Purple Pikmin

Purple Pikmin are very unhappy creatures. One cause of this might be because a certain well-known slave-driver shouts at them and calls them fat. Purple Pikmin are actually highly intelligent creatures and have many sophisticated conversations with Gatling Groinks. Purple Pikmin's brains are all one: a hive mind. This is useful when talking to Gatling Groinks, because when the Groinks let loose their barrage of mortars and the Pikmin talking to them dies, the next one can simply continue the conversation like nothing happened. Many Purples die this way so they have to stand back a little.