Kirby - Other Major Antagonists / Characters

The various solo main antagonists of the Kirby games.

By the very nature of these characters being standalone villains, a large majority of them are full-blown Walking Spoilers, so all spoilers will be completely unmarked, and caution is heavily advised.

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General

Walking Spoiler: Just about every character on this page only reveal their true selves late into the story, some of them to the point even knowing they exist spoils the reveal behind their respective games' plots. The only exception is Necrodeus, since his status as Mass Attack's villain is shown right from the start.
- As he's the final boss of Adventure, Nightmare doesn't get even a mention of his existence until the finale reveals he was the reason King Dedede sealed the Fountain of Dreams, meaning talking about him spoils the entire reason behind the plot.
- Hard to talk about Dyna Blade's role in the game without revealing she's just a mother wanting to feed her babies.
- The only non-spoiler thing about Marx is him telling Kirby about Nova at the beginning of Milky Way Wishes.
- Any serious talk about Landia will inevitably give away the fact he's actually a Hero Antagonist guarding the Master Crown from Magolor.
- While there is some slight amount of spoilers relating to the Master Crown being the target for Magolor's secret villain scheme in the original game, come the Deluxe version it gains a massively boosted role in the Magolor Epilogue, recontextualizing just about everything behind Magolor's original scheme.
- While, unlike most other villain examples, Drawcia's existence and Big Bad role can be noted without spoiling anything, it's hard to seriously talk about her without mentioning the fact her Drawcia Soul form heavily influences many moves for almost every Superboss and several regular Final Bosses that appeared after her introduction.
- Yin-Yarn himself isn't a spoiler, but the two knitting needles are his true identity.
- Bringing Claycia up is impossible without getting spoiled because her boss battle reveals that she was possessed by Dark Crafter.
- Dark Crafter's mere existence is Kirby and the Rainbow Curse's big twist, especially since it reveals that Claycia was under his control the whole time.

Mainline antagonists

Nightmare

Debut: Kirby's Adventure

Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (Super Kirby Clash), Hisao Egawa (Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

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^{Power Orb}

The Final Boss 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.

Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: The fight against Nightmare's Wizard form takes place on the moon, which has a light blue floor with stars on it and a wide view of space off in the background. The remake redesigns the arena to have a dark purple and yellow floor with a very dark black and orange sky.
Astral Finale: The first phase of his fight takes up high up in space as Kirby is slowly descending towards Popstar's atmosphere. The second phase takes place on the moon, with a scrolling floor and stars on it.
Attack Its Weak Point: Nightmare's wizard form must be damaged by attacking his tornado-shaped core, which only appears when he opens his cape to attack.
Badass Cape: 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.
The Bus Came Back: He (or, well, Parallel Nightmare) returns as a major antagonist in Super Kirby Clash after being absent in the other modern-style games in the series.
The Cameo: 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 Super Kirby Clash, a trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, a Spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, on a Character Treat in Dream Buffet, and as a Dress-Up Mask in Return to Dream Land Deluxe.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Unlike almost every other main-series Kirby villain, Nightmare has not been referenced in any of the games directed by Shinya Kumazaki outside of cameo appearances, and the only time he returned as a boss was for a sub-game in Kirby Mass Attack. This also means that he hasn't been tied into any of the lore additions from the Kumazaki games (other than the Star Rod being a creation of the Ancients). He's much more prominent in media outside of the games, being the Big Bad in the anime and an Assist Character and trophy/Spirit in the Super Smash Bros. series. A boss resembling him appears in the spin-off title Super Kirby Clash as the Big Bad, dubbed "Parallel Nightmare".
Cool Crown: Wears a cool horned crown (that is if those horns aren't naturally his).
Cosmic Motifs: He has stars surrounding him in his Power Orb form, and he has stars on his cape in his true form. Accordingly, he has Star Power.
Creepy Long Fingers: Fitting for his skeletal appearance, Nightmare has some rather long, bone-like fingers.
Dark Is Evil: He's an evil personification of nightmares that attempts to spread nightmares to everyone in Dream Land. His color scheme is also more sinister than the other characters, being largely black with shades of dark purple and dull blue. Additionally, his ability as an Assist Tropy in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has him cover the entire screen in darkness.
Deface of the Moon: His defeat has him explode, giving the moon a permanent crescent shape.
Evil Sorcerer: Looks like one in his true form, which is called "Nightmare Wizard".
Evil Counterpart: To Kirby. Both of them attack with star projectiles (Kirby spits out stars when he inhales enemies at default and is able to shoot stars out of the Star Rod, while Nightmare is able to shoot stars freely), but while Kirby is heroic and wants to restore dreams to Dream Land, Nightmare is an evil personification of nightmares that tries to spread bad dreams.
Final Boss: In Kirby's Adventure, its remakes, and Kirby Mass Attack's Strato Patrol EOS mode.
Generic Doomsday Villain: Nightmare only really exists in the games as a bigger threat that King Dedede had to keep sealed away, and receives very little characterization besides being evil, destructive, and nightmares personified.
Greater-Scope Villain: The plot is caused by King Dedede trying to keep him sealed.
High-Altitude Battle: In his initial Power Orb form, after Kirby is shot at him by King Dedede, the battle takes place in space. You have to complete the phase before Kirby hits the ground and dies. Then the second phase is this on the ground... on the moon!
Jerkass: Showed up out of nowhere and tried to give the people of Dream Land nightmares for no clear reason besides For the Evulz.
Killed Off for Real: Not stated outright, but he's one of the few Kirby main villains to never return in a Kirby installment, except in remakes, non-canon spin-offs, and minigames, which all but states that Kirby destroying him with the Star Rod ended him for good.
Knight of Cerebus: He starts the tradition of Kirby villains serving as examples of Vile Villain, Saccharine Show, as compared to Dedede just being a greedy glutton, he's trying to spread his nightmares all over Dream Land.
Lean and Mean: He doesn't have much of a body to speak of, but his arms are almost skeletal.
Living Dream: The Fountain of Dreams is where people's dreams come from on Popstar. Nightmare himself is the embodiment of bad dreams.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His name is "Nightmare" and he happens to be a villain.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Kirby frees him by defeating King Dedede and re-forming the Star Rod.
Nightmare Weaver: According to the Hoshi no Kirby Character Daizukan, Nightmare would have tried to spread, well, nightmares all across Dream Land if King Dedede hadn't stopped him in time.
Obviously Evil: He's named "Nightmare", is a dark being with horns, and he wants to give Dream Land nightmares.
Purple Is Powerful: The bottom of his Power Orb form is purple, and his true form's cape and shades have dark shades of purple on them. He's also a powerful wizard embodied from nightmares.
Ret-Canon: 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.
Sealed Evil in a Can: 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.
Sequential Boss: He's fought twice - once as his Power Orb form and then as his true form.
Sinister Schnoz: He has a long and pointy nose, and is an evil wizard that corrupts the Fountain of Dreams to spread nightmares for everyone in Dream Land.
Slasher Smile: His default expression, which shows a mouth of sharp teeth.
Spell My Name With An S: Literally, as Nightmare in Dream Land calls him "the Nightmares".
Star Power: His Power Orb form is covered in stars, and he attacks by firing star-shaped projectiles at Kirby.
Suddenly Voiced: In Super Kirby Clash, courtesy of his anime voice actor, Banjo Ginga ^note.
Sunglasses at Night: In his Wizard form, he wears a pair of sunglasses despite the battle taking place at night.
Teleport Spam: Starts a proud tradition among Kirby final bosses.
Time-Limit Boss: In his first form, the player is fighting him in freefall, and they therefore have a limited amount of time to defeat him before he departs and Kirby will hit the ground and die.
Thin Chin of Sin: He's got a prolonged thin chin and happens to be a villain.
Throat Light: In Nightmare in Dream Land.
Unexpected Shmup Level: Especially for the fight against his Power Orb form, where it flies around and shoots projectiles as Kirby shoots stars from the Star Rod.

Dyna Blade

Debut: Kirby Super Star

A huge bird that is responsible for stealing all of the crops in Dream Land in the event of the Dyna Blade scenario.

Anti-Villain: All the damage she does is unintentional, and she was just trying to feed her babies.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In Air Ride, Dyna Blade is inexplicably the size of a skyscraper.
Battle Theme Music: In Air Ride and Super Star Ultra, her theme is a remix of Castle Lololo's theme. She shares this theme with King Dedede in the former game, and Wham Bam Rock & Jewel in the latter game.
Big Bad: Of the titular Dyna Blade game.
Breath Weapon: She fires air shots that light Kirby on fire.
The Bus Came Back: 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.
The Cameo:
- She makes one in Mass Attack's sub-game, Kirby Quest, where the Kirbys can summon her as an attack that deals high damage to all enemies.
- She's a keychain in Triple Deluxe and a sticker in Planet Robobot.
- In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, she's available as a trophy.
- She can occasionally be spotted flying behind Castle Dedede on the Dream Land map in Kirby Star Allies.
Giant Flyer: Kirby is roughly the size of her talon. She's larger in the anime.
Good All Along: At first it seems like she's stealing all the crops just to be evil, but after beating her, Kirby finds out she was just trying to feed her hungry chicks, and so he feeds them some apples. There also doesn't seem to be any hard feelings between the two, as she helps out Kirby in Revenge of Meta Knight later.
Heel–Face Turn: At the end of Dyna Blade and in Revenge of Meta Knight. She wasn't really that evil to begin with, though.
Monster Is a Mommy: The food crisis she caused was to feed her baby birds.
Noble Bird of Prey: Though she is wrecking up crop fields.
Razor Wings: She can go right through a tree and two hills!

