River Piranha Plant

River Piranha Plant
In-game artwork from Super Mario Run
First appearance	New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009)
Latest appearance	New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (2019)
Variant of	Ptooie

River Piranha Plants are enemies introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They are a variant of Piranha Plant that greatly resemble the Jumping Piranha Plant of Super Mario World in design, as well as real-life floating plants, like duckweeds and frogbit, although unlike Jumping Piranha Plants, they appear to lack teeth.

History[edit]

Super Mario series[edit]

New Super Mario Bros. Wii[edit]

River Piranha Plants are enemies in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They appear in World 5-1 as common enemies. When Mario is not around, they blow green spike balls like a Ptooie's method of attacking. When Mario approaches, they suck in and bring the spike ball to their lips and slowly blow it upwards to attack. Just like regular Piranha Plants, they can be defeated with fireballs or a Star. Hitting it with an iceball will also freeze it in place. The spike ball itself can be taken out with a shell or the Star, after which the River Piranha Plant will sweat and panic in place, unable to do anything.

New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe[edit]

River Piranha Plants are enemies in New Super Mario Bros. U, New Super Luigi U, and their port. In the former game, they appear only in Fliprus Lake and Seesaw Bridge, and in New Super Luigi U, River Piranha Plants appear in Spinning Sandstones and Fliprus Floes. River Piranha Plants behave identically as before.

Super Mario Run[edit]

River Piranha Plants are enemies in Super Mario Run, starting with the version 3.0.4 update. In the World Tour mode, they appear only in the level Spike Bar Jungle.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

River Piranha Plants (just called River Piranhas) are mentioned briefly by Viridi during Palutena's Guidance dialogue for Piranha Plant in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Profiles[edit]

Super Mario Run[edit]

Notebook bio: "This may look like a regular Piranha Plant, but they can move objects by blowing on them."

Gallery[edit]

Model from New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Model from New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Artwork from New Super Luigi U
Screenshot from New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Screenshot from New Super Mario Bros. U
Screenshot from New Super Luigi U

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_water.arc` `content/Common/actor/pakkun_water.szs`	pakkun_water	Water Piranha; compare walking version

Names in other languages[edit]

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ウキパックン^[?] Uki Pakkun	Float Piranha
Chinese	漂浮吞食花^[?] Piāofú Tūnshíhuā	Float Piranha Plant
Dutch	River Piranha^[?]	-
French	Aqua Piranha^[?]	Aqua Piranha
German	Teich-Piranha^[?]	Pond Piranha
Italian	Piranha acquatica^[?]	Aquatic Piranha	Super Mario Run
	Pianta Piranha di fiume^[1]	River Piranha Plant	New Super Mario Bros. Wii
	Pianta Piranha di Fiume^[2]	River Piranha Plant	New Super Mario Bros. U
	Pianta Piranha acquatica^[?]	Aquatic Piranha Plant	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Korean	둥둥뻐끔^[?] Dung-dung Ppeokkum	Floating Piranha
Portuguese (NOA)	Piranha-d'água^[?]	Water Piranha
Portuguese (NOE)	Lírio-Piranha^[3]	Piranha Lily
Russian	пиранья-лилия^[?] piran'ya-liliya	Lily piranha
Spanish (NOA)	Piraña fontana^[?]	Fountain piranha
Spanish (NOE)	Lirio Piraña^[?]	Piranha Lily

References[edit]

^ November 15, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 144.
^ November 15, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 209.
^ Canal New Super Mario Bros. U (February 18th, 2013). New Super Mario Bros. U - Selva Gelatinosa-6 - Derrote os Lírios-Piranha por 1UPs (Wii U). YouTube (European Portuguese). Retrieved August 6, 2024.

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Piranha Plants

Characters

Big Bungee Piranha • Dino Piranha • Gattai monster • Izzy • Mama Fireplant • Mom Piranha • Muteki Kyodai Pakkun • Naval Piranha • Pakkun Mogura • Paper Petey Piranha • Peewee Piranha • Petey Piranha • Petea Piranha • Piper • Piranha Sue • Pit Plant • Smilax • Socially Awkward Piranha Plant • Spike the Piranha • The Mind-Bogglers • Todd, Justin, Scott, and Ashby

