Captain Olimar

Captain Olimar is the star of the video game franchise Pikmin, made by Shigeru Miyamoto, named after Mario himself (Olimar is an anagram of Mario, with an L added). In Super Smash Bros. Melee, he had a trophy which the player could only get when they used a memory card with a Pikmin savegame on it. He is also a new playable character in the Wii game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, fighting with the help of Pikmin. In fact, without the Pikmin, Olimar is very weak – he can't even use a Smash Attack. As such, Olimar has to constantly pick Pikmin out of the ground in order to fight.

The Pikmin may also scatter, which acts very problematic for Captain Olimar. It is unknown if they scatter by attacks from opponents or just naturally. However, Olimar can call the Pikmin back to his side, so as long as Olimar has even one Pikmin by his side, he can still fight. His other two specialties include throwing Pikmin and using them as a chain (as a Tether Recovery).

In his Final Smash he hops on his ship and takes off while lots of enemies come on the stage and start attacking the players. His "home" stage is the Distant Planet.

Role in the Subspace Emissary
Captain Olimar's Pikmin are attacking a huge R.O.B. However, they are so weak they do no damage—the R.O.B. simply spins around and all the Pikmin that were on him fly in all directions and turn into ghosts and die. Captain Olimar starts shivering in fear at the huge robot. A red Pikmin walks up to Olimar and taps him on the side. Olimar turns around and the red Pikmin points out the Blue Falcon speeding through the forest.

Captain Falcon jumps out of the Blue Falcon and then Falcon Punches the huge Robot right in his face. The R.O.B. then falls back destroyed. Captain Falcon lands back on the ground while doing a slide similar to the Falcon Kick. However, while he is sliding on the ground, he accidentally hurts Pikmin that came in contact with him and killed them all. Captain Falcon just stands there striking a pose wile Captain Olimar just watches as the wind blows a leaf by. Olimar and Falcon decide to team up to fight the Subspace Army.

Upon reaching the edge of the Island of the Ancients, they witness Diddy Kong attacking Primids and rescuing Donkey Kong. Falcon and a reluctant Olimar then decide to join forces with the Kongs, and upon reaching them, the Primids return with backup. Donkey, Diddy, Falcon, and Olimar manage to fight them off before they see off Falco Lombardi, who had helped Diddy in bringing him to the skift that Donkey was held on.

The skift takes Olimar and his crew inside the Subspace Bomb Factory, and they begin to move through it. They eventually find the Ancient Minister, along with Pikachu and Samus Aran. Ganondorf suddenly appears and commands the R.O.B.s in the room to detonate the Subspace Bombs in the room so he could create a large enough hole in space to fit a Subspace Gunship through. The Ancient Minister reveals himself to be the leader of the R.O.B.s and helps the other heroes defeat the Subspace underlings that Ganondorf sent out. Olimar, along with R.O.B. and the rest, escapes from the island before it is sucked into Subspace. All of the heroes then unite to take down the Subspace Gunship and enter Subspace. Unfortunately, Olimar and the others were doomed to be turned into trophies by Tabuu.

However, hope comes in the form of King Dedede, who created some badges that revive trophies into the original fighter. Olimar is rescued by Dedede and his team consisting of Luigi and Ness. With everyone revived, they are able to take down Tabuu and save the world.

Solid Snake Codec Conversation

 * Mei Ling: Snake, have you ever heard of the ancient Chinese story, "The Vain Ocean of Wealth and Splendor" from the Zhen Zhong Ji?
 * Snake: I've been waiting for the movie.
 * Mei Ling: Basically, it's meant to express the impermanence of all things. You know, like even when Captain Olimar has lots of Pikmin with him, they could all be gone the next moment. Those poor little guys--they carry, they fight, they multiply...and they get eaten. Olimar might have lots of company one minute and be all alone the next. It's so sad.
 * Snake: But he can pluck out more Pikmin anytime he wants, right?
 * Mei Ling: Well, yeah, I suppose so.
 * Snake: No one truly fights alone. Not even me.
 * Mei Ling: ...You're absolutely right, Snake. Good luck. I'm rooting for you.

Trivia



 * Olimar was planned to make an appearance in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga as one of the characters that appear when creating new brews in the Starbeans Cafe. In this appearance, his dialogue was written in the type of text box that appears whenever Mario or Luigi get certain items, as though written in a log book like in the actual Pikmin games. He also names Mario "Marlio" (a complete anagram of "Olimar") and mistakes Luigi for a dangerous beast. Because Professor E. Gadd replaced all of the other characters (even Wario), Olimar wasn't able to interact with Mario until Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
 * Olimar's symbol in Super Smash Bros. Brawl looks very similar to Princess Daisy's emblem.
 * One of Olimar's costumes makes him look very similar to his sidekick, Louie as well as the President of Hocotate Freight.
 * In Yoshi's Island DS, a baby that looks like Captain Olimar appears in a few scenes.
 * In one of the sentences which Mei Ling says to Snake in the codec-conversation about Olimar ("they carry, they fight, they multiply...and they get eaten."), it is a reference to the Japanese theme-song of the Pikmin, "Ai no Uta", which also appears as background music in Brawl.
 * A spaceship that resembles Olimar's ship from Pikmin 2 appears in Super Mario Galaxy in the Space Junk Galaxy.