Editing Captain Olimar

Official artwork of Captain Olimar from ''{{iw|pikipedia|Hey! Pikmin}}''.

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Captain Olimar hails from the planet {{iw|pikipedia|Hocotate}}. As a Hocotatian, Olimar has a humanoid appearance that displays a number of distinct traits: he is extremely minuscule in size (being ≈1.9 cm, ≈0.75 in tall), has a large head-to-body ratio, a bulbous nose, pointy ears, three small brown hair tufts, and black hyphen-shaped eyes that, during moments of surprise, comically bulge out and appear similar to human eyes.

Facets of Captain Olimar's personality are revealed via [[pikipedia:Olimar's journal|his journal]] and [[pikipedia:Olimar's voyage log|voyage log]]: he is caring and dedicated to [[pikipedia:Olimar's family|his family]], values his camaraderie with the Pikmin to the point of worrying if they stray too far or feeling shame if an entire group of them is killed off, considers himself a patron of the arts, is very professional in the zoology field, has a gardening hobby and mentions that he "always had a way with animals" (the latter of which is further reinforced via his {{iw|pikipedia|Piklopedia}} entries). Although he has a generally nice personality, Olimar also shows signs of snark in some {{iw|pikipedia|Treasure Hoard}} entries, and acknowledges in some journal entries that his dedication to his job can cause him to feel distant from his family; in other instances, he states that he gets more and more grumpy as he ages, and also the fact that he has a short temper for issues of minimal importance.

Captain Olimar debuted in the [[Nintendo GameCube]] game, ''{{b|Pikmin|game}}'', where he is the playable character. His first adventure details how his vacation is derailed due to his ship, the {{iw|pikipedia|S.S. Dolphin}}, crash landing on [[pikipedia:PNF-404|an uncharted planet]] after it is struck by a meteor. Upon waking from unconsciousness, he discovers that the S.S. Dolphin has been severely damaged and that his life support system will expire in thirty days; this is further compounded by the planet's atmosphere being rich in Oxygen, which is poisonous to Hocotatians, and thus prompts Olimar to immediately begin repairing his ship.

Olimar stumbles upon a sentient, indigenous plant/animal hybrid species, which he dubs Pikmin; he effectively enlists them to help him find his ship's parts. Although there are three possible endings to ''Pikmin'', the canon ending sees Olimar return home with the S.S. Dolphin fully repaired, segueing directly into the beginning of ''{{iw|pikipedia|Pikmin 2}}''.

In the beginning of ''Pikmin 2'', it is revealed that Olimar's employer, {{iw|pikipedia|Hocotate Freight}}, wound up accruing a colossal debt during the events of ''Pikmin'' because of a falsified report by a fellow employee named {{iw|pikipedia|Louie}}. Upon Olimar's return, the company was forced to sell the S.S. Dolphin after he had spent weeks repairing it - lowering the debt to 10,100 {{iw|pikipedia|poko}}s. The shock of the revelation of the company's fate causes Olimar to drop a bottle cap that he brought home as a souvenir for his son. However, an old Hocotate Freight Ship analyzes the cap and discovers that it is worth 100 pokos, an extraordinary amount (worth more than a year's salary); when {{iw|pikipedia|the President}} learns about how there are more objects like the bottle cap on the distant planet, he makes Olimar and Louie return there in the Hocotate Freight Ship to gather [[pikipedia:Treasure Hoard|treasure]] to pay off the company's debt. After obtaining 10,000 pokos' worth of treasure, Olimar accidentally leaves the planet without Louie, forcing Olimar to team up with the President to save him.

In ''{{iw|pikipedia|Pikmin 3}}'', Olimar is not the main protagonist, although he still plays an important role in the game's story. Having returned to the distant planet (dubbed "PNF-404" by the {{iw|pikipedia|Koppai}}tes) in search of more treasure in order to buy back the S.S. Dolphin and pay off Hocotate Freight's second instance of debt, Olimar salvages the {{iw|pikipedia|Cosmic Drive Key}} dropped by the [[S.S. Drake]], forcing [[Alph]], {{iw|pikipedia|Brittany}} and {{iw|pikipedia|Charlie}} to seek him out so they can reclaim it and repair their ship. In the end, they find that he has been captured by the [[Plasm Wraith]], which they defeat to save him before departing for their respective home planets.

