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This article is about the Piranha Plant that can walk and carry a tiny spiked ball at the same time. For the special move in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, see Ptooie (move).
Ptooie
Artwork of Ptooie from the Super Mario Bros. 3 Famicom 40th Anniversary website
Artwork from Super Mario Bros. 3 (Famicom 40th Anniversary)
First appearance Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
Latest appearance Mario Kart World (2025)
Variant of Piranha Plant
Variants
Relatives
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Notable members
“You make me so mad I could spit!”
Ptooie, "Never Koop a Koopa"

Ptooies are a type of Piranha Plant that can hover Spike Balls over their mouths. Many of them are also capable of walking, though some are stationed within pipes instead. Their name is an onomatopoeia for spitting.

History[edit]

Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]

Ptooies, also referred to as Ptooie Plants,[1] make their debut in Super Mario Bros. 3 as regular enemies. A Ptooie can be identified by the spiked ball it suspends in the air over its mouth. Occasionally, Ptooies will blow the spiked ball high into the air, letting passing travelers jump between them. Ptooies can be seen walking around an area while some are in pipes resembling normal Piranha Plants blowing a spiked ball. As with standard Piranha Plants, Ptooies can be defeated with fireballs, hammers, Koopa Shells, or Raccoon or Tanooki Mario's tail whips.

Ptooies first appear in World 6-1. They are occasionally found in Ice Land while they are more common in Pipe Land.

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]

Ptooies in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Never Koop a Koopa."
Two Ptooies from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Never Koop a Koopa."

Ptooies make a few appearances in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, where they always attack Mario and/or his friends on sight. They are sometimes used as guns. Unlike in the game, where they are limited to blowing a single spiked ball in the air, Ptooies can shoot a whole barrage of spiked balls in any direction.

Ptooies in the show are capable of speaking in the episode "Never Koop a Koopa," despite the fact that most members of the Piranha Plant family never speak at all.

Nintendo Adventure Books[edit]

Two Ptooies appear in Koopa Capers, presumably brought to Dark Land by Wendy O. Koopa, who needs one to season a potion she intends to create. Encountered by Luigi in a Fortress, the plumber escapes the plants by jumping over them while absentmindedly wondering what they are doing wandering around in a dark and dank fortress, instead of being outside.

Super Princess Peach[edit]

Ptooies are enemies in Super Princess Peach. They are depicted as light green skin, similarly to Wild Ptooie Piranhas, and were given a variant named Glad Ptooies. If Princess Peach uses Rage to pound the ground or simply uses Poundbrella nearby, a Ptooie will lose its ball, but it is not affected otherwise. Ptooies will then simply move back and forth slowly until defeated. Even without the ball, Ptooies cannot be stomped.

Paper Mario series[edit]

Paper Mario: Color Splash[edit]

“Sometimes I just get the urge to beat up a Ptooie. You ever get that urge? They're just so annoying!”
Huey, Paper Mario: Color Splash

Ptooies return in Paper Mario: Color Splash, found in Mossrock Theater and the Emerald Circus. In battle, they can blow their Spiked Balls with enough force to fall on Mario, but without them, they bite him. They can be summoned by Lemmy Koopa to assist in battle, along with Circus Bros. and Juggler Bros.

There is also a character named Piper that is a Ptooie.

Paper Mario: The Origami King[edit]

Mario in a jungle with origami Ptooies in Paper Mario: The Origami King
Origami Ptooies in Paper Mario: The Origami King

Ptooies make an appearance in Paper Mario: The Origami King, where origami Ptooies can be encountered as regular enemies in the Spring of Jungle Mist. In the Shroom City café, a singing Ptooie can be found alongside a singing Dino Rhino and a Sombrero Guy.

In battle, Ptooies share similar attributes to other Piranha Plant enemies, including a weakness to fire- and ice-themed attacks. They start each battle blowing a Spike Ball into the air, and Mario will take recoil damage if he either jumps on the ball or a Ptooie's sharp teeth. Hitting a Ptooie with a hammer, including a First Strike, will knock the Spike Ball out of its breath. Ptooies cannot recover their Spike Balls after launching them or being attacked.

A singular Ptooie can use Ball Toss, dealing 22-26 damage, or a group of them can use Team Toss, each hitting Mario at once with their Spike Balls. Each hit deals 17 damage minimum, and a maximum of 19 with four or five Ptooies, or 20 with six.

