Lithopod family: Difference between revisions

=== Arctic Cannon Larva ===

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The Arctic Cannon Beetle is a variety of lithopod that appears in ''[[Pikmin 3]]''. It is of a brighter whitish-green color compared to the Armored Cannon Larva with a lavender underbelly. They live in snowy areas, and instead of spitting out boulders, they spit out snowballs that trap [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] and leaders, and sends them back on a predetermined path. Like the [[Armored Cannon Beetle Larva]]'s boulders, [[Winged Pikmin]] can fly over them. The snowballs don't kill Pikmin, but it can knock them into hazards or send them back to the end of the path.

The Armored Cannon Beetle is the mature specimen of an Armored Cannon Beetle Larva. Strangely, it was only seen in ''[[Pikmin (game)|Pikmin]]'', whereas the larval forms were exclusive to the sequel. It is a large, black, metallic-looking beetle with a thick, impervious, rounded shell of armor, a blowhole above its head, and a mouth. It attacks by inhaling through its blowhole and subsequently spitting out rolling rocks from its mouth, crushing any Pikmin (or captain) in the way. The only way to defeat it is to clog its blowhole with a Pikmin, which will cause the beetle to expose its steaming red backside.

Armored Cannon Beetle Larvae are enemies in ''[[Pikmin 2]]'' and ''[[Pikmin 3]''. They resemble large grubs with small blue eyes and a mouth bearing resemblance to that of the [[Armored Cannon Beetle]]. It also has a blowhole, but appears to inhale through its mouth, unlike the adult form. This animal behaves in much the same manner as the Armored Cannon Beetle, but turns and spits at a faster rate and has much less [[health]]. They do not have the hard exoskeleton the adults are infamous for, and are thus vulnerable on all parts of their body.

=== Decorated Cannon Beetle ===

Decorated Cannon Beetles have an appearance identical to Armored Cannon Beetle Larvae, except they are red instead of green. They, too, spit out stones, but their rocks home in on the captains due to magnetic substance is inside the rock which locks onto the captains' suits. The adult form of this has not appeared in any [[Pikmin series|''Pikmin'' games]] so far, but they appear to be in the same family as the Armored Cannon Beetle.

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