Although the lore can be a bit dark, it's not too different from reality. Like, the animal world is absolutely wild, and bugs have some of the craziest methods to spread their young and claim prey.
Reality is far more bleak and ruthless than sheltered people can handle. Animals have no concept of grape or morality in general and will do absolutely anything to survive and reproduce including eating their own children. It’s why I find it hilarious when people act like humans are evil and all other animals are innocent. We are no different
I imagine there must be some procedures you must go through for just being involved with long haul deep space shipping. OSHA to the nth degree. You probably need your employees to know how to interact with undocumented species and such in case they go through a patch of undocumented hyperspace, and run into the same troubles that olimar did.
Finally, someone else pointing out the fact that Olimar is effectively a space trucker! He's not a scientist by any means! Of course, this doesn't mean that he doesn't know anything about biology! Heck, I work as a chef and yet that's not a completely all encompassing trait for me. But yeah, out of all of the characters we've ever seen in the series, the one that has the most credentials for actually documenting things about the pikmin is probably Brittany because she's an actual botanist. That's not to say that Olimar's contributions aren't important, though! His encounter was the very first and therefore even Brittany builds off of that. Either way though, I'm just happy to see someone else pointing out the part that most people miss. For all intents and purposes, Olimar is a trucker and not a scientist!
The glow pikmin's notes are really interesting, Olimar tries to be scientific about their explanation only to give up at the end and label them as spirits. Which adds a whole other layer to the lore of this strange world.
To be entirely fair, Olimar isn't actually a scientist. For all intents and purposes, he's a space trucker! He doesn't have the career or credentials to really be making any scientific statements about any of the things he sees. The only real reason why the scientists consult his notes is just because he was the first one to write any notes. And for those of us in the real world, his notes are all we really have in the first place.
@@XanderIsALoser Im a bit late. But I think that louies notes are important to. Especially for the unknowns of a species. Like the long legs. Or the glow pikmin and lumiknolls. “Doesnt taste alive” tells us it probably isnt. Also. Its just scary. What ARE the glow pikmin? And if they arent pikmin. Why do they work together?
Bulbmin from pikmin 2 are also pikmin parasites! It brings in some interesting questions about leaflings, moss, and oatchi… i believe olimar talks about how he theorizes that pikmin do this in order to create a permanent leader. (Thats my theory about shipwrecks on PNF 404 as well. I think a pikmin variant somehow can create a wave or something that crashes ships that enter the atmosphere, so that they can harness that intelligent life as a leader to help propagate the species)
Oh man, I was thinking the same thing when playing the game! I want both the treasure catalog and Piklopedia as books, one day I might try to make one. For now I’ll just dream about it…
@@RandomThumbVids Speaking of overly detailed structure, I'm having fun with Pikmin Bloom that most of the time working with those little fungis is way more simpler then the Pokemon Go creatures, the fun of going anywhere for encounter, mushrooms doesn't change a lot.
Hermikmin raise all sorts of possibilities because it means that anything could become a host, like bulborbs, creating bulbmins. Things like wood or metal would make for prime material.
The Purple Pikmin have the 'Yokozunum' title in their Taxonomy. while not Latin even slightly its a clear 'reference' to Yokozuna, the highest rank one can be in Sumo Wrestling. Purple Pikmin even do the traditional wide Stomp (I belive it's called 'Shiko') that is done before matches to drive off evil spirits and impurities from the ring (or Dohyō)
When giving name to a species, taxonomy allows you name a creature as virtually anything as long as you modify the name to sound "latin like" So yokozunum is just a latin adaptation of yokozuna.
@@dreamer1292 Really? Frankly i know nothing about Taxonomy outside of the existence of sub classes and naming groups. but it makes sense, after a while you'll eventually run out of words to use to describe something uniquely to another.
I hope we get a full video of-SPOILERS (I guess???) -all of Louie's notes on the enemies and a detailed real life recreation of how he would cook them.
@@ogpandamonium all bugs and insects like louie naturally, even from a young age bugs liked him and he would respond by eating them source: pikmin 2 emails
Fun(?) fact about ophiocordyceps - it apparently doesn’t take over its host’s brain at all. It takes control of the muscles instead, operating it like a puppet while it’s potentially still conscious.
