What Are The Arachnorbs From The Pikmin Series?
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- čas přidán 4. 03. 2023
- What are the Arachnorbs from the Pikmin series? Well let's talk about it!
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A part of me wonders, why are creatures like the Gatling Groink and the Man At Legs even alive? Doesn't that directly confirm there's AI on PNF 404 that are fusing these creatures together? Maybe the reason there's so many perfectly preserved man made objects is because of this AI?
I mean the Pikmin 2 ship shows that A.I. are canon in the Pikmin universe but don’t know as far as your theory. 🤔
It's GLaDOS from portal, the time line follows half life, portal 1+2, half life 2, then Pikmin a few years later!
/s but I really want it to be canon
@@pikpikgamer1012 Also they mention A.I in Pikmin 4 quite a lot in the demo
Man at legs has fleshy insides if you look it kinda looks wierd it could both might pick up armor befleshy insides and metallic cassing for armor the probably picked up the gun like a dwevil may just be a smart creature
Also its based on a spider Daddy long legs i belive
I once read a "Pikmin" fan fiction that covered the Arachnorbs, and made up answers to a lot of questions.
Intriguingly, he made a LOT of the points you made.
This is what the author wrote:
1. The Arachnorbs you fight are sexually mature, and you never encounter babies. Adult Arachnorbs do not have mouths because they do not eat. In RL, you can see this in mayflies. Arachnorbs spend most of their lives as babies and have eyes and mouths back then. Like mayflies, the adult forms live only to mate, and then they starve to death. Babies make the webs you see.
2. The ones you fight are female. Female Arachnorbs stomp and flatten land because the loud vibrations attract males from great distances. Females court the males, and not the other way around. The ones that make the flattest nest and stomp the hardest are the most attractive. Males are much smaller than females, which may indicate that the Man-At-Legs you see is a boy. (In RL, Employing deep sound waves across immense distances and underground is how elephants attract mates too. They make special grunts AND they stamp on the ground.)
3. They don't leave their "arenas" because the males come to them. Male Arachnorbs travel distances to mate with the loudest stomping female who makes the flattest nest.
4. The reason you don't see travelling males or waiting females is the same. Arachnorbs drop from the ceiling because that's where they spend most of their lives. As babies, they eat and feed in the trees. In caves and enclosures, they similarly live up in the rafters.
5. Females drop down when they sense movement in their "arena". They think the That's why they hear you coming, and jump down. They think you're a potential mate and so are trying to impress you. The player basically rooster blocking and cat fishing that poor Arachnorb.
6. A Man-At-Legs does not mate, eat, or do anything regarding reproduction. It's why you meet them buried in the ground and why they are not able to stomp. They are cyborgs and are thus biologically immortal. Also, the author posited that male Arachnorbs can't stomp and flatten like females, and have legs like the Man-At-Legs does.
7. Shaggy Long Legs grow hair for protection in tropical climates, and warmth in cold climates.
8. Bald Long Legs are to Shaggy Long Legs as nectarines are to peaches: they are the exact same creature, but the former has a recessive gene that causes their hair to not exist.
The author also explained why they burst open like party balls, but I don't remember what she wrote. The author didn't say why they make that "tea bagging" squat while resting, unfortunately.
Where can we read that? Sounds like a very interesting read
The Man-At-Legs has always been tragic to me because of the *sounds* it produces as it's resting.
The MAL is capable of MUCH faster and more exaggerated movement than any of the other arachnorbs, sometimes going at speeds to high that the mechanical leg's "knee" has to bend the other *way* to accompany the shift in weight. Whenever the MAL is resting, you can hear the non-mechanical arachnorb *inside* the MAL practically _gasping_ for air. It's like it doesn't want to be in this symbiotic relationship anymore...
That sounds less symbiotic and more parasitic
Yeah, and you know how arachnorb organs are made of metal, and the melty bits coming out of the man at legs? Its guts are melting from the sheer heat and strain! And the fact that the release of steam could be the arachnorb trying to EXPLODE! It thinks it is dead! It’s SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD! Yeah, it’s real f#%ked up.
I disagree.
The noise you hear isn't gasping, it's the usual "tea bagging" grunts and sounds. EVERY Arachnorb does that "tea bagging" squat and makes noises. The Man-at-Legs' noises don't sound any different than the roar-like grunts of, say, a Beady Long Legs. I don't think it is in pain.
