Mayor Reginald Bulborb

**Mayor Reginald "Reggie" Bulborb**, commonly known as **Mayor R Bulborb** and often referred to by his initials **MRB**, is the deuteragonist and secondary protagonist of the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe. He appears as a main ally in Classic Kirby, Trooper Village Stories, The Kirby Bulborb Miniseries and Classic Kirby Origins.

Reggie is an English Red Bulborb of Canadian descent who has served as the mayor of Trooper Village since August 2015, after winning the Trooper Village mayoral election. He is the son of Philippa and Andy and the brother of Kirby. Throughout his mayoralty, Reggie has assisted the citizens of his village on their adventures. Outside of his mayoralty, Reggie has several other roles in the village, including being a peacekeeper, judge, and a marriage minister. Aside from his political career, Reggie has also had a popular music career, beginning in 2012 as a solo artist, and later joining Kirby Bulborb & The Bulborbs alongside his sister-in-law Asuka Langley Soryu and The President of Hocotate Freight.

Reggie was born in England but spent most of his teenage years in Canada and the United States, before moving back to England in 2011. Reggie became a fan of music after listening to Elton John when he was young. Before entering politics, Reggie was an aspiring musician, who became famous after covering "Your Song" on Pikmin's Got Talent. Reggie began his political career in 2014; he got into politics because he wanted everyone to have the opportunity to have a better future. He arrived in Trooper Village in August 2015, shortly after it was built by the Founding Pikmin of Trooper Village (Blue, Red and Yellow), and offered to become the mayor of the newly-built village. He defeated United States Senator Steven Armstrong in the mayoral election and became the mayor of the village, promising to protect it and all its villagers. With the exception of the Noah's brief takeover of the village, Reggie has continued to serve as mayor since then.

Some of Reggie's early mayoral duties included helping to protect the village from Noah, and building a cabinet that also featured his brother Kirby. In 2016, Reggie began primarily serving as mayor while in his otaku Sailor Bulborb form, which he had occasionally used the year before during a few battles. Reggie became a mangaka in June 2016 after releasing the anime and manga series Space Western Olimar, which he created and directed with Kirby, Spike and Blue, which received critical acclaim. In 2017, Reggie stopped using his Sailor Bulborb form outside of battles to focus more on his mayoral duties. A few months later, he killed Noah during a peacekeeping mission on Hocotate Freight. In 2018, Reggie continued going on multidimensional peacekeeping missions for those in need.

Reggie was created by series creator Peter Tagg as a mirror image of Elton John, who was the first music artist Peter became a fan of. The political side of his character was inspired by Barack Obama. Reggie's hair is an Elton wig that Peter's mother Philippa sowed onto the Bulborb plush. Aside from his appearances in the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe, Reggie also made a cameo appearance in the fourth episode of Jakob Dawson's Steve Saga series.

## Appearance

Throughout most of his appearances in the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe, Reggie looks no different than a usual Red Bulborb, the only difference being that he has hair. During the mayoral election, he claimed that him having hair sets him apart from other Bulborbs. In most of his appearances, Reggie's hair is dark brown and short (inspired by Elton John's hairstyle in the 1970s), but is shown having longer black hair in his appearance in the Steve Saga.

The only time Reggie was ever seen without his hair was in all the scenes in Pikstreet Avenue from the Trooper Village Stories episode Noah 2: Thorn's Wrath. He was able to get his hair back after returning to Trooper Village.

## Personality

After becoming the mayor of Trooper Village, Reggie aspired to be the best mayor he can and helped out his villagers whenever they needed it. Reggie is also passionate of his village, loving everything about it. Like his brother Kirby, Reggie is very friendly at heart.

While in his Sailor Bulborb form, Reggie could often be obsessive about manga and anime, in particular he seemed to have a slight obsession with Minako Aino and loved her unconditionally. Under the influence of the Puffstool's spores, his obsession with Minako was amplified dramatically, with Reggie talking to a Minako poster and asked it to marry her. Outside of his Sailor Bulborb form, Reggie highly respected Minako and has been close friends with her for a while, and they were also romantically involved for several years.