After losing its Spike Ball, a Ptooie can use Bite, dealing 18-22 damage. Groups of Ptooies can use Bite Barrage, where they all run up to Mario and bite him. This attack has the same damage formula as Team Toss, making it functionally the same. They can also use Plant Pitch to throw another enemy at Mario, harming it in the process.

One specific Ptooie in the Spring of Jungle Mist blows a Magic Circle in the air and must be defeated to use it. This Ptooie has a unique move called Spell Toss in place of Ball Toss, dealing 42-46 damage.

Ptooies and Big Cutout Soldiers are the only enemies in the game to be able to drop large confetti bags.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Piranha Plant's neutral special (named after the Ptooie enemy) allows it to spit out a spiked ball above itself and blow air into the spiked ball to make it hover in place in the same manner as the move's namesake. In addition, Piranha Plant can blow the spiked ball away forward or backward to strike nearby foes. This Piranha Plant also has feet like a Ptooie, but does not leave its flower pot or Warp Pipe in order to move.

On the Palutena's Temple stage, Ptooies are among the many Piranha Plant varieties mentioned briefly by Viridi during the Palutena's Guidance dialogue for Piranha Plant.

Mario Kart series[edit]

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe[edit]

GBA Riverside Park in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
A Ptooie in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Ptooies make their Mario Kart series (and overall fully three-dimensional) debut in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Booster Course Pass as obstacles in GBA Riverside Park. They blow items such as Dash Mushrooms and Banana Peels instead of Spike Balls, which fall onto the course when the Ptooies are hit by an item such as a Green Shell.[2] The Ptooies do not blow any items in Time Trials or when the item settings are not set on Normal Items.

In tweets made about GBA Riverside Park's appearance in the Booster Course Pass, Nintendo mistook the Ptooies for Stalking Piranha Plants.[3] The mistake was later corrected.[4]

Mario Kart World[edit]

A Ptooie seen in Mario Kart World
A Ptooie in Mario Kart World

Ptooies reappear in Mario Kart World in various locations, behaving the same way as before. An example of an appearance is a route from Choco Mountain to Moo Moo Meadows.[5] Items carried by Ptooies can now be collected directly out of their air currents. Spike Balls, Item Boxes and Super Stars are also among the items that they can be seen carrying.[6]

Mario & Luigi: Brothership[edit]

While Ptooies do not reappear in Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Piranha Plants and their Glohm counterparts blow a Spike Ball in battle just like them.

Unused appearances[edit]

Paper Mario: Sticker Star[edit]

Ptooies were originally going to appear in Paper Mario: Sticker Star, but they were removed.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]

フーフーパックン (JP) / Ptooie (EN)
A Ptooie from Super Mario Bros. 3.
Original text (Japanese) Translation
種族しゅぞく フラワーぞく Tribe Flower clan
性格せいかく すぐむきになる Disposition Quick to take offense
登場とうじょうゲーム 3 Game appearances 3
すごい肺活量はいかつりょうのフラワー

おおきくくちひらき、トゲのついたくろたま“シューリンガン”を真上まうえいてあそんでいる。土管どかんにずっといるものと、あるきまわるものと2種類しゅるいいる。あるきまわるものが2匹出ひきでてくるところもあるので要注意ようちゅうい[7]

Flower with amazing lung capacity

They open their mouths wide and blow their spiked black balls, called "Shūringan", right up into the air. There are two types: those that stay in pipes all the time and those that walk around. Be careful, because there are places where there are two of them walking around.

Super Princess Peach[edit]

Ptooie
A Ptooie from Super Princess Peach
Vibe Vibeless Levels Ladida Plains 1-8
Wavy Beach 5-3
Wavy Beach 5-7
Glossary number 32 Glossary entry Throws balls while walking. A type of Piranha Plant.

