History Trivia / Pikmin

* HeyItsThatSound: Fans of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' might recognize the dying screech that the Burrowing Snagret makes is the same as Ernie the Giant Chicken's. Meanwhile, ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' fans recognize it as HeiHei's screams when he finds himself stranded in the middle of the ocean.

* HeyItsThatSound: Fans of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' might recognize the dying screech that the Burrowing Snagret makes is the same as Ernie the Giant Chicken's.

* FanNickname:
** A lot of people tend to refer to Rock Pikmin as simply "Rockmin". This may or may not have to do with a [[Franchise/MegaMan certain blue robot's Japanese name]]. People also tend to call Winged Pikmin 'Pink Pikmin' simply out of tradition; the same goes for referring to Rock Pikmin as Grey Pikmin.
** [[spoiler:Olimar after being turned into a Pikmin]] in the first game's BadEnding is called "[[spoiler:Olimin]]" or "[[spoiler:Pikmar]]".
** The Red Leaf Pikmin is forever known as [[LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} Steve the Trooper]].
** There's also the "Koppai Crew" for Alph, Brittany, and Charlie.
** Some parts of the fandom refer to the creatures on the Pikmin Planet as "Pikavores" considering they [[EverythingTryingToKillYou only ever seem to go after the Captains and their Pikmin]].
** The President of Hocotate Freight tends to get his name abbreviated to "Prez" by most of the fandom. Some people often call him "Shachou" or "Shacho" thanks to some tie in sources from Japan. [[note]]Which roughly translates to "President".[[/note]]
** ''Hey! Pikmin'' has been referred to as ''Pikmin Mass Attack'' due to its similarities with ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack''.
** The mushroom-topped Pikmin that can come about from the Puffstool's spores have never been given an official name, so fans have applied the name of "Mushroom Pikmin" to them, though "Toadmin" and "Puffmin" are also fairly common.

* AscendedFanon:
** It was often thought that the Onions were capable of space travel despite the fact that neither ''Pikmin 1'' or ''2'' showing them outside of orbit. ''Pikmin 3'', however, ''does'' show they are able to leave orbit and survive in the vacuum of space just fine, though whether or not they can travel to other planets is still up for debate.
** ''Pikmin 3 Deluxe'' finally confirms a long believed fan theory that there are multiple onions scattered around the planet. In the side mode, ''Olimar's Comeback'', he notes that he landed too far away from the one that the Koppaites used and has to make do with others he finds scattered about.
* BreakawayPopHit: "Ai no Uta", the deliciously-LyricalDissonance promotional theme of the first game in Japan, was a surprise success. Apparently [[{{Salaryman}} salarymen]] identified with lyrics about unquestioningly following a superior and giving their lives without asking anything in return - who knew?

* DummiedOut:
** The first game contains quite a few unused elements in its code, including bizarre things like models of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=13&v=rnGfriUluws Mario]] and a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmWyuf7jGvU Goomba]] and a rock-like enemy that spits out smaller rocks, as well as a moon texture (which is unused as you are never allowed to play after sundown).
** The second game contains a ''ton'' of unused cave levels and floor layouts, seed values for enemies that are never found above ground (and thus can never be taken to an Onion to sprout more Pikmin), some unused treasures and old treasure textures, and cutscenes for the various Onions activating (which are unused, as unlike the first game, all of the Onions are already active when you find them). A lot of treasures are either retextured or completely changed for different-region versions of the game, especially in the case of licensed products (as many EU and US players would be unfamiliar with most of the original Japanese products).
** Wollywogs were originally intended to be included in ''Pikmin 3'', and data for them still exists in game files, but they were cut before release. Only their yellow variants that are seen in non-cave areas can be found in the final game.

** A lot of people tend to refer to Rock Pikmin as simply 'Rockmin'. May or may not have to do with a [[Franchise/MegaMan certain blue robot's Japanese name]]. People also tend to call Winged Pikmin 'Pink Pikmin' simply out of tradition; the same goes for referring to Rock Pikmin as Grey Pikmin.

** There's also the 'Koppai Crew' for Alph, Brittany, and Charlie.
** Some parts of the fandom refer to the creatures on the Pikmin Planet as "Pikavores" considering they [[EverythingTryingToKillYou only ever seem to go after the Captains and their Pikmin.]]

