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|title=Cactus Piranha Plant
|image=[[File:DryDryDesert-Quicksand-MKDD.png|190px]]
|image=[[File:DryDryDesert-Quicksand-MKDD.png|190px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' ([[List of games by date#2003|2003]])
|first_appearance=''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' ([[List of games by date#2003|2003]])
|parent_species=[[Big Piranha Plant]]
|species=[[Piranha Plant]]
|related=[[Prickly Piranha Plant]]<br>[[Spiny Piranha Plant]]
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'''Cactus Piranha Plants''' are a dark green colored variety of [[Big Piranha Plant]]s with spikes on their faces that live in quicksand pits in the desert. They only appear in ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' in [[Dry Dry Desert (course)|Dry Dry Desert]], where there is one Cactus Piranha Plant in the course located in the quicksand pit waiting for racers to fall in.
The '''Pit Plant''',<ref>Grimm, Steven. ''Mario Kart: Double Dash!!'' Player's Guide. Page 41.</ref> or the '''giant Piranha Plant''',<ref>Hodgson, David S. ''Mario Kart: Double Dash'' PRIMA's Official Strategy Guide. Pages 30, 58, 62.</ref> is a dark green [[Piranha Plant]] with spikes on its head. It appears only in ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' in [[GCN Dry Dry Desert|Dry Dry Desert]], where it is located in the quicksand pit waiting for racers to fall in. If they do, the Pit Plant emerges to swallow the racers before quickly sinking back down, causing the screen to fade to black and [[Lakitu (Mario Kart referee)|Lakitu]] to tow the drivers back into the race. A billboard warning of the Pit Plant's danger can also be seen in the course.


The Cactus Piranha Plant was removed in ''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' as [[Lakitu]] pulls the player out of the pit before they fall in.
Though Dry Dry Desert returns as a [[classic course]] in ''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'', the Pit Plant is absent as Lakitu pulls the player out of the pit immediately as they fall in. The sign featuring the Pit Plant has also been removed.
 
It is inspired by the real-life {{wp|antlion}}.<ref>''Mario Kart: Double Dash!!'' internal filename (<tt>root/Course/Desert.arc/desert/objects/antlion.bmd</tt>)</ref> Similarly-acting regular Piranha Plants also appear in [[Yoshi Desert]] in ''[[Mario Kart: Super Circuit]]'', although they spit out the racers they eat.
 
==Gallery==
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MKDDPitPlantModel.png|In-game model
MKDD-Danger.png|Appearance on billboard
</gallery>
 
==References==
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==Trivia==
*The Cactus Piranha Plant is possibly a reference to the Sarlaac Pit in ''Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi''. It is also similar to the [[Piranha Plant]]s of [[Yoshi Desert]] in ''[[Mario Kart: Super Circuit]]''.
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Latest revision as of 21:23, June 19, 2023

Pit Plant
A Pit Plant lives inside a quicksand pit at Dry Dry Desert.
Species Piranha Plant
First appearance Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (2003)

The Pit Plant,[1] or the giant Piranha Plant,[2] is a dark green Piranha Plant with spikes on its head. It appears only in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! in Dry Dry Desert, where it is located in the quicksand pit waiting for racers to fall in. If they do, the Pit Plant emerges to swallow the racers before quickly sinking back down, causing the screen to fade to black and Lakitu to tow the drivers back into the race. A billboard warning of the Pit Plant's danger can also be seen in the course.

Though Dry Dry Desert returns as a classic course in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the Pit Plant is absent as Lakitu pulls the player out of the pit immediately as they fall in. The sign featuring the Pit Plant has also been removed.

It is inspired by the real-life antlion.[3] Similarly-acting regular Piranha Plants also appear in Yoshi Desert in Mario Kart: Super Circuit, although they spit out the racers they eat.

Gallery[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Grimm, Steven. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Player's Guide. Page 41.
  2. ^ Hodgson, David S. Mario Kart: Double Dash PRIMA's Official Strategy Guide. Pages 30, 58, 62.
  3. ^ Mario Kart: Double Dash!! internal filename (root/Course/Desert.arc/desert/objects/antlion.bmd)