Captain Olimar


 * For fighter info, see Olimar (SSBB).

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.

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 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, crash lands on a Distant Planet, and he's aided by the Pikmin, an indigenous plant-like alien race. There are three possible endings to this game. 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. In Pikmin 2, Louie was on a delivery and was intrusted with a load of golden Pikpik carrots. On his way he got hungry and ate the whole load (he later says that a space bunny ate them), thus forcing Hocotate Freight into bankruptcy. Louie then returned to Hocotate and falsified his report to the President. Shortly after that, Olimar returned from the Distant Planet only to find that the company was 10,100 pokos (the universe's currency) in debt. Olimar and Louie then return to the Distant Planet to gather treasure to pay off the debt. Also, after obtaining 10,100 pokos, Olimar accidently leaves the Distant Planet without Louie, forcing Olimar to team up with the President.

Olimar is heavily based on Mario, as he has a similar nose, and his name, prior to translation from Japanese to English "Orima", is "Mario" backwards in Japan, since there are no letters, only symbols that dictate sounds (Ma-Ri-O and O-Ri-Ma). Likewise, the lankier Louie (whose Japanese name is "Loojie (Lugii)" 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
The Pikmin franchise debuted less than a month before Melee was released. As such, the game's story and its various characters/items had not been fully fleshed out during Melee's development. The only mention of Pikmin in the entire game is a pair of trophies, one depicting Olimar and the three original Pikmin species. 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 on their GameCube memory card, making it one of the rarest trophies in the game. Melee will automatically give the player the Pikmin trophy the next time he/she starts it up. However this can be gotten around with by using software such as Action Replay.

''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.'' There is also a trophy of 100 pikmin, which is obtained through the lottery.
 * 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



 * ''Main article: Olimar (SSBB)

Captain Olimar is featured along with the Pikmin as a single playable character entity. 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, and he needs at least one to use most of his attacks.

Trophy Info
''A veteran spacefarer in the employ of Hocotate Freight. After crash-landing on an enigmatic planet, Olimar met the mysterious beings known as Pikmin. He enlisted their aid to find his spaceship parts and help him escape. Once home, he found his employer on the verge of bankruptcy. He was sent back to the Pikmin world with his partner, Louie, to repay the company debt.''


 * Pikmin
 * Pikmin 2

Trivia

 * Olimar wears a spacesuit because oxygen is poisonous to him and his species.
 * Even though Olimar is only about the size of a quarter, he is only a bit shorter than the other Characters. However, it should also be considered that all of the characters could be animated toys/trophies (see SSBM opening), so Olimar may be his correct size, and everybody else could be miniature.