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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: During the intro of ''Pikmin 2'', the President comments on Olimar's bottle cap he brought over from PNF-404 as a souvenir for his son, after which Louie gets visably angry because [[ItsAllAboutMe he didn't get anything from Olimar's brush with death]]. It's downhill from there.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: During the intro of ''Pikmin 2'', after the President comments on Olimar's bottle cap he brought over from PNF-404 as a souvenir for his son, after which Louie gets visably angry visibly angry. He's likely fuming because [[ItsAllAboutMe he didn't get anything Olimar thought about giving his family a gift from Olimar's his near brush with death]].death, instead of him]]. It's downhill from there.
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* BassoProfundo: He has a ''really'' deep voice, even when compared to the already deep-voiced Olimar.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: He has [[BassoProfundo a very deep voice]] and is the main antagonist of the second portion of ''Pikmin 4''. That being said, he's less "intentionally evil" and more "dangerously impulsive".
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* EvilSoundsDeep: He has [[BassoProfundo a very deep voice]] voice and is the main antagonist of the second portion of ''Pikmin 4''. That being said, he's less "intentionally evil" and more "dangerously impulsive".
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* HeroicSacrifice: Why he never managed to get off PNF-404 in the ''4'' version of the timeline; canonically, he got all his gear in time and managed to repair the ship, but Moss snuck on board and immediately showed signs of illness due to her being too far away from her home planet. Olimar went back to save Moss from developing something worse or outright dying, and doomed his chances of ever leaving in the process.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Why he never managed to get off PNF-404 in the ''4'' version of the timeline; canonically, he got all his gear in time and managed to repair the ship, but Moss snuck on board and immediately showed signs of illness due to her being too far away from her home planet. Olimar went back to save Moss from developing something worse or outright dying, and doomed his chances of ever leaving in the process.process when he once again crashed.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Why he never managed to get off PNF-404 in the ''4'' version of the timeline; canonically, he got all his gear in time and managed to repair the ship, but Moss snuck on board and immediately showed signs of illness due to her being too far away from her home planet. Olimar went back to save Moss from developing something worse or outright dying, and doomed his chances of ever leaving in the process.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The quite, cowardly, mildly sociopathic, klutzy and incompetent Blue Oni to Olimar's red. Bonus points for actually dressing in blue.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The quite, quiet, cowardly, mildly sociopathic, klutzy and incompetent Blue Oni to Olimar's red. Bonus points for actually dressing in blue.
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* BumblingSidekick: He spends Olimar's video logs in ''Pikmin 3'' running around panicking over the weakest of the game's enimies while getting himself hurt and his Pikmin killed.
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* ObsessedWithFood: Even during his semi-hostage situation with the Koppai Expedition Team, all Louie can think and say is food.
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* RogueProtagonist: While the conflict of ''Pikmin 2'' is entirely Louie's fault, being playable mitigates his antagonist role. By contrast in ''Pikmin 4'', he's the closest the franchise has to an outright villain.
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The characters' existence has to be a spoiler for a spoiler character to be an example.
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* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about what happens to this guy without spoiling that he gets left behind in ''Pikmin 2'' and has to be rescued, or him possibly hijacking the FinalBoss of ''Pikmin 2'', ''or'' his semi-antagonistic role in ''Pikmin 3'', '''''or''''' his fully antagonistic role in ''Pikmin 4''.
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* ALessonLearnedTooWell: His grandma's attempts to make Louie become more willing to spend time outdoors via forcing him to eat bugs seemed to have paid off. The problem is that he ended up prefering [[DeathWorld PNF-404]] over his actual home because of the various critters he can feast on.
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* ALessonLearnedTooWell: His grandma's attempts to make Louie become more willing to spend time outdoors via forcing him to eat bugs seemed to have paid off. The problem is that he ended up prefering [[DeathWorld PNF-404]] over his actual home because of the various critters he can feast on.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his debut during the intro of ''Pikmin 2'', the President comments on Olimar's bottlecap he brought over from PNF-404 as a souviner for his son, during which Louie's eyes bulge out in anger presumably because [[ItsAllAboutMe he didn't get anything]]. It's downhill from there.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his debut during During the intro of ''Pikmin 2'', the President comments on Olimar's bottlecap bottle cap he brought over from PNF-404 as a souviner souvenir for his son, during after which Louie's eyes bulge out in anger presumably Louie gets visably angry because [[ItsAllAboutMe he didn't get anything]].anything from Olimar's brush with death]]. It's downhill from there.
