Petey Piranha

Petey Piranha (, Boss Packun), is an antagonistic character and leader of the Piranha Plants in the series.
==Origin==
Petey Piranha made his debut as a boss in and has become a recurring boss in the Mario franchise. He is a mutated and larger version of a Piranha Plant with a red-colored head peppered with white polka dots, yellow iridescent petals with orange rims that surround it in the style of a lion's mane, thick green lips with vertical darker green streaks across them, leaf-like arms, stubby thorn-like legs and an underwear-like garment that matches the color scheme of his head.
Petey Piranha first appeared as a boss in the second and fifth episodes of the area. In the former, he is seen spitting large amounts of brown goop from atop a windmill and in the latter, he is seen sleeping on a cliff, where he can be awakened with a . In both boss battles, he attacks by spitting his brown goop on Mario, and if the player gets close enough, hitting Mario with his head by spinning it around himself. In the fifth episode, he gains the ability to fly and swing his arm to cause a tornado that sends Mario flying upward. He can be defeated by using F.L.U.D.D. to spray large amounts of water in his mouth before he spits out his goop to expose his belly button on his engorged belly, which can be ground-pounded on three times.
Petey Piranha also appears as a boss in as the boss of . In that game, he flies above the player and will try to stomp on them.
==In Super Smash Bros. Brawl==
===As a boss===
Petey Piranha appears as the first boss of the Midair Stadium level in The Subspace Emissary. Prior to the battle, during the Subspace Army's invasion on the stadium, Petey blasts away with a cannonball and captures both and in cages, leaving to battle him alone. He can be defeated by destroying one of the cages. The player can also attack his head, which splits the damage received to both cages.
Once one of the cages' health is depleted, the cage will break and free one of the princesses inside while Petey catches on fire, collapses and explodes. If both cages' health is depleted simultaneously via an attack on his head, the game will randomly decide which princess is freed. The unsaved princess will be captured by . In The Great Maze, Tabuu replicates Petey, along with the other bosses, to slow down his enemies.
Petey can be battled in Boss Battles Mode. During this mode or in The Great Maze, his cages will be empty and the sky above the Midair Stadium will be as it was prior to the Subspace Army's invasion of it, in comparison to the stadium's featured level, where his cages will contain the two princesses and the sky will be an ominous red.
Rather than being voiced by Toru Minegishi who voiced the character in Super Mario Sunshine, Petey has a set of bestial roars, similar to how Bowser and the fighters have realistic vocal effects.
====As a playable character====
:Main article: Petey Piranha (SSBB)
Like all Brawl bosses, Petey Piranha can be played as in Boss Battles through hacking, which will assign debug controls to Player 3. Only the Cage attacks are available to deal damage, causing him to be extremely bare-bones and by far the weakest of the game's bosses.
====Moveset====
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 one-third of health, Petey will roar and its body will glow momentarily, surrounded by a red aura. Petey will then speed up its attacks and often jump in a different pattern, usually two times in a row; his attacks will also deal slightly more damage and their knockback will be boosted.
Like all bosses, Petey Piranha can be controlled with hacks in Boss Battles Mode. The start button will, like all bosses, self-destruct him. Unlike any other boss (besides of Meta Ridley), when controlled by a human, Petey Piranha will wait in a T-pose after either roaring or performing a cage attack.
Move 	Input 	Description
Jump Ready 	+ 	Petey Piranha gets ready to jump. When controlled by a human, however, he can't actually do the jump.
Roar 	+ 	Petey Piranha roars, and is surrounded by a red glowing aura for a brief time. This move slightly boosts the following attacks in speed, damage (by about 10%), and knockback (although the change is subtle). When performed by a human, it is currently unknown if it makes his attacks stronger.
Left Cage Smash 	+ 	Petey Piranha smashes the cage in his left hand, which is the right cage from the screen's point of view. The attack is highly preventable but relatively swift and long-ranged. Damage varies from 12% (Easy in Boss Battles without boosts) to 40% (Intense in the Subspace Emissary after being boosted by Roar). Additionally, it KOs over 100% on the lower difficulties, but around 60% on Intense.
