Characters / Kirby - Jambandran Religion

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The cult's Wicked Heart Symbol.

A mysterious religious sect banished to the edge of the galaxy aeons ago in an enormous Planet Spaceship called Jambandra Base. Its adherents worship the Jamba Heart, a crystalline heart that serves as a vessel for their dark god, Void Termina. A failed ritual of theirs kicks off the plot of Kirby Star Allies.

MAJOR WARNING! Void Termina is a Walking Spoiler to end all other Walking Spoilers, so not only is his entry completely unmarked, but we beg you to proceed with extreme caution, as his relevance spans the entire Kirby franchise, past, present, and likely future. This is your last warning.

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In General

• Apocalypse Cult: Their ultimate goal is to collect the broken Jamba Heart and use it to revive Void Termina, who will usher in the end of the universe.
• Conlang: They have their own language, which is spoken by its adherents. If you pause during Hyness's boss fight, you can even see a rough translation of the words.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the Haltmann Works Company. The HWC consists of an army of robots and machines that fight with technology while the Jambastion cult consists of alien humanoids that use magic. Both of them worship a powerful being (Star Dream and Void Termina) and have their leaders (President Haltmann and Hyness) assimilated by it for the final battle, causing it to break loose on a desire to destroy everything. Going hand-in-hand with this is the fact that both of them control a massive spacecraft which drills into Popstar's surface (the Access Ark and the Jambastion); however, the Access Ark was powered by the HWC's all-powerful supercomputer Star Dream, while the Jambastion is powered an electric power core.
• Planet Spaceship: Even their lesser outposts, the Jambastions, are almost the size of Planet Popstar. Jambandra Base, their headquarters, is so large that a group of Jambastions orbit around it like moons.
• Purple Is the New Black: They dress in primarily dark purple and black clothing, fitting for worshipers of Dark Matter.
• Religion of Evil: Most likely, since they worship "a matter most dark". But Hyness's Motive Rant, as well as the added backstory in Heroes in Another Dimension, imply that once upon a time, they were a peaceful religion of magic-users who worked together with scientists to ensure prosperity, only turning to evil once they were banished.
• Wicked Heart Symbol: Their religious insignia is a heart with pointed horns, bat-like "wings", and an eye in the center, and the vessel of their god Void Termina takes the shape of a huge heart-shaped crystal. The Three Mage-Sisters, their generals, also have hearts dangling on chains on their outfit, and outlines of hearts on their gloves. But despite the hearts plastered everywhere, the cult's adherents are the main villains of Kirby Star Allies.

Enemies

Jambeliever

Jambeliever

Lesser followers of the Jambandran religion.

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• Dub Name Change: Known as "Jahal Believer" (ジャハルビリーバ jaharubiriiba) in Japanese.
• Floating Limbs: Their hands aren't attached to their bodies.
• Mooks: They are the most common servants of the cult.
• Recurring Element: Like the Halcandran and Sectra variants of regular enemies in Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Kirby: Triple Deluxe, the Jambelievers are functionally identical to the Waddle Dees, but appear later in the game and serve the Big Bad.
• Shadowed Face, Glowing Eyes: Jambelievers are clad in large turbans and cover their faces, so all Kirby can see of them are the Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness beneath. It's a feature they share with their High Priest, Hyness.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: They all possess big yellow eyes, and it doesn't get much shadier than following an Apocalypse Cult.

Jammerjab

A stronger, stick-wielding Jambeliever that attacks by jabbing its staff at Kirby and friends. They give the Staff ability if inhaled.

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• Dub Name Change: Known as "Jahal Beat" (ジャハルビート jaharubiito) in Japanese.
• Elite Mook: Jammerjab is this to the regular Jambelievers. In some levels, you can even see them leading a group of Jambelievers in a line.
• Monkey King Lite: Jammerjabs are tied to the Staff ability. Both inhaling a Jammerjab for the Staff ability and recruiting one as an ally gives the character a Golden Ring Headband. Combined with the Telescoping Staff, the heroic applications of the ability reference Sun Wukong.
• Mook–Face Turn: They are recruitable as Star Allies, being representative of the Staff ability. One of them in particular focuses on the gravity of their newfound friendship for their starring mission, a trait also focused on in the light novels.
• Telescoping Staff: Jammerjabs wield staffs which they jab at Kirby. They also grant the Staff ability if inhaled.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Being stronger versions of the Jambelievers, Jammerjabs have the same Shadowed Face, Glowing Eyes look. But they subvert the "sneakiness" part, as Kirby can befriend them and have them join the party.

The Three Mage-Sisters

All Three

From left to right: Francisca, Zan Partizanne, and Flamberge

"It seems the fated time is here at last. We, the three Mage-Sisters, will bring this battle to its end... ONCE AND FOR ALL!"

A trio of powerful mages who serve Lord Hyness, leader of the Jambandran religion. Zan Partizanne is the Lightning General, Flamberge is the Blazing General, and Francisca is the Frozen General. They seek to recover the missing Jamba Heart pieces that were scattered across Planet Popstar due to the ritual going awry. They command a flying fortress called Jambastion.

