History Fridge / Kirby

** The first is Level 2, Rock Star, which is nothing more than huddled masses of rock, only kept together by the planet's overall gravity. Looking at its Japanese name, "Horobita Star," or "Perished Star," will give some implications that the [[EarthShatteringKaboom planet was destroyed by something]]. Then Kirby finds an ancient spaceship that was embedded within Rock Star....

* Throughout most of the Kirby games, Kirby ends up doing things that ultimately wind up freeing or unleashing the Final Bosses. Usually, I just figured that this is because Kirby is too selfish to realize just what his actions do, but after thinking about it, I realized that in most cases, the character he defeats (usually Dedede) takes a morally gray option to avoid the boss, while Kirby has an extreme case of {{Black and White Morality}}. In addition, when a player reaches that point for the first time, he only knows about as much as Kirby himself does, and since Kirby sees what Dedede does as a bad thing, so does the player. And since the situation changes at times, Kirby's trusting nature and GenreBlindness prevents him from knowing what evil is hidden just out of sight.

* At the end of [[spoiler:Revenge of the King]] in Kirby Super Star Ultra, just before [[spoiler:you fight Masked Dedede]], King Dedede says "Our grudge will be settled at last..." Note that, in every main series Kirby game to follow (not counting the one he wasn't in), he is Kirby's best friend (on a good day) or brainwashed enemy (on a bad one). When he said their grudge would be settled, he meant it.

* Has anyone noticed how Kirby's power has been changing a little bit with each game? In the very first game, he didn't have any copy abilities, while he suddenly has a dozen or so in the next one. For the next few games, each ability is only able to do one thing, which is why he has similar ones like Fire/Burning, Ice/Freeze, Spark/Plasma and so on. Yet, as the games progressed, the redundant abilities are merged and then are further expanded. Then there's other abilities that have been changing overtime too; like Backdrop becoming Suplex, both of which are obtained from Bugzzy, then going on into Beetle. And then there's abilities affected by his environment like Water becoming Poison. On top of all that, Kirby seems to be learning how to copy complex abilities like Doctor and ESP. A sign of Kirby's growth, indeed!
* I was wonder why Miracle Matter can only be hurt by its current element then I realized you hurt it with it's own attacks because it's shield that block all your normal attacks in permeable to what ever element it uses to attack you with. When in fire form its shields can be passed by fire so it can hit you with fire, but you send the fire right back it through the shield. The shield still block elements just not the one needed to attack with.

* Why is Tac's "return to Kirby" function on the same button as his "discard power" function? Because Tac is, of course, a thief, and the first rule of thieving is that no score is worth dying for--the smart thief knows when to cut his losses and ''run'', so Tac naturally ditches anything that might weigh him down (like, say, Blade Knight's armor, or Sir Kibble's helmet) in his bid to retreat.
* How come that Marx [[PromotedToPlayable comes back as a Dream Friend]] in Kirby Star Allies despite the fact we last saw him [[spoiler: getting his soul split in half in Super Star Ultra's True Arena]]? If you look closely in the 100% completion cutscenes of Super Star Ultra, Return to Dreamland, and Triple Deluxe, you can see Marx hidden amongst the crowd each time, as with Magolor who also had a similar UnexplainedRecovery. It turns out Marx somehow survived his last battle with Kirby and decided to lay low until the Jambastion threat [[EnemyMine gave him no other choice but to team up with Kirby]].

*** Also keep in mind he doesn't actually kill them, as you can later spit them out in Super Star.

* In ''Kirby 64'', the TrueFinalBoss, oddly, has a band aid on his head which you have to hit to expose his weak point. [[spoiler:It's the reincarnation of Zero from the previous game, so you'd first think that it's a simple call back... then you remember the whole thing where his iris ripped out of his main body...]]

* In ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' and ''Super Star Ultra'', after successfully manipulating you into summoning Galactic Nova for him [[spoiler: Marx]] literally leaves you to die alone in freezing space. ''In a kid's game.''

* Several games where King Dedede, a penguin, was a major boss has him fought in cold environments. We have [[VideoGame/KirbysAdventure Rainbow Resort]], [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 Iceberg]], and some parts of [[VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack]], to name a few.

* In ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', [[spoiler:you might wonder what [[VideoGame/KirbyandtheAmazingMirror the Amazing Mirror]] is doing in the final boss's room. It occurred to me later that Kirby and Meta Knight had to fly up into the sky to get to the mirror, which certainly put the mirror into Sectonia's domain and reach, and because Queen Sectonia is so vain, she has probably been using it as a personal looking glass. The mirror may not be why she's so evil, but it could be one explanation for how she became so monstrously vain.]]