Species

Big Bone Piranha Plant • Big Fire Piranha • Big Note Piranha Plant • Big Piranha Plant • Big Poison Piranha Plant • Big Run Run Packun • Bone Piranha Plant • Bone Run Run Packun • Bungee Piranha • Chewy • Chomp-Muncher • Cloud Piranha • Dino Piranha • Elasto-Piranha • Fire Nipper Plant • Fire Piranha Plant • Fire Stalking Piranha Plant • Frost Piranha • Glad P. Plant • Glad Ptooie • Gold Piranha Plant • Gold Big Piranha Plant • Inky Piranha Plant • Jumping Fire Piranha Plant • Jumping Piranha Plant • Lava Bud • Lava Piranha • Manhandla • Mecha Piranha Plant • Melon Piranha Plant • Muncher • Nipper Plant • Nipper Spore • Nipper Spore Patch • Nipper Dandelion • Note Piranha Plant • Paper Fire Piranha Plant • Paper Macho Piranha Plant • Petit Piranha • Pirabbid Plant • Piranha Bean • Piranha Creeper • Piranha Pest • Piranha Planet • Piranha Plant • Piranha Plant (Pit of 100 Trials) • Piranha Plant (statue) • Piranha Plorp • Piranha Pod • Piranha Sprout (Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker) • Piranha Sprout (Yoshi's Story) • Piranhabon • Poison Piranha Plant • Polterpiranha • Potted Piranha Plant • Prickly Piranha Plant • Propeller Piranha • Proto Piranha • Ptooie • Putrid Piranha • Raving Piranha Plant • River Piranha Plant • Sad N. Plant • Small Piranha Spiny Piranha Plant • Stalking Piranha Plant • Tane Pakkun • Trottin' Piranha Plant • Whuhoh • Wild Ptooie Piranha • Wonder Packun

[Edit] New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Playable characters	Mario • Luigi • Yellow Toad • Blue Toad
Supporting characters	Yoshi • Princess Peach • Toad
Bosses	Bowser Jr. • Koopalings (Larry Koopa · Roy Koopa · Lemmy Koopa · Wendy O. Koopa · Iggy Koopa · Morton Koopa Jr. · Ludwig von Koopa) • Magikoopa • Bowser
Worlds	World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7 • World 8 • World 9 • World Coin
Items and objects	? Block • ? Switch • 1-Up Mushroom • Arrow lift • Balance Lift • Barrel • Blue Coin • Bolt Lift • Brick • Chest • Cog • Coin • Current • Dark • Donut Block • Fire Flower • Flip Panel • Flower • Flying ? Block • Frozen Coin • Fruit • Glow Block • Half-circle rock • Hard Block • Hidden Coin • Hidden goal • Ice Block • Ice Flower • Ice Snake Block • Ice Wall • Invisible Block • Iron Block • Light Block • Limited Lift • Midway point • Mini Mushroom • Mushroom Platform • P Switch • Paddle wheel • Pendulum Platform • Penguin Suit • Pipe Cannon • Pole (goal) • Pole (object) • POW Block • Propeller Block • Propeller Mushroom • Quicksand • Red ! Switch • Red Block • Red Coin • Red Ring • Remote-Control Platform • Remote-Controlled Clown Car • Remote-Controlled Fence • Remote-Controlled Lift • Rolling log • Roulette Block • Sand Geyser • Screw • Screwtop Lift • Screwtop Platform • Screwtop Shroom • Sinking and Rising Mushrooms • Slow falling platform • Small pipe • Spine Coaster • Square cloud • Star • Star Coin • Stretch Block • Stretch Shroom • Super Mushroom • Swing • Swinging Hammer • Tilt Lift • Toad balloon • Trampoline • Turning Floor • Vine • Warp Cannon • Warp Pipe • Water Ball • Wind
Moves	Crouch • Dash • Double Jump • Drill Spin • Fly • Ground Pound • Jump • Midair Spin • Shell Toss • Simultaneous Ground Pound • Slide • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swallow • Swim • Triple Jump • Wall Jump
Enemies	Amp • Banzai Bill • Banzai Bill Cannon • Big Boo • Big Dry Bones • Big Fire Piranha • Big Fuzzy • Big Thwomp • Big Wiggler • Big Urchin • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Blooper • Blooper Baby • Blooper Nanny • Bob-omb • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bramball • Broozer • Bulber • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Cannon • Cannonball • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Cheep-Chomp • Circling Boo Buddies • Clampy • Climbing Koopa • Cooligan • Crowber • Deep-Cheep • Dry Bones • Eep Cheep • Fire Bro • Fire Snake • Fish Bone • Flame Chomp • Foo • Fuzzy • Giant cannon • Giant cannonball • Giant Goomba • Goomba • Hammer Bro • Heavy Para-Beetle • Hefty Goomba • Huckit Crab • Ice Bro • Jellybeam • King Bill (World 9-3) • King Bill (World 9-8) • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Bubble • Mechakoopa • Mega Cheep-Cheep • Mega Deep-Cheep • Mini Goomba • Missile Bill • Monty Mole • Muncher • Para-Beetle • Parabomb • Paragoomba • Piranha Flower • Piranha Plant • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Prickly Goomba • Quartet-cannon • River Piranha Plant • Rocky Wrench • Scaredy Rat • Sledge Bro • Spike • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Cheep Cheep • Spiny Egg • Stalking Piranha Plant • Stone Spike • Super Piranha Plant • Swoop • Thwomp • Urchin • Venus Fire Trap • Wiggler
Obstacles	Ash • Ball 'N' Chain • Burner • Circus ball • Fire Bar • Ghost Block • Ghost Vase • Giant Spiked Ball • Huge Icicle • Icicle • Jumbo Ray • Lava Geyser • Ring • Skewer • Spiked ball • Volcanic debris
Minigames	1-up Blast • Power-up Panels • Enemy Course
Further info	Paah • Coin Battle • Gallery • Glitches • Hint movies • Media • New Super Mario Bros. Wii: Simplified Piano Solos • Pre-release and unused content • Staff • Time Limit • Trading cards