Marx

Debut: Kirby Super Star

^{True Form}

^{Click here for spoilers}

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

A mischievous, seemingly friendly Waddling Head who wants Kirby to ask the wish-granting comet Nova to stop the sun and moon's fighting... except he's actually evil, is the one who caused said fight in the first place, and is just using Kirby as a pawn in order to wish for control of Popstar. He acts as the main true antagonist of the game mode Milky Way Wishes and of Kirby Super Star and its remake overall. He's reappeared a few times in the franchise as either foe or ally.

Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: His fight takes place on an unknown planet or moon with purple ground, some odd-colored mountains in the background, and a full view of space, almost like the one Kirby fought Nightmare on. Once you start depleting his health, the stars in the background will start changing color. The real example comes during the fight with Marx Soul, however: the fight takes place in a strange dimension with multicolored tiles and a mystifying, lava lamp-esque background.
Ambiguously Evil: His pause description in Star Allies differs between regions. In English, it states that he'll remain your pal so long as he's well-fed, which would suggest that his actions in Super Star were Disproportionate Retribution in his eyes. The Japanese version, however, goes out of its way to tell us that Marx is still evil and is only in a temporary alliance with Kirby simply because the world he wanted to conquer was going to be destroyed, and he was only in it to save himself. That said, his true alignment after this game remains dubious at best.
Armless Biped: Normally he's a Walking Head without any hands/arms. But after getting his power-up from Nova, he gains two additional limbs (wings, in this case).
Art Evolution: It's not subtle, but Star Allies does tweak his appearance somewhat from his debut (he has a longer jester hat, larger eyes and slightly smaller pupils, bigger shoes, and his lavender skin leans towards more of a shade of purple).
Astral Finale: The battle against him takes place in an odd battlefield in space. The place where you battle Marx Soul is more ominous and darker.
Ax-Crazy: He was already this when alive, but when Marx Soul shows up...
Back from the Dead:
- The Ultra-exclusive Marx Soul might be this. It's unclear whether he was already dead or not before taking a bit of Nova's power into himself, but that act sure "restarts" him.
- Also, somehow he's not dead in Star Allies despite being killed by Kirby at least once (twice if Marx Soul counts).
Badass Adorable:
- His combat form is not really adorable. He's standard Dream Land cute before his transformation, however.
- Star Allies downsizes his boss form to match his normal form and mixes elements of the two together, giving him a more cutesy appearance while transformed.
Barely-Changed Dub Name:
- His name in katakana is closer transcribed as "Mark", although Japanese versions still write it in English as "Marx". This is likely because the spelling used was rather uncommon to begin with (Maruku instead of Māku).
- The German and French localizations change his name to "Max", possibly to avoid associations with Karl Marx or Marxists. The Italian localization also uses "Mark" instead of "Marx", although as mentioned above, it's a more literal romanization of his Japanese name.
Bat Out of Hell: Invoked. Once he reveals his true form, giving him wings and fangs, he looks quite bat-like, with his two-pointed jester cap resembling the ears. He also swoops and flutters in a bat-like way. This shows that (aside from in Star Allies), he's evil and a monster, as bats are usually stereotyped. It may also have to do with the term "batty," meaning unstable, which is fitting for how Marx gets drunk with power. Interestingly, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, as well as the Japanese-exclusive Hoshi no Kirby Character Daizukan, suggest that this "transformation" is actually his true form, and the cute ball was simply a form he took on to gain Kirby's trust.
Marx's profile: "A mischievous clown. In his first appearance, he used Kirby and tried to take over Popstar, where Kirby and his friends live, for himself. When he gets ready for battle, he starts to attack with his huge wings spread and his teeth bared."
Battle Boomerang: He can throw out four boomerang cutters at different directions. Marx Soul throws two sets at a time. In Star Allies he can also do this if he uses the wind element into his ball.
Big Bad: Of Milky Way Wishes in Kirby Super Star, and the closest thing to one for the game in general.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He seems like a helpful ordinary citizen of the country who's concerned that day and night have been thrown into chaos. He is actually the perpetrator.
Breakout Villain: He's by and large become one of Kirby's most well-known antagonists, netting him more appearances in the series as a recurring character, which led to him becoming playable in Kirby Star Allies, and becoming a boss character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Breath Weapon: 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.
Bright Is Not Good: His color scheme is oddly very vibrant for a Kirby Big Bad, with his bright lavender body and large golden wings with multicolored, flashing hexagon membranes.
The Bus Came Back: 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.
Call-Back: Marx Soul's defeat is strikingly reminiscent to Nightmare's fate in Adventure. Both scream and explode before the entire arena they were fighting Kirby on begins exploding.
The Cameo:
- He appears in one of the unlockable pictures in Squeak Squad.
- A statue of him is one of Stone's forms in Kirby's Return to Dream Land. 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 (and 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.
- In Super Kirby Clash, he appears as a sticker in his regular form and his Soul form. The Rarity 14 gear for Beam Mage is also based on him, which is reused in Kirby Fighters 2.
- In Return to Dream Land Deluxe, he and his soul form appear as Dress-Up Masks.
The Chessmaster: The plot of Milky Way Wishes is entirely his Evil Plan. Sure, a Kirby villain who works by themselves is no surprise. However, Marx had to manipulate a lot of events into happening before getting his power.
Color-Coded Elements: In Star Allies, Marx's crystalline wings change color to match the element he's currently charged with. The balls on his hat also show elemental effects, such as swirling gust of wind or fireballs.
Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Marx's giggles and laughs are all high pitched and very creepy. Marx Soul's voice is slightly deeper, but his disturbing cackling is distorted, which keeps up the creepiness.
Cute and Psycho: Marx's boss form is sort of cute with its big eyes and Heart Symbols, but you can tell from his expression that something is wrong with him.
Cute Little Fangs: His Star Allies appearance gives him noticeable fangs even in his regular form. Unlike his One-Winged Angel boss form, they're much shorter, which ends up making his already quite cute normal appearance even cuter.
Dash Attack: One of his attacks in Star Allies is him flying forward to tackle his enemies.
Death Cry Echo: Marx Soul lets out a horrendously nightmarish scream as he dies after his defeat.
Death from Above: 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. Marx Soul also borrows Drawcia Soul's rain of paint attack.
Dub Personality Change: In Star Allies, Marx's reason for siding with Kirby is different between versions. In English, it's suggested that his actions in Super Star were the result of hunger, and he'll be your friend if you keep him fed. In all other versions, it reveals that Marx is only joining the heroes in an act of self-preservation because the Jambastion cult was planning to destroy the universe - Popstar included. He can't do mischief in a universe where everything and everyone is destroyed, so he pulls an Enemy Mine to stop them.
Enemy Mine: Only agreed to help Kirby in Star Allies because a greater threat was looming and he knew Kirby was one of the strongest fighters alive.
Evil All Along: He initially seems like a friendly denizen of Popstar who wants you to stop the sun and moon from fighting. In actuality, he's the reason they're fighting to begin with, and is just waiting to steal your wish from Nova.
Evil Counterpart: Acts as one to Kirby. Both are small spherical Dream Land denizens who wield great power. But while Kirby is friendly and willing to help others in need, Marx is deceitful and would rather make playthings over playmates out of others.
Evil Plan: He seeks to attain power so he can cause as much trouble as he pleases.
Evil Versus Oblivion: This is given as his reason for being a playable character in the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions 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, and afraid the world he wishes to rule might be in danger — so he decides to form a temporary alliance with Kirby and friends to stop them.
Fangs Are Evil: He gets two prominently long upper fangs when he goes One-Winged Angel. He also has these by default in Star Allies, possibly as a result of his prior transformation.
Faux Affably Evil: Aside from the unclear nature of the implied friendship he has with Magolor (who actually was Affably Evil, and even reformed and made amends with Kirby after being freed from the Master Crown's control), Marx is a dead ringer for this trope. In Super Star, he's cute, he's cheerful... and he gleefully knocks Kirby aside to fumble in the depths of space once he gets what he wants, topping it off with a peppy "See you later!" as he goes off to seize Popstar for shits and giggles. As for Star Allies, Marx's Flavor Text itself finds his sudden change of heart "unbelievable" at first, but also alleges that he won't try to do anything sinister anymore... so long as you don't leave him hungry, assuming that was why he did all those bad things in the first place. The Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions instead get to the point and make it clear that he's only hanging around Kirby and pals to save his own skin from the Jamba Heart threat, pretty much indicating that yes, Marx is still not a good guy.
Final Boss: Of Milky Way Wishes and The Arena, thus making him the general Final Boss of Super Star. He gets an upgrade in Ultra's The True Arena as Marx Soul. In Mass Attack, he's also the Final Boss of Kirby Brawlball.
Fish Eyes: He sometimes gets wall-eyed in his transformed state, as a sign that he's unstable.
Flunky Boss: In Mass Attack, Marx can summon miniature clones of his false form known as Minimarx which Kirby can defeat for two more balls.
For the Evulz: He wants the power to cause all the mischief he wants.
From Nobody to Nightmare: There was nothing to distinguish him from anyone else on Popstar prior to his wish to Nova.
Game Face: For the first split-second when he turns into his true form, Marx flashes a decidedly maddened look. Marx Soul wears that expression constantly.
Generic Doomsday Villain: Marx has no real obvious goal other than wanting to control Popstar for himself, and it's unclear how he would accomplish that even if Kirby hadn't stopped him. His dialogue only indicates that he wants to make mischief above anything else.
Gold-Colored Superiority: His true form has gold-colored wings, and he's the true Big Bad of Milky Way Wishes.
Giggling Villain: As a sign of his descending sanity, Marx laughs constantly during his boss fight. Marx Soul upgrades this to Laughing Mad.
Grapple Move: 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 hitting other enemies (including bosses) with it. The kicked enemy/star will also have the element that he himself currently has.
Green Thumb: He has an attack where he flies out and drops seeds which quickly sprout thorny tendrils. He can replicate this move in Star Allies by infusing his ball with the water element.
Hades Shaded: Marx Soul, the more insane and monstrous form of Marx, has purple skin instead of the original's lavender.
Half the Man He Used to Be: His Black Hole attack allows him to bisect his own body. Marx Soul can also split in half to launch the two halves as projectiles or rain down paint. When defeated, Marx Soul falls into two pieces down the middle before exploding.
Hell Gate: His most powerful attack is one of these, revealed when he splits in half. As Marx Soul, he even starts the battle with it. It comes back in Star Allies as a Charged Attack; sucking up objects and projectiles with it increases its power.
An Ice Person: One of his attacks is to spit an ice bomb out of his mouth that breaks open into two shockwaves when it gets to where Kirby is. The shockwaves will effectively freeze if he doesn't guard, inhale them, or jump out of the way.
Insane Equals Violent: He's an insane jester who steals Kirby's wish by kicking him out of his way and leaving him for dead in the void of space so he can take over Popstar to do whatever he wants. He gets even more insane as Marx Soul.
