Editing Stalking Piranha Plant

{{about|the enemy|the similarly named [[Rock-Candy Mines]] course|[[Walking Piranha Plants!]]}}
{{species infobox
|image=[[File:StalkingPPlantNSMBW.png|200px]]<br>A Stalking Piranha Plant in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''
|first_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' ([[List of games by date#2009|2009]])
|latest_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe]]'' ([[List of games by date#2019|2019]])
|variant_of=[[Ptooie]]
|variants=[[Fire Stalking Piranha Plant]]<br>[[Trottin' Piranha Plant]]
|relatives=[[Elasto-Piranha]]
}}
'''Stalking Piranha Plants''' are a type of [[Piranha Plant]] that appear in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] as enemies that often have the ability to stretch their necks and walk around. They are similar to [[Elasto-Piranha]]s from ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'', but with a design closer to [[Ptooie]] from ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''.
==History==
===''Super Mario'' series===
====''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''====
[[File:NSMBW World 5-Enemy Screenshot.png|thumb|Stalking Piranha Plants in an Enemy Course in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'']]
Stalking Piranha Plants first appear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', where they appear in [[World 5-1 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 5-1]], [[World 6-3 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 6-3]], and the World 5 [[Enemy Course]]. When the player(s) is/are not nearby, they walk around on two legs, like [[Ptooie]]s, and when the player(s) approach(es) them, they stretch out their necks up and downwards in order to block the player's/players' paths and to attack them. These enemies can be defeated by a [[fireball]], a [[Super Star|Star]], or a [[shell]], or by being [[Ground Pound|ground-pound]]ed when frozen by an [[iceball]]. Like most Piranha Plants, these enemies cannot be picked up when frozen.

====''New Super Mario Bros. U'' / ''New Super Luigi U'' / ''New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe''====
[[File:NSLU Rising Piranhas Screenshot.jpg|thumb|left]]
Stalking Piranha Plants reappear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'' and their [[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe|Nintendo Switch ports]] where they act the same as they did in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''. They appear as rare enemies in [[Bramball Woods]] and are much more common in [[Walking Piranha Plants!]] and [[Rising Piranhas]].

===''Yoshi's Woolly World'' / ''Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World''===
[[File:WoollyStalkingPiranhaPlantHQ.png|100px|thumb|A Stalking Piranha Plant in ''Yoshi's Woolly World'']]
Stalking Piranha Plants reappear in ''[[Yoshi's Woolly World]]'' and in [[Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World|its 3DS port]], being made of yarn and ribbon. They mainly appear in the level [[Naval Piranha's Sewer]]. In this game, if the stalk of the plant is hit, then the head will fall down next to the body, and the two will rejoin each other shortly after. When the head and body rejoin, a sound plays similar to that of a Dry Bones' regeneration sound. Attacking the head will permanently defeat the Stalking Piranha Plant. They attack similarly to how they attack in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''.
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===''Mario & Luigi'' series===
====''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions''====
{{main|Fire Stalking Piranha Plant}}
While Stalking Piranha Plants do not appear in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions]]'', a new variant of Stalking Piranha Plants known as Fire Stalking Piranha Plants appear in the ''Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser'' mode.

====''Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey''====
Fire Stalking Piranha Plants reappear in the ''Bowser Jr.'s Journey'' mode in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey]]''. 
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===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''===
In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', Piranha Plant has an attack where it stretches its stem to bite distanced opponents, which is based off of Stalking Piranha Plants and [[Elasto-Piranha]]s. On [[Palutena's Temple]], Stalking Piranha Plants (just called '''Stalking Piranhas''') are mentioned briefly by [[icaruspedia:Viridi|Viridi]] during [[List of Palutena's Guidance conversations|Palutena's Guidance]] dialogue for [[Piranha Plant#Super Smash Bros. Ultimate|Piranha Plant]].

==Additional names==
===Internal names===
{{internal names
|game1=''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''<br>''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]''
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|name1=pakkun_walk
|meaning1=Walk [[Piranha Plant#Names in other languages|Piranha]]; compare [[River Piranha Plant#Internal names|water]] and [[Trottin' Piranha Plant#Internal names|running]] versions
}}

===Names in other languages===
{{foreign names
|Jap=テクテクパックン
|JapR=Tekuteku Pakkun
|JapM=「テクテク」is an onomatopoeia meaning "to walk trudgingly", and「パックン」is from the Japanese name of [[Piranha Plant#Names in other languages|Piranha Plant]]; following the naming of「フーフーパックン」(''Fūfū Pakkun'', [[Ptooie#Names in other languages|Ptooie]])
|SpaA=Piraña peatona
|SpaAM=Pedestrian Piranha
|SpaE=Planta Piraña Acechadora
|SpaEM=Stalker Piranha Plant
|Fre=Plante Piranha errante (''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia]]'')
|FreM=Errant Piranha Plant
|FreA=Plante Piranha chasseuse
|FreAM=Huntress Piranha Plant
|FreE=Plante Piranha trotteuse
|FreEM=Trotter Piranha Plant
|Dut=Stalking Piranha
|DutM=-
|Ger=Pirsch-Piranha
|GerM=Stalking Piranha
|Ita=Pianta Piranha vagante
|ItaM=Vagrant Piranha Plant
|Rus=растение-пиранья на стебле
|RusR=rastenie-piran'ya na steble
|RusM=Piranha Plant on a Stalk
|Kor=총총뻐끔
|KorR=Chong-chong Ppeokkeum
|KorM=Trotting Piranha Plant
|Chi=漫步吞食花
|ChiR=Mànbù Tūnshíhuā
|ChiM=Stroll Piranha Plant
|PorE=Piranha-Lapa<ref>Canal New Super Mario Bros. U (April 4th, 2013). [https://youtu.be/yS7CazJosu0 New Super Mario Bros. U - Desafios: Perigo em Corrente (Wii U)] video description.</ref>
|PorEM=
}}

==Trivia==
*In various official social media posts, Nintendo consistently mistook the [[Ptooie]]s in the {{classic-link|GBA|Riverside Park}} course in ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' for Stalking Piranha Plants.<ref>@NintendoUK (March 8, 2023). [https://web.archive.org/web/20230308153658/https://twitter.com/NintendoUK/status/1633467611026534400 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.] ''Twitter''. Archived from the original on March 8, 2023, 15:36:58 UTC via Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 8, 2023.</ref> These mistakes were later corrected.<ref>@NintendoUK (March 9, 2023). [https://twitter.com/NintendoUK/status/1633844655459827715 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.] ''Twitter''. Retrieved March 9, 2023.</ref>

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