History NightmareFuel / Pikmin

* White Pikmin are poisonous. Olimar can take advantage of this by throwing them into the mouth of an enemy--the pikmin, who adoringly and obediently follow him like children or pets.

** [[spoiler:The sounds it makes and the background music as it chases you through a ''maze'' is scary as hell.]]

* The Sunset. Thinking about hordes of already dangerous enemies is unnerving enough, but if you left any Pikmin behind, you can see them as you fly away, desperately trying to flee the beasts but failing ever so miserably...

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_295616&feature=iv&src_vid=6Y0eNGbfFSo&v=WEhZe_XPaQM New footage]] of the third game shows, among other things, a glowing, roaring moth-like creature in an area dark enough to make it next to invisible before it lights itself and attacks. It might not seem bad ''in the video'', but imagine actually ''playing'' the game and encountering it. It doesn't help that it seems the player needs to activate the light sources by walking in the dark over to said sources.

* The final boss of Pikmin 3 is a seemingly immortal shape-shifter that chases you through the final area. Bad enough you may think but what's really disturbing is that it's chasing you so it can keep Olimar for no determinable reason; the first time you see it, it's lovingly stroking Olimar's helmet.
** The sounds it makes and the background music as it chases you through a ''maze'' is scary as hell.

* The final boss of Pikmin 3 is a seemingly immortal shape-shifter that chases you through the final area. Bad enough you may think but what's really disturbing is that it's chasing you so it can keep Olimar for no determinable reason; the first time you see it, it's lovingly stroking Olimar's helmet.

** Not to mention [[spoiler:it's implied that THEY'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO PULL HIM OUT.]]

* The final boss of Pikmin 3 is a seemingly immortal shape-shifter that chases you through the final area. Bad enough you may think but what's really disturbing is that it's chasing you so it can keep Olimar for no determinable reason; the first time you see it, it's lovingly stroking Olimar's helmet ([[AccidentalInnuendo not that kind of helmet!]])

* Thanks to the upgraded graphics of the WiiU, Pikmin 3 is visually gorgeous. Unfortunately, this update is also applied to the enemies of [[http://www.pikminwiki.com/images/b/b0/Pikmin3_Rawr.png this]] [[http://www.pikminwiki.com/images/thumb/c/c6/Pikmin3_That_Thing.png/640px-Pikmin3_That_Thing.png game]], and the realistic graphics combined with their cartoonish designs creates an UncannyValley feel to them.

* Thanks to the upgraded graphics of the WiiU, Pikmin 3 is visually gorgeous. Unfortunately, this update is also applied to the enemies of this game, and the realistic graphics combined with the cartoonish design creates an UncannyValley feel to them.

* The plot of 3, which involves a food shortage. There's also the fact that if you don't get enough fruit to sustain the captains, they'll have to cut their mission short and return home to a dying world.

* The Nova Blaster part from the first game. "What could you possibly mean," you ask? That thing is capable of blasting thorugh and destroying STARS. It's a doomsday device. And it's the size of a BEAN CAN. Sweet dreams ;)

The story of Pikmin involves Olimar getting stranded on an uncharted planet, and he resorts to using the assistance of aliens that may very well have attacked him on sight. The very idea of that is somewhat scary...

* The Sunset. Thinking about hordes of already dangerous enemies is unnerving enough, but if you left any Pikmin behind, you can see them as you fly away, desperately trying to flee the beasts but failing ever so miserably...
* Olimar actually mentions this in a journal entry wondering why the Pikmin never bothered to attack him.

* Many enemies method of attack is to [[JustEatHim devour]] your Pikmin.

*** It does. It's a scarily effective way of reproduction. The pikmin, urging to get in at the mere sight of, mindlessly hurl themselves in, and are then KILLED and replaced with an exact replica... minus the color. [[FridgeHorror Thinking about things too much can really send shivers down the spine.]]
* The Emperor Bulblax from the first game. He is the largest enemy in the game by far, and can take the entire day to kill! The Emperor attacks by tongue lashing your Pikmin, jumping on them, roaring at them to startle them. When half his health is gone, he will do this gigantic jump where he flies off the screen and than slams back down!
** This troper turned away from the Emperor, and he did the jump while I wasn't looking, I whistled all my Pikmin, turned around, didn't see him, and than HE LANDED PERFECTLY ON MY ARMY FLATTENING THEM ALL! This was a horrifying situation since I had to rush back to the onions and pull out more Pikmin!

