In the world of categorization, there is weirdly strong evidence toward Fiery Bulblaxes being considered a boss. Every single Fiery Bulblax in the game, both in the story and Challenge Mode, contains a treasure. The sole exception to that guards the Yellow Onion — you have to beat it to progress.
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Partially Frequent Pikmin Facts
The Fiery Bulblax’s Piklopedia icon from the original version of Pikmin 2 is 80x80 in size. This is notable as all other normal enemies are 40x40 sized, and only bosses have the larger 80x80 size.
This implies it was originally considered a boss enemy along side its fellow Bulblaxes.
This implies it was originally considered a boss enemy along side its fellow Bulblaxes.
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Obviously not actually a boss, but something to consider.