The Irredeemable Exception: He's the only Final Boss that's actually evil in Super Star. Dedede is merely The Rival, Dyna Blade is just trying to feed her chicks, Wham Bam Rock and Jewel are just bosses standing in the player's way with no characterization, Meta Knight is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who cares deeply for his henchmen, and even Galacta Knight, as aggressive as he is, is only Ambiguously Evil and used to be the legendary Aeon Hero.
It's All About Me: If you aren't Marx, chances are he doesn't care about you. Even him joining Kirby's team in Star Allies is purely out of self-preservation rather than any kindness or concern about anything else.
Knight of Cerebus: Most of Kirby Super Star is fairly lighthearted, Revenge of Meta Knight notwithstanding. Once Marx makes his wish, the story of Milky Way Wishes has genuine stakes, and once he becomes Marx Soul, things get much scarier.
Lack of Empathy: 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 the freedom to cause any sort of mischief.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: His Star Allies description casually mentions that he was the Final Boss of Super Star despite it being supposed to be a Spoiler. The gear based on him in Super Kirby Clash also alludes to this.
Laughing Mad: In his boss fight, Marx is always laughing. On the SNES, it's a small giggle before or after certain attacks, but in Ultra, it's a constant stream of chuckling for every other offensive action he takes. Marx Soul amplifies this with a guttural, distorted cackling.
Legacy Boss Battle: While he is a playable Dream Friend in Star Allies, he also gets a boss fight in the credits of Heroes in Another Dimension (which is the only place where you can fight him—he isn't even in The Ultimate Choice). While he uses the same model as his playable appearance, he's twice the size to make him more similar to his original fight, and all of his attacks act exactly as they do in Super Star. Strangely enough, while his playable appearance uses his giggles from Super Star, his boss appearance uses his giggles from Super Star Ultra.
Lovecraftian Superpower: His aforementioned Hell Gate attack which involves him ripping himself in half. Further emphasized in Star Allies with what could be interpreted as large globs of cyan Alien Blood. Marx's battles in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate also have him do things like cry tears of Symbolic Blood and using his veins as Combat Tentacles.
Magical Clown: He becomes one after gaining his wish from Nova. He becomes even more powerful as Marx Soul.
Maniac Tongue: During his boss fight, Marx Soul has his tongue tucked out constantly, as a sign of his Villainous Breakdown.
Manipulative Bastard: Kirby, the Sun, and the Moon were all doing his bidding unwittingly.
Meaningful Name: He is most likely named after the Marx Brothers, as they were famous comedians and he's a jester type person. He doesn't seem to have any connections to communism.
Morphic Resonance: In Star Allies, even his smaller original form still has the fangs of his larger boss mode.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If Marx hadn't wished on Nova to help him take over Popstar, then maybe the sun and moon wouldn't have stopped fighting and tried to slow the clockwork star down.
Nominal Hero: He's a Dream Friend in Star Allies, but that's only because he's using Kirby's limitless power to save his own skin from the Jambastion cult's universe-threatening actions.
One-Winged Angel:
- After having his wish granted by Nova, he shows off his true form. He grows much larger and reveals a pair of golden claw-wings with the membranes made up of flashing, hologram-like hexagon patterns, and a pair of prominent fangs. It gives him an all-over vampiric or demonic appearance. After his defeat, his smaller form is still used as a Sleep-Mode Size.
- Ultra's True Arena shows that, after his defeat, Marx absorbs the remains of the destroyed Nova and transforms into Marx Soul, a more powerful and insane form of Marx with purple skin, red wings, pointier shoes, a spikier jester hat with inverted colors, and a golden necklace which is supposedly made from the remains of Nova.
Power Gives You Wings: Gains arms that act as wings after being powered up by Nova.
The Prankster: He's simply described as a "mischievous clown", and he wants to take over Popstar so he can cause as much trouble as he pleases. An April Fools' Day post from the official Kirby JP Twitter account features him and Magolor playing a prank on Kirby and the Channel PPP crew that one of the poles in Dream Land will turn into chocolate if they walk around it 25 times. His Grapple Move in Star Allies is also named Prank Kick.
Promoted to Playable: In Kirby Star Allies.
Psycho Pink: Later versions of his powered-up form have pink hexagons, and he's an unstable villain. Also, Marx Soul has pink wings and he's even more unstable.
Purple Is Powerful: He has lavender skin (which is a light shade of purple), purple eyes, his icon in ''Star Allies' is a dark purple, and he's an especially dangerous and unstable villain.
Rain of Arrows: 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.
Ramming Always Works: One of his new attacks as Marx Soul is taken directly from Drawcia Soul, where he splits into two spheres of energy that fly across the screen to ram into Kirby.
Redemption Demotion: Well, "redemption" may be a stretch. He has many of the same abilities in Kirby Star Allies that he did in Kirby Super Star, but most of them are now locked to friends' Elemental Powers, keeping him from being able to use all of them at once.
Reformed, but Not Tamed: Though his teaming up with Kirby and co. in Star Allies was explicitly an act of self preservation on his part rather than any real change of heart, his true alignment after that remains dubious at best. Further muddying these waters is his seeming friendship with Magolor who did have a change of heart but mostly acts as a mischievous prankster to Kirby and his friends.
Satanic Archetype: A bit more downplayed than most examples, especially compared to other Kirby villains, but Marx still fits the bill as a deceitful manipulator with a monstrous, demonic true form who constantly sows chaos for his own amusement.
The Scream: When Marx Soul is defeated, he lets out a particularly hellish one as he splits down the middle.
Shadow Archetype: Marx's sadism and lust for power is a clear representation of what would happen if Kirby's playful, fun-loving personality or incredible power had no love or compassion behind it. Hammering the point home is his similar design to Kirby as a resident of Dream Land (round and cute, and a brightly-colored lavender compared to Kirby's signature pink), his jester hat being a Palette Swap of the one from Kirby's Mirror power-up (having the same blue and red colors but with their positions reversed) prior to its redesign from Planet Robobot onwards, and even mirroring the look of its Mirror Body attack when he splits in half to create a black hole. Star Allies also assumes that he won't cause any problems "if you keep him well-fed", which only hammers this in even further, given how something similar could be described of Kirby himself. In essence, he is the Wario to Kirby's Mario.
Slasher Smile: Marx has a wide, maddened smile in his true form to signify his descending sanity. Marx Soul's smile is even more crazed and it even has a Maniac Tongue to go with it.
Signature Headgear: A two-branched jester hat. It gets more menacing as Marx Soul.
Significant Anagram: His name in Japanese can be rearranged into makuru, meaning either "to come true" (as in, having a wish granted) or "to become greater or more intense" (as in, turning into a vampire clown demon). Or, if you add a space, ma kuru, "the devil comes".
The Sociopath: Manipulated the sun and moon into fighting, stole Kirby's wish so he can cause all the mischief he wants, abandoned Kirby to die in space, and nearly left all on Popstar to die by having Nova ram onto its surface, all with a big smile. Reappears in Star Allies as a helper solely because his own life is in danger if he doesn't.
Super-Empowering: It's implied that Nova's wish is responsible for the powers he gains in his bat-like true form. His fighting style in that form is very similar to that of Star Dream Soul OS, the heart of another Nova.
Super Spit: He can spit freeze bombs. He can also do this in Star Allies, and the balls he spits can be modified by elements.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: According to his bio in Star Allies, he's only working with Kirby because he sensed something supremely dark was about to threaten Popstar. Since his wish had been to rule Popstar, letting it get obliterated doesn't really line up with his goals.
Teleport Spam: Frequently moves around by teleporting.
Through His Stomach: His Star Allies description (outside of Guest Star) states that "he'll be your buddy as long as you keep him well-fed."
Token Evil Teammate: Of the Wave 1 Dream Friends in Kirby Star Allies. Even though he's playable, the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions hint that he has not actually turned over a new leaf and that he is only pulling an Enemy Mine for his own personal gain.
Took a Level in Badass:
- Gets a big one when he makes his wish, growing a pair of golden wings and gaining a bunch of strong moves such as shooting Battle Boomerangs, dropping seeds that turn into thorny vines, and shooting a powerful laser from his mouth.
- In Ultra's True Arena, Marx absorbs parts of Nova's destroyed body, transforming into the even stronger Marx Soul, where he uses attacks from Drawcia Soul and his attacks do more damage.
- In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, while he loses his arrow attack, he gains three new twisted attacks where he can enlarge his eyes to shoot multiple lasers out of them, turn his eyes black and have them bounce around, and spread out his veins across the arena.
Tom the Dark Lord: Named "Mark" in Japanese, Chinese, Italian and Korean, also called "Max" in French and German.
Treacherous Quest Giver: He tasks Kirby with going around the galaxy to gather all of the star power to summon Galactic Nova so the sun and moon will stop fighting. In reality, he's just using Kirby's pure and helpful nature to summon Nova for him so he can wish for power to take over Popstar and cause all sorts of mischief.
True Final Boss: Marx Soul is this in Ultra.
Unexplained Recovery: In Super Star, he was last seen falling into Nova with enough force to blow it up, and, if you count Ultra's The True Arena, having his soul split in half and explode as he screams in agony. Aside from his various cameos, in Kirby Star Allies, 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. Note that the True Arena and Guest Star are supposed to be "separate" from the main stories.
The Unfettered: It's clear Marx doesn't care about what he has to do to get power.
Unrealistic Black Hole: One of his attacks in his super form involves him splitting into 2 parts, and a black circle appearing in the center of the screen, which tries to suck in Kirby and does severe damage if it does. It's also usable when he's playable in Star Allies.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: He's a cute little lavender jester who hops around on a ball and acts as Kirby's friend... who also turns out to be a Manipulative Bastard that is only using him for his personal gain. He's also quite disturbing — his fighting style involves splitting himself in half to create a black hole, and he becomes visibly Ax-Crazy as Marx Soul.
Villainous Breakdown: He experiences this in the True Arena. After Kirby first defeats him, Marx then transforms into Marx Soul and he becomes even more unstable than beforehand, complete with a Maniac Tongue, Slasher Smile, and a distorted cackle. Also, during his death animation, he screams his lungs out.
Villainous Friendship: Some text in Return to Dream Land's Extra Mode and future material suggests that Marx is friends with fellow traitor Magolor. If he really is the friend who told Magolor about Kirby, it would explain why his scheme was so similar to Marx's.
Villainous Glutton: His pause description in Star Allies suggests that he's grown quite an aggressive appetite, and says he'll won't cause any more trouble so long as he's well-fed.
Villainous Harlequin: Even in his superpowered form, he wears a stereotypical jester's cap.
Waddling Head: His small form is just his head and two stubby feet, minus the waddling part since he is usually seen on his ball in this form.
Weaponized Ball: 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 Elemental Powers with the help of certain allies.
Wham Line: Just as Kirby is about to make his wish on Nova...
Marx: Well, I want to control Pop Star!
Wicked Heart Symbol: Once he gains power from Nova, he gains hearts on many parts of his body, especially his glistening wings. Did we mention that he's a psychotic, deceptively cute monster who manipulated Kirby into helping him gain said power?