Paper Mario series[edit]

Paper Mario: Color Splash[edit]

Paper Mario: Color Splash enemy
Ptooie
A Ptooie sprite from Paper Mario: Color Splash. HP 64 Type Spiny Role Common Card
Strong Jump Weak None Card drop rate 3
A Ptooi card from Paper Mario: Color Splash
Moves Bite Attack (9), Ball Attack (36), Ball Counterattack (5), Group Attack (9), Blowback Attack (24)
Location(s) Mossrock Theater
Quotes N/A
Enemy class
ENEMY_FIRE
Dropped items
Hammer Scraps 20 Red paint 35 Yellow paint 35 Blue paint 0 Orange paint 0 Green paint 35 Purple paint 0

Paper Mario: The Origami King[edit]

Paper Mario: The Origami King enemy
Ptooie
An origami Ptooie from Paper Mario: The Origami King. HP 48 Moves Location(s)
Type Grounded, Spiked Bite (base 18, range 4), Bite Barrage (base 16 per Ptooie, range starts at 0 and increases by one for each two additional Ptooies), Ball Toss (base 22, range 4), Spell Toss (base 42, range 4), Team Toss (base 16 per Ptooie, range starts at 0 and increases by one for each two additional Ptooies), Plant Pitch (throws enemy, varying damage) Spring of Jungle Mist
Role Common
Item drops BTL_ZAKO_PAPER_L
Word to the wise: those spiky balls they keep aloft by breath alone hurt a fair bit if they fall on you.

Gallery[edit]

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Ptooie.

Naming[edit]

Internal names[edit]

Game File Name Meaning

Paper Mario: Sticker Star content0.game/romfs/Graphics/enemy/e_huhupakkun.bcrez huhupakkun From the Japanese name
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe TekutekuPackun.bfres TekutekuPackun Stalking Piranha Plant

Names in other languages[edit]