* Man-at-legs... His attack involves pulling out a high pitched buzzing laser and than BLASTING YOUR PIKMIN ARMY WITH A FREAKING GUN! SERIOUSLY WHAT THE HELL DOES IT NEED THAT FOR!?!
** Olimar mentions this in his journal entry, the Man-at-legs has no enemies, so it's firepower makes no sense. It's rumored that the gun actually controls the Man-at-legs itself.

* The Dweevils in this game attack using elements which most Pikmin are injured by, but there is one type that takes nightmare to another level: Volatile Dweevils. These bastards carry bomb rocks on their backs, and kamikaze attack anything nearby.

* The God damn Waterwraith. In concept it shouldn't be weird or disturbing at all: a giant clear flubber-looking thing on stone steamroller wheels. But mainly it was the fact that it couldn't be killed. Or damaged. At all (at least not until the final level of the cave it's found in.) And if you took too long on a floor, it would suddenly drop in out of nowhere and start chasing after you. The unearthly gargling noises didn't help things, either, nor did the fact that your ship freaks out when it first appears, yelling "RUN! RUN AWAY!"
** And the music! Oh God the music! The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WPrxVOXQbU Submerged Castle]] already has spooky music, than the freaking Waterwraith SLAMS INTO THE ROOM, Makes noises, and the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flF9q2JsQkg tense chase music]] begins. Most gamers panic as soon as the music starts.

* One day this troper was poking around the Forest Navel, eventually finding a large circular area with nothing in it. This troper was not yet savvy enough with video games to understand the concept of boss arenas, so he dallied right in, his army of 100 Pikmin following behind him. And then the Beady Long Legs - a giant fuzzy ball with four legs that moves like a spider - ''SLAMS INTO THE ARENA OUT OF NOWHERE,'' stomping around as heart-pounding music begins to play. To make matters worse for this troper, one of the Beady Long Legs' feet managed to land squarely on a yellow Pikmin carrying a bomb. Just as frightening for him as the giant freakin' spider dropping out of nowhere was, having paused the game in sheer fright, noticing ''one hundred ghostly Pikmin images'' drifting upwards and Olimar's health down to near zero. This troper is convinced that this incident is the direct cause of his deathly arachnophobia.

* The Smoky Progg. Oh jeez the Smoky Progg. A [[ImplacableMan nearly unstoppable]] DEMON FROG made of smoke (that leaves a trail of the same noxious smoke wherever it goes), who, upon hatching, makes a beeline for your Onions and TEARS YOUR PIKMIN OUT OF THE EARTH to disembowel them. That, and it's implied to be a larva of the already creepy Mamuta which has been mutated (and apparently pissed off) by you disturbing its egg. It's anatomy is perplexing to the point of it resembling a EldritchAbomination, and upon dying, the entire thing MELTS leaving nothing but a small pearl.
** And those Pikmin it kills? They were still buried in the ground when it killed them. It's killing babies.

* The armored Cannon Beetle is a miniboss who attacks by inhaling air and than shooting a giant freaking boulder out of its mouth.

* Some of the treasures from Pikmin 2 are slightly odd. There are multiple every day objects such as jewels, vegetables, and container tops (Like shoe polish and Snapple jar tops), and Nintendo objects (Like a Game & Watch, a controller d-pad and a joystick) but there are also oddities like a lobster claw, action figures, and even a pair of false teeth. I do believe this is meant to suggest that the planet is actually Earth.

* Any Metallic underground stage. The Pikmin that accidentally sail over the edge, fall into an eternal abyss, you can actually hear them cry as they fall down! Some enemies can be tricked into walking off, if they do, they disappear. If they were carrying treasure, it reappears near where it fell off.

** The Gatling Groink is some type of goldfish that has been converted into a mobile artillery platform. It attacks by launching mortars at your Pikmin, attempting to blow them into oblivion. It also has some kind of shield on it's forehead. The Spotty Bulbear is easily one of the more vicious non-boss enemies, but there is a Challenge Mode stage with scary music that makes you fight 3 of them at the same time, with Dwarf Bulbears. As mentioned, if left dead for too long, all 3 will get right back up.

* The bulbmin. First, you kill their mother right in front of them. Next- hmm, you're a little low on Pikmin- you use your whistle to make them do whatever you want. And guess what? Most of the enemies they will fight are other Bulborbs. THEIR OWN FAMILY. Finally, after everything you put them through, you leave them behind to die, since they can't leave the dungeon you find them in.
** That's not even getting into their ''nature''. Those who haven't seen them may be thinking they are some oddly colored pikmin. No. They are bulborbs with pikmin sprouts. Those sprouts come from pikmin who have become parasitic and buried into the beasts. Not only that, but young ones are as aimless as pikmen, adults are like bulborbs. That implies that the pikmin control them when they are young, but as they grow their brain matures normally while still being controlled, effectively suppressing childhood and forcing them to grow up by taking orders, and very confusing to tell if the parasite is in control the whole time or if they slowly give up control of the higher brain functions of mature bodies.

