this young Yoshi first appears as just an egg. After breaking out of his shell, though, the rascal's cheek and ultra-competitive nature run rampage. He's strong for a little lad, and can even carry Mario, who he calls "Gonzales". There's a funny reason for that, and it's...oh, we've run out of space. Sorry. (British English)

Gallery

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  Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

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  Yoshi Kid unhatched

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  Yoshi hatched

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  Yoshi and Mario

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  Yoshi joining the party

• TT-YD Black Yoshi.png

  Yoshi hatched as a black Yoshi.

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  Orange Yoshi in Chapter 4.

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  Yoshi's egg

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  Artwork for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

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  Alternate artwork for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

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  Promotional screenshot for the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

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  Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

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  Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

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  Character profile card

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  Yoshi cameo in Super Mario Run

Names in other languages

Yoshi/Mini-Yoshi/Yoshi Kid

Note that the player can, as in the English version, name this character anything under a certain space limitation. These names are the default if the field is left blank.

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	チビヨッシー[?] Chibi Yosshī	Chibi Yoshi; same as Baby Yoshi from Super Mario World.
Dutch	Yoshi[?]	-
French	PtiYoshi[?]	"Pti" is a contraction of petit ("small")
German	Mini-Yoshi[?]	-
Italian	Miniyoshi[?]	-
Korean	꼬마요시[?] Kkomayosi	Little Yoshi
Russian	Мини-Йоши (Super Smash Bros. for Wii U)[?] Mini-Yoshi	Mini-Yoshi
Spanish	Yoshi Yoshito[?]	- -ito is a Spanish diminutive suffix. When attached to a name, it denotes smallness, cuteness and/or tenderness.

The Great Gonzales Jr.

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	グレート・ゴンザレス・ジュニア[?] Gurēto Gonzaresu Junia	Great Gonzales Jr.
French	Super Gonzales Junior[?]	-
German	Bomba Luigi Junior[?]	-
Italian	Super Gonzales Junior[?]	-
Spanish	El pequeño Gran González[?]	The small Great Gonzales

Trivia

Wonky's tale about Miniyoshis in the Italian version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

• As stated above, Yoshi's Glitz Pit origins resulted in him calling Mario by the name "Gonzales" throughout the whole course of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, except for six times. Although the use of "Mario" in the ending was deliberate and even played somewhat of a role in Yoshi's character development, the other listings were likely a mistake on the developers' part. In the Nintendo Switch remake, these are corrected so that Yoshi always calls him Gonzales. These are the following times before the ending of the game that Yoshi calls Mario by his actual name in the original game:
  • In Grubba's office when reading his secret paper about the machine under the ring.
  • At Twilight Town when the steeple bell rings, changing Mayor Dour into a pig.
  • At Keelhaul Key after Frankie says "I love you" 100 times.
  • At the very end of Chapter 5 when the Piantas say they are staying on Keelhaul Key.
  • If Mario brings him along to the top of Palace of Shadow Tower for the first time.
• Yoshi is one of two Yoshis that can be seen outside battle in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door; the other one is seen on the Excess Express, as an adult.
• Yoshi is the only partner whose dialogue for approaching Bonetail in combat was slightly changed in the remake.
  • GameCube version: "Whoa! What a psycho!"
  • Nintendo Switch version: "Whoa! What a monster!"
    • Furthermore, when naming the Yoshi in the remake, the player is prompted to use the Nintendo Switch's internal keyboard as opposed to an in-game keyboard like in the original game.
• During the 2nd fight with Doopliss, after defeating Goombella, Koops, and Flurrie, Yoshi will appear, but, no matter what his nickname is, his enemy name is always "Yoshi".
• Wonky in the Italian version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door refers to Yoshi specifically as a Miniyoshi, further explaining that Miniyoshis are "Yoshis just hatched from the eggs". This aligns with the character's Japanese name, which is identical to a Baby Yoshi, along with other localizations and in-game text in the English version referring to him as a "newborn Yoshi baby". The name "Mini-Yoshi" was given for his trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
  • Additionally, the Player's Guide for the game first refers to the character as "a Mini-Yoshi."