The Real Biology Of Pikmin: A Manifesto

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  @nillond7249 · 1 year ago (edited)

  everytime a the "are pikmin animals or plants?" question pops up, I always answered "fungi" as a joke. Little did I know

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  @neverttheguy2670 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBBoQmoW7II&amp;t=533">8:53</a> Pikmin breathing from their leaves has some in-game basis: when hit by water attacks, the water gathers at their leaves to choke them, same with poison

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  @T_S_P_1414 · 1 year ago

  Pikmin 4 suggests glow Pikmin probably aren&apos;t actually Pikmin. The community&apos;s best guess is that they&apos;re actually Pikmin ghosts.

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  @PS2Polpo · 1 year ago

  Apparently Purple Pikmin to produce &quot;gravitational waves that can warp space-time&quot; so now we need to find a type of fungus that can do that to make this accurate once more

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  @nobody-r2r · 1 year ago

  Whenever they said they were &quot;Half animals half plants&quot; or &quot;Not quite animals, not quite plants&quot; I always assumed fungi because that&apos;s kind of what fungi is honestly?

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  @CyanSoups · 1 year ago

  In the newer games, the Onion&apos;s &quot;legs&quot; are flexible and tentacley, and I always thought they looked more like mycelium hyphae than roots.

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  @isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve always assumed, with how artificial the onion looks, that they are synthetic chimeras made by humans which escaped cultivation when we went extinct/left.

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  @chainlinkwarden · 1 year ago

  Considering the reproduce by taking corpses back to the onion I always understood them as a parasitic fungus with a level of sentience.<br><br>Also! If we assume the onion is the adult pikmin, is it also possible its the &apos;queen&apos; pikmin. Like a queen ant or queen bee whose developed purely to be a pikmin factory for the hive. Pikmin do have a lot of similarities to eusocial insects likes ants and bees.

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  @accordingleaf · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBBoQmoW7II&amp;t=92">1:32</a> I used to use King Phillip. But someone came up with the sillier &quot;Dumb Kids Playing Catch On Freeways Get Squished&quot; and always think of that now.

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  @gracecollins6891 · 1 year ago

  My theory is that pikmin, onions, candypop buds, and maybe pellet posies are all one highly polymorphic eusocial species, with pikmin being a sort of larval state that can mature into a reproductive form (onions), a larval conversion form (candypop buds), and possibly a nutrient consolidation form (pellet posies). Classifying this species more specifically than being a eukaryote probably isn&apos;t possible, but I think it&apos;s an interesting idea, if nothing else.<br><br>(I&apos;m also not convinced the glow is canon rather than being purely for gameplay purposes in highlighting inactive pikmin, but that&apos;s a relatively minor point)

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  @InfinityOrNone · 1 year ago

  Actually, the eyeball isn&apos;t evidence of multicellularity. The warnowiids are a clade of single-celled organisms with camera-style eyes (referred to as ocelloids) that actually have the full structure of an eye like our own, with a cornea, lens, pupil, and retina. In fact, there are actually a lot of odd single-celled organisms with this level of specialised structures. So Pikmin having such specialised structures is not evidence of multicellularity.

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  @phantombrotha1788 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBBoQmoW7II&amp;t=804">13:24</a> I believe a red Pikmins nose is supposed to be more like a spear, which they thrust into enemies, hence the extra attack power they have

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