Take note that the machine does not force the Man-at-Legs to attack other beings, or force it to roam. The Man-at-Legs is easily scared: you can see it run around faster and in jerkier motions than any other Arachnorb, and the machine lets it do it. The only time the Man-at-Legs freezes is when the machine takes over, and opens fire.
Why? It's because the Man-at-Legs is too skittish and easily scared to defend itself.
If the machine was torturing a docile creature, then the Man-at-Legs would be an apex predator, since it literally has a MACHINE GUN. Why do you always find it resting? Why do you think whenever it's not scared, it gently walks around? A Man-at-Legs will never fire upon anything that is not a threat to itself and its machine.
That's why I think the Man-at-Legs is NOT in pain and the machine is not parasitic, but rather, it is a mutalist, symbiotic relationship. The machine never takes over the Man-at-Legs except when you attack it, and it stops shooting once the thing trying to hurt it is gone. In the Piklopedia, the Man-at-Legs just wanders around after it shoots all the threats.
To conclude, you can see the machine take over ONLY when it needs to defend the panicking Man-at-Legs from a threat that is directly attacking it. The default state is the animal being in charge, as evidenced by how it behaves when it's awake, but there are no threats.
@@TurtleShroom3 Okay, so you say the mechanical portion of the MAL is simply looking _out_ for its organic other half...
Then I raise you the fact that it literally splits the Man-at-Legs' *abdomen* open to fire its weapon.
Taking it further, (and to disprove the possible rebuttal that it's simply an add-on chamber that the mechanical aspect created) hat golden slop inside isn't there for aesthetic reasons. The Piklopedia states that Arachnorbs' insides are some sort of highly flammable metal that completely melts upon the creature's death.
What else could that flowing, golden substance *be* within an Arachnorb but burning metal? It would also explain the exhaust pipes that litter the creature's shell.
the MAL is actively *dying.* But it's being held together by this machine. Does that spell docile to you?
@@KynG5
The golden part ( point 4:07 ) isn't melted slop. It's the Beady Long Legs underneath. The underside of the gun chamber ( point 4:22 ) isn't the same color: it's a purple color, and the only purple colored Arachnorb is the Raging Long Legs. If it is the melted interior, why wouldn't it be in the same supposedly "liquid" state and the same color as the Arachnorb inside it?
The exhaust pipes, of course, are to *prevent* the Arachnorb on the inside from melting.
Something cool about the man-at-legs is that it's animated so that you understand how the machine controls the animal. The single mechanical leg isn't random, it acts as a "lead leg" It always makes the first step out of 4, and does basically everything first forcing the creature to follow.
I never noticed that before, but you are right!
Fun fact: Despite looking like spiders, arachnorbs are more closely related to insects than to arachnids.
They only have one main body segment though, despite insects having three and arachnids having two.
@@Boomblox5896to be fair, they said mostly related to, so they’re not exactly insects but related to them. Kind of like how lions are related to cats, but aren’t directly the same.
@@IJC039 because lions are panthera and housecats are felidae
Side note: lions technically are cats they are just different to housecats because housecats are one of the smallest cat types
@@IJC039 a sentient ball of goo is equally not closely related to either...
Using Raging Long Legs as example, the name Olimar gives it is Pseudoarachnia furiendis - a false spider-like creature that is prone to bouts of rage, meaning literally "False Round Spider, Prone to passion" in Latin. They do produce webs, however, so they are a silk-producing species.
It is a mimic creature, feigning a similarity to another to intimidate possible predators. Eating Pikmin is metaphorical, as the creatures are never seen devouring any Pikmin at all really, instead crushing them - the devouring in this sense is closer to how a Wrestler would chew through competition. However, the fact it produces Mitites doesn't mean the Raging Long Legs is by any means female. There's actually species of spiders where the male of the species pays host to protecting the young, and given the Mitites age, this falls in line. Of course, it could still be female.
The Raging Long Legs is likely stomping and flattening everything out to make a nest area, and even the Beady Long Legs is seen doing much the same, thus why their arenas are always flattened out. It seems to be a common trait amongst the Arachnorb line.
It would be funny if the man-at-legs was a toy for children
In regards to what their slightly metallic properties come from, what if most of the arachnorbs like to feast on metals and rust. There are bugs in real life that feast on metals in the soil such as Zinc and Copper so Perhaps doing this helps boost their exoskeletons and internal organs so they can slightly increase their changes of surviving an attack.
