Editing Petey Piranha

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|caption = Official artwork of Petey Piranha from ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Party: Star Rush}}''.<br>[[File:MarioSymbol.svg|50px]]

|firstgame= {{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Sunshine}}

|games= [[Brawl]] [[SSBU]]

|console= Nintendo Gamecube

|Species= [[Piranha Plant]]

'''Petey Piranha''' ({{ja|ボスパックン|Bosupakkun}}, ''Boss Packun''), is a recurring villain (usually a boss) in the [[Mario (universe)|''Mario'' series]].

Petey Piranha first appeared in ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Sunshine}}'' as the boss for episodes [[mariowiki:Down with Petey Piranha!|2]] and [[mariowiki:Petey Piranha Strikes Back|5]] of {{s|mariowiki|Bianco Hills}}. In both battles, his main methods of attacks are spitting out large amounts of [[mariowiki:Graffiti|brown goop]] on Mario, and if the player gets close enough, hitting Mario with his head by spinning it around himself. In episode 5, he gains the ability to swing his arm to cause a tornado that sends Mario flying upward.

In ''Brawl'', Petey Piranha's attack where he swings the cages he is holding is similar to his swinging motion in ''Super Mario Sunshine'', except he does not cause a tornado. His stomping attack in ''Brawl'' is very similar to his attack in ''New Super Mario Bros.''.

While the cutscene prior to the first fight with him seemingly depicts him spitting out a cannonball at Mario, Petey Piranha has never had the ability to do so in the ''Mario'' series.

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[[File:Petey.jpg|thumb|left|Petey Piranha's art for ''Brawl''.]]

Petey Piranha appears as the first boss in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''{{'}}s [[The Subspace Emissary]] mode, holding the cages of both {{SSBB|Peach}} and {{SSBB|Zelda}} at the end of the [[Midair Stadium]]. The player, who is controlling {{SSBB|Kirby}}, must destroy one of the cages to defeat Petey. The player can also attack Petey's head, which splits the damage received to both cages.

Once a cage's health is depleted, it will break and free the princess inside while Petey catches on fire, collapses, and explodes. If both cages' health are depleted simultaneously via an attack on Petey's head, the game will randomly decide which princess is freed. The unsaved princess will be turned into a trophy by {{SSBB|Wario}}. At the last level, [[Tabuu]] resurrects Petey, along with the other bosses, and sends him after the heroes in [[The Great Maze]].

Like all bosses, Petey can be fought outside of The Subspace Emissary in [[Boss Battles Mode]]. During this mode or in The Great Maze, Petey's cages will be empty and the sky in the arena will be blue (compared to in the Midair Stadium, where his cages will contain the two princesses and the sky will be an ominous red).

====Petey Piranha's [[attack]]s====

Petey has only two main attacks. The first involves swinging one of the two cages along the ground. The second is a jumping attack, where Petey tries to stomp the player while holding both cages vertically. Any contact with Petey or his cages during this attack will [[meteor smash]] the player as he comes down from a jump.

When either cage is reduced to half health, Petey will roar and his head will glow red momentarily. Petey will then speed up his attacks and often jump in a different pattern, usually two times in a row; his attacks also deal slightly more damage.

PeteyRage.jpg|Petey Piranha's roar upon being reduced to half of his health.

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Like all bosses in ''Brawl'', Petey gains an additional ×0.6 damage resistance modifier when fought in co-op mode, effectively gaining 67% more health. This modifier is applied whenever the second player is in-game, and is no longer applied if the second player loses all their [[stock]]s.

[[File:Petey Piranha - Brawl Trophy.png|left|135x235px|thumb|The Petey Piranha trophy in ''Brawl''.]]

''A colossal Piranha Plant. Unlike its pipe-inhabiting cousins, it uses its legs to walk around. It can fly, too. As you might expect, it often appears as a boss character in Mario adventures. This may come as a surprise, but it also displays surprising dexterity in kart races and ball games.''

*''Super Mario Sunshine'' (2002)

*''New Super Mario Bros.'' (2006)

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===As an Attack===

{{SSBU|Piranha Plant}}'s [[Final Smash]] in ''Ultimate'' summons Petey Piranha, who attacks opponents with his cages from The Subspace Emissary. Petey also appears as a [[Spirits (characters)|spirit]].

Cosmetically, Petey Piranha has a more saturated color scheme than he did in ''Brawl'', and is more smoothly textured (i.e. no cracks in his skin as in the aforementioned title.)

===As a Spirit===

Both Petey Piranha and a Super Mario Strikers version of him appear as spirits.

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*If one battles against Petey using Peach or Zelda in their default costumes, they will still be seen in the cage with the same costume.

*The models used for Peach and Zelda in the cages are of much lower resolution than the characters themselves, and do not have fingers or legs.

*If one looks closely at the cages in the cutscene "Princesses, Both Captured and False", the cages that hold the trophies of Peach and Zelda are the exact ones Petey used.

*Petey Piranha is the only boss to have two health bars, with both being dedicated to objects outside of himself. During the Midair Stadium battle, "Peach's Cage" and "Zelda's Cage" are displayed next to the health bars; in The Great Maze and in Boss Battles, the cages as aforementioned are empty, and the health bars are simply labeled "Cage".

[[File:Petey easter egg.png|250px|thumb|The easter eggs of Petey's cages.]]

*The cages' designs have several [[easter egg]]s, some of which can only be seen via a camera hack:

**The bottom trim is patterned with various Piranha Plant and Nipper sprites. In addition, the back features a human face of unknown origin; this face is modeled as opposed to textured and is reasonably large in Petey's texture files.

*Like [[Meta Ridley]], Petey is fought just after the countdown of a [[Subspace Bomb]] starts; however, Petey's boss fight has no time limit.

*Much like [[Bowser]] and the {{uv|Donkey Kong}} characters, rather than being voiced by {{s|mariowiki|Toru Minegishi}} with cartoonish voice clips, Petey's voice is comprised of monstrous roars in ''Brawl''.

**Toru Minegishi, however, was still involved in the game, as he arranged the ''{{SSBBMusicLink|Nintendo|Title (Big Brain Academy)}}'' remix.