- Not to be confused with Prickly Piranha Plant.
| Spiny Piranha Plant | |||
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 Artwork from Super Mario Galaxy | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario Galaxy (2007) | ||
| Latest appearance | Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2025) | ||
| Variant of | Piranha Plant | ||
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Spiny Piranha Plants[1] are large Piranha Plants in Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. They have thorned stalks that damage the player character on contact, but their large heads can be stomped if grounded. Their heads are purple with white spots, contrasting them with the other Piranha Plants in these games.
Big Piranha Plants in Super Mario 3D World and Big Poison Piranha Plants in Super Mario Odyssey behave similarly to Spiny Piranha Plants. Piranha Creepers, introduced in Super Mario 3D World, are similarly purple-headed and have thorns along their stems that damage the player character on contact.
HistoryEdit
Super Mario seriesEdit
Super Mario GalaxyEdit
Spiny Piranha Plants first appear as uncommon enemies in Super Mario Galaxy, with there being only four in the entire game. To attack, a Spiny Piranha Plant attempts to slam its head into Mario (or Luigi). It can be defeated by hitting it with rubbery bulbs, by stomping it after it has slammed its head on the ground, or by shooting it with a fireball as Fire Mario. Some Spiny Piranha Plants are necessary to be defeated in order to make a Sproutle Vine grow so Mario can proceed. Shooting one with a Star Bit makes the Spiny Piranha Plant act immediately.
The first one, encountered optionally in the first mission of the Good Egg Galaxy, is surrounded by rubbery bulbs and acts as visual and functional foreshadowing to the mission's boss, the Dino Piranha, another large purple Piranha Plant who is attacked with a rebounding ball—in its case, the end of its tail.
AppearancesEdit
marks missions where Spiny Piranha Plants are completely absent.
marks missions where Spiny Piranha Plants are loaded and may be visible but cannot be encountered directly.
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Super Mario Galaxy 2Edit
In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Spiny Piranha Plants reappear with the same behavior and are even less common than before, with only two appearing, not counting encountering the same one in different missions. The game also introduces a new variation called the Prickly Piranha Plant, which attacks in a similar way but is black and cannot be stomped due to the spikes on its head—a hit with a rubbery bulb is required to defeat it.
AppearancesEdit
- marks missions where Spiny Piranha Plants are completely absent.
- marks missions where Spiny Piranha Plants are loaded and may be visible but cannot be encountered directly.
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Super Smash Bros. UltimateEdit
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Spiny Piranha Plants (just called Spiny Piranhas) are mentioned briefly by Viridi during Palutena's Guidance dialogue for Piranha Plant.
GalleryEdit
A Spiny Piranha Plant data render
Mario approaches a Spiny Piranha Plant in the Good Egg Galaxy.
Two Spiny Piranha Plants visible in the Gusty Garden Galaxy
Mario near a Spiny Piranha Plant in the Throwback Galaxy
NamingEdit
Internal namesEdit
Due to the Spiny Piranha Plant's filename being relative to that of normal Piranha Plants, it seems that in early development, this was intended to be the "normal" Piranha Plant while the ones that are normal in the final would have been a "small" variant; the specific nomenclature implies they would be Nipper Plants.
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ObjectData/PackunFlower.arc | PackunFlower | Piranha Plant (note that Piranha Plant is "Petit Packun") |
Names in other languagesEdit
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 with which they are associated in the "Notes" column. Names exclusive to localizations of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia are not prioritized due to concerns about circular reporting, and are only listed first for their respective languages if they are the only ones available.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | トゲトゲパックン[2][3][4] Togetoge Pakkun |
Thorny Piranha | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 尖刺吞食花[4] Jiāncì Tūnshíhuā (Mandarin) Jīmchi Tānsihkfā (Cantonese) |
Spiky Piranha Plant | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 刺刺吞食花[4] Cìcì Tūnshíhuā (Mandarin) Chichi Tānsihkfā (Cantonese) |
Thorny Piranha Plant | |
| Dutch | Spiny Piranha[4] | - | |
| French (NOA) | Fleur Piranha épineuse[4] | Thorny Piranha Flower; shared with Prickly Piranha Plant | |
| French (NOE) | Ronce Piranha[5][6][4] | Piranha Bramble | |
| German | Petit Piranha[4] | Small Piranha; likely ascribed in error from the internal filenames for normal Piranha Plants in Super Mario Galaxy | |
| Lila Piranha-Pflanze[7] | Lilac Piranha Plant | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| Italian | Rovo Piranha[8][9][4] | Bramble Piranha | |
| Pianta Piranha Lilla[10] | Lilac Piranha Plant | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| Korean | 가시뻐끔[4] Gasi Ppeokkeum |
Thorny Piranha | |
| Russian | Колючее растение-пиранья[4] Kolyucheye rasteniye-piran'ya |
Spiny piranha plant | |
| Spanish | Planta Piraña Púa1[4] | Spike Piranha Plant |
1 - This name was lowercased as "planta piraña púa" in Latin American localizations from 2012 to 2019.[4]
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Browne, Catherine (May 23, 2010). Super Mario Galaxy 2: PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville: Random House Inc. ISBN 978-0-30746-907-6. Page 29.
- ^ Aoyagi, Masayuki, editor (2007). 『スーパーマリオギャラクシーコンプリートガイド』(Super Mario Galaxy Complete Guide). Tokyo: Enterbrain (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-7577-3943-7. Page 361.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). 『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 128, 160.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l In-game name from Palutena's Guidance on Piranha Plant from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
- ^ Browne, Catherine (2010). Super Mario Galaxy 2 Prima le Guide Officiel. Translated by Yellow Media. Ligugé: Prima Games (French). ISBN 978-2-952-67394-5. Page 31.
- ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 128, 160.
- ^ Scholz, Sabine, and Benjamin Spinrath, editors (2017). "Super Mario Galaxy" in Super Mario Encyclopedia - Die ersten 30 Jahre : 1985-2015. Translated by Yamada Hirofumi. Hamburg: Tokyopop (German). ISBN 978-3-8420-3653-6. Page 128.
- ^ Black, Fletcher (2007). Super Mario Galaxy - la Guida Ufficiale (Premiere Edition). Roseville: Prima Games (Italian). ISBN 978-1-906064-03-7. Page 43, 174.
- ^ Browne, Catherine (2010). Super Mario Galaxy 2 Guida Strategica Ufficiale (Multiplayer.it Edizioni). Translated by Christian La Via Colli, Francesca Noto, and Virgina Petrarca. Terni: Multiplayer Edizioni, Prima Games (Italian). ISBN 9788863551198. Page 29.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 128, 160.