"I need you to be my rival. I'm glad you're alive."In the dub
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- The characters Sword and Blade are pretty nice guys in this adaption, and the reason they chose to follow Meta Knight is very heartwarming. Specifically, they were former criminals that enjoyed robbing passengers, up until Meta Knight saved them from the WolfWrath monster.
- In episode 7, Dynablade sheds Tears of Joy upon seeing her newly hatched chick for the first time, being fed bananas by Kirby, after having been led on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the little pink ball for most of the episode after the King's dededeception framed him as having stolen and cooked the hatchling's egg. It's so sweet that it can bring a tear to any eye. Then, when she lands and turns to Kirby while spreading her wings, the pink puff understandably runs and hides, expecting her to continue attacking him... only for the giant bird to gently pet him with her wing, no doubt deeply thankful and regretful after seeing him gently care for her baby.
- The episode "Escargoon Rules", or "Like Mother, Like Snail" to put simply, is like this: Escargoon may be something of a Jerkass, but he will do anything for his mother. He goes as far as to plead the entire town and even Dedede into helping him pretend to be king just as long as she's visiting, all so he can avoid disappointing her and make her proud of his accomplishments. In the end, when she finds out he's not really king after the jig is up, she isn't angry in the slightest; telling him that to her, he will always be king. She even tells off Dedede by saying that Escargoon would be a far better king than him!
- In "Hatch Me If You Can", Kirby looks after a baby Galbo who thinks that he is his mother even after the citizens of Cappy Town consider the Galbo to be a public menace. When he has to fight his real mother as part of a plan by King Dedede, the Galbo ends up coming to his defense in return. When the baby gets injured (and thought to be dead), Kirby steps up to avenge his adopted child.
- Doubling over into Awesome as Kirby was responsible for protecting and hatching the Galbo egg (with some help from Rick in making a ground nest), making sure it was warm and dry in the rain and saving it from being crushed by a large falling tree. While sleeping atop the egg, Kirby has a dream where he transforms into a bird (simply sprouting wings and a beak) and flies towards the egg to happily resume caring for it. And this was an egg that he had only found earlier that day.
- The Japanese preview for the episode is narrated by Kirby himself. As you can expect, it's adorable.
- When Kawasaki's teacher, Chef Shiitake, visits the village, and strips Kawasaki of the right to cook, Kawasaki finds a hallucinatory additive that also doubles as an amazing spice, and he effectively ruins Shiitake's reputation thinking that he uses the additive in regular food. At the end of the episode, Kawasaki's told that the additive was simply a gift for him to teach him that "Taste is something that can change drastically because of little changes". When Kawasaki asks what's going to happen to Shiitake now that his reputation's ruined, he simply laughs it off, and tells Kawasaki that it doesn't really matter since Kawasaki learned something.
- During Episodes 35-36 (Japanese), Dedede starts a national race, and among the contestants are the mayor and his wife. Throughout the preparations for the race, the mayor's wife Hana is startled to find that her husband has become so intent on winning the race that he seems to have forgotten their anniversary. When the mayor wins the race, he immediately gives the trophy to his wife, stating that he wanted to win the race and present her the trophy to celebrate their anniversary.
- When Mabel predicts the planet's destruction via collision with a red star, everyone resigns to their fates, and decide to all come together at Dedede's castle. There, they begin confessing and apologizing amongst one another for past grievances and for anything they did wrong to each other.
- Dedede also joins in deciding, that before he dies, he should make at least one person happy. As such, he destroys his own statue to build a park and then immediately finds Kirby and drives from his home to show him the park. As Kirby plays, Dedede finally accepts his fate and cries tears of joy, having at least made someone happy. Even better is that the playground he built reappears in future episodes, meaning he didn't do what you'd expect and destroy it to make room for another ego project after the end of the world was prevented.
- Even better is the fact that the music playing while Kirby plays is the ending theme to Kirby Super Star.
- And to top it off, this event basically gives Dedede a part in saving the world. Since he took Kirby from the shelter of his home to the playground, this left him open to be blown into Tiff's view by high winds whipped up by the asteroid, giving her the idea to summon the warp star to finish the job.
- Kirby's utter delight at seeing his own animation work on Cartoon Bufoon.