Here are two of my favorites Olimar's notes that were not shown in the video. I am not going to point out anything specific, as you most likely see why I find them interesting just by reading them. They just have really neat biological stuff: Jumbo Bulborb "During reproduction, after an egg is fertilized by a sperm, any excess chromosomes are usually discarded through a process called meiosis. But occasionally, this process fails to occur, and a Bulborb individual will develop irregularly due to this chromosomal abnormality. Specimens like this one are stronger than the average Bulborb and can exhibit more aggressive behavior. However, they are not able to procreate, as they will never reach sexual maturity." Arachnode "This spiderlike creature has distinctive yellow stripes on its black carapace. It spins webs in high-traffic areas and waits for prey to blunder into them. Unlike its relatives in the Arachnorb and Dweevil families, it's ambisexual and has eight legs. Some theorize that its gynandry is meant to aid in reproduction, though of course it cannot reproduce on its own. There is another theory that this species is in fact two organisms of opposing gender stuck together, but since no one has ever found a four-legged, single-sexed specimen, this remains speculative."
The Jumbo Bulborb is probably based on the concept in botany where a specific hormone is used to double chromosomes of, for example, tomatoes. It leads to very large tomatoes.
We now know exactly how much a single pikmin can carry based on a very specific item in the final area. Regular pikmin can carry 1g and purple pikmin can carry 10g This detail means we now know how much each enemy weighs based on how many pikmin are required to lift it.
We get to see the real young bulborbs through the larvae that the empress bulblax makes, which become the albino bulborbs found at night after molting once and only beginning to show characteristics of which type they will grow into after the second molt, as explained in Olimar's logs for the albino and dwarf bulbear and in the scientific name for all young bulborbs
This was super interesting. Gotta keep an eye on pikmin 4 for sale. Little details like this make me love games more. The detail they used to explain even the parasitic pikmin is really cool
The Smoky Prog seems to be a corrupted Mamuta of some sort. It’s behavior and design are a complete 180 from eachother. The mamuta enjoys gardening and is docile to other life while the smoky prog seems to be a creature of a purely malicious nature. I wonder if there’s symbolism behind the two?
@@rosemarybrockman7204A lot of speculate that the progg isnt actual malicious, but it being corrupted has caused it to accidently be malicious. Its trying to do what its instincts are telling it, but it only ends up harming the pikmin.
At one point, in the Mamuta notes, Louie mentioned that that it tasted like chicken, not only making chicken canon in Pikmin, but making it so you can eat something similar to a Pikmin mamuta in taste
Ophiocordyceps aren't attracting birds, the height is for raining down spores on known ant pathways. Leucochloridium (the thing that makes snails eyes look like dancing caterpillars) do use birds to complete their lifecycle though!
I love this extra layer Nintendo has been able to work into their games. The story of Kirby and the Forgotten Land got really intense at the end, and the extra character details in the trophies is like this too, adding a lot of optional detail
Personally I find it remarkable the level of detail they put into enemies you only fight a couple times. Like mating habits, the fact that most pikmin, if not the entire species as a whole, is generally parasitic. I mean you have white pikmin, this small, fairly defenseless creature without the aid of something to toss it, which can poison enemies if it can’t outrun them. Rock pikmin and ice pikmin which are essentially just the parasite pikmin from bulbmin, and the species as a whole seems just aggressive to everything else. It’s hard to say if they originated on pnf-404 due to having essentially spaceships but they seem adapted to the environment for the most part with a couple exceptions like the white pikmin, though most of them are just resistant to natural elements anyways. However the puffstool can turn them into mushroom pikmin, though it’s hard to tell if the same effect would arise if it used on a wollywog or a sheergrub. Obviously some enemies in the games aren’t that adapted to fight them but others are. Combined with their ships which can take them to low orbit and sprout more of them from the bodies of enemies that fall before them, I’m led to believe they’re not originally from that planet but landed there not too long before Olimar crashed there in the first game. So we even get to see how the planet reacts to them being there over time, like the whip tongue bulborb and the crawmad, and how pikmin respond likewise with white pikmin and rock pikmin
Oh. My. God. Your catchphrase, you actually used it correctly this time! You were actually doing a bit of waffling there! 99.99% of the time you’re just properly introducing the video, but there was some waffling in there this time. I’m sorta proud in a way.