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• Aerith and Bob: Francisca is a normal name that's also shared with a throwing axe type, Flamberge is a rather exotic name normally only used for a type of medieval sword, and Zan Partizanne is an utterly bizarre made-up name that at best references the Partisan spear.
• Amazon Brigade: They're Hyness' generals, and they're all female.
• Ambiguously Related: Hyness' pause description says that the three are sisters; however, the English loanword as used in Japanese is more often used for nuns (i.e. sisterhood), and the word is not used in all other languages that lose the double meaning. Note that Hyness is called an "Officiant". A post on the Nintendo Switch Kirby Star Allies channel brings up both possible meanings of "sister" and does not say which one is correct.
  The Jambastion Mages, who are boss Generals, are referred to as "three sisters" in one of the pause screens.
  So are they actually siblings or members of a sisterhood of mages? Just like Kirby and Meta Knight's secrets, this is another mystery that stirs the imagination!
  • However, a Play Nintendo poll interprets "Francisca and her sisters" as a set of siblings, so there is at least some official evidence that they are an actual family. In the third update of the game, though, their new boss texts in Soul Melter EX reveal that Hyness (mentioned as a "mysterious traveler") awakened their latent magical potential after finding each of them trapped by a natural disaster - lost in a blizzard and freezing to death, in the midst of an inferno, and climbing a tower during a vicious thunderstorm respectively. Unless they were the unluckiest sisters in the world in three completely different locations, it seems that the sisters are at least not blood relatives.
• Arms and Armor Theme Naming: All three of them are named after weapons that they use. Francisca is named after a type of throwing axe, Flamberge is named after a type of sword, and Zan Partizanne is named after a Partisan spear.
• Badass Adorable: A trio of cute-looking nuns... who are also powerful warriors harboring what Hyness calls "the strongest of magic".
• Battle Theme Music: The "Song of Supplication" for Francisca and Flamberge, "Forgotten Flash of Lightning" for Zan Partizanne.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The brief backstory for them (shown in Soul Melter EX) show that they were at the brink of death in separate places before a "mysterious traveler" (hinted to be Hyness) saved them, which explains their loyalty to their boss.
• Boss Subtitles:
  • Francisca: Frozen General, Bringer of Icy Doom.
  • Flamberge: Blazing General, Bringer of Flame.
  • Zan Partizanne: Lightning General, Bringer of Shock.
  • The Three Mage Sisters: Repentant Retaliators.
• Breakable Weapons: Francisca's soda gun, Flamberge's cannon, and Zan Partizanne's drums can all be broken, stunning them and leaving them open for more hits.
• The Cameo:
  • The trio appear together as a spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
  • All three appear as residents of the village in Super Kirby Clash. Each one also appears as a collectible sticker.
  • All three appear on the Jambastion Entrance stage in Kirby Fighters 2 as stage hazards, as well as appearing as rare outfits only unlockable if the player has Old Save Bonus from playing Star Allies.
  • All three of the mages appear as Dress-Up Masks in Return to Dream Land Deluxe, both in their regular and "Retaliator" appearances.
• Color-Coded Elements: The colors of their hair and outfits match their respective elements.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Their backstory harkens back to the Legendary Beasts of Pokémon Gold and Silver: similar to the Beasts, all three sisters died and were revived and empowered with the elements of Fire, Ice, Lightning, which happen to correspond to the events that lead to them originally dying. Unlike the Legendary Beasts, however, the Mage Sisters go on to help an insane cult leader try to free an Ancient Evil to destroy the universe. Granted, the Mage Sisters more or less drop the "corrupted" part after their Heel–Face Turn.
• Dark Action Girl: The three of them are very fierce warriors and are clearly not on the side of good.
• Death by Irony: All three Mage-Sisters were once saved from death by the very elements they now control. Francisca nearly froze to death, Flamberge nearly died in an inferno, and Zan nearly killed herself by getting struck by lightning.
• Dragon Their Feet: In Heroes in Another Dimension, you fight the three of them simultaneously after you beat Hyness first. This trope probably counts most for Zan, considering she is The Dragon to Hyness.
• The Dog Bites Back: In the Japanese version of Heroes in Another Dimension, it's implied that the three of them went into Another Dimension to settle a score with Hyness, most likely because he used them like weapons and then sacrificed them to Void Termina against their will during the main story.
  Zan: キッス、ルージュよ、あんずるでない。今こそ ハイネス様へ、われわれがごおんを返す 番なのだ。^TranslationKiss, Rouge, have no fear. Now is our turn to return the favor to Lord Hyness.
• Dual Boss: In the special game mode (after an update) Heroes in Another Dimension, the three of them are fought at once as bosses.
• Dub Name Change: Francisca, Flamberge, and Zan Partizanne were originally Fran Kiss (フラン・キッス), Fran Rouge (フラン・ルージュ), and Zan Parulutizahne (ザン・パルルティザーヌ) in Japanese.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Their hair colors match their Color-Coded Elements and clothes (yellow for the zappy Zan Partizanne, red for the fiery Flamberge, and blue for the frosty Francisca). Likely a case of Power Dyes Your Hair, as the Japanese version of each Mage-Sister's Soul Melter EX Flavor Text says that they "became a beautiful blue/red/gold girl", respectively, after Hyness granted them magic.
• Elemental Weapon: All of their weapons are imbued with the power of their corresponding element.
• Final Boss: After Kirby defeats Corrupt Hyness, the (also-Corrupt) Mage Sisters team up and fight you as a trio at the end of Heroes in Another Dimension.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Each one holds power over one of these elements. Flamberge is the Flame General, Francisca is the Ice General, and Zan Partizanne is the Lightning General.
• Floating Limbs: None of them have arms.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Three of the most powerful sorceresses in the universe were once nothing more than three young girls brought to within an inch of their lives within their harsh elemental environments before Hyness found them.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: They all suffer this in the second phase of Hyness' fight when he summons them, drains their life force to replenish his own health, and uses their unconscious bodies as weapons.
• Hades Shaded: When Hyness drains them of energy, their skin turns dark, and their eyes start to glow red. They keep this for their "Retaliator" versions, where they are stronger and seeking revenge.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: For the good ending of Heroes in Another Dimension, Kirby uses the hearts he's collected to create an enormous Friend Heart to throw at the Mage-Sisters, purifying them of their desire for revenge. In the bad ending, they don't get redeemed, and are heavily implied to have succumbed to The Power of Hate.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: They all deeply care about one another. In particular, Flamberge is very protective of Francisca and gets very upset if she is hurt... although with those two, the "heterosexual" part is debatable.
• Human Sacrifice: Hyness sacrifices them and himself to revive Void Termina.
• Logical Weakness: They all follow the rule of Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors:
  • Francisca, a mage with power over ice, is vulnerable to fire and electricity. In particular, if you attack with electric abilities while she's using her soda gun attack, the electricity will conduct through the water and electrocute her, stunning her for free hits.
  • Flamberge, a mage with power over fire, is vulnerable to wind and water. If you put out the fuse on her cannon before she fires it, the cannon will blow itself up, stunning her.
  • Zan Partizanne, a mage with power over lightning, is vulnerable to water. Conducting water through her drums makes them overheat and explode, stunning her.
• Magic Knight: They're more "mage" than "knight", but they're all capable of melee combat with their primary weapons.
• My God, What Have I Done?: The good ending of Heroes in Another Dimension has Kirby revive the fallen Mages with the power of the collected hearts. When they come to, they glance around and notice what the Jamba Heart's corruption has done to the world around them, Hyness, and finally themselves. They take a moment to sadly realize the consequences before reconciling with Kirby.
• No Mouth: Their mouths seem to be covered by their collars.
• Nun Too Holy: All of them, to some degree. Francisca freezes and collects living creatures, Flamberge has a Hair-Trigger Temper, and Zan Partizanne will gladly cause a planet-sized Jambastion to crumble with little visible regard for all the Mooks this would put in danger after losing to Kirby.
• Odd Name Out: Francisca, Flamberge, and... Zan Partizanne.
• Palette Swap: Like many other bosses in Heroes in Another Dimension, they sport different color schemes; their black outfit is now white, they have glowing red eyes, and their skin is pitch-black.
• Pardon My Klingon: Both Flamberge and Zan Partizanne (mostly Flamberge) use the Jambandran curse word "Jamaddamn", or "Jamblasted" in English. In Heroes in Another Dimension, Flamberge adds an intensifier to it ("un jamaddamn"/"vun jamblasted") to make it a stronger swear.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: It's implied in the original Japanese version that getting their natural magical talent unlocked is the reason behind their brightly colored hair.
• Power Floats: All of them mainly float in midair due to lacking any visible legs.
• Promoted to Playable: They become playable in the third Dream Friends update. But unlike them, they can only be unlocked by getting the good ending of Heroes in Another Dimension.
• Recurring Boss: They're all fought twice: once in Jambastion, and once more on different planets. They're also fought at the end of Heroes in Another Dimension.
• Recurring Boss Template: While they all appear in the same game, each Mage-Sister's boss fight uses variations on the same couple of moves - basic melee, Dash Attack, elemental weapon attack, and elemental Wave-Motion Gun.
• Redemption Demotion: Averted once Kirby finally befriends them and makes them playable. They each have their special attacks in their kit, which hit just as hard, if not more, than when they were being used against you. In fact, they're even stronger playable, as they have added invincibility frames to their special attacks, decreased startup, no elemental weaknesses, and even have a new reusable Smart Bomb move in their moveset.
• Rolling Attack: As Dream Friends, they have Sister Circle as their collective move, modeled after Friend Circle. When they activate it, the screen freezes and they make a circle formation before rolling around and pinballing off the screen.
• Sibling Team: Possibly, if they really are sisters.
• Slapstick: During their second boss fights, Francisca and Flamberge get launched into space. During Hyness's boss fight, after draining their life forces, he uses all three mage sisters' bodies as bludgeons. As Dream Friends, they can suffer the same Amusing Injuries as Kirby and the other Dream Friends, such as Harmless Freezing and being Squashed Flat.
• Summon to Hand: They're all capable of manifesting their weapons out of nowhere.
• Tag Team: In the battle against them at the end of Heroes in Another Dimension, they'll switch between each other, with two of them at most at the screen and the rest in the background. As playable Dream Friends, you can manually switch between the three by pressing Down+Attack; the switched-in sister will perform an attack during such.
• Theme Naming: In Japanese, Francisca and Flamberge are known as "Fran Kiss" and "Fran Rouge", making their names themed around lips. Zan's the Odd Name Out and does not fit this theme.
• Town Girls: Francisa is femme, Flamberge is butch, and Zan Partizanne is neither.
• Tragic Villain: All three of them were once normal young girls on the brink of death and exposed to the dangerous elements around them (Lightning for Zan, Fire for Flamberge and Ice for Francisca) before Hyness saved each of them on their last breaths by granting them the power to control the elements that were once killing them. Since then, they have followed him to the ends of the universe out of owing him their lives, even when insanity eventually overtook him and he started becoming more and more abusive.
• Undying Loyalty: All three mages will defend Hyness to the bitter end, despite his obvious insanity; Zan Partizanne shows it more than the others. Soul Melter EX reveals that this is because he saved each of their lives when they were on the brink of death, giving them new purpose and awakening their magical abilities. At least in the Japanese version, however, this has its limits and it's even implied that they only showed up in Another Dimension in the first place so they could repay Hyness for his terrible treatment of them in the main story.
• Unlockable Content: As Dream Friends, they're the only one(s) that have to be unlocked (by completing Heroes in Another Dimension), as opposed to being usable (either with Dream Rod, or in Ultimate Choice) from the start.
• Verbal Tic: They tend to use "jam" when speaking. It's apparently part of their alien language, as Hyness' pause description in Ultimate Choice shows.
• Villain Song: The Song of Supplication ("Prayer Song to God" in the Japanese version), Francisca and Flamberge's battle theme, is the Mage-Sisters' theme. Though they are never sung aloud, the song has actual lyrics, which are provided in battles against each Mage-Sister in the Ultimate Choice.
• Wave-Motion Gun:
  • By combining her drums with her spear, Zan Partizanne can fire a beam of lightning.
  • Flamberge can fire a large stream of flame from her cannon.
  • Francisca, with her soda gun, can fire a Reflecting Laser of water.
• We Meet Again: In their second encounters, each points out how they don't expect to meet Kirby again. Granted, Zan did try to kill Kirby by collapsing the whole Jambastion with him inside, so it's more a case of No One Could Survive That!
• What Happened to the Mouse?: It was unclear what happened to them at the initial end of the game. Hyness sacrifices them and himself to revive Void Termina, but during the fight with Void Termina's core, the heroes manage to free the four of them. Ultimately subverted in the official Twitter and in the mode "Heroes in Another Dimension", where it's revealed that they survived the encounter and began plotting to enter Another Dimension in search of another vessel of Void's.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: This applies to all of them, but one bit of info worth noting was that Zan in particular was scaling a tower in a lightning storm in desperation (the Japanese, Chinese and Korean texts say she climbed the tower in an attempt to kill herself) before Hyness saved her.
• You Are Fat: Flamberge and Zan Partizanne are fond of calling Kirby "zunguri pinku" (roughly "tubby pink thing") in the Japanese version. In English this is adapted into Flowery Insults like "tiny ball of puffy pink mischief".

Francisca

Debut: Kirby Star Allies

Voiced by: Reina Ueda

"I shall now turn this pink ball of nice into a frozen block of ice!"

The first of the Three Mage-Sisters to be encountered. Cool, confident, and composed, Francisca is a master of ice magic, and is known as the Frozen General. She battles Kirby in the Jambastion's Longview Corridor and on Planet Frostak's Blizzno Moon in Far-Flung Starlight Heroes.

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• Blue Is Heroic: Francisca, who wears blue, makes a Heel–Face Turn at the end of Heroes in Another Dimension.
• Collector of the Strange: In her second encounter, Francisca implies that she collects things (which include living beings) by freezing them in a block of ice.
• Deadly Lunge: Francisca's Dash Attack is her doing a lunging strike with her axe.
• Death from Above: After she Turns Red, Francisca can launch a series of icicles from above.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: Francisca's dialogue in the Japanese version never slips out of formal Japanese, even as she's threatening to freeze Kirby into a block of ice.
• Giggling Villain: Francisca giggles quite a bit, particularly when using her Shaken Soda Blaster. It fits her as the most girlish of the three.
• An Ice Person: Her specialty is ice-based magic, although she also uses a few water attacks.
• Ice Magic Is Water: She mostly uses ice magic in battle, but a few of her attacks (most notably her Shaken Soda Blaster) involve liquid water too.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Francisca speaks very calmly and politely as she threatens to "put Kirby on ice, forever". It's slightly more present in Japanese, which has her slip in a line not wanting to make pointless negotiations — but the word used for "negotiate", sesshou, can also mean "kill" depending on the kanji used.
• Sword Drag: Francisca has a move where she drags her axe across the floor before she swings it up. It'll leave harmful ice patches on the floor.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Francisca can detach the blade of her axe and hurl it at the Star Allies, independently of the rest of the weapon. It can bounce off surfaces, capturing Kirby and friends if it hits.
• Water Guns and Balloons: Francisca's other weapon is a water gun designed to resemble a soda bottle. Just like any soda bottle, she shakes it before firing a stream of water.
• Water Is Womanly: While mainly An Ice Person, Francisca is also associated with water through her watery-blue hair and soda gun, and fittingly her personality has a more gentle, feminine touch to it, complete with polite speech in Japanese and giggling, unlike the more aggressive attitudes of Zan Partizanne and Flamberge. However, this is actually a Faux Affably Evil persona, with her being a Soft-Spoken Sadist who engages in collecting people she freezes alive and threatens Kirby in a very calm and polite tone.
• Weak to Fire: Her Logical Weakness is fire, since it can melt her attacks (and even spawn health powerups). In a more mundane way, she seems to fare poorly in hot places, as Flamberge fears she might melt on Star Lavadom.

Flamberge

Debut: Kirby Star Allies

Voiced by: Rie Takahashi

"You're the one who was so rude to sweet Francisca, aren't you?! Don't you dare try to deny it! Fiend! Coward! I swear, if you've harmed a single blue hair on her perfect head... you'll BURN for it!!!"

The second of the Three Mage-Sisters encountered. Flamberge is a hot-tempered and passionate character, known as the Blazing General for her fiery attacks. She is fought in the Jambastion's Inner Sanctum, and on the Sizzlai Moon of Star Lavadom in Far-Flung Starlight Heroes.

