Bulborb: Difference between revisions

|image      = Red Bulborb P3Art.png

|icon        = Bulborb P3 icon.png

|name        = Oculus kageyamii russus

|areas      = [[The Forest of Hope]], [[Valley of Repose]], [[Awakening Wood]], [[Garden of Hope]], [[Tropical Wilds]], [[Formidable Oak]], [[The Shadow in the Brush]]

|underground = [[Hole of Beasts]], [[Hole of Heroes]], [[Dream Den]]

'''Bulborbs''' ({{j|チャッピー|Chappii|Chappy}}) are the most common, standard, and well-known [[Enemy|enemies]] in the {{pg}}. They were originally called '''Spotty Bulborbs''' in {{p1}}, and then '''Red Bulborbs''' in {{p2}}, before being simply called Bulborbs in {{p3}} and later games. Due to their unparalleled prominence in the series as enemies, they are often just as much a staple for the games as the [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] and [[Olimar]], getting significant exposure via marketing and spin-off media.

|weight1 = 10  |weight2 = 10  |weight3 = 10

|carriers1 = 20 |carriers2 = 20 |carriers3 = 20

|seeds1 = 12    |seeds2 = 12    |seeds3 = 10   |seedsh = 0

                 |value2 = 7    |value3 = 50

|hp1 = 1100    |hp2 = 750      |hp3 = 1000     |hph = Unknown

|regen1 = Unknown |regen2 = 0   |regen3 = Unknown |regenh = Unknown

Bulborbs are nocturnal creatures, and sleep in open locations during the day. In the main series of games, this exposes them to being attacked by Pikmin, as they won't wake up until they are [[Combat|attacked]]. However, [[Dwarf Bulborb]]s in {{p1}} will let out a screech when agitated, awakening any nearby Bulborbs.

Once awake, they become aggressive, and will run towards nearby Pikmin and lunge at them to try and eat them. If it manages to catch any Pikmin, it will stand up and eat them; otherwise it will try again. If there are a lot of Pikmin attacking it at once, it will shake them off and then start trying to eat again. If their eyestalks are attacked, they will panic and break off whatever they are doing to shake away their assailants.

In {{hp}}, a Bulborb takes on the role of the [[boss]] of the [[Brilliant Garden]]. It is larger and moves slower, but is also more aggressive, and is no longer nocturnal. When defeated, it drops the [[Flashy Monument]].

[[File:Red Bulborb and Pikmin.png|thumb|200px|Artwork of several Pikmin attacking a Bulborb.]]

[[Swarm]]ing a Bulborb with a large group of 50 or so Pikmin, preferably [[Red Pikmin]] due to their increased attack power, proves quite effective most of the time. If only a few Pikmin are available, they should be [[throw]]n onto the Bulborb's back repeatedly while retreating if the enemy starts charging at them. Waiting until it goes back to sleep takes longer, but is a lot safer. If [[bomb-rock]]s are used, the Bulborb will die with two blasts. If you attack its back it will usually do a quarter-turn right, hiding some of its back from your current position.

Rather than swarming it, continuously tossing Pikmin onto its back is preferable when the army is at least 30 Pikmin strong, even if some are shaken off. A few [[Purple Pikmin]] can cause serious damage, especially if they stun the Bulborb. If it is accidentally awakened before being attacked by Pikmin, you should run away until it turns around, then make a new pass at it.

If the Pikmin army is very small, the creature can also be woken up and made to chase the leader until it leaves its territory, at which point it will turn around and return to its original sleeping spot. At this point, the player must follow it and wait for it to reach its spot. Once there it will yawn, fall asleep, then wake up and attack again if provoked. Beginning the attack at the moment the creature yawns provides the player with a few crucial seconds in which the Bulborb is entirely immobilized and harmless.

In some metal-themed [[cave]]s, Bulborbs can be led off of the stage by awakening it and quickly running around a hole in the sublevel, causing it to fall off.