Landia

Debut: Kirby's Return to Dream Land

An ancient, powerful, four-headed dragon perched in Haldera Volcano, the tallest peak of Halcandra. With a crown on his top-most head, he has been hailed as a guardian angel since ancient times, but recently has become enraged and seems to bear animosity toward Magolor in particular.

Adaptational Villainy: His appearance in the Team Kirby Clash games is more antagonistic than in Kirby's Return to Dream Land, likely done as an effort to keep The Reveal a surprise for newer players.
Alternate Self: Team Kirby Clash Deluxe and Super Kirby Clash feature Parallel Landia, his counterpart from Another Dimension. Unlike the noble Landia of Halcandra, Parallel Landia has been corrupted by the power of the Master Crown just like Magolor. The pause description for Landia EX in Return to Dream Land Deluxe states this is no accident, since he's not entirely immune to the Crown's influence and has to stay on Halcandra in case he loses to it.
Art Evolution: Landia EX gains a unique and more elaborate Master Crown in Team Kirby Clash, which closer resembles how it appears when Magolor EX wears it. Later, Landia received a new model in Super Kirby Clash with fully-modeled teeth (they were previously flat textures on the inside of his mouths), that would later make its way into the remake of his debut game.
Asteroids Monster: When he Turns Red, he splits into four one-headed dragons.
Attack Its Weak Point: Once he splits apart, the dragon wearing the Master Crown takes more damage than the other three.
Big Bad: He's set up as the biggest villain of Kirby's Return to Dream Land. As it turns out, that's exactly what Magolor wanted you to believe.
Big Damn Heroes: After Magolor's defeat, Landia returns to airlift Kirby and his friends out of the unstable interdimensional space.
Call-Back: To Red/Great Dragon, one of Computer Virus' monsters of Kirby Super Star (Ultra). Regular Landia is red like Red Dragon, while Landia EX is purple colored just like Great Dragon in Helper to Hero. Both can also breathe fire and "flap gigantic wings".
The Cameo:
- Paintra summons copies of Landia through her magic painting in Kirby: Triple Deluxe.
- He appears as a Spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Charged Attack: When you ride on him, you can charge his star shots to fire stronger stars in a Spread Shot.
Cool Crown: He wears the Master Crown, an artifact created long ago that grants its wearer incredible power.
Crafted from Animals: In Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, Sword Hero can gain a sword and helmet based on Landia as a high-grade equipment. It returns in Super Kirby Clash.
Dash Attack: He has an attack where he simply swoops down and then away from the screen before coming back. Each of his split bodies can also do this. When you ride on him, you can also perform a similar ramming attack where you briefly become invincible.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Landia EX's bio in the Japanese and Korean versions of Team Kirby Clash ask the player to "create a legend together with your friends" by beating him, which means standing up to Landia at his full strength and winning is the stuff of myth in-universe.
Disc-One Final Boss:
- In Return to Dream Land he definitely had a final boss aura around him, being a giant dragon that was behind Magolor's exile. But then 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, and the credits roll afterwards... but then even more powerful enemies appear, including yet another Landia.
Dragons Are Demonic: In Return to Dream Land, Landia rules over the hellish planet Halcandra, and he's malevolent enough to shoot down the Lor Starcutter the minute it enters Halcandra's atmosphere. The "demonic" part is subverted, however, when he helps Kirby and friends stop Magolor from falling victim to the Master Crown (which he was guarding all along) and its destructive influence.
Dragons Are Divine: In the Clash titles, Landia is hailed as a four-headed guardian god, and he's even fought at the summit of the Empyrean as one might expect from a deity. His boss battle music even refers to him as a "Guardian Angel."
Final Boss: In Team Kirby Clash, Landia EX serves as the final boss.
Gameplay and Story Integration: Unlike most EX bosses, Landia is shown visibly transforming into Landia EX in every appearance. Accordingly, he's described as "unleashing his true power" when he does so in the Clash titles.
Go-Karting with Bowser: Even though Magolor tried to steal the Master Crown and take over the universe, Landia has no problem with visiting his theme park after completing the game.
Good All Along: 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.
Green and Mean: All of his eyes are green and he's a villain. Subverted as he's Good All Along.
Hero Antagonist: He only seeks to keep the power of the Master Crown out of the wrong (i.e. Magolor's) hands.
Heroic Willpower: Even though Landia tries to keep the Master Crown out of the wrong hands, he's still not immune to its effects—in Return to Dream Land Deluxe, Landia EX's description reveals that he struggles to maintain control while wearing the crown. This is likely why he lives in solitude on the deserted Halcandra where there's nothing to destroy but ruins, just in case he loses out to the crown.
Hive Mind: In the Hoshi no Kirby Character Daizukan, Landia's profile implies that it's actually a hive-mind of four dragons that usually stay combined into one larger hydra.
Landia's profile: A dragon with 4 bodies who lives in the far reaches of Halcandra, and the last boss of Halcandra. Normally takes the shape of a huge dragon with 4 heads. Struck down Magolor's ship, the Lor. Has considerable flying abilities, and soars through the sky while breathing fire during battle.
Horns of Villainy: Landia has horns on each of his heads (two for the top and bottom heads and three for the left and right heads), but the "Villainy" part is ultimately subverted after the reveal that he's Good All Along.
Innocent Blue Eyes: His eyes turn blue when he becomes an ally.
It Can Think: At first glance he seems like just a very territorial beast with a grudge against Magolor, but not only is he guarding the Master Crown because he has full comprehension of its immense power that would be dangerous in the wrong hands (such as Magolor's), his Good All Along reveal comes with him easily forgiving Kirby and co. for beating him up before immediately helping them chase after the Lor Starcutter, implicitly inferring that he fully understands how the quartet were only Unwitting Pawns to Magolor.
Kaleidoscope Eyes: Landia starts out with green eyes. Then when he Turns Red, he gets red eyes. Finally, after his defeat, he's depicted with blue eyes for the remainder of the game. Landia EX has violet eyes, and Parallel Landia has yellow eyes.
MacGuffin Guardian: He has protected the land and legendary treasures since the ancient times, most notably the Master Crown, and a good thing too considering how dangerous these relics are in the wrong hands.
Me's a Crowd: He does just this by splitting from one four-headed dragon into four one-headed dragons.
Multiple Head Case: In his normal state, Landia has four heads.
Our Dragons Are Different: He's a hydra-like beast at first, before he splits into four.
Playing with Fire: 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.
Physical God: He's referred to as a Guardian Angel. The Japanese term, mamorigami, can also be translated as "guardian deity" or "guardian god". He's an immensely powerful dragon, even without the limitless power of the Master Crown.
Power-Up Mount: What's the only thing cooler than defeating a dragon? Riding on his back in the next level! Another Dimension immediately becomes an Unexpected Shmup Level where you fly around and shoot things with the mini-Landias (akin to the Starship from Kirby Super Star), including the battle against Lor Starcutter.
Purple Is Powerful: In his EX form, he turns purple and is much stronger since it appears that his EX form is what Landia becomes when he fights at full strength.
Red Baron: In Japanese, he's consistently referred to as the Four-Headed Guardian Angel (4つ首の守り神). This is translated consistently as just Guardian Angel in the Clash games and Deluxe, but is also seen in variants like "four-headed dragon" and "4-headed guardian".
Red Herring: Magolor claims that the dragon was the one who wrecked his ship in the first place, and tells Kirby and his group to defeat Landia. Not only is Landia not the final boss, but he isn't villainous at all. He was merely trying to stop Magolor from taking the Master Crown.
Sad Battle Music: Standing in stark contrast with the fast and upbeat main boss theme of the game, Landia's boss theme is notably slow and melancholic, which not only gives off the vibe of this feeling like a final battle, but also demonstrates how Landia isn't evil, but is just an Anti-Villain who is only fighting back because he doesn't want the universe to crumble in the hands of the Master Crown.
Shock and Awe: After he Turns Red and splits into four, the split bodies can generate electric lines between themselves in distinct patterns.
The Speechless: Despite being both sapient and benevolent, Landia never has any dialogue, and is presumably incapable of speech outside of roaring.
Super Mode: Landia EX is apparently what happens when Landia fights at full strength.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
- His playable appearance in the final level is very similar to the Starship from Super Star, given that the first part of the final level is a call-back to the Galactic Nova Nucleus level from the same game.
- A large red creature who's also an Anti-Villain who fights Kirby over a major misunderstanding who later sides with Kirby to stop the Big Bad from trying to conquer Dream Land before being shot down by said Big Bad? He's clearly a dragon version of Dyna Blade.
Tail Slap: One of his attacks is slapping Kirby with his tail thrice.
Villains Out Shopping: He shows up in Merry Magoland after you defeat him, flying around the castle and passively watching the festivities. Granted, he isn't truly villainous.
Wind from Beneath My Wings: Landia can flap his wings to push Kirby back and fire Razor Winds, not unlike the Great Dragon from Super Star.

