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[[Category:Grub-dogs]]
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|image=70empressbulblax.png‎
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|size=270px
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | [[Image:Empressblublax.jpg|300px]]
|name=Oculus matriarcha
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|family=Grub-dog
!colspan=2 style="text-align:center; font-size: larger; background-color:#00b; color:{{{fgcolor}}};" | '''Empress Bulblax'''
|areas=None
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|underground=[[Frontier Cavern]], [[Hole of Beasts]], [[Hole of Heroes]]
|'''Areas''' || None
|weight=20
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|weight1=
|'''Underground Areas'''|| [[Hole of Beasts]], [[Frontier Cavern]], [[Hole of Heroes]]
|max_pikmin=30
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|'''Attacks''' || Squashes Pikmin
|seeds=
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|value=15
|'''Size''' || 480 mm
|attacks=Crushes Pikmin, causes boulders to fall, births larvae}}
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|'''Scientific Name''' || '''''Oculus matriarcha'''''
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|'''Family''' || [[Grub-dog]]
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The '''Empress Bulblax''' is a boss-class enemy in the Pikmin games. It resembles the head of a [[Red Bulborb]] stuck onto a monstrous, elongated backside that is a type of egg sac. It can't eat the Pikmin due to its size, which makes its head hang a fair way above the ground. To defeat it, throw Pikmin at its face; alternatively, you can throw (preferably) [[Purple Pikmin]] at its side, and C-stick them into the wall when it starts to roll. After a while, it will shake the Pikmin off and roll left and right in an attempt to crush them, often making rocks fall in the process. The best way is to keep throwing Purple Pikmin at the brown, round thing on it's rump. It is one of the few bosses that can vary depending on where you encounter it, since later dungeons have the Empress continuously giving birth to [[Bulborb Larva|Bulborb Larvae]]; they can get killed by the Empress' rolling, so they aren't a problem when the actual conflict has begun. This enemy can only be [[Ultra-bitter spray|petrified]] if you release the spray on the middle of its enlongated torso. In the Piklopedia, it cannot be awakened. When defeated, its egg sac deflates.
The '''Empress Bulblax''' is a boss-class enemy in [[Pikmin 2]]. It resembles a cross between a [[Red Bulborb]] and a gargantuan termite queen. Its body is composed of five distinct segments and a head, and is so large that its comparatively tiny legs dangle off the ground. This creature is shown sleeping in the [[Piklopedia]] and cannot be awakened.


Empress Bulblaxes are located on the last sublevel (5) of the [[Hole of Beasts]], Sublevel 8 of the [[Frontier Cavern]], Sublevel 11 of the [[Hole of Heroes]], and Sublevel 4 of the Emperor's Realm in [[Challenge Mode]].
To defeat it, throw [[Pikmin Family|Pikmin]] at its face and call them back before it throws them off; alternatively, you can throw (preferably) [[Purple Pikmin]] on its side. After shaking Pikmin off, it will roll side-to-side along the narrow chamber in an attempt to crush its aggressors, often smashing into walls and making rocks fall from the ceiling.


Trivia:
The Empress Bulblax is one of the few bosses that can vary depending on where you encounter it, since later dungeons have the Empress continuously giving birth to [[Bulborb Larva]]e, which pose an extra threat to your Pikmin, but are helpless against their own mother's wild rolling. The Bulblax can only be [[Ultra-bitter spray|petrified]] if you release the spray on the middle of its elongated torso. When defeated, four of its body segments explode, leaving only the first segment attached to the head, which can be returned to the [[Research Pod]] and cashed for 15 [[poko]]s.


The Empress Bulblax may shed its skin, on the last sublevel on the Hole of Beasts (where Olimar and the pikmin drop down) there appears to be an Empress Bulblax skin on the floor.  
These beasts are located on the last sublevel (5) of the [[Hole of Beasts]], Sublevel 8 of the [[Frontier Cavern]], Sublevel 11 of the [[Hole of Heroes]], and Sublevel 4 of the Emperor's Realm in [[Challenge Mode (Pikmin 2)|Challenge Mode]].


She makes a [[cameos|cameo]] appearance in the game ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' where the player must tilt the wii-mote to squish the other Pikmin.
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==Trivia==
The Empress Bulblax may shed its skin, on the last sublevel on the Hole of Beasts, right underneath the Research Pod, there appears to be an Empress Bulblax skin on the floor.


