Noah

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 **Noah** is a major antagonist in the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe. He appears as a major antagonist in Trooper Village Stories and a neutral ally in Classic Kirby. Noah is a villainous Red Pikmin who has been a member of both Sgt. Frog's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Space Pirates, who often describes himself as "a fast Pikmin" in battle. He briefly served as the Mayor of Trooper Village during his takeover of Trooper Village.

Noah is the brother of Steve and Olivia. He was originally an ally before becoming evil after joining the Space Pirates. After briefly taking over both Pikstreet Avenue and Trooper Village, Noah was imprisoned in Trooper Village but was eventually freed alongside Makuta by Cyber Captain Olimar, who all joined Sgt Frog's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Noah remained as a member of Sgt. Frog's Lonely Hearts Club Band for several months, eventually leaving the group to re-join the Space Pirates, which he remained in until he was defeated by Mayor Reginald Bulborb during a battle, leaving the group after this defeat.

Noah was was one of the first original characters created by Peter Tagg. The idea of Noah came from the season finale of the second season of Twig & Pik-pik, in which Twig shouts "No! Ahhhh..." after falling. Initially introduced as an ally in the first season of Steve The Trooper, Noah was reintroduced as a villain in Trooper Village Stories during the Noah Arc in the first two seasons, and has since made several subsequent appearances in the third season as a supporting villain.

## Personality

   Noah was a psychotic and malignant individual who cared little about anyone but himself. He displayed many traits of narcissism, having an inflated opinion of himself and viewed himself as a god, and even expressed "a hatred of all Pikmin kind". These traits made him a very threatening Pikmin. Noah had a rather egocentric personality, telling Twig and Thorn that they'll "never catch him" before using a portal, and always claimed to be superior to other Pikmin based purely on his speed and strength. Despite his egotism and narcissism, Noah held a genuine love for his siblings Steve and Olivia, never invading The Steve Dimension because of this.

## History

### Backstory

Noah was born on December 11th, as the brother of Steve and Olivia. He originally lived with Steve and Olivia in Pikstreet Avenue. During his time in Pikstreet Avenue, Steve was famous for helping the Pikmin defeat countless enemies. Noah and Olivia also helped Steve during these battles as well, with Noah greatly looking up to his brother and wanting to be as loved as him, whilst Olivia didn't mind being out of the spotlight and enjoyed her ordinary life as a Pikmin.

     However, despite helping Steve in various battles, Noah never got the same level attention as his brother, which made him become jealous of Steve's fame and popularity amongst the Pikmin. Noah was later confronted by a delinquent group of Pikmin, who said he would never be as legendary as Steve. Enraged, Noah killed the group of Pikmin, but staged their deaths to make it appear as though they had been killed by an enemy. This incident began Noah's hatred for all other Pikmin, dismissing them as slower than him.

Around this time, Steve feared that the Pikmin may become too dependant on him, and so he and his family left Pikstreet Avenue, and later moved to the Steve Dimension, and elected Mayor Ronnie Bulborb (no relation to Mayor Reginald Bulborb from Trooper Village) as their mayor. Shortly after moving to Pikstreet Avenue, Noah began wearing a Stormtrooper outfit. Although he continued to assist Steve and his friends in various battles, Noah had secretly become affiliated with the Space Pirates, a criminal organisation. By 2015, he had left the Space Pirates to perform solo takeover missions in various Pikmin towns. One of the towns he planned to attack was Pikstreet Avenue, beginning his battles with the citizens of Pikstreet Avenue and Trooper Village.

### Classic Kirby

In 2012, Noah assisted Steve and his friends while wearing a Stormtrooper outfit.

### Trooper Village Stories

#### Season 1

     Noah caused mass destruction to Pikstreet Avenue and the creatures that live there. He went in a wall portal to do the same thing to Trooper Village, but he managed to get stopped by Twig, Thorn, Egde, and the Pikmin in Trooper Village. Noah then went through a blue portal to return to Pikstreet Avenue. There, he possessed Thorn with a cape in the same way Tamama had done years prior, but managed to escape Pikstreet Avenue shortly after Thorn was freed from his control, heading through the portal to Trooper Village.

