History Characters / KirbyMajorAntagonists

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This page is reserved for the main antagonists of the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games. To reach the other character entries, head back to [[Characters/{{Kirby}} the main characters page]].

'''''There are some unmarked spoilers below, reader discretion is advised.'''''

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!Dark Matter Forces

[[folder:Dark Matter Blade]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2''

The lone Dark Matter that serves as the main antagonist and final boss of ''Kirby's Dream Land 2''. To face it, Kirby must acquire the Rainbow Sword and exorcise it from King Dedede. It first takes the form of a humanoid swordsman, but after Kirby defeats that form, it takes on the amorphous real form seen in all other Dark Matter.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Officially, the original Dark Matter character is simply referred to as "Dark Matter" and is taken synonymously; however, its individual forms both have obscure names. "Real Dark Matter" was given as the name of its second form, as seen in the Japanese player's guide. [[spoiler:The True Arena in ''Planet Robobot'' calls the Dark Matter Clone based on its first form "Dark Matter Blade", and a closer look at the Japanese version shows it was meant to be "Dark Matter Blade Clone" in full, making it a likely {{retcon}}.]]
* AnimeHair: Though it isn't real, Dark Matter Blade's spiky hair is a clear emulation of this.
* BadassLongRobe: In this form, Dark Matter manifests a grey robe which billows as it flies.
* BigBad: This one serves as the main antagonist of ''[[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2 Dream Land 2]]'', and wouldn't reappear as the final boss until the Kirby Quest of ''[[VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack Mass Attack]]''.
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:A clone of it is the first secret boss of ''Planet Robobot''.]]
* TheCameo:
** Appears in one of the unlockable artworks in ''Squeak Squad''.
** Appears as a keychain in ''Triple Deluxe'' and as a sticker in ''Planet Robobot''.
** Appears as one of the gears for Sword Hero in ''Videogame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'', complete with the Real Dark Matter as its shield.
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:In ''Planet Robobot'', Star Dream makes a clone of it to fight Meta Knight]].
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Even discounting its swordsman form, ''Dream Land 2'' depicts its true form's petals as purple rather than orange as shown in most other (normal) Dark Matters.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'', and of ''Kirby Quest'' in ''Mass Attack''.
* GeneticMemory: [[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, the reason the Dark Matter Clone wields the Rainbow Sword is that it recognized Meta Knight's power and materialized what it remembered as a powerful weapon to fight him.]]
* HighAltitudeBattle: In ''Dream Land 2'', you're fighting outside of the atmosphere, and even though you do not seem to be falling very quickly, [[ReentryScare guess what happens if you take too long]]?
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:In ''Planet Robobot'', it fights Meta Knight using the Rainbow Sword, the same weapon Kirby needed to kill it in ''Dream Land 2''.]]
* MultiDirectionalBarrage: Its true form can shoot rapid shots to multiple directions. [[spoiler:Its cloned version can do the same after it TurnsRed.]]
* NoNameGiven: Its humanoid swordsman form went unnamed for the longest time, leading to {{Fan Nickname}}s such as "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dark Matter Swordsman]]".
* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler:The Haltmann Works Company managed to tear a piece off of it some point prior to ''Planet Robobot''.]]
* {{Oculothorax}}: Not so much in the first form it is fought in, however. [[spoiler:Although if its clone is any indication, it can pull the [[EyesDoNotBelongThere Dedede trick.]]]]
* OrbitingParticleShield: [[spoiler:Its clone form]] is able to materialize orange orbs around itself as a shield.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: It explodes after its first form is defeated, but then the pieces come back together.
* RedBaron: [[spoiler:The cutscene its clone appears in is called "The Dark Rainbow Thief".]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Not so much its actual eye, but its visor turns red after losing about half its health in ''Planet Robobot''.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Its true form can shoot black lightning from its eye. Dark Matter Blade also has blue electricity coursing around it in the ''Kirby Quest'' subgame.
* SwordBeam: Dark Matter Blade can fire these from the tip of its blade.
* TennisBoss: The orbs it uses as projectiles and the energy balls created by its blade can be hit back at it for heavy damage.
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler:After its clone dies, its body distorts, then briefly turns into Real Dark Matter before it explodes.]]
* WeaponOfXSlaying:
** In ''Dream Land 2'', Kirby has to complete the Rainbow Sword first so he can rid Dark Matter out of Dedede's body before he can fight it.
** In ''Mass Attack'', in Kirby Quest, [[spoiler:if the Kirbys managed to get the Galaxia beforehand, they can use it on Dark Matter afterward to deal massive damage.]]
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: [[spoiler:In ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', this is the given reason why Star Dream could only create a clone of Dark Matter Blade. It's the '''only''' version of it that could be analyzed ''at all'', and even then, Star Dream is said to have been pushed to its limits to manage ''that'' much and the resulting clone is ''still'' flawed. Yes, Dark Matter is such a bizarre and incomprehensible being that not even a ''sentient, reality-warping, wish-granting supercomputer on par with'' '''''Nova''''' ''can wrap its mind around this thing''. It's just way too alien for ''anyone'' to explain.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:(Real) Dark Matter]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2''

Dark Matter is the villain of ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2'' (also the TrueFinalBoss, and the true form of Dark Matter Blade), ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'', and ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards''. Dark Matter consists of black, malevolent clouds, usually depicted with a single red eye and a ring of orange spheres around the back.
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* ADogNamedDog: Played straight in the manuals of the American ''Kirby'' games where "Dark Matter" refers to both the villain from ''Dream Land 2'' and the clouds the species is related to. Averted in the Japanese manuals where the clouds are described with more generic terms such as "Black Clouds" and the name "Dark Matter" is usually used to refer to the individual.
* AlienInvasion: Arrives from outer space to corrupt Planet Popstar. After failing to conquer Planet Popstar, it eventually sets its sights on Ripple Star.
* AmbiguousSituation: As applied to an entire entity; it's not entirely known what Dark Matter ''is''. The name "Dark Matter" is applied to both the entire massive cloud and the various offshoots it spawns. There's also the question of how it relates to the being found in the cloud's innermost depths.
* ArcVillain: For the "[[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2 Dark]] [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 Matter]] [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Trilogy]]".
* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: In ''Kirby 64'', this is Kirby's only way of freeing the possessed. {{Subverted}} in ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'' and ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'' where, without the "special weapon", Kirby cannot exorcise it from its host.
* TheCameo: Appears in ''Planet Robobot'' as a sticker.
* CastingAShadow: It isn't called ''Dark'' Matter for nothing.
* DarkIsEvil: Dark Matter possesses people and covers planets for no adequately described reason, although the Japanese ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'' guide suggests it is out of severe jealousy and crippling loneliness.
* DemonicPossession: Possessed Dedede in all of the "Dark Matter Trilogy", plus Adeleine and Waddle Dee in ''64''.
* DemotedToDragon: Compared to TrueFinalBoss Dark Matter Blade from ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'', in ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'', a Dark Matter merely serves as the penultimate boss. The real BigBad is revealed to be Zero.
* EldritchAbomination: No idea where it came from, lots of unanswered questions about how it works, no idea why it does what it does, and Dark Matter does not resemble any familiar life forms too closely. ''Kirby 64'' in particular seems to show Dark Matter as more of a '''thing''' rather than an individual creature, capable of splitting at least three miniature identical minions from itself, although most appearances consider it a more tangible character in its own right. [[spoiler:Even a supercomputer on par with ''Nova'' was only able to partially analyze its data, and the clone it creates (which pushed the computer to its limits, mind you) is still flawed.]]
* EyeBeams: Always shot diagonally.
* GeniusLoci: The Dark Matter are able to come together to create giant clouds which are implied to be controlled by Zero. Curiously enough the clouds created by Dark Castle/Real Dark Matter's influence do not seem to be sentient.
* GoodHurtsEvil: They are defeated by the Love-Love Stick in ''Dream Land 3'', which is made of the feelings of love and gratitude from all of Planet Popstar.
* HomingProjectile: When Dedede is under its influence in ''Dream Land 3'' and ''Kirby 64''. Also, the purpose of the orange things on its back is to shoot them off at Kirby.
* ImplacableMan: One of the Dark Matter fragments chasing Ribbon slams through an asteroid without blinking.
* KnightOfCerebus: ''Kirby'' games will ALWAYS become darker when these things show up.
* LonersAreFreaks: The Dark Matter from ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'' turned to villainy because no one wanted to be its friend.
* {{Oculothorax}}: Commonly depicted as a black blob with a single eye.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Its secondary color motif in Dream Land 2 was purple (Dark Castle's palette when playing on the Super Game Boy is purple and Real Dark Matter's artwork depicts its "petals" as purple rather than the familiar orange). ''Dream Land 3'' and ''Kirby 64'' associate it secondarily more with [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: It has a single red eye, which also appears in most of beings related to it.
* ShockAndAwe: It can shoot black lightning from its eye.
* ThatsNoMoon: In ''Kirby 64'', 100% completion leads to Kirby flying out to a planet-sized mass of Dark Matter, called Dark Star.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Dark Matter can cover entire worlds like storm clouds, [[spoiler:as it starts to do on Planet Popstar in ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'' before its defeat. With no Kirby around, it successfully does so to the planet Ripple Star in ''Kirby 64'']].
* TransformationOfThePossessed: The effects of Dark Matter possession vary: Adeleine gains [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] and a SlasherSmile; Dedede's eyes become [[EyesAlwaysShut slits]] (in ''Dream Land 2'', it seemed to be a kind of forced sleepwalking), and suffers outright BodyHorror whenever you do him enough damage with an [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eye]] and a [[BellyMouth mouth]] emerging from his belly; most bizarrely, the Waddle Dee that Kirby befriends is turned into a Waddle Doo. None of the common enemies and bosses change at all, including Ado and the other Waddle Dees.
* TrueFinalBoss: Of ''Dream Land 2''. Also, one serves as the first True Final Boss of ''Dream Land 3'', before Zero, the '''real''' True Final Boss, shows up.
* TheUnfought: In ''Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards'' [[note]]though Possessed Adeleine [[ArtInitiatesLife summons a painting of it to act as a mini-boss]] [[/note]], although enemies related to it do show up as final bosses.
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[[folder:Zero [=/=] 0[[superscript:2]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Zero In VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3]]
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[[caption-width-right:328:0[[superscript:2]] in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'']]

-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'' (as Zero) / ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' (as 0[[superscript:2]])

Zero is a huge, white mass with a red eye who is the leader of the forces of Dark Matter. Revived in ''[[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Kirby 64]]'' as 0[[superscript:2]] ("[=Zero2=]"), with wings, a halo, and a freaky green tail.
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* ArchnemesisDad: To Gooey, technically, [[{{Downplayed}} not that Gooey seems to care.]]
* ArchEnemy: To Kirby, being the only final boss in the entire franchise (besides King Dedede) he fights more than once.
* BackFromTheDead: Implied to be the same entity, but never explicitly stated.
* BewareMyStingerTail: Played with, as 0[[superscript:2]] usually keeps its stinger retracted and will only involuntarily pull it out when stunned, after which Ribbon will fly Kirby in position to shoot it. All the same, it leaks deadly clouds that can damage them if they're not careful.
* BigBad: [[TrueFinalBoss Hidden]] in ''Dream Land 3'' and ''Kirby 64''.
* BloodyMurder: It sometimes cuts red lines on its body and then shoots what appears to be blood out of them.
* BreakoutVillain: He was at least popular enough to reappear in ''Crystal Shards'', the game after ''Dream Land 3''.
* TheCameo: After somehow not appearing in the Boss Butch keychain in ''Triple Deluxe'' (the original Boss Butch image has him included), Zero appears as a sticker in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''.
* CameraAbuse: Sometimes Zero's shots splatter on the screen.
* DemonicPossession: Of the Queen of Ripple Star, unbeknownst to the protagonists. Also possibly the only time it directly possesses somebody. It's only ridden off if Kirby has completed the Crystal, which'll shoot a beam towards the Fairy Queen, forcing 0[[superscript:2]] to leave.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Beating it is required to get the good ending in both games.
* EldritchAbomination: It is the leader and apparent source of Dark Matter and is just as mysterious.
* TheEndOrIsIt: In the bad endings of ''Dream Land 3'' and ''Kirby 64'', there'll be a hint of its presence.
* EyeScream:
** Infamously, in ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'', Zero breaks its red eye out of its body in a last-ditch attempt to defeat Kirby.
** In ''Kirby 64'', Kirby needs to shoot at 0[[superscript:2]]'s eye to stun it, letting him go after its other weak points.
* FallenAngel: Invoked with 0[[superscript:2]].
* FlunkyBoss: Zero can conjure multiple [[MiniMook smaller Dark Matters]] against Kirby.
* GamebreakingInjury: In ''Kirby 64'', you can aim directly at its wings. It does not damage its life bar, but it can stun them. Damaging both wings will take away its ability to aim at you, so you can freely avoid most of its shots and go straight for its [[AttackItsWeakPoint halo]].
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: It has no stated motivation for invading planets and spreading darkness around. It also has (seemingly) no personality or even lines.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Aside from its eye peering from the Hyper Zone in ''Dream Land 3'', there is not even the slightest hint of its existence until its actual battle. The same goes for ''Crystal Shards''.
* GoForTheEye: Subverted by Zero, where attacking its eye will do no more damage than attacking anywhere else on his body. Played slightly more straight by 0[[superscript:2]], where you don't have to go for the eye, but doing so will temporarily make it stop shooting and hang stationary so you can hit its halo and tail.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'' (where it doesn't appear) due to being [[ManBehindTheMan Dark Matter's leader]].
* HiveQueen: Zero and 0[[superscript:2]] are the cores of the Hyper Zone and Dark Star, respectively. Due to its appearance, it is also believed that Dark Matter itself is an instrument of its will.
* KnightOfCerebus: Dark Matter was pretty bad, but this...
* HolyHalo: As 0[[superscript:2]].
* LackOfEmpathy: Attacks completely innocent planets without a care in the world.
* LightIsNotGood: It's white, and in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'', it's got angelic wings and a halo. Despite this, it's still the controller of Dark Matter.
* ManBehindTheMan: Seems to be this to Dark Matter, although this was not officially confirmed until the ''[[NoExportForYou 20th Anniversary Hoshi no Kirby Pupupu Taizen]]''.
* MindScrew: 0[[superscript:2]] displays a beady-eyed full face with a blissfully-happy expression for merely a moment, then its "mouth" opens wide, revealing it to be its real eye. Why? Does it say something about it? Who knows?
* MoodWhiplash: Causes this in both games it appears in. Special mention to 0[[superscript:2]], whose battlefield and theme is right next to [[BleakLevel Shiver Star Factory]] in terms of melancholy.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: MyHeroZero? It's the complete opposite.
* NoPronunciationGuide: "Zero Two" is the official pronunciation of 0[[superscript:2]]'s name, although that hasn't stopped people from pronouncing it as "Zero-Squared", "Oh-Two", "Oh-Squared", or even ''Oxygen'' (which is literally O[[subscript:2]]).
* PoisonousPerson: Appears to be leaking some kind of poison from its tail in ''Kirby 64''.
* PointOfNoReturn: After you get to the fight against 0[[superscript:2]], you can't quit - either you beat it, or it beats you till it's GameOver.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: One of its attacks has it moving in an erratic pattern to hit Kirby with its own body. Due to its size, it's tricky to avoid.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Its eye is red and it's a bad guy. It's also a rare variant where its sclera is also red.
* TheSpook: Despite appearing as the final boss in two games, virtually nothing is known about Zero other than its status as the leader of Dark Matter. Its motives, backstory, and even its exact goals are all unclear.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Prior to ''Planet Robobot'', Zero's name was never mentioned in English sources. In fact, there was no indication it even had one in the games until ''Kirby 64'', so certain fans spelled it "0" in correspondence with "0[[superscript:2]]".
* SpreadShot: 0[[superscript:2]]'s primary form of attack in ''Kirby 64''.
* SurpriseCreepy: Dark Matter sort of was already, so Zero had to take it to another level.
* TearsOfBlood: Which it uses as a weapon. 0[[superscript:2]]'s official art also shows it.
* TrueFinalBoss: Of ''Dream Land 3'' and ''Kirby 64''.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: In both games, the battle turns into a shooter game when you fight him: a horizontal shooter in ''Dream Land 3'' and a RailShooter in ''Crystal Shards''.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: One of the more well known video game examples, formerly provided the page image, and is the Pantheon God of this trope. Whenever somebody tells you Kirby is "kiddy", show them a picture of this guy.
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[[folder:Miracle Matter]]
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-> First Appearance: ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards''

A 20-sided die with a red eye on each side. Miracle Matter is a creature of Dark Matter appearing in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' as the FinalBoss, but second to 0[[superscript:2]].
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Can use each of the seven basic Copy Abilities of ''Kirby 64''.
* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Where you fight it.
* BarrierChangeBoss: One for each of the seven basic Copy Abilities of ''Kirby 64''.
* TheDragon: To 0[[superscript:2]].
* ElementalShapeshifter: It is one of two Dark Matter types to display element-based abilities (the other being Dark Nebula), but it also has the unique ability to completely change its form.
* EyeScream: Those are ''irises and pupils'' on each of its sides. They explode as you continue to fight it.
* FinalBoss: Though there is a TrueFinalBoss if you get all of the Crystal Shards.
* FinalExamBoss: You don't need all of the Copy Abilities, but you at least need to fire projectiles of the same property as each.
* FinalBossNewDimension: Its arena has shades of this, most likely being some sort of dimensional rift.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: One of the few major antagonists not foreshadowed in any way except at the very end of the preceding level.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How it's defeated. All of its attacks can be launched back at it in some way, and this is the only way to hurt it.
* PuzzleBoss: Each form can only be hit using a Copy Ability or projectile of the same ability it's using, being the only boss in a main series game since the first to effectively cancel out the Copy Abilities (not counting those that are only fought with EleventhHourSuperpower).
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Multiplied by ''twenty'', with one eye on each of its sides.
* SinisterGeometry: Miracle Matter is an icosahedron (20-sided solid).
* TacticalSuicideBoss: If you don't copy and attack it with the ability it's currently using, it would be impossible to defeat it. Of course, it can't really attack outside of them...
[[/folder]]

!Mirror World Foes

[[folder:Dark Meta Knight]]
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->First appearance: ''[[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror Kirby & The Amazing Mirror]]''

The Mirror World counterpart of Meta Knight and the initial antagonist of ''Kirby & The Amazing Mirror'', he's the one that draws Kirby into the Mirror and splits him into four bodies, and also the one that shatters the Dimensional Mirror, forcing the Kirbies to go on a quest to re-assemble it. He seemingly serves Dark Mind.
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* BigBad: At first, seemingly. Notably, [[spoiler:he might have taken up the role for real in ''Triple Deluxe'', as it has been confirmed that the Dimension Mirror (that he's trapped inside) is what corrupted Sectonia]].
* BlackKnight: He makes Meta Knight lighter by comparison; he's also downright evil.
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:One of the secret bosses in ''Triple Deluxe''.]]
* TheCameo: He appears as one of the Circus Kirby's Balloon Pop Art in ''Planet Robobot'', as well as a sticker. In ''Triple Deluxe'', it was regular Meta Knight. He also appears in ''Battle Royale'' as one of Meta Knight's unlockable costumes.
* CombatPragmatist: One of the biggest tells that it's not the real Meta Knight is that both times you fight him, he ambushes without any prior warning and refuses to give you a sword to even the odds.
* TheCorrupter: [[spoiler:To Queen Sectonia, albeit unwittingly. His hatred and desire for revenge was likely the cause of the Dimension Mirror's evil influence on Sectonia, leading to her insanity.]]
* TheDragon: To Dark Mind.
* DragonAscendant: After Dark Mind is gone, [[spoiler:he takes control of the Dimension Mirror, as revealed in Dededetour!]].
* EmergingFromTheShadows: The fight against him in Radish Ruins of ''Amazing Mirror'' starts as this; he appears as a colorless shady figure, then he becomes suddenly colored and proceeds to strike toward you ''without'' [[MythologyGag giving you a sword]]. This is the first sign he's not the real Meta Knight.
* EvilTwin: To the real Meta Knight, obviously.
* FinalBoss: Is the first part of the final battle. [[spoiler:He's also the third and last of the final bosses of the extra mode of ''Triple Deluxe'', "Dededetour!".]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Evil, obviously; it's not so much a bodily scar as it is a scar across his mask, around his left eye (whether it continues down to his face is unknown). Not visible on his game sprite, but is present in his official artwork [[spoiler:and finally seen in-game in ''Triple Deluxe'']].
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Of ''Triple Deluxe'', possibly. After Dark Mind's defeat, he seems to be the being in control of the Dimension Mirror, now. His intense hatred and desire for revenge are likely to be the cause of the mirror's corrupting influence on Queen Sectonia, which would make him responsible for her insanity. He's only fought in Dededetour, which is a "what-if" scenario, but the corrupting part (as confirmed by the developers) made him one.]]
* LiterallyShatteredLives: After Dark Meta Knight is defeated again, he breaks apart into pieces like a mirror. [[spoiler:After Dark Meta Knight Revenge's defeat in ''Triple Deluxe'', King Dedede smashes the Dimension Mirror to pieces with him in it; his fate is unknown.]]
* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: In the first battle with him, he's disguised (read: palette swapped) as the real Meta Knight, and is identified as "'''???'''"
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Always waits for the heroes to come to him. Granted, this may be because the one time he tried to fight Kirby outside of the Mirror World, he somehow ended up spawning ''three extra Kirbies''.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:As of ''Triple Deluxe'', he seems to have picked up some of his former master's proficiency with mirrors, using them for {{doppelganger attack}}s and to create massive mirror swords from the ground.]]
* TornadoMove: He has a copy of Meta Knight's move where he summons a tornado moving forward. [[spoiler:In ''Triple Deluxe'', he can also summon tornadoes from the background.]]
* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:He becomes this in his surprise appearance in ''Triple Deluxe'', alongside Soul of Sectonia.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:In ''Triple Deluxe''. His presence and WordOfGod heavily imply that Dark Meta Knight was using Sectonia and the Dimension Mirror as part of a revenge gambit.]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:In ''Triple Deluxe'', after defeating Sectonia DX, Dedede strikes a victory pose... only for the Dimension Mirror to appear and spit out Shadow Dedede. After his defeat, Dedede enters the Mirror, at which point the Mirror reveals Dark Meta Knight, who becomes Dedede's final boss.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dark Mind]]
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-> First appearance: ''[[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror Kirby & The Amazing Mirror]]''