* The Segmented Crawbuster has probably the most disturbing death in the whole game. It lays on its back, writhing and screaming while its soft underbelly steams, shrinks and disappears. It then curls up to reveal the silencer, a creep baby doll head. Yeesh.

* The Titan Dweevil... Oh god the Titan Dweevil. You reach the final floor of the Dream Den, Louie is sitting on this huge pile of treasure, so you approach him to help him and collect the treasure, when this bastard rises out of the ground and begins to use those treasures as deadly weapons. His attacks include throwing electric beams, spraying water to drown Pikmin, FIRING A FLAMETHROWER, and poisoning the ground. All of these, you can rescue Pikmin from, except the electric attack.

* The god damn Waterwraith. In concept it shouldn't be weird or disturbing at all: a giant clear flubber-looking thing on stone steamroller wheels. But mainly it was the fact that it couldn't be killed. Or damaged. At all (at least not until the final level of the cave it's found in.) And if you took too long on a floor, it would suddenly drop in out of nowhere and start chasing after you. The unearthly gargling noises didn't help things, either, nor did the fact that your ship freaks out when it first appears, yelling "RUN! RUN AWAY!"
** And the music! Oh god the music! The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WPrxVOXQbU Submerged Castle]] already has spooky music, than the freaking Waterwraith SLAMS INTO THE ROOM, Makes noises, and the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flF9q2JsQkg tense chase music]] begins. Most gamers panic as soon as the music starts.

* The Segmented Crawbuster has probably the most disturbing death in the whole game. It lays on its back, writhing and screaming while its soft underbelly steams, shrinks and disappears. It then curls up to reveal the silencer, a creep baby doll head. Yeesh.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_295616&feature=iv&src_vid=6Y0eNGbfFSo&v=WEhZe_XPaQM New footage]] of the third game shows, among other things, a glowing, roaring moth-like creature in an area dark enough to make it next to invisible before it lights itself and attacks. It might not seem bad ''in the video'', but imagine actually ''playing'' the game and encountering it. It doesn't help that it seems the player needs to activate the light sources by walking in the dark over to said sources.

** That's not even getting into their ''nature''. Those who haven't seen them may be thinking they are some oddly colored pikmin. No. They are bulborbs with pikmin sprouts. Those sprouts come from pikmin who have become parasitic and buried into the beasts. Not only that, but young ones are as aimless as pikmen, adults are like bulborbs. That implies that the pikmin control them when they are young, but as they grow their brain matures normally while still being controlled, effectively suppressing childhood and forcing them to grow up by taking orders, and very confusing to tell if the parasite is in control the whole time or if they slowly give up control of the higher brain functions of mature bodies.

* The bulbmin. First, you kill their mother right in front of them. Next- hmm, you're a little low on Pikmin- you use your whistle to make them do whatever you want. And guess what? Most of the enemies they will fight are other Bulborbs. THEIR OWN FAMILY. Finally, after everything you put them through, you leave them behind to die, since they can't leave the dungeon you find them in.

* The [[ToyTime Glutton's Kitchen]] in the sequel seems bright and cheerful at first, but it raises a lot of questions...how did an entire playroom get buried beneath the planet's surface? Furthermore, it becomes somewhat unsettling without the Solar System upgrade, as the entire cavern is dark (except for the last floor) and may also have a Spotty Bulbear hunting you down...

*** Don't forget that it's implied that the damn thing is just a
hallucination.

* Once the debt is repaid in 2, Louie gets left behind on an alien world filled with hostile critters. A world whose air he can't even breathe, and he doesn't even have a ship to take refuge in. He's found at the lowest level of a dungeon, riding an enormous armed monster. Once retrieved, Louie is one of the treasures, labeled King of Bugs. Unlike most items, he moves, but just to rock back and forth.

* Now just look at the PAL boxart for [[http://www.gametab.com/images/ss/gcn/1573/box-l.jpg Pikmin 2]]. AWWW look at the Pikmin holding a BERRY!!! And then just look at the background for little bit..... AH SHAZZIT!!! Even worse is that I just noticed this while I watched this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WPrxVOXQbU video]].