Pider
Sprite fromPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Variants Arantula
Notable members The Mind-Bogglers

Piders are enemies inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and itsNintendo Switch remake. They live inthe Great Tree and are the only known natural predators ofPunies. As their name indicates, they are a spider-like creature, and just like everything else in theBoggly Woods, Piders are monochrome in color. It has two attacks. The first one involves spitting a ball at Mario, dealing 2 damage. The second one involves it spitting out three webs in quick succession, each one taking away 1 HP from Mario's HP bar. LikeScuttle Bugs, Piders have round bodies and suction cups on their feet. In theGlitz Pit, a Pider appears as one of the members ofThe Mind-Bogglers. They also have stronger relatives known asArantulas in thePit of 100 Trials.

When Mario is leading the Punies, if a Pider is nearby several Punies will be frightened and run off, prompting Mario to defeat the Piders to move on.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

GameCube[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Pider
	Max HP	5	Attack	2	Defense	0
	Location(s)	The Great Tree,Glitz Pit,Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 11-13, 15-18)	Role	Common	Level	12
	Sleep?	90%	Dizzy?	50%	Confuse?	90%
	Tiny?	90%	Stop?	90%	Soft?	95%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	90%	Fright?	100%
	Gale Force?	70%	KO?	95%	Moves	Spider-spit (2), Multispit (1x3)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	0 - 2	Items	Mushroom (drop only),POW Block (drop only),Ruin Powder
Tattle Log #: 62	Log	A spidery creature that drops down on webs. It can shoot out three web-wads to attack consecutively.
	Tattle	That's a Pider. ICK! They gross me out. Max HP is 5, Attack is 2, and Defense is 0. EWWWWWWWWW! Besides its normal attacks, it might spit three web-wads at you consecutively. You'd better have good timing if you wanna guard against its attacks. It also says here that the Punies can't stand Piders. So I'm not the only one! Just the sight of these things makes Punies flee in terror. I know how they feel!

Nintendo Switch[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Pider
	Max HP	5	Attack	2	Defense	0
	Location(s)	The Great Tree,Glitz Pit,Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 11-13, 15-18)	Role	Common	Level	12
	Sleep?	90%	Dizzy?	50%	Confuse?	90%
	Tiny?	90%	Stop?	90%	Soft?	95%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	90%	Fright?	100%
	Gale Force?	70%	KO?	95%	Moves	Spider-spit (2), Multispit (1x3)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	0 - 2	Items	Mushroom (drop only),POW Block (drop only),Ruin Powder
Tattle Log #: 65	Log	A spidery creature that drops down on webs. It can shoot out three web-wads to attack consecutively.
	Tattle	That's a Pider. ICK! They gross me out. Max HP is 5, Attack is 2, and Defense is 0. EWWWWWWWWW! Besides its normal attacks, it might spit three web-wads at you consecutively. You'd better have good timing if you wanna guard against its attacks. It also says here that the Punies can't stand Piders. So I'm not the only one! Just the sight of these things makes Punies flee in terror. I know how they feel!

Names in other languages[edit]

Notes[edit]

• If there is an even amount of Piders in the battle, they will alternate between half being high up and half being down low. However, if there is an odd amount of Piders in the battle, they will all be at the same height.
  • If any Pider in battle is unable to move, all the other Piders will not move up or down.

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