Fridge / Kirby Star Allies

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Fridge Brilliance

• At first, the Flavor Text saying Dedede would never steal his people's food just seems like Irony, but consider that he hasn't done that since Super Star, and since then Took a Level in Kindness. It's possible Kirby thought he had moved past stealing everyone's food, so his supposed relapse was suspicious.
• When you think about it, Void Termina being the creator of the Master Crown explains why Magolor's soul form has a giant eye, making it look like a Dark Matter being. Void Termina is heavily implied to be the progenitor of the Dark Matter race and has his own giant eye form, so the Master Crown turning Magolor into a Dark Matter-looking being makes sense in hindsight.
• The design of the secret boss, Morpho Knight, may seem familiar to long-time Kirby fans. Well, that’s because it was supposed to be used in the cancelled Kirby GameCube game! “Reborn Butterfly” indeed!
• The main villain of Star Allies, a game about friendships and love, is the leader of a cult and the Three Mage-Sisters. Most cults operate by manipulating and isolating more impressionable people with the end goal of creating a society of obedient, coerced slaves that see the leader as a close friend and call the slow corruption of their lives a form of love. Thus, Hyness and the Mage-Sisters, in mechanics and their very concept, are a quiet Evil Counterpart of Kirby and his friends.
  • Actually, it's indicated that Hyness did consider them his friends back then, saving them from their own deaths and giving them powers. Then he found the Jamba Heart...
• Dark Meta Knight's unique boss theme against Morpho Knight isn't his signature boss theme from previous games. Instead, it's a medley comprised of the Amazing Mirror boss theme followed by Dark Mind's theme during his second phase. Dark Mind's theme is understandable, but why the regular boss theme? Because that's what plays during the first phase of Dark Mind's boss fight; both themes are playing in sequential order.
• When playing as Daroach through the Guest Star ???? mode, in the room with Daroach's name spelled out in blocks, there's a Key Dee holding a key that you have to take in order to advance further. Fitting, considering that stealing things is Daroach's job. Regardless of how far he's redeemed himself, he's still a thief looking to steal treasure through whatever means necessary at the end of the day.
• With the fight against Hyness in the main game, he only enters his second phase once the player fully depletes his first health bar, after which he summons the mages and uses them to replenish his life. Because he only summons logs in Heroes in Another Dimension, he's unable to use them to replenish his own life and thus enters his second phase once his life bar is only taken down by half.
• Marx's description states that "he'll be your buddy if you keep him well-fed", implying that his plot to take over the Planet Popstar was fuelled by hunger. In his debut game, Kirby Super Star, the food from Dream Land was stolen twice. First by King Dedede and then by Dyna Blade.
• What we know about Void Termina suggests that Kirby may be an incarnation of Void, and related to the Dark Matter, right? Well, what's Kirby's favourite food, the one food that always heals him to full no matter how hurt he is, even transcending the series itself and following him to Super Smash Bros.? Fun coincidence... or subtle hint, hidden in plain view from the very start?
  • And for something that's more Fridge Humour than anything else, this also means that Shadow Kirby is a literal Tomato in the Mirror.
• Hyness' name is a meaningful pun. It's spelled closer to Highness (with the y replacing the last three letters) which is a word often associated with leaders and royalty, which, to the members of the Jamba Cult, he likely is. However, it can also be interpreted/pronounced as Heinous, a descriptor meaning, in Layman's Terms, really evil.
• Morpho Knight acts as a bit of a Foil to the friends:
  • One attack is to make friends evil, where the friends make enemies...friends.
  • His Turns Red animation acts resembles one of the elemental boost animations.
  • The butterfly is given a new purpose in this game, much like some helpers like Plugg, Como, and Broom Hatter.
  • His former status as an Anti-Climax Boss accidentally reflects how most friends are common enemies.
• Why does Void Termina's core take the shape of a sphere? Because it's the same shape of a single cell, which is the most basic unit of life - much like how Void is stated to be the origin of all kinds of Matter.
• Ever wonder why Void Termina's body resembles Dark Star? One of its descriptions notes that it is composed of "dark energy". Perhaps, the same type of "dark energy" as a planet-sized mass of Dark Matter? It's even more significant when you consider that in its true form, its core resembles Zero, who (along with its angelic counterpart) lurked in the center of the clouds.
• Why does Void Termina's Soul and Morpho Knight's attack that turns your friends against you only cause chip damage to Kirby? Because he has the Friend Heart from the Heart Scepter within him.
