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For the sake of completion, debatable mistakes will be included on the article as well. Unless otherwise confirmed, every mistake listed here is speculative, and could in fact be purposefully made by the developers.

[[File:Reel11 Goolix.png|thumb|left|The [[Goolix]] on [[The Forest Navel]].]]

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====S.S. Dolphin credits mistake====

====Bomb rock warning in the ''New Play Control!'' instruction manual====

====The Forest Navel geyser====

====Olimar's movement====

===Written mistakes===

* [[Candypop Bud]]s, [[geyser]]s, and [[Iridescent Flint Beetle]]s are internally considered bosses. Although this doesn't affect the game directly, it has the unintended side-effect of making the area's music change to the enemy variant whenever the player approaches a Candypop Bud or geyser.

* On the Fiery Blowhog's clip in the enemy reel, the camera's viewport can be seen clipping through the ground, revealing the black [[pit|void]] below the map.

==''Pikmin 2''==

*There is no counter for [[Bulbmin]] in the cave selection screen in [[Challenge Mode (Pikmin 2)|Challenge Mode]]. As a result, a player may expect that they will receive no Pikmin at all for [[Hidden Garden]], when they actually get two Bulbmin. There is an empty space to the right of the Purple Pikmin counter, so it's possible that there could've been one intended to be there.

*Depending on the [[region]] and area, the [[Decorative Goo]] in the [[Treasure Hoard]] can appear to float or have no shadow, as explained [[Decorative Goo#Treasure Hoard appearance|here]].

**The other, smaller branch placed between the [[Blue Onion]] and the [[White Flower Garden]] is also floating off the ground, but it's much harder to notice, and can be seen from the electric gate near the Blue Onion.

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P2RustyGulchMistake.jpg|The cave unit with its missing underside as seen in [[Rusty Gulch]].

AwakeningWood Branch Hole.png|The floating branch in the upper-right corner.

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===Missing sublevel objects===

To note is that there is a related, but different problem in Hole of Heroes sublevel 6, where one of the treasures will spawn successfully, but because of the cave's layout, be logistically impossible for players to retrieve, as explained [[Hole of Heroes#Sublevel 6|here]].

For cases where the treasure is inside of an enemy, what happens is that that enemy does not appear.

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;Story Mode Candypop Buds

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| {{icon|Violet Candypop Bud}} || [[Glutton's Kitchen]], sublevel 5 || ≈0.13% ||  

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| {{icon|Ivory Candypop Bud}} || [[Shower Room]], sublevel 6 || ≈59% ||  

| {{icon|Ivory Candypop Bud}} || [[Snagret Hole]], sublevel 6 || ≈0.005% || If missing, so are the 3 [[Lapis Lazuli Candypop Buds]].

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| {{icon|Queen Candypop Bud}} || [[Citadel of Spiders]], sublevel 3 || ≈12% ||  

| [[The Key]] || [[Hazard Training]], sublevel 1 || ≈0.4% || [[Fiery Bulblax]] || If this is missing, there is no way to complete the cave.

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| [[Cupid's Grenade]] || [[Hazard Training]], sublevel 1 || 1/2,147,483,648 || [[Dwarf Bulborb|Dwarf Red Bulborb]] || If this is missing, [[Mirrored Element]] is too, but [[The Key]] is not missing.

;Challenge Mode Candypop Buds

===Biological classification inconsistencies===

*The scientific names for the [[Empress Bulblax]] (''Oculus matriarcha'') and the [[Bulborb Larva]] (''Oculus bambinii'') indicate they are different species, even though the latter is offspring of the former and should have the same scientific name. However, creatures on [[PNF-404]] are often very different from real-world creatures, so it giving birth to a different species wouldn't be too implausible in contrast to some other creatures. In the Japanese version, however, there are no scientific names; instead, the game features [[Pikipedia:Japanese#Japanese names and common names|Japanese names]]. In these names, the Empress Bulblax and the Bulborb Larva don't specify what type of Bulborb they are speaking of; the game simply refers to them as "Dememadara" (specimen with an expanded egg sac) and "Dememadara", where Dememadara is the Japanese name for the Bulborb species. One can identify that the specimens we see in the game are [[Bulborb|Red Bulborb]]s, however the Piklopedia entry doesn't specify it since it's not something specific to the Red Bulborbs.

*Although the [[Iridescent Glint Beetle]] is in a different family to the [[Iridescent Flint Beetle]] and [[Doodlebug]], it has the same genus as both. This is inaccurate to real world taxonomy because family is located above genus on the classification tree, so every member of a genus must share the same family.

*Similar to the previous case, the [[Creeping Chrysanthemum]] shares a genus name with the [[Dandelion]], even though they are in separate families; in real life, this is impossible, as different species cannot be in the same genus and different families.

*Additionally, the in-game [[Margaret]] plant is actually a yellow {{w|Argyranthemum frutescens|marguerite}}. Causing even more confusion, it's claimed to be in the chrysanthemum family, likely due to marguerites and chrysanthemums belonging to the same family in real life.

===Infernal Vegetable===

*In the Secret Files, Olimar says he is on his third trip to [[PNF-404]]. Technically speaking, this is Olimar's fourth visit, as he visited the planet twice during the events of ''[[Pikmin 2]]''; both before and after paying the debt.

*In the US version, the "[[Pikmin 3 voyage log#Misc. 35|Misc. 35]]" log entry cuts off after the text "I think I".

*After the ship takes off in the ending [[cutscene]] for [[Olimar's Comeback]], the camera shows many Pikmin from above, standing on leaves. Two [[Blue Pikmin]] in this scene have purple [[maturity|buds]], instead of white.

*In some of the [[Secret File]]s, the [[S.S. Dolphin]]'s name is written as such, but in others, it is written with the European ''Pikmin 3'' spelling, "SS Dolphin".

*In the U.S. ''Pikmin 3'' website notes, the [[Whiptongue Bulborb]] is said to be in the "bulborb family".{{cite quote|Part of the Bulborb family, it has an extra long tongue, giving it more range to grab its prey.|[https://web.archive.org/web/20190114004844/http://pikmin3.nintendo.com/explorers-guide/hostile-creatures/ ''Pikmin 3'' Website]|notes on the [[Whiptongue Bulborb]]}} It is most likely the site meant [[grub-dog]] family, the family that all other Bulborbs are confirmed to be in. ''Pikmin 3 Deluxe'' also confirms the family as the grub-dog family.

==''Hey! Pikmin''==

====Spectralids inconsistencies====

Along with this, the singular and plural forms of "Spectralids" seem confused as well. All Spectralids in ''Pikmin 2'' are referred to in plural only, so their singular term is unknown. In ''Pikmin 3'', all were called "Spectralids" even in singular, meaning "Spectralids" is both singular and plural. However, in ''Hey! Pikmin'', Electric Spectralid is the singular term for the creature. Although White and Yellow Spectralids appear in ''Hey! Pikmin'', they are not included within the [[Hey! Pikmin logs|creature logs]], meaning it is impossible to cross-reference it with the Piklopedia.

===Hocotate Ship inconsistency===

==Non-canon mistakes==