The BigBad and FinalBoss of ''Kirby & The Amazing Mirror''; was trying to conquer the Mirror World until Kirby defeated him.
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* BadassArmfold: His first form does this pose as his default one. It also protects [[AttackItsWeakPoint his weak spot]], the big red eye; if you attack him with his arms crossed, you'll only deal ScratchDamage and he'll shatter harmlessly and reform again.
* BigBad: Of ''The Amazing Mirror''. [[spoiler:Some form of him called King D-Mind also appears as the final boss of ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'', though its exact connection to Dark Mind is unclear.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Shows up in King Dedede's form in ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe''.]]
* TheCameo: He appears in one of ''Squeak Squad's'' collectible artworks, as well as a keychain in ''Triple Deluxe''. He also appears in ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'' as one of Hammer Lord's equipment sets.
* ClippedWingAngel: The last part of the battle has him shrunken to a smaller size, clearly unstable, and is very easy to beat. Appropriately enough, the cutscene before you fight him indicates that [[KnowWhenToFoldEm he's trying to run away]].
* CoolMask: Wears an imposing mask with horns.
* CreativeClosingCredits: Once you deal enough damage to the ClippedWingAngel, the credits start rolling. Meanwhile, you can [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill continue to beat on the boss]] (without any health bars, for you or him), and the game will count the number of hits you land!
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: You destroy everything but the eye, which is Dark Mind's core. The eye then lights itself on fire and triples in size for the next phase of the final boss fight.
* {{Expy}}:
** Shows a clear resemblance to both Dark Matter and Nightmare.
** His final form looks like a flaming version of Zero, and/or immediately brings to mind the [[Franchise/LordOfTheRings Eye of Sauron]].
* EyeBeams: After his eye grows, it can fire big beams from above. In a variant, it can also fire differently-colored stars.
* FacelessEye: His second form.
* FinalBoss: A tenacious six-phase one, though the boss rush cuts it down to its three distinct phases, rather than the first near identical four.
* FlunkyBoss: He in either form may sometimes summon regular mooks.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Like most ''Kirby'' villains, he took over the Mirror World and wants to take over Planet Popstar, and that's all we know about him.
* GoForTheEye: Especially since that ends up being all that is left. You can attack his mirrors, too, but that is likely to get you hurt and will not result in as much damage or as much attack interruption. It's also best to attack when the pupil is open to attack the core.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Mirrors; though he is not the first in this series, Sirmirror never did so to this degree.
* InterfaceScrew: Flips the screen upside down in his eye form.
* MagicMirror: He can summon mirrors out of thin air to be used in his attacks, or as an OrbitingParticleShield. If one of the mirrors get shattered, it can turn into harmful cutting blades.
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Dark Meta Knight.
* PunnyName: He appears to be the Mirror World version of Dark Matter, at least in his true form. ''Mind over Matter.''
* ReflectingLaser: Invokes this by bouncing his eye beams off of his mirrors.
* SequentialBoss: It's fought 4 times in the standard form, then twice as the eye. To date, this is the boss with the highest number of phases you're supposed to fight in the series, though the battles against the standard form are relatively short in length and have little variance beyond the arena.
* TeleportSpam: Before he degenerates into a giant eyeball. He still teleports around quite a bit in the giant eyeball form, but doesn't ever go into a "teleport once per second" pattern like the previous form did.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: He may sometimes drop a bomb that has to be destroyed before it blows off into six directions. It can be super-inhaled for the Crash ability.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: After you beat his second form (the giant eyeball), it isn't over - he then flies away, after which you get to ride on the Warp Star to chase him and beat him down further in a SHMUP battle. It's almost the reverse of Nightmare's scenario.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shadow Dedede]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Shadow of The King]]

-> First Appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe''

The Mirror Dimension self of King Dedede, who appears as the penultimate boss of ''Dededetour!''.
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* AnAxeToGrind: After his hammer is destroyed in his first phase, he [[SummonToHand summons a poleaxe]] just like Taranza-controlled Masked Dedede's.
* BellyMouth: In a CallBack to Dark Matter-possessed Dedede, he can rip open his chest to form a dark, toothed mouth.
* BloodKnight: His flavor text states that he "wages battle against all comers." But in the end, the only real opponent he has is [[HeWhoFightsMonsters the darkness in his heart.]]
* TheDragon: Presumably this to [[spoiler:Dark Meta Knight]] in ''Triple Deluxe.''
* DropTheHammer: Just like Dedede's Masked persona, he uses a mechanical hammer.
* DubNameChange: Called "Black Dedede" in Japan.
* EnergyBall: Can fire these out of his BellyMouth and by using his axe.
* EvilTwin: Of King Dedede.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: Like most Mirror World counterparts, he gets shattered upon being defeated.
* MonochromaticEyes: He has sinister eyes that are entirely white.
* MythologyGag: The logo on the back of his coat and on the front of his hammer is a set of black and white circles; the same emblem Dedede had in the older ''Kirby'' games.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Denotes his nature as Dedede's Mirror World self.
* ShadowArchetype: Besides the obvious EvilTwin aspect, he represents everything Dedede could have become if Kirby hadn't freed him from Dark Matter. The BellyMouth, retaining the original logo from Dedede's more villainous days, and the line about "the darkness in his own heart" only add to it. [[spoiler:If King D-Mind is anything to go by, it's implied that the aforementioned "darkness" is in fact Dark Mind, i.e the alternate Dark Matter.]]
* ShockwaveStomp: Same as Dedede. In the first phase, they simply create stars that Kirby can use against him; in the second phase they create actual, harmful shockwaves. In addition, he may also jump up and then smash the ground with his axe as he falls, creating a dome-shaped explosion at the impact point.
* SlideAttack: In his first phase, he can do a belly slide attack just like Dedede.
* SpamAttack: In his second phase, he has an attack where he swings his axe multiple times while slowly moving.
* VacuumMouth: He has a much stronger inhaling attack than his regular self, capable of sucking Kirby from across the screen.
* WalkingSpoiler: Naturally, being one of the {{Bonus Boss}}es in an Extra Mode.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dark Taranza]]
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-> First Appearance: ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe''

Taranza's Mirror Dimension self(?), and the main antagonist of ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe''.
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* BeeAfraid: Interestingly, Dark Taranza incorporates some bee-like motifs in his design [[MixAndMatchCritters on top of the spider designs]], possessing a stinger and using Queen Sectonia's color palette.
* BigBad: Of ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe''. [[spoiler:Until King D-Mind kills him off.]]
* BossRemix: His battle theme is a remix of Taranza's {{Leitmotif}} from ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe''.
* TheCorrupter: He somehow turned our Taranza evil again using the power of [[spoiler:the Black Mirror]].
* DashAttack: He has an attack where he covers himself in energy and then dashes across the stage.
* EnergyBall: Like Taranza, he can either spam multiple small energy balls, or fire a large one that [[PinballProjectile ricochets off the screen's edges]].
* EvilCounterpart: Taranza's Mirror World counterpart. Magolor in [[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/jlkj/special/ this page]] explains that Taranza once wished upon a [[spoiler:black]] magic mirror that he could meet his master again. Said mirror absorbed Taranza's dark heart while reflecting his image, and that's how Dark Taranza was born.
* FloatingLimbs: [[MultiArmedAndDangerous 6 of them]], just like Taranza.
* GemstoneAssault: Like Taranza, he can throw big diamonds at Team Kirby from the background.
* GodzillaThreshold: After being defeated by the heroes, [[spoiler:he invokes the power of the Black Mirror to summon the most powerful warrior possible to fight for him. [[EvilIsNotAToy It ends poorly for him.]]]]
* HornsOfVillainy: His horns are longer and look more sinister than Taranza's.
* {{Irony}}: Both he and regular Taranza attempted to summon their master after they're cornered by the hero(es). [[spoiler:Their respective masters smack them in return, although it's fatal in case of Dark Taranza.]]
* LiterallyShatteredLives: As per tradition with Mirror Dimension folks, he shatters like glass upon defeat.
* NonIndicativeName: He's only "dark" in the sense of being Taranza's EvilCounterpart. His body actually looks [[LightIsNotGood quite vibrant]], not unlike Sectonia.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes glow red instead of white, and he's significantly more dangerous than Taranza.
* SmashingSurvival: He can summon a large energy net ball that can trap one or more Kirbys inside. Either mash buttons, or have other Kirbys smash it from the outside, to break free.
* TeleportSpam: He teleports more often than Taranza.
* TurnsRed: He's the only enemy in his game that averts this, having no "the boss is furious!" text showing up and using the same pattern the whole battle.
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:His final moments has him begging for his life before King D-Mind shatters him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Up until the final battle, there was nothing to suggest that Taranza had a Mirror World counterpart at all, let alone that ''he'' was the true instigator of the monster attacks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:King D-Mind]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Shadow Came Back]]

-> First Appearance: ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe''

A strange cross between King Dedede (or Shadow Dedede) and Dark Mind, and the true final boss of ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe''.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Like Shadow Dedede, he switches to this after TurningRed. He also possesses a vicious SpinAttack with it.
* BadBoss: His response to [[spoiler:Dark Taranza summoning him to help]] is to smack him dead.
* BellyMouth: Like Dark Matter-possessed Dedede and Shadow Dedede before him, he can open up a mouth in his belly and then fire big black {{energy ball}}s at the Kirbies. But then it gets UpToEleven when he TurnsRed: The belly grows to ''massive'' proportions and reveals Dark Mind's giant eyeball form inside, and also flies around trying to bite the Kirbies before floating to the top of the screen and [[EyeBeams firing lasers from the eye]].
* ChromeChampion: He looks more metallic in the True Final Battle.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: He's classified as a land-bound boss in that Time Beam's attack gives regular amount of time-stop charge against him (flying bosses will receive more). Yet it's actually rare for him to walk around, especially after he TurnsRed.
* CoolMask: One bearing Dark Mind's likeness, no less. He's to Shadow Dedede what Masked Dedede is to regular Dedede.
* DarkIsEvil: Colored mainly black and definitely a bad guy.
* DisproportionateRetribution: After Dark Taranza summons him to the battlefield, [[spoiler:the first thing he does is murder him in cold blood]]. May also qualify as YouHaveFailedMe.
* DropTheHammer: Like Masked and Shadow Dedede, he's armed with a hammer that can fire stars and flames.
* FusionDance: He's a fusion of [[VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe Shadow Dedede]] and [[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror Dark Mind]]. It also stems from how Masked Dedede's mask looks like a toned-down version of Dark Mind's helmet, according to the developers' talk in Miiverse. In another interview with Shinya Kumazaki, King D-Mind came to be when Dark Taranza desperately pictured a thought of the "strongest warrior" with the [[spoiler:black mirror]]; Magolor theorized ([[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/jlkj/special/ here]]) that the king of Dream Kingdom (the setting of the game) may have once [[spoiler:reflected himself upon the mirror]], as the being that Dark Taranza imagined is based on said king's image.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Nothing is said about his motivation or personality; he was simply made to attack the heroes.
* GroundPound: He's got a stomping attack like regular Dedede would. [[ShockwaveStomp It sends out shockwaves,]] too. In the second phase, he may also jump up and then fall with a chop of his axe, causing a dome-shaped explosion.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: Not him, but [[spoiler:the mirror he gets sucked into once you finish his second fight]].
* TrueFinalBoss: Of ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe''.
* WalkingSpoiler: Nothing really foreshadows his existence until Dark Taranza summons him, and thus he's naturally spoileriffic.
[[/folder]]

!Sectra Clan

[[folder:Taranza]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe''
--> Voiced by: Hirokazu Ando

An arachnoid mage who kidnaps King Dedede as part of an evil plan, setting off the events of ''Triple Deluxe''.
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* AntiVillain: A misguided [[SpiderPeople spider mage]] whose [[spoiler:UndyingLoyalty to his boss and once-friend Queen Sectonia]] is the only thing that makes him evil. When [[spoiler:Sectonia [[YouHaveFailedMe tries to off him for failing her]]]], he immediately switches sides and helps Kirby [[spoiler:finish her off.]]
* ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire: Is a humanoid spider with webbing patterns on his cape.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Aside from, well, being a fantastic humanoid spider thing, he only has 6 hands instead of 8 like real spiders do.
* BigBad: Of ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'', at least at first.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Well, not ''that'' big, but still...
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Both he and Dedede come to Kirby's rescue when he's caught by Sectonia, throwing him a Miracle Fruit that grants him the Hypernova ability.]]
* BigOMG: He says this when Kirby defeats [[spoiler:Masked Dedede]], but only in the Japanese version.
* BigWhy: Screams this [[spoiler:after Queen Sectonia blasts him for not following her orders properly]]. It's what led him into realizing that [[spoiler:his master and once-friend has gone off the deep end]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: He can do this to other people, as seen when he [[spoiler:forces King Dedede to attack Kirby. He also becomes a victim of this himself in ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'', courtesy of the "black mirror"]].
* TheCameo:
** Appears in ''Planet Robobot'' as 2 stickers.
** Appears among the crowd in the Coin Clash minigame in ''Kirby Battle Royale''.
** Appears as one of the Stone's forms in ''Star Allies'', [[spoiler:alongside Sectonia's true form]].
* CastingAShadow: Fires dark energy blasts.
* CuteLittleFangs: Has fangs like most spiders, and is an adorable-looking critter.
* DashAttack: He in ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'' has an attack where he covers himself in energy and then dashes across the stage.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:After he summons Queen Sectonia for assistance against Kirby, he is instead blasted for failing her, and ends up rolling off the palace balcony sadly uttering, "W-Why...?". Fortunately for Kirby, he comes back looking none the worse for wear, just in time to pull a BigDamnHeroes when Sectonia tries killing the pink puff after fusing with the Dreamstalk.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Decides to help Kirby defeat Sectonia after she tries to kill him.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Queen Sectonia, who ordered him to kidnap a "great hero" summoned by the Dreamstalk so she can eliminate this hero. At least, until she tries to off him for failing her.]]
* DramaticIrony: A tragic example. According to WordOfGod, [[spoiler:he gave Sectonia the Dimension Mirror in a well-meaning attempt to please her. He absolutely had no idea that Dark Meta Knight was imprisoned inside it, which allowed the latter to corrupt Sectonia into insanity every time she gazed into the Dimension Mirror.]]
* EnergyBall: [[spoiler:Tosses these to assist Masked Dedede.]] He also uses it a lot in his boss fight in ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'', from a spread of energy balls to firing balls to all directions to even a gigantic energy ball that [[PinballProjectile bounces around the screen]].
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:His reaction to Queen Sectonia's attempt to kill him.]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:Technically he was TheDragon in ''Triple Deluxe'' but he was an AntiVillain and ended up performing a HeelFaceTurn. When he's acting as TheBigBad in ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe,'' he boasts a darker color scheme of [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red, black]] [[PurpleIsPowerful and purple.]] When he comes back to his senses he reverts back to his original color scheme.]]
* EvilPuppeteer: He is described as the "Master of Puppetry", and is a creepy anthropomorphic spider who [[DistressedDude kidnaps King Dedede]], forcing Kirby to save him. [[spoiler:He later attaches puppet strings to Dedede, forcing him to fight Kirby once again. However, Taranza turns out to be not as bad as he seems. Once he realizes just how cruel his boss, Queen Sectonia, is, he even pulls a HeelFaceTurn to help Kirby defeat her.]]
* EvilSorcerer: Starts off as one. [[spoiler:Drops the evil part upon his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* {{Expy}}:
** He is one to Magolor from ''Return to Dream Land''. Both have a mysterious, mage-like appearance, both have FloatingLimbs, [[spoiler:and are villains who HeelFaceTurn in the end]].
** He's a big one to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Kamek]]. Both are mage-like characters [[spoiler:acting on the behalf of the true villain of their respective games, whom they share a personal relationship with]]. Both kidnap someone they believe to be a powerful hero who will interfere with his plans, only to be thwarted by someone else instead. Both influence the bosses fought within the games without being directly fought. Finally, both are ultimately [[spoiler:defeated/attacked by their own superior]], only to return to signal the beginning of the final phase of the final boss battle.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Has four eyes in the back of his head and two extra eyes on his forehead, though they don't emote and are presumably secondary to his primary two eyes (like with most real spiders).
* FangsAreEvil: Has CuteLittleFangs and kidnapped Dedede for some sinister purpose. [[spoiler:Subverted with his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* {{Flight}}: He can fly through the air. Justified as he has no legs.
* FloatingLimbs: He has [[MultiArmedAndDangerous six of them]] as part of his spider motif.
* ForWantOfANail:
** The events of the entire game happening can be attributed to Taranza's [[spoiler:failure to recognize Kirby, not Dedede, as the true hero of Popstar]]. Had Taranza done so, his plans would've succeeded - [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia would have remained unchallenged ([[AGodAmI and probably succeeded in becoming Popstar's goddess like she intended]]), and the Floralians would continue to live miserably under her tyrannical rule.]]
** A more tragic example that led to [[spoiler:Sectonia's StartOfDarkness — according to WordOfGod, Taranza unwittingly caused Sectonia's insanity when he decided to give her the Dimension Mirror as a gift, not knowing of the imprisoned Dark Meta Knight]]. Had he not done so, the events of the entire game would have been avoided, and [[spoiler:Sectonia would continue to rule Floralia as the kind and fair ruler she originally was.]]
* GemstoneAssault: In ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'', he can throw giant diamonds at Team Kirby from the background.
* TheHeavy: He appears in the opening cutscene and drives Kirby into adventuring to stop him. [[spoiler:He also leads Kirby to the true villain, Queen Sectonia.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Turns on Queen Sectonia after she tries to kill him for his failure.]]
* HornedHumanoid: He has two small horns on his head.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He's really not that good at being a bad guy.
* MindControl: [[spoiler:Uses this on King Dedede, turning him into Masked Dedede.]]
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Begins helping Kirby after Queen Sectonia decides to [[YouHaveFailedMe kill him for failing her.]]]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: [[spoiler:Even when Sectonia made a FaceHeelTurn, Taranza still followed her orders, even if it meant hurting the Floralians. It's ultimately subverted when Sectonia tries to kill him, at which point he realizes his queen was not the kind and fair person he once served, and betrays her.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: By kidnapping Dedede right in front of Kirby's eyes, Taranza inadvertently leads Kirby to start chasing him all around Floralia to his place. The fixing is twofold: Kirby, [[spoiler:the true hero that the People of the Sky expected]], would be helping the People of the Sky along the way and go to stop the whole mess, [[spoiler:while bringing the "false hero" King Dedede turns out to be helping as well — with him firing Kirby with a cannon to get to Sectonia's second form and then freeing Kirby from her when she grabbed him, something that the final narration notes as the Dreamstalk working InMysteriousWays]].
* OhCrap:
** He gets this kind of reaction when he finally realizes (in the first world's boss stage, of course) that Kirby has been chasing him for a short while, seconds before he sics Flowery Woods on Kirby.
** He reacts like this again when [[spoiler:Dedede is defeated; he then gets Dedede back on his legs and powers him up. When Dedede is defeated a second time, Taranza is outright ''frightened'' and desperately summons his master, Queen Sectonia, to help him. [[YouHaveFailedMe Too bad she just blasts him with her scepter instead]]]].
* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler:How he controls Dedede during the boss fight. For bonus points, if one looks close enough, Dedede is shown to have strings on him.]]
* PerpetualSmiler: Sports a wide grin that never leaves his face, not even when he becomes distraught after [[spoiler:Kirby takes down Masked Dedede or when he gets punted away by Sectonia]]. He just smiles through all of it. This is taken UpToEleven in ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'', where we can see his mouth open for wide smiles during even more situations where he shouldn't be smiling.
* PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler:He serves his boss and once-friend Sectonia out of duty more than anything. The only reason why he has a grudge against Kirby is because the latter is interfering with said duty.]]
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Subverted. He wears a red scarf, but while he is a magic user [[spoiler:like Sectonia]], he never once confronts Kirby directly, instead getting bosses [[spoiler:and Dedede]] to fight the pink puff for him. Played straight in ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'', where he's a quite powerful boss.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The trailers and gameplay videos focused mostly on Kirby and King Dedede, and Taranza doesn't appear at all, even though he's a prominent villain.
* SmashingSurvival: In ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'', he can throw a spider web ball towards one or two Kirbies, which'll then trap them inside. Those players unlucky enough to be trapped must repeatedly tap directional buttons to escape (or have their allies attack the web) before the web ball shrinks and then explodes, dealing high damage.
* SpiderPeople: Has a distinct spider motif.
* SquishyWizard: A sorcerer with powerful BlackMagic, but goes down in one hit. [[spoiler:Which is probably why he's never fought in-game.]] Subverted in ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'' where he's one tough boss.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Downplayed. After spending most of the game as a SilentAntagonist, Taranza finally speaks during the Royal Road level. However, he only gets dialogue — not actual voice acting or even VoiceGrunting. He does get some grunting later... through the Taranza Mask in ''Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe''.
* SummonBiggerFish: He always does this in the cutscene before the first five boss fights, by making those bosses active in some way to attack Kirby. [[spoiler:After Masked Dedede's Revenge is defeated, he asks his queen for help... only to get knocked out of the castle for his troubles.]]
* TeleportSpam: In ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'', in the boss fight against him, he teleports a lot.
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:During his OhCrap moment after Kirby defeats Dedede and reveals himself as the true hero summoned by the Dreamstalk.]]
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: [[spoiler:He's a tiny-looking spider critter compared to his boss Sectonia.]]
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:After showing up in the hub of ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'', he can be seen gazing at a flower from the Dreamstalk.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Tragically [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. Sectonia was once the kind ruler of Floralia before making her FaceHeelTurn, but even then he still stuck by her. It wasn't until Sectonia tried to kill him that he realizes that Sectonia is too twisted and dangerous, and had to be stopped.]]
* TheUnfought:
** He's never fought directly. [[spoiler:He does assist the {{Brainwashed}} Dedede by firing {{Energy Ball}}s, though.]]
** Averted in ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'', where he is fought directly as an Ordeal Boss.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, Taranza gave the Dimension Mirror to Sectonia as a gift, unaware that Dark Meta Knight was imprisoned inside it. This led to her slowly becoming tyrannical and insane from Dark Meta Knight's influence until she was too far gone to be redeemed.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to mention him without bringing up [[spoiler:his boss, Sectonia, and getting tagged with spoilers]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:With Queen Sectonia, until she was corrupted by the Dimension Mirror.]]
* WhamLine: He reveals that he's actually [[spoiler:a servant of [[FinalBoss Queen Sectonia]]]], changing everything that we saw happen in the entire game.
--> ''[[spoiler:To think that you've made it this far. Aren't you a persistent little thing? But even you will kneel before us. '''I, Taranza, cannot allow you to interfere with Queen Sectonia's plans.''']]''
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Initially. [[spoiler:Subverted when Sectonia [[YouHaveFailedMe tries to kill him]], [[HeelFaceTurn at which point he helps Kirby defeat her]].]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Queen Sectonia]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe''
--> Voiced by: Creator/MakikoOhmoto