@@SilvaShadow1990 in Pikmin 1 it was just a theory. In the new Piklopedia notes in Pikmin 4, Olimar says it has been officially confirmed through DNA analysis
I'm a bit surprised that You didn't have Loui's descriptions as well. I think there's some interesting stuff in there, even though it's all about how to eat everything, lol.
Got done with Pikmin4 main story today and that last area really pushes the parasitic angle of the creatures some of them are horrifying in their design.
I wonder if Rock and Ice Pikmin are related to the Bulbmin from Pikmin 2..? The Bulbmin are a species of Pikmin that parasitizes and control Bulborbs and can only be found underground. I could totally see Hermikmin as creatures that live inside of and supplant the nervous systems of creatures with their roots. Kind of like a marionette.
7:10 the mitite life cycle seems similar to deep sea angler fish where female physically absorbs males into their body where they harness the genetic material to fertilize their eggs.
Onion is horrifying for anything that is not pikmin, by behavioral they can absorb creatures, and Olimar's body in Pikmin 1 bad ending. In Pikmin 4 they've evolved into sort of leafling host? Absorbing Olimar and other Castaways turn them into Leaflings is definitely a parasitic act by them.
He laments in the Treasure catalog in the giant Koh mask as it resembling his wife's face after he told a dad joke. He straight up has zero chill in the notes, worth reading through in the whole.
The mention of hermikmin is huge, we've been wondering about the parasitic pikmin conrolling the bulbmin for so long and now we know that they can infect a lot more than just other creatures, with one of them being under our noses for the last 10 years! I hope they continue expanding on hermikmin in any future games, they're so interesting
Although the lore can be a bit dark, it's not too different from reality. Like, the animal world is absolutely wild, and bugs have some of the craziest methods to spread their young and claim prey.
I like how every single species hates Pikmin specifically because they know the Pikmin species is extremely powerful
Some ants keep other ants as slaves
Reality is far more bleak and ruthless than sheltered people can handle. Animals have no concept of grape or morality in general and will do absolutely anything to survive and reproduce including eating their own children. It’s why I find it hilarious when people act like humans are evil and all other animals are innocent. We are no different
Olimar must have taken biology as a hobby.
Somehow the Space FedEx Driver knows more about this than the actual Rescue Core's researchers.
I think olimar is definitely more than a fedex driver, he’s an adventurer and scientist
@@dankmansalley417i mean he does work for a freight company
I imagine there must be some procedures you must go through for just being involved with long haul deep space shipping. OSHA to the nth degree.
You probably need your employees to know how to interact with undocumented species and such in case they go through a patch of undocumented hyperspace, and run into the same troubles that olimar did.
Well when you are constantly going to this planet of strange creatures it's a bit important you start documenting
Finally, someone else pointing out the fact that Olimar is effectively a space trucker! He's not a scientist by any means!
Of course, this doesn't mean that he doesn't know anything about biology! Heck, I work as a chef and yet that's not a completely all encompassing trait for me. But yeah, out of all of the characters we've ever seen in the series, the one that has the most credentials for actually documenting things about the pikmin is probably Brittany because she's an actual botanist. That's not to say that Olimar's contributions aren't important, though! His encounter was the very first and therefore even Brittany builds off of that. Either way though, I'm just happy to see someone else pointing out the part that most people miss. For all intents and purposes, Olimar is a trucker and not a scientist!
The glow pikmin's notes are really interesting, Olimar tries to be scientific about their explanation only to give up at the end and label them as spirits. Which adds a whole other layer to the lore of this strange world.
To be entirely fair, Olimar isn't actually a scientist. For all intents and purposes, he's a space trucker! He doesn't have the career or credentials to really be making any scientific statements about any of the things he sees. The only real reason why the scientists consult his notes is just because he was the first one to write any notes. And for those of us in the real world, his notes are all we really have in the first place.
And then there’s Louie.
“Doesn’t taste alive.”
Brilliant observation, Louie.
