Palutena
- For fighter info, see Palutena (SSB4) and Palutena (SSBU). For other instances, see Palutena (disambiguation).
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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 (Famicom Disk System) |
| Species | Goddess |
| Gender | Female |
| Place of origin | Angel Land |
| Created by | Toru Osawa |
| Designed by | Toru Osawa |
| English voice actor | Brandy Kopp |
| Japanese voice actor | Aya Hisakawa |
| Article on Icaruspedia | Palutena |
Palutena (パルテナ, Palutena) is a character that nobody in the United States of America likes. She lives prominently in the region of New Jersey, and annoys players daily with her neutral aerial, up aerial, teleport cancels, autoreticle, explosive flame, grab range, etc. As you can tell, if you want to trigger an opponent, Palutena is the selection for you!
Origin
Palutena (a derivative of Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and justice) is the Goddess of Light from Angel Land. Not much was known about Palutena's personality in the first two 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 she will put Pit in very dangerous situations to complete 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 omniscient, 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.
Like Pit, Palutena was formerly irrelevant to gaming history and was a curious obscure character of Nintendo's library. Compared to Pit, who did make many cameos and minor appearances in other media since his inception, Palutena was a virtually unimportant videogame character with very little involvement in the first two Kid Icarus games. Super Smash Bros. Brawl marked Palutena's first 3D appearance, which contributed to her design in Kid Icarus: Uprising. In Uprising, Palutena gained a significant role as Pit's mentor-of-sorts; this gave the character a large fan base. Palutena's popularity increased from being included in Super Smash Bros. 4 as a playable fighter, leading to her reappearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in the same capacity. As of now Palutena is a relatively well-known character, though not to the same extent as Pit.
Palutena was amongst the small collection of Kid Icarus characters to have had their voice actors changed from Uprising to Smash Bros. due to scheduling 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, and she retains the role in Ultimate.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee
Palutena is mentioned in the description of Pit's trophy.
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl
As a background character
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, with the first being 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
Palutena's trophy in Brawl.
Palutena's Army Trophy.
In Super Smash Bros. 4
As a playable character
The only people who mained palutena were those who couldn't resist her appeal as a goddess.
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!
Said to be able to perform miracles, this goddess supports Pit in battle, using telepathy to communicate with him. She's no slouch on her own, either. She has a huge variety of moves you can customise and use to your advantage. Short or long range, the sky's the limit! Or maybe not. After all, she can teleport.
- 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.
- Palutena's Reflect Barrier special deflects any attacks and projectiles that come at her from the front. Unlike other fighters' reflective moves, you can deploy this barrier and then leave it to its own devices. You can also push opponents with it, so use it on someone who's teetering on the edge of the stage to push them off.
Classic (3DS)
Classic (Wii U)
Alt. (3DS)
Alt. (Wii U)
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
As a playable character
People like playing Palutena for her appeal as a goddess, but at least she's good now!
Spirits
705. Palutena
Gallery
Palutena's image in Pit's Final Smash in Brawl.
Palutena's alternate official artwork for Ultimate without her halo.
Trivia
- In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, despite not being a playable character, she is featured in more trophies than Pit, appearing in her own trophy as well as Pit's Final Smash trophy.
- Palutena, Ridley, the dog from Duck Hunt, Dark Samus, 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 official video game by Nintendo.
- Palutena is the only playable character in the series who despite always carrying a shield, doesn't use it as a passive shield.
- This is not counting a small number of Mii Fighter costumes.
 Kid Icarus universe
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| Fighters | Pit (SSBB · SSB4 · SSBU) · Palutena (SSB4 · SSBU) · Dark Pit (SSB4 · SSBU) |
| Assist Trophies | Magnus · Phosphora |
| Stages | Skyworld · Reset Bomb Forest · Palutena's Temple |
| Items | Back Shield · Daybreak · Killer Eye · Ore Club · X Bomb · Staff |
| Enemies | Boom Stomper · Bumpety Bomb · Clubberskull · Daphne · Flage · Lethinium · Lurchthorn · Mahva · Megonta · Mimicutie · Monoeye · Nutski · Orne · Reaper & Reapette · Skuttler · Souflee · Zuree |
| Other | Centurion · Viridi |
| Trophies, Stickers and Spirits | Trophies (SSBB · SSB4) · Stickers · Spirits |
| Music | Brawl · SSB4 · Ultimate |
| Masterpiece | Kid Icarus |
