Captain Olimar

* Pikmin 4
* Pikmin 3 Deluxe
* Pikmin 3
* Pikmin 2
* Pikmin
* Classic Kirby
* TVS

**Captain Olimar**, also referred to simply as **Olimar**, is the main protagonist of the *Pikmin* series and the main character in *Pikmin,* *Pikmin 2,* and *Hey! Pikmin*. Olimar also appears as a supporting character in *Pikmin 3* and *Pikmin 4*.

Olimar is from the planet Hocotate, and while on several missions for his employer, Hocotate Freight, he discovered PNF-404 and all types of Pikmin so far. In *Pikmin*, he owns and captains a spaceship called the S.S. Dolphin. He has a family back on Hocotate, which includes his wife, son, daughter and dog. Olimar's writings in his end-of-day monologs, Piklopedia notes, and exploration logs are a major source of information about the world in each game. Throughout his many trips, Olimar has made numerous discoveries on numerous organisms, each trip providing more and more information, along with new species.

In the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe, he appears as a supporting ally in Classic Kirby and Trooper Village Stories. His character is extremely similar to his Pikmin counterpart, except that he is somewhat more talkative. He also has an alternate reality counterpart named Cyber Captain Olimar, whom he has yet to encounter in-person but is aware of. Olimar and Louie have made several trips to Trooper Village, usually while on shore leave.

## Personality and appearance

    Olimar has three short brown tufts of hair and wears a light yellow spacesuit decorated with red lines and red gloves. He is 3.9 cm tall with his space suit on, from the feet to the top of the antenna, and 1.9 cm tall without. Olimar is quite intellectual, as seen in his extensive writings and vocabulary. He is also interested in science and presumably biology, taking notes and commenting on every treasure and enemy he discovers.

## History

### Pikmin Series

Olimar is the main protagonist of the *Pikmin* series and the main character in *Pikmin,* *Pikmin 2,* and *Hey! Pikmin*. Olimar also appears as a supporting character in *Pikmin 3* and *Pikmin 4*.

Olimar is from the planet Hocotate, and while on several missions for his employer, Hocotate Freight, he discovered PNF-404 and all types of Pikmin so far. In *Pikmin*, he owns and captains a spaceship called the S.S. Dolphin. He has a family back on Hocotate, which includes his wife, son, daughter and dog. Olimar's writings in his end-of-day monologs, Piklopedia notes, and exploration logs are a major source of information about the world in each game. Throughout his many trips, Olimar has made numerous discoveries on numerous organisms, each trip providing more and more information, along with new species.

### Pikmin

While on an interstellar vacation from Hocotate, Captain Olimar's ship, the S.S. Dolphin, collided with a meteor and crashed onto the Planet of the Pikmin. The Dolphin lost 30 pieces, and the accident rendered Olimar unconscious. When he regained consciousness, he found the planet's atmosphere contained high amounts of oxygen, which is extremely poisonous to his species. Fortunately, Olimar landed next to the hull of the Dolphin. While wandering around an area he called The Impact Site, Olimar met creatures that he called Pikmin. These Red Pikmin that he discovered were able to reproduce more Pikmin with Olimar's help. Olimar directed them to carry his ship's Main Engine back to The Dolphin's remains, which auto-repaired itself with the parts that Olimar and the Pikmin brought.

Olimar found that the Pikmin followed him loyally. His leadership skills and the Pikmins' ability to fight enemies, destroy obstacles and carry ship parts combined to allow Olimar to find each of the various parts of the Dolphin while the Pikmin species flourished. While looking for parts, Olimar discovered other areas, including the Forest of Hope, the Forest Navel, the Distant Spring, and the Final Trial. He also discovered two more Pikmin species, the bomb-carrying Yellow Pikmin and the aquatic Blue Pikmin. Luckily for Olimar, he was able to find the Dolphin's 30 ship parts to attach to the Dolphin's remains with time left to spare. Before he left, he took a bottle cap from the planet as a souvenir for his son.

### Pikmin 2

After Olimar's success at the Distant Planet, he was able to blast off of the planet to return to Hocotate, see his family and return to his normal life. Deciding to land at Hocotate Freight, he met up with the President of Hocotate Freight and a local employee named Louie. After landing the S.S. Dolphin, he learned that the company was in serious debt, having to pay an amount equal to x10,100 and the unknown price of Olimar's prized ship, the S.S. Dolphin.