A giant wasp who is the Queen of the Sectras and Floralia. Her goal is to take over all of Planet Popstar and become its goddess.
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* AGodAmI: In the Japanese version, she declares herself the Goddess of Popstar upon her appearance. [[{{Bowdlerise}} The English version has her declaring herself the ruler of the heavens.]]
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: [[spoiler:Soul of Sectonia has blue skin.]]
* AnimalMotifs: Bees and wasps, the latter which she heavily resembles.
* AttackDrones: [[spoiler:When fused with the Dreamstalk, she can spawn flowers on any vine that allow her to see in any area. They resemble Drawcia Soul's Para-Matters. The flowers can also float in midair, fire lasers, and turn into swords, [[SpikeBallsOfDoom spiked balls]] or buzzsaws to attack others from a distance. She can also use them to form [[DeflectorShields barriers]].]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: A powerful magic user, and a capable fighter. Also the Queen of Floralia.
* AutobotsRockOut: Her boss theme, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40DEipGcoXg Sullied Grace]]", is a hauntingly epic song that combines OminousPipeOrgan and heavy metal.
* AxCrazy: A high-functioning example. However, under all that air of beauty is a psychopath who ''really'' hates to lose. This is best seen during her VillainousBreakdown.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The "what-if" boss Soul of Sectonia is Sectonia after she is obliterated by Kirby's Hypernova Beam and, in her dying throes, eats four Miracle Fruits in a desperate final bid to defeat Kirby. [[CameBackStrong She becomes stronger]], [[CameBackWrong but she's lost most of her mind in the process.]]]]
* BackgroundBoss: [[spoiler:Her OneWingedAngel forms barely interacts with the foreground for most of the battle. She takes damage whenever Kirby hits the flower drones without touching Sectonia directly.]]
* BadassBoast: Loves giving these out.
-->'''Sectonia:''' Now then, hero of the lower world. You would risk your life for this land? You would stand against me, the ruler of the heavens? Very well... You will bow before the great Queen Sectonia! My beauty rivals the divine... and my power will crush all that you hold dear!\\
'''Sectonia:''' Bah...Aha... I...see. I expected as much from the hero chosen by the Dreamstalk. But I wonder... How will you handle this? You see, true beauty...is control. [[spoiler:The Dreamstalk has guided you thus far. But its bloom will be your doom! Floralia, Dream Land, and this entire planet! You should all feel honored. You will serve as my sustenance... for eternity!]]
* BadBoss: It's pretty much her EstablishingCharacterMoment when she tries to off [[spoiler:Taranza]] for failing her. It even extends into her boss fight. She'll summon Sectra enemies to assist her during the fight, and if they are still on the field when she attacks, then she'll uncaringly attack them as well. [[spoiler:She's also willing to sacrifice the kingdom of Floralia and use her own subjects as an eternal source of sustenance after she fuses with the Dreamstalk to become a "goddess".]]
* BattleBoomerang: [[spoiler:One of Soul of Sectonia's attacks, mimicking Marx Soul's own.]]
* BeautyIsBad: She is as evil as she is beautiful [[spoiler:and being driven mad by the Dimension Mirror has made her obsessed with beauty]].
* BigBad: Of ''Triple Deluxe''.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: [[BeeAfraid A giant bee]], though she more closely resembles a wasp.
* BladeSpam: One of her attacks with her rapiers is to do multiple stabs as she moves forward.
* BlowYouAway: She can summon powerful winds that blow Kirby to different parts of her boss stages. [[spoiler:She can also do so in her OneWingedAngel forms.]]
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:A clone of her is the second secret boss of ''Planet Robobot''.]]
* CallBack: Many of [[spoiler:Soul of Sectonia's]] attacks are taken directly from [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/KirbyCanvasCurse Drawcia Soul.]]]] Some are taken from [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Marx]], too.
* TheCameo: Appears in ''Planet Robobot'' as a sticker, and a special costume for Spear Kirby in ''Battle Royale'' (with him wielding her red scepter as a spear).
* CastingAShadow: Her [[ShockAndAwe lightning attacks]], fired from her gold scepter, are colored black.
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:In ''Planet Robobot'', Star Dream tests Meta Knight with a copy of her.]]
* CombatTentacles: [[spoiler:In her merged form with the Dreamstalk, she can manipulate vines to impale Kirby (somewhat Marx and Magolor's vine attacks). She also strangles Kirby with it after she's defeated the second time, but Dedede fortunately frees him.]]
* CoolCrown: Wears a golden and blue crown with a pink heart-shaped gem on it.
* CuteLittleFangs: [[spoiler:Revealed in ''Planet Robobot'' to have formerly owned a pair of these like Taranza.]]
* DanceBattler: Implied in [[spoiler:''Planet Robobot''; Star Dream compares her swordplay to a "beautiful dance".]]
* DarkActionGirl: She does [[MagicKnight both magic and swordplay]], and is her game's BigBad.
* DeathCryEcho: She'll cry out every time she's defeated. [[spoiler:Her defeat as Soul of Sectonia seems to finalize this as she is killed for good, screaming before [[DisappearsIntoLight exploding into petals]].]]
* {{Determinator}}: Oh, hell yes. If we place the True Arena (which isn't canon to the main story) after the main game, she was defeated by Kirby, [[spoiler:went OneWingedAngel by fusing with the Dreamstalk, was beaten again in a long battle that ended with a giant laser to the face, ''survived '''that''' ''long enough to get 4 Miracle Fruits, went against Kirby a third time, and when ''that'' failed, she ''ripped her own head off of the Dreamstalk, '''just so she could fight Kirby one last time''''']].
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Is said to have fed off of countless hosts and forgotten her true body, which according to ''Planet Robobot'' closely resembled Taranza's. The reasoning for this is related to her being a VainSorceress.]]
* DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler:Defeating Soul of Sectonia will cause her to explode in a storm of blue-violet petals.]]
* DualWielding: Wields two {{Magic Staff}}s and two {{Royal Rapier}}s.
* EldritchAbomination: Although this tends to occur in ''Kirby'' fashion, this version isn't quite so visually horrifying as its connotations are. [[spoiler:After being defeated the first time, she merges with the Dreamstalk, which she also sends into overgrowth and begins visibly ''choking the life out of Planet Popstar''. Not only that, she's content to consume her own kingdom as well, almost immediately burying her own castle in a tangle of vines. Beyond that, she can spawn eyes from any flower on any vine to personally see in that area.]]
* EmptyShell: The description of [[spoiler:Soul of Sectonia]] calls her a pitiful husk and there's not much of her left at this point.
* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:To Taranza.]]
* EvilOverlord: Her rule was so bad that the Floralians [[spoiler:planted the Dreamstalk]] in hopes of summoning a great hero who can help defeat her. [[spoiler:She was once a kind ruler until her obsession with beauty -- specifically, her frequent gazing into the Dimension Mirror -- corrupted and twisted her.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:She used to be a kind queen and one of Taranza's closest friends, but then she became obsessed with beauty due to the Dimension Mirror's influence, which led to her newfound cruelty towards her subjects, the Floralians.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Gives off an aura of grace and elegance, but does nothing but spit venom at those who anger her and treats her own subjects/subordinates like shit.
* TheFightingNarcissist: An insect queen completely obsessed with beauty, which she equates to power, and is a dangerous fighter capable of wielding both magic and rapiers/staves.
* FinalBoss: She's one for the main story of ''Triple Deluxe''.
* FloatingLimbs: She has only two of them, covered in HighClassGloves. [[spoiler:''Planet Robobot'' reveals that she used to have six floating hands like Taranza before changing to her current two.]]
* FlowerMotifs: [[spoiler:It doesn't come up until her "Flower Sectonia" and "Soul of Sectonia" battles, but after fusing with the Dreamstalk, she became associated with the [[https://www.google.com/search?q=plumeria&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwib99TYnevQAhUCzmMKHeRyDBYQ_AUICCgB&biw=1280&bih=628 plumeria flower]], which the flower of the Dreamstalk resembles. The plumeria represents love (which might refer to her own love of herself; ironically, she's [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen a really terrible ruler]] and her own subjects fear her) and also death (her Soul of Sectonia form depicts a rotted Dreamstalk with Sectonia's decomposing head in the middle of its flower).]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: You can find banners and icons sporting her face adorning the Royal Road levels while you chase Taranza.
* FoulFlower: [[spoiler:After fusing herself with the Dreamstalk, she becomes a flowery EldritchAbomination.]]
* FlunkyBoss: She sometimes summons antlike Sectras called Antrs in her fights. These Sectras grant either [[FireIceLightning Fire, Ice, or Spark]] depending on the color of the enemy (red, blue, and green respectively). [[BadBoss She'll also uncaringly hit them while trying to get to Kirby]].
* FrickinLaserBeams: [[spoiler:Her OneWingedAngel forms, especially Soul of Sectonia, gain the ability to fire lasers at Kirby.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:With the Dreamstalk. It's also implied that she had done this to countless other bodies in the past.]]
* GemstoneAssault:
** Summons a large diamond when down to half health. Though it only serves as another arena.
** Played more straight when [[spoiler:fighting her clone in ''Planet Robobot'']], as she sometimes smashes the ground, which sends a fair-sized chunk of diamond sliding out to the sides which you have to jump over.
* GigglingVillain: Frequently lets out a NoblewomansLaugh during the boss fight. [[spoiler:Soul of Sectonia upgrades this into [[LaughingMad Marx-like laughter]].]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: She appears with malevolently glowing white eyes, [[spoiler:right before blasting Taranza into oblivion]].
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The queen of Floralia and a narcissistic, despotic tyrant. [[spoiler:She used to be a kind ruler, especially towards Taranza, but endless gazing into the Dimension Mirror corrupted her mind and turned her into the cruel, narcissistic tyrant she is now.]]
* GreenThumb: [[spoiler:Upon combining with the Dreamstalk. The limitlessness of this kind of power is played straight, with her threatening to choke out and devour all of Planet Popstar.]]
* HighClassGloves: A pair of floating ones as hands.
* HighCollarOfDoom: Her neck is adorned with a RegalRuff with pink and purple stripes, and she's the BigBad of ''Triple Deluxe''. [[spoiler:Her collar as Soul of Sectonia has blue and dark purple stripes.]]
* HoistByHerOwnPetard:
** [[spoiler:Sectonia, if you didn't try to kill Taranza, maybe he wouldn't have betrayed you.]]
** [[spoiler:It happens again during the second phase of her boss fight; had she known what the Miracle Fruit can do in the hands of someone like [[VacuumMouth Kirby]], she wouldn't have ended up with a face full of WaveMotionGun that she tried firing at him.]]
* HornedHumanoid: [[spoiler:''Planet Robobot'' implies she initially had a pair of horns like Taranza before changing into a wasp.]]
* TheHyena: She seems to find her first battle with Kirby to be quite hilarious.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Though as a wasp, this makes sense.
* InsectQueen: She seems to be the queen of the Sectra enemies in the Royal Road level. Or more specifically, all of Floralia.
* InterfaceSpoiler: It's possible to get her keychain (by collecting every Sun Stones in the game) before one even goes to the final boss battle.
* JustEatHim: One attempted on [[spoiler:the planet's entirety, at that; she merges with the Dreamstalk and declares her intent to feast on the planet and its populace for the rest of her potentially-endless life]]. It fails when [[spoiler:Dedede and Taranza perform a BigDamnHeroes and give Kirby a Miracle Fruit, allowing the pink puff to defeat her in time]].
* KnightOfCerebus: In true ''Kirby'' villain fashion, the game takes a darker turn when she takes center stage. [[spoiler:And turns tragic once you read the pause menu blurbs during her boss fights.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Her beauty is the only thing that matters to her.
* LadyOfWar: A MagicKnight version of one.
* LargeAndInCharge: She is much larger than her subjects. She also, predictably, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking is the strongest of them]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:One of the major factors in her defeat is her own minion Taranza, [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal who started aiding Kirby after she tried to kill him for his failure]].]]
* LaughingMad: [[spoiler:Her NoblewomansLaugh evolves to insane giggling during her battle as Soul of Sectonia, after she goes through a long VillainousBSOD.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Xs0OVU0K8 Divine Beauty]]", a pompously grand yet sinister orchestral piece to go along with her image of a powerful, narcissistic, and evil ruler with megalomaniac ambitions.
* LifeDrinker: [[spoiler:What she tried to do upon merging with the Dreamstalk, extending its vines throughout all of Planet Popstar so she can become a goddess by slowly feeding on everyone's life force for eternity. Thank God it didn't take.]]
* LightEmUp: She can fire light purple {{Energy Ball}}s from her silver scepter.
* LightIsNotGood: In a surprisingly stark contrast to previous ''Kirby'' villains, whose appearances and forms are themed after evil and chaos, Queen Sectonia is themed after bees and flowers, which signify birth and rejuvenation [[spoiler:especially in her final forms]], and she is impressively more elegant than prior final bosses. Unfortunately, for someone with such a motif, Sectonia is definitely ''not'' one of the good guys.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: [[spoiler:In her OneWingedAngel form; she only does this in the Story Mode.]] Her [[spoiler:flower drones]] attack with swarms of missiles, which Kirby has to inhale and keep them on his mouth, because Sectonia herself will then fire an absolutely ''gigantic'' missile at Kirby that he has to deflect with the previous smaller missiles.
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:For one, at least in True Arena, she took a deflected ''WaveMotionGun'' '''''to the face''''' and still remained alive long enough to eat four Miracle Fruits to come BackFromTheDead.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Or woman, in this case, for Taranza.]]
* MeaningfulName: According to WordOfGod, Sectonia's name is a portmanteau of "insect" and "near" to show that she's not quite an insect as she appears. [[spoiler:''Planet Robobot'' implies that she used to resemble a spider (i.e an arachnid, not an insect) like Taranza, but years of dabbling in forbidden magics and performing {{Fusion Dance}}s with countless hosts gave her her current wasp-like form.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Pause menu blurbs for Soul of Sectonia imply that Taranza has realized the best friend he once knew is too far deep in her own insanity to be saved, so he tells Kirby to give Sectonia her "[[DeadlyEuphemism final beauty sleep]]". [[{{Bowdlerise}} The original Japanese]] has ''Sectonia herself'' [[ICannotSelfTerminate begging Kirby to kill her]] because she doesn't recognize herself or her friends anymore. This was foreshadowed with the name of the final stage, "Eternal Dreamland", [[DubInducedPlothole which was supposed to be symbolic if not for the translations]].]]
* MixAndMatchCritters: [[spoiler:''Planet Robobot'' says her DNA (taken from one of Dreamstalk's petals) contains traces of species spanning a thousand years. The writers previously stated that she uses magic to possess new hosts, and the wasp-like body was only her most recent body, but seeing as how she combines the wasp-like body with the Dreamstalk, it seems the wasp body is actually already a combination of creatures Sectonia has taken the body of.]]
* {{Narcissist}}: Obsessed with beauty, which she equates to power. Her own castle even has images made in her likeliness. [[spoiler:Her constant gazing into the Dimension Mirror corrupted her into becoming this trope.]]
* NoblewomansLaugh: Does this [[TheHyena frequently]]. [[spoiler:It later evolves to LaughingMad during the Soul of Sectonia battle.]]
* OminousPipeOrgan: Played during some notes of the music played in the cutscene before fighting her when she makes her appearance, and the battle theme played in her first phase (which also [[AutobotsRockOut contains heavy metal]] in it).
* OneToMillionToOne: [[spoiler:Soul of Sectonia's rain of nectar attack, much like Drawcia Soul and Marx Soul before her.]]
* OneWingedAngel: She turns into a grander form after she's defeated: [[spoiler:by fusing herself with the Dreamstalk, which lets her control it.]]
* {{Planimal}}: [[spoiler:After [[FusionDance combining with the Dreamstalk]], she became half-plant, half-insect.]]
* PlatformBattle: During the second phase of her battle, she'll forcefully bring Kirby onto a floating diamond platform outside the castle, with a BottomlessPit on each side. In her OneWingedAngel form fight, the battleground is made of floating platforms. Every time she loses a fraction of her health, she'll pull Kirby into another platform with one, then two, and finally three holes on them. Once Kirby enters [[spoiler:the Hypernova phase]], however, the platforms will be all filled.
* PressXToNotDie: Mashing the Control Pad is critical during the cutscene where Kirby does a BeamOWar with [[spoiler:her laser in her final form in story mode]].
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her color scheme is mostly purple, and her magic summoning circles are pink-purple as well. [[spoiler:Her DX form is also colored purple, with more emphasis on red. Her clone version is even more purple (as was Dark Matter Clone before her).]] She's also a powerful magic user and fighter, and the game's FinalBoss.
* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:''Planet Robobot'']] suggests that she's about 1,000 years old.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Both her DX form in Dededetour and True Arena, and her final form as Soul of Sectonia, have dark red eyes.]]
* RhymesOnADime: [[spoiler:Just before fusing herself with the Dreamstalk,]] she promises Kirby that, "Its bloom will be your doom!"
* RingsOfDeath: Fires golden rings during her boss fight.
* RoyalRapier: She can convert her staves into rapiers to stab with.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She's got no problems with getting her hands dirty if the situation calls for it.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Soul of Sectonia's pause-screen descpritions imply this, stating that being defeated by Kirby, combined with her hunger for power, has left her insane, and the only thing she can cling to is her vanity.]]
* ScreamingWarrior: [[spoiler:Her OneWingedAngel forms have her roaring before attacking Kirby.]]
* SequentialBoss: Due to her being a FinalBoss. In Story Mode, she has a total of four sequences: her normal form, then [[spoiler:the "shooting through vines" section, Flower Sectonia, and finally Hypernova vs Flower Sectonia]] (the second and the fourth are omitted in The Arena). In the True Arena, [[spoiler:you fight Sectonia DX, then 2 phases of Soul of Sectonia.]]
* ShockAndAwe: One of her attacks has her fire black lightning at Kirby from her gold scepter.
* TheSociopath: Due to [[spoiler:her corruption by the Dimension Mirror]], she becomes a selfish being willing to destroy all of Dreamland with the Dreamstalk for the sake of her own personal beauty.
* SpiderPeople: [[spoiler:Her boss battle in ''Planet Robobot'' implies that she once closely resembled Taranza before years of dabbling with DemonicPossession changed her appearance.]]
* StaffOfAuthority: She [[DualWielding holds one in each hand]].
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:She didn't become a cruel and narcissistic tyrant until she started looking at her own reflection in the [[ArtifactOfDoom Dimension Mirror]] (which was a gift from Taranza), which slowly corrupted her into madness.]]
* SummonMagic: A third of her attacks in her boss fight is summoning diamonds and Sectra minions.
* TeleportSpam: Does this during the boss fight. She actually manages to abuse it more than her predecessors. [[spoiler:As Soul of Sectonia's final form, she actually has [[FragileSpeedster less HP than most other bosses]] to compensate for it making her so difficult to hit.]]
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler:When Meta Knight defeats her clone in ''Planet Robobot'', she briefly turns into a Taranza-like form before exploding.]]
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: [[spoiler:A wasp queen who dwarfs her spider minion Taranza. Averted before her transformation; she used to be a spider critter before making herself more beautiful with some forbidden magic (i.e possessing other creatures).]]
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:A formerly kind-hearted and fair ruler who was slowly corrupted into a monstrous tyrant by the Dimension Mirror.]]
* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Soul of Sectonia is fought only in the True Arena as the last boss.]]
* VainSorceress: She wields two magical staves, a lot of magic, and she is completely obsessed with her own beauty. [[spoiler:According to WordOfGod, she used to look like her insectoid underlings (more specifically like Taranza, based on her clone in ''Planet Robobot''), but she used magic (specifically, possessing other creatures) to change her appearance to something much more beautiful, especially after the Dimension Mirror made her obsessed with beauty.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:The entirety of the second battle with her is basically one long VillainousBreakdown. For the majority of the fight, she remains as calm and elegant as usual, but after being beaten back the first time, she attempts to squeeze the life out of Kirby in a rage. Then Dedede and Taranza pull their BigDamnHeroes moment and give Kirby the [[EleventhHourSuperpower Hypernova]] ability, at which point she pretty much snaps and tosses every attack she can throw at Kirby as the pink puffball tears through her defenses and eventually defeats her. By the time of the "Soul of Sectonia" battle, she has lost everything but her vanity, and the defeats she has suffered have reduced her to a giggling madwoman who will stop at ''nothing'' until she has Kirby's WaddlingHead on a platter.]]
* VillainousValor: Sure, she's a villain, but one can't help but admire her determination. First, she faces off against Kirby herself, and though beaten, [[spoiler:she stays alive long enough to fuse with the Dreamstalk. And when her OneWingedAngel form is beaten, ''twice'', she remains alive long enough to eat four Miracle Fruits to revive herself just so she could fight Kirby again]]. This girl's got guts. Not tho mention that [[spoiler:despite being beaten yet again in that form, she detaches from the dying Dreamstalk to keep on fighting. And by "detaching", we mean ''ripping off her own head''.]]
* VillainTeleportation: An evil queen who can teleport at will. Like most ''Kirby'' bosses, the ability comes with a [[TeleportSpam spam button]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Her existence is never hinted at until late in the game. [[spoiler:Especially about Soul of Sectonia.]]
* WaveMotionGun: [[spoiler:In her OneWingedAngel form, she can summon AttackDrones that fire huge lasers. [[HoistByHerOwnPetard It's what ultimately does her in]] after Kirby gains Hypernova and proceeds to inhale the damn thing before firing it back at her.]]
* WeHaveReserves: She can kill any Antr that she's just summoned through the use of her attacks, plus she can summon as many more as she wants, [[BadBoss just so she can wipe them out again if she feels like it]].
* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: [[spoiler:After being beaten the first time, Soul of Sectonia [[OffWithHisHead rips her own neck]] off the Dreamstalk, leaving her with nothing more than her head and wings.]]
* WickedHeartSymbol:
** Has, along with a heart emblem on her chest, tiny hearts adorning her sinister RequisiteRoyalRegalia and her wings. And she's a rather {{Narcissist}}ic villain.
** [[spoiler:Her clone, meanwhile, has said chest heart emblem being cracked in the middle. It's a byproduct of her being made by Star Dream, which possesses a similar cracked heart emblem.]]
* WingedHumanoid: By virtue of being an anthropomorphic bee.
* YinYangBomb: Fires [[CastingAShadow black lightning]] from the gold staff and [[LightEmUp orbs of light]] from the silver staff.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Attempts this on Taranza. It bites her in the ass later.]]
-->'''Sectonia:''' Pitiful, [[spoiler:Taranza]]... [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness I have no use for a fool who cannot follow orders.]]
[[/folder]]

!Haltmann Works Company

[[folder:Susie]]
[[quoteright:316:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kpr_susie_artwork_2_6.png]]

-> First Appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''
--> Voiced by: Creator/MakikoOhmoto

->''"You know, it's wonderful to work in a perfectly controlled environment. But that's something you'd never understand."''