The first game's tactic of swarming the creature from behind returns in this game, though here it is far more effective. If the Pikmin [[charge]] at the creature's behind, they will flawlessly cling to it and continue attacking as it rises, making 20 Red Pikmin enough to take it down before it has any chance of resistance.

 

If it is awake, repeatedly throw Pikmin at its eyes, even when it's shaking in pain, and whistle them when they scatter around and you end up low on Pikmin to throw. You can also escape from a Bulborb by [[hiding]] under a tall plant.

[[File:P4 Reveal Fight.jpg|thumb|left|A Bulborb in ''Pikmin 4'']]

In {{p4}}, one Bulborb is fought in [[Unknown Garden Area]], next to the [[Temporal Mechanism]].

[[File:The Shadow in the Brush cutscene.jpg|thumb|right|The Bulborb cutscene.]]

Bulborbs are among the creatures with the most diverse physiology in the ''Pikmin'' series. They possess traits similar to those of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. They have large bulbous eyes set in stalks, as opposed to the compound eyes of most insects. These eyes are purple in ''Pikmin'' and ''Pikmin 2'', but appear more anthropomorphic in ''Pikmin 3'', with large black pupils and blue irises.

It seems that the juvenile Bulborb is the favored host of the parasitic Pikmin known as [[Bulbmin]]. This type of [[Pikmin (species)|Pikmin]] appears to control its host, causing the animal to behave less like a Bulborb and much more like a Pikmin, following a [[leader]] (which is naturally an older Bulbmin) and hunting in packs. Bulborbs are not observed at the two stages of development displayed by Bulbmin anywhere else in-game (unlike the [[Spotty Bulbear]]), so it is unknown whether Bulbmin are a common stage in Bulborb initial development or not, as symbiotic cooperation from the parasite would give this slightly weaker form of [[Grub-dog]] an advantage in the subterranean environment that all stages of the Bulborb species are found in.

Bulborbs were created before the concept for {{p1}} was established. When a game called ''[[Adam and Eve]]'' was being worked on, the Bulborb had been created to serve as a mammoth-like beast. When the concept for the game was scrapped, the Bulborbs were reused for ''Pikmin''. As clued by the internal name for this enemy and the [[Dwarf Bulborb]], the Dwarf Bulborb may have possibly been the original Bulborb, and the Spotty Bulborb may have been created afterward in development. However, the "mammoth" properties of the beast, as mentioned by [[Shigeru Miyamoto]], suggest that the first "Bulborb" creature to be developed was large, and hence, the Spotty Bulborb was likely the original, with the Dwarf Bulborb conceptually developed later as a smaller derivative.

Their name in ''Pikmin'' is "Spotty Bulborb", and at this point, only one type of Bulborb was planned to exist (besides the false variations of Bulborb, the Dwarf Bulborbs). For {{p2}}, it was decided that further types of Bulborb would be developed, but because they would all be Bulborbs and have spots on their backs, the original one needed a rename. Due to it being red while the others are [[Orange Bulborb|orange]] and [[Hairy Bulborb|hairy]], the name "Red Bulborb" was given to this enemy.

In the [[New Play Control! Pikmin|''New Play Control!'' remake of ''Pikmin'']], their sounds were changed to be much higher-pitched, although this is likely an oversight.

For {{p3}}, perhaps with the purpose to simplify things, its name became known simply as "Bulborb", despite two other types of Bulborb existing in the game: the [[Orange Bulborb]] and the [[Whiptongue Bulborb]]. In an attempt to flesh out this iconic enemy, its behavior was made slightly more complex in this game, in the form of it reacting to Pikmin thrown at its eyes with a flinch, and by looking at Pikmin while it chases them. These behaviors also happen with the other Bulborbs.

===''Pikmin 3'' Nintendo Player's Guide===

A Bulborb also appears in the background of the [[Garden of Hope]] stage in ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'' and ''Ultimate'', but its purpose is merely cosmetic. There is a [[Super Smash Bros. Brawl#Stickers|sticker]] for a Bulborb in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', where it uses the final name "Bulborb".