• Hyness's plan in Guest Star ????/Heroes in Another Dimension was always doomed to fail. Void exists in all universes, and Hyness was said to have taken the Jamba Heart FROM Another Dimension to begin with. His logic was that he could pull another out when in actuality, he wasted the incarnation of Void from Another Dimension in the main story. To add onto this, why not go for the incarnation of Void in the main universe? Well if 0 really was the main universe's incarnation of Void, Kirby already took care of him. And for good measure, Kirby's also taken out Dark Mind, which seems to be Void's incarnation in the Mirror World. Kirby's already wiped out all of Hyness's options.
• Why did Hyness grant the Mage-Sisters power based on what had previously nearly ended their lives? Because the ability to control your exposure to the things that have harmed you is one of the most important steps towards overcoming trauma and phobias.
• Bandana Waddle Dee's Dream Friend jingle is kinda clever. For one, it's a remix of the Wii Channel jingle for Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Bandana Dee's first starring role. However, that jingle was itself based on "Welcome to Dream Land," the title theme of Kirby's Dream Land. This choice both honors Bandana Waddle Dee's personal history and, as his pause description says, "represent(s) the Waddle Dees as they accept their perfect attendance award for the Kirby series."
• Void's title as an "Astral Birth" makes a lot more sense when you realize that in Real Life, every element heavier than hydrogen and helium was created through the nuclear fusion that powers stars. What better candidate for the creator of all four Matters could there be than a deified star?
  • Void is a white Kirby face with no limbs, bringing to mind the drawing of Kirby from the intro of Kirby's Adventure. "First you draw a circle, then you dot the eyes..."
• The implication that Kirby and Dark Matter have been related this whole time might explain why Gooey can do just about everything Kirby could.
• The "Far Flung Heroes" map features occasional cameos from Ripple Star and Halfmoon. Why would they only show up occasionally like the vehicle Lor Starcutter and the debris from Galactic Nova do? They're planets, they orbit.
• Someone pointed out how Dedede, when possessed, shows traits of whoever is controlling him. When possessed by Dark Matter, he had his eye, when possessed by Yin-Yarn, he was controlled by yarn strings. Here, when corrupted by the Jamba Heart, he just becomes huge, with overly muscular arms. Then we see that Void Termina has the same build.
  • To add onto this, Meta Knight (also possessed by a Jamba Heart) gains the ability to split himself into four copies of himself once he Turns Red. In The Ultimate Choice, turns out Void Soul and Void have a similar attack, splitting into four Spike Balls of Doom!
• A YouTube comment pointed out that, if you decide to face Void alone, no friends or abilities, you're pretty much fighting it with hearts and stars (As in Friend Hearts and spitting stars back at it), much like the Heart Stars used to fight 0 back in Dreamland 3.
• The final roster of Dream Friends seems a little random until you realize: There is exactly one representative for each mainline Kirby game: King Dedede from Kirby's Dream Land, Meta Knight from Kirby's Adventure, Rick, Kine and Coo (as a group) from Kirby's Dream Land 2, Marx from Kirby Super Star, Gooey from Kirby's Dream Land 3, Adeleine and Ribbon (as a duo) from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Dark Meta Knight from Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, Daroach from Kirby: Squeak Squad, Magolor from Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Taranza from Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Susie from Kirby: Planet Robobot, and the Three Mage-Sisters (as a group) from this very game. Unfortunately, Bandana Waddle Dee seems to be the odd one out, unless you consider Kirby Super Star Ultra a separate game.
• When Hyness initially encountered each of the Mage Sisters, he unlocked their natural abilities for the elements of Ice, Fire and Lightning. Seems straightforward enough, but how did he do it? Well, in what may or may not be a coincidence, Dark Nebula also used those three elements. And Hyness implies that the Jambandra cult's power is related to Dark Matter, whom Nebula is Ambiguously Related to...
• At first, Parallel Big Kracko's English description claiming he's been "reborn from pure hate" seems pretty Narmy, especially because it wasn't in the Japanese version. However, Kracko's pause screen description in Very Hard in both Kirby Triple Deluxe & Fighters Deluxe shows that he holds a violent grudge against Kirby due to the cloud's many defeats and the Japanese version of regular Kracko's description in this game implies that Kracko takes special pride in having been a boss since the very beginning of Kirby's adventures. As such, Parallel Big Kracko was technically reborn from pure hate, hate for Kirby and how many times the pink puffball's clobbered Kracko!