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• Actor Allusion: Like Megumin from Konosuba, Flamberge is a fiery mage with a boisterous personality, voiced by Rie Takahashi.
• Ambiguously Brown: Flamberge has a noticeably darker skin tone than Francisca and Zan Partizanne.
• Ambiguously Gay: Flamberge is shown to be incredibly close to Francisca, flying into a rage when she is defeated and referring to her in affectionate terms ("sweet Francisca", or "Fran Kiss-chan" in Japanese). They constantly reference each other in a somewhat romantic fashion in their pause texts (particularly Flamberge's). Kumazaki even suggests that their bond could be deeper than just close comrades. That said, due to the two being Ambiguously Related and there being no direct confirmation, it's unclear if their relationship is actually romantic or familial in nature.
• BFG: Flamberge's other weapon is a large cannon that can shoot out a stream of flame.
• BFS: Flamberge's main weapon is a large Flaming Sword.
• Blade Spam: Flamberge has a move where she stabs multiple times with her sword.
• Fiery Redhead: Flamberge has power over fire and suitably has the hair color and temper to match.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It's pretty easy to make Flamberge mad, especially if it involves Francisca's well-being.
• Hot-Blooded: Flamberge, fittingly enough, is easily angered.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Flamberge has a move where she tries to Sword Plant onto your friends, one by one; if they get hit, they'll get skewered with the sword like shish kebab before she swings her sword to throw them at you.
• Kill It with Ice: Ice is one of her logical weaknesses. According to the Hoshi no Kirby Character Daizukan, she has a dislike of cold temperatures in general.
• Painting the Medium: Flamberge, being Hot-Blooded and prone to yelling, gets some lines of dialogue with text that's way bigger than the standard size.
• Personality Powers: Flamberge is a mage with power over fire and has a temper to match.
• Playing with Fire: She's a Fiery Redhead with a fondness for fire magic.
• Precision F-Strike: The internal filename for Flamberge's animation for when she gets angry reads as "God Damn It".
• Red Is Violent: Flamberge's main color is red, and she gets quite furious when someone hurts Francisca.
• Sword Beam: In a variant, Flamberge can shoot out a Spread Shot of Fireballs by swinging her sword.
• Sword Drag: Like Francisca, Flamberge can drag her sword across the ground, which makes it erupt into flames.
• There Is a God!: Before her second battle with the heroes, Flamberge remarks (at least in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions) that the fact that she's getting the chance to fight them again must be a reward from God for her daily prayers.
• This Is Unforgivable!: The first time Kirby fights Flamberge, she says this to him. Considering the fact that he beat up Francisca badly before meeting her, you could tell she has every reason to want to burn Kirby to a crisp.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Flamberge can create copies of her sword and hurl them at the heroes.
• Tomboyish Voice: Flamberge's voice is the highest and raspiest of the three. Also a case of tomboyish dialogue, particularly in Japanese, where Francisca speaks in keigo and Zan speaks directly, though not nearly as casually. The Japanese Character Daizukan outright calls her a tomboy.
• Weaksauce Weakness: She's weak against water and ice, as you'd expect for a fire mage. But Artist Kirby's paint attacks have a similar effect on her — the paint might have been watercolor.

Zan Partizanne

Debut: Kirby Star Allies

Voiced by: Ryōka Yuzuki

"It is the dearest wish of Lord Hyness... THAT NO ONE INTERFERES!!"

The leader of the Three Mage-Sisters, and the last of them battled. Serious, dutiful, and no-nonsense, she is Hyness's loyal Lightning General, able to travel at lightning speed and perform a variety of electric attacks. She is encountered in Heavenly Hall at the end of the Jambastion, and immediately before Hyness at Jambandra's Divine Terminus.

Now what was her name again...?

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• Butt-Monkey: It's a running gag throughout Star Allies that no one can remember Zan Partizanne's name. In the Japanese version, even the pause screen narrator screws it up once.
• Death from Above: Her attack "Lightning Lemonade" involves her stirring up a storm cloud above her with her spear, which shoots lightning down onto the arena.
• The Dragon: Out of the three of them, Zan's the leader, is fiercely loyal to their master, Lord Hyness, and is the last obstacle Kirby and his squad have to face in order to stop him.
• Driven to Suicide: According to Soul Melter EX, Zan Partizanne once climbed a high tower only to be struck by lightning. The English localization omits that she did so after "losing everything", which heavily implies that she was trying to kill herself this way.
• Evil Laugh: Zan lets out a truly impressive one as she prepares to bring the entire Jambastion crashing down on Kirby's head.
• Hat of Authority: To show her authority over the rest of the Jambelievers and her fellow Mage-Sisters, Zan's hat has yellow highlights.
• Interrupted Suicide: Some flavor text in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions heavily imply that Zan Partizanne climbed a tower in the middle of a thunder storm so she could be struck by lightning and die, but Hyness revived her and gave her new purpose.
• Instrument of Murder: Zan Partizanne's other weapon is a trio of drums that fire orbs of electricity.
• Jerkass: Zan is quite rude on the Internet. In this tweet, she makes fun of Adeleine for having a big forehead, and she calls Ribbon a "juvenile fairy". In-game, Zan responds to her first defeat by trying to bring the whole fortress down on Kirby's head and absconding with the Jamba Heart piece.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: After defeating Zan Partizanne the first time at Jambastion, she takes the Jamba Heart piece and decides to have the last laugh by having the fortress collapse on Kirby and the heroes.
• Load-Bearing Boss: Zan Partizanne's first defeat has her shatter Jambastion's core, causing the entire fortress to start falling apart around Kirby and his friends.
• Lost in Translation: It's a Running Gag that Zan Partizanne's name is supposed to be really hard to pronounce, even though in English it's a simple enough Repetitive Name. In Japanese, though, it takes up a full eleven characters (counting the space), and is spelled somewhat strangely (ザン・パルルティザーヌ, or Zan Parurutizānu — think "Zan Parulutizahne" instead of ザン・パルチザン Zan Paruchizan/"Zan Partizan").
• Mundane Utility: She's a powerful lightning mage, but in addition to using her magic to try to zap Kirby, she can also use it to zip around as fast as lightning, called her "Lightning Dodge" technique. You can use it, too, once you unlock the Mage-Sisters as a Dream Friend.
• The Nicknamer: Zan Partizanne has a habit of giving nicknames to people, referring to Flamberge and Francisca as "Berge" and "Franny," respectively, and calling Kirby various insults like "tiny ball of pink puffy mischief" and "stubby pink ball." On the franchise's Japanese social media accounts, she also gives nicknames to the Dream Friends, such as calling Gooey "Astonishing Lad" and Magolor "Crafty Egg" (Magolor responds by calling her "Parmesan Cheese"). Not even Void Termina is immune — in this tweet, she refers to him as "O Fluffy God" ("Mofumofu God-sama"), which might or might not be blasphemous.
• Psycho Electro: Zan Partizanne is the most fanatical of the three, which is complemented by her lightning powers. She's also callous enough to blow up her own fortress after Kirby defeats her, and her pause screen in Soul Melter EX heavily implies she was unstable and suicidal even before she joined Hyness's Apocalypse Cult.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Zan Partizanne has some impressive words for Kirby when she first meets him.
  Zan: At first I thought you to be just a simpleton with a knack for annoyance. Hmph! Now it is clear you are an interfering interloper!
• Shock and Awe: Zan specializes in lightning magic, and all of her attacks have an electric effect to them.
• Sore Loser: The first time Zan Partizanne is defeated, she stabs clean through the Jambastion's energy core, an action that causes the entire Jambastion to collapse, so she can get the last laugh. Literally.
• Spam Attack: Zan Partizanne can perform her standing spear combo over and over, and she has another move where she dashes forward while stabbing it multiple times.
• Super-Speed: Being a mage of lightning, Zan Partizanne moves faster than her colleagues. You can also utilize her lightning warps as a Dream Friend.
• Sword Plant: Zan Partizanne has a move where she stabs from above with her spear.
• This Cannot Be!: Zan Partizanne's reaction to being defeated for the first time leaves her in disbelief wondering how she could have encountered such strong resistance on Popstar, which she considers measly and remote.
  Zan Partizanne: Ugh... Jam...blasted... Bah! How could there be such opposition on a measly and remote planet like this?!
• The Unpronounceable: At least in-universe, it's noted that Hyness can't remember how Zan Partizanne's name is pronounced.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Aside from her Logical Weakness to water, Zan Partizanne is apparently also weak to Artist's brush attacks, like Flamberge.
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: Some of her attacks as a Dream Friend are alliterative, so you get names like "Zan Zlash" and "Zan Ztab" by flipping the "S" into a "Z".

The Officiant of Doom

Hyness

Debut: Kirby Star Allies

Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba

^{Hyness without his hood (SPOILER WARNING!)}

"You see it now, don't you? Anyone who interrupts our revival ceremony... We must kindly ask that they... PLEASE DISAPPEAR FOREVER!"

