Big Fire Piranha: Difference between revisions

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|image=[[File:Big Fire Piranha Plant NSMB2 Prima.jpg|200px]]<br>Artwork of a Big Venus Fire Trap for ''New Super Mario Bros. 2''

|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])

|related=[[Fire Pakkun Zō]]<br>[[Small Piranha]]

'''Big Fire Piranhas''', also known as '''Big Venus Fire Traps'''<ref>von Esmarch, Nick. 2012. ''New Super Mario Bros. 2'' [[Prima Games|Prima]] Official Game Guide. Page 23.</ref>, are enemies first appearing in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''. They are larger [[Fire Piranha Plant]]s; their [[fireball]]s are often comparatively larger as well.

 

In ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and its remake, ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'', they are known as '''[[Piranha Flower]]s'''<ref>''Super Mario 64 [[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]]'', page 108</ref><ref>(June 10, 1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/19980610051238/http://www.nintendo.com:80/n64/super_mario64/boss9.html Five Piranha Flowers - (Course 13)]. ''Nintendo: Super Mario 64 Strategy'' (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved February 23, 2018.</ref> and are the target of the first mission of [[Tiny-Huge Island]]: [[Pluck the Piranha Flower]]. Five of them appear in this mission. Like [[Small Piranha]]s, they blend in the grass at first. When [[Mario]] approaches, they grow in size at an alarming rate, spit a fireball, then quickly shrink back to their invulnerable selves. All of them appear in one area, and they must be attacked to obtain a [[Power Star]]. In ''Super Mario 64 DS'', another way to deal with them is by using a [[Super Mushroom|mushroom]] hidden in one of the three wooden [[stump]]s in the same area, as a giant character will instantly defeat it upon touch. Once defeated, they shrink like a normal sized Piranha Plant before leaving the player with two [[coin]]s (or, if defeated with a mushroom, three coins).

In ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', only two are found in [[World 2-3 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 2-3]]. From this game forward, they can be defeated by shooting three fireballs at them or by using a [[Super Star|Star]].

One reappears in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', in [[World 5-6 (New Super Mario Bros. 2)|World 5-6]]. Rather than shooting large fireballs, they shoot out normal-sized ones like their smaller counterparts.

[[File:NSLU Light-Up-Lift Tower Screenshot.jpg|thumb|left]]

After an absence in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', they reappear in ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'' in [[Piranhas in the Dark]], [[Slippery Rope Ladders]], [[Light-Up-Lift Tower]], and [[Rising Piranhas]]. They reappear in the ''New Super Luigi U'' levels in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe]]''.

They can appear in ''[[Super Mario Maker]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS]]'' if the player enlarges a Fire Piranha Plant with a [[Super Mushroom]]. It is the first game where Big Venus Fire Traps can appear in [[Warp Pipe]]s.  

Big Fire Piranhas return in ''Super Mario Maker 2'', acting as they did before. In the ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' style, they have the same appearance as their smaller counterparts.

Big Fire Piranhas also appear in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' and [[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey|its remake]], where they were raised by [[Fawful]] and temporarily prevent [[Bowser]] from passing in [[Peach's Castle]]. Mario and Luigi must go to the [[Chest Station]] within Bowser's body and spring Bowser into the Big Fire Piranhas several times to defeat them. Getting hit by fireballs or any [[Piranha Plant]]s and [[Chain Chomp]]s along the way will cause Bowser to lose 10 coins.

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|SpaA=grande piraña pirómana

|SpaE=Grande Piraña Pirómana

|SpaEM=Grand Pyromaniacal Piranha

|FraA=Pyro Piranha géante

|FraAM=Giant Pyro Piranha

|FraE=Maxi-Pyro Piranha

|FraEM=Maxi-Pyro Piranha

*Big Venus Fire Traps were meant to appear in the original ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' and appear fully-functioning in the game's coding, but were not implemented in the final game.<ref>[https://tcrf.net/New_Super_Mario_Bros./Unused_Actors_And_Features TCRF]</ref>

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