The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media they are associated with in the "notes" column.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese フーフーパックン[8][9][10][11]
Fūfū Pakkun
Portmanteau of「フーフー」(fūfū, onomatopoeia for blowing on something) and「パックンフラワー」(Pakkun Furawā, "Piranha Plant")
Chinese (simplified) 呼呼吞食花[12][11]
Hūhū Tūnshíhuā (Mandarin)
Fūfū Tānsihkfā (Cantonese)
Blowing Piranha Plant
Chinese (traditional) 呼呼吞食花[11]
Hūhū Tūnshíhuā (Mandarin)
Fūfū Tānsihkfā (Cantonese)
Blowing Piranha Plant
Ptooie[12] Unmodified from the English name Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Croatian Pljuvač[13] Spitter The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, "Never Koop a Koopa"
Danish Ptooie[14] -
Dutch Ptooie[15][16] -
Finnish Ptooie[17] -
French Ptooie[11] -
Les Cramponnes[15] Derived from crampon; it is similar to the name for Spike in the same source Super Mario Bros. 3
German Flora Morgenstern[18][19][11] Flora Morning Star; Morgenstern is the name for Spike Balls in Super Mario Bros. 3
Spucki[20] Spitty The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Spucker[21] Spitter
Greek Πτooίε[22]
Ptooie
Ptooie
Italian Pianta Canterina[11] Singing Plant
Ptoole[sic][23] - Super Mario Bros. 3
Sparamine[24] Mine Shooter The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Sputamine volanti[25] Flying Mine Spitter
Pianta sparamine[26] Mine shooter plant
Korean 후후뻐끔[12][11]
Huhu Ppeokkeum
Blowing Piranha
프투이[27][28]
Peutu'i
Transliteration of the English name Super Mario Bros. 3
Norwegian Ptooie[29] -
Polish Plujka[30] From pluj ("spit") with the feminine diminutive suffix -ka
Portuguese (NOA) Cuspidor[31] Spitter The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Herbert Richers dub
Espetador[32] The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Uniarthe dub
Portuguese (NOE) Planta Cuspideira[33] Spitter Plant
Ptooie[34] - The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Dialectus dub
Plantão[35] From planta ("plant") with the augmentative suffix -ão The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Somnorte dub
Romanian Scuipătoare[36] Spitter The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Russian Тьфуша[33][12]
T'fusha
From тьфу (t'fu, onomatopoeia for spitting) with the masculine diminutive suffix -ша (-sha)
Плеватка[37]
Plevatka
From плевать ("to spit") with the feminine diminutive suffix -ка (-ka) The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
Spanish (NOA) Piraña Petraña[11] A partial alliteration potentially between the Spanish piraña ("piranha") and a portmanteau between piraña and petra ("Myrceugenia exsucca")
Flor Metralla[38] Shrapnel Flower The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Audiomaster 3000 dub
Planta Lanzabolas[39] Ball-Spitting Plant The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Intersound dub
Spanish (NOE) Plantarina[40][11] Portmanteau of planta ("plant") and bailarina ("ballerina")
Ptooie[41] - Super Mario Bros. 3
Bufilos[42] Spit-Them The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, original dub
Flor Metralla[43] Shrapnel Flower The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, re-dub
Swedish Spotta[44] Spit The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tilden, Gail, et al. (June 1990). Nintendo Power Volume 13. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 54.
  2. ^ 任天堂ホームページ (March 2, 2023). GBA リバーサイドパーク. YouTube (Japanese). Retrieved March 2, 2023.
  3. ^ @NintendoUK (March 8, 2023). Time to make a splash! Dodge the Stalking Piranha Plants and burst through the waterfall of Mario Kart: Super Circuit’s Riverside Park, coming in Wave 4 of the #MarioKart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass. X (British English). Archived March 8, 2023, 15:36:58 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  4. ^ @NintendoUK (March 9, 2023). Looks like we need to brush up on our botany! Thanks for letting us know that we got our Stalking Piranha Plants and Ptooies mixed up when we originally posted this.. X (British English). Retrieved March 9, 2023.
  5. ^ Nintendo of America (April 4, 2025). Mario Kart World – Knockout Tour & GameChat Gameplay – Nintendo Treehouse: Live | Nintendo Switch 2. YouTube. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
  6. ^ Perfectly Nintendo (May 22, 2025). Mario Kart World - P Switch Missions. Youtube. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
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  8. ^ 1988. 『Super Mario Bros. 3 取扱説明書』 (PDF). Kyoto: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Japanese). Page 41.
  9. ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Ryo Kagawa (APE), Hideaki Nishitani, Masatoshi Watanabe, Koichi Sugiyama (Supersonic), Junichiro Okubo, and Shigeo Tanabe (Shogakukan), editors (1993). 『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオコレクション』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-102444-0. Page 237.
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  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i In-game name displayed during battle in Paper Mario: The Origami King (stored internally under Name_FPAC).
  12. ^ a b c d In-game name for Palutena's Guidance on Piranha Plant from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
  13. ^ Super Mario Bros ( Kompilacija 2 ) - Crtani Film
  14. ^ Super Mario Bros. 3 Never Koop a koopa (Dansk)
  15. ^ a b 1991. Super Mario Bros. 3 Handleiding / mode d'emploi. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Dutch, French). Page 46.
  16. ^ In-game name displayed during battle in Paper Mario: Color Splash. (Archived 3 Jan. 2020 via YouTube by water lely.)
  17. ^ The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 | Episode 01-08 In Finnish [2013 DVD Version]
  18. ^ 1991. Super Mario Bros. 3 Spielanleitung. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 40.
  19. ^ Matsumoto, Atsuko, Rie Ishii, and Claude Moyse, editors (1992). Der Spieleberater Super Mario Power. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). ISBN 3-929034-02-6. Page 14.
  20. ^ Die Abenteuer von Super Mario Bros. 3 - Marios Zauberteppich
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  25. ^ Le avventure di Super Mario 2x16 - Il concerto dei Milli Vanilli
  26. ^ Le avventure di Super Mario 2x19 - La scuola del crimine
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  28. ^ The Adventures of Super Mario Brothers 3 Korean Dub 슈퍼마리오 3 VHS Volumes 1 - 6.
  29. ^ Super Mario Bros 3 VHS#2 - Norsk tale - Norsk tale
  30. ^ Nowe Przygody Braci Mario Odcinek 14 - Nie fortunni opiekunowie
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  32. ^ Super Mario Bros. 3 - Jamais Confie em um Koopa (Dublagem Uniarthe)
  33. ^ a b In-game name displayed during battle in Paper Mario: Color Splash.
  34. ^ Ep. 11 e Ep. 12 - As Aventuras de Super Mario 3 PT-PT (Dialectus)
  35. ^ Super Mário, aventura mágica, episódio "Nunca culpes um Koopa", falado em português, portugal.
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  37. ^ Мультфильм Супер Марио - 8 серия
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  39. ^ Las Aventuras de los Super Hermanos Mario Volumen 1
  40. ^ Glosario (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (European Spanish).
  41. ^ 1991. Super Mario Bros. 3 Manual de Instrucciones. Großostheim: Nintendo (Spanish). Page 40.
  42. ^ Super Mario Bros. 3 - Desventuras de cuidar a un niño (Doblaje castellano original)
  43. ^ Super Mario Bros 3 (Cap.14 - Desventuras de unas niñeros) Español
  44. ^ The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3 - Episode 6 - Swedish