The Big Bad of Star Allies. He is the insane leader of the cult of the Jamba Heart, a cult that worships a being he calls "the Dark Lord". He sought to revive him using the power of the Jamba Heart, but something went wrong with the ritual and pieces of the Jamba Heart scattered throughout the galaxy, some landing on Planet Popstar.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Heroes in Another Dimension has Francisca expressing some pity for him as Corrupt Hyness, lamenting that he's a far cry from his old self.
• All Your Powers Combined: He can use the elements of the three Mage Sisters along with his own attacks.
• Ambiguous Situation: According to Shinya Kumazaki, seeing the Jamba Heart for the first time drove Hyness even more insane than before. But, since Hyness himself mentions in Japanese that Void is "swayed by the one who awakens Him" and Void is ultimately shown to be corrupted by Hyness's own hatred, it is ambiguous whether Hyness went insane because of The Corruption from the Jamba Heart (like King Dedede and Meta Knight were earlier in the game), or whether he went insane because getting his hands on the Heart meant it was actually possible for him to get revenge for his cult's banishment.
• Ambiguously Related: It's implied that he is related to the Ancients of Halcandra in some way, shown with his appearance and his ties to certain artifacts. He has pointy "ears" similar to the ones on Magolor's hood, the Master Crown features in one of Void Termina's attacks, and one of the words in his language is "Lor", which the Lor Starcutter's name is derived from. This is muddied somewhat in Return To Dream Land Deluxe, where it's revealed that Magolor isn't a native Halcandran.
• Angrish: He launches into this when you knock his hood off, likely yelling out all sorts of alien profanities.
  Hyness: Juh? JUH... JUH! JUHYAMBAVITRIGOKOPOKOJAAAH!!
• Angry Dance: When Hyness's hood gets knocked off, he flies into a rage and makes a series of bizarre, dance-like motions before replenishing his health using the Mage-Sisters and starting the second phase of the battle.
• Apocalypse Cult: He functions as the High Priest of one of these.
• Apocalypse How: Considering he wants to eliminate everything in the universe with the dark god Void Termina, he classifies as a Class X-4. This could've eventually escalated into Class Z as well, given the revelation of Void's omniversal nature in Soul Melter EX.
• Astral Finale: The place where you fight him (the Divine Terminus) is located at the edge of the universe.
• Ax-Crazy: He makes Marx look completely sane by comparison. Hyness seems calm and composed at first, but it only takes a few seconds to see that this guy is clearly not right in the head, especially when his hood is knocked off. It's later deconstructed with the revelations in the Heroes in Another Dimension update, which show that he wasn't always crazy and even seems to have recognized he was losing it.
• Badass Preacher: He may be evil, but he's one of the toughest bosses in the game, and by far the most difficult boss in the main story.
• Bad Boss: Hyness doesn't care one bit about his generals. He slaps Zan out of the way as he approaches Kirby's team, and doesn't even have the decency to remember her name. That's not even mentioning the whole "draining his generals' life energy, using their unconscious bodies as weapons, and later sacrificing them" deal. It turns out that this wasn't always the case, as he used to care dearly for the generals but became single-minded over time, possibly because of his banishment and/or gradual corruption from the Jamba Heart.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: The second phase of the fight has him and the generals using Kirby's Friend Abilities against him. The difference is that while Kirby's Friends are conscious and willing, the three generals are entirely controlled by Hyness without any (visible) consent.
• Berserk Button: Hyness' pause descriptions mention that he has a complex regarding his face. Sure enough, knock off his hood and he loses it completely.
• Big Bad: Of Star Allies, seeking to revive an incarnation of his god, Void Termina, and destroy the universe.
• Boss Subtitles:
  • "Officiant of Doom, Hyness". In Japanese, "Demon Officiant, Hyness".
  • "Fell Officiant, Corrupt Hyness". In Japanese, "Fallen Officiant, Darkside Hyness".
• Bowdlerise: Hyness refers to Void Termina as "God" in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions. In the English localization it's changed to "Dark Lord", making him seem more like the fanatical leader of a Religion of Evil than a once-benevolent High Priest who tragically went insane and started preaching about ending the world.
• The Caligula: The leader of Jambandra is as batshit insane as he is willing to suck the life out of, and later sacrifice his own followers against their will. He wasn't always this far gone, but the trope still applies to his present-day self.
• The Cameo: Appears as a resident of the village and a sticker in Super Kirby Clash.
• Casting a Shadow: Hyness primarily attacks with orbs of dark energy.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Among the many signs that he's not there mentally, Hyness ends his rant by wishing his Dark Lord happy birthday.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To President Haltmann. Both are the leader of the game's main antagonistic faction (the Haltmann Works Company and the Jambastion Cult) who seek to reawaken a powerful being that they worship (Star Dream and Void Termina) and fight Kirby themselves before the Greater-Scope Villain is released, eventually getting absorbed into the Final Boss themselves. However, whereas Haltmann simply wanted to use Star Dream to see his daughter again and ultimately gets assimilated into the Mother Computer because Susie made the machine go haywire, Hyness let his goal of reviving Void Termina turn into a insane wish to avenge his clan for being banished to the edge of the galaxy by reviving Void as a God of Evil to destroy everything, and willingly sacrifices himself into the Jamba Heart to revive Void. Finally, whereas Haltmann ultimately dies after Star Dream is destroyed, Hyness gets to live in the end thanks to being freed from his corrupted state.
• The Corrupter: Hyness's universe-threatening hatred is revealed to be the force that caused Void, a neutral God of Chaos, to incarnate into Void Termina. In the bad ending of Heroes in Another Dimension, it's heavily implied that the Three Mage-Sisters' desire for revenge on him corrupts them, too.
• Dark Is Evil: Corrupt Hyness wears a black and red cloak, but it still retains the gold linings. He also has dark blue skin.
• Death from Above: Aside from summoning a column of lightning, he can also create a rune (resembling his cult's sigil) above his head that fires off multiple thin needles downward.
• Don't Look At Me: He seriously, utterly hates people looking at his face, and as such always keeps it In the Hood. So naturally when it falls off during his boss fight and shows his really goofily ugly mug to Kirby and the player, his mind just breaks and he enters his next phase.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: Corrupt Hyness seems even more unstable than he was in the main story, due to him being corrupted by the "darkness that escaped him" (i.e the Jamba Heart).
• Dub-Induced Plot Hole: In the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions, Hyness mentions that his people worship the "matter of darkness", whereas in the other localizations, he says that they are the masters of it. The former makes a lot more sense, given Hyness worships Void Termina, who is heavily implied to be connected to Dark Matter.
• Dub Name Change: His Japanese name is actually a direct transliteration of the English word "Highness". The English localization opted to spell it a bit different, to make it seem more like a name. Darkside Hyness also becomes Corrupt Hyness.
• Establishing Character Moment: Hyness firmly sets up how cruel he is when he walks over to Kirby and friends. He bumps into the unconscious Zan Partizanne, comments that she's in his way, and smacks her across the room.
• Evil Counterpart: Acts as one to Kirby. Just like Kirby, he summons allies (i.e. the Three Mage Sisters) to his side to fight for him, and even uses his own version of the Friend Circle. However, whereas Kirby's allies are conscious, willing to fight, and are brought onto his side via The Power of Friendship, Hyness' allies are unconscious, controlled by him, and brought onto his side via absorbing their life forces.
• Evil Old Folks: Hyness has been around for aeons, and is not only the Big Bad of Star Allies, but one of the craziest and most despicable characters in the entire franchise until his eventual redemption.
• The Exile: His long-winded rant mentions how he and his followers (or his clan, in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions) were banished to the edge of the galaxy at some unknown date.
• Expy: Hyness shares his backstory, personality and a similar physical appearance with Zant. Not only do they belong to an ancient civilization that was banished long ago due to their mastery of dark magic, but both are mysterious robed leaders whose mad devotion to an evil being drive the plot of the game. When confronted by the protagonist, they initially seem calm and confident, but soon break into a childish rant that reveals they are completely insane. Finally, their defeat marks the point when The Man Behind the Man is revealed, prompting the hero and his allies to band together for the final showdown. To top it off, the first real taste of just how insane they are happens the first time they're both fully unmaked - Hyness when his hood is removed, and Zant when he's found unmasked in the Palace of Twilight.
• Fallen Hero:
  • Heroes in Another Dimension (and, indirectly, Soul Melter EX) seems to paint him as one of these.
  • While it's unknown if it happened during Hyness' own lifetime, his people did allegedly save the galaxy from a great crisis in the form of a "nightmare".
• Faux Affably Evil: When you first encounter him, he speaks in a slow, calm and stilted manner. But it's clear from how he swatted away Zan Partizanne and his long and very fast Motive Rant that he is actively insane and doesn't even bother trying to hide it.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Hyness can conjure pillars of fire, columns of lightning, and gales of icy wind during his boss fight.
• For Doom the Bell Tolls: Hyness's themes prominently feature ominous bells. It's inspired by gamelan music, according to the staff.
• Gag Nose: His exposed face has a sizable schnoz. One tweet calls it "spiritual and amazing", perhaps one of the strangest ways to describe a nose in all of fiction.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Being sealed away and banished to the edge of the galaxy hasn't exactly been kind to Hyness's sanity. He was once a Benevolent Mage Ruler before he went mad and became hell-bent on destroying the universe.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: He was somewhat crazy before, but Shinya Kumazaki stated in a Nintendo Dream interview that seeing the Jamba Heart for the first time caused Hyness' heart to spiral even further into madness.
• Gold and White Are Divine: Possibly an intentional choice on his part, seeing as how in the original JP script, he referred to Void Termina as God instead of Dark Lord.
• Gonk: His true appearance behind the hood is that of a cartoonish imp-thing with bulging eyes and a very prominent nose.
• Gratuitous English: In the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions, he still wishes his god a very "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!"
• Hades Shaded: As Corrupt Hyness, his skin goes from a bright blue-violet to nearly black.
• Heal Thyself: Does this once during his first boss battle. Hyness being Hyness, he refills his health meter to full by sucking the vitality out of the Three Mage-Sisters until they're barely conscious.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: Hyness's eventual redemption at the end of Heroes in Another Dimension only comes about by Kirby throwing a Friend Heart at him, removing all traces of hatred from him. In the bad ending, he is not redeemed.
• Human Sacrifice: When he is defeated, he sacrifices his mages to Void Termina to resurrect him; when even their sacrifice is not enough, he sacrifices himself.
• Human Shield: In the third phase of his boss fight, he may use his generals' bodies as a shield while he throws dark energy balls from behind them.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Corrupt Hyness's robes are shown as a deep blackish-red in his splash screen, but the prominent blue lighting of Another Dimension makes them look navy blue instead.
• Insane Equals Violent: Before going insane, he was a kind leader who ruled his people with their best interests in mind, even saving the Three Mage-Sisters from death and granting them their powers. After being banished to the edge of the galaxy, he's a crazed lunatic obsessed with avenging his clan and willing to do whatever it takes to destroy the universe and remake it anew.
• Instant Runes: He can summon his cult's heart insignia to rain down magical needles from above and create damaging gusts of ice.
• Insufferable Genius: According to Shinya Kumazaki, he was actually designed with this kind of trope in mind. He is selfish and can be downright scary, but he is a genius when it comes to magic.
• In the Hood: His face is covered in a hood for most of the game. When you knock it off about halfway through his boss fight, he loses it.
• In Their Own Image: During his Motive Rant, he proclaims that once Void Termina destroys everything, Hyness can usher in "the age of awesome" and return his people to the history books.
• Jump Scare: The way his true face is revealed after his hood is knocked off goes this way.
• Knight of Cerebus: When Hyness comes down from his altar to introduce himself to the heroes, the tone of the game becomes much darker. He's dangerous, menacing, has few redeeming traits, and is overall much more vile than the rest of the antagonists in the series... but he's also really silly, hammy, and childish, which either balances out those other traits or makes him seem more disturbing.
• Large Ham: He's a very emotive character. When he flies into his Motive Rant, he cannot keep his arms still.
• Last of His Kind: Or one of the last, at least. Shinya Kumazaki mentioned in a Nintendo Dream interview that Hyness' people are on the brink of extinction due to their banishment and various conflicts they've had in the past.
• Laughably Evil: He's awfully kooky for the leader of a cult bent on universal annihilation.
• Leitmotif: Hyness mostly has the gamelan and violin Mood Motif, but "La follia d'amore", his second battle theme, becomes this in the Heroes in Another Dimension update, where it gets heavily slowed down into a calm guitar solo for "Let Them Know We're Happy".
• Life Drain: Uses this on the three generals when his second phase kicks off to refill his health bar. Subverted with Corrupt Hyness, who does the same thing... to lifeless logs dressed as the Three Mage-Sisters. As such, he doesn't recover any health.
• Light Is Not Good: He wears a white robe that has gold linings, but in his current state, he's as far from good as you could get.
• Madness Mantra: Before launching into his Motive Rant at a breakneck pace, he works himself up by repeating "no, no, no, no, no!" and "never, ever, ever!"
• Magic Versus Science: According to Hyness, he is from a clan of magic-users who were banished by a group of science-users who feared their powers. Notably, in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions, he also mentions that the science-users actually used to be friends of his people before betraying them one day.