As for the hairy long legs, they have evolved to not feast on metal to build protection, but have instead to protect themselves with strong strands of hair that come from cutting metal and therefor having the most natural looking exoskeleton in contrast to the very rust like texture of the beady long legs.
and then Pikmin 4 introduced the Groovy Long Legs and everything got more confusing! Like the Man-at-Legs it's a fusion of bug and machine, except the GLL actually has 19 eyes that make it look like some kind of disco ball. It also apparently produces sound including its own battle theme, as it's the only creature in the Piklopedia to play it's music when observing or engaging it. It also is capable of emitting a strange gas that forces prey that is exposed to it jump around wildly between its legs. It also is capable of producing webs, as it is hanging from one before it gets aggro'd (it's hard to see but you can see it when tilting the camera up from a distance)
It could be possible that it evolved in influence of it’s surroundings due to food being scarce,
If you look closely at the feet of the Groovy Long Legs and the Hairy Long Legs, you'll notice that they seem to be the same shape, but the skin is coming off the legs of the GLL. Its possible that Groovy Long Legs is a Hairy Long Legs that merged with a machine just like Man at Legs.
I’ve always thought that the name “Arachnorb” is a play off of orb-weaver spiders, but since only 1 enemy in the arachnorb family makes webs, it sounds unlikely. I’ve also thought that when you kill a beast or raging long-legs, it looks like one of those paper machetes party balls
I believe all three have webs in Pikmin 2 - even the floor between the man at legs is patterned after a web
You sure?
@@flamsey The raging long legs definitely has it in challenge mode, I know that for certain
Looking back at it, yeah, the two "normal" varieties have the shadows of their webs above, while the man-at-legs has an arena resembling a web in its floor markings
@@VantageEmblem yeah that's what I meant, the man-at-legs. I guess it looks like a web? Idk
It's supposed to be a mix of "Arachnid" and "orb" because they're ball shapped.
i wonder if the Dweevils have anything to do with the Arachnorbs considering their anatomical similarities and that they also steal stuff, the Titan Dweevil seems like it could be a direct parallel to the Man-at-legs.
it wouldnt be the first time olimar has mislabeled a species, maybe dweevils are the young ones and lose their mandibles with age, like how most moths only eat as larva and cannot eat as adults
Nah probably not. I don't think they are related at all
@@Dragonblazer316when did olimar mislabel a species?
@@chesteryolo7058 when olimar initially discovers the bulborbs, he labels both bulborbs and what we call dwarf bulborbs as being grub dogs. but in pikmin 2 he learns about the bulborb lifecycle and finds out that the "dwarf bulborbs" arent actually bulborbs at all, but are a type of bread bug mimic. with that being cannon i figure it wouldnt be too much of a stretch to say that dweevils and arachnorbs could be related, kinda like normal spiders and huntsmen like daddy-long-legs, both arachnids but theyre not the same
@@Dragonblazer316interesting to know that olimar isn’t all-knowing. I wonder what other things he may have gotten wrong?
One thing I'll point out in regards to mankind. The size of these devices. They're a lot more akin to Nanomachines, than proper machines in their own right.
My childhood theory was that aracnorbs were Pikmin onion's that wete infected. They are about the same shape and size, they release those mites, they are in large circular areans like how the Pikmin onions stand in that circular area in the base, and they have different types that match some pikmin characteristics, both the onion and the aracnorbs blur the lines between natural and mechanical.
What if the mites brought back to a pikmin onion mutates a pikmin onion into one of these thing.