Eventually, Reggie stopped his Minako obsession and regretted taking his otaku ways too far, apologising to the Pikmin, promising them that he would focus more on the safety of his village and its citizens. He would later enlist the help of Doc Kermit Frogglegg to travel back in time to prevent himself from becoming obsessive over manga and anime and it impacting on his mayoralty.

## History

### Background

Reginald "Reggie" Bulborb was born on March 25th 1991, to parents Philippa and Andy. He was close to his brother Kirby Bulborb at a young age, and was childhood friends with Ronald "Ronnie" Bulborb. At some point during his childhood, Reggie became a fan of the musician Elton John, and styled his hair after him.

During his teenage years, Reggie attended a music school. After graduating, he moved to Canada and later the United States, where he lived throughout the majority of his teenage years until he moved back to the United Kingdom in 2013.

### Classic Kirby

In 2013, Reggie entered the Pikmin's Got Talent contest and preformed a cover of Your Song, which received critical acclaim from Johnny and his judges. Due to the success of his performance, Reggie returned to Pikmin's Got Talent sometime later, performing a cover of The Beatles song Yellow Submarine. He also did covers of various other popular Elton John songs too.

The success of his performances at Pikmin's Got Talent inspired Reggie to become a musician, and soon became a popular solo artist. In 2015, he briefly retired from making music to focus on his political career. He was inspired to enter politics after watching Barack Obama's 2004 keynote adress.

### Trooper Village Stories

#### Season 1

Reggie arrived in Trooper Village shortly after it was built by Blue, Yellow and Red, and decided he wanted to become the mayor of the village. He competed in the mayoral election with Senator Steven Armstrong, who was just a little too late to the election and had to talk to them via a skype call. Receiving all but one vote, Reggie won the election against Armstrong, and became the mayor of Trooper Village (becoming known as Mayor R Bulborb from that point forward), and began accompanying his villagers on their various adventures. Upon his election as mayor, Reggie said he was "ready to lead the village to a bright future." Less than a month later, Reggie met Solid Snake. They managed to stop Liquid Snake and Emperor Bulblax from stealing a Metal Gear.

While the Pikmin are stranded in The Steve Dimension, Reggie travels there himself, while in his Sailor Bulborb form. He then encounters Ronnie, and is disgusted by the fact he thinks Gangnam Style is the best song ever. Reggie then plays the Sailor Moon opening to Ronnie, causing him to run away. Steve and Olivia mistake Reggie for the alternate counterpart from their universe, and find it strange how he is listening to anime openings. Later on, Reggie transforms into "Sailor Bulborb: The Ultimate Killing Machine" for the first time, defeats Steve, and goes back to Trooper Village with the Pikmin.

After Yellow, Blue and Red go through the portal to Pikstreet Avenue, Reggie goes through it as well. They find out that Noah has taken control of Thorn, and forced him to take over their town and enslave all the Pikmin. Reggie finds out that he has suddenly lost his hair after traveling through the portal, but he manages to get it back once returning to Trooper Village. However, upon returning, Reggie and the three Pikmin are defeated by Noah, who overthrows Reggie as mayor and takes control of the village, hiring two guards to assist him in the takeover. Reggie and the Pikmin get the assistance of Twig, Thorn and Egde to help them defeat Noah, who was defeated and arrested. Reggie was immediately reappointed mayor, and banished the two guards from the village. Not long afterwards, Reggie is congratulated on being elected as the village mayor by his brother Kirby, who visited the village briefly.