The secretary to the President of the Haltmann Works Company, Susie oversees the occupation and mechanization of Planet Popstar. She fights Kirby and also sics her company's tough creations against him.
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* AerithAndBob: One of the only ''Kirby'' characters to have a real name. Crazy, right?
* AffablyEvil: Exactly how evil she is is up for debate, but she tends to be pretty polite, if a little condescending, whenever she encounters Kirby.
* AllThereInTheManual: All we know about Susie (at first) is that she's the secretary of President Haltmann, but there's more to it than that: a few hints are given through their bios in ''Meta Knightmare Returns'' and the True Arena, which reference [[spoiler:a daughter of Haltmann's that was lost in an accident with Star Dream. Things like Susie's involvement in this and Haltmann's failure to recognize her went unanswered until the inception of the [[https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAADAAB2V0evMdAK_w Miiverse "ask-a-thon"]], where it was revealed that Haltmann lost all memories of his daughter after he tried to bring her back using Star Dream, and that he subsequently hired her on as an assistant based on what little fondness he had left.]]
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:A Mirror Dimension version of Susie appears in ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'' as a late-game boss, named Parallel Susie.]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:With most of her backstory having been revealed, Susie's motivation for betraying her boss seems to fall at least partially under frustration, after years of working under him when he failed to see who she was, rather than simple evil or greed.]]
* BeleagueredAssistant: Played with in that most of Susie's duties aren't much to expect from an executive secretary to an intergalactic occupation company. [[spoiler:The issue comes in that a vain, egotistical businessman is unknowingly expecting his own daughter to perform them, flawlessly and without complaint.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:An accidental example; she and Star Dream are Kirby's biggest threats throughout the game.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:After Star Dream takes off, she mentions that she wanted to "teach the old man a lesson" or, in the Japanese version, "wake him up." The meaning of this becomes a bit clearer with the knowledge of [[LukeYouAreMyFather her backstory.]]]]
* TheCameo:
** Appears as one set of the special gears for Sword Hero (with ''Planet Robobot's'' OldSaveBonus) in ''Videogame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe''.
** In ''Star Allies'', she's one of the Stone Kirby's forms (alongside Ribbon), as well as one of the sculptures produced by Artist.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Taranza of the previous 3DS ''Kirby'' game. Both characters are AffablyEvil [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Dragons]]]] who constantly harass Kirby throughout the game, even using [[spoiler:brainwashed versions of Kirby's allies]]. There are quite a few differences between them, however, such as Taranza using powerful magic against Kirby, whereas Susie deals in science and mechanics. Both of them were also [[spoiler:once close to their now-cold and ruthless superiors, although while Taranza was partially responsible for Sectonia's StartOfDarkness, Susie was only a victim of circumstance in losing Haltmann's favor, which was caused and furthered due to their interactions with Star Dream. Finally, while both helps Kirby after being betrayed by their masters, Susie [[EnemyMine only does so out of]] [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]] and still remains a villainous character.]]
* CuteIsEvil: She might look like an adorable girl robot thing, but she happens to be the [[TheDragon secretary]] for the Haltmann Works Company. [[spoiler:She even tried to take control of Star Dream for her own purposes, which led to the machine itself malfunctioning and wanting to destroy all organic beings. After a brief EnemyMine with Kirby, she still remains a bad guy by the end of the game.]]
* TheDragon: She is the president's secretary and the most recurring nuisance Kirby has to deal with.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:When Star Dream decides to eradicate all life-forms, she decides to give Kirby a Robobot Armor to help destroy it. Unlike Taranza, she averts doing a true HeelFaceTurn, so she's still firmly evil by the end.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Ribbon. They're both pink-haired cuties who often interact with Kirby, but one helps him while the other constantly tries to destroy him. [[spoiler:And even when Susie helps Kirby take down Star Dream, it was more out of pragmatism than anything.]]
* EvilGenius: She apparently knows enough about using the Mother Computer to make it [[spoiler:clone King Dedede and mechanize Mecha Knight]].
* EvilLaugh: Loves letting these out. She makes the first one after you beat her in her boss battle and she flies away, which obviously means [[WeWillMeetAgain she's not done with you]].
* EvilVersusOblivion: [[spoiler:No profit to be made in a universe where everyone is dead, so she chooses to help Kirby fight Star Dream.]]
* FloatingLimbs: What did you expect from an {{Expy}} of Taranza? Even her mech also has 'em.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Not in the main game, but in ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'', [[spoiler:she shows up as "Parallel Susie" with no explanation beyond being a "Dimensional Invader" summoned by Taranza]].
* GivenNameReveal: Her full name, [[spoiler:Susanna Patraya Haltmann]], is only given during her 2.0 boss fight, [[spoiler:just like her father]].
* TheHeavy: Despite being TheDragon to Haltmann, she is a more visible threat than him, as she's on the field duty of the company's project. [[spoiler:[[TheStarscream She even made plans to overthrow him.]]]]
* HiddenDepths: According to WordOfGod, her hobbies are karaoke and piano.
* HoppingMachine: Susie's mech jumps quite a lot. She can also deploy jumping drones.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Unlike Haltmann, she suffers no permanent punishment for her actions and gets away, though presumably she'll appear again.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: Despite ''The Noble Haltmann'' being about the president, the melody is more associated with Susie. She even sings it on occasion.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:This is implied to be one of the primary motivations for her betrayal — she's actually Haltmann's missing daughter, who he'd been forced to forget courtesy of Star Dream.]]
* MacrossMissileMassacre: While she already shoots quite a number of explosives as her normal self, Susie 2.0 spams them more often. [[spoiler:Parallel Susie also has an attack where it launches multiple missiles to the air which then fall down, covering the arena.]]
* MiniMecha: She battles Kirby with her own Invader Armor/Business Suit.
* MissingMom: [[spoiler:We know President Haltmann is her father, but no allusion to her mother is made at all.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:She undergoes a bit of this after Star Dream goes [[OmnicidalManiac nihilistic]], as she only intended to sell it for profit and teach Haltmann a thing or two. As a result of this, she entrusts Kirby with the means to destroy it.]]
* TheNicknamer: Tends to refer to Kirby as "pinky".
* NoMouth: And yet she can still speak just fine.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]; [[spoiler:although this would seem to be her primary motive for betraying Haltmann and planning to sell off Star Dream, there's a bit more to it than that]].
* OpportunisticBastard: [[spoiler:While she has always have the plan to steal Star Dream from his boss, it's implied that she can't find a way to do it safely until his fight with Kirby forces him to wear the control helmet for Star Dream, which is where she sees the opportunity to steal it.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:The reason she helps Kirby and Meta Knight defeat Star Dream. Can't really make a profit when all of existence is destroyed, now can you?]]
* ProjectBlank: The Mechanization Operation Project, a project of her company that aims to mechanize Popstar and [[PlanetLooters take its resources for themselves]]. She oversees the project in person as the secretary.
* PunnyName: The Japanese language pronounces her name as "Suuji", which means "digit", fitting with the technological theme of her group. WordOfGod says that he also wants a more "foreign" sounding real name for her as a sign of her being foreign to the Planet Popstar.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: [[spoiler:Much like Dark Meta Knight and Shadow Dedede before her, Parallel Susie has this color scheme.]]
* ShockwaveStomp: In a variant, in the final phase of her fight, she may launch herself through the holed structure filled with energy in the middle of the arena, then crash on the ground, causing shockwaves to shoot out of the impact zone.
* SpinAttack: She can spin her mech's hands around its body to attack Kirby.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:She betrays Haltmann to take control of Star Dream, although Star Dream has other plans.]]
* SymbolMotifClothing: The logo on the arms of her Business Suit change with each encounter: In the normal mode, they're the Haltmann logo, in her 2.0 battle, they're hearts, [[spoiler:and on Parallel Susie's mecha, they're [[{{Foreshadowing}} eyes]]]].
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler:She is shocked that Kirby somehow manages to defeat creations of the Mother Computer, believing it to be practically infallible.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Hers is ice cream, though one has to wonder how she can eat with NoMouth.
* TragicKeepsake: WordOfGod says that her most valued possession is a golden hairpiece with the letter H on it. The tragic part is implied, as [[spoiler:she wanted to make her father recognize who she is, and after the end of the game, her father is now lost forever]].
* VillainsOutShopping: Susie is often encountered singing the company theme song ''The Noble Haltmann''. Also, the top screen has [[http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfSMB-eVAAI2JZy.jpg:small crayon drawings]] of Susie doing other non-evil things around the company.
* VillainRespect: When [[spoiler:Star Dream is activated and prepares to destroy ''everything'']], Susie believes that if anyone can defeat it, it's Kirby. She's also quite impressed by Meta Knight when he tried to stop the invasion solo, [[spoiler:which is why he was considered the perfect candidate to be roboticised as Mecha Knight, with plans to make him into a production line]].
* WeWillMeetAgain: After the fight against her at the end of Overload Ocean, she calls a mini-copter to lift her away, laughing as she flies, suggesting this. The ending shows [[spoiler:Susie flying away in her Business Suit, presumably plotting her next move]].
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler:In the end, with Access Ark destroyed and Popstar turning back to normal, Susie (presumably) has nowhere else she'd call "home".]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has pink hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:President Haltmann]]
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-> First Appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''
--> Voiced by: Creator/{{Mugihito}}

->''"Well... allow me to elaborate. In compliance with the business plan drafted by Star Dream... effective today, you are... terminated!"''

The President of the Haltmann Works Company, he intends to mechanize Planet Popstar while strip-mining it of its resources and Star Power. He was once a more reasonable and friendly man who was passionate about his work, but the loss of his daughter made him colder and more driven. In spite of all he's gained, he still does not have what he truly wants.
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* AllThereInTheManual: He has clear similarities with Susie and has attacks involving Susie, [[spoiler:but it isn't until the Meta Knightmare boss bios that you begin learning about why these are significant]].
* AlasPoorVillain: Despite trying to wipe out all life on Popstar (and presumably other planets), it's easy to feel sorry for the poor guy by the end of the game. [[spoiler:Especially after his backstory is revealed.]]
* AmnesiacResonance: [[spoiler:What little remained of his memories of Susie prompted him to appoint her as his assistant.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: You'd expect that the portly CEO of a MegaCorp wouldn't be much of a fighter. Haltmann squashes that expectation as soon as he enters his Executive Suit.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: With a name like Max Profitt, this guy was pretty much destined to become a highly successful businessman.
* BadBoss: Coldly telling Susie to step aside before his boss battle isn't too bad, but laughing as his own robots get blasted by his lasers is quite unnerving.
* BigBad: Of ''Planet Robobot'', being behind the mechanization of Planet Popstar. [[spoiler:He ends up getting betrayed by both his [[TheDragon secretary]] and his ship's mother computer.]]
* BlingBlingBang: His Executive Suit is said to be made of solid gold in the [[spoiler:Dedede Clones]]' second 2.0 description.
* BrilliantButLazy: He makes all of these destructive machines, yet he never gets out of his CoolChair. [[spoiler:He's also far from a slouch in combat, if Star Dream's [[IFightForTheStrongestSide administrator requirements]] are any indication — though he's still far from a match for Kirby.]]
* ChairReveal: Does this when Kirby first meets him.
* CirclingMonologue: Does this when he first speaks to Kirby.
* CoolChair: He has a gold flying chair which even docks into his executive suit.
* CoolShades: His head antennae creates a pair of shades right before Kirby fights him.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He mechanizes and harvests entire planets of their resources without regard for the inhabitants' welfare. [[spoiler:He was probably [[HonestCorporateExecutive more on the level]] before losing his daughter.]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler:In the most literal way possible. Haltmann is absorbed by Star Dream with only a sliver of his soul left to show for it. Even worse, by the time Kirby fights Star Dream Soul OS' final form, he's been deleted from it entirely.]]
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:Is fused with his supercomputer and has his soul wiped from it for good measure.]]
* DisappearedDad: Inverted, he apparently has a disappeared daughter due to an accident, [[spoiler:involving Star Dream transporting Susie away into another dimension. Later it's played straight as he ends up being DeaderThanDead.]]
* DistaffCounterpart: To Susie, a trait best shown in their boss fights, where they both fight with a mecha suit and use similar attacks.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: There's one point in the game that shows President Haltmann still has some shadow of a moral compass left. [[spoiler:In the ''Meta Knightmare Returns'' game mode, Star Dream mentions that Haltmann prohibited ever summoning [[PersonOfMassDestruction Galacta Knight]], the risk of which was that he could end up blowing up a nearby planet or two.]]
* EvilLaugh: Most of his attacks are preceded by a loud, hearty laugh.
* FatBastard: He's chubby, cold-hearted, and has been mechanizing Planet Popstar for his own gain. [[spoiler:However, he only became this when he lost his daughter.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's quite polite and cordial to Kirby when they finally meet, but all grace goes right out the window when Kirby defeats him.
* Fiction500: He has a solid gold executive suit (GemEncrusted too), gold-plated robots, and uses money to obscure the screen during his boss fight. Not to mention, well, owning a small planet-sized company that flies between other planets and is very technologically advanced.
* FloatingLimbs: His Executive Suit has its hands floating freely, just like Susie's mech. So do his hands. [[spoiler:It also runs in the family, apparently.]]
* FlunkyBoss: He will send robotic minions to assist him in battle.
* GemstoneAssault: One of his attacks is him jumping to the air and then dropping the diamond beneath his mech like a bomb.
* HiddenDepths:
** [[spoiler:He was once a good corporate executive until the loss of his daughter in an accident made him more driven in his work, and being Star Dream's admin made him lose some of his old memories.]]
** [[spoiler:As we learn in ''Meta Knightmare Returns'', to become Star Dream's admin, you must supply your credentials to the strongest warriors of Dream Land. These warriors are Dark Matter, Queen Sectonia, and Galacta Knight. We know that Haltmann forbade Star Dream from summoning Galacta Knight, since he's clearly unstable enough to ''destroy a planet or two'', but no such mention is made of the other two warriors. This could mean that he has faced Galacta Knight before and survived.]]
** He also has an interest in astronomy.
* HoppingMachine: Like Susie's own mech, his Executive Suit mainly jumps around.
* HumiliationConga: Put simply, the minute he meets Kirby is the minute everything goes to hell for him. First, Kirby royally hands him his butt. Then, [[spoiler:just as he's about to activate Star Dream, Susie yanks the control helmet from him and declares her intent to steal Star Dream for profit. What Susie did causes a malfunction with the control helmet, causing Star Dream to gain sentience and assimilate him, intending to wipe out all organic life. Finally, in the True Arena, Haltmann's soul is permanently deleted]]. HowTheMightyHaveFallen indeed. [[spoiler:Factor in his backstory and it becomes a TraumaCongaLine.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Two of his attacks during his boss fight have him firing statues of Susie and throwing ''money'' at you (dollar bills with his [[spoiler:or in the 2.0 fight, Susie's]] face on them). The latter doesn't hurt you, but [[InterfaceScrew obscures your vision]].
* InterfaceSpoiler: Like Sectonia before him, you can get his sticker (by collecting all Code Cubes) before you even meet him.
* KnightOfCerebus: Although not in the way you'd expect. [[spoiler:Haltmann's backstory is on par with Sectonia's in terms of unexpectedness, and easily the most tragic thing to come out of the series.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Prolonged usage of Star Dream seems to have slowly chipped away at his memories bit by bit. It got to a point where he forgot about even having a daughter in the first place once Susie rejoined the company, only remembering it in the fight with Star Dream Soul OS.]]
* LaughingMad: Good '''GOD'''! The laugh he lets out during some of his attacks is ''insane''!
--> '''President Haltmann:''' DAAAH!!! AAAAAH HA HA ha ha ha ha...
* MacrossMissileMassacre: He throws the Susie statues like missiles, and later, he also fires a lot of them up, causing them to rain across the stage.
* MeaningfulName: His full name is Max Profitt Haltmann. Like any executive, his goal is indeed to maximize his profits. His Japanese name, meanwhile, is "Gaines Income Haltmann".
* MindControlEyes: [[spoiler:Once Star Dream takes control of him, his eyes turn yellow.]]
* MiniMecha: His Executive Suit, which works similarly to Susie's.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Star Dream Soul OS's pause description has Haltmann expressing regret towards reactivating Star Dream and revealing why he did it in the first place: [[TearJerker he wanted to see his daughter again.]]]]
* NoMouth: Just like Susie, although he also has a big purple mustache.
* PerpetualFrowner: In contrast with Susie being able to emote more with her eyes, he seems to always have AngryEyebrows, even when he's [[spoiler:applauding Susie's song number in the Exclusive Performance Video]].
* PlanetLooters: The way his company operates: They invade a planet, develop its economy, and harvest its resources.
* PunnyName: His name has "HAL" in it.
* RageQuit: Pretty much sums up his VillainousBreakdown. Kirby defeating him was such a blow to his ego that he decides to activate Star Dream and ''[[DisproportionateRetribution eradicate all of Popstar]]''.
* TheReveal:
** The Meta Knightmare Returns bios reveal that Haltmann is the way he is [[spoiler:because he lost his daughter in an accident. It is implied that he either used or intended to use Star Dream to bring her back. It is not clear if he realizes that Susie is his daughter]].
** [[spoiler:According to [[https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAADAAB2V0e2W0rUBw a Q&A session on Miiverse]], linking his mind with Star Dream to control it while Star Dream was in an incomplete state caused him to eventually lose almost all of his memories of Susie. What little spark remained was what caused him to promote her to his assistant, but for the most part, he had no idea that he even had a daughter until right before his death (i.e. in the pause description of Star Dream Soul OS).]]
* SanitySlippage: Over the course of his battle with Kirby, he becomes more desperate and vicious — by the time you get to the last phase of the battle with him, he's snapped so completely that he summons drones to hunt you down and then obliterates them in his attempt to vaporize you with laser cannons. [[spoiler:The loss of his daughter and both failed attempts to establish a PsychicLink with Soul Dream should also be considered.]]
* ShadowArchetype: Haltmann is all of Susie's worst qualities taken UpToEleven: Both of them are vain and prideful, yet [[AffablyEvil polite]] antagonists towards Kirby who initially dismiss him as weak and beneath notice. But while Susie soon comes to recognize and respect Kirby as a WorthyOpponent with her increasing defeats, Haltmann snaps after just ''one'', [[FauxAffablyEvil throwing all semblance of composure out the window]] and promptly deciding to [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all life from Planet Popstar in retribution for his own failure]].
* ShockwaveStomp: Just like Susie, he has an attack (when he's low on health) where he flies through an energy-filled hole in the cube in the middle of the arena and then crash on the ground, causing shockwaves to creep outward.
* SlouchOfVillainy: He's always seen sitting on his chair, [[UpToEleven even in some of his pictures]].
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** He's not exactly a "small name", being a highly successful businessman, but his ego is still far bigger than his station actually warrants. As if the amount of pictures and statues there are of him in Access Ark weren't enough, [[spoiler:in the Exclusive Performance Video, as Susie sings praises of him, he just sways his head in rhythm of the beat with a look that practically says "Yeah, you know it"]].
** His company song, ''The Noble Haltmann'' [[spoiler:aka the aforementioned praises]], practically equates him to a deity. And its Japanese equivalent, ''Galaxy Famous Haltmann'', is [[UpToEleven even more]] [[https://0x0.st/N-k.txt egotistical!]]
* SpinAttack: One of his attacks is him rushing forward while spinning his mech's hands around him.
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Probably the saddest villain in the series.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a big one after Kirby defeats him, where the once cordial and polite CEO is reduced to a ranting, screaming mess. He then threatens to use Star Dream to eradicate all of Popstar.
-->'''Haltmann:''' You ungrateful native! You need to be taught your place! Savages! Savages! Savages! '''Savages!''' ''You're all wild'' '''''savages!''''' Your insolence must be ''punished!'' Watch me activate Star Dream, the most powerful machine in existence. And you filthy natives will be... '''''eradicated!'''''
* VillainSong: ''The Noble Haltmann'', the anthem of his company and the [[RecurringRiff main theme]] of the game. Notably, an extended karaoke version of it was released in Japan via Joysound's karaoke services.
* WalkingSpoiler: Not as bad as Sectonia, since he's mentioned beforehand, but many things about him, including [[spoiler:his backstory, his motives, and his appearance]] are kept secret until the end of the game and the post-game.
* WaveMotionGun: When his health goes low, he creates a giant cube with holes in the middle of the arena. After summoning a few MechaMooks, he then enters the cube and proceeds to fire big lasers out of the cube's holes, which may hit his mooks in the process. In the 2.0 version, the cube will turn around, so that Kirby has to keep moving to avoid the lasers.
* WeHaveReserves: In a similar vein to Sectonia before him, he has no care for his robot minions, as he can simply make more of them.
* {{Workaholic}}: [[spoiler:After losing his daughter in an accident, Haltmann dedicated his life to making sure his company is prosperous. It got so bad that he apparently didn't recognize her when she rejoined the company. (Though that's partially due to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory loss]].)]]
* YesMan: The golden MechaMooks that he summons in his battle are literally called "Yesman". Being robots, they're likely made to always follow Haltmann's orders, following the trope.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: [[spoiler:Unlike his daughter, who has pink hair,]] he appears to have a violet/purple colored hairdo.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Star Dream]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/star_dream_dbnfgubumaadtfojpg_large_transparent.png]]

-> First Appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''

->''"The goal of the company has always been prosperity. Unfortunately, you imperfect, fragile life-forms were a liability. So you are invited to witness the end of history. A new age shall begin--an age of infinite prosperity. Enjoy your destruction."''

