Armored Mawdad

The Armored Mawdad is a massive mawdad that crawls about in erratic patterns, trying to dodge Pikmin attacks, and is able to scale walls as a means of avoiding combat and launching surprise attacks. Its crystalline shell protects it from attacks from all except Rock Pikmin, and destroying its crystalline mandibles prevents it from trapping Pikmin to eat. Throwing a Pikmin into its eyes will cause it to careen wildly through its territory as it struggles to shake the offending Pikmin off, even slamming its head into surfaces to get it off if it must.

=In fanon games=

In Armored Mawdad Game
The player plays as an Armored Mawdad in Armored Mawdad Game.

In Pikmin 5: Adventure Awaits
In Pikmin 5: Adventure Awaits, the Armored Mawdad returns as a cyborg because, after the events of, the Armored Mawdad suffered a traumatic injury that resulted in a massive portion of his head missing. Some pieces of the creatures were irretrievable, so those parts had to be replaced with mechanical components.

In Pikmin E
The Armored Mawdad returns as the Shielded Mawdad in Pikmin E. It has the same attack patterns as in, minus appearing from the ceiling. It appears as a miniboss on the Distant Tundra's bonus day, and is fought to collect a white 100-pellet. It boasts the name Shielded Mawdad due to having lost most of its protective covering.

In Pikmin Reloaded
In Pikmin Reloaded, the Armored Mawdad is without its mechanical parts and is ready to fight again. The first Dark Pikmin controls it.

In Pikmin: Wide World
The Armored Mawdad appears in Pikmin: Wide World as the boss of Forgotten Mine, a cave located in Balmy Highlands. It is fought on the seventh and final sublevel. Once the Armored Mawdad's chamber is entered, a cutscene will begin. It shows, from the perspective of the chamber's center, Olimar, Shacho, Marie, and also Louie if he was saved from the Frosted Arcticlops, and their Pikmin walking into its chamber and looking around cautiously. A roar is then heard, and the camera pans out to show the Armored Mawdad on the wall above them. The leaders and their Pikmin scurry further into the arena, the Armored Mawdad dropping from the wall, blocking the room's only exit, and stopping just short of the group, which is now on the other side of the chamber, to roar again to further intimidate them. The battle then begins. The Armored Mawdad has the ability to crawl up the walls of its chamber to either flee from its attackers or find another position to attack from. Should its mandibles be intact, it may also trap Pikmin to more effectively eat them. While it climbs the walls of its arena, its position is indicated by the debris falling from above, although its movements can also be directly watched using the HocoPad's camera function. Periodically, the Armored Mawdad will charge at leaders and Pikmin, trapping them if its mandibles are intact, and slowly feeding on them if it is not interrupted from doing so by damaging it or its armor segments. Leaders the Armored Mawdad bites into will be chewed up, and then spat out alongside any Pikmin in its mouth at the time.

The creature itself is a large, long, centipede-like creature with multiple pairs of legs. Its body is primarily blue and bumpy, but its underside is smooth and yellow. Its head is the largest part of its body. Connected to the Armored Mawdad's head is a pair of curved crystal mandibles that open and close at the creature's will, and can trap those they close around. Covering its body are crystal plates that are gray, transparent, and destructible, much like its mandibles. The Armored Mawdad has a pair of thin, orange lips, two rows of small jagged teeth on either of its jaws, a red mouth, and a large, flat, pink, forked tongue. Its somewhat large eyes have round, black pupils, orange irises, and yellow sclerae. Interestingly, the armor covering its tail is very elaborate, but its tail is flat and circular.

Because of the Armored Mawdad's crystal armor, using Rock Pikmin, Purple Pikmin, rocks, or normal bomb rocks is necessary to reach the tender flesh underneath and inflict damage to the creature. Rock Pikmin and rocks can simply be thrown at the Armored Mawdad to either crack and break its armor or harm it directly, but rocks will instantly shatter a portion of its crystal armor plating in one hit. Purple Pikmin can be thrown directly over the creature to pound on its body, inflicting damage as well as cracking or destroying any pieces of armor the Pikmin may have struck on impact. The use of normal bomb rocks is arguably the most devastating, as just one bomb rock can damage or destroy several sections of its armor and inflict considerable damage to the Armored Mawdad itself. Using Pikmin that can cling onto what they are hitting, such as Red Pikmin, is recommended, as they will continue harming the Armored Mawdad's exposed flesh even while the creature climbs around the walls of its arena. Although its eyes are somewhat large, throwing Pikmin at them will have no effect besides further aggravating the creature, regardless of if the eyes are squinted or wide open. Upon death, the Armored Mawdad will yield. Its body can be taken to the Lander Pod to either gain or be stored to later gain forty Pikmin seeds from the Master Onion, but only if the cave is exited using an escape geyser.