Spiky Joe
| Spiky Joe | |
|---|---|
 Sprite in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door | |
| Species | Red Spike Top |
| First appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) |
| Latest appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024) |
- “Wheeee! It's gonna be fun poking at you!”
- —Spiky Joe, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Spiky Joe is a Red Spike Top that appears in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. He is a major-league fighter in the Glitz Pit.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Spiky Joe is in the major league locker room, allowing Mario and his partner to talk to him. His team is called The Tiny Spinies; they are the first enemies that Mario faces in the major league. Spiky Joe is one of the few nice major-league members despite losing to "The Great Gonzales"; he does not hate him, and merely swears to train more and get better one day (the only other member being Hamma Jamma).
Enemy Statistics
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy | ||||||||
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| R. S. Buzzy | ||||||||
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Max HP | 5 | Attack | 3 | Defense | 4 | ||
| Location(s) | Glitz Pit | Role | Common | Level | 17 | |||
| Sleep? | 75% | Dizzy? | 75% | Confuse? | 75% | |||
| Tiny? | 90% | Stop? | 90% | Soft? | 95% | |||
| Burn? | 0% | Freeze? | 75% | Fright? | 60% | |||
| Gale Force? | 30% | KO? | 95% | Moves | Shell Toss (3) | |||
| Exp. points | 0 | Coins | 1 - 2 | Items | None | |||
| Tattle Log #: 35 |
Log | The sturdiest of all the Buzzy Beetles, a Red Spike Top is impervious to fire and explosions. Plus, the spike on its back protects it from being flipped over. | ||||||
| Tattle |   That's a Red Spike Top. It's the most well protected of the Buzzy Beetle species. Max HP is 5, Attack is 3, and Defense is a whopping 5[sic]. Yup... This guy is HARD! It has really high Defense, and fire and explosions don't hurt it at all. If we can just find a way to flip it over, its underside has Defense of 0... And that spike... What a pain! There's gotta be a way to flip it over...
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Field Tattle
- "That guy's Spiky Joe. He's a major-leaguer, so we'll see him in the ring. He's super-proud of his hard shell and the pointy spike on top of it. Whatever."
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | タンタン[?] Tantan |
Onomatopoeia for hitting sounds | |
| Chinese | 坦坦[?] Tǎntǎn |
Transliteration of the Japanese name | |
| Dutch | Spitse Siem[?] | from spits (peak-shaped) and Siem (dutch name) | |
| French | Timothée[?] | Timothy | |
| German | Flimsy[?] | - | |
| Italian | Spinarossa[?] | Redspike | |
| Korean | 탕탕이[?] Tangtang'i |
From the Japanese name, combined with "이" (-i, Korean diminutive name ending) | |
| Spanish | El Punzón[?] | The Awl |
| Buzzy Beetles | |
|---|---|
| Characters | Butametto and Ushimetto • Chan • Metto Oyakata • Paper Mistake Buzzy Beetle • Spiky Joe • The Tiny Spinies • Torque |
| Species | Big Bony Beetle • Big Buzzy Beetle • Bony Beetle • Buster Beetle • Buzz-Bomb • Buzzy Beetle • Buzzy Beetle Gang • Buzzy Beetle Tower • Dark Spike Top • Dark Stone Buzzy • Heavy Para-Beetle • M. M-Spike Top • Magmite • Magmus • Nattō • Noko Bombette • Para-Beetle • Paper Macho Buzzy Beetle • Red Spike Top • Shiny Buzzy Beetle • Small Buzzy Beetle • Small Buzzy Beetle Gang • Spike Top • Spiky Parabuzzy • Stone Buzzy |
| Related items | Buzzy Shell • Flashy Shell |
| Glitz Pit teams (at the end of Chapter 3) | |
|---|---|
| Champion | The Great Gonzales |
| Major League | Rawk Hawk • The Koopinator • Chomp Country • Hamma, Bamma, and Flare • Craw-Daddy • The Fuzz • The Magikoopa Masters • The Shellshockers • The Poker Faces • The Tiny Spinies |
| Minor League | The Iron Adonis Twins • The Bob-omb Squad • The Punk Rocks • The Mind-Bogglers • The Hand-It-Overs • Spike Storm • The Dead Bones • The Pokey Triplets • The KP Koopas • The Goomba Bros. |
| Replacement teams | Wings of Night • The Destructors |