#### Season 2

Reggie later invites Kirby to stay in Trooper Village as a resident, which Kirby accepts. Reggie gives him the job of Advisor to the Mayor to advise him about any important duties, later giving him the role of Deputy Mayor of Trooper Village. Reggie decided to attend an anime convention, and made Kirby the Mayor of Trooper Village until he returned. While there, he saw who he thought was Minako Aino, but was unbeknownst to him Noah in disguise. Reggie didn't know it was Noah and suddenly asked him if he wanted to go on a date, which made Noah speechless. During the date, Reggie asks Noah if he wants to marry him. The real Minako then enters, causing Noah to take off his disguise and admit that he's actually Noah. However, Reggie still thinks he's Minako, just cosplaying as a Pikmin, which causes Noah to run back to prison.

A while later, Reggie receives a letter, believing it to be a letter from Minako Aino asking to marry him. After reading the letter, he finds out its a ransom note from Underhut, threatening Minako's life. Outraged, Reggie teams up with Kirby to defeat Underhut and save Minako. With help from Steve, Olivia, Doc Kermit Frogglegg and the Troopari, they managed to save Minako and defeat Underhut.

After seeing Johnny's anime contest advertised on television, Reggie decides to enter it. He enlists the help of Kirby Bulborb, Blue, and Spike in creating his own anime series. Reggie's original idea for the anime was for him to get transported to the dimension Sailor Moon takes place in, and would then marry Minako. However, this idea was rejected by Kirby, who claimed it sounded more like a fanfiction than an actual anime series. Agreeing with Kirby, Reggie then comes up with an idea for the anime's plot which was obviously inspired by Cowboy Bebop, which nobody other than himself seemed to realise. He comes up with the name "Space Western Olimar", and him and the others begin work on it. After finishing episode 1, Reggie and the others watch it and are blown away. Reggie then submits it to Johnny, who later reveals to him that Space Western Olimar won the contest. He also explained that they pitched the Space Western Olimar pilot to Hideaki Anno, who liked it so much he wanted Reggie to make more Space Western Olimar episodes. Johnny then asks the judges of his contest for their opinions on Space Western Olimar, and they all loved it too.

After seeing Kirby reveal that King Dedede replaced all the crumpets and tea with cans of beans, Reggie decided to help him confront Dedede and get the crumpets and tea back.

#### Season 3

Reggie meets Sgt. Frog's Lonely Hearts Club Band, who inform him of their plan to steal all of his manga. However, Reggie manages to defeat the group with relative ease, making them come up with another plan to cause havoc.

In May 2017, Reggie asked Blue, Red and Yellow to get pictures of Asuka Langley Soryu for him (it's assumed he gave them to Kirby Bulborb later on). After the Pikmin got the  photos and survived sunset, Reggie apologised to the Pikmin for taking his interest in anime and manga too far, and decided to tone it down and put his friends and village before his interests. He ended the Space Western Olimar series and retired as a mangaka, giving credit to Spike Spiegel for inspiring the series. Later that year, Reggie killed all but two members of the Space Pirates during their last attack on Hocotate Freight.

In April 2018, Kirby's manga is stolen by a group of Breadbugs. Reggie travels in the Glutton's Kitchen with Kirby and a large amount of other villagers to get the manga back. Reggie and the other villagers succeed by defeating the Breadbugs. Later on however, Kirby also toned down his interest in anime and manga.

Reginald continued going on multidimensional peacekeeping missions for those in need.

### Steve Saga

Reginald appeared with longer hair, and attempted to do a Canadian accent but said he "was terrible at this". He told Twig II to find his father, the real Steve.

## Abilities

### Sailor Bulborb

Sailor Bulborb (also known as "The Ultimate Killing Machine") was Reggie's alternate personality that was obsessed with anime and manga, and incredibly powerful in battle. Reggie used Sailor Bulborb in battles to defeat various enemies, and stayed in this form throughout his mayoralty in 2016 and early 2017. Sailor Bulborb is exactly identical to Reggie, with the exception of being overly obsessed with anime and manga, especially the character Minako Aino.

