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,[1] 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
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
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 the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, 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.[2]
- 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 | ||||||||
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| Yoshi | ||||||||
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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  .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This attacks does 1 damage six times. | Ultra Rank |
Super Paper Mario
| Catch Card | |
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Super Smash Bros. series
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
| Sticker Yoshi | ||
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| 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 | ||
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| Category: Series Related | ||
( ) Appears in:GCN Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (10/2004) | ||
| () Trophy Box: 13: Paper Mario
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| 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
Yoshi Kid unhatched
Yoshi hatched
Yoshi and Mario
Yoshi joining the party
- TT-YD Black Yoshi.png
Yoshi hatched as a black Yoshi.
Orange Yoshi in Chapter 4.
Yoshi's egg
Alternate artwork for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Promotional screenshot for the Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Character profile card
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
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- 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."
References
- ^ @Stealth40k (April 12, 2024). This was the most important question they asked.... X. Retrieved May 15, 2024.
- ^ Thomason, Steve (October 1, 2004). Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Nintendo Player's Guide. Nintendo of America. ISBN 1-930206-51-8. Page 16.
| Yoshis |
|---|
| Yoshi characters |
| Baby Fat • Boshi • Fearsome 5 • "It" • Mini Yoshi • Rabbid Yoshi • Ura Yoshi • Village Leader • Yokkī • Yoob • Yoshi • Yoshi Kid |
| Yoshi types |
| Baby Yoshi • Balloon Baby Yoshi • Bubble Baby Yoshi • Glowing Baby Yoshi • Star Yoshi • Winged Yoshi • Yoshi |
| Yoshi relatives |
| Bahamutt • Dorrie • Noshi • Plessie • Rex |
| Yoshi egg types |
| Egg (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time) • Flashing Egg • Giant Egg • Mega Eggdozer • Metal Eggdozer • Yoshi's Egg |
| Yoshi-inspired vehicles |
| Coconut 1 • Dreamy Egg • Egg 1 • Egg Rider • Go-Go Yoshi • Gold Egg • Turbo Yoshi (Black, Blue, Red, White) • Yoshi Bike |