This was to pay for the loss of a Golden Pikpik Carrot shipment, supposedly eaten by a ravenous space bunny. Learning that the S.S. Dolphin was sold to pay for some of the debt, Olimar was so shocked he dropped a souvenir he found on the Distant Planet for his son. As the bottle cap rolled past Louie, an old ship, commonly known as 'The Ship' was able to use its Research Pod to suck up the rusty bottle cap. The Pod analysed the piece of salvage to be worth x100, which lowered the remaining debt to 10,000 pokos.

With hope for Hocotate Freight's future insight, The President commanded Olimar and Louie to return to the Distant Planet and collect more treasure to pay off the debt. As Olimar and Louie were heading to the Valley of Repose, the ship collided with a tree branch, and the resulting impact jolted Louie out of the cockpit, meaning Olimar had to search for him. Luckily for Olimar, he found a group of Red Pikmin fighting a lone Dwarf Red Bulborb. He was able to unite with Louie by using the Pikmin to penetrate the barriers. As they were able to make progress in the Awakening Wood and Perplexing Pool, they encountered the undocumented White Pikmin and rediscovered the Yellow and Blue Pikmin, which were eager to help. The debt eventually lowered to a minuscule amount. In the end, Olimar and Louie were able to pay off their company's debt.

After repaying the debt, Captain Olimar blasted off the planet but noticed that he somehow left Louie behind. Alas, it was too late, as he was going too fast to turn around and get him. After meeting the President once again to present him with all the treasures he and Louie found, the debt was fully paid. Olimar then told the President that there was more treasure on the planet. The President, looking to increase Hocotate Freight's fortune, then decided to send Olimar and Louie back to the planet. Only then did he realise that Louie was missing. The President decided that he would join Olimar to search for Louie and to make their company even wealthier.

The two went to the Wistful Wild to start their search and find more treasure. They both were able to find Louie in the Wistful Wild, but he was at the very bottom of the deep, dark, dangerous Dream Den. To make matters worse, Louie was resting on top of the Titan Dweevil. Olimar and the President were able to rescue Louie.

### Pikmin 3

Due to to the President's failure of a new business venture, Olimar is sent back to the Planet of the Pikmin with Louie in search of even more treasure to repay Hocotate Freight's newly acquired second debt. While they explore the planet, they inadvertently pick up the Koppaites' cosmic drive key.

After a while, Olimar starts to enjoy the search for treasure, and even becomes tempted by it. He at one point writes in his diary that he is sick of the President getting everything, and how easy it would be to take just one piece of gold. Olimar eventually discovers the Formidable Oak, seeing something glittering at the top of it. Thinking it must be valuable gold, he climbs to the top, only to find it is actually a living creature, the Plasm Wraith. The creature eventually obsesses over Olimar, preventing him from leaving, yet doesn't harm him.

With the help of Louie, Alph, Brittany, and Charlie are able to locate Olimar and subdue the Plasm Wraith just long enough for them to take off with Olimar. Following his return to Hocotate, the President immediately orders Olimar to go back to the Pikmin planet with Louie to recover the Hocotate ship. Reuniting with the Pikmin once more, he is successful at reassembling the ship with their help.

#### Olimar's Comeback

Introduced in *Pikmin 3 Deluxe*, Olimar's Comeback are new missions featuring Captain Olimar. Following his return to Hocotate, the President immediately orders Olimar to go back to PNF-404 with Louie to recover the Hocotate ship. Reuniting with the Pikmin once more, he is successful at reassembling the ship with their help.

### Pikmin 4

Olimar becomes stranded on PNF-404, but finds the Interstellar Radio with the help of Pikmin and a space dog named Moss, and uses it to send a distress signal. While he was ultimately successful in collecting all the parts of the S.S. Dolphin with their help, Olimar discovered that Moss had stowed away in the ship's cargo hold and was rapidly sickening.

Realizing that she could not survive away from PNF-404, he tried to return to the planet but crashed again. His life support system failed and the Pikmin took him to an Onion, transforming him into a Leafling with no memory of who he was.

When he wakes up as a Leafling, Olimar finds a mysterious cave at what would one day become the Rescue Command Post. It is unknown if he entered it. Olimar's behavior as a Leafling includes taking Castaways and turning them into Leaflings.

