Captain Olimar

Captain Olimar is the main character of the Pikmin games. Together with the Pikmin, he serves as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

See Pikmin & Olimar (SSBB) for fighter details.

Character description

Captain Olimar is a tiny astronaut from the tiny planet Hocotate. Olimar, like the rest of his kind, is only the height of a quarter. Olimar orders and commands the Pikmin as his "minions" through his games.

Captain Olimar's first appearance was in the Nintendo GameCube game, Pikmin, where he is the main and only playable character. His first adventure tells that his ship, the Dolphin, crashed on a planet (presumably Earth), and hes aided by the Pikmin, a plant-like alien race that local to there. Olimar is joined by his partner Louie in the second game, Pikmin 2. In the game Olimar is identified as the top employee of Hocotate Freight Company. He has a wife and children, and communicates with them whenever he can.

Olimar is heavily based on Mario, as he has a similar nose, and his Japanese name, Orima, is derived from Mario. Likewise, the lankier Louie is derived from Luigi in both name and body proportion.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee

Captain Olimar makes only one minor appearance in Super Smash Bros. Melee:

As a trophy

Captain Olimar cameos in Melee on a trophy, which was helpful in promiting the original Pikmin because that game was released within the month before Melee. This trophy is one of the most unique in the game in the way the player obtains it. In order to get the Captain Olimar trophy, one needs to have a save file of Pikmin in their GameCube memory card. Melee will automatically give the player the Pikmin trophy the next time he/she starts it up. However this can be got around with by using action replay.

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Captain Olimar

The main character of the game Pikmin, Captain Olimar crash-lands on a mysterious planet after his spaceship malfunctions. In order to get off the planet, he must gather the pieces of his broken ship, but the atmosphere of the planet is poisonous to Olimar. As a result, he has to enlist the help of the native Pikmin. (Pikmin 12/01)

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

The Pikmin universe is established as a main universe in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, so Olimar serves a much more major role:

As a playable character

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Main article: Pikmin & Olimar (SSBB)

Captain Olimar is featured together along with the Pikmin as a single playable character entity registered as Pikmin & Olimar. Olimar is the character the player controls, but Olimar is very weak on his own and needs to summon Pikmin to his side with his special Pikmin Pluck move in order to use stronger attacks with them.