Mini-Yoshi (a.k.a. Yoshi & Yoshi Kid) is a character in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. He is a spunky Baby Yoshi who is found outside the Glitz Pit. As a newly-hatched Yoshi, players can name him whatever they will. He is the fourth Party Member to join Mario in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
Biography[]
Once Mario enters the Glitz Pit fight, and plows through the competition, after a while, Mario will go outside and find a Yoshi Egg bouncing around, and being chased by Mr. Hoggle (Mr. Hoggle was planning to use the egg for hot dogs). Mario catches the egg, and Mr. Hoggle allows him to keep it.
After encountering the armored harriers, which can´t be defeated, the egg will hatch while you were away and a Baby Yoshi pops out. Depending on how long it took for the egg to hatch, the Yoshi Kid will be one out of seven colors: Green, Red, Blue, Orange, Pink, Black, and White, respectively. The Yoshi thanks Mario, and allows him to name him (which the player has control over). Now, with Yoshi as Mario's fourth partner, he enters the fight once more. Yoshi is able to eat the enemy, then spit him back out at the enemy's partner, defeating both of them.
Despite Mario's name being, of course, Mario, the Yoshi called Mario by his Glitz Pit name - "The Great Gonzales".
At the end of the game, Yoshi goes off to become a contender in the Glitz Pit. His fighting name is "The Great Gonzales Jr.", revealing the respect that Yoshi has toward his adoptive father. The Yoshi Kid starts off as a weak character, with an HP stat of 10, but gets much stronger as he upgrades. He is useful in battle and can use multi-hitting moves.
Various Colors[]
Depending on how much time has passed between when he joins your team as an egg and when he hatches and joins as a partner, he will be one of the colors above. The colors are purely aesthetic changes and don't change anything else.
Time[]
Green: 0-6 minutes
Red: 6-9 minutes
Blue: 9-11 minutes
Orange: 11-15 minutes
Pink: 15-18 minutes
Black: 18-19 minutes
White: 19-20 minutes
After 20 minutes, the order resets.
Attacks in Battle[]
Trivia[]
- Yoshi Kid has very similar powers to Parakarry and Carrie. This is carried over to the fact his field ability is the same function.
- Yoshi Kid is the first and so far only Party Member in the Paper Mario series that is mandatory to use in order to beat a mini-boss (the Iron Cleft).
- Yoshi Kid's attack power function is the same as Lady Bow from Paper Mario. In that he does the most basic attack with each 1 attack power doing six damage at max. Unlike Lady Bow who's attack power is hampered by enemies one one defense, Gulp fixes Yoshi Kid's attack issue.
- With Power Lift or Power boost influences, Yoshi Kid can be powerful. Even against Grodus, Shadow Sirens and Smorg.
- Despite Yoshi Kid's Stampede in-game stating "attacks all ground enemies", it actually can attack every enemy or target onscreen regardless of their position.
- Yoshi Kid calls Mario by his actual name only 6 times. Other times he refers to Mario by his Glitz Pit name "Gonzales"
- Yoshi Kid is the only partner with multiple colors.
- Yoshi Kid's the first and so far only partner in the Paper Mario series that the player can choose a name for.
- During the fight with Doopliss, no matter what name the player uses the enemy will always be named "Yoshi"
- When Professor Frankly and Four Eyes break the 4th wall during the game, the Yoshi Kid will acknowledge their strange dialogue.
- Several Yoshi Kid dolls can be found in Fort Francis in Super Paper Mario in various colors.