Piranha Plant
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| Piranha Plant | |
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| Created: | 1985 |
| Creator: | Shigeru Miyamoto |
| Voice Actor: | Unknown if any |
| Series: | Mario Series Yoshi Series |
| Genres: | Platform, Action, etc. |
| Type: | Species |
| Game Info | |
| First Game: | Super Mario Bros. |
| First Spinoff: | Super Mario Kart |
| Upcoming Game: | Super Mario Galaxy |
A Piranha Plant is an enemy in the Mario Series. The enemy is a large plant with a round head and a mouthful of teeth that will pop out of a pipe usually. Its first appearance was in Super Mario Bros. where it would pop out of a pipe. These were green colored plants that wouldn't come out if the player stood directly next to the pipe. In Super Mario Bros. 2, a red variant was introduced. These were faster and would always pop out whether or not Mario stood next to or over a pipe. Though they are usually in pipes, they sometimes aren't, such as in Super Mario 64 where all the Piranha Plants are on ground.
In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, a player would have to throw eggs at its head a certain amount of times until it would die depending on what color it is. Some Piranha Plants can also shoot fire balls out of their mouths, and this type of plant is called a Venus Fire Trap.
In addition to the Mario platformer games, the species have also appeared as obstacles in Mario Sports, such as in the Mario Kart series and Mario Superstar Baseball where they would try to bite anything that came near them.
[edit] Types of Piranha Plants
- Piranha Plant: These go in and out of their pipe to bite nearby plumbers.
- Wild Piranha Plant: These overgrown Piranha Plants will grow anywhere to snap at nearby plumbers and Yoshis.
- Venus Fire Trap: These are fire spewing piranha plants.
- Piranha Giganticus: Just a bigger version of the piranha plant.
- Ptooie: These run along the ground throwing spiked balls in the air.
- Jumping Piranha Plant: These piranha plants jump out of their pipe.
- Wild Ptooie Piranha: These spew out balls and take three hits to kill.
- Blow Hard: This cactus like plant spews balls like the Ptooie Piranha but is only paralyzed when hit.
- Hootie the Blue Fish: These fishlike piranha plants reside in sewers and travel forward like spike tops.
- Bungee Piranha Plant: This purple Piranha Plant will drag down and eat Yoshi when he passes below it.
From Nintendo
[edit] Notable Piranha Plants
| Mario Villains |
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| Major Villains: Bowser | Kamek | Petey Piranha | King Boo | Cackletta | Princess Shroob | Bowser Jr. | Baby Bowser | Shadow Mario | Wart | Tatanga | Fawful | Ludwig von Koopa | Lemmy Koopa | Roy Koopa | Iggy Koopa | Wendy O. Koopa | Morton Koopa Jr. | Larry Koopa |
| Minor Villains: Goomba | Koopa Troopa | Piranha Plant | Cheep Cheep | Bob-omb |Shy Guy | Shroob | Lakitu | Chain Chomp | Whomp | Bullet Bill | Blooper | Dry Bones | Monty Mole | Spiny | Hammer Bros | Ninji |