* IKnewIt: Prior to its UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port being announced, ''Pikmin 3'' was one of the most speculated titles to receive a Switch port.
* LateExportForYou: Even though every other release made it to America at more or less the same time as other regions, the ''New Play Control!'' version of ''Pikmin 2'' for the Wii was released in every region ''except'' America in 2009, and America didn't get it until ''2012''. This was likely because Nintendo of America didn't renew their deals with the owners of the many trademarks in the game.
* NamesTheSame: The treasure known as the Crystal King may bring RPG fans back to [[VideoGame/PaperMario64 the end of the Nintendo 64 era.]]
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: It took ''eight years'' before anything solid was revealed about ''Pikmin 3'', despite Miyamoto hinting about it since ''Pikmin 2'' was released. At most, all Miyamoto would say is "we're making Pikmin" and [[TrollingCreator even tease about it at some E3s by specifically asking people not to ask about it.]] Eventually, it was released in 2013, a little over a whole ''nine years'' after ''Pikmin 2'' was released in 2004.
* SequelGap: Took little over ''nine years'' for ''Pikmin 3'' to be released after ''Pikmin 2'' came out in 2004.

** There were originally four captains in ''Pikmin 3''. The [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120714070149/pikmin/images/9/9f/Pikmin_3characters.png fourth]] was cut due to complications with using four captains.
** Brittany's captain color was originally supposed to be yellow, as seen in some early ''E3 Pikmin 3'' videos, but was later changed to pink/light red. Similarly, Charlie's captain color was going to be red but was later changed to green.
** Early media pertaining to the captains in ''Pikmin 3'' stated that Charlie was an AbhorrentAdmirer to Brittany. This was completely absent in the game itself when it was released, with the two having a more professional relationship, albeit Brittany does tend to treat him as a ButtMonkey pretty frequently. Rumor has it this is still present in the Japanese version of the games, but there has been no solid confirmation on that yet.
** A user managed to hack in various unused objects in ''Pikmin 3'' into the game. These include poison generators (that actually do kill all but white Pikmin), a large "candypop bud" that kills Pikmin, and, most bizarrely, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl7r63NFeFU a "Pikmin" that actually IS a Pikpik carrot]]. The game's files also included a number of enemies that went unused, including a purple, burrowing leech-like creature and a bizarre wollywog with a rock growing from its belly.
** Rock Pikmin were supposed to have more varied designs, with each one having a subtle difference like one being wider, another being thinner, one having more jagged edges, and so on and so forth, like the original idea for the Pikmin. This could [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/pikmin/images/7/7f/Rockpikmindemo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140418013357 even be noted in their E3 debut, albeit ever so slightly]]. Like the original idea for the Pikmin having more varied designs, this was scrapped for unknown reasons, with all Rock Pikmin looking identical to one another in the final version of the game.
** Winged Pikmin were originally orange, their filename still refers to them as such.

* WordOfDante: It's a wildly believed fact that Olimar is incompetent because he didn't use the Nova Blaster to destroy the meteor, despite the fact that the [[AllThereInTheManual manual for the first game, and later one of the tie-in websites]], actually ''does'' provide a justifiable reason for this. Namely, Olimar had set his ship on auto-pilot at the time because it was a route he had traveled many times before without trouble. Also, if one pays close attention to the cutscene, the meteor ''does'' notably blindside him before he can react.

** Back during the early days of the franchise when ''Pikmin 1'' was still new [[TropeBreaker and dumping ROMs online and looking at the code]] was still in the very early stages, there were ''hundreds upon hundreds'' of supposed "cheats" that would net you colors of Pikmin that weren't in the game. The most infamous was a possible "Rainbow" Pikmin, who's appearance was either striped with multiple colors, Pikmin that changed color at random similar to Hyper Sonic from ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', or Pikmin that had red, blue, and yellow on their body in some way. The only thing most of the "rumor"s shared was that they had all the other Pikmin facial features and possessed all Pikmin powers too. Exactly ''how'' to get them, however, varied from source to source, from beating the game in an impossible amount of days which would unlock a NewGamePlus you can use them in, to one source that said you had to throw Yellow Pikmin holding bomb rocks into the spring at the Impact Site then immediately end the day as soon as they hit, and the Rainbow Pikmin would be there the very next day. Naturally, they were all fake, but this hasn't stopped people from wanting ''actual'' Rainbow Pikmin in a future game, even if it ends up being a BraggingRightsReward.