The Master Crown

Debut: Kirby's Return to Dream Land

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A mysterious ancient crown guarded by Landia. It is said that wearing this crown will grant the wearer unlimited power. Magolor intends to get his hands on this crown so he can take over the universe. Deluxe reveals it had plans of its own, and at the end of the Magolor Epilogue it decides to take matters into its own hands due to Magolor's Heel–Face Turn.

Alternate Character Reading: Its leaves are referred to as "双葉" (normally read as futaba, or, "cotyledons") in the Japanese version, but with the furigana "moroha", which means "double-edged sword". It's fitting because it can use those leaves to tear its enemies apart, but it also fits because the Master Crown itself is a "double-edged sword" that grants power in exchange for its wearer's soul.
Ambiguously Related: It has a prominent eye symbol in all of its forms and has the ability to possess its wearer, with Magolor Soul (who is an Empty Shell controlled by the crown) having an eye inside his mouth. All of this suggests that it may be connected to Dark Matter, which is backed up by the fact that both are heavily referenced in Void Termina's fight. In the finale of the Magolor Epilogue, it unleashes a Beam Spam that's nearly identical to Void Termina's crown attack once it Turns Red.
Amplifier Artifact: Its pause descriptions explain that the crown exerts control over the person wearing it by magnifying the darkness hidden inside their heart — as Deluxe puts it, "Those who wear the Master Crown will gain power, but so will the darkness in their hearts."
Ancient Artifact: It's a magical crown from the time of the Ancients that grants its wearers nigh-omnipotence.
Angelic Abomination: The form it takes during the finale of Magolor Epilogue is a massive tree with angelic wings and a large, spiked halo above its head.
Arc Words:
- The Master Crown is strongly associated with the phrase "hatred and obsession". These emotions are mentioned in Magolor Soul's pause description, and they were inside Hyness's heart when he awoke Void Termina, who summons copies of the Crown as an attack (which is referred to as "巨悪と執念の冠", "Crown of Great Evil and Obsession"). After it becomes a tree monster, the phrase comes full circle when it uses a laser attack similar to Void Termina's attacks called "憎悪と執念のミストルティン" ("Mistilteinn of Hatred and Obsession").
- "Dominate" (支配 shihai) is another big one in the Japanese version. Several pause screens call it the "Diadem of Domination" (支配の冠 shihai no kanmuri), its influence on Landia EX is referred to as the "power of domination" (支配のパワー shihai no pawaa), and Magolor Soul is said to be fully "dominated" (支配された shihai sareta) by the Crown's limitless power. In most languages (except German and Portuguese), one boss controlled by the Master Crown has Battle Theme Music called "Another Domination". Retroactively, when Magolor says the word for the first time after putting the Crown on, it's an immediate Out-of-Character Alert.
Artifact Domination: It's revealed in Extra Mode and the Magolor Epilogue that the crown has influence over its wearer, as evidenced by the crown wriggling back and forth on Magolor's head during his first phase. By the time he becomes Magolor Soul, the crown has completely taken control of Magolor's body away from him. Notably, one of the conceptual designs◊ for Magolor's second form resembles his first form turned upside-down, as if the crown is wearing Magolor. Its Japanese, Chinese and Korean Special Pages outright call it a "diadem of domination", and all versions mention that it steals any sense of the wearer's self until they simply become a puppet for the crown's desire to destroy.
Artifact of Doom: The Crown may grant incredible power to the user, but it's also sentient and will attempt to control its wearer, as well as attempt to kill those trying to seek redemption.
Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: The mind-controlling Master Crown takes a form reminiscent of mistletoe (a parasitic plant) while possessing a Gem Apple Tree.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Its form as the final boss of the Magolor Epilogue is a gigantic Gem Apple tree. This is best exemplified when it tries to crush Magolor near the end of the battle—it's so large that it has to sink halfway into the ground just for its eye to be visible.
Background Boss: When fought at the end of the Magolor Epilogue, the Master Crown stays in the background for most of the battle, except for one attack near the end where it tries to crush Magolor. The only way to damage it is to attack its roots when it uses them to attack.
The Bad Guy Wins: Despite being Demoted to Extra in the Kirby Clash games, its counterpart in Another Dimension succeeds in winning against Landia's Another Dimension self, creating Parallel Landia, one of the bosses in the game.
Barehanded Blade Block: The crown's Gem Apple tree form tries to block Magolor's Ultra Sword in this way. It doesn't seem to have learned much from Magolor's boss fight, when it tried this on Kirby to similar results.
Beam Spam: In Star Allies, Void Termina is capable of summoning the Master Crown to fire a barrage of lasers. In Soul Melter EX, he can even summon multiple Crowns at once. The Crown itself can even do the same beams when fighting Magolor.
Beast of the Apocalypse: If its Flavor Text is to be believed, it was responsible for the destruction of at least several civilizations, and would have done the same to Dream Land if it weren't for Kirby.
Biblical Motifs: In the Magolor Epilogue, it takes the form of a parasitic, golden mistletoe attached to a Gem Apple tree, mirroring the Apple that Eve ate in the Garden of Eden. For bonus points, the Ethereal Altar where it is fought is called the "Room of Eden" in Japanese.
Big Bad: Becomes this from Greater-Scope Villain in the Magolor Epilogue, where it takes more direct action by having the Crowned Doomer gather the pieces of the Gem Apple, before possessing it itself to gain its own form.
Body Surf: Over the course of the game, it hops from host to host and exerts some degree of control over all of them. Not even Landia is entirely immune to the crown's influence.
Botanical Abomination: After merging with the giant Gem Apple at the end of the Magolor Epilogue, the Master Crown becomes an enormous, twisted, tree-like monster. Its pause menu descriptions compare it to various plants — in its tree form, it's compared to mistletoe, and in Magolor Soul's True Arena battle, it is called a "one-eyed [laurel] wreath".
Civilization Destroyer: In the Japanese, Chinese and Korean versions, it is revealed during the Master Crown's boss fight that it has appeared in countless civilizations on countless worlds, and through its power has annihilated every one of them. Emphasized by its boss arena, a Battle Amongst the Flames in a ruined city besieged by meteors.
Composite Character:
- With Whispy Woods, strangely enough. Whispy Woods doesn't have a fight in the Magolor Epilogue, being replaced with the Rampaging Doomers after Hydriath. The Master Crown's final form, however, is a massive tree monster, dropping explosive Gem Apples, throwing itself onto the foreground and using its roots to attack, all moves used by Whispy or his kin at one point or another, thus effectively representing the tree even if he or his relatives don't properly appear.
- The Master Crown also takes attacks from final bosses from before; It can launch seeds that sprout into damaging vines, much like Marx, and at half health it fires lasers identical like Void Termina's Crown of Evil and Obsession attack (which, seemingly, was a copy of the Crown). In addition, it's a Background Boss whose primary form of attack is trying to stab you with vines in a manner reminiscent of Queen Sectonia's final form, albeit with much larger vines.
Cool Crown: Of course. It gets even cooler-looking with each new form it takes, with its last form being a monstrous version of the Dream Tree.
The Corrupter: It's a sentient Artifact of Doom that strengthens "darkness" inside its victims' hearts until they become nothing but an Empty Shell channeling the crown's desire to destroy the world.
Crown of Power: Formerly provided the page image. Wearing the crown grants its user incredible power (with only the minor side effects of Demonic Possession), which is why Magolor wants to find it.
Cyclops: Invoked. While it doesn't have an actual eye, its green jewel resembles the pupil and the spikes resemble eyelashes. It then plays this trope straight in its Gem Apple form, having a single golden eye in the center of the tree.
Dance Battler: Sort of. While the Crown itself does not dance, its leaf attacks are compared to a dance in the Japanese guidebook, with names like "Dance of Blade Leaves", "Blade Leaf Wild Dance", and "Blade Leaf Waltz".
Dark Is Evil: In contrast to how it normally is, the Master Crown takes on a dull silver color scheme when worn by Magolor Soul (who himself is a shadowy, decaying monster). This is no accident — the Master Crown's Special Page at the end of the Magolor Epilogue reveals that it works by amplifying the darkness lurking inside the heart of whoever wears it.
Death of Personality: What it eventually induces in its victims — "it devours, stealing any sense of self" as it eats their souls.
Demonic Possession: The crown normally does this to its wearer, slowly corrupting them with hate until they become an Empty Shell for the Master Crown to manifest its powers and desires through. We see this in action with Magolor Soul, who has been completely possessed by the crown and is helpless to stop himself from destroying everything.
Demoted to Extra: Landia still wears the Master Crown in the Team Kirby Clash games, but it's just for decoration and has no effect on the plot (aside from Parallel Landia being stated to have abused the power of his version of the crown as Magolor did). You could say it's a literal example of The Artifact.
The Dog Was the Mastermind: Who expected the small gold crown on one of Landia's heads to be the ultimate villain of the game?
Evil Counterpart: To Kirby. They both look innocent but possess god-like powers, gain and copy powers from those they absorb, and are implied to be related to Dark Matter and Void Termina. However, Kirby is a pure good being who uses his immeasurable strength to protect the galaxy from danger and copies powers by inhaling enemies, while the evil Master Crown uses its power to destroy countless worlds and devours the soul of those it comes across until its wearer is nothing but a lifeless puppet for the crown to channel its power through and continue its reign of destruction.
Eye Motifs: In all of the Master Crown's forms, it has the appearance of an eye, with a gem in the center resembling the iris and the points of the crown often representing eyelashes. Magolor's second form (and Magolor Soul) has an extra eye inside his mouth, and the Master Crown's boss form in the Magolor Epilogue has an actual eyeball.
Flunky Boss: Summons Doomers to its aid in its final battle against Magolor.
Foreshadowing:
- Notice how when Magolor "thanks" Kirby and his friends for helping him defeat Landia, the Crown immediately levitates to his head without him actually putting it on when he picks it up and it wiggles while worn by him. Not only is it possessing Magolor's body, but it's also sentient.