Fridge Horror

• The game opens with Hyness messing up the ritual to summon Void Termina on the Jambandra Base, which results in the giant purple Heart shattering into multiple pieces that are scattered through out the universe. Some of these heart pieces land on Planet Popstar, causing multiple inhabitants to turn evil and motivating Kirby to investigate what's happening. Keep in mind that Kirby usually doesn't know about the villainous forces until they start threatening Popstar. And since the Jambandra Base is established to be incredibly far away from Popstar, he wouldn't have known what was going on there until the heart pieces fell from the sky. Imagine what could've happened if Hyness had successfully completed the ritual…
• Galacta Knight is strong enough to have been sealed away for being too strong. Then a mysterious butterfly just seemingly "vaporizes" him into light, which transforms into Morpho Knight. Whatever this could mean, it's likely a bad thing.
• During Hyness' rant, he claims that the Ancients tried to erase his and the Mage-Sisters' existence from history. Just more crazy delusions, right? Well, during the final battle, Void Termina summons a copy of the Master Crown. The same Master Crown that Magolor previously credited to the Ancients.
  • For that matter, considering the Body Horror and implied Demonic Possession it gave him, one has to wonder what would go through Magolor's head should he be in Kirby's party while fighting Void Termina. They're fighting to save everything, and then suddenly Void Termina summons a bunch of Master Crowns...
  • He's not the only one, one of the title screen animations suggests Adeleine is afraid of Dark Matter after getting possessed by it, to the point where she frantically chases Gooey off in a panic. So what do you think goes through her head when they finally see Void Termina's essence, and it starts sporting not just Kirby's face, but also Dark Matter's? For that matter, what Dedede or Ribbon think of that considering they have an unhappy history with Dark Matter too?
  • Considering Dark Meta Knight is a Dream Friend here, that pretty much means you can team Taranza up with the guy who ruined his life and took away Sectonia. And seeing as Dark Meta Knight isn't a proper boss here, the bastard gets away with it.
• As more and more Dream Friends are added to the game, Hyness' altar has steadily gotten worse and worse. But what seems most disturbing is that it looks to be referencing both Dark Matter and Queen Sectonia, the two cruelest villains in the entire Kirby franchise.
  • It's not just Dark Matter: Based on how the floor of the altar is changing (Hyper Zone and then Dark Star), Zero might be involved...
  • Soul Melter EX reveals what these hints were building up to: the purest form of Void Termina, simply just called Void. Considering the enormous amount of hints^note its introductory background is the Hyper Zone Boss Butch background, its coloration is undeniably akin to Zero's; it takes on the appearance of Zero during one of its attacks, not to mention that the floor of the altar had changed from the Hyper Zone, Dark Star, and now to Another Dimension, it is very likely that Void Termina is in fact, none other than Zero itself, a reincarnation of the being, or even its Monster Progenitor.
• Pause screen descriptions for each of the Three Mage-Sisters in Soul Melter EX reveals their backstories about how they were on the brink of death and how Hyness saved them. Zan Partizanne, in particular, was struck by lightning at the stormy time when she desperately climbed the tower. In the Japanese texts, it was stated that prior to that, Zan Partizanne had lost everything. With that in mind, it seems like Zan had...unpleasant reasons to climb that tower.
• Heroes in Another Dimension isn't the first game to use Parallel bosses; Team Kirby Clash Deluxe had Parallel Susie and Parallel Landia, Parallel versions of characters who are associated with Another Dimension. Now considering what we know about how Parallel bosses are formed via the pause descriptions in this game, is it a sign that Susie and Landia had a run-in with Void Termina or a Jamba Heart? Is it a sign that their past defeats could have formed a parallel counterpart in the first place? Or is it a sign that there's more than two ways for a Parallel counterpart to form? And if that's the case, what else may have a Parallel counterpart?
• After years and years of theories that she's the Sole Survivor from that planet, the fact that Adeleine's Nostalgia Level in her Guest Star route is a throwback to Shiver Star out of all the areas from that game seems oddly specific.
• Drawcia was considered to be a Dream Friend at one point, meaning she may very well still be around. Of course, this scrapped idea might mean she's turned over a new leaf. Hope so, considering Vividria, one of Kirby's new friends, is implied to be her little sister. Her being around is very possible, considering Vividria doesn't seem nearly as powerful, but like every midboss and enemy Kirby can befriend, she shows up no worse for wear next time he faces her. For that matter, Paintra might still be around too if her implied sisters are. Marx suffered a fate far worse than either Vividria or Drawcia did and he's okay, meaning...
  • For that matter, Drawcia just turned Dreamland into a big painting in her game, and then Triple Deluxe suggests she's Paintra's sister, and the two were separated, making Paintra hungry for revenge. Was Drawcia a similar case? It gets worse when you consider Drawcia is one of the bosses referenced by Void.
