Pikmin's Surprisingly Dark Lore 

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Olimar: Wow this is very interesting, I wonder what else I will fi- Louie: *I THINK IT WOULD BE BEST DEEP FRIED*

Fun Fact: the Umibozu becomes gold in Pikmin 3 upon its transformation into the Plasm Wraith because it dissolves and absorbs the gold plating from Olimar's ship. That's why the ship is no longer gold when you find it crashed in Pikmin 3.

Pikmin is my favorite post-apocalyptic survival game series!

The Waterwraith Louie's Notes are a joke. "Known to cause mass hysteria, followed by leg spasms and internal thunderings." Causes mass hysteria; you see the Waterwraith, you freak out. Leg spams. After freaking out, you run away. Internal thunderings... I don't need to say any more. I love this game.

Pikmin 2 includes branded items found on Earth as well as an entire globe with all geographic and political boundaries of Earth and the ship confirms that it is of the planet. The Pikmin series absolutely takes place on Earth, not an Earth-like planet.

Alph: wow look at how incredibly designed this creature is Brittany: I wonder if we domesticate it, how convenient will it be for us? Charlie: I’ve discovered the creature’s weakness and here is how we can defeat it Olimar: there are a lot of interesting facts about the creature Louie: “Hungry! Hungry! Pour food on my pile!”

This show is like Watchmojo but with a personality

Finding out that Louie was the bad guy when I was a kid was soooooo cool! It made me want to save him and 100% the game to figure out why he is who he is. To this day I still have the image of Louie standing on a leaf with his evil look on his face. When I was a kid I thought he was sad, but after the bonus missions I realized it was actually an evil look. Because of that, Pikmin will always be one of my favorite Nintendo franchises!

The Water Wraith's Japanese name is Amebozu (A cross between Amoeba and Umibozu), which supports the theory.

Splatoon and Pikmin's worlds are both post apocalyptic.

Louie being the cause of the starvation is more than likely not a thing. I kind of remember the Pikmin 3 crew's race not able to eat vegetable and only fruit.

One thing about the Geiger counter- Olimar begins his note about it when he finds it on the surface, before ever moving it. This means it had already gone off several times before he ever crashed. This makes sense because there can be waves of intense radiation in space. Knowing that you're heading near a star that's having a storm and spewing a lots of rads (well, more than normal, anyway) out is pretty important to staying alive; that's what makes it a key part. That he doesn't know what it does is still frightening due to neglecting a critical aspect of surviving in space, but it doesn't mean the earth was nuked into next week and it can't reasonably be taken as evidence for such. That doesn't mean there *wasn't* a nuclear Armageddon, mind- something happened to wipe humanity out. I assume/hope Olimar's ships are shielded against heavy radiation (it's one of those things that's important for long distance space travel), and that's why he could afford to ignore it. The alternative is not something I wish to think about.