@@XanderIsALoser Im a bit late. But I think that louies notes are important to. Especially for the unknowns of a species. Like the long legs. Or the glow pikmin and lumiknolls. “Doesnt taste alive” tells us it probably isnt. Also. Its just scary. What ARE the glow pikmin? And if they arent pikmin. Why do they work together?
they aren't in pikmin 4, but bulbmin from pikmin 2 are also a parasite, and have infested bulborbs
There is an entry in Pikmin 4 that mentions Bulbmin. I dont remember which one though
There's a poison version of the mushroom boss from the first game that injects its fungi into corpses and uses them as hosts to spread its territory
Bulbmin from pikmin 2 are also pikmin parasites! It brings in some interesting questions about leaflings, moss, and oatchi… i believe olimar talks about how he theorizes that pikmin do this in order to create a permanent leader. (Thats my theory about shipwrecks on PNF 404 as well. I think a pikmin variant somehow can create a wave or something that crashes ships that enter the atmosphere, so that they can harness that intelligent life as a leader to help propagate the species)
wish there was a physical piklopedia book printed. would be awesome
How about an illustration book depicting how Louie cooks those creatures?
@@vinching926The pikmin cookbook.
@@vinching926Why not both?
Oh man, I was thinking the same thing when playing the game! I want both the treasure catalog and Piklopedia as books, one day I might try to make one. For now I’ll just dream about it…
i love the purple one cus that explanation is preety realistic too, like if you ever grow purple carrots they're supposedly higher in antioxidants lol
So many Nintendo franchises have dark lore attached to them.
Like kirby
Spatoon as well 😂
Metroid as well
Except for Mario I guess since it rarely had dark lore
And earthbound
I love that Pikmin goes into the details of its creatures. It's like Pokemon but better.
The creators are just crazy about the Pikmin Biology
Sorry, I love the extra details on the different Pikmin but Pokémon goes into far more detail.
@@RandomThumbVids Speaking of overly detailed structure, I'm having fun with Pikmin Bloom that most of the time working with those little fungis is way more simpler then the Pokemon Go creatures, the fun of going anywhere for encounter, mushrooms doesn't change a lot.
Hermikmin raise all sorts of possibilities because it means that anything could become a host, like bulborbs, creating bulbmins. Things like wood or metal would make for prime material.
I'm surprised he didn't talk about the water wraith or some of the other horrifying enemies from the other pikmin games.
The Purple Pikmin have the 'Yokozunum' title in their Taxonomy. while not Latin even slightly its a clear 'reference' to Yokozuna, the highest rank one can be in Sumo Wrestling.
Purple Pikmin even do the traditional wide Stomp (I belive it's called 'Shiko') that is done before matches to drive off evil spirits and impurities from the ring (or Dohyō)
Whoa!
That makes sense as to why they are the only Pikmin that can contest a Waterwraith.
So this could explain why Purple Pikmin are built like sumo wrestlers?
When giving name to a species, taxonomy allows you name a creature as virtually anything as long as you modify the name to sound "latin like"
So yokozunum is just a latin adaptation of yokozuna.
@@dreamer1292 Really? Frankly i know nothing about Taxonomy outside of the existence of sub classes and naming groups. but it makes sense, after a while you'll eventually run out of words to use to describe something uniquely to another.
@@Mr.Feather130 It could be, but i dunno myself. i just like sumo wrestling
I hope we get a full video of-SPOILERS (I guess???)
-all of Louie's notes on the enemies and a detailed real life recreation of how he would cook them.
"Inedible, tastes like chicken"
How are you gonna get bulborb meat?
@@ogpandamonium all bugs and insects like louie naturally, even from a young age bugs liked him and he would respond by eating them
source: pikmin 2 emails
@@The76532 no I mean the real life cooking.
Also do bulborbs count as bugs?
i need an animated series on this
Rock and ice pikmin are like hermit crabs thats why they are called hermikmin.