* ''Kirby's Adventure'' involves a Nightmare trying to come through the fountain of dreams to hurt the denizens of dream land. King Dedede removes and destroys the fountain's power source, which keeps the Nightmare on the other side but prevents anyone in Dream Land from dreaming. Kirby fixes the star rod, defeats the Nightmare and restores the ability to dream, so all is good, right? Well, in ''Kirby Super Star'' it is shown that there are several planets like Pop Star with similar fountains. Another Nightmare could easily come through any of them and neither Kirby nor Dedede can be expected to police them all. Furthermore, the backlash from one Nightmare's defeat [[DefaceOfTheMoon was strong enough to nearly destroy Pop Star's moon]]. At any point, another Nightmare could creep out of any number of places in the cosmos and cause a disaster.

** The second is Level 5, Shiver Star. It looks more like a real planet than the other 6 planets and upon further examination, one can see that it has the outline of Earth's continents visible on it's surface. Suggesting that it's a [[EarthThatWas post-apocalyptic Earth]]. The entire planet is [[EndlessWinter frozen over]] and at one point Kirby explores an [[NightmarishFactory underground factory]] filled with monsters [[PeopleJars floating]] in glass tanks.

* In ''Kirby 64'', the TrueFinalBoss, oddly, has a band aid on his head which you have to hit to expose his weak point. [[spoiler:It's the reincarnation of Zero from the previous game, so you'd first think that it's a simple call back... then you remember the whole thing where his iris ripped out of the main body...]]

* ''Kirby's Adventure'' involves a Nightmare trying to come through the fountain of dreams to hurt the denizens of dream land, [[GenericDoomsdayVillain for some reason]]. King Dedede removes and destroys the fountain's power source, which keeps the nightmare on the other side but prevents anyone in Dream Land from dreaming. Kirby fixes the star rod, defeats the nightmare and restores the ability to dream (In case you did not know already) so all is good? Well, in ''Kirby Super Star'' it is shown that there are several planets like Pop Star with similar fountains. Another Nightmare could easily come through any of them and neither Kirby nor Dedede can be expected to police them all. Furthermore, the backlash from one Nightmare's defeat [[DefaceOfTheMoon was strong enough to nearly destroy Pop Star's moon]]. At any point, any given bad dream could creep out of any number of places in the cosmos and cause a disaster.
* In ''Kirby's Dreamland 2'', Dark Matter comes to Pop Star and makes mischief in Dream Land. Kirby gets a special weapon and defeats it, problem solved? ''Kirby's Dreamland 3'' sees Dark Matter come back and engulf the entire planet of Pop Star. Kirby manages to defeat it with another special weapon, though, and even destroys its supposed controller, Zero. Yet in ''Kirby 64'', Dark Matter successfully conquers another planet and would have been in position to take over many more had Kirby not gotten involved by coincidence. Turns out the controller, Zero, had somehow revived, but Kirby finding another weapon to put back down solved everything, right? No, Dark Matter engulfing two planets as well as [[ThatsNoMoon forming another one out of its own mass]] is just a drop in the bucket. At the time of this typing, roughly 80% of the matter in the ''universe'' is estimated to be Dark Matter, and with the exception of [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Gooey]], the entire bulk of it seems to be hostile or commanded by a hostile intelligence which has come back from the dead once already in the Kirby series. The worst is yet to come, assuming Dark Matter is not already causing misery far beyond Kirby's area of operation. The fact that Dark Nebula from ''Squeak Squad'' was later revealed to be part of Dark Matter shows this plot point has not been forgotten either.
* In ''Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards,'' there are two planets out of the six [[spoiler:or seven depending on whether or not you gathered all the titular PlotCoupons]] that strike many as peculiar.
** The first is Level 2, Rock Star, which is nothing more than huddled masses of rock, only kept together by the planet's overall gravity. Looking at its Japanese name, "Horobita Star," or "Perished Star," will give some implications that the [[EarthShatteringKaboom planet was destroyed by something]]. Then Kirby finds a spaceship that was embedded within Rock Star....
** The second is Level 5, Shiver Star. Upon further examination, one can see that it not only looks more like a planet than the other 6 levels, but is also (assumed to be) a [[EarthThatWas post-apocalyptic Earth.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1M7kJASyoQ The commercial for]] ''[[VideoGame/KirbysAdventure Nightmare in Dreamland]]'' has somebody singing a parody of "Secret Agent Man" with animation fresh from ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa''. Turns out that somebody is Ted Lewis, the voice of King Dedede and Escargoon in that anime. Since Ted sounds a bit like his Dedede voice in this ad, it can only be heard as Dedede singing his own [[TheVillainSucksSong villain sucks song]] about Kirby! Further supporting this theory, notice how, in the brief shot of Dedede, he's not moving his lips, and we don't hear Ted at that bit.