[Edit] New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
Playable characters	Mario^a • Luigi • Yellow Toad • Blue Toad • Mii • Nabbit^b • Toadette^c
Supporting characters	Princess Peach • Toad • Green Yoshi • Baby Yoshi (Balloon Baby Yoshi · Bubble Baby Yoshi · Glowing Baby Yoshi)
Bosses	Bowser • Bowser Jr. • Koopalings (Lemmy Koopa · Morton Koopa Jr. · Larry Koopa · Wendy O. Koopa · Iggy Koopa · Roy Koopa · Ludwig von Koopa) • Boom Boom • Boss Sumo Bro • Magikoopa
Worlds and areas	Acorn Plains • Layer-Cake Desert • Sparkling Waters • Frosted Glacier • Soda Jungle • Rock-Candy Mines • Meringue Clouds • Peach's Castle • Superstar Road • Secret Island • Coin Courses^a
Items and objects	! Switch • ? Block • ? Switch • 1-Up Mushroom • 3-Up Moon • 3-Up Moon Block • Arrow lift • Bean Platform • Big Block • Blue Coin • Blue Ring^b • Boost Block • Boost Star • Brick Block • Bridge • Checkpoint Flag^a • Chest • Cloud Lift^a • Coin • Coin Block • Cross Lift^a • Dark • Donut Block • Fire Flower • Floor • Flower • Flying ? Block • Frozen Coin • Fruit • Goal Pole (secret) • Goal ring^a • Green Coin • Green Ring • Hammer Pendulum • Hidden Block • Hidden Coin • Ice Block • Ice Chunk^a • Ice Flower • Iron Block • Leaf Platform • Light Block • Limited Lift • Luigi Block^b • Mega ? Block • Mini Mushroom • Mushroom Platform • Note Block • Nut • P Switch • P-Acorn • Paddle Platform^a • Pendulum Platform • Penguin Suit • Pole • POW Block • Propeller Mushroom • Red Coin • Red Ring • Remote-Control Platform^a • Rolling log^a • Scale Lift • Screwtop • Screwtop Lift • Screwtop Platform • Screwtop Shroom^a • Seesaw Log Bridge • Seesaw Shroom^a • Seesaw Shroom (blue)^b • Slide Lift^a • Small pipe • Snake Block • Spine Coaster • Star Lift • Stretch Block • Stretch Shroom^a • Stone block • Super Acorn • Super Crown^c • Super Guide Block^a • Super Mushroom • Super Star • Switch-Lift^b • Trampoline • Tree • Turning Floor • Warp Pipe • Water Ball^a • Wobble Rock^a • Yoshi egg
Moves	Crouch • Dash • Double Jump • Drill Spin • Fly • Ground Pound • Jump • Midair Spin • Simultaneous Ground Pound • Slide • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swallow • Swim • Triple Jump • Wall Jump
Enemies and obstacles	Amp^a • Banzai Bill • Banzai Bill Cannon • Big Amp^a • Big Boo • Big Buzzy Beetle^a • Big Cheep Cheep • Big Dry Bones • Big Deep Cheep^b • Big Eep Cheep^b • Big Fuzzy • Big Goomba • Big Koopa Troopa • Big Piranha Plant • Big Thwomp • Big Urchin • Big Venus Fire Trap^b • Big Wiggler • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Blooper • Blooper Baby^a • Blooper Nanny^a • Bob-omb • Bomb • Bony Beetle • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bowser Stunner • Bramball • Broozer • Bulber^a • Bullet Bill • Burner • Buzzy Beetle • Cannon • Cannonball^a • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Cheep Chomp • Circling Boo Buddies • Cooligan • Deep Cheep^b • Dragoneel • Dry Bones • Eep Cheep • Energy ring • Fire Bro • Fire Snake • Fire Bar • Fire Piranha Plant • Fish Bone • Flame Chomp • Fliprus • Foo • Frost Piranha • Fuzzy • Ghost Block • Giant cannon • Giant cannonball • Giant Clam^a • Goomba • Goomba (balloon)^a • Goombrat • Grrrol • Hammer Bro • Heavy Para-Beetle • Hefty Goomba • Huckit Crab • Huge Fire Bar • Huge Icicle • Ice Bro • Icicle • Jellybeam^a • King Bill • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Bubble • Lava Geyser^a • Magmaargh • Magmaw • Mecha Cheep^a • Mecha Hand • Mechakoopa • Mega Grrrol • Meteor • Mini Goomba • Missile Bill • Monty Mole • Muncher • Nabbit • Para-Beetle • Parabomb • Paragoomba^a • Paratroopa • Piranha Plant • Piranha Pod • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Prickly Goomba • River Piranha Plant • Rocky Wrench^a • Rubber ball • Scaredy Rat^a • Skewer • Sledge Bro • Spike • Spike Top • Spiked ball • Spinner • Spiny • Spiny Cheep Cheep • Spiny Egg • Stalking Piranha Plant • Stone Spike • Sumo Bro • Swoop^a • Targeting Ted • Thwimp^a • Thwomp • Torpedo tube^a • Torpedo Ted • Torpedo Base (Targeting Ted) • Urchin • Waddlewing • Wiggler
Others	Ash • Current • Enemy Course • Lava • Poison • Quicksand • Sand Geyser • Stone-Eye • Time Limit • Water Geyser
Game modes	Boost Mode • Challenge Mode^a • Boost Rush^a • Coin Battle^a
Further info	Paah • Gallery (New Super Mario Bros. U · New Super Luigi U · New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe) • Glitches • Media • New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U • Pre-release and unused content • Staff (New Super Mario Bros. U · New Super Luigi U · New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe)
^a Exclusive to New Super Mario Bros. U ^b Exclusive to New Super Luigi U ^c Exclusive to New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