One month later, the signal is intercepted by the Rescue Corps, who set off to retrieve him before becoming in need of rescue themselves, leaving their newest recruit to rescue both Olimar and the castaway members of the Rescue Corps. During the mission, the recruit encounters Olimar in his leafling form on several occasions, and Olimar did several Dandori Battles with the recruit.

Olimar was eventually rescued and cured by the Rescue Corps, but was forced to return to the planet when the Rescue Corps' Rescue Pup Oatchi began to sicken in the same way that Moss did. Noticing the leaf that had been growing from Oatchi's tail, Olimar suspects that any organism with leaves like that of a Pikmin are unable to survive away from PNF-404. Oatchi was eventually returned to normal. However, Moss does not respond to the treatment, and Olimar decides to leave her behind, as this is where she was born and raised. The Rescue Corps, accompanied by Olimar, depart the planet for the final time, as the Pikmin follow Moss as their new leader.

#### Olimar's Shipwreck Tale

Olimar's Shipwreck Tale is a game mode in *Pikmin 4*. As the name implies, it involves the shipwreck of Olimar, and his quest to recover the S.S Dolphin's 30 ship parts. It features altered versions of the first four areas of the main campaign, no caves and only Red, Yellow, and Blue Pikmin.

As described in the opening cutscene of the main story, Olimar crash lands on an unknown planet. This crash landing caused him to lose the 30 ship parts across 4 areas. His life support system is only capable of keeping him alive for 15 more days. Luckily, he meets Red Pikmin, a species who seems eager to help him find his missing ship parts.

He first lands in an area he names the Sun-Speckled Terrace. With the help of the Pikmin, collects enough parts to land in a new location: the Blossoming Arcadia. There, he meets a green dog who he names Moss. Feeding it a bone, Moss licks Olimar and joins him in collecting his ship parts. After collecting more parts, and finding two new types of Pikmin (Yellow Pikmin and Blue Pikmin), Olimar can now land in an area he dubs the Serene Shores.

After collecting even more of his ship parts, the final area is opened: Hero's Hideaway. Olimar notes that this area is stranger than the others, but before he can contemplate much, the Pikmin leave their Onion by themselves and hide throughout the area. Olimar rounds them up and defeats a Porquillion that has his Interstellar Radio, which he uses to call for help. He discovers a Gildemander as the source of the Pikmin's strange behavior, and defeats it as well.

Olimar eventually collects all 30 of his ship parts and leaves the planet. However, he notices Moss had snuck aboard the S.S. Dolphin with him. She seems distressed for reasons unknown to Olimar, who chooses to turn back around and try to help her. As he does, he crashes again and his life support systems fail. The Pikmin and Moss carry Olimar to the Onion, which sucks him up and spits him back out as a leafling.

From here, *Pikmin 4's* main story begins.

### Hey! Pikmin

Olimar flies on the S.S. Dolphin II until he comes across a shower of asteroids. He tries to dodge them, but ends up getting hit, and the ship plummets into an alien planet, landing near a group of terrified Pikmin. After this, Olimar wakes up from the crash landing as the ship's pod assesses his and the ship's situation. After doing so, it concludes that the ship's fuel – the Sparklium supply – is completely empty. The pod picks up Sparklium signals and sends the captain onward, where the two stumble upon a wild Red Pikmin. After it being scared off, and the two continue going forward, Captain Olimar uses his whistle to bring out the Pikmin hiding in the weeds, only to realize there are actually four of them hiding, not just one. Moving forward a bit, the group discovers some Sparklium Seeds. It is at this point that the pod confirms that each seed contains one Sparklium, but Olimar needs 30 thousand to be able to escape. After the ship reassures the demoralized captain, everyone moves further onward, find some more seeds, and the tutorial level is completed.

Throughout the rest of the adventure, Olimar explores different areas, one at a time, gathering Sparklium Seeds and treasures along the way. There are two primary goals; the first is obtaining 30,000 Sparklium in order to fully power the ship again, and the second is searching for a missing key component of the S.S. Dolphin II, the Sparklium Converter, which is needed in order to return home. This final piece can be obtained from the last sector, The Final Stretch.