     Noah confronts the three Pikmin from Trooper Village and Mayor Reginald Bulborb shortly after they return to the village, knocking them all unconscious. With the help of Sonic the Hedgehog and an unnamed Yellow Pikmin, Noah took over the village and overthrew Reginald as the mayor. With help from Twig, Thorn, and Edge, Noah was eventually defeated and sent to jail, and Reginald was reappointed mayor.

#### Season 2

     While in jail, Noah overheard Reginald talking about going to an anime convention. He then decided to transform into Minako Aino to trick Reginald into giving him control of the village again. Despite Noah's voice sounding different to Minako's, Reginald believed his Minako disguise, which quickly backfires on Noah as Reginald suddenly asked if he wanted to go on a date, which made Noah speechless, unaware of how much Reginald loved the sailor scout. They then have a meal during the date, with Noah complimenting the chef's cooking. After the meal, Reginald asks Noah if he wants to marry him. The real Minako then enters the scene, and Noah takes off the disguise and admits that he's actually Noah. However, Reginald still thinks he's Minako, just cosplaying as a Pikmin. Noah then ran back to jail, not being able to take it anymore. Back in jail, Noah is thankful that he doesn't have to deal with Minako anymore, but suddenly hallucinates seeing three Minako lookalikes in the cell, which causes him to faint.

     After Makuta is arrested for killing some Matorans, he is placed in the same cell as Noah, who tells Makuta about his successful attempt to take over the village and subsequent arrest. Impressed by this, Makuta recommends to Noah that he should work with him sometime, promising "twice the destruction". Noah agrees and says it sounds good to him. Later on, when Cyber Captain Olimar attacks the village, he causes a giant explosion which causes the jail cells to blow up, freeing Noah and Makuta who escape through a nearby portal. The portal took Noah to Pikstreet Avenue, where he confronted Twig about his plan to take over the kingdom. After Kirby Bulborb fell into his trap, Noah used him to create his ultimate weapon; the Acidic Candypop Bulbearorb, which Noah described as "the ultimate merge of Bulborb and machine". Twig was nearly defeated, but was saved by Cyber Captain Olimar, who gave him a sword that Twig used to free Kirby and defeat the Acidic Candypop Bulbearorb. Noah was shocked that his ultimate weapon was destroyed and escapes. Noah and Cyber Captain Olimar would later put aside their villanous differences and begin to work together.

#### Season 3

Noah, Cyber Captain Olimar, Underhut and Makuta meet Keroro, Tamama, Giroro and Kululu, and they decide to work together to accomplish their evil goals. Renaming their platoon to "Sgt Frog's Lonely Hearts Club Band", they visit Trooper Village in an attempt to take it over. However, Keroro instead says that he'll steal all of Reginald's manga, which Giroro is confused by and causes the entire group to be effortlessly defeated by Reginald. Later on, Tamama notices a record store, which he enters so he can buy a copy of Abbey Road. After being told that they don't have a copy of the album, Tamama flips out and uses his Tamama Impact to completely destroy the store. Kululu then suggests stealing some Bomb-rocks to cause destruction, and go to Yellow's house to steal all of his Bomb-rocks. However, Kululu lights a match while near the Bomb-rocks, causing them to explode. Yellow then returns to find out that all of his Bomb-rocks were destroyed, and defeats Sgt Frog's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

     A few months later, Sgt. Frog's Lonely Hearts Club Band returned to Trooper Village to defeat the Pikmin and Bulborbs during sunset, but were defeated once again. Noah left the group shortly afterwards, and re-joined the Space Pirates, and wore his Stormtrooper outfit for the first time since July 2012.

In August 2017, Noah and the other Space Pirates went to Hocotate Freight in an attempt to kill the Hocotations there, but were confronted by Reginald, who defeated Noah and the majority of the Space Pirates. Noah's fate after this encounter is left undisclosed.

### Twig & Pik-pik

Noah confronted Twig about his plan to take over the kingdom. After Kirby Bulborb fell into his trap, Noah used him to create his ultimate weapon; the Acidic Candypop Bulbearorb, which Noah described as "the ultimate merge of Bulborb and machine". Twig was nearly defeated, but was saved by Cyber Captain Olimar, who gave him a sword that Twig used to free Kirby and defeat the Acidic Candypop Bulbearorb. Noah was shocked that his ultimate weapon was destroyed and escapes after forming an alliance with The Shadowed One.

