That's exactly what it is...Shadow Kirby from Triple Deluxe.
Its too dark to be Meta Knight's body color.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.... No?
Shadow Kirby is grayscaled in Amazing Mirror and an iridescent black in Triple Deluxe's Kirby Fighters sub-game, like an oil puddle. A flat black body with purple shoes and yellow bead eyes makes me think that color is a reference to Meta Knight's NES sprite, where he was black instead of dark blue, presumably because of palette limitations.
I sure said that!Kirby doesn't really look like he has a flat black color, to me it looked like a dark purple.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I'm still holding on to my seemingly ignored point that it could easily be based on Meta Knight's original design which was, in fact, black. I posted official art and a screen cap and everything.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!I'm saying this thread has the tendency to start a conversation and then drag it on way past its welcome.
And then go back to it two or three topics later.
I'm almost terrified of what this thread's going to be like once the game is actually released.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!

It also resembles the Bomb Boos
◊ from Super Mario Galaxy, though that seems a little too random and weirdly specific to be more than a coincidence to me.
EDIT: "It" referring to Kirby's Meta-Knight alt palette.
edited 23rd Aug '14 6:11:16 PM by FawfulCrump