History NightmareFuel / Pikmin

* 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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WPrxVOXQbU Submerged Castle]] already has spooky music, than the freaking Waterwraith SLAMS INTO THE ROOM, makes noises, and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flF9q2JsQkg tense chase music]] begins. Most gamers panic as soon as the music starts.

* The Bad Ending of the original Pikmin was disturbing; Olimar's life support system fails, and he perishes on the planet, so the Pikmin take him back to an Onion and Olimar is turned into a Pikmin himself.
** Not to mention it's implied that [[DidntThinkThisThrough THEY'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO PULL HIM OUT.]]
** Also if you remember Pikmin that are left in the ground bloom into a flower and shrivel up back into a single leaf, So it's not hard to imagine [[AndIMustScream Olimar's ultimate fate is]]
*** [[FridgeHorror It gets worse when you imagine the aftermath]]: Hocotate Freight will go out of business, The President will be tortured by the loan sharks due to being unable to pay off the debt]], Louie will be left out of a job (and maybe even homeless), and the worst part is, [[TearJerker Olimar's family will never see him again.]]

** It gets even worse when you think more into it. Dweevils only replicate that which is latched onto them. So, let us ignore all of the firepower for a moment -- no, seriously. Because really, most of those tools aren't seriously even meant to be weapons in the first place. ...But then you add Louie. You add a ''human mind'' to it all. Now, you have one of the most massive creatures in the series not only armed more effectively than even the Waterwraith, but ''has the intelligence to use the tools to their full potential''. Jesus, how badly would the ecosystem be thrown out of whack if this living ''war machine'' ever left the Dream Den?!

** Speaking of the Distant Planet, the planet itself is called PNF-404, and players will notice the treasures collected are man-made items such as lipstick and bottle-caps. This also means that Olimar himself is tiny compared to humans but that raises the question, where are there people? In a populated city Olimar would be in danger of being stepped on or worse but there are no signs of any people other than the items, remains of buildings, garbage, and some still-functioning machinery. On top of that, the planet itself looks suspiciously like Earth from space. According to word of god, the Distant Planet is indeed Earth years in the future after Humanity has long since died out! And now the planet is dominated by strange and often dangerous creatures! Makes one wonder what really happened to humanity and whether or not there are any living humans left or they have left...

* The Arachnorbs manage to be not-spider enough to not trigger arachnophobia, but ''Pikmin 3'' introduces a new type that spins a web and will actually ''eat'' trapped Pikmin; even worse, the fact they spin their webs in places where your Winged Pikmin are guaranteed to carry items through means that if you don't deal with them first, your entire squad of fliers can be made to be at its mercy.

** Just the appearance of the thing itself, it's a freaking EldritchAbomination! Basically, it's a ''living chunk of land'' walking upon three hoofed legs, with a crystal-encased head resebling a pear with '' leafy eyeballs'' (as shown in the page image). Most disturbing though is its mouth, which goes ''all the way around the bottom of its head'' and has a brightly-colored tongue that can lick in a full circle! This thing is just [[StarfishAliens all kinds of bizarre and horrific.]]

* Just the appearance of the thing itself, it's a freaking EldritchAbomination! Basically, it's a ''living chunk of land'' walking upon three hoofed legs, with a crystal-encased head resebling a pear with '' leafy eyeballs'' (as shown in the page image). Most disturbing though is its mouth, which goeas ''all the way arount the bottom of its head'' and has a brightly-colored tongue that can lick in a full circle! This thing is just [[StarfishAliens all kinds of bizarre and horrific.]]

* Land-based Blowhogs. They have blank, crescent-shaped eyes, and pretty much look like horrible white blobs from hell. The fact that the fire variant can easily kill Pikmin doesn't help.

* The Empress Bulblax, a huge bloated sausage of a Bulborb that constantly gives birth to these little larvae from her ''rear end,'' and when you kill it, it violently explodes, leaving just the saggy head and legs.

* The Bad Ending of the original Pikmin was disturbing; [[spoiler:Olimar's life support system fails, and he perishes on the planet, so the Pikmin take him back to an Onion and Olimar is turned into a Pikmin himself]].
** Not to mention [[spoiler:it's implied that [[DidntThinkThisThrough THEY'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO PULL HIM OUT.]]]]

*** [[FridgeHorror It gets worse when you imagine the aftermath]]: Hocotate Freight will go out of business, [[spoiler:The President will be tortured by the loan sharks due to being unable to pay off the debt]], Louie will be left out of a job (and maybe even homeless), and the worst part is, [[TearJerker Olimar's family will never see him again.]]