Is't surprising that a innocent and cute franchise like Pikmin as a deep and dark lore into it
Also splatoon does
@@Xf3rnaPlaysAnd Kirby
Every Nintendo franchise lol
@@konch7567 also Metroid. If there's not a literal genocide or parasitic predatory species in a Metroid game, than it's not a Metroid game 😂
@Xf3rnaPlays Factual, but I wouldn't think anyone goes into metroid thinking it's something cutesy 😶
Fun(?) fact about ophiocordyceps - it apparently doesn’t take over its host’s brain at all. It takes control of the muscles instead, operating it like a puppet while it’s potentially still conscious.
Yikes
Have to wonder if Hermikmin are what create Bulbmin
Probably, also Bulbmin are mentioned by Olimar in the Startle Spore entry.
If you beat the post game story you can get Louie’s notes most of witch are how to cook them.
Here are two of my favorites Olimar's notes that were not shown in the video. I am not going to point out anything specific, as you most likely see why I find them interesting just by reading them. They just have really neat biological stuff:
Jumbo Bulborb
"During reproduction, after an egg is fertilized by a sperm, any excess chromosomes are usually discarded through a process called meiosis. But occasionally, this process fails to occur, and a Bulborb individual will develop irregularly due to this chromosomal abnormality. Specimens like this one are stronger than the average Bulborb and can exhibit more aggressive behavior. However, they are not able to procreate, as they will never reach sexual maturity."
Arachnode
"This spiderlike creature has distinctive yellow stripes on its black carapace. It spins webs in high-traffic areas and waits for prey to blunder into them. Unlike its relatives in the Arachnorb and Dweevil families, it's ambisexual and has eight legs. Some theorize that its gynandry is meant to aid in reproduction, though of course it cannot reproduce on its own. There is another theory that this species is in fact two organisms of opposing gender stuck together, but since no one has ever found a four-legged, single-sexed specimen, this remains speculative."
The Jumbo Bulborb is probably based on the concept in botany where a specific hormone is used to double chromosomes of, for example, tomatoes. It leads to very large tomatoes.
@@tuvillo Oooh I didn't knew that that was a thing, interesting!
We now know exactly how much a single pikmin can carry based on a very specific item in the final area. Regular pikmin can carry 1g and purple pikmin can carry 10g
This detail means we now know how much each enemy weighs based on how many pikmin are required to lift it.
We've known since 2, an object there had a weight label too.
Or at least the rough estimation
Like take the skitter leafs & sheargrubs for examples
We also have the rough estimation on how much each of Olimar's Ship's parts weigh, as well as a rough estimation of the Treasure's weights.
I mean bulbmin from pikmin 2....
Fun fact, the Dwarf Frosty Bulborb is actually a grub-dog like the other Bulborbs!
Same applies to the dwarf bulbear
We get to see the real young bulborbs through the larvae that the empress bulblax makes, which become the albino bulborbs found at night after molting once and only beginning to show characteristics of which type they will grow into after the second molt, as explained in Olimar's logs for the albino and dwarf bulbear and in the scientific name for all young bulborbs
7:40
Bruh, it's a morning after pill with legs!
NOOOOO 💀💀💀💀💀
Why hasn’t matpat gotten wind of this
I like this comment.
he is still stuck in hell paying afton to help make sense of FNAF LORE
This was super interesting. Gotta keep an eye on pikmin 4 for sale. Little details like this make me love games more. The detail they used to explain even the parasitic pikmin is really cool
The smoky prog and the mamuta are actually the same species
The Smoky Prog seems to be a corrupted Mamuta of some sort. It’s behavior and design are a complete 180 from eachother. The mamuta enjoys gardening and is docile to other life while the smoky prog seems to be a creature of a purely malicious nature. I wonder if there’s symbolism behind the two?
@@rosemarybrockman7204A lot of speculate that the progg isnt actual malicious, but it being corrupted has caused it to accidently be malicious. Its trying to do what its instincts are telling it, but it only ends up harming the pikmin.
6:08 "let's pick one at random" chooses the same one by going up and down to the same one 😅
Definetly read the Jumbo Bulborb entry lol
It’s only Fantasy for now😭they just can’t withstand our body temperatures, but if the world heats up they’ll adapt…THEN we need to be worried
With the rock Pikmin think Hermit Crabs. They scavenged an appropriate rock to their advantage.