• Marionette Motion: He moves his body in very unnatural ways, not unlike a puppet on a string, especially after Kirby knocks off his hood. That his battle theme is called "Puppet Offering" does not help this situation.
• Mask of Sanity: While Hyness appears calm and quiet initially, he freaks out and launches into a large fast rant in Kirby's encounter against him. When his hood gets knocked off, he drops any pretense of sanity.
• Milking the Giant Cow: Hyness's gestures are all very dramatic and a little unnatural. In particular, he moves his arms (and his head, once his hood gets knocked off) around constantly, before, during, and after the boss fight with him.
• Mood Motif: Most of the music associated with Hyness is inspired by gamelan, the percussion-heavy traditional music of Indonesia. His battle theme "Puppet Offering" adds a second one, a violin played sul ponticello for maximum spookiness. La follia d'amore, the battle theme that plays when Hyness loses his hood, turns the latter into a fast, frenetic violin solo.
• Mood-Swinger: He can go from unnervingly calm to erratic and crazy with barely any warning.
• Motive Rant: When confronted by Kirby and the team, Hyness flies into a long, hard-to-read rant about his plans to revive Void Termina.
  Hyness (EN): We are the masters of a power driven to the far reaches of the universe, and we have but one desire! Can one such as you possibly fathom how dearly we have clung to this dream across the aeons? How could you! You couldn’t! Never ever ever! We who once faced those who were in such fear of our power that they sealed us away and banished us to the edge of the galaxy! US! As if THAT loveliness wasn’t enough, they tried to erase our very existence from history! RUDE! Only through our magic were we able to overcome their science and achieve great prosperity! We alone were responsible for stopping that repulsive nightmare of a galactic crisis, yet this is how you repay us! This won’t stand! It won’t be forgiven! It won’t be forgotten! Never ever EVER! Those who called us mad, are you listening? You left us at the edge of the galaxy to be forgotten, then went along your merry way, probably living somewhere pretty and peaceful! But know this! Your future is a farce! You have none! We, masters of a matter most dark, vow to be restored, as foretold in the book of legend, which everyone thought was just a fairy tale! It WASN’T! We have already obtained the vessel that contains our Dark Lord, and he will soon awaken and shower us in compassion! Look! The vessel of our Dark Lord is filling up even as we speak! Now the time for his greatness to enter our world has come! Welcome to a new history! A new age! The age of awesome! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARK LORD! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Grace us, Gloriously Dark Looooooord!
  Hyness (JP): The dearest wish of our clan, who controls a magic driven to the edge of the galaxy! Can someone like you understand how precious this long-held desire is? No, it's impossible, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't! Our former friends, those people, sealed everyone in our clan away and banished us to the edge of the galaxy as if they feared our power! And they still weren't satisfied, so they tried to completely erase every last trace of our existence from their history! Only through our magic, in harmony with their science, could they live in great prosperity! Such treatment levelled against us, who drove off a disgusting nightmare that could have been called a galactic crisis! This is no misunderstanding, nothing of the sort! To those people, who called us mad, can you hear us!? You who abandoned us to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, left us, and even now probably live carefree somewhere, no longer have a future! The return of our clan, who worships the matter of Darkness, is near! We have at last obtained the vessel of God as the book of legends says, which everyone dismissed as lies! The vessel of our God, said to be swayed by the one who awakens Him and bestow His mercy upon them, has been filled, and at last, the time has come for our mighty God to be born! He'll be born, he'll be born, he'll be booorn! Happyyy Biiirthdaaay! To a new history, a new aaage! HAPPYYY BIIIRTHDAAAY, ALMIGHTY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!
• Motor Mouth: Have you seen how long his Motive Rant is? He rolls it all off at lightning speed without a single slip of the tongue. Somebody calculated that Hyness speaks almost twice as fast as the current world record holder for the fastest-speaking person.
• Never Say "Die": Shockingly averted in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions, where he becomes the first character in the games to explicitly use the word "die".^note Meta Knight previously said "die" in Kirby Super Star, but only in English. The other localizations play it straight, having him say "disappear forever" instead.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The sole reason why Kirby was alerted to his plan was because he botched the ritual to summon his Dark Lord, spreading the Jamba Heart pieces across the galaxy, including to Popstar and causing King Dedede to turn bad. It also gave Kirby his Friend Heart ability.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: If his Motive Rant is to be believed, his people were responsible for stopping a great galactic crisis that threatened his people at one point. Their former friends, fearing his power, responded by banishing them and removing their existence from the history books. No wonder he went crazy.
• No Mouth: As revealed by his unhooded appearance, he doesn't seem to have a mouth.
• Omnicidal Maniac: His goal is to destroy the entire universe through reviving Void Termina. He wants to seek vengeance on an unknown group who had previously betrayed him.
• Power Floats: Similar to the three Mage-Sisters, he doesn't seem to have any visible legs. Not that this is new to the Kirby series.
• Pre-Final Boss:
  • Hyness is the last boss before Kirby and co. battle Void Termina.
  • In Guest Star Mode, he's the last boss before Morpho Knight.
  • In "Heroes in Another Dimension", he's fought right before you take on all three Mage-Sisters at once.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's stoic and collected half the time, but when you remove his hood, he'll start flailing his arms and throwing the mages around like a child who didn't get his dessert. The sentiment of wishing an unholy calamity on the universe "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" doesn't help his case, either. It's likely justified, since years of exile has taken a toll on his mentality.
• Rambling Old Man Monologue: He gets one of these at ridiculously fast speed, which doubles as his Motive Rant.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Corrupt Hyness has this color scheme, with his eyes changing from yellow to red, and his robe from white to reddish-black. When his hood is knocked off, it turns out his skin is now black, and the tips of his ears are red.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: As Corrupt Hyness, where his yellow eyes behind his robe go from yellow to red.
• Reluctant Psycho: Corrupt Hyness's pause menu description includes a line asking Zan to take care of him "if [his] heart goes crazy again", which seems to indicate that Hyness was aware of his own Sanity Slippage once.
• Rolling Attack: After he Turns Red in his second phase, he'll start using his own version of Friend Circle and proceed to roll all over the screen randomly, ending with him throwing the bodies of his three generals at once to cover the ground. He'll also become dizzy after that.
• Sanity Slippage: Prior to being banished, Hyness actually used to be quite calm and caring, even saving the lives of the Three Mage Sisters and making them his top soldiers. However, the years of banishment were clearly a massive blow to his mind, as he devolved into a psychopathic, universe-despising, and physically abusive cult leader who wants nothing but chaos and destruction. It gets even worse when his mask is knocked off during his boss fight, at which point his sanity just takes a nosedive off the deep end. He seems to finally return to normal after being purified of evil in the ending of Heroes in Another Dimension, although considering the nature of the Friend Hearts...
• Sanity Slippage Song: Hyness's leitmotif is normally ominous bell tones, but his second boss battle theme, La follia d'amore, features a frenetic violin solo that shows how insane he's become after getting his hood knocked off.
• Scratchy-Voiced Senior: He's been around for aeons, and has a raspy, screechy voice courtesy of Shigeru Chiba.
• Shadowed Face, Glowing Eyes: Hyness wears a white robe with a hood and has glowing yellow eyes underneath. When his hood falls off during his boss battle, he's revealed to be extremely weird and ugly looking.
• Sinister Minister: He's the insane officiant of his cult who wants to see the whole universe destroyed.
• Sinister Schnoz: When his hood is knocked off, he's revealed to have an enormous Gag Nose. This doesn't diminish how evil he is in the slightest.
• The Sociopath: A prime example. He's a cold-hearted and very unhinged psychopath who abuses his minions, treats them like weapons, and even sacrifices them when they've outlived their usefulness, and is solely focused on universal annihilation by awakening an Ancient Evil as an act of revenge against those who've banished him and his tribe long ago.
• Sorcerous Overlord: He was chosen as the ruler of his land due to his exceptional magic powers. If the Mage Sisters are to be believed, he actually did a good job at first, but eventually became this.
• Squishy Wizard: Hyness has powerful magic attacks, but takes more damage than most bosses. This could be justified, since it was done to set up his much harder second phase.
• Suddenly Shouting: Hyness starts out eerily calm, but just before his lightning-fast Motive Rant starts, he starts repeatedly screeching "no!" at the top of his lungs.
  Hyness: Well then... It seems... we do not have enough energy... to revive our Dark Lord... Must we... allow ourselves... to fall... into oblivion? No. NO! No no no no no no! NONONONONONONONONO!!! NOOOOO, I SAAAAY!!!
• Super-Empowering: Soul Melter EX reveals that he took the Three Mage-Sisters under his wing after "unlocking" their aptitude for elemental magic.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: His initial appearance's eyes glow a bright faded yellow from underneath his hood. Corrupt Hyness's eyes are changed to Red Eyes, Take Warning.
• Talkative Loon: He initially starts off as quiet and unsettling. Then he realizes the mages don't have enough energy to revive Void Termina, and, well...
• Tantrum Throwing: Making his hood fall off after defeating him provokes this reaction out of him. The "throwing" part involves his generals' bodies, that is.
• They Called Me Mad!: One of the bits in his rambling include how he had been called crazy in the past.
• This Cannot Be!: He's left saying this when you defeat him in battle, which is before he offers himself and the generals up to revive Void Termina.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Another bit in his rambling includes how he refuses to forgive those who banished him and his people to the edge of the galaxy despite having saved them from extinction, and attempted to erase their existence from history.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: From what we learn about him in Heroes in Another Dimension, he used to be a legitimately kind person who saved the lives of the Mage-Sisters and led them towards a bright future... then things changed.
• Tragic Villain: Possibly. "Heroes in Another Dimension" heavily implies that Hyness wasn't always crazy, or at least not as crazy as we see him, though the cause of said corruption is entirely up to fan theories. Francisca mentions that she wishes that he could go back to his old self, and after being healed by a Friend Heart, he's shown not acting entirely like a loon. A secret completion picture for the mode even shows him and the Mages playing with Kirby in a comedic, friendly way. Then there's this line of dialog in Corrupt Hyness' description:
  Hyness: Zan Par! If my heart goes crazy again... No, never mind.
• Unperson: Mentions that his entire people had this done to them in the past during his Motive Rant.
• Unreadably Fast Text: See that massive wall of text Hyness calls a Motive Rant? It all clicks by without the player's control, and he gets through it all in under fifteen seconds.
• Unreliable Expositor: Sure, Hyness's Motive Rant has huge implications for the series' lore, but one must remember that he is a far cry from sane when he rattles it all off. In particular, there's a nuance in Japanese where he merely speculates that his clan was sealed away for fear of their power, which got Lost in Translation.
• Verbal Tic: In the Japanese version, he's fond of streee~etching his voooowels oooout like thiiii~s...
• Victory Fakeout: Downplayed. He goes down suspiciously easily and doesn't appear to have a second phase like most bosses do. Deplete his health bar, and he hangs onto a tiny sliver of HP as his hood is knocked off, causing him to fly into a rage and refill his life bar for phase two.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Despite Star Allies mostly being lighthearted in tone even by series standards with its focus on The Power of Friendship and the ability to recruit many of the series' previous villains as allies, Hyness contrasts it as one of the most evil and unsettling Big Bads in Kirby history. He's violently insane, abuses his followers on screen multiple times, and leads an Apocalypse Cult seeking to summon his dark god to bring forth the end of everything. "Heroes in Another Dimension" puts his morality in another light, implying that he used to be more benevolent and lost his mind over time; unlike past "corrupted" villains like Queen Sectonia and President Haltmann, he not only lives but gets redeemed in the good ending of the mode.
• Villainous Breakdown: The long Motive Rant that largely consists of Unreadably Fast Text that he makes before the boss fight is pretty much this for Hyness. He gets another one when he loses his hood in mid-battle with Kirby, causing him to lose his temper and his sanity completely.
• Villain No Longer Idle: Hyness spends most of the game at the Divine Terminus, working on regathering the Dark hearts to reassmble the Jamba Heart. And surely enough, once his last line of defense in the form of Zan Partizanne goes down when Kirby and friends make it to his hideout, Hyness finally decides to deal with them himself.
• Walking Spoiler: Although he is literally the first character we see in the game's opening cutscene, he's still hard to talk about without going into his overall goals as well as his true face, his abusive treatment of the Mage-Sisters, his descent into madness, and eventual redemption in Heroes in Another Dimension.
• Wham Line: He mentions that his cult is a master of a "matter most dark", further deepening connections between Void Termina and the Dark Matter.
  • In the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions, he instead says that his people worship the "matter of darkness", which has different, but still enormous implications.
• We Used to Be Friends: If his words are to be believed, his people were betrayed by their former trusted allies.
• Wicked Heart Symbol: Hyness' hood bears the same crest shown on the Three Generals' hats, as well as Pon & Con's and Void Termina's armor. He plays the "Wicked" part to unnaturally terrifying levels, being a Sinister Minister who treats his mages like weapons and wants to bring about the end of days by reviving a God of Evil.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: All we see from his hood is a pair of yellow eyes. Underneath the hood, they're still yellow, but they also have concentric blue circles that make him look completely crazy.