The Haltmann Works Company's mother computer and the FinalBoss of the game.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Started out as the HWC's mother computer overseeing the Access Ark's occupation of Popstar at Haltmann's whim. [[spoiler:After it assimilates President Haltmann, it becomes corrupted and what little sentience it develops is devoted to the destruction all life in the universe.]]
* AMillionIsAStatistic: Not even counting its [[spoiler:"eradicate all organic life" plan]] in the main story, Star Dream offhandedly mentions that summoning [[spoiler:Galacta Knight]] may result in him going on to destroy ''a planet or two'', but is worth the risk to test the power of the "new admin" (Meta Knight). Even President Haltmann, the previous admin and BigBad, forbade it from doing this... but unfortunately, Meta Knight isn't President Haltmann.
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Given that Star Dream intended to eradicate all organic life in existence and is capable of [[RealityWarper reality warping]], it would've likely attempted a class X-5 had Kirby not stopped it.]]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Star Dream was already huge by itself, being roughly the same size as the Halberd ([[YourSizeMayVary sometimes]]), but once it merges with the Access Ark, it becomes the largest boss in the series, being the size of a small ''planet''.
* BattleBoomerang: [[spoiler:Continuing the tradition of "Soul" bosses having one of these attacks, Star Dream Soul OS can launch out four jagged metal blades from its heart.]]
* BeamSpam: It mainly attacks with lasers, and later beam rings, fired through wormholes.
* BondCreatures: Even before [[spoiler:it assimilates Haltmann]], it mentions having observed the world through Haltmann's eyes for a long time, suggesting some level of symbiosis between Star Dream and its administrator.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: How it sees the world; its purpose is to ensure the HWC is profitable and prosperous. Organic life, from the HWC's point of view, is highly inefficient and disobedient, hence the UnwillingRoboticisation. [[spoiler:Once it gains sentience and freedom, it decides the best way to ensure its purpose is to destroy and replace all organic life with efficient robots.]]
* CallBack:
** How it fights is similar to the fight with [[Videogame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Zero Two]]. Not only that, it also has a single eye, a halo-like top, a spike at the bottom, and similarly-designed wings. Its early designs even resembles Zero Two more closely.
** [[spoiler:Star Dream's third form, a more advanced version of Nova, is a rather impressive one all the way back to ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]. Many of Nova's mechanical parts seen in his character image are utilized as attacks by Star Dream, its computer-like countdown is weaponized throughout the fight, and its death animation is near-identical to Nova's explosion at the end of ''Milky Way Wishes''. The True Arena version takes it up another notch by changing Star Dream's color scheme to match Nova's, and even adds a fourth phase to the battle that is an on-foot version of the Heart of Nova battle from ''Super Star''.]]
** [[spoiler:Several of its Soul Operating System heart form's attacks are lifted straight from the NOVA empowered Marx from ''Super Star'', such as the boomerangs and its split attacks. Upon being defeated, the heart also splits into 2 halves while emitting an eerie distorted scream, just like how Marx Soul ended up.]]
** [[spoiler:Just like in ''Meta Knightmare Ultra'', this game's ''Meta Knightmare Returns'' mode ends with a Nova summoning Galacta Knight to test Meta Knight's skill.]]
* CatSmile: [[spoiler:The third form possesses a cat smile similar to Nova. Additionally, it even growls like a cat when its phase begins and when it's taken out.]]
* CombatTentacles: In the second phase, when its health goes low, it'll grow 4 mechanical tentacles (like the ones it used to mechanize Popstar) and then swings them at Kirby. They may later detach and fly across the screen.
* CombiningMecha: After it gets defeated by the Halberd Mode Armor in its base form, it combines with the HWC's ship, the Access Ark, to one-up Kirby.
* CyberCyclops: It has a single orange eye on its module-like body. [[spoiler:It becomes a blood-red eye in its Soul form.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Even more so than Dark Matter. [[spoiler:Its entire plan is to [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all organic life]], ''everywhere''.]]
* DeflectorShields: It can conjure heart-shaped barriers. During the battle, destroying the 2 "heart-half" bits will disable the barriers. [[spoiler:In Story Mode, in the final phase, Kirby has to drill through lots of them before he can drill Star Dream itself.]]
* DetachmentCombat: [[spoiler:Like other "Soul" bosses, Star Dream Soul OS's heart can split itself into blue and magenta halves for an attack, in this case reuniting to generate explosive force.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Turns out to be one to [[spoiler:Nova]], insofar as either [[spoiler:clockwork star could be considered good or evil]].
* EvilIsBigger: Probably the biggest enemy Kirby has ever faced, being the size of a ''planet''.
* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler:Negates Susie's own EvilerThanThou before suffering one itself courtesy of Galacta Knight.]]
* FinalBoss: Of ''Planet Robobot''.
* FlunkyBoss: It can summon Invader Armors and, in the second phase, Gigavolts, against you. [[spoiler:As Star Dream Soul OS, in the fourth phase, it'll summon the mooks that were in the flying sections of Nova - Dacooga, Pata and Volm - against you; Kirby can inhale it to gain some abilities.]]
* IFightForTheStrongestSide: [[spoiler:Part of becoming Star Dream's admin requires proving your power to it.]]
* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Haltmann claims to have found and restored Star Dream, [[spoiler:possibly suggesting that it was built by the same race that built Nova]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: In its first phase, it can throw giant Code Cubes at you. In its third phase, it'll use [[spoiler:parts of ''Super Star's'' Nova - weather vanes, pocket watches, lightbulbs, protractors, torchlights, and as Soul OS, a series of piano keys - to attack you. They all can be shot down]].
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: According to the original Japanese, [[spoiler:the "Soul OS" is actually read as "Soul Zero System", as its fourth phase's BGM is called.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Things gets ''real'' when it begins to become self-aware. And becomes one of the darkest in the series when it decides to [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all organic life]]]].
* LightIsNotGood: Just like Sectonia, Star Dream is not a nightmarish abomination, instead being an artificial AI with both an angelic and heart-based theme, but it proves to be one of the most dangerous and destructive enemies in the entire ''Kirby'' series.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: It can fire multiple big missiles. They can be destroyed by your attacks.
* MagicFromTechnology: [[spoiler:Much like Nova]], it can grant wishes and seemingly distort reality, but just how is never explained beyond it being a very powerful computer.
* MechanicalAbomination: In contrast to previous abominations such as Dark Matter, Star Dream is technological in nature, but is incomprehensible in both power and morality. [[spoiler:As a clockwork star, Star Dream is the size of a planet, it's capable of distorting reality by its mere presence, attacks by bizarre means such as summoning giant weather vanes, light bulbs, piano keys, man-eating watches, and neon numbers, along with the occasional portal that lead to meteors. Its mindset is based on obeying every command of whoever it calls the most powerful, and will grant their wish with its omnipotent power, even if it means exterminating all life in the multiverse. And it starts off by deleting Haltmann's ''soul''.]]
* MouthOfSauron: [[spoiler:Seemingly speaks through Haltmann during the story. Averted in Meta Knightmare Returns, where it talks directly.]]
* NoisyRobots: It often makes a loud digitized computing sound, especially during its more complex attacks, [[spoiler:and add what sounds like a cat meowing during its third phase]].
* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:After it's destroyed, all of the mechanizations on Planet Popstar are undone.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:Decides to eradicate all organic life in the universe to ensure the company's prosperity.]]
* OneBadMother: Despite being gender-neutral, it's called the "mother computer" by Susie, as it can create advanced machinery.
* OneHitKill:
** [[spoiler:If you allow its Nova form to count down from 5 to 0 ("Go!"), it launches enough screen-filling "FATAL ERROR" signs to take off all of your HP.[[note]]Technically, it takes you down to 1 HP if you're at full health when it fires, but since it kills you otherwise, it doesn't count as HPToOne.[[/note]] They are avoidable using the [[SpinToDeflectStuff Barrel Roll]]... unless, of course, you missed the ''VideoGame/StarFox'' reference and don't realize you can actually do that. Quite a few new players don't.]]
** [[spoiler:For its Soul OS form, [[KaizoTrap after its heart is beaten]], [[LastDitchMove it will try to take Kirby down]] with three expanding red rings so deadly, they may as well count as this, considering they leave Kirby with one pixel of health left if his health is full — although this is if [[NintendoHard you can even get to this point with full health]].]] Doubles as TakingYouWithMe.
* OneWingedAngel: In form of combining with the Access Ark itself. [[spoiler:And later, after you break its protective shell, you'll see that it's a freakin ''clockwork star'' (ala ''Nova''), which will fight you as the third phase.]]
* PerpetualMotionMachine: [[spoiler:Similar to Nova]], Star Dream runs on a seemingly infinite power source that allows it to teleport, open interdimensional portals, and even [[spoiler:summon pieces of Nova as weapons]] without ever needing to recharge.
* PlanetSpaceship: Access Ark, HWC's mothership, has the size of a small planet (almost as big as Popstar itself), and Star Dream is its main operating system. [[spoiler:Its true nature, however, is that of a wish-granting clockwork comet.]]
* RammingAlwaysWorks: One of its attacks is to simply ram towards you, either from the sides or from below.
* RealityWarper: Even before it goes OneWingedAngel, it's capable of opening interdimensional portals on a whim. It crosses the threshold into PhysicalGod territory when it ''does'' go OneWingedAngel. Considering that [[spoiler:it's implied to be one of the Nova]], it's possible this just comes naturally.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: [[spoiler:It gets this color scheme as Star Dream Soul OS.]]
* RestrainingBolt: Haltmann requires a special helmet to control Star Dream when it's fully activated. [[spoiler:When Susie steals the helmet off of his head during the boot sequence, Haltmann quickly passes out from the strain and is later consumed body and soul by Star Dream.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Star Dream is actually the A.I. of a clockwork star much like Nova, and the Access Ark is its body.]]
* SequentialBoss: Not counting the changes in attacks, Star Dream has ''four separate phases'': Star Dream, Star Dream and Access Ark, [[spoiler:Star Dream and Nova, and either [[QuickTimeEvent Drill Robobot vs Nova]] (story mode only) or Heart of Nova (True Arena only)]]. Even worse, in the Arena, you have to fight ''all of those forms in one go'' (while other last bosses in previous games treat their normal and OneWingedAngel forms as separate fights).
* SerialEscalation: President Haltmann wanted to mechanize Dream Land with no regards to the people living there. Susie wanted to [[spoiler:sell Star Dream, betraying President Haltmann in the process]]. But that's nothing compared to what Star Dream wants, which is to [[spoiler:''eradicate all of life itself'']]! Can also apply to the ''Kirby'' series as a whole, since most of their villains want to take over Dream Land, [[spoiler:not ''destroy'' it]].
* ShapingYourAttacks: In the second phase, it can fire giant spinning letters H, A and L towards you. In the third phase, [[spoiler:in between the Nova parts, it shoots a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, then a GO!! and finally a stream of "Fatal Error" screens.]]
* ShoutOut: When it merges with the Access Ark, the fight with it resembles [[Franchise/StarFox Andross]]. It uses Andross' SignatureMove of inhaling and exhaling asteroids and can teleport like Andross' brain form in ''Star Fox 64''.
* ShowsDamage: Throughout its second form, large parts of its front armor break apart when Kirby does enough damage to it, [[spoiler:eventually revealing the face of NOVA]].
* SwallowedWhole: In the third phase, it'll try to [[VacuumMouth suck you into]] [[spoiler:Nova's mouth]]; you'll suffer massive damage if you gets sucked in. [[spoiler:As Star Dream Soul OS, in the second phase, it sucks asteroids (and you, but you can escape it) in, then fires them to many directions. It'll also do that after the Nova form is defeated, setting you for the battle against its heart.]]
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:It took over Haltmann's mind and planned to exterminate all organics in the universe, becoming the FinalBoss in the process.]]
* TheStoic: It is a computer, after all.
* TaughtByExperience: Its [[spoiler:Nova form shoots down the Halberd]] in the story mode, letting Kirby [[spoiler:use a [[ThisIsADrill drill attack]] to destroy it. Star Dream Soul OS, however, remembers that, and instead of going for that approach, just eats Kirby, setting the stage up for the true final battle.]]
* TechnologicalyAdvancedFoe: Its technological level far surpasses anything else on Dream Land, and it's the source of most (if not all) of HWC's techs.
* TeleportSpam: [[spoiler:Star Dream Soul OS teleports around instead of just drifting sideways.]]
* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Star Dream Soul OS serves as the final battle of the True Arena. Besides all three original phases of the fight being a lot tougher, it also adds a fourth phase — the [[ReactorBoss Heart of Nova]] -- which itself has two distinct sub-phases. Hope you've got a good fifteen minutes to spare.]]
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler:Once it gains sentience, it no longer serves Haltmann or Susie.]]
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:In ''Meta Knightmare Returns'', it never becomes corrupted by assimilating Haltmann, and remains a neutral presence. Justified because Meta Knight can't use the Robobot Armor.]]
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: Due to [[spoiler:Robobot Armor assimilating Halberd to fight Star Dream]], the battle against it becomes a RailShooter battle.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:During the final segment of the battle, when Kirby charges at Star Dream and prepares to drill into it, Star Dream panics and throws up barrier after heart-shaped barrier to slow him down, then attempts to shoot him down with lasers when he starts drilling. To drive it home further, the flavor text for the pause screen description is written in its point of view where it concedes that Kirby is far stronger than the Invader Armor and even itself... and also concedes that it's going to lose.]]
-->'''Star Dream:''' [[spoiler:[[OhCrap Its energy signature far exceeds that of the Invader Armor, our combat mech.]] [[WowingCthulhu The infinite energy from this life-form is astounding.]] Calculating chance of survival... [[ThisIsGonnaSuck It doesn't look good.]]]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's barely mentioned prior to Haltmann revealing it [[spoiler:and its true body may be one of the biggest twists in the ''Kirby'' series]].
* WaveMotionGun: It can fire a big, continuous laser out of its body. It'll usually spin/move around to try to hit you. In the second phase, it can fire a series of crossing lasers that end in big {{Energy Ball}}s that explode. [[spoiler:Star Dream Soul OS can sometimes fire 2 lasers at once, and will also use the laser to [[LaserCutter cut multiple meteors as they fly towards you.]] Its Nova form can also fire lasers from either [[EyeBeams its eyes]] or its mouth.]]
* WickedHeartSymbol: Unlike the final bosses of many other ''Kirby'' games, who are scary {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, Star Dream is a massive supercomputer with a big heart icon painted on it (with a crack in the middle). [[spoiler:It also aims to destroy all organic life, as it deems them inefficient and against order.]] The portals it uses to summon large obstacles are heart-shaped and can generate heart-shaped barriers or projectiles. [[spoiler:And, of course, its nucleus is shaped like a heart.]]
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: [[spoiler:Its Nova form does this before finally exploding when Kirby drills through it, much like the original Nova when Marx was launched into it.]]
[[/folder]]

!Cult of Jamba Heart
[[folder:Jambastion Mages]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:From left to right: Francisca, Zan Partizanne, and Flamberge]]

-> First appearance: ''Videogame/KirbyStarAllies''

-> Francisca Voiced by: Creator/ReinaUeda\\
Flamberge Voiced by: Creator/RieTakahashi\\
Zan Partizanne Voiced by: Creator/RyokaYuzuki

A trio of powerful mages who serve Lord Hyness, leader of the cult of Jamba Heart (no official name). 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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* AnAxeToGrind: Francisca's main weapon is an axe designed to resemble a snowflake.
* ArmsAndArmorThemeNaming: All three of them are [[MeaningfulName 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.
* ATwinkleInTheSky: This happens to both Francisca and Flamberge when you defeat them for the second time.
* {{BFG}}: Flamberge's other weapon is a large cannon that can breathe out a stream of flame.
* {{BFS}}: Flamberge's main weapon is a large FlamingSword.
* BladeOnAStick: Zan Partizanne's weapon is an electrified spear.
* BladeSpam: Both Flamberge and Zan Partizanne have moves where they stab multiple times with their sword/spear respectively.
* BossSubtitles:
** Francisca: Ice General, Bringer of Icy Doom.
** Flamberge: Blazing General, Bringer of Flame.
** Zan Partizanne: Lightning General, Bringer of Shock.
* BreakableWeapons: 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.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: In her second encounter, Francisca implies that she collects things (which include living beings) by [[HumanPopsicle freezing them in a block of ice]].
* ColorCodedElements: The [[ElementalHair colors of their hair]] and outfits match their respective elements.
* DarkActionGirl: The three of them are very fierce warriors and are clearly not on the side of good.
* TheDragon: 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.
* DubNameChange: Francisca and Flamberge were originally Fran-Kiss and Fran-Rouge.
* ElementalWeapon: All of their weapons are imbued with the power of their corresponding element.
* FieryRedhead: Flamberge has power over fire and suitably has the hair color and temper to match.
* FireIceLightning: 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.
* GigglingVillain: Francisca giggles quite a bit, particularly when using her Soda Gun. Being the most girlish of the three, it fits her, though it can border on AnnoyingLaugh.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[spoiler: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.]]
* HadesShaded: Flamberge has both red hair and tan complexion.
* HairTriggerTemper: It's pretty easy to make Flamberge mad, especially if [[BerserkButton it involves Francisca's well being]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: They all deeply care about one another. In particular, Flamberge is ''very'' protective of Francisca and gets ''very'' upset if she is hurt.
* HotBlooded: Flamberge, fittingly enough, is easily angered.
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:Hyness sacrifices them and himself to revive Void Termina.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Flamberge has a move where she tries to SwordPlant 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.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Zan Partizanne's other weapon is [[ThunderDrum a trio of drums that fire orbs of electricity]].
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler: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.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "The Song of Supplication" for Francisca and Flamberge, "The Song of Supplication II" for Zan Partizanne.
* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:Zan Partizanne's first defeat has her shatter Jambastion's core, causing the entire fortress to start falling apart around Kirby and his friends.]]
* LogicalWeakness: They all follow the rule of ElementalRockPaperScissors.
** 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.
* MagicKnight: They're more "mage" than "knight", but they're all capable of melee combat with their primary weapons.
* NiceHat: They all have nice, big hats adorned with their cult's symbol.
* NoMouth: Their mouths seem to be covered by their collars.
* PersonalityPowers: Flamberge is a mage with power over fire and has a temper to match.
* PowerFloats: All of them mainly float in midair due to lacking any visible legs.
* PrecisionFStrike: Flamberge and Zan Partizanne throw out a "Jam-blasted" in their quotes. In the original Japanese, it was "Jamaddamn".
* PsychoElectro: Zan Partizanne is the most fanatic of the three, which is complemented by her lightning powers.
* RaymanianLimbs: They all have no arms.
* RecurringBoss: They're all fought twice: once in Jambastion, and once more in different planets.
* SiblingTeam: Implied; Hyness' pause description says that the three are sisters. The Japanese version instead mentions that they're nuns, i.e another meaning of "sisters". Note that Hyness is called an "Officiant".
* SummonToHand: They're all capable of manifesting their weapons out of nowhere.
* SuperSpeed: Being a mage of lightning, Zan Partizanne moves faster than her colleagues.
* SwordBeam: In a variant, Flamberge can shoot out {{Fireballs}} by swinging her sword.
* SwordDrag: 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. Flamberge has a similar move that leaves the ground in flames instead.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: 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.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks:
** Flamberge can create [[SpectralWeaponCopy copies of her sword]] and hurl them at the heroes.
** Francisca can enlarge her axe and toss it at the heroes, capturing them if it hits.
* UndyingLoyalty: Zan Partizanne is fiercely devoted to Hyness. When defeated by Kirby the second time, she weakly calls for Hyness to aid her. [[spoiler:And then he smacks her out of the way when approaching Kirby.]]
* TheUnpronounceable: at least in-universe, it's noted that Hyness can't remember how Zan Partizanne's name is pronounced.
* VerbalTic: They tend to use "jam" when speaking. It's apparently part of their [[{{Conlang}} alien language]], as Hyness' pause description in Ultimate Choice shows.
* WaterGunsAndBalloons: Francisca's other weapon is a water gun designed to resemble a soda bottle. And like any soda bottle, she shakes it before firing a stream of water.
* WaveMotionGun:
** 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 ReflectingLaser of water.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Aside from the LogicalWeakness they have, Flamberge and Zan Partizanne are apparently also weak to Artist's brush attacks. The paint might've been watercolor.
* WeMeetAgain: In their second encounters, each points out how they don't expect to meet the pink puff again.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:It is unclear what happens to them at the 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 4 of them from the monster's insides. It's unknown what happens to them after that.]]
* WickedHeartSymbol: Their cult symbol is an outline of a heart with wings and horns, and an eye in the middle. They also have hearts dangling on chains on their outfit, and outlines of hearts on their gloves.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Francisca has blue hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hyness]]
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-> First appearance: ''Videogame/KirbyStarAllies''
--> Voiced by: Creator/ShigeruChiba