I like how most of it is actual stuff that happens in nature while other things are just ominous supernatural happenings.
"The insides of the Rock Pikmin resemble a crystal geode."
HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT
DID HE CUT THEM OPEN
An unlucky one was blown open by Man-At-Legs. Somehow, it didn’t lose it’s body
Now I want to see a Pikmin Last of Us crossover
Wow this is really cool, so much new LORE 😁
You wanna see some freaky entries? Check out the ones for the Arachnorb family. Specifically, the Man-at-Legs and the Groovy Long Legs.
I absolutely love the effort put into the latin names.
I currently have some issues in the game its called DANDORI...
whats the problem? addiction or cant win?
wait till you unlock louie's logs
pzzz Alex finish the gaaaaaameeee
you need to see the real difficulty spike!
At one point, in the Mamuta notes, Louie mentioned that that it tasted like chicken, not only making chicken canon in Pikmin, but making it so you can eat something similar to a Pikmin mamuta in taste
I find the most interesting lore to be Louie’s cooking instructions for every enemy in pikmin 2
Ophiocordyceps aren't attracting birds, the height is for raining down spores on known ant pathways. Leucochloridium (the thing that makes snails eyes look like dancing caterpillars) do use birds to complete their lifecycle though!
I love this extra layer Nintendo has been able to work into their games. The story of Kirby and the Forgotten Land got really intense at the end, and the extra character details in the trophies is like this too, adding a lot of optional detail
Personally I find it remarkable the level of detail they put into enemies you only fight a couple times. Like mating habits, the fact that most pikmin, if not the entire species as a whole, is generally parasitic. I mean you have white pikmin, this small, fairly defenseless creature without the aid of something to toss it, which can poison enemies if it can’t outrun them. Rock pikmin and ice pikmin which are essentially just the parasite pikmin from bulbmin, and the species as a whole seems just aggressive to everything else. It’s hard to say if they originated on pnf-404 due to having essentially spaceships but they seem adapted to the environment for the most part with a couple exceptions like the white pikmin, though most of them are just resistant to natural elements anyways. However the puffstool can turn them into mushroom pikmin, though it’s hard to tell if the same effect would arise if it used on a wollywog or a sheergrub.
Obviously some enemies in the games aren’t that adapted to fight them but others are. Combined with their ships which can take them to low orbit and sprout more of them from the bodies of enemies that fall before them, I’m led to believe they’re not originally from that planet but landed there not too long before Olimar crashed there in the first game. So we even get to see how the planet reacts to them being there over time, like the whip tongue bulborb and the crawmad, and how pikmin respond likewise with white pikmin and rock pikmin
I would love for Alex to do the whole piklopedia
olimar could have been a biologist with his notes but chooses to be a galatic ups driver never change
Probably pays more. Biologists typically don't get paid very well, and Olimar has a family to provide for.
You don't have louie yet.
This must be why it takes 10 years to get a new pikmin game. They gotta get reeeal weird with it.
13:10
Domestic cats
They're basically cross breeding the Scottish Wildcat out of existence.
This is absolutely brilliant! This is the kind of detailed content we need in video games lol
Hoverfly larvae are actually predatory and when they grow up to be harmless pollinators its really funny.
Oh. My. God. Your catchphrase, you actually used it correctly this time! You were actually doing a bit of waffling there! 99.99% of the time you’re just properly introducing the video, but there was some waffling in there this time. I’m sorta proud in a way.
So fucking cool that 22 years later we FINALLY learned that the Smoky Progg really is a malformed baby Mamuta
Thought that went over that in pikmin 1 if you fight it and see info in the credits about it.
@@SilvaShadow1990 in Pikmin 1 it was just a theory. In the new Piklopedia notes in Pikmin 4, Olimar says it has been officially confirmed through DNA analysis
@@ShadowRaptor1O1 gotcha, thanks!
I'm a bit surprised that You didn't have Loui's descriptions as well. I think there's some interesting stuff in there, even though it's all about how to eat everything, lol.
This video was a total joy. Taking stupid stuff seriously is hilarious. That goes for the Nintendo developers too!
Pikmin is a bit like the original Disney Pinocchio, charming on the outside but then there's the donkey scene...