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* ALessonLearnedTooWell: His grandma's attempts to make Louie become more willing to spend time outdoors via forcing him to eat bugs seemed to have paid off. The problem is that he ended up prefering [[DeathWorld PNF-404]] over his actual home because of the various critters he can feast on.
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* DreadfulMusician: He's implied to be a terrible singer. His family refuses to go out to karaoke with him, and when he tried to join in on the Pikmins' marching song, they all went silent.
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* DreadfulMusician: He's implied to be a terrible singer. His family refuses to go out to karaoke with him, and when he tried to join in on the Pikmins' Pikmin's marching song, they all went silent.
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Nvm, I read the page and it does says it includes singing
* DreadfulMusician: He's implied to be a terrible singer. His family refuses to go out to karaoke with him, and when he tried to join in on the Pikmins' marching song, they all went silent.
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* HollywoodToneDeaf: He's implied to be a terrible singer. His family refuses to go out to karaoke with him, and when he tried to join in on the Pikmins' marching song, they all went silent.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his debut during the intro of ''Pikmin 2'', the President comments on Olimar's bottlecap he brought over from PNF-404 as a souviner for his son, during which Louie's eyes bulge out in anger presumably because [[ItsAllAboutMe he didn't get anything]]. It's downhill from there.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Blue in ''2'', yellow in ''3''.
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** During Olimar's Voyage Log in ''Pikmin 3'', Louie is shown to be quite bad at utilizing the Pikmin and battling enemies, as he and his forces are constantly seen being wiped out by basic enemies in the areas they are currently visiting. By contrast, ''Pikmin 4'' depicts him as being much more competent and deadly in battle than even Olimar himself was as the Red Leafling, to the point of being the hardest Dandori boss in the entire game.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: As much of a selfish moron as Louis is, there are lines even he wouldn't cross.
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** He may constantly feast on PNF-404's wildlife, but he refuses to eat Pikmin, as even he understands how helpful they are for survival. That said, he apparently did try to see what a Rock Pikmin tasted like once, only to break a tooth upon its rock-hard body. He also has proper cooking instructions for Bulbmin.
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** He may constantly feast on PNF-404's wildlife, but he refuses to eat Pikmin, [[PragmaticVillainy as even he understands how helpful they are forsurvival.survival]]. That said, he apparently did try to see what a Rock Pikmin tasted like once, only to break a tooth upon its rock-hard body. He also has proper cooking instructions for Bulbmin.Bulbmin in ''2'', though they primarily apply to the adults who are hostile towards other Pikmin types.
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** Despite being an ExtremeOmnivore who is willing to cook and eat just about anything on PNF-404 for the sake of it, the Plasm Wraith terrifies Louie so much that he immediately takes off without even trying to fight or eat it. He may be gluttonous and hedonistic, but Louie definitely has some form of self-preservation.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Even when he's at his most insane and loopy in ''Pikmin 3'', Louie could tell that the Formidable Oak was bad news bears when he and Olimar first discover it, and he immediately takes off once the Plasm Wraith makes its presence known.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Downplayed. He doesn't exactly ''vouch'' for Louie, but he swears upside down that he's a good person who simply gets a bit hungry or panicky sometimes, a claim which becomes increasingly hard to justify as the series goes on.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: Sort of. He is the second most recurring playable character after Olimar, but they only have a ([[TeethClenchedTeamwork strained]]) working relationship with each other at best, and Louie technically spends more time as an antagonist than a protagonist.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Louie has a habit of doing very selfish things, but aside from eating the Golden Pikpik Carrots that put Hocatate Freight into debt, most of said acts are left vague as to whether they were done maliciously or were the result of him being a {{cloudcuckoolander}}. It's unclear to whether he was in control of the [[FinalBoss Titan Dwevil]] or not (much less why he would attack Olimar and the President) and him stealing the Koppai captain's food and running could be easily be him panicking at being kidnapped again. ''Pikmin 4'' [[EvilAllAlong throws the ambiguity out the window]]. While Nelle suggests that some of his actions are out of misguided idiocy, Louis outright antagonizes the Rescue Crew (up to being willing to use lethal force) and it's revealed that acts like eating the golden pikpak carrots and stealing the Koppaites' food were intentionally malicious.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Louie has a habit of doing very selfish things, but aside from eating the Golden Pikpik Carrots that put Hocatate Freight into debt, most of said acts are left vague as to whether they were done maliciously or were the result of him being a {{cloudcuckoolander}}. It's unclear to whether he was in control of the [[FinalBoss Titan Dwevil]] or not (much less why he would attack Olimar and the President) and him stealing the Koppai captain's food and running could be easily be him panicking at being kidnapped again. ''Pikmin 4'' [[EvilAllAlong throws the ambiguity out the window]]. While Nelle suggests that some of his actions are out of misguided idiocy, Louis outright antagonizes the Rescue Crew (up to being willing to use lethal force) and it's revealed that acts like eating the golden pikpak carrots Golden Pikpik Carrots and stealing the Koppaites' food were intentionally malicious.