** It also means that [[spoiler:Olimar and Louie will be left on the planet to die.]]

* The final boss [[spoiler: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.]]
** [[spoiler:What makes it worse is the level of intelligence this thing has in conjunction with its ability to phase shift. What is phase shifting? ''Altering states of matter''. It can be a solid, a liquid, or gaseous state, as well as imbue all these states with different elements. And this creature, with this godlike power, isn't even angry at Olimar. It thinks it's ''protecting'' him. So, take all that you've read, and apply a PapaWolf mentality. Finally, see all the enemies fought there? All of whom are natural predators of Pikmin? '''''They're made of the Plasm Wraith.''''' It's intelligent enough to recognize how to stop the creatures most likely to come for Olimar, probably because some attempted to save him before. In conclusion? Imagine, being trapped by a creature that can literally do ''anything'', holds every single card, can render you unconscious for days at a time if it so chooses -- and you're its ''only focus''. ''Nothing'' else matters. Meaning every ounce of this abomination's power is being used solely to ''keep you''. Brrr.]]
** [[spoiler:The sounds it makes and the background music as it chases you through a ''maze'' is scary as hell.]]
** Not to mention the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLbeC0fyPok music]] ''before'' [[spoiler:the encounter when you first arrive to (or return to retry saving Olimar) Formidable Oak is haunting on its own.]]
*** When raining, the music is given [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7iGthGC7kU a little more of a tune]] instead of the [[NothingIsScarier near-silence]] it normally has. However, that theme is hardly any better, [[spoiler:being a rather [[DarkReprise grim, soft sounding remix]] of the Final Trial from the first game.]]
** [[spoiler:At the top of the stump at the beginning, there's a dirt mound. Getting Pikmin to dig through it reveals a rather disturbing data file:]]

[[spoiler:Captured again... over and over. No matter how many times I try to escape, I find myself atop this tower. Each time, I awake to see that another day has passed. The grip of this wretched beast is taking its toll on me. My only hope is for someone to save me from this torment... Going dark again...]]\\
[[spoiler:- Captain Olimar]]
** As if all this wasn't enough, when you're fighting it, if you use the map function on the game pad and look around the area, in addition to [[spoiler:the Plasm Wraith]] you're fighting, the radar will show [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/pikmin/images/3/32/BorkedPW.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20140627032414 the blip of another major boss in the area, somewhere far off and out of bounds of the map.]] Considering [[spoiler:the enemies in the Formidable Oak are made of the same goop as the Plasm Wraith]], this begs the question if what you're fighting is [[spoiler:the Plasm Wraith's true form]], or if its ''real'' form somewhere far off, [[ParanoiaFuel watching the entire time as you fight]] [[spoiler:one of its creations...]]

** Ingame, after [[spoiler:Louie escapes from the ship,]] it's completely unknown where he went.... Until [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cj_QMRvpWc this hidden video confirms it.]]

* The final boss, [[spoiler:the Leech Hydroe, is a demonic dragon made out of foliage that in it' first form has three heads that spit poison balls, and the Pikmin must be launched at its head to defeat it.]] [[spoiler:But that's not all, as after a few hits, it grows some grotesque limbs.]] Now if you beat it, [[spoiler:[[BodyHorror its body will just shrivel up, but then the last head grows a new body with sycamore seeds for wings.]]]] [[spoiler:This was all just because a amoeba parasite thing got possessed by the Sparklium Converter.]] Ugh!

* In the official trailer submitted for the shorts after the 11/5/14 Nintendo Direct, it shows Olimar mixing up some juice and drinking it while the Pikmin look on from the door way. Out of curiosity, the Pikmin enter in to see what's going on... only to catch a glimpse of ''a chopped up Pikmin body, and then Olimar turning around and giving a PsychoSmirk!'' The worst part? The juice from the Pikmin body is ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar red]]!'' Sure, [[spoiler:it turns out to be Pikpik carrot juice]], but it's a shockingly dark scene from what's normally considered a family friendly developer like Nintendo...

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

* The Segmented Crawbster smashes into the arena and starts stomping around furiously. Get to close to it, and the bastard will dash and roll at you at full speed.

*** Correction: Gamers tend to panic once they hear the loud whistle of the Waterwraith's ''wheels'' randomly falling from the sky and smashing to the ground with an audible *SMASH* and then along comes the bastard itself on top with another *SMASH*. ''Then'' the terrifying music starts.

** It's home the Final Trial has rather unnerving [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLN-5AV3WRY music]] due to the creepy intro then leading to an uncomfortable happy sounding tune with some creepy bits sneaking in as if the song is trying to hide something.

* 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. Its anatomy is perplexing to the point of it resembling a EldritchAbomination, and upon dying, the entire thing MELTS, leaving nothing but a small pearl.

** Mushroom Pikmin in general are incredibly creepy. They [[TheBlank lose all facial features]] besides their eyes, which become [[MonochromaticEyes white and soulless, with no pupils to be seen.]] On top of that, they admit a creepy, almost child like giggle when walking around the Puffstool, and when attacking Olimar, they sound almost ''[[AxeCrazy gleeful]]'' to be doing so. This can't but make one wonder if it's the effects of the spores, or if the Pikmin have darker feelings towards Olimar than what they seem...
* The Nova Blaster part from the first game. "What could you possibly mean," you ask? That thing is capable of blasting through and destroying STARS. It's a doomsday device. And it's the size of a BEAN CAN. Sweet dreams.
** Fortunately, it's implied by FridgeLogic that the thing is fake and Olimar got scammed.

* 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. But that's not all: after defeating the Dweevil, Louie drops on the ground and remains motionless, and Olimar writes in the entry on the Titan Dweevil that he actually wonders if ''Louie'' was controlling him.

[[caption-width-right:350:That's not an eye....]]

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Sure, Pikmin ''looks'' like a charming little game, but just beneath the surface lies all sorts of horror...

Sure, Pikmin ''looks'' like a charming little game, but just beneath the surface lies all sorts of horror...[[File:Maxresdefault_(9).jpg|thumb]]