[Edit] Super Mario Run
Playable characters	Mario • Luigi • Princess Peach • Toad • Toadette • Yoshi • Red Yoshi^a • Blue Yoshi^a • Yellow Yoshi^a • Purple Yoshi^a • Princess Daisy^a
Enemies and obstacles	Big Spiny • Bob-omb • Boo • Bull's-Eye Bill • Bullet Bill • Burner • Buzzy Beetle • Cannonball • Dry Bones • Fire Bar • Fire Chain • Fishing Boo^a • Fuzzy • Gold Goomba^b • Goomba • Goombrat^a • Grinder • Kodeka Kakibō^a • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Bubble • Muncher • Ninji • Piranha Plant • Poison Bubble^a • Pokey • River Piranha Plant^a • Rocky Wrench • Scaredy Rat^a • Scuttlebug^a • Spike • Spike Trap • Spiny • Spiny Egg • Stretch • Swoop
Bosses	Boom Boom • Bowser • Fake Bowser
Items and objects	? Block • ! Switch • Axe • Backflip Block • Blue Coin • Brick Block • Bonus Medal^a • Bonus ? Block^a • Bubble • Cannon • Checkpoint Flag • Cloud Block • Coin • Coin Rush Star • Color coin (Black Coin • Pink Coin • Purple Coin) • Flower coin^b • Goal Pole • Hard Block • Hidden Coin • Key • Key Door • Lift • Long Jump Block • Mushroom Platform • Pause Block • Rally Ticket • Red Block • Red Coin • Red Ring • Semisolid Platform • Spike Bar^a • Super Mushroom • Super Star • Time Block • Warp Door • Warp Pipe • Wonder Flower^b
Worlds	World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World Star^a
Moves	Backflip • Climbing Jump • Coin Rush • Double Jump • Edge Climbing • Floaty Jump • Flutter Jump • High Jump • Jump • Landing Roll • Long Jump • Midair Spin • Midair Stall • Rolling Jump • Slope Slide • Spin Strike • Stomp • Vaulting • Vaulting Jump • Wall Jump
Modes	World Tour • Kingdom Builder • Toad Rally • Remix 10^a
Miscellaneous	Gallery • Kingdom Builder items (in other languages) • Lightning • Media
^a In version 3.0.4 or later ^b Seen only in events

River Piranha Plant

Contents

History[edit]

Super Mario series[edit]

New Super Mario Bros. Wii[edit]

New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe[edit]

Super Mario Run[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

Profiles[edit]

Super Mario Run[edit]

Gallery[edit]

Additional names[edit]

Internal names[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

References[edit]

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