In order to get home, Captain Olimar needs to find 30,000 pokos and the Sparklium Converter. The ship does not know where the Sparklium Converter is, so the player needs to play through all eight main sectors, gathering Sparklium along the way. Once all eight sectors are finished and the Sparklium count reaches 30,000, the ship detects the Sparklium Converter in a new sector, The Final Stretch. Here, he battles against the fearsome Berserk Leech Hydroe, and after winning the fight, it is revealed that the Leech Hydroe that had taken control of the monster is holding the Sparklium Converter. After its defeat, the creature drops the ship part and then scurries away. The captain recovers the ship part, and prepares to go home.

As the ship is setting everything up for the ride, Olimar goes outside to meet the Pikmin for one final time, as him and a group of different Pikmin are frolicking around. Eventually, the ship's pod calls him over, and he sorrowfully walks away from the Pikmin. At first, they follow him, but after they realize what is happening, they stop, and stare at Olimar as he is getting beamed up into the ship's pod. As the ship takes off, the Pikmin all get inside the nearby Onion. The two blast off into space, but the Onion can only follow the ship up so far, until it stays behind. The ship keeps going, eventually activates the warp, and disappears.

After this, the credits roll. In the cutscene after the credits, a scene similar to the intro plays out, except instead of Olimar coming face to face with asteroids, he sees Hocotate in the distance. The ending finishes with the S.S. Dolphin II flying towards Olimar's home planet.

### Classic Kirby

Olimar gets some Pikmin to bring him Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, which he says is his favourite game. Louie then arrives and warns Olimar about the event known as The Pik, in which nearby hostile Bulborbs attempt to eat as much Pikmin as possible.

### Trooper Village Stories

#### Season 1

     While on an interstellar vacation from Hocotate, Olimar's ship, the S.S. Dolphin, collided with a meteor, causing it to fall and start to burn as it was crashing down to an unknown planet. As he was looking for ship parts, he discovered three Pikmin types, including Red Pikmin, Yellow Pikmin and Blue Pikmin in three different areas. Luckily for Olimar, he was able to find and recover all of the ship parts on the planet and restore his ship's damage, and left the Pikmin planet to return to Hocotate.

Olimar and Louie are instructed by The President to collect 10,000 pokos after Hocotate Freight experiences another debt. As Olimar and Louie head to the Valley Of Records, Louie falls out of the cockpit, leaving Olimar alone. Louie realises he is trapped by a paper bag which he cannot destroy or get past. He is eventually discovered by Olimar, who uses a can of beans to destroy the bag. After an encounter with a lizard, Olimar and Louie successfully manage to repay the debt. Olimar then blasts off from the planet, noticing too late that Louie is left behind. While left behind, he discovers a pile of Beatles CDs and even meets Ringo Starr. After meeting the President once again to present him with all the treasures he and Louie found, the debt was fully paid. After being reunited with Olimar again, he confesses that he made up the whole "ravenous space bunny" story, and that he was the one who ate the Golden Pik-pik carrots. Olimar forgives him, although both he and Louie are surprised to see the Ravenous Space Bunny does actually exist, which is killed by them not long afterwards.

#### Season 2

During the Puffstool's arrival in Trooper Village, Olimar and Louie are called in to assist, but are both put under the Puffstool's control via its spores. They are both freed from the Puffstool's control after the creature's defeat.

#### Season 3

Olimar and Louie stop The President from selling crumpets to the citizens of Trooper Village. A year later, they assisted Mayor Reginald Bulborb in helping him defeat some Breadbugs.

### Space Western Olimar

n the Space Western Olimar anime series created by Mayor Reginald Bulborb (which was heavily inspired by Cowboy Bebop), Olimar and Louie are bounty hunters. The versions of Olimar and Louie featured in the series are based on Jet Black and Spike Spiegel respectively. In the first episode of the series, "Hocotation Blues", Olimar and Louie arrest Wario and Waluigi after they attempt to steal money from Trooper Village, and are promptly thanked by Minako Aino.

### Alternate reality counterpart

Captain Olimar has an alternate realty counterpart from Universe 26, who died after crash landing and was revived via cyborgification by Brittany and became known as "Cyber Captain Olimar". Olimar has yet to encounter the cyborg counterpart of him in-person but is aware of him.

## Trivia

* It is referred to that Olimar used to be a repairman before his current job, and has had conflicts with space pirates.
* Olimar and Louie's expedition to the Pikmin planet in the Trooper Village Stories episode "The Big Poko Debt: Presidential Tomfoolery" is near identical to their one in Pikmin 2, the two exceptions being that Asuka Langley Soryu accompanies them and that the ravenous space bunny is actually real.