Petey Piranha

Petey Piranha
Official artwork of Petey Piranha from Mario Party: Star Rush.
Universe	Mario
Debut	Super Mario Sunshine
Smash Bros. appearances	Brawl SSBU
Console/platform of origin	Nintendo Gamecube
Place of origin	Isle Delfino
Article on Super Mario Wiki	Petey Piranha

Petey Piranha (ボスパックン, Boss Packun), is a recurring villain (usually a boss) in the Mario series.

Origin

Mario and F.L.U.D.D. encounter Petey Piranha in Super Mario Sunshine.

Petey Piranha first appeared in Super Mario Sunshine as the boss for episodes 2 and 5 of Bianco Hills. In both battles, his main methods of attacks are spitting out large amounts of 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.

Petey Piranha also appears as a boss in New Super Mario Bros. as the boss of World 5. In that game, he flies above the player and will try to stomp on them.

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.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

In Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary

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 Peach and Zelda at the end of the Midair Stadium. The player, who is controlling 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 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 attacks

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.

Like all bosses Petey Piranha can be controlled in Boss Battles Mode. The start button will like all bosses self-destruct him. Unlike any other boss, when controlled by a human, Petey Piranha will be stuck in a T-pose, after roaring or performing a cage attack, however Meta Ridley has a similar problem.

Move	Input	Description
Jump Ready	A^	Petey Piranha gets ready to jump. When controlled by a human however, he can't actually do the jump.
Roar	Av	Petey Piranha roars, when performed by a human it is currently unknown if it makes his attacks stronger.
Right Cage Smash	A<	Petey Piranha smashes the right cage, even though left is pressed, though it is Petey's left.
Left Cage Smash	A>	Petey Piranha smashes the left cage, even though right is pressed, though it is Petey's right.
Jump	Unusable	Petey Piranha jumps.

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  Petey Piranha leaping into the air.

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  Petey Piranha descending after leaping into the air.

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  Petey Piranha landing on the ground.

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  Petey Piranha swinging a cage along the ground.

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

HP and damage taken

HP Values
Midair Stadium	127			157			180			217			255
The Great Maze	162			186			200			222			245
Round	1-3	4-6	7-9	1-3	4-6	7-9	1-3	4-6	7-9	1-3	4-6	7-9	1-3	4-6	7-9
Boss Battles	115	170	190	150	205	230	187	240	262	225	282	310	325	377	400

Damage taken	×0.7	×0.7	×0.7	×0.7	×1.0	×0.7	×0.7	×0.7	×0.7	×0.7	×0.3

The resistance values above apply only when hitting Petey's body, which will deal the resulting damage to each cage. When hitting an individual cage, no resistance modifier is applied. When either cage's HP is depleted, Petey is defeated.

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 stocks.

Trophy

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)

Stickers

Name	Game	Effect	Characters
Petey Piranha	Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour	AttackDarkness+047 Attack +47	Ganondorf
Petey Piranha	Mario Strikers Charged	AttackBite+032 Attack +32	Yoshi Wario Wolf Pokémon Trainer

Petey Piranha (Mario Golf: TT)

Petey Piranha (Mario Strikers Charged)

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

As an Attack

Petey in Piranha Plant's Final Smash

Piranha Plant's Final Smash in Ultimate summons Petey Piranha, who attacks opponents with his cages from The Subspace Emissary. Petey also appears as two spirits.

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 Mario Strikers Charged version of him appear as spirits. The former spirit is obtained by enhancing the Nipper Plant spirit.

Trivia

• 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.
• When idling, if Zelda's cage is attacked, Petey will make a deep grunt, but if Peach's cage is attacked, he will make two sharp grunts. He will not respond to hits on his head.
• 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".

The easter eggs of Petey's cages.

• The cages' designs have several easter eggs, some of which can only be seen via a camera hack:
  • The rears of the hooks have a small Chain Chomp attached.
  • The interior roof is patterned with Bob-omb and Blooper sprites.
  • 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.
• After Giga Bowser, Petey is the second boss to appear in a Final Smash.
• Despite being usually depicted as a male in most of the games he appears in, his trophy in Brawl uses neuter pronouns when referring to him.
  • The French version of Brawl refers to him as a "she", being consistent with all the other French localizations of the character as Petey is known by the feminine name of "Flora" in France.
• Much like Bowser and the Donkey Kong characters, rather than being voiced by 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 Title (Big Brain Academy) remix.