## Abilities

    Noah was capable of teleportation, and was a lot faster than other Pikmin through the use of nanomachines, which were given to him by Brittany. He was also shown to have shapeshifting abilities, transforming into Minako Aino to trick Mayor Reginald Bulborb. Noah was also capable of using a cape to mind control others into doing his bidding via a cape, reminiscent of the cape Tamama used to control Thorn. He could also pilot an Acidic Candypop Bulbearorb, and created portals to travel through different dimensions. Noah was also able to break the fourth wall, as demonstrated when he said that one of his lines sucked before being arrested, and directly addressed the audience, telling them not to inform Reginald of one of his plans.

## Behind the scenes

Noah was was one of the first original characters created by Peter Tagg. The idea of Noah came from the season finale of the second season of Twig & Pik-pik, in which Twig shouts "No! Ahhhh..." after falling to his "death" (Twig is later revealed to have survived his fall in the first episode of the third season). When watching the episode for the first time in December 2011, Peter misheard Twig's line as "Noah", and decided to ask series co-creator Jakob Dawson about it on YouTube. Jakob said he liked the idea of "No! Ahhhh!" being Noah and that he might use it someday (which he ultimately did in the fourth episode of the Steve Saga, as a tribute to Peter's character). A few months later, Noah was featured in the first Steve The Trooper season, which were Peter's first Pikmin plush videos (they were unreleased at the time, he later released them in The Legendary Unreleased Steve Movie in 2016 and re-released them in the anthology collection of both seasons in 2022). He was introduced as the brother of Steve, who was disgusted as a Stormtrooper. Initially introduced as an ally, Peter later changed Noah's character into a villain. Another idea was for there to be two Noahs, one being good and the other bad, but this was scrapped.

Noah's first appearance as an antagonist was in the Trooper Village Stories episode named after himself. Originally just a crossover with Peter and Jakob, the episode later became the first part of an entire three-episode arc in the first season, as well as an additional fourth episode of the arc in Twig & Pik-pik: The Show's third season and Trooper Village Stories' second season. The Noah Arc introduced Noah as a villain, having previously appeared as an ally in Classic Kirby. Following the conclusion of the Noah Arc, Noah made several subsequent appearances as a villain, usually in a supporting role, and later became one of several antagonists to join Sgt. Frog's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His screentime in the series was reduced after Jakob began attending university and had to focus on university work over making plush content, and was seemingly defeated for good in the episode Hocotate Freight during a battle with Mayor Reginald Bulborb, though whether or not he died in the battle was left open to interpretation.

## Notes

* The name Noah comes from the Hebrew "Noach" which means "rest," or "repose." It also comes from the Babylonian word "nukhu," which means repose or rest. Noah is also a biblical name from the Old Testament, with the biblical Noah being known for gathering animals “two by two” and creating an ark of refuge for the great flood.
* When Noah's character was created by Peter Tagg in December 2011, he came up with the name for the character after misinterpreting Twig's "No! Ahhhh..." line from the Twig & Pik-pik season two finale as "Noah".
* The name Noah also means “comfort” in the sense of “the one who brings comfort to the people”, which is ironic in the case of this Noah, who was frequently opposed to the allies and caused destruction to both Trooper Village and Pikstreet Avenue and its citizens on several occasions.
* Noah is one of the earliest original characters in the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe, alongside Steve, Mayor Reginald Bulborb and Doc Kermit Frogglegg.
* During two of his respective takeover plans, Noah successfully took control of two allies, Thorn and Kirby Bulborb, making the former evil by using the same cape Tamama used, and using the latter to create an Acidic Candypop Bulbearorb that he took control of. He also successfully took over Trooper Village and overthrew Reginald Bulborb as the village mayor, effectively having authority over everyone else in the village until he was defeated and imprisoned, and previously took over Pikstreet Avenue. This makes Noah the most successful antagonist in the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe.
* An original plan for Noah's character was there being two Pikmin being named Noah, one being evil and the other an ally. This plan was scrapped and replaced with Noah becoming an antagonist in Trooper Village Stories, previously being an ally in Classic Kirby.
* Another character called Noah made an appearance on the fourth episode of Jakob Dawson's series "Steve Saga". This version of Noah behaves extremely similar to the original Noah, but has some small differences, including being British and being the son of the Universe 26 equivalent of Steve, instead of his brother like the Noah in the Trooper Dimension. Instead of a sister, the Universe 26 equivalent of Noah has a brother named after Twig.