This Unreachable Piranha Plant is the Strangest Battle in Paper Mario: The Origami King

There's an out of bounds/ inaccessible piranha plant in Paper Mario: The Origami King that leads to a very interesting and slightly glitchy battle. If you start a fight against this piranha plant, you fight against 4 toads in an arena with a blue background and 5 rings. We explore this battle and glitches associated with it in this video!

A big thank you to RandomSauce88 for the clip at 1:40! Go check him out for more Paper Mario/ speedrunning/ glitches!

In this video, we test out Olivia's hints, items, and some battle mechanics to see if this fight is glitched. As for why we get this specific fight if we run into the piranha plant, something similar happens in the original Paper Mario game, as seen in the clip at 1:40 - in the original Paper Mario game, "800DC4EA" is the address for battle ID, and some of these unreachable enemies default to a certain battle ID that corresponds with fighting a regular goomba. In Paper Mario: The Origami King, the battle ID that was assigned to this unreachable piranha plant made this test battle with a blue background/ 4 toads/ 5 rings appear!

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WHY DO WE GET THIS SPECIFIC FIGHT IF WE RUN INTO THIS PIRANHA PLANT?

Something similar happens in the original Paper Mario game, as seen in the clip at 1:40 - in the original Paper Mario game, "800DC4EA" is the address for battle ID, and some of these unreachable enemies default to a certain battle ID that corresponds with fighting a regular goomba. In Paper Mario: The Origami King, the battle ID that was assigned to this unreachable piranha plant made this test battle with a blue background/ 4 toads/ 5 rings appear!

A big thank you to RandomSauce88 for the clip at 1:40! Go check him out for more Paper Mario/ speedrunning/ glitches!



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[tod]

Sees Toads attacking
Me: _color splash toads on the train flashbacks_

[AshlyTheWolfy]

I think the 5 ring is an animation that is normally comvered up

[waterwraith]

7:00 the reason why it happens is because you actually knocked off the sticker, then you damaged it a few times before killing it. The sticker is present on all paper macho enemies, but it's invisible on the chain chomp because you aren't supposed to get close enough to knock it off with out being torn to shreds!!! That is also the reason why the chain chomp doesn't scatter confetti when you damage it or have animations for knocking off the sticker, taking damage, or dying, The game never expected you to get behind the chain chomp!!!! (I'm not 100% sure about this but that's what seems most likely)

[BronzeSpaceComet]

This is hilarious! The fight seems like some weird, interdimensional parallel universe where everything is just not quite right. Almost like something right out of a dream.
Also, it's interesting that the Piranha Plant disappears if you defeat it before the Chain Chomp eats it. I didn't expect the cutscene to use the actual model of that Piranha Plant, I assumed it was rendered as its own separate thing.
Keep up the good work!

[Navman_]

Just when you thought this game had too many toads, the default enemies are toads too.

[clothinghanger]

I think the five rings are actually normal, and they are just covered in normal battles. I think they are used for the animation when sliding the rings instead if rotating them. They are used so that the rings don't visibly disappear. The visible ring moves to the hidden rings location and the hidden one disapeares instead of the visible one disappearing.

[arcticdino]

Kamek is just sitting there like "did I mix up the brownies again?"

[flyingaegislash]

“We can’t find the drain plug!”
Eyesight:

[Jakewebmaster]

Moral of the Story:
Changing Mario's Horizontal Position Is Perfectly Acceptable
Changing Mario's Diagonal Position Can Get You Softlocked
Changing Mario's Vertical Position Crashes Paper Mario

[WiglahWoo]

This is one of the strangest things I've ever seen. Cool discovery!

[guycalledr]

Mario's finally had enough of the Toads' crap.

[tanini]

*But first we need to talk about parallel universes*

[thundergreen]

It's funny to think both in Paper Mario 64 and Origami King, there's a normally unreachable Piranha Plant with a weird battle

[papyrussemi]

I think the fifth ring is for the actual animation of sliding rings in and out.

[GoldenYoshi]

sephiroth

On a serious note, I wondered about this battle myself. Pretty interesting stuff!

[rcdr]

There's something unsettling about seeing the game written in, y'know, cohesive English xD I'm too used to the translated version!

Great video dude, loving all the content. I appreciate how concise yet detailed the videos are!

[neemis]

I actually remember seeing some toad animations that used the same prefix as those used for battles while looking at the game's assets. Glad to finally find out what they're for.

[guycalledr]

This is Mario's revenge for all those times toad said "Thank you Mario but your princess is in another castle"

[Kapn]

Piranha Plant is lord of the 5 rings with his 4 friends, toad, toad, toad, and toad. followed by his 2 arch enemies, Mario, and Chain Chomp.