Louie

Louie is a secondary protagonist in the Pikmin series, serving as Captain Olimar's partner and coworker. Louie is relatively new to the shipping business and has a ravenous appetite. He was raised by his grandmother, who encouraged him to play with bugs, as well as eat them, an activity he seems to partake in while on PNF-404. By nature, he is quite mischievous.

=In fanon games=

In Pikmin 3: The Progg Wars
In Pikmin 3: The Progg Wars, Louie serves as a boss, controlling the minds of different bugs to attack leaders and Pikmin, and is revealed to have controlled the Titan Dweevil during the events of. He can also fire a laser cannon at his opponents.

Pikmin 360
In Pikmin 360, Louie is captured by Grey Pikmin, and is not freed until the end of the story.

In Pikmin E
In Pikmin E, Louie has managed to survive being left on PNF-404, and the third leader unlocked. His perk is pacifying insectoid enemies.

In Pikmin Forever
Louie, in the form of Loucap, is one of the three main leaders in Pikmin Forever, discovered in the Mycelial Burrow. After attempting and failing to escape PNF-404, he needed the Mushroom Onion's aid to continue living, similar to Olimar's fate in the bad ending of. His body is still intact, but instead of a helmet he has a Common Glowcap growing from his head; thus, he can breathe on both Hocotate and PNF-404. He acts rather zombified, but seems to remember Captain Olimar and helps him on his mission. Loucap also helps Olimar realize that Pikmin work to cultivate the Onions, not the other way around.

Loucap controls like both a leader and a Pikmin. Loucap can control Pikmin on his own, but he has a carry weight of three and can also help carry items along. By default, he carries objects to the Mushroom Onion.

In Pikmin Galaxy Adventure
In Pikmin Galaxy Adventure, Louie ventures with Olimar so that Olimar can recover his memory. Together, along with many helpers, they defeat the Emperor Bulblogg and restore peace to the galaxy once more.

In Pikmin: Adventure of Four
In Pikmin: Adventure of Four, the Kidnapper is known to kidnap Olimar and the Koppaite trio. Small hints about who he is are given throughout the story, but his name is not given until the end after the One is defeated.

The Kidnapper is Louie. Because a year after the events of, the Koppaites had left him on PNF-404 by mistake. He had only survived because of the One, and so he helps her whenever needed; which is why he kidnapped the trio and Olimar.

In Pikmin: The Dark Void
"I'll show you!"

- Louie, to Olimar and the President.

Louie is the main antagonist in and final boss of Pikmin: The Dark Void. He is tired of poor employee treatment and wants revenge, so he takes an entire army of Void Pikmin and Phantom Pikmin and attempts to take over Hocotate Freight with them. Louie controls and rides a Titan Dweevil exceedingly more difficult than the one in, and he also summons evil Pikmin to help him. Many of his lines are those of Oogie Boogie and Pete in Kingdom Hearts II.

"YOU PUNKS COULDN'T GET TO ME IF YOU WANTED TO."

- Louie, taunting the company on the Titan Dweevil.

"THAT'S RIGHT, AWAY YOU GO!"

- Louie, shouting to Olimar while using electric nodes.

In phase one of the fight, the objective is to remove the weapons from the Titan Dweevil and destroy the insect itself. There are several methods of doing so, but the easiest is to use ultra-sweet spray on the Titan Dweevil to make it drowsy and then attack it. After the Titan Dweevil is defeated, Louie will retreat into the next sublevel. Here is the music theme used for this part of the fight.

In this phase, Louie is on foot. He will occasionally run backward, throwing bombs at leaders and Pikmin. The way to attack him here is to have a Marigold Pikmin use its shield to deflect the bombs back at him, sending him comically spiraling through the air. He then can be swarmed, but will eventually recover, and use a temper tantrum attack in which he stomps around shouting "GET OUT OF MY WAY!" and then smashes the ground, which has the same effect as an explosion. Once he is defeated here, he slowly walks backward and jumps into a water spout. Here is the music theme used for this part of the fight.

"LATER, LOSERS!"

- Louie, before entering the water spout.

In the third and final phase, Louie amasses an army of one thousand Pikmin that can easily be defeated with a single punch but swarm in great numbers. Louie eventually gives up and runs to the surface, but on the surface, many bulborbs of all kinds are waiting and they growl at him, and he is apparently eaten. Here is the music theme used for this part of the fight.

In Pikmin: Distant Planet
In Pikmin: Distant Planet, Louie is considered a hero or a villain at the end of the story, depending on the choices made during it. His connection to bugs is elaborated upon, and the antagonist, the Throne of Bugs, although immensely powerful both mentally and physically, sees Louie as its ruler, possibly due to his connection to the powerful Titan Dweevil before its defeat.

In Pikmin: Guardian
In Pikmin: Guardian, Louie serves as the main character. He has difficulty not eating some of the treasures he finds and is obsessed with cooking the creatures from the Pikmin Planet.

In Pikmin: Louie's Adventure
In Pikmin: Louie's Adventure, Louie is one of two main characters, the other being Violet. In this game, Louie is having to work with Violet and retrieve seventy supercomputer parts in just as many days.

In Pikmin: Treasure Colonization
In Pikmin: Treasure Colonization, Louie, an employee at Hocotate Freight, is assigned to be a part of a mission with other employees and Captain Olimar. Still the same, he also has the job of explaining his survival methods as he had survived countless days on the surface of PNF-404 without any real problem.

In The Return of Pikmin
In The Return of Pikmin, Louie serves as the exploration partner of Olimar. He writes notes about how to cook PNF-404's native wildlife, and can not throw Pikmin as high as Olimar can.