In ''{{iw|pikipedia|Hey! Pikmin}}'', some time has passed after the events of ''Pikmin 3'' as Olimar is travelling in space. During his journey, however, he encounters an asteroid shower, which he is unsuccessful in avoiding. Upon being hit, his ship, the {{iw|pikipedia|S.S. Dolphin II}}, crash lands on  [[pikipedia:Hey! Pikmin planet|an unknown planet]]. Interestingly, this planet is similar to PNF-404 in regard to terrain and even some species, most notably Pikmin. Although he is assisted by the S.S. Dolphin II's artificial intelligence, Olimar must nevertheless ally with Pikmin yet again in order to return home, this time by acquiring enough {{iw|pikipedia|Sparklium}} in order to refuel the Dolphin II, and by regaining the ship's {{iw|pikipedia|Sparklium Converter}}.

After many trials and tribulations, the S.S. Dolphin II's AI finally manages to pinpoint the location of the Sparklium Converter. Upon defeating the {{iw|pikipedia|Berserk Leech Hydroe}}, Olimar and the Pikmin regain the Converter, which Olimar later discovers to have inadvertently caused the {{iw|pikipedia|Leech Hydroe}}'s parasitic tendencies to go out of control because of an influx of energy. After fully repairing the ship, Olimar bids farewell to the Pikmin before launching into space, with the Pikmin boarding their Onion and following him in order to see him off. Olimar and the Dolphin II's AI both say one final goodbye to the Pikmin and, upon activating the ship's warp, Olimar manages to return to Hocotate after some time, thankful for being helped by Pikmin once again.

In ''{{iw|pikipedia|Pikmin 4}}'', Olimar crashes on PNF-404, and must use the Pikmin to collect the ship parts of the S.S Dolphin. It is implied to be an alternate-timeline of ''Pikmin'' where Olimar crashes in a different location ({{iw|pikipedia|Rescue Command Post}} instead of {{iw|pikipedia|The Impact Site}}) leading to wildly different events. He is not the main character of story mode, but is playable in the side mode, {{iw|pikipedia|Olimar's Shipwreck Tale}}. Unlike in ''Pikmin'', Olimar meets a green space dog who he names {{iw|pikipedia|Moss}}. After collecting the ship parts, he attempts to escape, but must return as Moss snuck onto the ship, and she cannot live outside the atmosphere of PNF-404. However, when attempting to reland on the planet, the S.S Dolphin crashes once again, this time being fatal. The Pikmin carry Olimar's body to the onion, transforming him into a {{iw|pikipedia|leafling}}, which revives him, just like what happens in the bad ending of ''Pikmin''. In the main story, the {{iw|pikipedia|rookie Rescue Officer}} finds Leafling Olimar and Moss multiple times during the first four areas, and battles them in {{iw|pikipedia|Dandori Battle}}s. Leafling Olimar repeatedly leafifies other {{iw|pikipedia|castaway}}s. After the fourth Dandori Battle, Leafling Olimar is brought back to the base, and is cured by {{iw|pikipedia|glowsap}}. Olimar then stays at the base for the remainder of the game.

Olimar returns as a playable character in ''Super Smash Bros. 4''. Aesthetically, his design is now based on his appearance in ''{{iw|pikipedia|Pikmin 3}}'': he has a {{iw|pikipedia|whistle}} on the bottom of his helmet, the two top buttons on his spacesuit are blue instead of red, and both of his sleeves feature a {{iw|pikipedia|Hocotate Freight}} patch. Like the [[Koopalings]], [[Alph]] from ''Pikmin 3'' also appears as an [[Alternate costume (SSB4)#Olimar|alternate character]]; unlike them, he has his own alternate costumes, which reference fellow ''Pikmin 3'' protagonists {{iw|pikipedia|Brittany}} and {{iw|pikipedia|Charlie}}, as well as Olimar himself. Olimar was the first veteran to be confirmed after those revealed at [[E3 2013]].

*At ≈1.9 cm (≈0.75 inches) tall, Olimar is canonically the shortest playable character in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series as of ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''.<ref>[https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_GameCube/Manual/formated/Pikmin_-_Nintendo.pdf Pikmin manual at gamesdatabase.org]</ref> This distinction was previously held by [[Kirby]], who is canonically 20 cm (8 inches) tall (according to [[wikirby:List of misconceptions#Kirby's height|many sources]], including his [[List of character profiles|character profile]] in the original ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' and Japanese material for ''{{iw|wikirby|Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards}}'').<ref>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0003/miryoku/ Nintendo Japan (Nintendo Online Magazine - Kirby's profile - March 2000 issue covering Kirby 64: the Crystal Shards release)]</ref>