He didn’t even bring up Olimar’s notes on the Jumbo Bulborb.
Got done with Pikmin4 main story today and that last area really pushes the parasitic angle of the creatures some of them are horrifying in their design.
Bulbmin are the original parasite pikmin. Happy to see more lore from olimar
I wonder if Rock and Ice Pikmin are related to the Bulbmin from Pikmin 2..? The Bulbmin are a species of Pikmin that parasitizes and control Bulborbs and can only be found underground. I could totally see Hermikmin as creatures that live inside of and supplant the nervous systems of creatures with their roots. Kind of like a marionette.
This was super interesting, loved the video!
the “rosa” in volarosa is pink in many languages
Olimar is the first Nintendo character to mention sperm. Yep
7:10 the mitite life cycle seems similar to deep sea angler fish where female physically absorbs males into their body where they harness the genetic material to fertilize their eggs.
Plants that grow on rocks are called lithophytes
I'm an ecologist- I had a very good time reading the Piklopedia in this game. It covers a genuinely broad range of real-world evolutionary concepts.
Onion is horrifying for anything that is not pikmin, by behavioral they can absorb creatures, and Olimar's body in Pikmin 1 bad ending. In Pikmin 4 they've evolved into sort of leafling host? Absorbing Olimar and other Castaways turn them into Leaflings is definitely a parasitic act by them.
Bro you need to unlock Louie’s notes
All mammal species in pikmin
Bulborbs
Breadbugs
Blowhogs
Anrachnobes (idk because they Dont seem to fit a anarchicid)
Wonder if the leaflings were an attempt to infect higher lifeforms with the parasitic Pikmin form
and then you get Louie's entries
wich are just weird, funny or both
Will no one comment how Olimar actually talks about sex and reproduction in this game
He also did back in two, so it isn’t as surprising now.
Yo I saw that after beating game 100 percent last night and was like, Woah! Honestly, I'm impressed!
my guy has a family, he has experience in this domain
He laments in the Treasure catalog in the giant Koh mask as it resembling his wife's face after he told a dad joke. He straight up has zero chill in the notes, worth reading through in the whole.
what happens when the rock onion runs out of pebbles
Lol pikmin are funny and weird
I've known that some pikmin were parasites for example the bulbmin in pikmin 2
So i think in pikmin 5 (early i know) that we need aerosol pikmin. Pretty much let us MAKE bulbmin by spraying them.
Sooo...is Olimar like a scientific genius or something?
Volerosa means flying pink.
He didn’t look at jumbo bulborb
I'm no biologist, but is it really parasitism if the "host" is a non living thing like rocks or ice?
Shoutout RUclipsr *Chase Kip*
Hope he returns someday
I wish you did the video longer :(
The Bulbmin from Pikmin 2 come to mind.
12:50 the hybrid of giant Japanese and Chinese salamander is bigger and more resilient than both and is taking over japans species
Parasitism has been around since pikmin 2 with the bulbmin. They are parasitic pikmin that have taken a bulborb as a host.
Pikmin are happysexual.
And you think the Pokedex entries from Pokemon are horrifying lol.
All this to feature no bulbmin whatsoever
I love biology 😊
The Piklopedia is the one of best, if not all, bestiaries in video games
The mention of hermikmin is huge, we've been wondering about the parasitic pikmin conrolling the bulbmin for so long and now we know that they can infect a lot more than just other creatures, with one of them being under our noses for the last 10 years! I hope they continue expanding on hermikmin in any future games, they're so interesting
Nintendo be pushing the limit on what is considered E 10+ here 😅
Let’s get MatPat on this
Hear me out- 1 of evey pokemon, vs 10 billion pikmin.
pokemon win BUT a fuckton of em would be done for. psychics would be mvp.
the only thing I really didn't like was that weird invisible creature that acted like a steam roller? Felt so out of place
the waterwraith exists in Pikmin 2 and has a relativ in pikmin 1 and 3.
its kinda important.
@@phillipk4196 ahhh ok, I don't remember it from pikmin 1 but never played 2 and 3!
Paratisism?
Pickled men
A lot of waffling this time.
parasitism
Parasitism is a word, but you said "paratisism".