God of the Jambandran Religion

Void Termina (MASSIVE UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Debut: Kirby Star Allies

Voiced by: Shinya Kumazaki, Hirokazu Ando, Yuuta Ogasawara, Yumi Todo

^{Void Termina's essence}

^{Void Termina's Dark Matter form}

No one knows from whence he came, only that he has existed for aeons, unchanging and unrelenting. Perpetually roaming the cosmos, he has finally arrived.

Born from the total absence of care and composed of dark energy, he has awakened from a state of mere existence to that of true sentience. He now desires only one thing... to CRUSH all opposition!

The dark god worshipped by Hyness and the Final Boss of the game. A mindless(?) destroyer of worlds who only knows ruination. In reality, however, he may be something much more...

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• Adorable Abomination: When his core form is mimicking Kirby's face. However, the core becomes significantly less cute when it starts mimicking Dark Matter and its associated forms.
• All Your Powers Combined: He has the attacks of multiple previous final bosses in the franchise, including Magolor's dual-wielded Ultra Swords (which is combined with Daroach's Triple Star), Zero Two's wings and Dark Matter summoning, the Master Crown, Miracle Matter's Needle form, Morpho Knight's scale wave, Marx's shooter cutter, Dark Mind shooting lasers downwards and onto mirrors, Drawcia Soul and Soul of Sectonia's bouncing attack, Drawcia's paint rain, and the Mage Sisters' weapons and elements.
• Almighty Idiot: He's an immensely powerful god who has been described as having shaped reality based on his past whims, but when first revived the ritual is incomplete due to Kirby's actions, which results in him being a Feral Villain who only uses his godly power to sate his base instincts for destruction. As his mind and soul continue awakening through each successive fight with Kirby, he grows more intelligent and by extension more skilled at using his power, but in exchange he grows more susceptible to the goodness and cheeriness of Kirby influencing him towards redemption.
• Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: He has two of these. The first is the below-mentioned deep space crystal platform, and the other is exclusive to the fight against Void: Void Termina's body itself, as his innards turn into a solid-colored emptiness that cycles through multiple colors as you fight him. Interestingly enough, this video shows that it's also meant to have a sparkling black hole in the background, but for some reason, as of this edit, it isn't present in the actual game.
• Ambiguously Related: Due to lines in Hyness' Motive Rant and several of Void Termina's Wham Shots, it's implied that Void Termina is related to Dark Matter ^note (its insides is structured almost like that of Dark Star, his core eventually takes on Real Dark Matter's form, and his final attack is named "Dark Matter Laser" in game data), Zero ^note (the wings of his Angel form resemble those of Zero-Two), and the core form can also portray 02's "fake" face - plus, Zero is the ruler of the previously mentioned Dark Matter, the Ancients who made the Master Crown ^note (the crown his Soul form uses for his third form's laser attacks looks almost exactly like the Master Crown, although it's only a blue silhouette in Story Mode), and even Kirby himself ^note (its core primarily displays a face similar to Kirby's, helped by its pink coloration). Soul Melter EX makes things far less ambiguous, with pause text in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions (Void Termina's 2nd phase) explicitly stating that he is the origin of "Matters of Dream, Dark, Soul, and Heart", and by making Void resemble Zero and Kirby to an even greater degree.
• Ancient Evil: He's reportedly been around for aeons.
• As Long as There Is Evil: Zigzagged. The boss description for Void Soul speculates he cannot be killed only defeated for short time, but it also speculates that Void Termina is a being affected by both positive and negative emotions, and states that when he comes back hopefully he will be a friend.
• Astral Finale: The battle against it takes place on an empty crystalline platform in deep space. In Soul Melter EX, it becomes a literal Astral Finale, since Void's absolutely final form is titled "Astral Birth".
• Attack Its Weak Point: His first and third forms require the player to break five pink-red eyes that pop up across his body to defeat him.
• Ax-Crazy: He wants nothing but everything - and we mean everything - that stands in his way to be destroyed. His later fights show him slowly growing sentient and abandoning that in favor of enjoying life.
• Battle Boomerang: Void Soul can attack with four boomerang cutters fired from his body similar to the Soul bosses before him (Dark Mind, Drawcia, Marx, Queen Sectonia, Star Dream; Magolor is the exception.). Void does this too, although during his fight, the last wave is more like Drawcia Soul's variation whereas Void Soul sticks to Dark Mind's variation.
• Beam-O-War: Only in Story Mode, after his core is defeated, he shapeshifts into Dark Matter and engages in this with his Dark Matter Laser against Kirby and his Star Allies Sparkler.
• Beam Spam:
  • Void Termina's core lays delayed lasers across the arena in his fights. He occasionally scatters them around to fill the screen with 90% laser.
  • Void's opening attack is a Touhou-esque barrage, which is later followed up by three different patterns of laser spam.
• Beast of the Apocalypse: Even especially vile villains like Fecto Elfilis seek no more than conquest, only resorting to destroying the world if things don't go their way. The moment Void Termina is born, he only seeks to destroy everything in his sight. It takes Kirby's fortitude, friends, and kindness for the Dark Lord to stand down.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: Near the end of his first phase, Void Termina will use the new elemental ability mechanic to his advantage to imbue ice, fire, or lightning into his Ultra Sword hands.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: His first form can transform his hands into giant swords, which strangely resemble Ultra Swords. He can then imbue said swords with Fire, Ice, or Lightning to boost their power further.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: He has no sense of good or evil, only destruction. In particular, his Soul form's pause description mentions that he's affected by positive and negative energies, which influences how he rises again, with Void's description stating that he may be on the cusp of shifting back to good.
• Boss Subtitles:
  • (True) Destroyer of Worlds, Void Termina.
  • Essence of Chaos, Void Soul.
  • Astral Birth, Void.
• Bouncing Battler: His fourth phase has an attack where he bounces around and then towards the foreground, trying to smash Kirby and friends, in an homage to one of Drawcia Soul's attacks. This is called "Sprint" in the data files. Void Soul has a splitting variation called Deadly Bound.
• Breaking Old Trends: Void (the one from Soul Melter EX) is the first boss to outrank a Soul boss as the "True Final Boss" of the game.
• Breaking Out the Boss: Hyness' whole plan is to resurrect him, and he promptly becomes the final boss.
• Bullet Hell: Void Soul and Void can crank out patterns of bullets and lasers that would make most of the Wily Capsules look like amateurs in comparison. His first and third phases are no slouch at this either, as his wide variety of attacks can make even the most seasoned player weep.
• Call-Forward: A few rather dark examples in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, where the Master Crown uses an attack identical to Void Termina's "Crown of Evil and Obsession" attack as the Final Boss of Magolor Epilogue and a being that resembles Void Soul replaces the orb in the center of Magolor Soul's boss stage in the enhanced True Arena.
• Chaos Is Evil: Zig-zagged but ultimately subverted. While Void Termina is an evil Destroyer Deity brought about by the darkness Hyness collected, he is a much weaker incarnation of Void, whose chaotic nature gives him a shot at redemption.
• Cognizant Limbs: Unlike the versions for the main story and Soul Melter, the first and third phases of Soul Melter EX Void Termina have all the extra eyes that count for the Multiple Life Bars present constantly, so all of them can be damaged without having to wait for each to appear following the last being destroyed. That said, in line with the trope, the last eye on his head is kept hidden until every other eye is destroyed.
• Continuity Cavalcade: Where to even begin?
  • The runes on his body include the Star Rod, a mirror, Dark Nebula, and what appears to be a flower.
  • His Demon God form is able to summon Ultra Swords that he can then embed with either fire, ice, or lightning.
  • His weakpoints are five pink reptilian eyes, bringing to mind the eye of Dark Nebula, cemented by the eyes occasionally emanating a pattern similar to the "vortex" seen in Dark Nebula's artwork.
  • The strange droplets that fall from the "ceiling" in the second phase are internally referred to as "Red Tears," likely referring to Zero Two. The floor's hexagonal pattern also mimics that of his domain, Dark Star.
  • Speaking of Zero Two, the wings Void Termina's Angel form dons are colored exactly the same as his, sans Void's version, and the crystalline pattern also references Star Dream and Marx.
  • A portion of the weapons that he summons shimmer a distinct rainbow hue, similar to that of objects such as the Rainbow Sword and the Platinum Gears.
  • The Angel form's last attack is to perform Beam Spam using none other than the Master Crown, labelled by the manual as the "Crown of Evil and Obsession."
  • In his "True Destroyer of Worlds" form, Void Termina's color scheme takes on a Red and Black and Evil All Over theme. Considering what its insides looks like and the Final Core's color scheme, it might be a reference to the Hyper Zone and Dark Star which used similar color schemes for their exterior and interior respectively.
  • The Final Core form.
    • Two of his pause descriptions mention breezes, alluding to Spring Breeze.
    • His default face is identical to the neutral face that Kirby wears in most 2D titles, and his Soul Melter/Soul Melter EX palettes have white-ish bodies to mirror his original monochrome coloration.
    • One of the faces he makes resembles Zero Two's false face. The "Bon Appétit" attack also mimics Zero's ability to spawn Dark Matter in Dream Land 3, as well as Drawcia Soul's Para Matters.
    • His "Full Smile" attack is identical to the Needle form of Miracle Matter.
    • His "Sprint" and "Deadly Sun" attacks are similar to the tackling attacks of many a Soul boss, as is Void Soul's Shooter Cutter, both of which have been shared by most other Soul bosses sans Magolor.
    • His "Loud Song" attack has him take the form of Real Dark Matter, with bullet barrages similar to those of both Zeros.
    • His appearance as Void gives him a white body with a red "face," creating a near-identical likeness to Zero - a relationship that is further hammered in by the appearance of the Boss Butch version of the Hyper Zone in his title card, as well as his pause screen picture wearing a Kubrick Stare version of Zero Two's "face", reminiscent of Zero's Boss Butch credits artwork from Kirby's Dream Land 3.
    • An attack exclusive to Void copies the appearance and pattern of Dark Mind, using mirror-esque constructs in various ways.
    • Around the seven minute mark, Void's final theme uses a chiptune segment identical to that of the original Green Greens.
    • In addition to the above, in the standalone version of The Star-Conquering Traveler's final movement in the soundtrack, "Sparkling Star", the Game Boy chiptune sound enters 4 minutes 27 seconds into the song. Kirby's Dream Land came out in April 27, 1992.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Star Dream. Both are powerful beings that are worshipped by the main villains of the game (President Haltmann and Hyness) who are ultimately driven insane from their influence (Star Dream erases most of Haltmann's memories while the Jamba Heart Void which was sealed in drives Hyness mad). They then assimilate the Big Bad for the final battle (Haltmann unwillingly fuses his mind with Star Dream while Hyness forcibly sacrifices himself to revive Void Termina) and progressively get stronger as the fight goes on (Star Dream merges with the Access Ark to reveal its true form while Void Termina grows wings, and later reveals his core), while their One-Winged Angel forms heavily suggest that they are related to one of the important characters (Star Dream is heavily implied to be another Nova, while Void Termina is implied to be related to Kirby and maybe even Dark Matter). However, whereas Star Dream eventually turns into a cold, destructive machine hellbent on destroying organic life through merging minds with Haltmann, Void Termina gradually grows more and more sentient as Kirby's positive influence starts to affect him, eventually willing to stop destroying everything in favor of enjoying life.