- Waddle Doo is not hostile towards Kirby in this series and treats him nicely, sometimes intentionally helping him. For example, in Ep. 43/48 (Tourist Trap), Tiff tells some foreign language speaking tourists to throw Kirby some ice that was given to them so that he can become Ice Kirby and defeat a fiery monster. With no prompting needed, Waddle Doo turns to the tourists instantly and translates Tiff's instructions.
- King Dedede and Escargoon forming an Enemy Mine with Tiff, Tuff and Kirby to confront the Pengi that froze their home over in Episode 66.King Dedede: You won't be laughing long! (referring to the Pengi laughing at Dedede's hammy adverts on TV)Pengi: Who let you in?Tiff: Don't even try to put up a fight!Tuff: Cause if you do, Kirby will show you who's boss around here!Tiff, Dedede, Escargoon and Meta Knight: (all nodding) Mm-hmm!
- In Episode 68, after discovering that Kirby didn’t deliver King Dedede’s noodles yesterday which causes him to prank call everyone into ordering 100 of a meal so the deliveries will only go to him causing the delivery system to be a failure, Tiff decides to find Kirby ever since she told not to eat the noodles on the way to the castle. Once she does find him, she apologizes to him for not thinking that he would be able to resist eat the noodles. As Tiff tells him that they shall go home, she picks up the box of noodles and realizes that it's not empty because once she opens the box, she finds the noodles have not been eaten at all. Then she gives Kirby the Big Damn Hug saying that he hasn’t backed down on her orders and he put in all of his trust in her. It's a sign of Character Development for the protagonist and it's the ultimate proof that both Kirby and Tiff have the best dynamic in the entire show.Tiff: Kirby! (gives Kirby a hug and giggles happily) You’re a real professional after all.Kirby: Poyo!Tiff: You’re great, Kirby.Kirby: Poyo!Tiff: (giggles happily again)
- Bonkers' life is quite sad in the sense that he was captured by a circus troupe, and trained to be an attraction, and was subjected to various abusive treatments. One time, he watched Kirby from his captor's television from a cage, and eventually decides to leave to find his idol. When he does, he does everything he can to impress Kirby, but Bonkers ends up being captured by Dedede and is turned into a monster bent on killing Kirby. Even in his monster form, Bonkers still retained enough sanity to stop attacking, and began to cry, giving Kirby a much needed opening. At the end of the episode, Bonkers leaves to continue his own training, waving goodbye to his idol.
- In episode 93, after a "practical joke" by Dedede and Escargoon involving dozens of watermelons spiked with TIME BOMBS for Kirby's consumption, Tiff decides enough is enough and makes a plan to get him back by getting everyone to pretend the prank KILLED Kirby and inviting Dedede to the memorial. Not only does he seem genuinely sad that Kirby died, he reacts with Tears of Joy when the prank is revealed, saying that ruling Dream Land was boring before Kirby showed up, and that he NEEDS him as his enemy. A great moment to cement the king turning away from his Adaptational Villainy.King Dedede: (crying with joy) I'M GLAD HE'S OKAAAAAAAAY!
- At the start of the episode, Dedede discovers the town holds Appreciation Days for every civilian... except him, who they have nothing to appreciate over. Even his Waddle Dee minions refuse to celebrate him. As he gets more desperate and lonely however, Tiff suggests they take pity and give him one present. Kirby is sent to deliver it, knowing Dedede will appreciate it most from him. Expectedly Dedede throws an enormous welcome celebration when Kirby comes with the gift, a watermelon. Unfortunately, Kirby's gluttony ruins the gift and leads to a tantrum and aforementioned revenge prank by Dedede.
- After pranking Kirby, Dedede doesn't just leave it at that. He begins trying to buy an item for Kirby for being a good sport about it. The only thing that stops him is when he gets an invitation for Kirby's (fake) memorial, prompting him to stop his shopping and drive into town at full speed to investigate.
- In light of discovering his 0% Approval Rating, Dedede points out at least Escargoon is hated as well. That immediate moment Escargoon gets a package of sweets from his mother.
- When Kirby and friends take Phan Phan to Kirby's house to keep the elephant-like monster from destroying the village, Kirby begins to present Phan Phan with apples. Unfortunately for Kirby, he eats all but one of the apples before he can do himself. He then notices that Kirby is very disappointed that he couldn't eat a single one, and decides to just give Kirby the last apple.
