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|image=[[File:Panser.jpg|120px]]<br>Artwork of a red Panser from ''Super Mario Advance''.

'''Pansers''' are enemies commonly found in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''. Along with [[Pokey]]s, they are the only known hostile plant species in [[Subcon]], although Pansers were created by [[Wart]].<ref name=booklet>"''The only plant life Wart created for the world of dreams. It spouts fire.''" - ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' instruction booklet, page 26 (Panser description).</ref> There are three types of Pansers: red, pink, and either green or gray depending on location. The red version stays in one place and shoot two [[fireball]]s in the player's direction, the green/gray variant (both just green in the remakes) patrols an area and shoot fireballs straight up, and the most powerful, the pink (blue in the remakes), chases the player and shoots fireballs towards them. These enemies can only be defeated by throwing another enemy or an item, like a [[vegetable]] or [[Mushroom Block]], at them.

The [[Lava Lotus]] from ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' resembles a large, transparent Panser. The similar [[Volcano Lotus]] introduced in ''[[Super Mario World]]'' additionally shares the same Japanese name as Panser, suggesting a connection. However, neither of these plants are ever shown to be able to move, and they release their projectiles in periodic sets rather than rapidly fire in an arc. The [[Fire Nipper Plant|Fiery Walking Piranha]] from ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', [[Pompon Flower]] from ''[[Super Mario Land]]'', [[Furafurawā]] from [[Game Boy]] ''[[Donkey Kong (Game Boy)|Donkey Kong]]'', [[Wild Ptooie Piranha]] from ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', and [[Pollen Plant]] from ''[[Virtual Boy Wario Land]]'' are also similar.

No actual Panser is found outside of ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', its remakes, and other related media. Nonetheless, in the racetrack titled [[3DS Shy Guy Bazaar|Shy Guy Bazaar]] in ''[[Mario Kart 7]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', many stalls (and even part of the track itself) are decorated with red carpets, all of which feature Panser sprites as motifs, along with [[Phanto]]s and [[Cobrat]]s.

In the NES version, they have black stems, but in the SNES version and other subsequent remakes, they have beige stems. The red ones are always depicted as having green stems in artwork.

===''Super Mario'' series===

====''Super Mario Bros. 2''====

 

*'''Instruction Booklet bio:''' ''These fiery flowers are real hotheads. You'll be safe if you can avoid their fireballs.''<ref>[https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Super-Mario-Advance-Game-Manual.pdf ''Super Mario Advance'' European instruction booklet,] page 12.</ref>

'''<big>ポンキー</big>'''<br>

'''種族''' フラワー族<br>

'''性格''' とにかくイジワル<br>

'''登場ゲーム''' USA<br>

'''<big>火の玉はいて、とおせんぼ</big>'''<br>

火の玉をはいて、マリオたちの行く手をさえぎるイヤなやつ。真上だけに火をはくやっ、左右にバラまくやつ、止まってるやつ、動いているやつなど、種類もいろいろいるよ。<ref>''Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten'', [http://imgur.com/a/UvABP page 209.]</ref>

 

''Tribe: Flower clan''<br>

''Game appearances: USA''<br>

'''''<big>Fireballs flinging and running out of steam</big>'''''<br>

''A nasty little fellow that blocks the path of Mario and his friends by emitting fireballs. There are various types of fireballs, such as those that only burn directly above you, those that spread out to the left and right, those that stand still, and those that move.''

*'''Panser (Red):''' マリオのいる方向へ、山なりに火の玉を吐いて攻撃してくる。<ref name=encyclopedia>''Shogakukan. 2015. Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario USA'' section, page 68.</ref> (''They attack by spitting fireballs in a heap in the direction where Mario is.'')

|Jap=ポンキー<ref>''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' instruction booklet, page 34.</ref><ref>[http://imgur.com/a/UvABP#103 Mario Character Book, page 209]</ref><br>''Ponkī''<br>ポンキー(レッド)<ref name=encyclopedia/><br>''Ponkī (Reddo)''<br>ポンキー(グレー)<ref name=encyclopedia/><br>''Ponkī (Gurē)''<br>ポンキー(ピンク)<ref name=encyclopedia/><br>''Ponkī (Pinku)''<br>パンサー<ref>''Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten'', [https://i.imgur.com/lVHkZlH.jpg page 225.]</ref><br>''Pansā''

|JapM=From「ぽん」(''pon'', Japanese onomatopoeia for popping out something) and suffix "-ky"; shared with [[Volcano Lotus]]<br><br>Panser (Red) (''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' / ''Super Mario USA'', red type)<br><br>Panser (Gray) (''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' / ''Super Mario USA'', gray/green type)<br><br>Panser (Pink) (''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' / ''Super Mario USA'', pink/blue type)<br><br>Transliteration of the ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' name

|Fra=Panser

|FraM=-

|Ita=Violaccia

|ItaM=Compound of "viola" (pansy) and "erbaccia" (weed)

*Excluding [[Wart]], Pansers are the only enemy from ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' to not appear in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]''.

*Pansers likely get their name a combination of the word {{wp|pansy}}, a type of flower, and {{wp|German_tanks_in_World_War_II#The_Panzer_name|Panzer}}, a German tank, perhaps in reference to the plant's ability to throw fireballs.