Right Cage Smash	+ 	Petey Piranha smashes the cage in his right hand, which is the left cage from the screen's point of view. The mechanic is exactly the same as Left Cage Smash.
Jump 	Unusable	Petey Piranha jumps high, landing on either the center or the sides of the stage. If the player is near or past Petey (near or off the edge) he will jump in place; if closer to the center he will jump to the opposite side. After Roar Petey will usually start jumping twice in a row. This attack meteor smashes the player into the stage but can't KO. Its damage can be very high, 16% on Easy in Boss Battles without boosts to 40% on Intense in the Subspace Emissary after being boosted by Roar.
PeteyJump1.jpg|Petey Piranha leaping into the air.
PeteyJump2.jpg|Petey descending after leaping into the air.
PeteyJump3.jpg|Petey landing on the ground.
PeteyCageSwing.jpg|Petey swinging a cage along the ground.
PeteyRage.jpg|Petey Piranha's roar upon being reduced to one-third of his health.
====HP and damage taken====
HP Values 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Midair Stadium	127	127	127	157	157	157	180	180	180	217	217	217	255	255	255
The Great Maze	162	162	162	186	186	186	200	200	200	222	222	222	245	245	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
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 can be obtained by using the Trophy Stand on Petey Piranha on Hard or Intense difficulty in The Subspace Emissary.
===Stickers===
Name 	Game	Effect 	Fighter(s)
Petey Piranha	 	Attack +47	
Petey Piranha	 	Attack +32	
==In ==
Despite Petey Piranha making no appearance whatsoever in either version of Super Smash Bros. 4, he has unused animations in the Wii U version that are unique and are separate from Brawl.
Even more curiously, there are no leftover models, textures, sounds or parameters with which these animations would correspond, as only the animations appear to remain in the game. The lack of leftover assets would appear to imply that Petey Piranha was scrapped at a very early stage in development.
==In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate==
===As a Final Smash===
Petey Piranha appears as 's Final Smash, using the cages from The Subspace Emissary.
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).
Additionally, he is mentioned in the Palutena's Guidance for Piranha Plant, as well as Paper Petey Piranha and Petea Piranha.
===Spirits===
Petey Piranha also appears as two different primary spirits. He can be obtained by enhancing the spirit at level 99.
The Spirit Battle for Petey Piranha (Super Mario Strikers), though his artwork is from Mario Strikers Charged, uses a Giant puppet fighter and is fought on the Wuhu Island stage's Swordplay Colosseum layout. During the battle, the Soccer Ball item will appear, referencing the game of soccer in Super Mario Strikers, which features Petey Piranha as a playable character.
No.	Image 	Name	Type	Class	Slots	Base	Max 	Base	Max 	Base	Max 	Ability 	Series
54 	 	 	★★★ 	2 	3319 	9989	1616	4862	1322	3978	Giant 	Super Mario Series 	
125	Petey Piranha (Mario Strikers)	 	★★ 	1 	1663 	6696	798 	3214	865 	3482	No Effect	Super Mario Strikers Series Mario Strikers Series	
==Names in other languages==
==Trivia==
*Oddly, while Petey Piranha is seen spitting out a cannonball at Mario in The Subspace Emissary, in his origin series, Petey has never had the ability to do so.
*If the player 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.
*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 cages' designs have several Easter eggs, some of which can only be seen via mods that remove the in-game camera limitations:
**The rears of the hooks have a Chain Chomp-like ornament attached to it.
**The interior roof is patterned with sprites of Bob-ombs and Bloopers.
**The bottom trim is patterned with various sprites of Piranha Plants, Fire Piranha Plants, Munchers and Nippers. In addition, the back features a human-like feminine face of unknown origin; this face is modeled as opposed to textured and is reasonably large in Petey's texture files.
*After Giga Bowser, Petey is the second boss to appear in a Final Smash.
*Petey's neck is usually situated behind the petals on his head, but in the series, it is situated in front of the petals.
==References==
Category:Subspace Army
Category:Bosses
Category:Trophies (SSBB)
Category:Stickers
Category:Piranha Plant
Category:Spirits
Category:Petey Piranha
es:Floro Piraña