** There was an old 'glitch' rumor that you could get the Beady Long Legs out of its arena in one and taking it to where the Libra is causes it to crash the game. Not only is this impossible[[note]]The BLL is programmed with two 'spheres' around it; if the smaller sphere around it goes out of the larger one, its A.I. immediately defaults to taking it back into the center of the arena[[/note]] but hacking the game to have it go out of bounds to where the Libra and abyss are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QseKQ7yslvU simply causes it to de-spawn if it goes too far into it.]]

** Flying Pikmin were originally orange, their filename still refers to them as such.

* IKnewIt: Prior to its UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port being announced, it was one of the most speculated titles to receive a Switch port.

* DevelopmentHell: ''Pikmin 4'' was "very close to completion" circa 2015, but hasn't been released as of 2020.

** Wollywogs were originally intended to be included in ''Pikmin 3'', and data for them still exists in game files, but they were cut before release.

* {{Jossed}}: A common fanon idea was that if rain were implemented into the game, only Blue Pikmin would be able to go out on those days, being the only ones who can deal with large amounts of water. ''Pikmin 3'' shows that this is not the case, as all Pikmin types are able to handle rain just fine.

* UpdatedRerelease: A deluxe version of ''Pikmin 3'' was announced to be coming to the Switch in early August 2020, with a release date of October 30th. The deluxe version includes new features such as co-op play in Story Mode, the return of the beloved Piklopedia from ''Pikmin 2'', and a side mode covering Olimar and Louie's adventure on PNF-404 before the Koppaites crashed on the planet.

* DevelopersForesight: If one should stay around in the center area of [[spoiler:The Formidable Oak without encountering the Mysterious Life Form, there is actually Sunset music made for the Formidable Oak and its rainy variant, though one wouldn't know that unless they actively stayed put.]]

* GeniusBonus:
** ''Pikmin 3'' redesigns the planet of the Pikmin so that it looks different from the past games, making it less obvious that it resembles Planet Earth. However, those with the scientific knowledge can point out that the new design now makes the planet resemble [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea_Ultima Pangaea Ultima]], a possible future version of Earth.
** The Pikmin planet houses some very large insects, even taking into the account the rather minuscule stature of our heroes (some insectoids still looking like they could be a couple feet long/tall). Its mentioned that the planet has an usually high concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere, and in prehistoric times why were real-life insects capable of growing to such gargantuan sizes? An usually oxygen-rich atmosphere in prehistoric times.

* CommonKnowledge: When the first game was coming out, Nintendo proudly advertised that the concept for the game came from Miyamoto observing ants in his garden working as a team to accomplish a larger goal. This has become an inseparable part of the Pikmin ethos. Years later, Miyamoto admitted that this was a story invented by marketing to get the concept of the game across and is inaccurate. The development process that eventually resulted in Pikmin was ''far'' more complex, starting with a prototype called ''Adam and Eve'' that bears only superficial resemblances to the final game - see the WhatCouldHaveBeen entry below for more.

** ''Pikmin 3 Deluxe'' finally confirms a long believed fan theory that their are multiple onions scattered around the planet. In the side mode, ''Olimar's Comeback'', he notes that he landed too far away from the one that the Koppaites used and has to make do with others he finds scattered about.

* AscendedFanon: It was often thought that the Onions were capable of space travel despite the fact that neither ''Pikmin 1'' or ''2'' showing them outside of orbit. ''Pikmin 3'', however, ''does'' show they are able to leave orbit and survive in the vacuum of space just fine, though whether or not they can travel to other planets is still up for debate.

** Some parts of the fandom refer to the creatures on the Pikmin Planet as "Pikavores" considering they [[GangUpOnTheHuman only ever seem to]] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou go after the Captains and their Pikmin.]]

* DevelopmentHell: ''Pikmin 4'' was "very close to completion" circa 2015, but hasn't been released as of 2019.

* UpdatedRerelease: A deluxe version of Pikmin 3 was announced to be coming to the Switch in early August 2020, with a release date of late October. The deluxe version includes new features such as co-op play in Story Mode, the return of the beloved Piklopedia from Pikmin 2, and a side mode covering Olimar and Louie's adventure on PNF-404 before the Koppaites crashed on the planet.

* DevelopmentHell: ''Pikmin 4'' was "very close to completion" circa 2015, but hasn't been released as of 2018.