#blubbug

Blubbug from Hey! Pikmin!

Blubbug (Hey! Pikmin)

Name: Blubbug

Debut: Hey! Pikmin

oughoough.... where to begin... just look at this round little guy! Don’t you wanna befriend them immediately?

This is Blubbug! A funny bug seemingly filled with fat and nectar! This funny guy walks and slides in the snow with their 4 stubby feet, and when they feel in the mood, they stick their feet together and turn into a spinning top!! This lad loves to spin! They can push you off ledges while spinning, but this is an unintended result, they just want to spin! No hard feelings here.

You’ll be pleased to know that, unlike most Pikmin creatures, you CANNOT kill Blubbug! If you throw Pikmin at them they just harmlessly bounce away, their bounciness makes them impervious to all forms of attacks! An incredible power!

Instead, Blubbugs can be used as platforms! That’s right, these rotund fellas are Allies! Not enemies! I guess sorry for talking about a Weird Pikmin Ally, but it’s Funky Friday and all the rules are out the window!

You’ll want to lead them to certain ledges so that you can jump on them to reach higher platforms, you can push them with your Pikmin if you want to be fast, but they can sometimes do it on their own so you should be nice and patient with them when you can! Sometimes the only way is to push them into a hole so they stay there, which I think is very mean but I’m sure they’ll be fine!

Now let’s talk Biology! These guys appear only in one level, a snowy level! there’s ice and snow all around, so I theorized they are so blubbery as an adaptation for the cold! Just like seals and the like, I was then happy to see Olimar agrees with me! He says their fatty body insulates them from the cold! Their impenetrable defenses being a side effect of it!

As you can see I have a lot of love and respect for Blubbug, but you know what’s interesting? this is a videogame, and there’s this super round creature, that moves, and you’re telling me THEY NEVER ROLL??!!!??? What is this nonsense???? I feel like all round videogame creatures are mandated by law to roll! And they’re already used as fast-moving hazards! But they SPIN INSTEAD OF ROLLING?????

The devs knew what they were doing, they were keenly aware of their sins against videogame tropes and relished in them. I guess this is a perfect reflection of how Blubbug exists completely unapologetically, and there’s nothing you can do to stop that.

Just look at that strut!

Before wrapping up, there’s another member of the Bloather family, another spherical friend I must talk about:

Name: Puffy Blubbug

Debut: Hey! Pikmin

Blue and fluffy! Arguably even better adapted for snowy places! To be fair to regular Blubbug, they are mostly seen in caves, so it makes sense they wouldn’t invest a lot in camouflage. Also Puffy Blubbugs are a lot smaller, so they have to make up for faster heat loss!

Puffy Blubbug also has no feet! But they don’t need em! As they have wings, though they barely use them! Lifting such a fat body with little wings ought to not be that efficient! What do they do instead? I’m glad you asked! they BOUNCE AND TUMBLE DOWN SLOPES!

Finally! Proper Ball Physics for a Ball-shaped creature, they bounce like balls and then flutter with their wings for a bit, until you hit them of course, in which case they’ll bounce away and tumble uncontrollably for a bit!

Puffy Blubbug is also responsible for one of the most adorable things Olimar has ever written:

“It’s too big for me to get my arms around, but it looks so warm that I wish there was some way to hug it.”

I love this entry SO much, I’d want to do that too Olimar, they’re so fluffy and round, a plushie of them would make me cry I think.

Istg if blubbug doesn't appear in pikmin 4 I will make a mod adding this pure boi in, also I wouldn't mind if no other hey pikmin enemies got added