- Look closer at the Master Crown's final form and you'll notice stars on its bark. And what does Magolor use to finally destroy the very object he once sought to claim? An Ultra Sword.
From a Single Cell: Played with. It shatters to pieces when Kirby and friends defeat Magolor, but the shards have enough life in them to wander through Another Dimension, revive the Grand Doomer into its Crowned form, and swiftly regrow the crown into a form bigger than it ever was on Magolor — an enormous Gem Apple tree, with the crown wrapped around it like a mistletoe. However, it's implied that it is only able to accomplish this because of the "powerful life energy" flowing through the Gem Apple, since the Crown needs to actively possess it (or something that has eaten it) to grow any larger.
Generic Doomsday Villain: While it's certainly one of the most destructive Kirby villains to date, it has little in the way of proper characterization, and is more of an allegory for the corrupting influence of power.
Gold-Colored Superiority: It's a gold-colored Artifact of Doom, and is also the Greater-Scope Villain and true Big Bad of Return to Dream Land. It's averted in Extra Mode, where it goes for a grey color to accommodate for Magolor Soul's darker colors.
Greater-Scope Villain: Magolor's ultimate goal was to obtain this crown so he could take over the universe. New information in Deluxe reveals it to have a mind of its own, as it soon possesses Magolor and later becomes the Big Bad of the Magolor Epilogue.
Green and Mean: It has a green jewel in the center of the crown and it is a powerful Artifact of Doom who tried to destroy the universe by subjecting Magolor to Demonic Possession.
Green Thumb: In its final, tree-like form, the Master Crown has many plant-like attacks; it mainly uses its roots to stab Magolor, but it can also fire razor-sharp leaves and drop Gem Apple bombs that grant Kirby the Leaf and Bomb Copy Abilities during the True Arena fight, as well as Marx's seed attack.
Half the Man He Used to Be: How it meets its end at the end of the Epilogue—Magolor grabs a sword, transforms it into an Ultra Sword, and vertically bisects the crown (as well as the tree it's using as a vessel).
Involuntary Shapeshifting: The crown takes on various different forms depending on who wears it. When worn by Landia, it's small and has spikes extending from the base. In Magolor's first form, it's much larger, has a much more noticeable eye symbol, and has claws that clamp down on Magolor's head. In Magolor's second form, it gains flaming wings and has tentacles that coil around Magolor's body. Magolor Soul has a much more sinister silver-colored version of the aforementioned form lined with Spikes of Doom and Horns of Villainy. When merged with the Gem Apple, the crown has bat-like wings sprouting from its base, and its tentacles become branch-like tendrils that wrap around the entire tree. It also gains a golden eyeball wreathed in red, crystalline mistletoe.
It Can Think: Don't let its simple appearance fool you. It may just look like some shiny artifact that grants its wearer unlimited power to travel across dimensions, but it's actually a sentient and omnicidal Living Hat whose sole purpose is to devour the soul of its wearer, control their lifeless bodies, and destroy countless civilizations. And Magolor didn't even know about this until it was all too late.
Karmic Death: Once the object of Magolor's desire, the Master Crown's vile existence is brought to an end when Magolor decides to redeem himself and slay the wicked artifact that would've eventually taken over his body and used him to lay waste to Dream Land just as it previously did to other civilizations.
Light Is Not Good: It may be shiny and golden, and it may transform Magolor into a bright-red-and-blue creature, but this all-powerful crown is anything but benevolent. It's averted in Extra Mode, however, where it goes for a Dark Is Evil approach instead.
Literally Shattered Lives: When Magolor is defeated at the end of the main game, the Master Crown shatters to pieces and its shards are warped to the depths of Another Dimension with him.
Living MacGuffin: It's first shown from the way it wiggles around while Magolor is wearing it and the fact that it possesses him as Magolor Soul that the crown is sentient, which Return to Dream Land Deluxe's Magolor Epilogue outright confirms.
More than Mind Control: Updated Flavor Text in Deluxe reveals that it amplifies the inner darkness of whoever wears it before it outright eats their soul to fully take over. Very late-game Flavor Text reveals that Magolor did plan to take over the universe with it before undergoing a Heel–Face Turn in the Epilogue, but the Master Crown twisted that desire into wanting to destroy the universe outright.
Not Quite Dead: Kirby shatters the crown into pieces at the end of Story Mode, but the Magolor Epilogue shows that the shards are still capable of possessing and empowering beings.
Omnicidal Maniac: The Master Crown has only one desire: to destroy. By the end of the Epilogue, it's described as "a destroyer called the tree crown without a ruler," no longer needing a wearer to channel this desire.
Opportunistic Bastard: In Deluxe, Magolor Soul's Special Pages heavily imply that the crown took advantage of Magolor EX's injuries from the Ultra Sword to speed up the Demonic Possession, imprisoning Magolor within his own body so that he's Forced to Watch as the crown continues to attack Kirby and friends.
Playing Card Motifs: The leaves it shoots when it transforms into a Gem Apple tree-like monster are shaped like the ace of spades, fitting for a crown that has engineered the end of many countries and even entire worlds.
The Power of Hate: It taints the heart of its wearer with powerful hatred, with the intention of corrupting them into an Omnicidal Maniac.
Puppeteer Parasite: In addition to its own power, the crown gains access to the powers of whoever's wearing it. Case in point, when it possesses the Gem Apple at the end of the Magolor Epilogue, it transforms into an apple tree that attacks by sending its roots through portals, throwing leaves at Magolor, and using its Gem Apples like bombs.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: When one dons the crown^note the eye-looking gem that adorns it takes on a malicious red hue, as the crown adopts a more sinister form. In Deluxe, the second phase of the revamped Magolor Soul fight sees the crown's eye glow a cerulean hue — but this is even worse in this instance, as all other present context^note indicates this to mean the crown has finished its meal.
Satanic Archetype: If Magolor was modeled on Lucifer, the Master Crown is the full package of the Devil himself. It tempts people like Magolor into wearing it for limitless power, but takes control of their bodies so it can consume their souls, has evil spikes that resemble demonic goat horns, commands an army of flying demon monsters (In this case, the Doomers, including the Sphere Doomers and Grand Doomer, its right hand lackey), is associated with the destruction of various civilizations and planets, and when possessing the first Gem Apple of the series, it becomes a giant tree monster that has the same wings it had when possessing Magolor, only bigger, in addition to looking like a demonic angel with a Holy Pipe Organ theme and a battlefield in flames, mirroring "Paradise Lost".
Soul Eating: It feeds on the soul of its wearer, eventually cutting them off from their sense of self and leaving nothing but darkness and hate in its place. Interestingly, the word used to describe this process in Japanese, "susuru", is also used for Morpho Knight...
Spikes of Doom: All versions of the crown feature spikes, but how prominent they are depends on what form it's taking. Landia's version simply has short spikes extending from the base, but all of Magolor's versions feature large claws that clamp down on his head, symbolizing its control over him. Magolor Soul's version of the crown takes the cake, as it's covered in thorns and has two giant sets of horns jutting out from the sides.
Super-Empowering: It grants "limitless power" to whoever puts it on, including Magolor, the Grand Doomer, and a Gem Apple.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
- Like Dark Matter, the Master Crown is a one-eyed Eldritch Abomination that possesses its victims, alters the apparent Big Bad's body to suit its own purposes, and has strong ties to Void Termina.
- It's also similar to Fecto Elfilis. Both of these body-hopping, portal-generating villains aren't seen until the end of the game, where they capture Kirby's newest friend (Magolor/Elfilin) and use them to transform into the Final Boss. They each return in the postgame despite seemingly being destroyed beyond repair, appearing only once the protagonist has assembled the main reward (Leon's soul/a Gem Apple) to take said reward as a host body. The similarities are brought home in Return to Dream Land Deluxe's True Arena, where the waiting room immediately before fighting Magolor Soul has an extremely disturbing rearrangement of Magolor's theme in the style of "Eternal Echo of the Thrilling Tour-our-our", which is strongly associated with Fecto Elfilis. Additionally, the overarching lore indicates that both of them were once dire threats to another planet.
Tactical Suicide Boss: The Master Crown's tree form would be completely invincible if it didn't try to kill Magolor by attacking him with its roots, which can be damaged.
Thinking Up Portals: Every enemy controlled by the Master Crown gains the ability to create interdimensional portals, from Magolor to a humble Gem Apple.
Transformation Trinket: As soon as Magolor puts on the crown, he transforms into a giant, fiery sorcerer. Once he's defeated for the first time, the crown revives him into a winged, horned creature. In the Magolor Epilogue, its fragments turn the Grand Doomer into the Crowned Doomer, and a Gem Apple into a towering apple tree.
True Final Boss: It's the final boss of the Magolor Epilogue, and arguably the entire game (the harder version of Magolor Soul from the True Arena notwithstanding).
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Unlike Magolor, who only became this trope through his terrifying One-Winged Angel form, the Master Crown plays this trope front and center. Even if it is a creation of the Ancients, it's a very dangerous tool if used in the wrong hands, leading to the destruction of countless civilizations. Not only that, but it even devours the souls of those who wear it, turning them into lifeless husks for the crown to use. It's up there with the likes of Hyness, Star Dream, and Fecto Elfilis as one of the darkest villains in the series' history.
Villainous Breakdown: It goes through this in the Magolor Soul fight in Deluxe's True Arena; after he is defeated the first time, the Master Crown asserts full control over his body and finally destroys his soul, indicated by his Glowing Eyes of Doom disappearing completely and leaving the red eye in his mouth remaining, leaving Magolor to watch helplessly as the crown tries to destroy Kirby. It then surges with power and starts flashing a cerulean hue, indicating that it's done messing around.
When Trees Attack: Its final form in the Magolor Epilogue mode has it possess a Gem Apple, transforming it into a giant, angelic gem apple tree that attacks with its roots and leaves, not unlike Whispy Woods and his relatives.

