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Dingo
Artwork of Dingo from Play Nintendo.
Name Dingo
Gender Male
Eye color Black
Hair color Red
Home planet Ohri
Known related characters None
Height 2.1 cm (0.83 inches)
First game Pikmin 4
Latest game Pikmin 4

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Dingo (ディンゴ?, lit.: "Dingo") is the ranger of the Rescue Corps in Pikmin 4 and from the planet Ohri. He specializes in solo missions and can complete a night expedition, Dandori Challenge, or Dandori Battle on the player's behalf if they fail and ask for his help.

Personality and appearance

Dingo has a triangle-shaped head, light skin, pointy ears, a large pinkish nose, and red hair spiking upwards. His eyes are black with prominent white highlights inside of them and thick, triangular eyebrows set over them. He wears a dark blue headband and a Rescue Corps spacesuit.

Personality-wise, Dingo is direct and unsentimental. He may appear to be uncaring, addressing some of his colleagues by their jobs rather than their names, but his coworkers' perceptions of him do seem to matter to him--for instance, he worries about Bernard being mad at him at multiple points and likes Shepherd enough to become awkward when speaking to her. Dingo is not one to trust people upon meeting them; notable instances of this include his believing that the player is attempting to "pull a fast one on" him when they report that they've fully explored an area and his suspecting Collin to have turned a castaway into a leafling. He isn't a stranger to acknowledging his own mistakes and the efforts of others, however. This is seen when he tries to apologize to Bernard for abandoning him in a cave and when he congratulates the player for rescuing all the castaways, albeit doing the latter under his breath. Shepherd notes that he's quite meticulous and makes sure that even the tiniest scratch on his body is fully healed before heading out.

Naming

His name alludes to dingoes. Unlike the rest of the Rescue Corps, Dingo is named after a partly feral breed of dog rather than a fully domesticated one; this may reference the fact that he is a ranger and typically goes on missions by himself instead of associating with the rest of the group.

Gallery

Trivia

  • Dingo and Yonny are childhood friends as listed on the Japanese "Pikmin Garden" site.
  • Dingo has a tendency to eat and drink whatever others leave lying around, so much so that Collin has bad dreams about it. This is noted by Yonny after the ranger drinks some glow sap, and it's said that at one point Dingo ate Bernard's pizza as well.

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Flag of Japan Japanese ディンゴ?
Dingo
Dingo
Flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Chinese
(traditional)
丁格
Dīng gé
-
Flag of China Chinese
(simplified)
丁格
Dīng gé
-
Flag of France French Wally From "warrigal"
Flag of Germany German Digo From "dingo“
Flag of Brazil Portuguese Din From "dingo"
Flag of Spain Spanish Dingo -

See also