• The Corruptible: Quite fittingly for a being that is basically the Anthropomorphic Personification of chaos, while violence and destruction defines his very existence, he's quite easily influenced by the morality and desires of those around him, making him a case of both "The Corruptible" and "The Redeemable". While his initial revival is imbued with the universe-hating evil of Hyness, each successive fight against Kirby and his immense Nice Guy aura, starting from when he gains sapience that allows him to want to bring destruction, has him getting less and less interested in destroying reality and more interested in settling down to enjoy life, with his final defeat and "death" bringing hope for him potentially pulling a full Heel–Face Turn if he ever is revived again.
• Crystal Dragon Jesus: He is the titular crystal dragon in the religion of the Cult of Jamba Heart.
• Darker and Edgier: Somehow, he manages to one-up Star Dream. While Star Dream wished to eradicate organic life, Void Termina seeks to destroy everything.
• Dark Is Evil: His body is mainly colored dark grey, and he is a highly destructive being. Inverted for his Soul fight, where his body is colored white instead, but played straight once more in his truest form which is black and red, then promptly averted once more as his core takes on a rainbow-strobing palette.
• Dark Reprise: The first and third movements of his battle theme, The Star-Conquering Traveler, are ominous versions of the Song of Supplication. The fourth and fifth/final movements add an electric guitar version of the Jambandra Base rendition of Green Greens to the mix, with the latter seguing into a somber rendition.
• Defeat Equals Friendship: Implied. The death animation for Void seems to hint that Kirby "purified" him of whatever negative energies were making it run amok, turning him good again. An unused variation of A Farewell to Kirby◊ also depicts Kirby and Void taking a nap together, with Void smiling without a care in the world.
• Destroyer Deity: Explicitly referred to as a god by Hyness, and in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions, his title is God of Destruction.
• Didn't Need Those Anyway!: He abandons his body after phase four in the main game for another shot at destroying Kirby and appears none weaker for the wear for it.
• Dimensional Traveler: In one of the tweets leading up to the reveal of Heroes in Another Dimension, Zan suggests that the Jamba Heart Void was sealed in came from another world via Another Dimension. Super Kirby Clash supports this, with the Jamba Heart occasionally appearing during Aeon Hero's Dimensional Cutter attack. Void is also stated in Soul Melter EX to be an omniversal constant, existing in all dimensions in one way or another.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Void Soul and Void — Astral Birth create three copies each during their Deadly Bound and Full Smile attacks (their versions of Sprint and Laughing Needle). Attacking the copies counts as hitting the original, making this a case of Awesome, but Impractical and Shared Life-Meter.
• Dub Name Change: Named "Ende-Nil" in Japanese, Chinese and Korean (corruption of German Ende (end) and Latin Nihil (zero, void)). Void Soul is "Soul of Nil" in the aforementioned languages, and "Void" is just "Nil".
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: His core contains enough energy that this is what it unleashes on the arena he is fought on when it finally blows up.
• Easter Egg:
  • If you listen closely when you're fighting the second phase, you can hear Void Termina's heartbeat on the Switch's HD Rumble. You're indeed fighting its heart at the moment.
  • The runes on its body have several peculiar shapes, such as King Dedede's glove, a sword, Gordo, a parasol, an old reel player, the Star Rod, UFO Kirby, and even Qbby.
• Eldritch Abomination:
  • Almost nothing is known about him, other than that he wants to destroy everything, he exists in every universe, and he was sealed away prior to the events of the game.
  • Taken further with its core/soul form, which utilises Voluntary Shapeshifting as most of its attacks. Its face morphs into Kirby's face as well as Dark Matter and the false face of 02.
• Electrified Bathtub: Void Soul has an attack where he raises the water on the stage, then fires his laser onto it, electrifying the water. Void will subvert this trope, however, instead using it to slow down Kirby's movement while he tries to crush him.
• Empty Eyes: Void Soul's Dark Matter form has a singular pupilless eye. His mask also lacks any sort of eyes as well, just two black holes.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: The various weapons that he summons (except for the Master Crown) all have a shimmering effect applied to them, and Void's body courses with veins that cycle through the color spectrum.
• Evil Is Bigger: He is a pure, destructive force of evil, and is fittingly positively humongous.
• Evil Counterpart: To Kirby. Both are beings of unimaginable power who will stop at nothing to inhale and destroy anything in their path, but Kirby is a friendly being who has his limits and wants to protect Popstar and the galaxy from evil, while Void is a being of pure evil who will stop at nothing until everything in the universe is gone. Cementing him as this is their implied connection to Dark Matter, usage of elemental powers (one of the main gimmicks of Star Allies is elemental abilities), a powerful Vacuum Mouth, and even Void's core resembling Kirby himself.
• Fallen Angel: His second form is officially known as the "Angel Form", his swooping attack is called "Fallen Heaven," and his wings are stylized very similarly to 0², who shared the same motif.
• Feral Villain: When Void Termina is first summoned, his soul hasn't awakened yet, which means he is completely mindless and operating on the sole instinct he's learned from all the hatred inside Hyness — destroy everything in his path. He gains some form of intellect in Soul Melter, and is fully sentient in Soul Melter EX.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Void Termina has the ability to channel these with the weapons it summons.
• Go for the Eye: In the 1st and 3rd phases, the only way to hurt him is to target the eyes that appear on his body.
• Go Out with a Smile: When Void is defeated, he smiles as light bursts out of him.
• God Is Evil: He may be the origin of Matter, but he does not hesitate to begin to wipe it all out once he appears. Zigzagged, however, in that this may be less of his own will and more because of the dark energies used to summon him influencing his actions.
• God of Chaos: Void's true nature is seemingly one of these. As the so-called "progenitor of origination", he was created from all the chaotic possibilities of the universe, and Void Soul's Boss Subtitles even call him the "Essence of Chaos". Interestingly, this gives him just as much potential for evil as it does for good.
• Good Hurts Evil: He's the only enemy in Star Allies who outright takes damage, however miniscule, from having a Friend Heart thrown at him. Given how his motivations, interests, and outright physical body are directly influenced by the positive and negative energies around him, and in his boss fights he's mostly composed of and motivated by the universe-hating negativity of Hyness, it makes sense that he's hurt by the kindness and desire for friendship emanated by Kirby. This also means it's only logical the Finishing Move against (base game) Void Termina is a Combined Energy Attack conjured up by The Power of Friendship, while each successive Soul Melter fight against him purifies more and more of his evil tendencies simply because he's constantly being exposed to Kirby's immense friendly aura.
• Greater-Scope Villain: In general is this for the entire franchise:
  • His destructive nature across the universe would end up causing the ancients to create a lot of the MacGuffins throughout the franchise, like the Star Rod, the Galactic Novas and the Master Crown, making him responsible for the plots and antagonists of Adventure, Super Star, Return to Dream Land and Planet Robobot.
  • One of the Four Heroes of Yore who sealed him away is implied to be Galacta Knight, whose corruption and subsequent sealing becomes a major plot point in the series (notably in the Kirby Clash games).
  • His failed resurrection is the driving plot point of Star Allies, as it causes the Jamba and Friend hearts to be scattered across Dreamland and the universe, and causes Kirby to gain the ability to turn enemies into friends.
  • Last but most certainly not least, you cannot explain why Void is the Greater-Scope Villain without mentioning the absolute Wham Line that is the Japanese, Chinese and Korean pause descriptions, which reveals Void is the source of everything in the Kirby universe. Dark Matter, the primary villainous faction who are implied to be connected to countless villains, and even Kirby himself, are all Void’s reincarnations, which makes Void responsible for every single game since the very first Dream Land.
• Go Out with a Smile: When you defeat Void, he starts to smile not unlike Kirby while exploding.
• Ground Punch: This is one of the attacks that he uses during Phase 1. It unleashes multiple shockwaves of energy.
• Harder Than Hard: Void, who is effectively the first EX version of a Soul boss.
• Hate Plague: His fourth phase (and Void Soul)'s first attack is always to inflict this on your friends. Quickly throw Friend Hearts onto them to cure it! Strangely, Void doesn't use this attack.
• Horns of Villainy: He has long horns in his first and angel forms, and he is the final boss of the game.
• Instant Runes: His second phase has him shoot strange dark runes at the player character. The runes will hurt Kirby if he tries to inhale them. Void Termina's Soul Melter EX variation summons up a much bigger red rune, which drops a Maxim Tomato if the player manages to destroy it.
• It Can Think: It's revealed that Void Termina has gained a Soul during the fourth/soul form battle. He still wants to destroy everything, though this is less out of destruction being all he knows and more because he wants to. The description of Void Soul mentioned that if he were to be resurrected using positive energy, he could potentially become... a friend. Void takes this even further, seemingly wanting to abandon his tyrannical rage in favor of longing for naps, food, and dreams of friends reuniting.
• Laughing Mad: He does this in the fourth phase when he uses Miracle Matter's Needle form to attack.
• Leitmotif: There are two musical motifs associated with Void Termina, both of which are present in his four-movement battle theme, The Star-Conquering Traveler:
  • The first, of course, is the Song of Supplication, the theme that is implied in-universe to be a hymn of worship by the Jambandran religion to Void Termina.
  • The second and more alarming motif is that of Green Greens, which ominously heralds the players upon arriving at Jambandra Base with a more sinister, direct rearrangement of the familiar theme. This could also double as foreshadowing regarding the true nature of Void Termina.
• Light Is Not Good: Downplayed, played straighter as his forms go on, and then ultimately zigzagged. The weapons he summons have a faint rainbow-tinted shimmer, and his EX version is colored white, but otherwise the colors in his palette (his default one is mainly colored dark grey) are very much evil. In particular, Void Soul is colored bluish-white, as a likely reference to monochrome Kirby from the older games, and Void is coated white-and-red in a call-back to Zero, with rainbow-strobing veins running over it. Of course, with the revelation that Void is not inherently evil, the "not good" part may not apply 100% of the time.
• Made of Evil: Zigzagged. Several of his pause descriptions mentioned how he's made of dark energy, classifying him as this. On the other hand, however, he can also be influenced by positive energies, making him Made of Good at the same time.
• The Maker: In the JP pause screen for Void Termina's 2nd phase in Soul Melter EX, he's stated to be the source of "Matters of Dream, Dark, Soul, and Heart," as well as the "origin of all," seemingly stating that almost everything in the Kirby universe is a byproduct of his chaotic power, intentionally or otherwise.
• Meaningful Appearance:
  • His Angel form dons a pair of distressingly familiar red-and-white wings, and Void Soul's variation has his body take on the same palette, with a green-ish tail - remove the mask, add a halo, and it's basically a buff, armored Zero Two.
  • His absolute true form resembles a monochrome Kirby bearing Zero's crimson eye, eventually taking cues from Real Dark Matter, Miracle Matter, Dark Mind, and nearly every Soul boss for certain attacks.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Termina" means to end, likely referring to his world-destroying hobbies. Void Termina can be interpreted as to end nothingness.
  • Both the Japanese, Chinese and Korean name, Ende-Nil, and English name, Void Termina, can be re-interpreted to mean Final-Zero. In his truest form, its core drops the "Termina" part of the name, leaving just Nil/Void, a.k.a. Zero.
  • Void's boss subtitle heralds him as the Astral Birth - in layman's terms, a birth of the stars, a nod to Kirby's Japanese, Chinese and Korean title of "Kirby of the Stars." In addition, the romaji for his game's name can be interpreted alternatively as Star Arise. In fact, Kirby Star Allies: The Original Soundtrack has Void's death sound as a track, which is entitled, in plain all-caps English, "STAR ARISE".
• Me's a Crowd: As Void Soul and Void, he can split into four, increasing the range of his attacks and making them harder to avoid.