Spin-off antagonists

Drawcia

Debut: Kirby: Canvas Curse

^{Drawcia Soul}

The Big Bad and Final Boss of Kirby: Canvas Curse, she's a Wicked Witch 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.

Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: The place where you battle her (The World of Drawcia) has its background distorting constantly, and becomes even crazier as Drawcia Soul.
Ambiguously Related:
- Later games feature Paintra and Vividria, who are heavily implied to be Drawcia's sisters — the former's flavor text mentions that she originates from "a painting said to depict a pair of sisters separated at birth," and the latter mentions her sisters in her Guest Star quote.
- Many later games have characters which reuse the attacks of Drawcia Soul, even turning into a blob of paint to do so. This includes Marx Soul, Grand Doomer EX, Soul of Sectonia, Void, and Chaos Elfilis.
Art Initiates Life:
- 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.
Badass Adorable: A villainous example, She's a cute witch, she attacks Kirby, and she has a ability to paint things that comes to life. Her evil laugh in high pitch also helps her being cute.
Battle Boomerang: Drawcia Soul opens up to shoot out several boomerangs of paint which then return inside her, much like Marx.
Big Bad: She's the overall antagonist of Canvas Curse.
Body Horror: After she's defeated, She disturbingly transforms into her soul form. She has 5 five eyes, she stretches her mouth wider and she's melts a little. After she's defeated in her soul form, she disturbingly twists, returning to the canvas and finally broke into pieces.
Bouncing Battler: Drawcia Soul has an attack where she jumps into the background, then slowly jumps closer to the foreground before appearing from above to smash Kirby.
The Cameo:
- In Super Star Ultra, she's one of the cards in the Card Swipe minigame.
- In Triple Deluxe, she's one of the Stone forms, alongside Dark Nebula.
- She appears as a secret figurine in Rainbow Curse and a sticker in Planet Robobot.
- In Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, she appears as a high-grade gear for the Beam Mage, with the Magical Paintbrush for his staff.
Composite Character: Her appearance and fighting style in both her normal and soul forms can be seen as a hybrid between Adeleine and Dark Matter/Zero. Like Adeleine, she can create life with her magic paintbrush, but she has similar malice and corruptive power to that of Zero, especially in her soul form.
Dark Action Girl: She's one of the first villainesses in the series, and the only boss to defeat Kirby.
Death from Above: One of Drawcia Soul's attacks has her summoning a rain of paint from above. This can be blocked with your paint lines.
Deflector Shields: She's constantly protected by a mirror-like shield that prevents her from being tackled by Kirby or tapped by the stylus. To break it, you have to deflect her shots back at her by drawing a rainbow line. After a few strikes from Kirby, she'll regenerate the shield.
Early-Installment Weirdness: Drawcia Soul is fought in the story mode, while later Soul bosses would be fought in higher difficulty modes such as Extra Mode or True Arena.
Eldritch Abomination: Played with. While she's powerful enough to turn Planet Popstar into a painting and her home turf is essentially a witch labyrinth, she's said to be a painting that came to life, which is not too strange in this setting. The fact that it isn't may actually be worse. Ultimately played straight when she becomes Drawcia Soul, transforming into a monstrous, screeching ball of paint in the vein of the "eyeball monsters" of previous games.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Surprisingly. Kirby: Triple Deluxe has a boss named Paintra, whose pause screen description implies her to be Drawcia's sister. The mini-boss Vividria from Kirby Star Allies is implied to be another sister of Drawcia.
Evil Laugh: A high-pitched cackle fitting for such a colorfully designed witch.
Forced Transformation: In the opening, she turns Kirby into a helpless ball.
Fountain of Expies:
- Almost every final boss in a mainline Kirby game following Canvas Curse shares two features that she has; a super powerful final form called a Soul form^note and a powerful attack where the Soul transforms into a ball and tries to either ram, slam or crush Kirby. Downplayed somewhat with another two features Drawcia has: both Drawcia Soul and Soul of Sectonia can summon Para Matters (Void Soul summons similar creatures for its black hole attack), while Drawcia Soul, Marx Soul, Soul of Sectonia, and Chaos Elfilis employ an attack named Firestorm that causes a concentrated storm of painful goo to rapidly shoot at Kirby.
- Drawcia herself has a couple expies in later games, Claycia, Paintra, Vividria, the latter two are implied to be her sisters. Paintra especially takes after Drawcia, Evil Laugh and all.
Freaky Electronic Music: Drawcia Soul's battle theme is a dissonant electronic tune, in stark contrast to Drawcia Sorceress.
Flunky Boss: In addition to the ones she paints to life, Drawcia can also spawn Para Sorceresses (which freeze Kirby on contact). 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.
Generic Doomsday Villain: Again, she wants to take over Popstar, but doesn't have much character beyond that. Later games imply she has a bit more than that.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: 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. Even as early as the game's beginnings, Drawcia will leave a magic paintbrush that you'll use to guide Kirby across the levels.
The Hyena: Cackles frequently in cutscenes and during the battles against her sorceress form and Soul form.
Knight of Cerebus: Even the level building up to the fight with her is greatly creepy and dark.
Laughing Mad: After you defeat her Sorceress form she lets loose an extended series of manic cackling that continues as she shifts into her Soul form. Once she's done laughing she lets loose a blood-curdling screech to start off the next phase and spends the rest of the fight alternating between unstable laughter and more screaming.
Leitmotif: Whenever she appears to draw up a boss, a sinister pipe organ tune plays. This song is remixed for her first battle theme, Drawcia Sorceress. The staticky electronic tones that play after the organ are later remixed for Drawcia Soul's battle theme.
Living Drawing: It's revealed at the end that she is actually a painting herself, having escaped from her frame. At the end of the game, she is sucked back into her frame, sealing her away.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Chinese translation of her name (墮落錫安) uses characters that are homophones of her international name, but can be translated literally as "Fallen Zion".
Not-So-Harmless Villain: On paper, her plot is pretty milquetoast compared to what Dark Matter and Star Dream have or would attempt. She turns Dream Land into a painting, but everyone still seems capable of movement. She doesn't even try to kill Kirby, just curses him and runs. Then after chasing her across her domain, you beat her and get the series' signature Surprisingly Creepy Moment...
Ominous Pipe Organ: Her leitmotif, as well as the first phase of her fight, has this. The second phase ditches it for disturbing, glitchy synths.
One to Million to One: Drawcia Soul's "rain of paint".
One-Winged Angel: After her initial defeat, she transforms into her soul, which is a giant multi-eyed screeching ball of paint.
Power Nullifier: She may sometimes throw out "static fields" in the arena that prevents paint lines to be drawn inside the field. They wear off with time, or after you break her shield.
Reality Warper: 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 Popstar, as it takes place in outer space.
Screaming Warrior: When she isn't cackling wildly in her Soul form, she's probably letting forth a rather horrid screech.
Spikes of Doom: Will cause them to sprout from the ground after painting a single spike.
Stronger Sibling: Inverted. Drawcia was the first of her sisters to debut and is easily stronger than her more "recent" ones, being the outright Big Bad of her game while Paintra and Vividria are a standard boss and mini-boss respectively.
Tactical Suicide Boss: 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. This is less true of Drawcia Soul, but by then it's too late.
Teleport Spam: Drawcia Soul will attempt this, though you can stop it cold with the brush.
Throw the Mook at Them: Drawcia Soul's Para Matters can be sent flying at her by tapping their eyes at the right time.
Uncertain Doom: Kirby defeats her and she turns back into a painting, but then she was considered to be a Dream Friend in Star Allies, which may imply there's a chance of her still being around. But this is scrapped content (likely because her moveset would be too similar to Adeleine), so it's far from concrete. Of course, if she and Paintra are Vividria's sisters, Vividria doesn't really clarify what became of them, if they're dead, or if she even knows where they are. But Marx suffered a death far worse than her, Dark Meta Knight suffered a similar death as her (both Dark Meta Knight and Drawcia's painting shattered), and they're just fine, so...
Villainous Breakdown: After turning into her Soul form caused by Kirby defeating her first form, Drawcia loses it and enters constant shifts in insane, high-pitched cackling and unpleasantly terrifying screeching.
Visual Pun: Drawcia Soul looks vaguely like a painter's palette, fitting her artist theme.
Wicked Witch: Officially, Drawcia is an evil sorceress 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.
Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: She has yellow eyes, one of which is always being hidden in her Sorceress form. In her Soul form, she gains five of them, with a yellow mouth to go with it. She's also the Big Bad of Canvas Curse.