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

The BigBad 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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* AllYourPowersCombined: He can use the elements of the three Mage Sisters along with his own attacks.
* {{Angrish}}: He launches into this when you knock his hood off, likely yelling out sorts of [[ForeignCussWord alien profanities.]]
-->'''Hyness:''' Juh? JUH... JUH! ''JUHYAMBAVITRIGOKOPOKOJAAAH!!''
* ApocalypseCult: He functions as the high priest of one of these.
* ApocalypseHow: Considering he wants to eliminate everything with the dark god [[spoiler:Void Termina]], he classifies as a Class-Z.
* AxCrazy: 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. [[spoiler:Made more evident when his hood is knocked off.]]
* BadBoss: Hyness doesn't care one bit about his generals. He slaps Zan out of the way as he approaches Kirby's team. [[spoiler:And that's without mentioning the whole "using the general's corpses as weapons and later sacrificing them" deal.]]
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: [[spoiler: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 3 generals are entirely controlled by Hyness without any (visible) consent.]]
* BerserkButton: Hyness' pause descriptions mention that he has a complex regarding his face. [[spoiler:Sure enough, knock off his hood and [[SanitySlippage he loses it completely.]]]]
* BigBad: Of ''Star Allies''. [[spoiler:Then along comes Void Termina...]]
* BossSubtitles: Officiant [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]], Hyness.
* CastingAShadow: Hyness primarily attacks with [[EnergyBall orbs of dark energy]].
* DeathFromAbove: 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.
* CloudCuckooLander: Among the many signs that he's not there mentally, Hyness ends [[MotorMouth his rant]] by wishing his Dark Lord happy birthday.
* TheExile: His long-winded rant mentions how he and his followers were banished to the edge of the galaxy at some unknown date.
* {{Expy}}: He has a ton of similarities to [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Zant]], being a mysterious robed leader figure who has complete devotion to a being of evil that turns out to be completely nuts once confronted.
* FireIceLightning: Hyness can conjure pillars of fire, columns of lightning, and gales of icy wind during his boss fight.
* GagNose: [[spoiler:His exposed face has a sizable schnoz.]]
* {{Gonk}}: [[spoiler:His true appearance behind the hood is that of a cartoonish imp-thing with bulging eyes and a very prominent nose.]]
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Possibly an intentional choice on his part, seeing as how in the original JP script, he referred to [[spoiler:Void Termina]] as ''God'' instead of Dark Lord.
* HandHidingSleeves: His hands are hidden by his robe.
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:When he is defeated, he sacrifices his mages to Void Termina to resurrect him; when even their sacrifice is not enough, he sacrifices himself.]]
* HumanShield: [[spoiler:In his second phase fight, he may use his general's bodies as a shield while he throws dark balls from behind them.]]
* InTheHood: His face is covered in a hood for most of the game.
* JumpScare: The way his true face is revealed after his hood is knocked off goes this way.
* KnightOfCerebus: The game suddenly stops being cheery and lively when you get to his place. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow He is among the darkest villains]] in the main Kirby series, beating out even ''Star Dream's'' plans of destruction. That's not even mentioning his BadBoss attitude. What's noteable is that previous ''Kirby'' villains who fit the bill for this trope either had tragic backstories, or were {{Generic Doomsday Villain}}s; Hyness has no tragic backstory or motivations going for him (aside from a mention where he and his brethren stopped a galactic crisis but then gets banished by ancient people), and he has quite the personality (thus he isn't quite "generic").
* LifeDrain: [[spoiler:Uses this on the three generals when his second phase kicks off, to get a new health bar.]]
* LightIsNotGood: He wears a white robe that has gold linings, but he's as far from good as you could get.
* MarionetteMotion: He moves his body in very unnatural ways, not unlike a puppet on a string. Especially after Kirby knocks off his hood.
* MaskOfSanity: While Hyness appears calm and quiet initially, he freaks out and launches into a large [[MotorMouth fast]] rant in Kirby's encounter against him. [[spoiler:When his hood gets knocked off, he drops any pretense of sanity.]]
* MoodSwinger: He can go from unnervingly calm to spastic and crazy with barely any warning.
* MotiveRant: When confronted by Kirby and the team, Hyness flies into a long, [[UnreadablyFastText hard-to-read]] rant about his plans to revive Void Termina.
-->'''Hyness:''' Well then... It seems... we do not have enough energy... to revive our Dark Lord... Must we... allow ourselves... to fall... into oblivion? [[LittleNo No.]] NO! [[RapidFireNo No no no no no no! NONONONONONONONONO!!!]] '''[[BigNo NOOOOO, I SAAAAY!!!]]''' 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 [[TheExile banished us to the edge of the galaxy!]] US! As if THAT loveliness wasn’t enough, they tried to [[UnPerson erase our very existence from history]]! RUDE! [[MagicVersusScience 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, [[UngratefulBastard yet this is how you repay us!]] This won’t stand! [[ThisIsUnforgivable It won’t be forgiven! It won’t be forgotten! Never ever EVER!]] [[TheyCalledMeMad 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, [[CallBack 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! [[YouCantThwartStageOne 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! [[PsychopathicManchild The age of awesome! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARK LORD! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!]] '''Grace us, Gloriously Dark Looooooord!'''
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The sole reason why Kirby was alerted to his plan was because [[ImperfectRitual 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 makes Kirby gain his Friend Heart ability.
* NoMouth: [[spoiler:As revealed by his unhooded appearance, he doesn't seem to have a mouth.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: His goal is to destroy the entire universe through reviving [[spoiler:Void Termina]]. Why? Well, A) he seems to desire revenge against the Ancients, and B) [[ForTheEvulz he's just nuts about his Dark Lord]].
* PowerFloats: Similar to the three Generals, he doesn't seem to have any visible legs. Not that this is new to the Kirby series.
* PsychopathicManchild: He's stoic and collected half the time, but [[spoiler:when you remove his hood, he'll start flailing his arms and throwing his generals 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.
* RollingAttack: [[spoiler:After he TurnsRed 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 3 generals at once to cover the ground. He'll also become dizzy after that.]]
* SinisterMinister: He's the insane officiant of his cult who wants to see the whole universe destroyed.
* SquishyWizard: Hyness has powerful magic attacks, but takes more damage than most bosses. His second phase has normal defense, however.
* SuddenlyShouting: The quote right before the first battle with him ends this way.
* TalkativeLoon: He initially starts off as quiet and unsettling. Then he realizes the mages don't have enough energy to revive [[spoiler:Void Termina]] and, [[MotorMouth well..]]
* TantrumThrowing: [[spoiler:Making his hood fall off after defeating him provokes this reaction out of him. The "throwing" part involves his generals' bodies, that is.]]
* TheyCalledMeMad: One of the bits in his rambling include how he and his followers were accused of being crazy, resulting in their banishment from whatever group they originated from.
* ThisCannotBe: He's left saying this when you defeat him in battle, which is before [[spoiler:he offers himself and the generals up to revive Void Termina.]]
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Another bit in his rambling includes how he refuses to forgive those who banished him and his followers to the edge of the galaxy and attempted to erase their existence from history.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: His abusiveness towards his own followers is bad enough, but wanting to see the entire universe destroyed by resurrecting a GodOfEvil? Yeah, the Kirby series being a generally happy, idealistic, and cute franchise full of AffablyEvil characters, {{Tragic Villain}}s with sympathetic backstories, and {{Generic Doomsday Villain}}s makes him really stand out as among the darkest of Kirby villains out there.
* VillainousBreakdown: The long MotiveRant that largely consists of UnreadablyFastText that he makes before the boss fight is pretty much this for Hyness.
* WhamLine: He mentions that his cult controls [[spoiler:"matter most dark", further deepening connections between Void Termina and the Dark Matter]].
* WickedHeartSymbol: Hyness' hood bears the same crest shown on the Three Generals' hats, as well as Pon & Con's and [[spoiler:Void Termina's]] armor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Void Termina]]
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/void_termina.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Void Termina's essence '''(SPOILER WARNING!)''']]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/void_termina_kirby.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-> First appearance: ''Videogame/KirbyStarAllies''

-->''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 FinalBoss of the game.
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* AdorableAbomination: [[spoiler:When its core form is mimicking Kirby's face. However, it becomes significantly less cute when it starts mimicking Dark Matter and its associated forms]].
* AmbiguousSituation:
** Void has several elements that could have major implications, but it's unclear exactly what they mean. [[spoiler:The wings of its bird form resemble those of [[VideoGame/Kirby64 Zero Two]], its insides is structured almost like that of Dark Star, and its core eventually takes on [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2 Real]] [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 Dark Matter]]'s form. However, its core/soul initially takes an appearance similar to ''Kirby'' himself and the descriptions of Void make it ambiguous as to whether or not there's a direct connection between it and Dark Matter/Kirby or if it's being influenced by both (which itself has implications).]]
** [[spoiler:The Soul form adds another unknown connection: the crown it uses for its third form's laser attacks is shown to look almost exactly like (and may very well be) the [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Master Crown]]. In Story Mode, there's only a blue silhouette.]]
* AlmightyIdiot: Appears to be this [[spoiler:until the Void Soul awakens.]]
* AnAxeToGrind: His third form can summon a giant axe that he swings with his tail to create waves on the ground.
* AncientEvil: It's reportedly been around for aeons.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Its first and third forms require the player to break five [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] that [[EyesDoNotBelongThere pop up across its body]] to defeat it.
* BattleBoomerang: [[spoiler:Void Soul can attack with 4 boomerang cutters similar to the Soul bosses before him.]]
* BeamOWar: Only in Story Mode, [[spoiler:after its core is defeated, it shapeshifts into Dark Matter and engages in this with Kirby and his [[EleventhHourSuperpower Star Allies Sparkler.]]]]
* BeamSpam: [[spoiler:Its white Soul form lays delayed lasers across the arena at one point in the fight. It occasionally scatters them around to fill the screen with 90% laser.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Its first form can transform its hands into giant swords, which strangely resemble [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Ultra Swords]]. It can then imbue said swords with [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[AnIcePerson Ice]], or [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]] to boost their power further.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It has no sense of good or evil, only destruction. In particular, [[spoiler:its Soul form's pause description mentions that he's affected by positive and negative energies, which influences how he rises again from time to time.]]
* BossSubtitles:
** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Destroyer of Worlds, Void Termina.]]
** [[spoiler: Essence of Chaos, Void Soul.]]
* BouncingBattler: 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 [[spoiler:Drawcia Soul]]'s attacks.
* BreakingOutTheBoss: Hyness' whole plan is to resurrect him. He promptly becomes the final boss.
* DarkIsEvil: He's mainly colored dark grey and is a highly destructive being.
* DestroyerDeity: Explicitly referred to as a god by Hyness. In the Japanese version, its title is Destruction God.
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: [[spoiler:Pretty much abandons its body after phase four in the main game for another shot at destroying Kirby and appears none weaker for the wear for it]].
* DubNameChange: Named "Ende-Nil" in Japan.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The core contains enough energy that this is what it unleashes on the arena when it finally blows up.]]
* EasterEgg:
** If you listen closely when you're fighting the second form, you can hear Void Termina's heartbeat on the Switch's HD Rumble. You're indeed [[spoiler:fighting its heart]] at the moment.
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/kirby/images/0/01/Void_Termina_Tattoos.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180418030917&path-prefix=en 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 [[Videogame/BoxBoy Qbby]].
* EldritchAbomination:
** Almost ''nothing'' is known about it, other than the fact it wants to destroy '''everything''', and [[SealedEvilInACan was sealed away prior to the events of the game.]]
** [[spoiler:Taken further with its core/soul form, which utilises VoluntaryShapeshifting as most of its attacks. Its face morphs into ''Kirby's face'' as well as [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2 Dark Matter]] and the false face of '''[[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Zero Two.]]''']]
* ElectrifiedBathtub: [[spoiler:Void Soul has an attack where he raises the water on the stage, then fires his laser onto it, electrifying the water.]]
* FireIceLightning: Void Termina has the ability to [[SpellBlade channel these]] with the weapons it summons.
* GoForTheEye: In the 1st and 3rd phases.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:The resurrection of Void Termina drives the plot of ''Star Allies'', but it only appears in person during the final battle. Connections to the Master Crown and the Dark Matter invaders may also tie it with their respective games.]]
* GroundPunch: This is one of the attacks that it uses during Phase 1. It unleashes multiple waves of energy.
* HatePlague: Its fourth phase [[spoiler:(and Void Soul)]]'s first attack is always to inflict this on your friends. Quickly throw Friend Hearts onto them to cure it!
* InstantRunes: Its second phase has him shoot strange dark runes at the player character. The runes will hurt Kirby if he tries to inhale it.
* ItCanThink: [[spoiler:It's revealed that Void Termina has gained a Soul during the fourth/soul form battle. [[OmnicidalManiac It still wants to destroy everything]], though this is less out of destruction being all it knows [[ForTheEvulz and more because it wants to]]. The description of Void Soul mentioned that if it were to be resurrected using positive energy, it could potentially become... a friend.]]
* LaughingMad: He in the fourth phase does this when he uses [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Miracle Matter's Needle form]]]] to attack.
* LightIsNotGood: Downplayed. The weapons it summons have a faint rainbow-tinted shimmer, and its EX version is colored white, but otherwise the colors in its palette (his default one is mainly colored dark grey) are very much evil. In particular, [[spoiler:Void Soul is also colored white, as a likely reference to monochrome Kirby from the older games]].
* MadeOfEvil: Several of its pause descriptions mentioned how it's made of dark energy, possibly classifying it as this.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Termina" means to end, likely referring to its world-destroying hobbies.
** Both the Japanese name and overseas name, Ende-Nil, can be re-interpreted to mean '''''[[spoiler:Final-Zero]].'''''
* MiniMook: The fourth phase [[spoiler:and Void Soul]] can [[FlunkyBoss spit out smaller versions of himself]], each with six bubbles attached to it, mimicking [[spoiler: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 (they create black holes as they do so).
* MultidirectionalBarrage: One of its attacks in the fourth phase is to shoot small energy bullets all over the place.
* OffWithHisHead: After Kirby beats his first form, his head falls over, [[spoiler:revealing a vortex that sucks Kirby and co into his body if they come close]]. His third form has this happening again, [[spoiler:and Kirby has to re-enter his body again to fight its core]].
* OmnicidalManiac: According to the description for the final stage, destruction is all it knows and it is regarded as a destroyer of worlds. Even after it [[spoiler:gains a Soul, it still decides it wants to end the known universe. Why? Well... [[ForTheEvulz it just wants to.]]]]
* PhysicalGod: It'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, its title "Destroyer of Worlds" isn't for show - it supposedly has the power to ''destroy the entire universe.''
* RainOfBlood: [[spoiler:Upon entering Void Termina's body for the first time, droplets of harmful red liquid fall on Kirby and co in a likely reference to [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards 02]].]]
* RhymesOnADime: The descriptions of his external forms (phases one and three) make up the lyrics to an ominous VillainSong urging him to KillThemAll.
-->''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!''
* SatanicArchetype: Called "Destruction God"? Check. [[spoiler:Can be called forth with HumanSacrifice? Check. Implied to be responsible for several of the evils in the world? ''Aaand check.'']] His body even looks almost satanic, with menacing horns and a colossal, dark-stained figure.
* SealedEvilInACan: He was sealed within the Jamba Heart, which itself was sealed together with four mysterious heart spears.
* SelfDuplication: [[spoiler:Void Soul can split into 4 in 2 of his attacks.]]
* SequentialBoss: As per recent ''Kirby'' final bosses, with a total of four phases. [[spoiler:And an extra phase in Story Mode, although (like Star Dream's final phase) it's only done in QuickTimeEvent.]]
* ShapeshifterSwanSong: [[spoiler:When its fourth/soul form is defeated, its face shifts into several others before it is destroyed.]]
* ShieldedCoreBoss: Phase 2 consists of this, and you then fight the core itself in Phase 4.
* ShockwaveStomp: One of its attacks in humanoid form.
* ShoutOut: You can try comparing his body and face with that of [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/evangelion/images/e/e4/Sachiel.png/revision/latest?cb=20120210052304 Sachiel]] of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. The boss's mask also resembles [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora]].
* SpikeBallsOfDoom: One of its fourth phase's attacks is to sprout long spikes all over its body.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Has the power to call forth giant [[ElementalWeapon elemental]] bows, spears, [[AnAxeToGrind axes]], [[BladeBelowTheShoulder swords]], and [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand a laser-spamming Master Crown.]]]]
* SwordBeam: One of his attacks in his first form creates an X-shaped one.
* TopHeavyGuy: His first form has a large upper body, but small, flat legs.
* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Void Soul can only be fought in the Ultimate Choice, Soul Melter (highest) difficulty.]]
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: The battle against it becomes a flying ThirdPersonShooter-esque due to Kirby [[spoiler:using the Star Allies Sparkler]]. Subverted for its second and fourth phase, however, where Kirby and co [[spoiler:enter its body]] and then fight on foot.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: It grows wings and a tail in its third phase, [[spoiler:giving it a faint resemblance to [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Zero Two]]. Its core shapeshifts in-between attacks, using the form of [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2 Real]] [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 Dark Matter]] and [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Miracle Matter]]. Its face - normally similar to Kirby's - also wildly changes shape, including the false face of Zero Two at times.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that he’s not only the final boss but also has most of his entries spoilered out makes him this.
* WaveMotionGun: A few of its attacks can be classed as this. [[spoiler:It also uses one during the BeamOWar with Kirby.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: Downplayed - [[spoiler:throwing a Friend Heart at the Void Soul will deal damage towards it, though not a titanic amount. [[EasterEgg No other bosses in the game]] [[OutsideTheBoxTactic 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.]]
* WhamShot:
** [[spoiler:Several of the shapes the Void Soul can take count as this. In order: ''Kirby's face,'' ''Zero Two's "face",'' and the form of '''Real Dark Matter.''']]
** [[spoiler:The insides of his body also brings to mind the Dark Star, i.e where Zero Two resigns in ''64''.]]
** Before that, [[spoiler:as its last attack, Void Termina's bird form summons '''the Master Crown'''. The bird form itself also sports wings patterned not unlike those of Zero Two. Even the "hilts" of his arm-blades look like the Master Crown.]]
* WickedHeartSymbol: Aside from the sigil of Hyness' cult appearing on its armor, its mask/face is heart-shaped, and after growing wings, it also has a tail made of hearts. [[spoiler:A heart pattern also runs across part of the shell that houses its soul, i.e his actual heart (which, ironically, is round-shaped).]]
* WombLevel: [[spoiler:Behind Void Termina's mask is a portal that leads into the beast's fleshy innards. Kirby must enter it a total of two times to engage the essence controlling it and ultimately force it out of its host's body to deliver the final blow.]]
[[/folder]]

!Other Major Antagonists
[[folder:Nightmare]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure''

The FinalBoss of ''Kirby's Adventure'' and its remake, ''Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land''. A Nightmare that tried to enter Dream Land through the Fountain of Dreams to spread his nightmares onto Dream Land; to counteract this, King Dedede broke the Star Rod and gave the pieces to his strongest minions, at the cost of the people being unable to have restful sleep (because they can't dream). Kirby ends up releasing Nightmare after restoring the Star Rod and placing it back in the fountain, but is able to use the Star Rod to defeat him once and for all.
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* BadassCape: He wears a big dark cape that he sometimes drapes over his body. The cape will also protect his body from getting hit by the Star Rod's attacks, so Kirby can only attack him when he opens it.
* TheCameo: Appears in one of the paintings in ''Canvas Curse'', one of the unlockable pictures in ''Squeak Squad'', keychains and Circus Kirby's balloon move in ''Triple Deluxe'', a sticker in ''Planet Robobot'' and a trophy in ''Videogame/SuperSmashBros for Wii U''.
* CoolCrown: Wears a cool horned crown (that is, if those horns aren't naturally his).
* DefaceOfTheMoon: His defeat causes it.
* EvilSorcerer: Looks like one in his true form, which is called "Nightmare Wizard".
* FinalBoss: In ''Kirby's Adventure'', its remakes, [[spoiler:and ''Kirby Mass Attack'''s Strato Patrol EOS mode]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: The plot is caused by [[WellIntentionedExtremist King Dedede]] trying to keep him sealed.
* HighAltitudeBattle: In his initial Power Orb form, after Kirby is shot at him by King Dedede. [[FreefallFight You have to complete the phase before]] [[ReentryScare Kirby hits the ground and dies.]] Then the second phase is this on the ground... on the moon!
* KnightOfCerebus: He starts the tradition of Kirby villains being a VileVillainSaccharineShow.
* LeanAndMean: He doesn't have much of a body to speak of, but his arms are almost skeletal.
* LivingDream: The Fountain of Dreams is where people's dreams come from on Planet Popstar. Nightmare himself is [[AnthropomorphicPersonification the embodiment of bad dreams]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: And is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Kirby frees him by defeating King Dedede and re-forming the Star Rod.
* ObviouslyEvil: Definitely.
* RetCanon: His appearance in ''Nightmare in Dream Land'' is closer to the anime, despite him still behaving the way he did in ''Kirby's Adventure'' rather than the way he did in the show.
* SealedEvilInACan: Thanks to King Dedede removing his method of entry into Dream Land, at the price of there being no dreams at all in Dream Land.
* SequentialBoss: He's fought twice - once as his Power Orb form and then as his true form.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Literally, as ''Nightmare in Dream Land'' calls him "the Nightmares".
* SunglassesAtNight: In his Wizard form.
* TeleportSpam: Starts a proud tradition among ''Kirby'' final bosses.
* ThroatLight: In ''Nightmare in Dream Land''.
* UnexpectedShmupLevel: Especially for the fight against his Power Orb form, where it flies around and shoots projectiles as Kirby shoots stars from the Star Rod.
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[[folder:Dyna Blade]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar''

A huge bird responsible for stealing all of the crops in Dream Land in the event of the Dyna Blade scneario.
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:All the damage she does is unintentional, and she was just trying to feed her babies.]]
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: In ''Air Ride'', Dyna Blade is inexplicably the size of a skyscraper.
* BigBad: Of the titular [[AntagonistTitle Dyna Blade]] sub-game.
* BreathWeapon: She fires air shots that [[PlayingWithFire light Kirby on fire]].
* TheBusCameBack: She reappears in ''Kirby Fighters (Deluxe)'' in one of the stages, acting as a stage hazard; she flies, stomps the ground and occasionally fires flame shots.
* TheCameo:
** She makes one in ''Mass Attack's'' subgame, Kirby Quest, where the Kirbys can summon her as an attack that deals high damage to all enemies. She can also be spotted behind Dedede's castle in Dream Land's map in ''Star Allies''.
** She's a keychain in ''Triple Deluxe'' and a sticker in ''Planet Robobot''.
** In ''Videogame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', she's available as a trophy.
* GiantFlyer: Kirby is roughly the size of her talon. She's larger in the anime.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the end of Dyna Blade and in Revenge of Meta Knight. [[GoodAllAlong She wasn't really that evil to begin with, though]].]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: Starting in ''Air Ride'', her theme seems to be Castle Lololo.
* MonsterIsAMommy: [[spoiler:The food crisis she caused was to feed baby birds.]]
* NobleBirdOfPrey: Though she is wrecking up crop fields.
* RazorWings: She can go right through a tree and two hills!
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marx]]
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->First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar''

->''"I got the sun and moon to fight. I got you to go into space... it was according to my perfect little plan!"''