Sailor Bulborb was used in battle by Reggie for the first time in October 2015, while he, Blue, Red and Yellow were trapped in The Steve Dimension. Sailor Bulborb defeated Steve, allowing them to return to Trooper Village. A month later, Sailor Bulborb was used by Reggie to defeat Darth Vader and one of his stormtroopers, and was then used to free Thorn from Noah's control. This was the last time Reggie used the Sailor Bulborb form in battle, instead fighting enemies himself.

### We'll Keep That

Often seen at the end of episodes, Reggie has the power to make the episode abruptly end after saying "we'll keep that". How Reggie got this power is unknown, although it could be linked to being able to break the fourth wall.

## Role in the community

As the mayor of Trooper Village, Reggie is responsible for both the safety of the village and its citizens. He enjoys this job throughly, and does the best he can to keep himself and his villagers safe from danger. He got into politics because he wanted everyone to have the opportunity to have a better future.

Reggie has remained as the mayor of Trooper Village since 2015, only being temporarily replaced by Noah during his takeover of the village. He won the 2015 mayoral election and campaigned for re-election in the 2018 mayoral election.

Reggie has had several other jobs alongside his mayoralty. He was the judge of the Trooper Village Court when Makuta was arrested for killing several Matorans, and was also the minister at Kirby and Asuka Langley Soryu's wedding.

## Hobbies and interests

While in his Sailor Bulborb alternate form, Reggie used to be an otaku and a fan of various anime, including Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Keroro Gunso. He later, with assistance from Kirby Bulborb and Spike, made his own anime and manga series. Reggie was pleased with the success of his series. He stopped being an otaku in 2017 to focus on his duties as a mayor, and he and Kirby sold all their anime and manga a year later.

Outside of his Sailor Bulborb form, Reggie's hobbies and interests include music and politics, achieving success as both a solo artist and a politician. Reggie and Bulborb are both shown to be chess players, facing off against each other in one match, which ended in a stalemate.

Like his brother, Reggie is a fan of the English musician Elton John, with his haircut inspired by Elton's haircut in the 1970s. He is also a fan of other musicians from the 1960s and 1970s, including The Beatles and Electric Light Orchestra.

## Behind the scenes

 File:Elton John.jpeg  Mayor Reginald Bulborb was one of the first original characters created by Peter Tagg. Although the idea to have the character have hair came in December 2011, Reggie was conceptualised much earlier in the year.

Originally, it was planned for Reggie to become the mayor of Trooper Village by climbing Mount Everest (inspired by Template:Wikipedia Link's story in the documentary film The Wildest Dream), but this was later changed after Peter realised the impossibility of filming there. Instead, Reggie became the mayor through a mayoral election.

Reggie is inspired by and based on the English musician Elton John, who Peter has been a massive fan of since he was young. Reggie's hair is an Elton wig that Philippa Tagg sowed into him. Reggie shares several similarities to his namesake; Elton's birthname Reginald Dwight inspired the "R" in the "Mayor R Bulborb" nickname, and Elton and Reggie both attended a music school before becoming a musician.

Reginald's nickname, Reggie, was inspired by Reggie Fils-Aimé, the former President of Nintendo of America. The political side of Reggie's character was inspired by US President Barack Obama, whom Reggie shares the birthday of the 4th of August.

## Trivia

* Reggie is Philippa Tagg's favourite character in the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe.
* Reggie was born on March 25th, the same day as Elton John.
* The Trooper Village Stories episode "Noah 4: Revengeradication" (originally released as a Twig & Pik-pik episode) is the first episode to reveal Reggie's full name. He was previously only known by his nickname "Mayor R Bulborb".
* The original idea for Reggie becoming the mayor of Trooper Village was to have him climb Mount Everest (inspired by The Wildest Dream), but this idea was soon scrapped after Peter realised the impossibility of filming there.
* Reggie was originally going to be a rival to Steve.
* His Sailor Bulborb form was inspired by the Sailor Soldiers in Sailor Moon.