• Mighty Glacier: His first form is incredibly slow-moving, mainly to make it easier to Attack Its Weak Point wherever it pops up, but his Ground Punch, Shockwave Stomp, and Spell Blade attacks all have widely-reaching Area of Effect, so he doesn't really need to directly hit you to hurt you and force you to dodge, and the hit points of each individual health bar will still make him take a while to bring down even disregarding dodging attacks and aiming at the targets.
• Mini Mook: The fourth phase and Void Soul can spit out smaller versions of himself, each with six Dark Matter-esque bubbles attached to their backs, mimicking Zero's ability to spawn smaller Dark Matters - although they behave more like Drawcia Soul's Para Matters. They'll attack Kirby and co. by attempting to inhale them, using their maws as vacuums not unlike Kirby himself.
• Monster Progenitor: Heavily implied, if not outright stated. One of Hyness' pause screens refer to him as the "progenitor of darkness" (with a later one outright calling him the origin of all matter), and when this is combined with the many visual cues he carries from certain entities, the dots connect themselves...
• Multidirectional Barrage: One of his attacks in the fourth phase is to shoot small energy bullets all over the place.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Even by Kirby standards, this thing is out there, with his design opting for a Final Fantasy aesthetic rather than the more cartoonish designs that Kirby is known for.
• Off with His Head!: After Kirby beats his first form, his head falls over, revealing a vortex that sucks Kirby and co into his body if they come close. (This is necessary to progress.) His third form has this happening again, and Kirby has to re-enter his body again to fight the monster's core.
• Omnicidal Maniac: According to the description for the final stage, destruction is all he knows and he is regarded as a destroyer of worlds. Even after he gains a Soul, he still decides he wants to end the known universe. Why? Well... he just wants to.
• Physical God:
  • He's referred to as a dark lord of destruction and a progenitor of darkness, and Hyness' description outright calls it a deity. If Hyness wasn't wrong, his title of "Destroyer of Worlds" isn't for show — he supposedly has the power to destroy the entire universe. This also applies to the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions - Hyness referred to him as "God" instead of "Dark Lord," and his original subtitle is "Destruction God".
  • Void's 2nd phase ups the ante, as he is stated to be multiversal, the culmination of all types of matter and a combination of "all chaos and possibilities", with the implication being that he is a primordial chaos entity and potentially the oldest and/or most powerful being in its canon.
• Playing with Fire: In his first form, he can imbue his giant swords with fire, allowing him to shoot large streams of fire when he strikes the ground with them. As Void, he borrows Drawcia Soul's Deadly Sun attack by turning into a giant fireball and dashing across the screen five times.
• Rain of Blood: Upon entering Void Termina's body for the first time, droplets of harmful red liquid (dubbed "Red Tears") fall on Kirby and co. in a likely reference to Zero.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: His first and third forms in Soul Melter EX have this color scheme.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning:
  • Downplayed in the main campaign. His fourth phase has his core occasionally sporting a big red-orange eye, but no other phase has this.
  • Played straight in Soul Melter EX. True Void Termina's Demon God/Angel forms replace the mask's hollow black eyes with intimidating red ones, and Void gains a crimson-red eye when assuming his Zero/Dark Mind form.
• Reflecting Laser: Void can summon mirrors to reflect his lasers as a reference to Dark Mind.
• Reincarnation: The description for Void Soul suggests that the form he reincarnates in depends on what energies were used to summon him. Additionally, the names of the second and fourth movements of his theme, along with the Boss Subtitles of his true form, "Astral Birth", implies that Void Termina as seen during the main story hadn't fully reincarnated, likely due to Hyness screwing up the ritual.
• Reused Character Design: The second phase of the fight appears to be inspired from a scrapped idea for Star Dream's fight◊ presumably back when Star Dream was meant to be a robot version of Zero Two.
• Rhymes on a Dime: The descriptions of his phase one and three make up the lyrics to an ominous Villain Song urging omnicide.
  Rise! Oh, Dark Lord of Despair! Crush the stars! Lay waste to care! Rise and cover the land in sorrows! May your symphony of emptiness bring the end of all tomorrows!
  Rise! Oh, Dark Lord of Despair! Crush the stars! Lay waste to care! Upon your wing, dark judgment bring! May your symphony of tragedy cause the end of everything!
• Sad Battle Music: During the last phase of the definitively final battle against it in Soul Melter EX, the high-tempo Dark Reprise of Song of Supplication and Green Greens used for the previous two incarnations of said fight is overwritten by a much slower, much more somber remix of said themes, even incorporating the original 8-bit Green Greens in there. It's perfectly fitting for such a conclusive farewell to a game.
• Satanic Archetype:
  • He is called the "Destruction God", and can be called forth with Human Sacrifice. Also, he is a being fallen from light, turned into a harbinger of darkness, heavily implied to be responsible for several of the evils in the world. His body even looks almost satanic, with menacing horns and a colossal, dark-stained figure.
  • The official names of his forms (as revealed in Nintendo Dream) don't even bother trying to hide the connections, with his humanoid form being called the "Demon God" form and the bird form named the "Angel" form. It should be noted that one of the attacks the "Angel" form can use is known as "Fallen Heaven".
  • In the Japanese and Chinese versions, Astral Birth Void's Boss Subtitles are 星誕 ("seitan"), which in the former is pronounced like "Satan".
• Sealed Evil in a Can: He was sealed within the Jamba Heart, which itself was sealed together with four mysterious heart spears.
• Self-Duplication: Void Soul can split into four duplicates in two of his attacks. Void has this as well.
• Sequential Boss: As per recent Kirby final bosses, with a total of four phases. Plus an extra phase in Story Mode, although (like Star Dream's final phase) it's only done in Quick Time Event.
• Shadow Archetype: He is a spherical being of infinite power who is hell-bent on devouring everything that would stand in his way... not unlike Kirby.
• Shapeshifter Swan Song: When its fourth/soul form is defeated, its face shifts into several others before it is destroyed.
• Shielded Core Boss: Phase 2 consists of this, and you then fight the core itself in Phase 4.
• Shockwave Stomp: One of his attacks in humanoid form. His core has a similar Ground Pound attack, but on a far smaller scale.
• Shout-Out: You can try comparing his body and face with that of Sachiel of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The boss's mask also resembles Majora.
• Spike Balls of Doom: One of his fourth phase's attacks is to sprout long spikes all over his body, referencing the Needle form of Miracle Matter. This is called Laughing Needle.
  • Void Soul and Void — Astral Birth combine this with Doppelgänger Attack for "Full Smile".
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: He has the power to call forth giant elemental bows, spears, axes, swords, and a laser-spamming Master Crown.
• Star Power: His absolute final form, Void, is called the "Astral Birth" (i.e., stellar birth), and he's far and away one of the most powerful characters in the setting. It's just one more trait Void and Kirby share.
• Sword Beam: One of his attacks in his first form (done with his arm blades) creates an X-shaped one.
• Top God: Astral Birth Void is very, very heavily implied to be as close as the Kirby franchise is going to get to a capital G God. In his Japanese pause screen descriptions, Void is mentioned to be the progenitor of all forms of matter Dream, Soul, Darkness, and Heart, and that all chaos and possibilities can be traced directly back to him, and his English pause screen descriptions establish him as being Omnipresent in all dimensions. If true, this means that absolutely everything in the Kirby multiverse, including the multiverse itself, would not have come to exist if Void didn't passively spawn them, including reality bending entities such as Fecto Elfilis, the Master Crown, and so on.
• Top-Heavy Guy: His first form has a large upper body, but small, flat legs.
• True Final Boss: Void Soul and Void, who can both only be fought in the Ultimate Choice, in Soul Melter and Soul Melter EX, respectively.
• Turns Red: After he uses his Battle Boomerang attack for the second time, Void starts using attacks borrowed from Dark Mind, Drawcia Soul, and Zero, and only uses those attacks for the rest of the battle.
• Unexpected Shmup Level: The battle against him becomes a flying Third-Person Shooter-esque due to Kirby using the Star Allies Sparkler. Subverted for his second and fourth phase, however, where Kirby and co enter his body and then fight on foot.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Kirby Star Allies is mostly a cutesy, colorful game about making friends and fighting cartoon monsters. Its Final Boss is the eldritch God of Chaos worshipped by an Apocalypse Cult, and the game makes clear in no uncertain terms that Void Termina has the potential to destroy everything if not stopped.
• Villain Song: The Star-Conquering Traveller, his boss battle theme, has lyrics that appear on the pause screens of his first and third forms. For his "True Destroyer of Worlds" form in Soul Melter EX, those same pause screens helpfully provide some context for where the lyrics are meant to accompany the actual piece... at least, in the Japanese version. Localizations don't follow the rhythm as closely.
• Volcanic Veins: Void replaces the core's standard pattern of rippling waves with rainbow-shimmering veins, which combined with the white body, makes it resemble a Faceless Eye.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He grows wings and a tail in his third phase, giving him a resemblance to 0². His core shapeshifts in-between attacks, using the forms of Real Dark Matter and Miracle Matter. Additionally, his face — normally similar to Kirby's — also wildly changes shape, occasionally including the false face of 0². Void not only shapeshifts into, but takes on the color palettes of Dark Mind, Drawcia Soul and Zero when it uses certain attacks.
• Walking Spoiler: This cannot be emphasized any further. He's not only the final boss, but he also has a ton of spoiler-heavy lore surrounding him. And with how much of it he brings to the table, it's no wonder why his entire folder is unmarked.
• Wave-Motion Gun: A few of his attacks can be classed as this. It also uses one during the Beam-O-War with Kirby.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Downplayed — throwing a Friend Heart at his core (including Void Soul and Void) will deal damage to it, though not a titanic amount. No other bosses in the game have this weakness. It's also a call-back to the Love-Love Stick in Dream Land 3, that shoots hearts, being the only thing that can hurt Zero.
• Wham Line: His True Destroyer of Worlds pause description in Japanese, Chinese and Korean reveals one of the biggest ones in the entire franchise.
  Dream, dark, soul, heart... All chaos and possibilities assemble within its substance, being born as the ancestor and origin of all.
• Wham Shot:
  • Several of the shapes his core can take count as this. In order: the faces of Kirby and 0², and the form of Real Dark Matter. Moments before that, the insides of his body also brings to mind the Dark Star, i.e. where 0² reigns in 64.
  • His Angel form begins his phase by summoning himself a pair of red and white crystalline wings, adding to the concerning amount of nods to 0² that it contains.
  • As his last attack, Void Termina's Angel form summons the Master Crown, and the "hilts" of his arm-blades in his first form also look like the Master Crown.
  • A huge one is dropped in his truest form - when Void materializes with a rainbow-veined variation of Zero's color palette, hammered home by the boss card using the Boss Butch Hyper Zone for its background.
  • The final one to end them all - Void's death animation ends with Void smiling with Kirby's famous smile as the screen fades to white, his smile being the last thing to disappear as it emits lightbeams... and stars. It's worth nothing that almost immediately after this cutscene, Retro Kirby is unlocked, and when you hit Void he turns pink for a brief moment.
• White and Red and Eerie All Over: Void is an entirely white orb with rainbow-like veins coursing through his body, while his eyes and mouth have a red hue.
• Wicked Heart Symbol: Aside from the sigil of Hyness' cult appearing on its armor, his mask/face is heart-shaped, and after growing wings, he also has a tail made of hearts. A heart pattern also runs across part of the shell that houses his soul, i.e. his actual heart (which, ironically, is round-shaped).
• Womb Level: Behind Void Termina's mask is a portal that leads into the beast's fleshy innards. Kirby must enter him a total of two times to engage the essence controlling him and ultimately force it out of its host's body to deliver the final blow.

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