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General
All the Patapon are female.
They're all born spontaneously from legendary memories and the Tree of Life, so they have no need for the traditional kind of sexes. The Priestess is referred to specifically with a female pronoun, and none of the other Patapon are referred to with pronouns.- The description for the Pata Drum says, "Hatapon guarded this drum with his life."
The Patapon are some kind of living plants.
They're born from a tree and need their caps to be buried to do so. The caps could be some kind of root or hold a seed. Additionally, introducing different types of material to the cap when they're buried changes the type of Patapon, like how fertilizers or pH content of the soil changes how a flower looks or how hearty it is. The Patapon are Waddle Doos
The Patapon are evolved Pikmin
They are cute, sing while battling, amd take on enemies much bigger than them through sheer numbers; not to mention they are born from a tree, which connects them with the living plant aspect. If you want another explanation, Patapon are what happens when Pikmin go from the creature to the tribal stage.- Supporting this is the fact that Patapon can be born as different color variants of one another that determine their elemental strengths & weaknesses, as well as situational skills: This is exactly the way pikmin colors work.
The Dark Ones/Akumatans are resurrected Zigotons that you defeated in Patapon 1.
Although this is already heavily implied to be the case in the games, as long as it's not outright confirmed, there may as well be an entry here about it! For one reason or another, Queen Kharma's Deal with the Devil also sealed the fate of the rest of the Zigoton tribe to not be able to rest in peace after death. Instead, they resurrect as Akumatans, possibly stripped of their own free will, and are doomed to fight against the Patapon for all eternity. Future Games
The tribe's technology will evolve further into renaissance era weapons
The Patapon discovered chariots and cannons sometime between the ending of Patapon 2 and the start of Patapon 3. So more advancements in their weaponry are bound to happen if the series continues.Patapon 4 will have a guest appearance or cameo of a Ratatan
The main reason Ratatan exists is because the creators believed they'd never be able to make another Patapon game again, as much as they wanted to. If that someday proves to be wrong, it wouldn't be crazy for Patapon 4 to acknowledge that fact. The cutscene in which it happens will have the Ratatan saying to You/The Uberhero that life hasn't been easy ever since you left long ago, and that they've missed you.