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ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#15151: Oct 7th 2025 at 12:33:13 PM

Yeah, I think “invisible to the naked eye” was just because they’re that small.

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MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
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#15152: Oct 7th 2025 at 12:54:01 PM

If Olimar is the size of a coin, and the Pikmin are slightly smaller than him, then they should not be invisible to the naked eye. Hard to spot, yes, but not invisible.

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#15153: Oct 7th 2025 at 12:58:15 PM

The Invisible to Normals thing is really only present in Bloom, with the premise that the app lets you (yes, you!) see and interact with them via your smart device.

I'd be surprised if that got canonized, admittedly. They never really needed to handwave it before, seeing as how the Pikmin series otherwise takes place on a planet that comes off as Earth after being abandoned by humans.

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#15154: Oct 7th 2025 at 1:11:06 PM

I hope one day Pikmin live happily and peacefully on earth.

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#15155: Oct 7th 2025 at 1:17:46 PM

I feel like Pikmin 4 soft-rebooted the series as taking place in the modern day, though most of the lore surrounding that is probably buried on JP sites.

Mega_zxa Since: Mar, 2015
#15156: Oct 7th 2025 at 2:29:47 PM

While Pikmin 4 was a reboot Pikmin has always been weird when it comes to time. Especially in 4 where the house is very pristine and feels like it was just recently used, like to the point that for humanity to have died off it would have happened a month before Olimar got stranded on Earth.

edit: At 1:40 in the video you can see a red pikmin running in the back ground.

Edited by Mega_zxa on Oct 7th 2025 at 2:40:52 AM

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#15157: Oct 7th 2025 at 3:11:46 PM

Around the release of 4, there was some stuff on the Japanese website that elaborated more on Pikmin lore: the Earth in Pikmin is implicitly abandoned by humanity long ago and the various diminuitive spacefaring races like Hocotatians and Koppaites are all distant descendants of humanity.

The reason the planet is a little bit different each game (and implicitly the reason why humanmade structures like houses can sometimes appear despite it being hundreds of millions of years later) is speculated to be because some kind of psychic entity (the Plasm Wraith) rearranges the planet every time someone gets shipwrecked down there.

Anyway, this is definitely Pikmin-related going by the central Pikmin leitmotif playing, and as others said probably just a Bloom advertisement. There's no reason to believe the Pikmin co-exist with present-day human babies in mainline canon.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#15158: Oct 7th 2025 at 3:19:37 PM

the Earth in Pikmin is implicitly abandoned by humanity long ago and the various diminuitive spacefaring races like Hocotatians and Koppaites are all distant descendants of humanity.

Oh! And here I thought it was another Splatoon situation where humans extincted themselves and you were stumbling across their long-dead remains.

Shows how much more misanthropic and world-weary writers have gotten in the time between the two series, I guess.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 7th 2025 at 3:19:48 AM

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#15159: Oct 7th 2025 at 3:50:09 PM

I didn't want to exclude the idea of humans leaving Earth (hence my wording of just "abandoning Earth") but I didn't expect that to be the case, much less that the Koppaites/Hocatians are direct descendants of humanity. Huh.

But, yeah. Splatoon has more of a cynical bent to it- its views on trend-chasing and vanity are pretty scathing- so its flavor of After the End being bleaker tracks. Pikmin is more focused on the beauty of nature and the world around you at a small scale, so it makes sense that its version of post-humanity is a lot more optimistic.

I'm reminded of how one of the leads for Kirby & the Forgotten Land had a similar idea for that game's post-Earth, wanting players to (if I recall the quote right) "see the beauty of what was there once, instead of lament what's missing." Fittingly enough, the New World's inhabitants ALSO willingly abandoned it to explore the universe, instead of dying from their hubris.

Edited by NesClassic on Oct 7th 2025 at 6:50:25 AM

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#15160: Oct 7th 2025 at 3:51:07 PM

[up][up]well Splatoon and Pikmin are in different groups of Nintendo devs.

Edited by The-Azure-Star-Of-Orion on Oct 7th 2025 at 3:51:22 AM

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#15161: Oct 7th 2025 at 4:04:10 PM

[up][up]...weird how Splatoon's shtick is the new guys making more beautiful things out of their passion considering how dark the background lore is.

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#15162: Oct 7th 2025 at 5:22:55 PM

Humans are casually, ignorantly killing Pikmins without knowing.

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#15163: Oct 7th 2025 at 11:15:55 PM

Someone making a page for the Close to You short made me realize we didn't have a page for the Pikmin Short Movies. So I made one.

Edited by RacattackForce on Oct 8th 2025 at 3:25:25 PM

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#15164: Oct 8th 2025 at 6:05:15 AM

So, Nintendo just uploaded another Close to You video to Nintendo today.

This time the Pikmin are visible.

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#15165: Oct 8th 2025 at 6:19:36 AM

My god woman your house is infested!

ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#15166: Oct 8th 2025 at 6:20:27 AM

It’s interesting, I think the first video must be how the people see it. The second is how it really is.

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#15167: Oct 8th 2025 at 6:02:39 PM

SNES NSO update!

Bubsy, Fatal Fury Special, and Mario & Wario, its first release outside of Japan!

Edited by Eisner on Oct 8th 2025 at 6:04:26 AM

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#15169: Oct 8th 2025 at 6:05:59 PM

   WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG   

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#15170: Oct 8th 2025 at 6:15:17 PM

WHAT FUTURE INCIDENTS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO RESULT IN A NEGATIVE OUTCOME

...Interesting choice to add Bubsy when the new collection only just came out.

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#15171: Oct 8th 2025 at 6:20:57 PM

I might as well give Bubsy a try now that it's been added. smile

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#15172: Oct 8th 2025 at 6:53:15 PM

Something something not on my bingo card for this year

But I've always been super curious about Mario & Wario so this is freaking sweet

Edited by kablammin45 on Oct 8th 2025 at 6:56:28 AM

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#15173: Oct 8th 2025 at 6:59:30 PM

One step closer to Bubsy in Smash Bros...

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#15174: Oct 9th 2025 at 1:04:19 AM

I mean... it's an out there pick, but it's not impossible, by any means.

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#15175: Oct 9th 2025 at 7:27:44 AM

I actually liked Bubsy 1 as a kid, though I found 2 disappointing.

I suspect Nintendo added Bubsy 1 there because of the upcoming Bubsy 4D, similar to how they added the original Survival Kids because of the new one.


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