==Notes==
The Bulblax also makes a [[cameos|cameo]] appearance in the game ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' where the player must tilt the wii-mote to squish the other Pikmin.
===Olimar's Notes===
Initial observation place doubt on the capability of the grub-dog family to support a strong ant- or beelike social structure, but recent studies show the family is capable of such complexity. The egg sac of the largest female grub-
dog within a given range swells to dramatic proportions in response to environmental changes, such as the sudden depletion of prey species. These females temporarily take on the role of pack matriarch. Also, in pack formation
it has been observed that nearly all mates not involved in species reproduction undergo natural sex changes. The characteristics of such specimens are quite intriguing indeed.
 
===Louie's Notes===
For a sophisticated delicacy, make a pate de foie gras from this massively obese creature's liver and spread it over a sesame cracker.


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Revision as of 10:20, February 14, 2008

Empress Bulblax
70empressbulblax.png
Appears in N/A
Scientific name Oculus matriarcha
Family Grub-dog
Areas None
Attacks Crushes Pikmin, causes boulders to fall, births larvae

The Empress Bulblax is a boss-class enemy in Pikmin 2. It resembles a cross between a Red Bulborb and a gargantuan termite queen. Its body is composed of five distinct segments and a head, and is so large that its comparatively tiny legs dangle off the ground. This creature is shown sleeping in the Piklopedia and cannot be awakened.

To defeat it, throw Pikmin at its face and call them back before it throws them off; alternatively, you can throw (preferably) Purple Pikmin on its side. After shaking Pikmin off, it will roll side-to-side along the narrow chamber in an attempt to crush its aggressors, often smashing into walls and making rocks fall from the ceiling.

The Empress Bulblax is one of the few bosses that can vary depending on where you encounter it, since later dungeons have the Empress continuously giving birth to Bulborb Larvae, which pose an extra threat to your Pikmin, but are helpless against their own mother's wild rolling. The Bulblax can only be petrified if you release the spray on the middle of its elongated torso. When defeated, four of its body segments explode, leaving only the first segment attached to the head, which can be returned to the Research Pod and cashed for 15 pokos.

These beasts are located on the last sublevel (5) of the Hole of Beasts, Sublevel 8 of the Frontier Cavern, Sublevel 11 of the Hole of Heroes, and Sublevel 4 of the Emperor's Realm in Challenge Mode.

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Trivia

The Empress Bulblax may shed its skin, on the last sublevel on the Hole of Beasts, right underneath the Research Pod, there appears to be an Empress Bulblax skin on the floor.

The Bulblax also makes a cameo appearance in the game WarioWare: Smooth Moves where the player must tilt the wii-mote to squish the other Pikmin.

Enemies
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Pikmin 2 Anode Beetle • Anode Dweevil • Antenna Beetle • Armored Cannon Beetle Larva • Beady Long Legs • Breadbug • Bulbmin • Bulborb Larva • Bumbling Snitchbug • Burrowing Snagret • Careening Dirigibug • Cloaking Burrow-nit • Creeping Chrysanthemum • Decorated Cannon Beetle • Doodlebug • Dwarf Bulbear • Dwarf Orange Bulborb • Dwarf Red Bulborb • Emperor Bulblax • Empress Bulblax • Female Sheargrub • Fiery Blowhog • Fiery Bulblax • Fiery Dweevil • Gatling Groink • Giant Breadbug • Greater Spotted Jellyfloat • Hairy Bulborb • Hermit Crawmad • Honeywisp • Hydro Dweevil • Iridescent Flint Beetle • Iridescent Glint Beetle • Lesser Spotted Jellyfloat • Male Sheargrub • Mamuta • Man-at-Legs • Mitite • Munge Dweevil • Orange Bulborb • Pellet Posy • Pileated Snagret • Puffy Blowhog • Raging Long Legs • Ranging Bloyster • Ravenous Whiskerpillar • Red Bulborb • Segmented Crawbster • Shearwig • Skitter Leaf • Snow Bulborb • Spotty Bulbear • Swooping Snitchbug • Titan Dweevil • Toady Bloyster • Ujadani • Unmarked Spectralids • Volatile Dweevil • Water Dumple  • Waterwraith • Watery Blowhog • Withering Blowhog • Wolpole • Wollyhop • Yellow Wollyhop
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Pikmin 4 Bulborb • Bulborb Larva • Dwarf Bulborb • Female Sheargrub • Fiery Blowhog • Honeywisp • Iridescent Flint Beetle • Male Sheargrub • Pellet Posy • Porquillion • Scorchcake • Shearwig • Snowy Blowhog • Tusked Blowhog • White Spectralids • Wolpole
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