Fearsome 5

All members of the Fearsome 5.

“We're the Fearsome 5! When we arrive, it's live at 5! We always stick together! Even when we're being bad...”

—Fearsome 5, Paper Mario

The Fearsome 5 (as they call themselves) are a group of young Yoshis who live on Lavalava Island. The Fearsome 5 have only appeared in Paper Mario and are renown for their mischief.

As their name would imply, the Fearsome 5 are made up of five Yoshi kids, each one a different color. The Fearsome 5 are very good friends and are constantly found together, save for when they perform their seemingly common action of playing hide and seek. They are also very mischievous and rebellious, which causes great dismay and stress for their strict babysitter Sushie. The Fearsome 5 are found in the area of Yoshi's Village nearest to Jade Jungle and Mt. Lavalava, sharing their area of residence with Yoshi's Cabana and the local Toad House. If talked to initially, they would all reveal vague notions of mysterious plans they were apparently going to put into action shortly afterward. Indeed, if Mario was to walk to the ledge overlooking Mt. Lavalava's entrance and return, he would find Yoshi's Village in chaos, eventually learning that the Fearsome 5 had somehow managed to sneak into Jade Jungle to play hide and seek. The Village Leader would then persuade Mario and his partners to look for the Yoshi children, a request which Mario complied to. After some searching, the crew eventually found Sushie (who, while looking for the wayward Fearsome 5, had fallen into one of their traps) caught up a tree; after learning that Mario, too, was searching for the Fearsome 5, she decided to temporarily join his party as to double their progress. (Later on in the game, she would make her membership to Mario's party permanent.) The two then continued searching, eventually saving all members of the Fearsome 5 from the various jungle trials they had fallen to. (The only Fearsome 5 member who had not befallen some sort of life-threatening trap was the blue one, who even still realized the error of his ways and regretted past decisions.) In the end, each member of the Fearsome 5 decided that it would've been wiser to have respected Sushie's past orders and ended up traveling back home.

Even though they were petrified during their experiences in Jade Jungle and initially thankful to Mario for saving them, the Fearsome 5 seemed completely unaffected by their past ventures afterward. They acknowledged their punishment and seemed to have abandoned all plans of returning to the jungle, but they continued to seem mischievous and even bragged about their adventures, still believing Jade Jungle to be exciting.

Later, Mario and Parakarry can deliver a Letter to the Red Yoshi Kid member of the Fearsome 5 from Dane T., his apparent pen pal. This Letter is an invitation to the Red Yoshi Kid to come to Toad Town and go on an adventure to Boo's Mansion with Dane T. and Mini T. and is also instructions on how to play a new game; the Red Yoshi Kid has to decline Dane T. and Mini T.'s offer to go to Toad Town, but will have Mario and Parakarry deliver a Letter to the two.