Palutena

Palutena
Official artwork of Palutena from Kid Icarus: Uprising. Her modern design made its debut in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and was used again for Uprising.
Universe	Kid Icarus
Debut	Kid Icarus (1986)
Smash Bros. appearances	Brawl SSB4 Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	NES Remix 2 (2014)
Console/platform of origin	Nintendo Entertainment System
Species	Goddess
Gender	Female
Place of origin	Angel Land
Voice actor	Brandy Kopp
Japanese voice actor	Aya Hisakawa
Article on Icaruspedia	Palutena

For fighter info, see Palutena (SSB4). For other instances, see Palutena (disambiguation)

Palutena (パルテナ, Palutena) is a character from the Kid Icarus series. She first appeared in Super Smash Bros. Brawl during Pit's Final Smash, Palutena's Army, where an image of her forms in the background while centurions attack opponents. She makes her playable debut in Super Smash Bros. 4. Pit's bow and arrows are named after her.

Character description

Artwork of Palutena from Kid Icarus.

Palutena (a derivative of Pallas Athena, the Greek goddes of wisdom and justice) is the Goddess of Light from Angel Land. Not much was known about Palutena's personality in the first few Kid Icarus games aside the fact she was very wise. With the creation of Kid Icarus: Uprising Nintendo was able to develop her more as a character, as she is in constant communication with Pit via psychic communications. It is shown that Palutena, while a Goddess, is very dignified when she wants to be. However, most of the time, she is actually quite cheerful and playful. While being the leader of Angel Land, and ergo Pit's boss of sorts, she treats him more like a kid brother than an actual servant.

She is very playful and mischievous when she wants to be as well. Often times putting Pit in very dangerous situations for the sake of completing missions she has assigned him just for laughs. During their psychic communications she is prone to speaking to Pit's adversaries, and is also known to use modern day quotes and phrases incorrectly due to her use of a large vocabulary that confuses Pit when conversing. She is shown having a huge appetite, to the point the mention of anything food related making her hungry, an example being the mention of eggs making her craving omelets. She is very touchy when it comes to her age despite her youthful appearance, and detests it to the point of becoming agitated when being called Ma'am.

As the Goddess of Light, she has great power over the element, and therefore is capable of performing powerful magical abilities with it. One of her most powerful attacks is a giant beam of vaporizing light that can disintegrate enemies. She is also the one who supplies Pit his Power of Flight and all his other powers. She is quite omnipotent, and she demonstrates her godly insight to look into the pasts of total strangers. Palutena has typical abilities shared by other gods from the Kid Icarus series such as telepathic communication, as mentioned before, and summoning large projections of herself.

Palutena was amongst a number of Kid Icarus characters to have had their voice actors changed from Uprising to Smash Bros. due to conflicts. Originally voiced by Ali Hillis in Uprising, Brandy Kopp takes over in Smash 4 due to Hillis not being available at the time of the recording.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee

Palutena is mentioned in the description of Pit's trophy.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Palutena in Brawl

Though she does not appear in battle as a playable character, she does appear in Pit's Final Smash. An image of Palutena appears in the background when activated, and she summons many Centurions to help Pit in battle.

In Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary

In SSE, Pit is seen in Skyworld watching Kirby and Mario fighting in the Midair Stadium courtesy of a Reflecting Pool. When he sees the Subspace Bomb being detonated, Palutena appears. She gives Pit her sacred bow and sends Pit to help save the World of Trophies from the Subspace Army. Palutena is the only character in The Subspace Emissary who is neither playable nor a villain.

Trophies

Palutena has two trophies, the first is unlocked after clearing the "Cleaning House in Skyworld" event. The second is unlocked by clearing All-Star Mode as Pit.

Palutena

The ruling goddess of Angel Land. Palutena showered the earth with rays of light, using her powers for the good of mankind. But Medusa, who in her hate for mankind was banished to the underworld, makes war on Palutena and wins, capturing and holding the goddess deep within a temple. Palutena entrusts Pit with a sacred bow and the task of defeating Medusa.

: Kid Icarus (1987)

Palutena's Army

Pit's Final Smash. An image of the goddess Palutena appears, heralding the arrival of Palutenas's Army's legions, the Centurions. These flying warriors proceed to attack all enemies with fierce savagery. Once a Centurion strikes an enemy, he falls from the sky, never to fly again. Centurions are so fast that dodging them is very hard. Take heart, Centurions! Your deaths are not in vain!

: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

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  Palutena's trophy in Brawl.

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  Palutena's Army Trophy.

In Super Smash Bros. 4

Palutena, as she appears in Super Smash Bros. 4

Palutena was announced as a playable character at E3 2014 during the Nintendo Digital Event. She uses various Powers that she would grant Pit and the Fighters in Kid Icarus: Uprising. Prior to her announcement, in early 2014, rumors of Palutena had spread across the Internet, consisting of two images of her as a playable character in the Nintendo 3DS version. However, the the images were eventually proven false when it was revealed that they were created in an external program and digitally manipulated to resemble those from Super Smash Bros. 4.

Palutena's home is featured as an available stage in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, called Palutena's Temple. Designed to resemble its appearance in Kid Icarus: Uprising, Palutena herself appears as a large, golden statue on the stage.

Trophies

Palutena

In Kid Icarus: Uprising, the goddess of light uses telepathy to communicate and grants miracles to support Pit on his adventure. In Smash Bros., she has special moves like Warp and Heavenly Light at her disposal. She's very adaptable—you can customize her into a long- or close-range fighter!

Palutena (Alt.)

Palutena's Reflect Barrier side special deflects any attacks and projectiles that come at her from the front. Unlike other reflective moves, you can leave this barrier in place and it will keep reflecting. If you really want to ruin someone's day, you can push them over an edge using this move.

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  Classic (3DS)

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  Classic (Wii U)

• PalutenaAllStarTrophy3DS.png

  Alt. (3DS)

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  Alt. (Wii U)

Gallery

• Palutena Classic.png

  Artwork of Palutena from Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters.

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  Palutena's image in Pit's Final Smash in Brawl.

Trivia

• Despite the fact she is not playable in Brawl, she actually has more trophies focused on her rather than Pit. She has her own trophy, as well as being featured in Pit's Final Smash trophy.
• Palutena, the dog from Duck Hunt, and Wii Fit Trainer are the only playable characters in the Super Smash Bros. series that do not have a playable appearance in any other video game.
• Palutena, Little Mac, Villager, Mii, the duck from Duck Hunt, and Bowser Jr. made non-playable appearances in Brawl before being later upgraded into playable characters in SSB4.
• Palutena's appearance in Brawl was used as the basis for her design in Kid Icarus: Uprising, which was then used as the basis of her design in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U.
  • In fact, Palutena's Super Smash Bros. 4 artwork is almost identical to her artwork in Kid Icarus: Uprising.