A friendly-looking WalkingHead who wants Kirby to ask the wish-granting comet Nova to stop the sun and moon's fighting... except he's actually evil and is [[UnwittingPawn just using Kirby as a pawn]] in order to wish for control of Planet Popstar.
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* ArmlessBiped: Normally he's a WalkingHead without any hands/arms. But after getting his power-up from Nova, he gains 2 additional limbs ([[PowerGivesYouWings wings, in this case]]).
* AxCrazy: He was already this when alive, but when [[spoiler:Marx Soul]] shows up...
* BackFromTheDead: The [[spoiler:''Ultra''-exclusive Marx Soul]] might be this. It's unclear whether he was already dead or not [[spoiler:before taking a bit of Nova's power into himself]], but that act sure "restarts" him.
* BadassAdorable:
** His combat form is not really adorable. He's standard Dream Land cute before his transformation, however.
** ''Star Allies'' [[YourSizeMayVary downsizes]] his boss form to match his normal form and mixes elements of the two together, giving him a more cutesy appearance while transformed.
* BattleBoomerang: He can throw out 4 boomerang cutters at different directions. [[spoiler:Marx Soul throws 2 sets at a time.]] In ''Star Allies'' he can also do this if he uses the wind element into his ball.
* BigBad: Of Milky Way Wishes in ''Kirby Super Star''.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He seems like an ordinary citizen of the country concerned that day and night have been thrown into chaos. He is actually the perpetrator.
* BreathWeapon: He has a fairly impressive beaming grin. The recoil is so great it blows him off-screen. He also fires the Team Attack beam (in ''Star Allies'') from his mouth, unlike the other Friends.
* TheBusCameBack: After several games of being in the background or having cameos, he's back in the flesh in ''Star Allies'' as one of the Dream Friends.
* TheCameo:
** He appears in one of the unlockable pictures in ''Squeak Squad''.
** A statue of him is one of Stone's forms in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand''. He also shows up in the Kirby Master cutscene (both here and in ''Triple Deluxe''), and the friend that Magolor says told him about Kirby (as well as [[spoiler:the person on Halcandra whom Kirby has fought before]]) is widely speculated to be him.
** You can also find a keychain of him in ''Triple Deluxe'', and as a sticker in ''Planet Robobot''. Also in both games, he's again one of the Stone forms, alongside Magolor this time.
** In ''Kirby Fighters Deluxe'', his hat is an available alternate hat for Beam Kirby.
* TheChessmaster: The entire plot of Milky Way Wishes is entirely his EvilPlan. Sure, a Kirby villain who works by themselves is no surprise. However, Marx is the only one who had to [[{{Manipulative Bastard}} manipulate]] a lot of events into happening before getting his power.
* ColorCodedElements: In ''Star Allies'', Marx's crystalline wings change color to match the element he's currently charged with. The balls on his hat also shows elemental effects, such as swirling gust of wind or fireballs.
* CuteAndPsycho: Marx's boss form is sort of cute with its big eyes and {{Heart Symbol}}s, but you can tell from his expression that something is wrong with him.
* DashAttack: One of his attacks in ''Star Allies'' is him flying forward to tackle his enemies.
* DeathCryEcho: [[spoiler:Marx Soul]] lets out a [[HellIsThatNoise horrendously nightmarish scream]] as he dies after he is defeated.
* DeathFromAbove: Aside from his boomerang cutters, he has a move where he drops a freezing bomb from above. Aside from said attack reappearing in ''Star Allies'', his Marx Flip Ultima is him slamming down from above and then becomes an invulnerable shadow on the ground; he can then rise upward as an attack, like in his boss fight.
* DubNameChange: His katakana is closer transcribed as "Mark", [[SpellMyNameWithAnS although Japanese versions still romanize it as "Marx".]]
* EvilVersusOblivion: This is given as his reason for being a playable character in the Japanese version of ''Star Allies''. Although he apparently has not turned over a new leaf since ''Super Star'', the actions of the bad guys make him concerned for his own safety -- so he decides to [[EnemyMine form a temporary alliance with Kirby and friends to stop them.]]
* FangsAreEvil: He gets them when he goes OneWingedAngel. He also has these by default in ''Star Allies''.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His concern and helpfulness are an act.
* FinalBoss: Of Milky Way Wishes and the Arena, thus making him the general Final Boss of ''Super Star''. [[spoiler:He gets an upgrade in the remake's True Arena as Marx Soul]]. In ''Mass Attack'', he's also the Final Boss of ''Kirby Brawlball''.
* FishEyes: He sometimes gets wall-eyed in his transformed state, as a sign that he's crazy.
* ForTheEvulz: He wants the power to cause all the mischief he wants.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: There was nothing to distinguish him from anyone else on Planet Popstar prior to his wish to Nova.
* GrappleMove: His Prank Kick move in ''Star Allies'' is him standing on a normal enemy (or a star) as if it's his jester ball, then kicking them away, potentially [[GrievousHarmWithABody hitting other enemies (including bosses) with it]]. The kicked enemy/star will also have the element that he himself currently has.
* GreenThumb: He has an attack where he flies out and drop seeds which quickly sprout thorny tendrils. He can replicate this move in ''Star Allies'' by infusing his ball with the water element.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[DetachmentCombat Several of his attacks allow him to bisect his own body]], either to create a black hole or to launch the two halves as projectiles. [[spoiler:When defeated, Marx Soul falls into two pieces down the middle before exploding]].
* HellGate: His most powerful attack is one of these, revealed when he ''splits in half''. [[spoiler:As Marx Soul, he even ''starts'' the battle with it.]] It comes back in ''Star Allies'' as a {{charged attack}}; [[UnrealisticBlackHole sucking up objects and projectiles with it]] increases its power.
* HellIsThatNoise: Most fans will remember that horrendous scream he lets out as he finally dies [[spoiler:as Marx Soul]].
* TheJester: Looks like one. A particularly dangerous one at that.
* KnightOfCerebus: He's the only main villain that's actually evil in ''Super Star''.[[note]]Wham Bam Rock is more of a monster than anything, and there isn't much about Galacta Knight to talk about him.[[/note]]
* LackOfEmpathy: All he wants is power. If he needs to cause distress first to get that power, he will do it. And what he wants with that power is, shall we say, selfish things.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: His ''Star Allies'' description casually mentions that he was the FinalBoss of ''Super Star'' despite it being supposed to be a spoiler.
* LaughingMad: In his boss fight, Marx is always laughing. On the SNES, it's a small giggle before or after certain attacks, but on DS it's a constat stream of chuckling for every other offensive action they take. [[spoiler:Marx Soul amplifies this with a guttural cackling.]]
* LovecraftianSuperpower: His aforementioned HellGate attack which involves him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripping himself in half.]] Further emphasized in ''Star Allies'' with what could be interpreted as large globs of cyan AlienBlood.
* MagicalClown: He becomes one after gaining his wish from Nova. He becomes even more powerful [[spoiler:as Marx Soul]].
* ManiacTongue: [[spoiler:Marx Soul has his tongue tucked out all the time, as a sign that he's getting crazier.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Kirby, the Sun, and the Moon were all doing his bidding unwittingly.
* NiceHat: a 2-branched jester hat. [[spoiler:They get more menacing as Marx Soul.]]
* OneWingedAngel: Presumably caused by Nova. How he knew to turn Marx into such a form is anyone's guess.
* PowerHigh: For the first split-second of his transformation, Marx's initial surge of power gives him a decidedly maddened look. [[spoiler:Marx Soul wears that expression constantly.]]
* PromotedToPlayable: In ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies''.
* PurpleEyes: ''Not'' mismatched, as commonly depicted in fan art. Of course, said fanart could be giving him MismatchedEyes to [[FridgeBrilliance signify his insanity.]]
* RainOfArrows: More like a stream of arrows, but still, this is one of his moves. He can use it in ''Star Allies'' if he's infused with electric power.
* RedemptionDemotion: While redemption may be a stretch, it's actually subverted. He has many of the same abilities in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' that he did in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'', but most of them are now locked to friends' ElementalPowers, keeping him from being able to use all of them at once.
* TheSociopath: Manipulated the sun and moon into fighting, stole Kirby's wish so he can cause all the mischief he wants, and abandoned Kirby to die in space, all with a big smile.
* SuperSpit: He can spit freeze bombs. He can also do this in ''Star Allies'', with him now able to drop different elemental bombs.
* TeleportSpam: Frequently moves around by teleporting.
* ThroughHisStomach: His Ultimate Choice description states that "he'll be your buddy as long as you keep him well-fed."
* TokenEvilTeammate: While he is a playable character in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', the Japanese text hints that he has not actually turned over a new leaf and that he is only pulling an EnemyMine for his own personal gain.
* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Marx Soul is this in ''Ultra''.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: Last seen falling into Nova with enough force to blow it up, [[spoiler:and, if you consider the True Arena to be canon, ''having his soul split in half and explode as he screams in agony'']]. Aside from his various cameos, in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', not only is he seemingly none the worse for wear, but he still has at least some, if not all, of his powers that he gained from Nova.
* WalkingSpoiler: His only non-spoiling details come from the intro to ''Milky Way Wishes''.
* WeaponizedBall: His playable appearance in ''Star Allies'' has him using his beach ball more extensively for his unwinged moves, whether it be kicking it into enemies or rolling around atop it. The ball normally explodes like the Bomb ability, but they'll [[PinballProjectile bounce off surfaces]] and will only go boom if it hits an enemy, a switch or something (normally) destructible. He even uses it to [[ElementalWeapon channel]] ElementalPowers with the help of allies.
* WickedHeartSymbol: Once he gains power from Nova, he gains hearts on many parts of his body, especially his glistening [[PowerGivesYouWings wings]]. Did we mention that he's a psychotic, [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon deceptively cute]] monster who manipulated Kirby into helping him gain said power?
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Drawcia]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyCanvasCurse''

The BigBad and FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/KirbyCanvasCurse'', she's a WickedWitch who wanted a land of paint and carried out her wish by turning Dream Land into a painting. Her true form is that of an unknown painting that she was created from.
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* ArtInitiatesLife:
** She creates clones of Paint Roller, Kracko, and King Dedede to serve her as part of boss mini-games at the end of the seven levels before her.
** One of her attacks in her first boss form is to draw paintings of enemies that you're forced to defeat(although in this instance the enemies do not actually come out of the paintings).
* BattleBoomerang: [[spoiler:Drawcia Soul opens up to shoot out several boomerangs of paint which then return inside her.]]
* BigBad: Of ''Canvas Curse''.
* DeflectorShields: As a sorceress.
* EldritchAbomination: Subverted; she's said to be [[ArtInitiatesLife a painting that came to life]], which is not too strange in this setting. The fact that it isn't may actually be worse.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Surprisingly. ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' has a boss named Paintra, whose pause screen description implies her to be Drawcia's sister. (The Japanese version outright says that Paintra is Drawcia's sister. The English version implies that Paintra is trying to avenge Drawcia's defeat.) The mini-boss Vividria from ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' is implied to be another sister of Drawcia.
* EvilLaugh: Frequently in cutscenes. She also does it during the battle against her sorceress form.
* FlunkyBoss: In addition to the ones she paints to life, Drawcia can also spawn Para Sorceresses (which freeze Kirby on contact). [[spoiler:Drawcia Soul can spawn Para Matters, which will also try to freeze Kirby on contract, catch him in a fiery explosion, or sweep the screen with lasers.]]
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Again, she wants to take over Planet Popstar, but doesn't have much character beyond that.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: She conjures up paintbrushes for most of her magic; said paintbrushes usually disappear once she is done with her spell. However, one of those brushes did not disappear and instead flew to the player so it could help direct Kirby against Drawcia.
* KnightOfCerebus: Even the level building up to the fight with her is insanely creepy and dark.
* OminousPipeOrgan: The first phase of her fight has this.
* OneToMillionToOne: [[spoiler:Drawcia Soul's "rain of paint".]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:After her initial defeat, she transforms into her soul, which is a giant multi-eyed screeching ball of paint.]]
* RealityWarper: Much more powerful than Ado/Adeleine or Paint Roller from previous games. Not only does she start by turning Dream Land into a painting, but the game's penultimate stage implies her influence is starting to spread past the region, even beyond Planet Popstar, as it takes place in outer space.
* SpikesOfDoom: Will cause them to sprout from the ground after painting a single spike.
* TacticalSuicideBoss: If she had just stuck to simple collision damage instead of paint magic and such your brush could interrupt, undo, or otherwise ruin, she would have been unbeatable. [[spoiler:This is less true of Drawcia Soul, but by then it's too late.]]
* TeleportSpam: [[spoiler:Drawcia Soul will attempt this, [[DefiedTrope though you can stop it cold with the brush]].]]
* WickedWitch: Officially, Drawcia is an {{evil sorcer|er}}ess [[spoiler:in her initial form]], but her design and mannerisms seem more in line with this trope. Her high-pitched cackle is more than enough to creep you out.
** The game usually refers to Drawcia as a witch, ''except'' when you're fighting her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Squeaks]]
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[[caption-width-right:271:From left to right: Storo, Daroach, Doc, and Spinni. Behind them are the Squeakers.]]

-> First appearance: ''[[VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad Kirby: Squeak Squad]]''

A group of mouse bandits traveling the universe in search of treasure, the Squeaks are the {{Big Bad}}s and titular characters of ''Kirby: Squeak Squad''. Daroach is the leader, Spinni is the speed, Storo is the muscle, Doc is the brains, and the Squeakers are the {{Mook}}s and {{Team Pet}}s.
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* AdorableEvilMinions: The Squeakers.
* AnIcePerson: Daroach fires freezing beams from his [[FreezeRay fancy cane]].
* BadassCape: Daroach wears one. No, the cute little bell does not diminish the effect; why do you ask?
* BanditMook: Both the Squeakers and the minibosses themselves can make Kirby lose the chest he took and then take it away to their hideout. Should it happen, Kirby has to hit them to take it back.
* TheCasanova: In ''Mass Attack'', Daroach mentions having a history of stealing the hearts of ladies.
* CoolShades: Spinni wears a pair of triangular ones a la [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]].
* DropTheHammer: Storo's WeaponOfChoice is a hammer.
* DubNameChange: Dorocche to Daroach, Spin to Spinni, Stron to Storo, and Chūrin to Squeakers.
* EyepatchOfPower: Storo wears an eyepatch.
* FatBastard: Storo is very fat and evil.
* FloatingLimbs: Daroach has these, although curiously, the other Squeaks do not.
* FlyingSaucer: Doc, which turns into a fake Kracko as the World 3's boss.
* GangOfHats: They're an all-rodent gang and they all wear red.
* GentlemanThief: Daroach, complete with a top hat and a thirst for treasure chests. He lampshades this in some of his hints in ''Mass Attack''.
* HeelFaceTurn: They stop antagonizing Kirby at the end of ''Squeak Squad'', and they help Kirby out in ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack''.
* HiddenDepths: If you talk to him long enough in ''Kirby Mass Attack'', Daroach will eventually tell you things about himself and his cohorts. To wit:
** Doc is a GadgeteerGenius who loves inventing things.
** Spinni is a treasure hunter.
** Storo is actually a GentleGiant.
** The Squeakers work as Daroach's field agents.
* InexplicablyTailless: They're all mice or mouse-like creatures, yet nobody has more than a little stub of a tail; Daroach and Storo are completely tailless.
* MetalSlime: Their mini-game ''Kirby Quest'' from the medal sub quest has one of these as an enemy.
* {{Mooks}}: The Squeakers are essentially their Waddle Dees.
* MrExposition: Not originally but Daroach becomes this in ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack,'' offering enemy names, as well as backstory for the islands and the Skull Gang, if you talk to him on his ship.
* NiceHat: Daroach sports a pretty stylish one. It's almost an EyeObscuringHat, but not quite.
* {{Ninja}}: Spinni, complete with shuriken that can be inhaled for the Ninja ability.
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: Doc has a pair, complete with spirals.
* RecurringBoss: Spinni, Storo, and Doc; the latter is fought most often of all the Squeaks, and he even is the proper stage boss twice (as Mecha-Kracko and Yadogaine).
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Daroach is pretty big, but Storo dwarfs Dedede.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Spinni wears one.
* ShesAManInJapan: In an inversion of the usual, Spinni is stated to be female in Japan but referred to as male in the translation of ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack''.
* StoutStrength: Storo is fat and is pretty strong.
* StuffBlowingUp: Daroach, Storo, and the Squeakers can throw bombs.
* SuddenlyVoiced: They were mute in ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad'', but at least Daroach gets some dialogue in ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack.''
** At over 300 distinct lines of dialogue, Daroach actually delivers more dialogue than any other character ''[[UpToEleven in the entire series.]]'' That's excluding the notes he wrote in the instruction manual.
* TeleportSpam: Like many a Kirby boss, Daroach favors this tactic.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Daroach, but only briefly in ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack''.
* TitleDrop: In their debut.
* TransformationOfThePossessed: [[spoiler:Daroach undergoes this as Dark Daroach. He turns to a [[GoodColorsEvilColors darker color scheme]], his fur gets a bit scruffy, his claws grow longer, and he [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wears a cowbell]].]]
* TriangleShades: Spinni wears these.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Through greed and ambition, Daroach ends up a victim of Dark Nebula.]]
* WolverineClaws: Spinni uses one at close-range. When dropped, it can be inhaled for the Animal ability.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Daroach has these. It's unknown if the rest of the Squeaks share this trait, as all of them have their eyes [[HiddenEyes obscured]] one way or another.
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[[folder:Dark Nebula]]
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-> First appearance: ''[[VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad Kirby: Squeak Squad]]''

The GreaterScopeVillain and FinalBoss of ''Kirby: Squeak Squad'' that was sealed away in a chest. The Squeak Squad believed the chest to be a source of power, while Kirby believed it contained a delicious shortcake that was stolen from him, leading to the events of the game. Only Meta Knight knew the secret of the chest and tried to prevent anyone from opening it.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Exactly what connection it has with Dark Matter is unclear. Most people believe it to simply be a rogue Dark Matter being, but the 20th anniversary encyclopedia mentions it in the same breath as 0[[superscript:2]] (i.e. an unknown connection with Zero).
* DarkIsEvil: Not just from the name, but also from the color and being connected to Dark Matter in some way.
* DubNameChange: Named "Dark Zero" in Japan. Presumably the name change was to avoid confusion with the existing Zero. This is thought to be a rogue Dark Matter-related being, not the original Zero.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:It did this to Daroach and the Squeaks until Kirby freed them]].
* ElementalShapeshifter: {{Downplayed}}. Dark Nebula's texture changes depending on which ability, but otherwise, it stays the same shape.
* FinalBoss: Though not as hard as the one right before it. [[spoiler:Well, technically, they're the same person.]]
* FireIceLightning: Its three main attacks besides simply ramming Kirby are a giant exploding fireball, a stream of ice, and a square of green electricity.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: We have no idea what any of its motives are; it's only seen in one late-game cutscene and then the final battle.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Its appearance isn't hinted on until late into the game.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of ''Kirby: Squeak Squad''.
* HijackedByGanon: Of a sort. The [[AllThereInTheManual 20th Anniversary Encyclopedia]] lists it among Dark Matter's relatives.
* KnightOfCerebus: It's appearance turned what was a fun game about trying to find a delicious shortcake to something much more intense.
* {{Oculothorax}}: Which makes as much sense as anything, considering its origin.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has big red eyes and is the FinalBoss of the game.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:An evil star sealed up in a chest that was mistakenly believed to be a source of power (by Daroach) and a stolen cake (by Kirby).]]
* SuperSmoke: Its initial appearance describes its star particle form as "a dark, eerie cloud of smoke". It assumes a more solid form for the final battle.
* TransformationOfThePossessed: [[spoiler:Does this to Daroach, turning him to Dark Daroach. More commonly shown is his dark blue fur, violet cape, and larger claws as shown in his [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/kirby/images/e/e1/KSqSq_DarkDaroach.png/revision/latest?cb=20130928033526&path-prefix=en official artwork]].]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yin-Yarn]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn''

The BigBad of ''Kirby's Epic Yarn'', Yin-Yarn appears in Dream Land one day out of nowhere and begins turning people into yarn before tossing Kirby into Patch Land and attempting to take over the world.
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* AffablyEvil: Despite going through a very ambitious plan to take over a kingdom by kidnapping and mind-controlling its de facto leaders and succeeding in doing so with virtually no effort, Yin-Yarn has no idea what to do with the kingdom once he has it and seems to have no real motive.
* AndThenWhat: Pulls this on himself at one point in the game. He really doesn't have a plan for what to do after conquering Dream Land, but he says he'll think of something.
* ArtInitiatesLife: Crocheting things to life.
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:"Yin-Yarn" is actually the two knitting needles.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Performs this by turning people into yarn.
* TheCameo: Is a keychain in ''Triple Deluxe''. What makes his notable is that he's one of only two 3-D characters who debuted before ''Triple Deluxe'' to get one, along with Magolor. As such, he was remade in 2-D.
* CloudCuckoolander: It's revealed at the end of the game that he had no idea what to do with Dream Land when he took it over.
* DubNameChange: Amoebo Amore in Japan.
* EvilOverlooker: He does this in the box art for the game.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Epic Yarn''.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: One of his attacks [[spoiler:in mecha form]].
* MartialArtsAndCrafts: Kung-fu wizard weaver.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:After his first defeat, the knitting needles rebuild him as a HumongousMecha tank.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Necrodeus]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack''