Concept: Pikmin, Kirby 64, and Splatoon are part of the same timeline. Explanation: Humans destroy the earth through nuclear fire (as explained in Splatoon 1's story mode collectibles) and essentially wipe themselves out. Horrible radiation and flooding (due to melting of polar ice caps, also from Splatoon 1) turns all life on it's head, mutating all all creatures and shuffling the deck of what makes for a dominant species. Aquatic creatures like fish, amphibians, crustaceans, invertebrates, etc.mutate and evolve to become new terrestrial species, reptiles become heavily mutated due to erratic changing of their ecosystems and residual radiation, most flying creatures like birds and insects stay generally unaffected, and most mammals and primates gradually die out. This is about where the Earth shown in Pikmin starts. Remnants of the human world still remain like junk, trash, and their technology; as shown throughout the games and the short films. The inclusion of Kirby 64 is a bit of a stretch, but there is some ground to it. The fifth world you visit is known as "Shiver Star", a frozen-over world that bears a striking resemblance to Earth. Not much else is known about this world, other than it's original inhabitants had to leave, it's factories still remain functioning, and is perpetually run by robots. While it could still fit that this is the same post-apocalyptic Earth as Pikmin and Splatoon, it's difficult to say where it would be set on the timeline. On, one hand since the factories are still functioning and there are still technically ice caps, perhaps it's before the Pikmin timeline, putting it at the very start of the timeline. On, the other hand ice ages take centuries to reach the level of disaster SS seems to have, and for the ice caps to be nuked humans would still need to be there. Or, the third option that seems the most likely is that the world is going through some kind of nuclear winter that blows over sometime before the Pikmin timeline. By the time this world gets to Splatoon era, or known in the game as the mollusk era, humans and the remnants of their world for the most part have been long gone, squids and octopuses rise as the dominant species of this world constantly warring with each other over land, they base their technology off of human scrap objects and recycle it for their own purposes, most water kills inklings and octolings because it's all freshwater due to the melted ice-caps (squids and octopuses are saltwater creatures, only pure saltwater is very rare; most water is either freshwater or brackish), their own cultures develop, and society and civilization is about where we are now. The only things that remain from our society are Judd and Lil' Judd (two cats frozen in cryostasis), pigeons, Tartar (an AI developed with the intent to observe the world and help it; it becomes disillusioned with Inkling and Octoling society and tries to wipe the slate clean again, calling their disputes over "freshness" and minor differences in species petty and childish), a blender (Tartar's method to try and create the perfect specimen of primordial ooze), a statue heavily resembling Hermes (again, part of Tartar's plan to wipe out the world; they converted it into some kind of cannon), human fossils, and the domes in Octo Valley (which were believed to have been built by humans as shelters to survive the floods); no other buildings, recognizable objects, no recognizable culture, etc. The only hiccup in this idea is the timeframe between the three games and the time of humans. In Splatoon, it's stated that humans "once populated the world 12000 years ago". That can be justified saying that all humans died out at roughly that time; that they nuked the ice-caps, some survived the flood, and the rest gradually died off. Also, we don't know how inklings and octolings measure time compared to how we do. They most likely don't use our calendar. What could be a day to us could be a week to them. They probably don't have the same names for months or days. Weeks might last 10 days, months might last 50 days. They could have 9 months, they could have like 15. One thing that helps Splatoon fit in is that we've never seen an actual global map of the world, so it's up to interpretation to what the current landmasses look like. TL:DR - our world ---> nuclear war ---> nuclear winter ---> humans die out ---> Kirby 64 Shiver Star ---> nuclear winter ends ---> animals and plants mutate drastically ---> Pikmin 1, 2, and 3 ---> almost all remnants of human culture and society disappears ---> squids and octopuses evolve to become dominant species ---> Splatoon 1 and 2

good to know the Duracell batteries live up to their name.

Pikmin 2 DEFINITELY had the best story. It was about the debt, but it also included Louie's life. Louie was raised by his grandparents, supposedly because his actual parents died, andhis grandma used to force him to eat bugs outside, which is engraved into his personality when he gets older, making him be slightly quiet all the time. Then, Louie is left behind by Olimar, which makes Louie go crazy. He then takes over a Titan Dweevil and tries to kill Olimar and the President with it. This is proven by the fact that the Titan Dweevil is only targeting captains, and in the Piklopedia entry on Louie, the ship says Louie highjacked the Titan Dweevil's brain. Pikmin 2 is definitely the best game in the franchise, for MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY MANY reasons, and definitely has the best story too.

Koppaites eat fruit exclusively. The theory that the golden pikpik carrots were intended for Koppai doesn't make any sense.

"The Burrowing Snagret, a which is a gross bird-rat hybrid." I think you mean bird-SNAKE hybrid. IT even has scales, I believe, just like any reptile.

Why does Nintendo like to have dark truths behind all their games

Me: Climate Ch- Him: NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON

Why recolour the Pikmin on the thumbnail. BLUE PIKMIN DON'T HAVE EARS. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A GREEN PIKMIN YET

Does dorkly know olimar is a inch tall? Those bugs are kinda regular size...

Pikmin: Exist Dorkly: Fool! You have fell victim to one the most classic blunders

Y’know what’s weird when you encounter the scene with Olimar with the gold plasma wraith it was petting olimar’s glass helmet thingy it could’ve easily killed him but it decided to keep him there safe and was so focused on bringing him back to the original location in the ant hill thingy

I realize Nintendo really has a thing for Post Apocalyptic scenarios where mostly everyone is either dead or becoming a ravenous creature thing

If this is millions of years later, any spike in radiation from a nuclear war would have long since dropped to baseline. It would have to be some other source of radiation--like space caused as another commenter mentioned.

Dark stories are par for the course in Nintendo games. 'Specially in the cutesy ones.

btw am i the only one that noticed that in the water wraith level every treasure is sweets. and from some log entries we know that olimar has a sweet mouth

As someone who has never played pikmen, i find this fascinating.

