Pink Menace

Pink Menace
Number	115 (US) 114 (Europe) 113 (Japan)
Series	Space Love Series
Value	× 100
Weight	5
Maximum carriers	10 Pikmin
Location	Valley of Repose
Challenge Mode levels	Cryptic Cavern, Collector's Room, The Giant's Bath

This article is about the golden ring with a pink heart. For the silver one with a green heart, see Joyless Jewel.

The Pink Menace (オーバーキル・レッド^?, lit.: "Overkill Red") is a treasure found in the Valley of Repose in Pikmin 2. The Pink Menace is actually a plastic and gold-colored ring set with a pink heart.

Collecting the treasure

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Location of the Pink Menace.

The following article or section contains guides. The strategies shown are just suggestions.

Make sure you have defeated the Red Bulborb and the Dwarf Red Bulborb in the area, and drained the lake. Before sending Whites to dig the treasure up, defeat the Burrowing Snagret that may attack the Pikmin when they get to the treasure. The treasure is buried, so White Pikmin are needed to dig it up.

Notes

Olimar's journal

“I could never say this within earshot of the ship, but years of hard use have taken their toll. For one thing, the thermostat is broken. The temperature in the cockpit can fluctuate wildly between sweltering heat and frigid cold. The humid heat is awful, but the bone-chilling cold is even worse. Looking at this heart-warming gem gives me the strength to endure the elements.”

Sales pitch

“This gem holds the shape of the universal symbol of love, yet its cut and light-refracting abilities make it a menacing super-weapon in disguise! It could be used to create a horrifying, doomsday death ray...or something even worse. We peaceful machines live in eternal fear of the ability of living beings to turn anything into a weapon.”

Gallery

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  The Pink Menace in the Valley of Repose.

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  The Pink Menace being analyzed.

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  The Treasure Hoard icon of the Pink Menace in the Nintendo Switch version of Pikmin 2.

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  E3 2003 screenshot of an early treasure resembling the Pink Menace, but blue. Interestingly, it has a different shape, being a circle on a ring, and that circle having a heart shape in the middle.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	オーバーキル・レッド? Ōbākiru Reddo	Overkill Red
French	Menace Rose	Pink threat
German	Pinke Plage	Pink Scourge
Italian	Gemma rosa	Pink Gem
Spanish	Amenaza rosácea	Pinkish threat

See also

• Loop of Beginnings