Finally, a Bulborb also appears as a Spirit in {{ssbu}}'s Spirit Mode. It can be evolved into the [[Empress Bulblax]] Spirit at level 99.

|spec = {{p2 enemy property | fp01 | 足元範囲 | Unknown (foot range?) | 30 }}

|common    = Bulborb. Its name is simplified to this as it's the most "basic" bulborb, compared to other ones; in fact, the alternative name "basic bulborb" is even used in Olimar's notes.{{cite quote|{{notes:Bulborb/p3dpolimarus}}|[[Captain Olimar]]|his entry on the Bulborb in {{p3d}}.}} See [[Grub-dog family#Naming|here]] for details on the word "Bulborb". In ''Pikmin 2'', it was called "Red Bulborb", referring to its primarily red coloration. The term "Spotty Bulborb" was initially used to refer to this enemy in ''Pikmin'', until other types of Bulborbs were made for ''Pikmin 2''. The "Spotty" in this name is due to the spots it has on its back.

|jpcommon  = {{j|チャッピー|Chappii}}, or {{j|アカチャッピー|Aka Chappii}}. Translate to "Chappy", or "Red Chappy". See [[Grub-dog family#Naming|here]] for details on the word "Chappy".

|jpname    = {{j|ベニデメマダラ|Beni Deme Madara}}. Translates to "Spotted Crimson Bug-eye", as pointed out by the {{ssbb}} trophy.

|scientific = ''Oculus kageyamii russus''. ''russus'' is Latin for "red". See [[Grub-dog family#Naming|here]] for details on the genus and species.

|internal  = Its internal name in ''Pikmin'' is <code>swallow</code>, given that the name <code>chappy</code> is already used by the [[Dwarf Bulborb]]. The internal name in ''Pikmin 2'' and ''Pikmin 3'' is also <code>chappy</code>, the same as the Japanese name for Bulborb. Finally, in ''Hey! Pikmin'', the enemy's internal and generator names are both <code>boss_chappy</code>, the same as before, but now acknowledging that it is a boss.

{{Foreignname

|Jap   = チャッピー (''Pikmin 3'')<br>アカチャッピー (''Pikmin 2'')

|JapR = Chappii<br>Aka Chappii

|JapM = Chappy<br>Red Chappy

|ChiTrad=恰比

|ChiTradR= Qiàbǐ

|ChiTradM= Chappy

|ChiSimp=恰比

|ChiSimpR= Qiàbǐ

|ChiSimpM= Chappy

|Dut=Bulborb

|DutM=-

|Fra = Bulborbe (''Pikmin 3'')<br>Bulborbe rouge (''Pikmin 2'')<br>Bulborbe à pois (''Pikmin'')

|FraM = Bulborb<br>Red Bulborb<br>Spotty Bulborb

|Ger  = Punktkäfer (''Pikmin 3'')<br>Roter Punktkäfer (''Pikmin 2'')

|GerM  = Dot Beetle<br>Red Dot Beetle

|Ita=Coleto (''Hey! Pikmin'')<br>Coleto Rosso (''Pikmin 2'')

|ItaM=Red Coleto (''Pikmin 2'')

|ItaN="Coleto" may come from "boletus" (Latin for mushroom), as a bulborb's spots resemble those found on certain mushrooms.

|Kor=차피

|KorR=Chappi

|KorM=Chappy

|Spa=Bulbo (''Pikmin 3'')<br>Bulbo rojo (''Pikmin 2'')

|SpaM=Bulb<br>Red bulb

|PorPM = From "Bulborb", the masculine suffix ''-o'', and possibly ''bolbo'' (bulb) or ''olho'' (eye)

|PorPN = Name taken from the ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U|Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'' trophy.

|Rus=Клубнеголов

|RusR=Klubnegolov

|RusM=From клубника ''klubnika'' (strawberry) and голова ''golova'' (head)

|RusN=Name taken from ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' spirit

|notes=y

Red Bulborb early death.jpg|A dead Bulborb being [[Carry|carried]] off in an [[Pikmin prerelease information|early version]] of ''Pikmin''. Note how it is upside-down, unlike the final game, where it is simply slumped over.  

