Goolix

Goolix
Appears in	Pikmin
Scientific name	Binuclei siphonophorus
Family	Unknown
Areas	The Impact Site
Challenge Mode stages	None
Attacks	Drowns Pikmin

The Goolix (ミズモチ^?, lit.: "Water Rice Cake") is a watery boss in the first Pikmin game; on approaching its location, it emerges from the ground. It resembles a blue amoeba with two nuclei (a blue one and a larger yellow one). It stretches around to engulf Pikmin who happen to be in its path and drowns them out with its aquatic properties. The only Pikmin invulnerable to it are Blue Pikmin, due to it being composed mostly of water. It is only found in The Impact Site on odd-numbered days starting from day 9 (even-numbered days starting from day 8 will have the Mamuta instead).

Stats

Weight	Max. carriers	Seeds	Value	Health	Regen.
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	30000	Unknown

Notes

Olimar's voyage log

“Within the transparent gel that envelops this organism are two nuclei that appear to make up its actual torso - and most likely its entire nerve center. The nuclei look like they're hard, but I believe that there must be some way to crack them.”

Reel notes

“A watery gelatinous membrane protects this creature's nervous system.”

Behavior

The Goolix remains invisible and is inactive until the the Captain or a Pikmin approaches its area. When this happens the creature will reveal itself, scattering any nearby Pikmin. When active, it will slink around, aiming for the Captain. It has no specific attacks, but its touch will damage Olimar and cause any non-blue Pikmin to suffer from the water effect. Only blue Pikmin can penetrate the Goolix's membrane and attack one of its two cores. When under attack, the only threat the creature poses is flinging Pikmin from it, possibly causing them to lose their flowers or buds. Once defeated, the Goolix will dissolve and leave no salvageable corpse, rather four 5-Pellets.

Strategy

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Its weak point is the yellow nucleus, when Blue Pikmin are thrown directly at it they will damage the Goolix causing it to knock off the Pikmin. If Pikmin are attacking the blue nucleus when one hits the yellow one, the damage taken by the Goolix is multiplied. If more Pikmin attack the blue nucleus, the damage will go even higher. When it is attacked, it will smack the nuclei together, knocking off all Pikmin on it. When it is defeated, its membrane breaks and its watery insides spray out in all directions, leaving no trace it was ever there, besides dropping 4 random colored 5 pellets.

If the Goolix is near the right of the tree-stump arena and the yellow, brain-like nucleus is hit by a Blue Pikmin, that Pikmin, or the other Blue Pikmin that are attacking the smaller, blue nucleus may be knocked into the out-of-bounds, forest like terrain. Many things can happen when this occurs, either the Pikmin will slide around (throwing Pikmin onto this ledge reveals that it's slippery, as the Pikmin will slide off) and then fall off the ledge and into the area with the Pearly Clamclamps or where the Main Engine was, or they slide too far for Olimar to call back (some will even continue sliding until they are off-screen and then will die). These Pikmin will be left behind unless you reset the day.

Technical information

Creature

Pikmin technical information (?)
Internal name	slime
HP	30000

Yellow Nucleus

Pikmin technical information (?)
Internal name	core
HP	N/A

Blue Nucleus

Pikmin technical information (?)
Internal name	nucleus
HP	N/A

Other information

• Technical name in The Official Nintendo Player's Guide: Greater Water Slime

Naming

The name "Goolix" could've come from the word "goo", referencing its slimy liquid nature. The Japanese name, ミズモチ^? translates to "water mochi". A mochi is a Japanese rice cake, and marumochi in particular is a round variety; the creature's shape while idling resembles a marumochi. In the scientific name, binuclei siphonophorus, the binuclei part means "binuclear", and the "siphonophorus" part means "siphonophores", a group of invertebrates with a gelatinous appearance. Hence, the scientific name means "Siphonophore of Two Nuclei". Internally, the creature's name is slime, further justifying the English name's origin of "goo".

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Golemgel

Gallery

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  Blue Pikmin fighting the creature.

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  Goolix in the Enemy reel, shown erroneously on The Forest Navel.

• Goolixsketch.PNG

  Olimar's sketch of a Goolix in his voyage log.

• Goolix(PikminNPC).jpg

  Artwork from New Play Control! Pikmin.

Trivia

• When not in motion, the Goolix has almost the exact same proportions as a nectar or spray drop.
• In the enemy reel, the Goolix is in The Forest Navel instead of the usual The Impact Site. This may be a clip of the game when it was still in early development.
• This enemy is the only way to see Pikmin choking with a water bubble in the first game.