spider
With that turret theory I can’t help but hear the portal turrets in the Man-At-Legs. (Think Baymax from Big Hero 6 but with a deeper voice, eerie reverb… or Auto from Wall-E, and the lines from the turrets in portal 😂😂😂)
I said so! Pikmin is just half life and portal 3... We've been blind for so long! 😂
i don't think the man-at-legs is in pain, i think the machinery is just trying to protect it. i personally think that since its legs are thin and it could not be a predator, it accepted the symbiotic relationship with its machinery so it can remain docile and secluded while still having defenses. and considering there are multiple man-at-legs alive in the world, this was clearly successful
They seem to me like strange mechanical anomalies
I wonder if the man at legs not being able to control it’s mechanical parts is why it can’t move while shooting. It’s like, it’s being attacked, causing the machinery to boot up and take control of the arachnorb’s brain momentarily to attack
This video was very entertaining to watch! Please make more videos explaining different enemy groups from the pikmin series, These kinds of videos are my favourite!😅
So, the lore with Man-At-Legs is this, which I got from a pikmin 4 Man-at-legs them: Man-at-legs is the name of the ARACHNORB, which WANTS TO DIE! In P2, It is heard gasping for air, and the machine is the ONLY thing keeping it alive! IT WANTS to die, it WANTS to move on, but the MACHINE PARASITE WON'T LET IT, Thus giving us a 'William Birkin' Scenario, where the parasite is holding more control over the host than the hosts body, despite the host wanting to let go and die. The man-at-legs obviously got wounded at some point, which the machine acted upon and forced a symbiotic fusion with the arachnorb.
Wait a moment, though.
EVERY Arachnorb does that "tea bagging" squat and makes noises. The Man-at-Legs' noises don't sound any different than the roar-like grunts of, say, a Beady Long Legs. I don't think it is in pain.
Take note that the machine does not force the Man-at-Legs to attack other beings, or force it to roam. The Man-at-Legs is easily scared: you can see it run around faster and in jerkier motions than any other Arachnorb, and the machine lets it do it. Then, it freezes, because the machine takes over, and it opens fire.
If the machine was torturing a docile creature, then the Man-at-Legs would be an apex predator, since it literally has a MACHINE GUN. Why do you always find it resting? Why do you think whenever it's not scared, it gently walks around? A Man-at-Legs will never fire upon anything that is not a threat to itself and its machine.
That's why I think the Man-at-Legs is NOT in pain and the machine is not parasitic, but rather, it is a mutialistic relationship. The machine never takes over the Man-at-Legs except when you attack it, and it stops shooting once the thing trying to hurt it is gone.
Its worth noting, in pikmin 3, both shaggy long legs in the campaign have eggs at their arena
Arachnorbs are creatures with many mysteries!
I also want to re-post something I wrote earlier, concerning the Man-at-Legs:
The cybernetic parts of the Man-at-Legs are NOT parasitic. I think the Man-at-Legs is NOT in pain and the machine is not parasitic, but rather, it is a mutalist, symbiotic relationship. The machine never takes over the Man-at-Legs except when you attack it, and it stops shooting once the thing trying to hurt it is gone. In the Piklopedia, the Man-at-Legs just wanders around after it shoots all the threats.
People argue that it's in pain because of the sounds it makes. However, that can't be the case. The noise you hear isn't gasping, rather, it's the usual "tea bagging" grunts and sounds. EVERY Arachnorb does that "tea bagging" squat and makes noises. The Man-at-Legs' noises don't sound any different than the roar-like grunts of, say, a Beady Long Legs. I don't think it is in pain.
When an Arachnorb shakes off Pikmin latched onto it, it makes the same higher pitched sound as the Man-at-Legs does by default, which indicates that the Man-at-Legs is just constantly scared!
Take note that the machine does not force the Man-at-Legs to attack other beings, or force it to roam. The Man-at-Legs is easily scared: you can see it run around faster and in jerkier motions than any other Arachnorb, and the machine lets it do it. The only time the Man-at-Legs freezes is when the machine takes over, and opens fire.
Why? It's because the Man-at-Legs is too skittish and easily scared to defend itself.
If the machine was parasitizing a docile creature for its own AI agenda, why does it do what it does? If the machine was parasitizing an animal with no choice in the matter, then the Man-at-Legs would be an apex predator, since it literally has a MACHINE GUN. Except, it doesn't.
Why do you always find it resting? Why do you think whenever it's not scared, it gently walks around? A Man-at-Legs will never fire upon anything that is not a threat to itself and its machine.
To conclude, you can see the machine take over ONLY when it needs to defend the panicking Man-at-Legs from a threat that is directly attacking it. The default state is the animal being in charge. We know this because the Man-at-Legs behaves like an Arachnorb that is in fear for its life. This is evidenced by how it behaves when it's awake, but there are no threats.
I love the arachnorbs from the pikmin series, great info here, also my next video is coming out soon so your getting a little shout out in it ok just because I like to help out ^-^ keep up the awesome videos man.