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* EvilAllAlong: ''Pikmin 4'' reveals that his previously AmbiguouslyEvil actions, such as eating the golden pikpak carrots, were intentionally malicious. He is also much more directly antagonistic in this game, to the point of being willing to kill the Rookie to get them off his tail.
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* EvilAllAlong: ''Pikmin 4'' reveals that his previously AmbiguouslyEvil actions, such as eating the golden pikpak carrots, Golden Pikpik Carrots, were intentionally malicious. He is also much more directly antagonistic in this game, to the point of being willing to kill the Rookie to get them off his tail.
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** In ''Pikmin 4'' he stands in the way of the Rescue Corps curing Oatchi and attempts to turn 2 castaways into leaflings, but nobody ever manages to actually explain what they want from him and Nelle, who was one of the castaways he attempted to leafify, suggests that he may have been trying to help them (or at least mimicking what the Red Leafling had been doing before him).
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** In ''Pikmin 4'' he stands in the way of the Rescue Corps curing Oatchi and attempts to turn 2 castaways into leaflings, Leaflings, but nobody ever manages to actually explain what they want from him and Nelle, who was one of the castaways he attempted to leafify, suggests that he may have been trying to help them (or at least mimicking what the Red Leafling had been doing before him).
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Louie has a habit of doing very selfish things, but aside from eating the Golden Pikpik Carrots that put Hocatate Freight into debt, most of said acts are left vague as to whether they were done maliciously or were the result of him being a {{cloudcuckoolander}}. It's unclear to whether he was in control of the [[FinalBoss Titan Dwevil]] or not (much less why he would attack Olimar and the President) and him stealing the Koppai captain's food and running could be easily be him panicking at being kidnapped again. He becomes an antagonist in ''Pikmin 4'', but it's suggested by Nelle that he may have been trying to help the castaways he attempted to turn into leaflings in the same way Olimar did. And while he's standing in the way of the Rescue Corps from curing Oatchi, it's ambiguous if he actually understood he was doing so since [[PoorCommunicationKills nobody ever tells him]] they were trying to get a gene sample from the Ancient Sirehound. Louie even tells the player in the post game that he wants to stay on the planet (which would explain why he fought them), so it's possible he's just too stupid to realize that his life support won't hold out forever.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Louie has a habit of doing very selfish things, but aside from eating the Golden Pikpik Carrots that put Hocatate Freight into debt, most of said acts are left vague as to whether they were done maliciously or were the result of him being a {{cloudcuckoolander}}. It's unclear to whether he was in control of the [[FinalBoss Titan Dwevil]] or not (much less why he would attack Olimar and the President) and him stealing the Koppai captain's food and running could be easily be him panicking at being kidnapped again. He becomes an antagonist in ''Pikmin 4'', but it's suggested by 4'' [[EvilAllAlong throws the ambiguity out the window]]. While Nelle suggests that he may have been trying to help the castaways he attempted to turn into leaflings in the same way Olimar did. And while he's standing in the way some of his actions are out of misguided idiocy, Louis outright antagonizes the Rescue Corps from curing Oatchi, Crew (up to being willing to use lethal force) and it's ambiguous if he actually understood he was doing so since [[PoorCommunicationKills nobody ever tells him]] they revealed that acts like eating the golden pikpak carrots and stealing the Koppaites' food were trying to get a gene sample from the Ancient Sirehound. Louie even tells the player in the post game that he wants to stay on the planet (which would explain why he fought them), so it's possible he's just too stupid to realize that his life support won't hold out forever.intentionally malicious.
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* AndYourLittleDogToo: In ''Pikmin 3'', not only does he steal Koppaites' food supply, but also Charlie's beloved rubber duckie!
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* DemotedToExtra:DemotedToExtra: Downplayed; while he's no longer the playable character in the third and fourth games, he's still ''very'' important.
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* EyesAlwaysShut: His eyes only ever open (or rather, pop out) when he's shocked or angry. Otherwise, they remain closed at all times.
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* EyesAlwaysShut: His Like most Hocotatians, his eyes only ever open (or rather, pop out) when he's shocked or angry. Otherwise, they remain closed at all times.