* The creation of most beings in dreamland is through one's heroic heart which is aptly shaped like a star, so what happens when you spit them back out? You are spitting the heart of your enemies or objects.

* In ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', [[spoiler:you might wonder what the [[VideoGame/KirbyandtheAmazingMirror the Amazing Mirror]] is doing in the final boss's room. It occurred to me later that Kirby and Meta Knight had to fly up into the sky to get to the mirror, which certainly put the mirror into Sectonia's domain and reach, and because Queen Sectonia is so vain, she has probably been using it as a personal looking glass. The mirror may not be why she's so evil, but it could be one explanation for how she became so monstrously vain.]]

* In KirbyTripleDeluxe, [[spoiler:you might wonder what the [[VideoGame/KirbyandtheAmazingMirror the Amazing Mirror]] is doing in the final boss's room. It occurred to me later that Kirby and Meta Knight had to fly up into the sky to get to the mirror, which certainly put the mirror into Sectonia's domain and reach, and because Queen Sectonia is so vain, she has probably been using it as a personal looking glass. The mirror may not be why she's so evil, but it could be one explanation for how she became so monstrously vain.]]

* In KirbyTripleDeluxe, [[spoiler:you might wonder what the [[KirbyandtheAmazingMirror the Amazing Mirror]] is doing in the final boss's room. It occurred to me later that Kirby and Meta Knight had to fly up into the sky to get to the mirror, which certainly put the mirror into Sectonia's domain and reach, and because Queen Sectonia is so vain, she has probably been using it as a personal looking glass. The mirror may not be why she's so evil, but it could be one explanation for how she became so monstrously vain.]]

* The ''{{Kirby}}'' series is probably the archetypal SugarBowl, a perpetually happy place filled with bright colours and cheerful characters where nothing bad ever happens, the stories merely {{Excuse Plot}}s for [[RuleOfFun purposes of fun]]. Except that no, it isn't. Pop Star is constantly assailed by [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil undefeatable]] {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that corrupt and kill and bring the world to the brink of destruction. The closest thing to an authority figure is a bumbling AuthorityInNameOnly that can barely succeed even in the few times he manages to be competent. The OnlySaneMan is a BloodKnight concerned only with combat. And Kirby himself, the protagonist and supposed hero, eats people. ''Hundreds upon hundreds of people''. He is a horrific scale BigEater on par with [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} the Tyranids]], consuming indiscriminately all in his path, and there is nothing anyone can do to stop him.

** {{Kirby}} [[CannibalismSuperpower eats enemies to gain their powers]]. Ritual cannibalism is carried out for the same purpose.

* In Kirby Triple Deluxe, Queen Sectonia, [[TheDeterminator quite possibly the most persistent BigBad yet,]] detaches what remains of her from the flower she once used to attack you in a last ditch effort to waste you. The TrueFinalBoss just...'''''decapitated herself,''''' just to combat you. Don't think she can feel pain? She screams in agony as she dies at the end of this fight.

* In ''Kirby's Dreamland 2'', Dark Matter comes to Pop Star and makes mischief in Dream Land. Kirby gets a special weapon and defeats it, problem solved? ''Kirby's Dreamland 3'' sees Dark Matter come back and engulf the entire planet of Pop Star. Kirby manages to defeat it with another special weapon, though, and even destroys its supposed controller, Zero. Yet in ''Kirby 64'', Dark Matter successfully conquers another planet and would have been in position to take over many more had Kirby not gotten involved by coincidence. Turns out the controller, Zero, had somehow revived, but Kirby finding another weapon to put back down solved everything, right? No, Dark Matter engulfing two planets as well as [[ThatsNoMoon forming another one out of its own mass]] is just a drop in the bucket. At the time of this typing, roughly 80% of the matter in the ''universe'' is estimated to be Dark Matter, and with the exception of [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Gooey]], the entire bulk of it seems to be hostile or commanded by a hostile intelligence which has come back from the dead once already in the Kirby series. The worst is yet to come, assuming Dark Matter is not already causing misery far beyond Kirby's area of operation. The fact that Dark Nebula from ''Squeak Squad'' was later revealed to be part of Dark Matter shows this plot point has not been forgotten either.