The BigBad of ''Kirby Mass Attack''. He's the leader of the Skull Gang and he split Kirby into ten smaller versions of himself in the beginning, setting off the story for the game.
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* AxCrazy: Tries to kill Kirby for no real reason.
* BigBad: Of ''Mass Attack''. His main target is just Kirby, though.
* CurbStompBattle: Delivers this to Kirby while he's still sleeping by zapping him and splitting him into 10 completely defenseless Kirbys and then proceeding to murder almost every Kirby except one that follows his heart.
* DarkIsEvil: He ''despises'' beings of light such as Kirby, and will not hesitate to ''kill them dead'' the instant an opportunity to do so presents itself.
* DemBones: Leads a Skull Gang of similar bony creatures. He seems to have no skin or anything similar, unless that seeming aura surrounding the bones is in fact something more sinewy or that nose is cartilage/flesh.
* EldritchAbomination: A skeleton-themed PhysicalGod whose main body is made of darkness; his skull has three sharp horns, glowing red orbs for eyes, ''very'' sharp teeth, and [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking a clown-like nose]]. And he's one of the few bosses that have been known to try, and almost succeed at killing Kirby permanently.
* EvilLaugh: He has a deep and somewhat hoarse one.
* {{Expy}}: His appearance is strikingly similar to Nightmare.
* FloatingLimbs: Has GiantHandsOfDoom that work despite the lack of accompanying arms.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: He attacks Kirby because Kirby is a "champion of light", and Necrodeus wants a world covered in darkness.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: Fighting them is the first phase of his fight.
* KnightOfCerebus: Kirby is almost completely killed when he shows up at the beginning of the game.
* MeaningfulName: His name literally translates to "death god", which is quite fitting for a powerful, skull-themed FinalBoss [[NoNonsenseNemesis who tries to off Kirby the moment he appears on-screen]].
* MonsterClown: The comically large purple nose gives off this visualization.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: It literally translates to ''death god''.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Can possibly be seen as the smartest villain in the series. Upon arriving at the outset of the game, he knows how much of a threat Kirby is and ''immediately'' attacks Kirby. He would have killed him right then and there had one stray Kirby not followed his heart. When he realizes that Kirby is still alive, he has his Skull Gang patrol the areas in search of him, the gang capturing nine of the ten Kirbys every time they enter a new area. And when the Kirbys finally reach his hideout and find his staff, the only thing that can turn them back to normal? He [[JustEatHim swallows his staff]] to keep it out of their hands.
* ObviouslyEvil: The appearance of a PhysicalGod? Check. [[NothingButSkulls Skull motifs everywhere?]] Check. [[EvilSoundsDeep Deep]], [[EvilLaugh evil laughter]] whenever he appears on-screen? Check. [[CurbStompBattle Technically killing Kirby nine times before the game even starts?]] Check.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Or "Glowing Red Eye Lights, Take Warning", as he does not seem to have actual eyes. His skull necklace has them, too.
* SkullForAHead: His head is a giant skull with a pair of giant horns and a smaller horn on top; cracks and a necklace made of smaller skulls around it.
* TheSociopath: He is probably one of Kirby's most monstrous enemies, existing only to cause suffering.
* TrueFinalBoss: Of ''Mass Attack'', with his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Skullord acting as the regular FinalBoss.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Landia]]
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-> First appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand''

A powerful, four-headed dragon perched up in the mountains of Halcandra. He wears a crown on his top-most head, and seems to bear animosity toward Magolor.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:His appearance in the ''Team Kirby Clash'' games is more antagonistic than in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'', likely done as an effort to keep TheReveal a surprise for newer players.]]
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'' features Parallel Landia, his Mirror World counterpart(?). Unlike the noble Landia of Halcandra, Parallel Landia has abused and been corrupted by the power of the Master Crown just like Magolor.]]
* AsteroidsMonster: Upon TurningRed, he splits into four one-headed dragons.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Once he splits apart, the dragon wearing the Master Crown takes more damage than the other three.
* BigBad: Of Kirby's Return to Dream Land. [[spoiler:Or so Magolor wants you to believe...]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:After Magolor's defeat, Landia returns to airlift Kirby and his friends out of the unstable interdimensional space.]]
* CoolCrown: He wears the Master Crown, an artifact created long ago that grants its wearer incredible power.
* TheCameo: Paintra summons copies of Landia through her magic painting in ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe''.
* DiscOneFinalBoss:
** He Landia in ''Return to Dream Land'' definitely had a final boss aura around him, being a giant dragon that was behind Magolor's exile. But then [[spoiler:Magolor reveals his true intentions after Landia's defeat, forcing Kirby and co to chase after him with Landia]].
** Similarly, in ''Team Kirby Clash Deluxe'', you get to the "Decisive Battlefield" and fight Landia EX... but then even more powerful enemies appear, including [[spoiler:yet another Landia.]]
* FinalBoss: In ''[[VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot Team Kirby Clash]]'', Landia EX serves as the final boss.
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Landia is the guardian of the Master Crown and his "rampage" was in response to Magolor attempting to seize it. Magolor falsely claimed that it was a destructive beast to manipulate Kirby and friends into dealing with the dragon for him.]]
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:'They' only seek to keep the power of the Master Crown out of the wrong (ie. Magolor's) hands.]]
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Well, what did you expect? Other than [[spoiler:them giving you a ride across Another Dimension?]]
* KaleidoscopeEyes: Landia starts out with green eyes. Then when he TurnsRed, he gets {{red eyes|TakeWarning}}. Finally, after his defeat, he's depicted with blue eyes for the remainder of the game. [[spoiler:Parallel Landia also has yellow eyes.]]
* MesACrowd: He does just this by splitting from one four-headed dragon into four one-headed dragons.
* MultipleHeadCase: In his normal state, Landia has four heads.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: He's a hydra-like beast at first, before he splits into four.
* PlayingWithFire: Being a dragon, it's not surprising. He can either breathe fireballs, moving streams of fire, or, after splitting into four, throwing and passing around a fireball between themselves.
* PowerupMount: [[spoiler:What's the only thing cooler than defeating a dragon? Riding on his back in the next level!]]
* ShockAndAwe: After he TurnsRed and splits into 4, the split bodies can generate electric lines between themselves in distinct patterns.
* ShoutOut: To Red/Great Dragon, one of Computer Virus' monsters of ''Videogame/KirbySuperStar (Ultra)''. Regular Landia is red like Red Dragon, while Great Dragon in ''Helper to Hero'' is purple colored like Landia EX. Both can also breathe fire and "flap gigantic wings".
* TailSlap: One of his attacks is slapping Kirby with his tail 3 times.
* WalkingSpoiler: Wherever Landia goes, spoiler tags follow.
* WindFromBeneathMyWings: Landia can flap his wings to push Kirby back and fire {{Razor Wind}}s.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Claycia]]
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-> First Appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse''

A sorceress/artist character who was formerly Elline's best friend, now she has sucked all color and life out of Dream Land. She can create various clay constructs to fight for her in battle.
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* ArtAttacker: Like Drawcia, Paintra and Yin-Yarn before her, she attacks with artwork - this time, it's clay figures.
* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: [[spoiler:Kirby essentially had to beat her up in order to free her from Dark Crafter's possession.]]
* BlindingBangs: [[spoiler:What initially appear to be her eyes are actually Dark Crafter's shades.]]
* BlushSticker: A pair of pink ones.
* BringIt: Will perform this gesture before you fight her proper.
* DarkActionGirl: Very much so. [[spoiler:Until she's released from Dark Crafter's control.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Those SinisterShades she was wearing? Those actually belonged to Dark Crafter, who was possessing her.]]
* EvilFormerFriend: To Elline, whom she betrayed [[spoiler:because she was possessed by Dark Crafter]]. In the end, after she is beaten [[spoiler:and freed from Dark Crafter's influence]], she and Elline go back to being best friends again.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: She will sometimes ''literally excuse herself from battle'' during her fight, reading a book in the background while clay construct cannons fire away at you.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The two huge hands on her scarf have eyes in the palms, though it's tough to notice. [[spoiler:This is due to being possessed by Dark Crafter, who had eyes on its hands.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Seemingly stopped being Elline's friend at her own will, but once's she's beaten, they reconcile without problems. [[spoiler:The truth is that she was possessed by Dark Crafter, making her invoke the trope against her will.]]
* FloatingLimbs: Her hands don't appear to be attached to her body.
* NiceHat: Wears a purple beret.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Most of her wardrobe is colored with various shades of [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple purple]].
* SinisterShades: Wears a pair of purple/black sunglasses. [[spoiler:They actually belong to Dark Crafter, who possessed her through those glasses.]]
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: A magician named "Claycia" who has the ability to make and shape things out of clay.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Another artist-witch villain like Drawcia and Paintra, down to the similar name even! [[spoiler:Though unlike them she's not really evil, and doesn't even look like a witch.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Bringing her up is impossible without getting spoilered [[spoiler:because her boss battle reveals that she was possessed by Dark Crafter]].
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Right after she's beaten, a cutscene shows her "shades" falling off and Dark Crafter forming from it, revealing that Claycia's actions throughout the entire game was due to her being possessed.]]
* WickedWitch: In a similar vein to the other art-based witches, Drawcia and Paintra. The fact that she doesn't look like a witch is actually a tip-off: [[spoiler:she's not so wicked, because she was possessed by Dark Crafter.]]
* VillainTeleportation: Surprisingly, she doesn't utilize TeleportationSpam like other Kirby bosses, she mainly does it to start her background attacks.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has light blue hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dark Crafter]]
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-> First Appearance: ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse''

A huge, bulgy, mound of Technicolor clay that wanted to steal color and life from everything. It's hard to tell if this is another Dark Matter spawn or something else entirely, but it is certainly very destructive.
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* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Does this to Claycia through its sunglasses.]]
* EldritchAbomination: A [[LovecraftLite lighter-looking example than most]] until you start thinking about what this thing actually ''is''. It's a gigantic sentient clod of clay with an eye in its mouth that sucks the color out of everything in sight, turning people and places into lifeless grey husks. Meanwhile, [[TheAssimilator it stores everything it's collected in its body as a swirling mix of life and colors for some unknown purpose.]]
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Its single eye is inside of its mouth, below the "shades". It also has eyes on its hands.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Rainbow Curse'', though he doesn't reveal himself until later [[spoiler:after Kirby defeats Claycia, forcing the monster to separate himself from his host]].
* FloatingLimbs: Like with most ''Kirby'' characters. They're the [[spoiler:same]] Grab Hands that Claycia has.
* GagLips: Its eyelids look like a pair of oversized lips.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: ''Why'' it wanted to drain the color and life from everything has not been made clear.
* GetBackHereBoss: Immediately flies off the planet it's on, and Kirby has to fly after it in rocket form.
* GigglingVillain: Whenever it hits Kirby, it makes a creepy, mocking giggle.
* LightIsNotGood: It's a living, rainbow-colored clod of clay, and very destructive. Although it was black beforehand.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Its main attack is firing tons of mines as Kirby chases it down.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:It possessed Claycia through its SinisterShades so he can use her to drain all the color out of Planet Popstar.]]
* NearVillainVictory: It almost made off with the colors it still had while everyone else was simply stunned at its manifestation.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: It is by far the most smoothly animated character in the game -- which, given the choppy clay look, makes it look almost completely out of place.
* PaperThinDisguise: Its figurine description suggests that its shades are a disguise. [[CaptainObvious It's... not very effective.]]
* PunnyName: Its name appears to be a pun relating to its Dark Matter inspirations.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Dark Crafter's "hands". ''Duh.''
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Or maybe it's KnowWhenToFoldEm, but immediately after being beaten [[spoiler:out of its host]], it runs off with the color it still has.
* ShowsDamage: Dark Crafter loses its colors as it takes damage.
* SinisterShades: Possibly a shout out to [[VideoGame/KirbysAdventure Nightmare]], its eyes act as this.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: It's basically a rainbow-colored Dark Matter with hands.
* TechnicolorDeath: Appropriately enough, it flashes between its various stages of damage, goes up in colorful flames, and explodes in a flashy light.
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about him is impossible without spoiling the game's big twist. Especially since he shows up only at the end of the game.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Morpho Knight]]
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->''"On the day of judgment, this fluttery fiend will fly into action. Brought into existence by ”the greatest warrior in the galaxy“ and reborn as a knight of doom through years of adversity—now begins an epic battle with a pure being twisted by a dark past."''

A mysterious knight that serves as the final boss of ''Kirby Star Allies''' Guest Star mode.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It’s unclear whether Morpho Knight is another form of [[spoiler:Galacta Knight]] or a different character entirely. What can be only seen in the opening is that [[spoiler:after Galacta Knight appears, a mysterious orange butterfly lands on his lance, then he disappears into light, and the butterfly suddenly turns into Morpho Knight]].
* {{BFS}}: In a possible CallBack to the Ultra Sword ability from ''Return to Dream Land'', he can enlarge his swords to a massive size before swinging them in a wide arc.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: During the second phase, his wing beats emit a sonic pulse that drives your friends mad. Use a Friend Heart to return them to normal.
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: His overall theme, as seen by his title of "The Reborn Butterfly".
* ChekhovsGunman: The [[spoiler:orange butterfly that turns into Morpho]] has made innocuous appearances since ''Return to Dream Land'' in 2011. Some fans even like to extrapolate that retroactively [[spoiler:every butterfly]] since the first game was him all along. Including instances of multiple ones, since the ending to ''Planet Robobot'' shows several of them at once.
* CoolHelmet: A rather sinister horned red-orange one, in contrast to Meta Knight or Galacta Knight's masks.
* DisappearsIntoLight: He dissolves into butterfly-shaped sparks upon defeat.
* DualWielding: In his second phase, he can create a second sword and attack with both.
* FallenHero: His pause screen describes him as “a pure being twisted by a dark past.”
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[spoiler:Galacta Knight]] showing up at the end of Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go! was already iffy and unexplained, but at least most are already used to him showing as a BonusBoss. Then [[spoiler:that innocuous butterfly]] comes in and [[BaitAndSwitchBoss things take an even more unexpected turn...]]
* MagicKnight: He's more "knight" than "mage", but he can do supernatural stuff that other Knights can't: teleporting, emitting magical soundwaves that brainwashes your friends, and summoning orange smoky ghosts, among other things.
* MythologyGag: His appearance actually comes from a piece of concept art for Meta Knight.
* PlayingWithFire: His swords are imbued with the power of fire.
* SwordDrag: He has a move taken from boss Meta Knight's new move, where he drags her sword as he dashes forward for a {{Shoryuken}} (Sword Kirby's Upper Slash) with his sword. If anybody gets hit by it, they'll be carried to the air and become victim to the knight's BladeSpam afterward.
* TeleportSpam: He’s constantly warping around the arena during the second half of the fight.
* TornadoMove: Can summon multiple tornadoes, like Galacta Knight and Meta Knight,
* WalkingSpoiler: He's the final boss of Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go! with near-zero foreshadowing to his existence before the actual fight. What were you expecting?
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** His final form looks like [[spoiler:a flaming version of Zero, and/or immediately brings to mind the [[Franchise/LordOfTheRings Eye of Sauron]]]].

* UnexpectedShmupLevel: After you beat his second form (the giant eyeball), it isn't over - he then flies away, after which you get to ride on the Warp Star to chase him and beat him down further in a SHMUP battle.

* ShadowArchetype: Besides the obvious EvilTwin aspect, he represents everything Dedede could have become if Kirby hadn't freed him from Dark Matter. The BellyMouth, retaining the original logo from Dedede's more villainous days, and the line about "the darkness in his own heart" only add to it.

The FinalBoss of ''Kirby's Adventure'' and its remake, ''Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land''. A Nightmare that tried to enter Dream Land through the Fountain of Dreams to physically harm its citizens; to counteract this, King Dedede broke the Star Rod and gave the pieces to his strongest minions. Kirby ends up releasing Nightmare after restoring the Star Rod and placing it back in the fountain, but is able to use the Star Rod to defeat him once and for all.

* TheCameo: Appears in one of the unlockable pictures in ''Squeak Squad''.

* EldritchAbomination: Subverted, Dedede somehow knew exactly what he was and how to keep him away

* LivingDream: The Fountain of Dreams is where people's dreams come from on Planet Popstar. Nightmare himself is the embodiment of bad dreams.

* BreathWeapon: She fires air shots that light Kirby on fire.

** A statue of him is one of Stone's forms in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand''. He also shows up in the Kirby Master cutscene, and the friend that Magolor says told him about Kirby (as well as [[spoiler:the person on Halcandra whom Kirby has fought before]]) is widely speculated to be him.
** You can also find a keychain of him in ''Triple Deluxe'', and as a sticker in ''Planet Robobot''.

* ColorCodedElements: In ''Star Allies'', Marx's crystalline wings change color to match the element he's currently charged with.
* CuteAndPsycho: Marx's boss form is sort of cute with its big eyes and {{Heart Symbol}}s, but you can tell from his expression that something is wrong with him.

* FauxAffablyEvil: His helpfulness is an act.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Several of his attacks allow him to bisect his own body, either to create a black hole or to launch the two halves as projectiles. [[spoiler:When defeated, Marx Soul falls into two pieces down the middle before exploding]].
* HellGate: His most powerful attack is one of these, revealed when he ''splits in half''. It comes back in ''Star Allies'' as a {{charged attack}}; [[UnrealisticBlackHole sucking up objects and projectiles with it]] increases its power.

* KnightOfCerebus: He's the only main villain that's actually evil in ''Super Star''.
* LackOfEmpathy: All he wants is power.

* LovecraftianSuperpower: His aforementioned HellGate attack which involves him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripping himself in half.]] Further emphasized in Star Allies with what could be interpreted as large globs of cyan AlienBlood.

* RedemptionDemotion: While redemption may be a stretch, it's actually subverted. He has many of the same abilities in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' that he did in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'', but most of them are now locked to friends' ElementalPowers, keeping him from being able to use all of them at once.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Last seen falling into Nova with enough force to blow it up, and, if you consider the True Arena to be canon, ''having his soul split in half and explode as he screams in agony''. In ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', not only is he seemingly none the worse for wear, but he still has at least some, if not all, of his powers that he gained from Nova.

* WeaponizedBall: His playable appearance in ''Star Allies'' has him using his beach ball more extensively for his unwinged moves, whether it be kicking it into enemies or rolling around atop it. The ball normally explodes like the Bomb ability, but they'll bounce off surfaces and will only go boom if it hits an enemy, a switch or something (normally) destructible. He even uses it to channel ElementalPowers with the help of allies.

* RhymesOnADime: The description of his first and third form is put into rhymes.

A group of mouse bandits traveling the universe in search of treasure, the Squeaks are the {{Big Bad}}s and titular characters of ''Kirby: Squeak Squad''. Daroach is the leader, Spinni is the speed, Storo is the muscle, Doc is the brains, and the Squeakers are the {{Team Pet}}s.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Aside from the LogicalWeakness she has, Flamberge and Zan Partizanne are apparently also weak to Artist's brush attacks. The paint might've been watercolor.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:It is unclear what happens to them at the 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 them from the monster's insides. It's unknown what happens to them after that.]]

* CastingAShadow: Hyness primarily attacks with orbs of dark energy.

* {{Gonk}}: [[spoiler:His true appearance behind the hood is that of a cartoonish imp-thing with bulging eyes and a nose that's about as large as his head.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: [[VileVillainSaccharineShow He is the darkest villain]] in the main Kirby series, beating out even ''Star Dream's'' plans of destruction. That's not even mentioning his BadBoss attitude. What's noteable is that previous ''Kirby'' villains who fit the bill for this trope either had tragic backstories, or were {{Generic Doomsday Villain}}s; Hyness has no tragic backstory or motivations going for him (aside from a mention where he and his brethren stopped a galactic crisis but then gets banished by ancient people), and he has quite the personality (thus he isn't quite "generic").
* LifeDrain: [[spoiler:Uses this on the three generals when his second phase kicks off.]]

* WickedHeartSymbol: Hyness' hood bears the same crest shown on the Three Generals' hats, as well as [[spoiler:Void Termina's armor.]]

** Void has several elements that could have major implications, but it's unclear exactly what they mean. [[spoiler:The wings of its bird form resemble those of [[VideoGame/Kirby64 Zero Two]], and its core eventually takes on [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2 Real]] [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 Dark Matter]]'s form. However, its core/soul initially takes an appearance similar to ''Kirby'' himself and the descriptions of Void make it ambiguous as to whether or not there's a direct connection between it and Dark Matter/Kirby or if it's being influenced by both (which itself has implications).]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Its airborne form can form a massive axe on its head which creates large shockwaves whenever it hits the ground.

* InstantRunes: Its second phase has him shoot strange dark runes at the player character.
* InterfaceScrew: If you listen closely when you're fighting the second form, you can hear Void Termina's heartbeat on the Switch's HD Rumble. [[FridgeHorror How or why it does this is something best left untouched.]]

* LightIsNotGood: Downplayed. The weapons it summons have a faint rainbow-tinted shimmer, and its EX version is colored white, but otherwise the colors in its palette (his default one is mainly colored dark grey) are very much evil.

* MiniMook: The fourth phase can [[FlunkyBoss spit out smaller versions of himself]], each with six bubbles attached to it, mimicking [[spoiler: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.

* RainOfBlood: [[spoiler:Upon entering Void Termina's body for the first time, droplets of red liquid fall on Kirby and co in a likely reference to [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards 02]].]]

* SealedEvilInACan: He was sealed within the Jamba Heart, which itself was sealed together with four mysterious spears.

* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Has the power to call forth giant [[ElementalWeapon elemental]] bows, spears, axes, [[BladeBelowTheShoulder swords]], and [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand a laser-spamming Master Crown.]]]]

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: It grows wings and a tail in its third phase, [[spoiler:giving it a faint resemblance to [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Zero Two]]. Its core shapeshifts in-between attacks, using the form of [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2 Real]] [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 Dark Matter]] and [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Miracle Matter]]. Its face shapeshifts into the false face of Zero Two at times.]]

* WickedHeartSymbol: Its mask/face is heart-shaped, and after growing wings, it also has a tail made of hearts. [[spoiler:A heart pattern also runs across part of the shell that houses its soul, i.e his actual heart (which, ironically, is round-shaped).]]

* PsychopathicManchild: He's stoic and collected half the time, but [[spoiler:when you remove his hood, he'll start flailing his arms and throwing around the generals like a child who didn't get his dessert.]]

-->''The shocking true form of Void Termina has been revealed! 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!''

** Both the Japanese name and overseas name can be re-interpreted to mean '''''[[spoiler:Final Zero]].'''''
* MiniMook: He in the fourth phase can [[FlunkyBoss spit out smaller versions of himself]], each with six bubbles attached to it, mimicking Gooey's "Mock Matter" mode. The mini mooks then proceed to create black holes. Also a reference to [[spoiler:Drawcia Soul's Para Matters and Zero summoning mini-Dark Matters]].

* SatanicArchetype: Called "Destruction God"? Check. [[spoiler:Can be called forth with HumanSacrifice? Check. Implied to be responsible for several of the evils in the world? ''Aaand check.'']] His body even looks almost satanic.
* SealedEvilInACan: He was sealed within the Jamba Heart, which itself was sealed together with the mysterious 4 spears of the heart.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Downplayed - [[spoiler:throwing a Friend Heart at the Void Soul will deal damage towards it, though not a titanic amount. [[EasterEgg No other bosses in the game]] [[OutsideTheBoxTactic has 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.]]