This game is dark But not earthbound tier of darkNESS

I would like to point one thing out with arguement 1 While you don't see any people or cities, if Olimar is smaller than a bottle cap, than the game is a very small scale. The game basically takes place on a very tiny portion of the earth Probobly less than .5% the total land mass of earth, a very bad guesstamate.

The koppai delivery theory falls flat because alph says they only eat fruit

I feel bad for the people in pikmin 3 the were not going to the planet for money due to greed they just wanted to save their planet

Still nothing as bad as losing all your Pikmin 😭

"Umibozo's final form" What is this. Dragon Ball Z?

I have my personal theory considering the Wraith enemies: They are more like a manifestation of the will of the planet to be left alone given by its actions in pikmin 2 trying to kill the intruders, but as Olimar came to visit the planet frequently he inadvertently affected the planet by teaching pikmin self dependance and so he was considered a part of the planet's ecosystem which is why the plasm wraith in pikmin 3 cradles him like a baby instead of trying to murder him

I know he's an inch tall, but i want to hug olimar. He looks so nice and friendly

Don't forget that Captain Charlie is a War Hero. Louie freaked out that he was taken prisoner by Koppaites, so it stands to reason that Hocotate and Koppai were at war in recent history.

Pikmin takes place on post-apocalyptic Earth. In other news, Vader is Luke's father.

“Or at least tolerate” nice. I feel very included for once

My brother played Pikmin on the GameCube and I was so horrified by the Pikmin dying that I started crying hysterically.

Pikmin 4, Louie is the final boss, he can whistle your pikmin away from you and use them against you, You can do the same to him. It's a battle to see who the superior PikPik General is.

Louie is easily my favourite Anti-Hero in Nintendo history

3:42 The Burrowing Snagret, which is a gross hybrid *Bird Rat* creature.

Well it’s stated in pikmin3 that the koppietes only eat fruits Not vegetables

Splatoon also has surprisingly dark lore. It takes place after humans mixed with octopuses and squids leading to a war between Inklings and Octolings.

3:11 Except that Olimar doesn’t specify that the Geiger Counter goes wild on the Pikmin planet.

I feel as if the golden pikpik carrots WEREN'T supposed to go to Koppai because the crew members in Pikmin 3 say that they usually eat fruit and not vegetables. Sure, they could've been forced into a corner in that situation and had no choice, but still, it's not like they wanted to eat carrots to begin with.

PNF-404? More like... *Post Nuclear Fallout* 404

Except for the fact that the reason Koppai had a food crisis is explained in the beginning of the game, and that koppaites dislike vegetables, preferring to eat fruits, the Louie part is pretty accurate

bulblmin have to be the darkest product of pikmin every made can't wait to see more of it.

The carrots couldn't have been for the Kopaiettes, because they only eat fruit

About the "post apocalyptic world" thing. All of the collectables like bottle caps, batteries and shoe polish etc. are "today" items suggesting that this Nuclear Armageddon happened during the 21st century

I just want to see the Bowser Jr. Treatment for Olimar. I want all the captains to be the alternate skins for Olimar. This is similar to having the Alpha skin in the game. The missing captains are Louie, the President in Pikmin 2, Brittany, and Charlie. They can create Delta and another Captain, can hint to next game, as smash original characters.

Koppaites are, as I understand, established to be strictly fructovores, which means the golden carrot delivery would not have solved Koppai's food shortage problem.

Welp, that makes me feel bad for playing this game

The bugs are not giant. They only look so because the player and Pikmin are ant sized

I just like the idea that Louie is unintentionally evil. Hes just doing what he wants

11:10 Actually, the Koppites eat just fruit, not vegetables.

The Golden PikPik carrots can't have headed to Koppai, it's stated multiple times that Koppatites don't eat vegetables

The Umibozo theory originated from DazzReviews I believe. I am assuming you received the theory thanks to him and he does deserve credit, of course it isn't impossible for a big channel like yourself to find it floating around the internet thanks to the channel popularizing the theory and even might have came up with it yourselves. Maybe I can be wrong but Dazz really did make a pretty well crafted theory that deserves acknowledgment.

Nice to see a Pikmin lore video going over all the creepy stuff as well.

games like pikmin make me sad that the gamecube emolator on switch didnt happen (cross fingers yet?)

I never actually played any of these, but I always wanted to. Anyways this was still super interesting regardless.