Bulborb Clay.jpg|Promotional clay artwork of a Bulborb fighting some Pikmin.

Bulborb E-Card.jpg|The creature's [[e-card]], #01 (2^nd red card).

Pikmin3ScreenND7.jpg|Close-up screenshot of a Bulborb in ''Pikmin 3''.

Pikmin3ScreenND4.jpg|An image of a Red Bulborb sleeping in ''Pikmin 3''.

Pikmin 3 Red Bulborb Eating.png|A Bulborb from ''Pikmin 3'' eating some Red Pikmin.

Bulbsnot.jpeg|A Bulborb's snot bubble.

Pikmin3Bulborb.png|Artwork of the Bulborb for the Official Nintendo Magazine. Notice how the spots on its back appear to stick out.

Bulborb Pikmin 3 Artwork 01.jpg|''Pikmin 3'' artwork.

Bulborb Pikmin 3 Artwork 02.jpg|''Pikmin 3'' artwork.

Red Bulborb in Brawl.png|A Bulborb, as it appears in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''.

*In the North American and Japanese version of {{npcp}}, the sample rate for the Bulborb's sounds were set incorrectly causing them to make whistling and squeaking like sounds rather than their distinctive cries.{{cite youtube|3m_j0UFlbog|where the start explains that the sounds are broken|published={{date|30|November|2019}}|retrieved={{date|4|July|2022}}}} This bug has caused some players to think that the sounds of a Bulborb were replaced by mouse squeaks.

*If a [[bomb rock]] is planted near a Bulborb, the noise produced by the explosion will wake it up.

*The ''Brawl'' trophy game appearance section claims that the Bulborb first makes an appearance in {{p2}}. This is [[Mistake|incorrect]], as the enemy is present in the [[Pikmin (game)|first game]] as well. The only part about the trophy that debuted in ''Pikmin 2'' is the name "Bulborb" &ndash; this enemy was known as "Spotty Bulborb" prior to that game.

*It could be said that the Bulborb is what represents enemies in general in the ''Pikmin'' series, since it repeatedly appears as the icon whenever the game needs to refer to enemies: a stylized Bulborb icon is used to represent battle deaths in the [[day results menu]] of ''Pikmin 2'' and the remaining enemy count in the [[Mission Mode#Battle enemies!| Battle Enemies!]] mode of ''Pikmin 3'', a Bulborb silhouette icon represents the [[Poko]]s earned through enemy bodies in the [[Day results menu#Cave results|cave results menu]] of ''Pikmin 2'' and is used to show how many enemies of a particular type have been killed in the [[Piklopedia (Pikmin 2)|Piklopedia]] of ''Pikmin 2'', a Bulborb icon is used to represent the Piklopedias of both [[Piklopedia (Pikmin 2)|''Pikmin 2'']] and [[Piklopedia (Pikmin 3 Deluxe)|''Pikmin 3 Deluxe'']], Bulborb icons appear in the Game Hunter, Animal Annotator, and Blast Radius (silhouetted in this case) [[Badge (Pikmin 3 Deluxe)|badge]] icons for completing tasks related to defeating enemies in ''Pikmin 3 Deluxe''; Bulborbs and Bulborb variants appear as the most frequently seen enemy during [[Day#Lift off|day lift off cutscenes]]. Bulborbs also appear very prominently in concept art, franchise merchandise, and in crossovers involving the series (such as in the {{ssbs}}). This role as the standard, ubiquitous enemy, however, is instead fulfilled by the [[Mockiwi]] in ''Hey! Pikmin''.

*[[Grub-dog family]]

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