Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe

The **Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe** refers to all the Pikmin plush shows created by Peter Tagg. The main series is Trooper Village Stories, other shows include Steve The Trooper, Classic Kirby Origins, Classic Kirby and The Kirby Bulborb Miniseries.

## Shows

* Steve The Trooper
* Classic Kirby Origins
* Classic Kirby
* The Kirby Bulborb Miniseries
* Trooper Village Stories

## History

### Steve the Trooper

In 2011, Peter Tagg made the MS Paint drawings of what would later become the episodes of Steve The Trooper. He then started to create several characters which would appear in his first plush videos, such as Steve (inspired by the Chuggaaconroy meme of the same name) and Doc Kermit Frogglegg (inspired by Kermit's appearances in The Muppet Show, and Doc Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future trilogy).

During the last two months of the year, Peter discovered Twig & Pik-pik and created the character Noah, who was named after one of Twig's lines from the Season 2 finale. In 2012, he became friends with Jakob and Olivia Dawson, the creators of Twig & Pik-pik. Peter later made a fanfiction about the series, and it was one of several plush shows that inspired him to want to make his own plush series (also taking inspiration from Cute Mario Bros, Patrol Pikmin Adventures, and several other Pikmin plush shows and Pikmin content creators).

Not long afterwards, Peter made his first two plush videos, the two seasons of Steve the Trooper, consisting of a total of 13 episodes. These episodes featured the majority of the characters he created at the time, along with several Twig & Pik-pik characters. The videos were filmed in July 2012, but Peter did not release them until 2016 and 2018 respectively due to his great-grandmother Vera passing away in August 2012. They were later released together with music and episode titles for the first time in September 2022.

### Classic Kirby

In 2013, Peter briefly began making plush videos for a few months, which were the first plush videos he made that he released publicly. At the time they were not part of an official series, but were later grouped together as "Classic Kirbys" in 2015, which were Peter's first plush videos to be officially released. The most famous of these was the episode "Mayor R Bulborb", which introduced Mayor Reginald Bulborb as a main character.

After a while, Peter decided to go on hiatus and stop making plush videos for a year. During his hiatus, he ended the Steve the Trooper series due to feeling having a Red Pikmin and White Pikmin as the show's main characters would be too similar to Twig & Pik-pik, and began planning a more original idea for a plush series.

### The Kirby Bulborb Miniseries

In 2014, Peter began using the online alias "Kirby Bulborb" (named after the character of the same name) after his return to plush videos, an alias which Peter has continued to use since then. Previously, Peter had gone by several other online aliases, including "Kirby3431255", "PuniesAreAwsome", "PlantsVZombiesLover7575", and "avfc211697", the latter of which came from a YouTube channel Tom had created for Peter to use.

In 2014, Jakob made the third episode of the Steve Saga, which featured Kirby Bulborb (who was based on Peter). Thinking the Kirby Bulborb character was funny, Peter agreed to collaborate with Jakob in the fourth episode, voicing Kirby in it. He went on to voice Kirby in every single one of his appearances, and the character ended up becoming the titular main protagonist on his own channel. That May, Peter created a Twitter account for one of his new characters; Cyber Captain Olimar, a cyborg version of Captain Olimar created by Brittany. The only tweet posted on the account was "I'm coming", which Peter intended as meaning "coming to invade". Initially only intended to be a character on that account, Cyber Captain Olimar gained fame after Jakob decided to use Cyber Captain Olimar for the Steve Saga, and he soon became one of Peter's biggest characters to date, to his surprise.

Inspired by the success of the characters Kirby Bulborb and Cyber Captain Olimar, along with encouragement from Jakob, Peter returned to making plush videos and decided to start work on a plush series of his own. The first of these was The Kirby Bulborb Miniseries, which featured Kirby discussing various topics (such as the new year and reading comments sent to him). For his next series, Peter created over a thousand episode ideas for his plush series, many of which were unused. After deciding to call his new series Trooper Village Stories, Peter narrowed the list down to 161 episodes, and later narrowed it down further to 31 episodes.

### Trooper Village Stories

For Trooper Village Stories, Peter created the characters Blue, Yellow, and Red. He also planned to bring back some of his older characters, including ones that didn't appear in the Classic Kirbys or unreleased Steve movies. Trooper Village Stories was officially announced by Peter on July 5th 2015, alongside the cancelled series Star Trek: The Pikmin Capers. He created two pilot episodes of Trooper Village Stories, the first in December 2014, and the second in July 2015. Peter then released the first 7 episodes in 2015, with the remaining episodes of the first three seasons being released from 2016 to 2018. A major arc in the first season is The Noah Arc, which featured three episodes of Season 1 and one episode of Season 2 all focusing on the character Noah, and also featured Twig, Thorn, and Egde. Noah went on to become a reoccurring character in the second and third seasons.

In August 2015, Peter uploaded the video The Best Of Senator Armstrong, which soon became his most popular video, reaching over 100,000 views in 2018 and 1,000,000 views in 2022. Due to the video's popularity, Peter made a second compilation of Armstrong clips the following year and a third and fourth compilation of Armstrong clips in 2022, and has also featured and referenced Armstrong in other videos. He also referenced the Bolbert meme in the video "The greatest thing you will ever see", and later used Bolbert as a running gag throughout his plush videos.

In late 2015, Peter brought a Minako Aino plush and frequently used her in his videos. In September 2016, Peter stopped referencing Minako in videos, and became a fan of Asuka Langley Soryu that December, whom he began to reference and feature in videos instead. Peter decided to have Kirby Bulborb get married to her, which they did in the episode "Blast From The Past 3". In April 2018, Peter took a three-year long break from making plush videos, only releasing the video "Twig & Pik-pik: Da Random Adventure!" for Jakob's 2019 Twig & Pik-pik episode contest during this time.

After Peter officially returned to making plush content in 2021, he decided to use things he liked in 2014 and 2015 as influences, as well as new influences that are unrelated to anime. In June 2022, Peter began releasing updated versions of Trooper Village Stories episodes, which replaced the original episodes in the show's canon. Also that month, after The Best Of Senator Armstrong reached 1,000,000 views, Peter said that he's honoured to have contributed to Armstrong's popularity in meme culture, and made a third compilation of Armstrong clips, and later made a fourth and final compilation in August 2022.