"It drops two massive rollers on the ground." ROAD ROLLER DA WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Pikmin is a Jojo's reference confirmed.

Great video bro and I love the Dark part of Nintendo videogames. Lol

When I 1st played Pikmin(3) I thought it was a fun game of killing and puzzles with weird beings

thank you for doing an episode on my favorite game

Thank you Tony for rowing childhood memories

"Suicidal Order" I will have you know I reset every time I lose one so I have not lost any so far.

i think the ultimate question we should really be asking is: "Why is the Plasm Wraith THICC????"

It’s interesting how instead of that “crashing” thing being just Louie it’s actually the classic duo on another mission because they left a whole spaceship.

Funny thing is I've been on a Pikmin kick for a couple weeks. This is icing on the cake.

_That’s gonna have to be a yikes from me._

for that nuclear theory, the note on the geigar counter implies that it went off occasionally before his crash not after. in pikmin 2 there is a snowman which implies there are at least some inteligent beings left. also most of the treasure they find in two are relatively new implying they were recently lost. so in the end it's much more likely that it's an alternate earth and they coincidently dont run into other humans or that the universe they are in is an alternate dimension and all the treasures and signs of humanity that are there are things that sorta fell into it. sorta like the place where things you lose go

Some of this lore seems to have been disproven/expanded upon in pikmin 3 deluxe for the switch. perhaps a follow up to this video is in order?

We lost so many good men over the series. Let us not forget the ultimate sacrfices that they made for us.

Lol I always knew Louie was the bad guy but this video takes it to the next level. Makes me hate playing as the character now heh hopefully Pikmin 4 happens and serves some justice!

I just noticed that the mysterious life-form version of the plasm wraith looks very similar to the Goolix

Getting an ad before a dorkly video is like lining up to get punched in the face

26 views, 22 likes. *That's solid stuff right there.*

Not that I'm particularly doubting the nuclear apocalypse story, but regarding the geiger counter being required on ships, you know there's radiation in space, right? Radiation from stars is extremely dangerous if not protected by a planet's atmosphere.

I was trying to find my socks and then he immediately yelled you fool you fool right when I found them

So. That headcanon theory that the golden Pikpik carrots were going to Koppai doesn't make much sense. It has been stated in Pikmin 3 by Alph that Koppaites cannot eat the Vegetables that Hocotatians eat and wishes that the two could eat the same food so they don't have to go so far out in the galaxy just to find food

What in the Holy heck? That's way to deep for a kids game. Tho my favorite item from the Pikmin series is lip service. It always makes me laugh.

That being said, Dazz Reviews covered this exact stuff years ago, yah know?

I think the thing with the Wraiths is that at least two of them are like subspecies to each other. Related, but not the same creature that has evolved.

10:21 Duh *plays chorus from Billy eilishs bad guy*

*There is so much miss information about the games .* *It is incredibly sad .*

The Louie theory seems legit, especially since the Plasma Wraith is seen watching the SS Drake take off during the ending of Pikmin 3, potentially ordering Louie to return. Plus it’s worth noting that neither Hocotanians and Pokianians can die if exposed to oxygen, so unless Olimar or Alph returns, to the Pikmin planet, Louie could be dead once his support system runs out of energy.

I know this was 4 yrs ago but I like to note even then we knew Koppi don't eat vegetables they legit call Oilmar's species strange for doing so

I like how when the ship crashed in the post credits scene the Pokémon rush toward it like “let’s try this one more time ladies and gentlemen”

I don't know about anyone else, but I want a Pikmin game that continues with the dark ending of the original Pikmin game where Olimar becomes a Pikmin. this could add more lore about why a sentient creature when sent through an onion becomes a "new" Pikmin, and this could also introduce more on the water creatures.

Slight problem... The Koppaits can't eat vegetables according themselves in the game

He used chuggaconroy gameplay for the water wraith.... THAT WAS SUCH A FUNNY MOMENT... You should've included that audio

Dorkly: *Explains deep lore* Me: Louie go brrrrr

The darkest thing in pikmin lore... is Louie's eyes. 😳

Louie be snackin on bulborb flanks all day

Dorkly: pikmin has the darkest hidden lore in any nintendo game. Ocarina of Time's Shadow Temple: hold my rumble pak.

That his you said doesn’t leave anything behind... in the first game, it leaves 4 ‘5’ tokens. I’ve been getting them every time I kill it. And I’m one level away from completing number 1