This is a really good video, can you do one on all Species with Unknown families to see if they really are of this earth, along witg finding out if there are any families they could be apart of?
I like to think that the Man-At-Legs was a dying arachnorb but the “metal” found the creature and took over the body after giving it a ”suggestion” to still live. Of course this “suggestion” would be against it’s will.
But there's more than one Man-at-Legs
@@flamsey
I agree with a fan fiction author on this: a Man-at-Legs is not its own species, but a cybernetic Beady Long Legs. Man-at-Legs Arachnorbs fused with the machinery as juveniles.
That author believed that only female Arachnorbs stomped around. You can infer, then, that the reason it doesn't have stomping cups at the bottom of its legs is because it is male. That is also why it is much smaller than the other Arachnorbs.
I'm so in love with this video! Amazing presentation of the information and I love hearing other people's theories about the strange creatures in Pikmin!! Totally staying around for more of your Pikmin content (*´ω｀*)
Thanks so much! Really appreciate it.
Basically, Arachnorbs are just spiders with a orb in it's center
Maybe the golden arachnorbs were made by the plasm wraith, since it seems to have the ability to create creatures
I personally have a theory that both the "Beady long legs" and the "shaggy long legs" are actually the same species, some real spider species have males and females that look almost nothing like each other yet they are the same species, sometimes the females are way larger then males, my thought is that the Beady long legs are all males while the Shaggy long legs are all females,
The best family basically
Now talk about the groovy long legs
My guess is that they are artificial creature made to simulate life, as we are doing that right now!
Any input about the new member of the aracnorb familly in Pikmin 4 - Groovy Long Legs?
While playing through Pikmin 3, I always wondered what the weird lip-like line on the middle of every long leg's body was. I always assumed that they were again.. lips or some sort of mouth, but perhaps someone else could help me with such a question.
It's just a split according to Olimar
@@flamsey wdym?
Olimar just calls it a split in the Piklopedia in 3 Deluxe
@@flamsey ah, I think I remember now. Though I'm still wondering what the point of the split is when it comes to the functions of the Arachnorb family.
Taking the Arachnode into consideration, (the fact that it opens up it's split line in order to consume Pikmin) and the death animations of the Arachnorbs, it might sound far-fetched, but could it actually be a mouth?
@@Yikes6571 yeah that's possible.
orb
orb
1:29 What's the soundtrack used here? I know it's from Pikmin 3 but I can't seem to remember the name.
Its from Hey PIkmin. Its one of the backside themes, i dont remember which one though
@@flamsey Ahh okay. I thought it was from Pikmin 3 because it sounds like the rain music, same composer? I dunno, but tysm for the help.
Edit: It's Backside Sizzling Precipice and the one after it is Snowfall Field
"clearly related to the plasm wraith" >:(
"Why would humans make that?"
People have made Minecraft pigs IRL
Y'know, an update to this video would be cool, especially now that the Groovy Long-Legs is a thing.
I'd assume the golden Baldy and Shaggy Long Legs were meant to represent the Beady Long Legs and a subspecies known as the Beady Shaggy Long Legs.
What is the ost used at the endvof the video ?
Hey Pikmin Sector 3 theme
@@flamsey thanks !
Silicate based lifeforms
They are arachnid orbs duh
Flamsey, would you help me out a little by giving me a shout out in your next video if ok? I would really appreciate it ^-^ if not then that's ok as well.
Okay, but there’s one flaw in your video about arachnorbs being natural organisms, and it’s that arachnorbs (along with other creatures) don’t expel a soul when they die, if they were, then a soul would’ve been expelled from it, unless it is what many call “The Umibozu” fragment taken a form of something vaguely reminiscent from “Jonny Quest”, which explains the golden longlegs at the end of the side stories, since the plasmwraith is what people believe is “The Umibozu” at or almost at its true form
Snagrets in 1, Toad Bloysters in 2, Phosbats, etc. don't release souls either so your point is null
@@flamseyHey, they might as well consumed a piece of “The Umibozu”, and being animals that lack mental strength, their souls were spirited away into the dimension it’s connected to, leaving the piece of “The Umibozu” in control over their bodies
@@dawsonhelf7922 there's no proof for these extraordinary claims
@@flamsey don’t have to
@@dawsonhelf7922 if you cannot provide evidence to a claim, do not act like it's the truth.
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I have been cursed with the knowledge that Mitites have a vore fetish