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Ah, the Piranha Plant, one of the voriest of Mario enemies. Here's Casey finding out the hard way that she'd be terrible at saving the Mushroom Kingdom, and much better at being plant food! Normally I don't care for plant preds all that much, but the Piranha Plant holds a special place - it was involved in one of my first realizations of what vore is and that I was interested in it.
So, story time...
When I was a kid I mostly had male friends - my cousins and boys from church - and saw Nintendo and Mario stuff pretty early. It was hard for my grandparents to legitimize spending so much on an NES for one little girl they assumed would lose interest (they were wrong), but I got it eventually. Before that though, I'd collect Super Mario stuff whenever I could.
One was a "Nintendo Adventures" book, which were choose-you-own paths with puzzles, mazes and stuff. Like many of these kind of books, some bad endings (or "Game Over" for this series) involved something with vore; I came across many others over time in different series - but this was my first.
Halfway through the story, choosing to jump in the wrong pipe takes you to page 50, where Mario & Luigi are swallowed by a pair of Piranha Plants. I searched and found the book is uploaded on Internet Archives, so here's the actual page. Was funny seeing it again after all these years!
https://archive.org/details/NintendoAdventureBooks5PipeDown/page/99/mode/2up
I was 6 or 7 when I got this book, "Pipe Down!", and remember just focusing on this page obsessively, wonder about this odd idea of a character being swallowed by something. Why did it tickle my brain so much? I presented my grandma with this page and asked her to explain it. She said something like "Uh, it ate them..." like there's nothing more to it.
Thus formally began my lifelong journey of strange obsessions with characters being swallowed, wishing I was the prey (or sometimes the pred). I'd thought about the idea before this book, but it was my first time really noticing it somewhere, and man did it stand out.
Well, Piranha Plants have come a long way since then - and still make for a pretty nice pred!
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Posted by Undue 3 years ago Report
Gotta look where you leap in Mario, especially if you're a lovely lady who just so happens to not be wearing any clothes. For sure, one of the classic nostalgic preds.
Posted by JuniperBerry 3 years ago Report
Mmm, yes! Wandering around in Mario's world with a naked, tasty body like that? It's no wonder she got gobbled by the first plant to reach her!
Posted by Cruich 3 years ago Report
A nice little history, especially the part about trying to get your grandma to explain it!
Posted by JuniperBerry 3 years ago Report
Thanks - yeah, that's something that tipped me off that I had some unusual interest; nothing about people being eaten seemed cool and funny to her or anyone else
Posted by YouCanFreshMyFresh 3 years ago Report
At least this means that Casey’s in Smash now!
Posted by JuniperBerry 3 years ago Report
Haha, I guess so! Except I don't see her winning, so much as just getting eaten a lot!
Posted by Thatangryorc 3 years ago Report
Always love hearing the backstories that lead people to where they are now.You've quite the interesting one ^_^
Posted by JuniperBerry 3 years ago Report
Yeah, my vore journey was an interesting one. Most of my life I thought it was some deviant perversion I had to rod myself of (upbringing provoked those thoughts), but it started SO early, and I've never been able to shake it. Feels much better now to embrace it. So I can thank the Piranha Plants for one of my first vore wake up calls!
Posted by FaceInCrowd42 3 years ago Report
Hmm, interesting. I think I associated the Bigmouth Bass with vore sooner than the Piranha Plant, myself. I mean, it never looked to me like the PP's actually ATE Mario, while Bigmouth Bass has been clearly voring him since SMB3...
Posted by JuniperBerry 3 years ago Report
Ah, see, I had this book before owning SMB3 and knew nothing of Bigmouth Bass at the time - this book came out before the game did in the little town I grew up in. Also yeah, it was weird the books says the PP's just swallow them, nothing like that happens in the games! (which could be said about half the pages in these books so whatever)
That being said, it sure stood out to me when I saw Mario eaten by that fish the first time. Remember kind of just staring at the map for a long time trying to process all the weird feelings. Think I was 9 when I saw that - maybe I'll draw him too at some point, certainly not doing just one enemy per game!
Posted by FaceInCrowd42 3 years ago Report
This book wouldn't happen to be a Nintendo Adventure Book, would it? I don't remember one with a Piranha Plant but I never read them all...absolutely loved them when I was little.
Posted by JuniperBerry 3 years ago Report
Yup, it was one of those books, called "Pipe Down", the only one I had in the series (Goosebumps CyoA books had occasional vore, too).
Anyway, there's a link to an online version up in the description, starting on the "Game Over" page with the Piranha Plants if you want to see it
Posted by FaceInCrowd42 3 years ago Report
Wait, that IS one I'd read! Why don't I remember the Piranha Plant scene...
Posted by JuniperBerry 3 years ago Report
Perhaps you didn't get to that page?. It was quite possible to miss it. I think there's several paths to the good ending, so you have to make the wrong choice at the perfect time!
Another book I remember well was Goosebumps' "Secret Agent Gramdma". The reader character's gender isn't mentioned, only going by the nickname "Cookie", and has at least three vore endings that I recall. Plants a couple times, and a baby alien one other. And another with your character dragged underground by roots and transformed into a flower. It was one of my favourite books
Posted by gva274 3 years ago Report
You gotta wonder, SOME of the artists who do cartoons, comics, etc stuff with vore or tf HAVE to be into it, but be worried about being found out... or realize they like vore when asked to make one of those scenes, or even be converted to the church of the belly.
Posted by JuniperBerry 3 years ago Report
I definitely think so, there's been a lot of media where I've been suspicious - when it happens several times in one series, has some special focus, etc. I'm certainly there's been converts to the "church of the belly" for millennia now, given that there's a fair amount of vore in mythology too!
Posted by Penguintiel 3 years ago Report
You know, in Super Mario Bros. 2, you clear a level by picking up a crystal and entering Hawkmouth's beak. Now, I didn't think about that too much as a kid, but, now that vore is a fetish of mine... uh... yeah.
Posted by JuniperBerry 3 years ago Report
Oh yes, I had someone in my family obsess with the game for a year; like, writing notes about the game as they went. I watched SMB2 beaten beginning to end a few times before I was old enough to play it myself. Certainly took notice of characters going into a hawk's mouth, but also comprehended them as decorative doors to tunnels. But that stuff always stood out to me, like the "eyes" over the cave opening in 6-3 (if you don't skip it at the beginning through quicksand!) also implies going into a mouth.
Speaking of SMB2, if I get back to this Nintendo series, I'd love to draw Tryclyde eating her!