  • It's not 100% certain that Drawcia turned over a new leaf. Marx is Ambiguously Evil, and Dark Meta Knight is clearly evil, only pretending to help so he could steal the Jamba Hearts and use them to destroy everything. Though it's not impossible that Drawcia started her being a Dream Friend as an Enemy Mine to keep Vividria safe and then Drawcia to have a genuine Heel–Face Turn thanks to her love for Vividria. Again, as stated above, it's implied that it wasn't just jealousy towards the inhabitants of Popstar involved in Drawcia's motive in Canvas Curse, but rage at being separated from her sisters.
  • Alternatively, consider that Drawcia's first instinct when she saw Kirby was to run, indicating that she knew the threat he posed. Now, if she's truly still around, she knows full well that he can defeat her true form, even without his limbs. Therefore, she may be smart enough not to try it again.
  • Another bit of Fridge Horror involving Drawcia: Paintra DX's description stated that Drawcia and Paintra were created by an unknown artist wielding a paintbrush. The description also states that the artist in question likely regrets giving her form. All things considered, Drawcia's creator is likely Adeleine. Though Adeleine's regret may not be regarding Drawcia and Paintra themselves, but paintings she made while under Dark Matter's influence, since those creations are nothing but Dark Matter's puppets. Which may explain why Void references Drawcia.
• Here's some horror for you, the Jambastion Mages are willing to follow Hyness even after it's clear the Jamba Heart has made him cuckoo-for-coco-puffs, right? Imagine what it must've been like to see the guy who saved and raised them slowly losing his mind and not being able to stop it. Hell, Hyness has a quote that indicates Zan knows what was happening to him. With all that in mind and the fact that it takes a whole DLC story for them to realize how fruitless their efforts with the Jamba Heart were, and the fact that they never bring up the incident in question, were they aware that Hyness drained and used them as clubs and sacrifices, but couldn't oppose him?
  • For that matter, the fact that Corrupt Hyness just summons logs dressed as the mages seems funny at first, but why would he have those? Did the mages set it up while they were busy elsewhere because they knew he'd probably snap and do that again? Was he so insane at that point that he just set those up to talk with in their absence? Did he just randomly summon logs and slap the trio's clothes on them out of nowhere? Okay, that last one isn't so bad, but you get the point.
  • The Japanese dialogue in Heroes in Another Dimension implies the Mage-Sisters were going to settle the score with Hyness after they fight Kirby, which explains why they're called "Repentant Retaliators" — they're "repenting" because they were working for Hyness, and once they beat the pink puff who helped them snap out of it, they're going to "retaliate" against him.
• The final boss of Soul Melter, Void Soul, is called the "Essence of Chaos". If we go back Void Termina being the origin of all matter, that means Void Soul/Void Termina is likely connected to the Soul bosses Kirby has faced up until this point. So far, the other Souls have been Drawcia Soul, a Laughing Mad Eldritch Abomination; Marx Soul, who is somehow even more Ax-Crazy than Marx is; Magolor Soul, an Empty Shell that seeks to take over the galaxy; Soul of Sectonia, another Empty Shell that begs for death; and Star Dream Soul OS, a cold, mindless killing machine that further resembles the Nova that made Marx Soul. Is Void truly connected to all of those too? Because that also implies Drawcia, Nova, Sectonia, and Star Dream are connected to Dark Matter as well. Let that sink in.
  • It's not too hard to make the connections with Dark Matter. Drawcia is implied to have been created by a Dark Matter-possessed Adeleine. Sectonia was corrupted by the Dimension Mirror, which was corrupted by Dark Mind and kept corrupted by Dark Meta Knight even after Dark Mind's death, and Dark Mind is Ambiguously Related to Dark Matter. And Nova and Star Dream were created by the Ancients of Halcandra, who, according to Magolor, also created the Master Crown.
  • Adding further fuel for Sectonia, "Sullied Grace", the song that plays during the first phase of her fight, before she fuses with the Dreamstalk, has snippets of 02's theme.
  • What's more concerning is the connections between the Soul Bosses and Kirby, since it's implied Void is connected to Kirby as well. That needs to sink in.
    • This web comic, in a Shout-Out to Steven Universe, shows exactly what toll the whole thing takes on Kirby. It's only a matter of time until Kirby will snap just like Steven did...
    • And then you remember there's a theory that Kirby is Galacta Knight ...
• The fact that Parallel Whispy Woods and Parallel Meta Knight are stated in the Japanese version to be the representatives of their grudges against Kirby, imagine what say Parallel Mr. Frosty or Parallel Blocky would be like considering how many times Kirby's beaten them down.

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