Yin-Yarn

Debut: Kirby's Epic Yarn

^{Click here to see Mega Yin-Yarn}

The Big Bad 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.

And Then What?: Pulls this on himself at one point in the game (after successfully taking Dream Land and subduing the likes of King Dedede and Meta Knight). He really doesn't have a plan for what to do after conquering Dream Land, but he says he'll think of something.
Art Initiates Life: Crocheting things to life.
Bandito: His design seems to be vaguely inspired by the image of a Mexican bandito, with his red-and-green sombrero and poncho, as well as his needles that resemble maracas.
Beware the Silly Ones: Despite looking like a silly wizard with a sombrero and Gag Nose, and not knowing what do afterwards, he's able to successfully conquer Dream Land and subdue all of its strongest defenders, something that very few villains in the series have been able to do. That puts on him on the same level as the Haltmann Works Company!
Big Bad Duumvirate: "Yin-Yarn" is actually the two knitting needles.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Performs this by turning people into yarn.
The Cameo: 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.
The Dividual: Yin-Yarn isn't the bandito-looking guy in the center, he's the pair of knitting needles. Although they are brothers, they're functionally treated as one character.
Dub Name Change: Amiibo Amore in Japanese (not to be confused with amiibo figures; it comes from amibou, the Japanese word for knitting needles).
Evil Overlooker: He does this in the box art for the game.
Evil Sorcerer: An evil yarn-themed sorcerer who turned Dream Land and its denizens into yarn and aims to rule over them.
Final Boss: He's the final obstacle in Epic Yarn.
Flunky Boss: He can re-create Fangora and Capamari (2 previous bosses) with yarn, although they're made easier to defeat. Then he sends out streams of the Soocher enemies. Later, he creates various mooks out of the yarn floor, which Kirby and Fluff can turn into yarn balls to be tossed at Yin-Yarn himself to make him expose his weak point.
Gag Nose: His nose is made of a big yellow button.
Giggling Villain: In the Japanese version, he's constantly going "kukuku".
Green and Mean: Some of his yarn is green and he's a villain.
Hidden Depths: Yin-Yarn's Japanese description says that he likes to sing and dance. Or, rather, the knitting needle brothers controlling his actions do.
Jerkass: Assuming the rumors in the opening cutscene are true, he has turned multiple residents of Dream Land into yarn for no reason whatsoever.
Lighter and Softer: He's one of the lighter main villains in the series; he's not a disturbing Eldritch Abomination, and his goal is just turning people into yarn. Even when he goes One-Winged Angel, he simply gets knitted back to life as Mega Yin-Yarn without all of the disturbing imagery like the other antagonists.
Macross Missile Massacre: One of his attacks in mecha form.
Martial Arts and Crafts: Kung-fu wizard weaver.
Offstage Villainy: He's the one who broke Patch Land's continents apart, although we never see him do it.
One-Winged Angel: After his first defeat, the knitting needles rebuild him as a Humongous Mecha tank.
People Puppets: Not only does he turn King Dedede and Meta Knight into yarn, he also manipulates them to fight Kirby and Fluff by attaching strings to their yarn bodies.
Sibling Team: In the Japanese version, it's explained that the two knitting needles who are actually Yin-Yarn also happen to be a pair of brothers.
Sinister Shades: If you squint enough, you can see that he wears a pair made of yarn. He's also a villain.
Slasher Smile: His default expression is a very wide grin, combined with his Sinister Shades.
Verbal Tic: In the Japanese version, he says "Amiibo" (or sometimes "Amore") at the end of his sentences.

Necrodeus

Debut: Kirby Mass Attack

The Big Bad of Kirby Mass Attack. He's the leader of the Skull Gang and he split Kirby into ten smaller versions of himself at the start of the game, setting off the story for the game.

Ambiguously Related: To Dark Matter. He has a giant purple and red eyeball in his mouth that serves as his weak spot, looking eerily similar to them. His initial arrival is even heralded by dark clouds (kuroi kumo), which show up when Dark Matter invades a planet.
The Antichrist: In The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, there's a downright sacrilegious shrine to Necrodeus with a statue of him that resembles the Buddha.
Astral Finale: The second part of the battle against him has him fly into space with the Kirbys chasing after him.
Ax-Crazy: Tries to kill Kirby rather viciously due to the hero being a champion of light, and during the battle he does not hold back in trying to finish the job.
Barely-Changed Dub Name: In Japanese, his name was ネクロディアス (nekurodiasu), or "Necrodias", rather than "Necrodeus".
Been There, Shaped History: It's implied that Necrodeus created the Sun Stones from Kirby: Triple Deluxe in one of his attempts to steal away light.
Big Bad: Of Mass Attack. His main target is just Kirby, though, making it one of the few times Kirby becomes more personally invested in his adventures.
Breath Weapon: He can fire huge lasers from his mouth during his second phase.
Curb-Stomp Battle: 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.
Dark Is Evil: 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.
Dem Bones: 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.
Everybody Hates Hades: Aside from Morpho Knight, Necrodeus is the closest thing the Kirby franchise has to a death god and also one of the cruelest and smartest foes Kirby has ever faced.
Evil Is Not Well-Lit: Necrodeus and the rest of the Skull Gang thrive in darkness. The Skull Tower, their base of operations, is located under the shadow of Volcano Valley's ash clouds.
Evil Laugh: He has a deep and somewhat hoarse one.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Non-verbal variant. His second phase opens with a short cutscene showing the target on his hands, which slowly contract before finally slamming together. Sure enough, if you get greedy and attack that target for too long, the Kirbys will get clapped and die in one hit.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: In his second phase, it's revealed that he has an eye inside his mouth. It also serves as his weak point.
Final Boss: Of Mass Attack. To fight him, you have to collect the Rainbow Medal from every world, which will then reveal his hideout.
Floating Limbs: Has Giant Hands of Doom that work despite the lack of accompanying arms.
Flunky Boss: In his third phase, he can summon the Skullion mooks, which will try to grab the Kirbys. If they manage to do so and aren't beaten quickly, they'll bring the Kirbys to Necrodeus, who'll proceed to devour said Kirbys.
Generic Doomsday Villain: He attacks Kirby because Kirby is a "champion of light", and Necrodeus wants a world covered in darkness.
Giant Hands of Doom: Fighting them is the first phase of his fight. Aside from smashing the Kirbys, they can also fire beams from the fingers.
God of Evil: Necrodeus is an extremely powerful and evil Undead Abomination whose name literally means "death god". Supporting this theory is the apparent shrine to Necrodeus on Necro Nebula, which has a huge statue of him that is posed like the Buddha.
Heal Thyself: When the glass casings on his hands are damaged in the first phase of his boss fight, Skullions will appear to try and repair them.
Meaningful Name: His name literally translates to "death god", which is quite fitting for a powerful, skull-themed Final Boss who tries to off Kirby the moment he appears on-screen. Not only that, his game marks the time (the) Kirby(s) "dies" a lot due to the obstacles of the game (although they may come back alive again).
Mighty Roar: Once his hands are destroyed in the second phase, Necrodeus lets out a roar that destroys the floor of the boss arena, leaving the Kirbys floating in space.
Monster Clown: Very much downplayed, but Necrodeus is a horrifying skeletal monstrosity with a round purple nose like a clown's.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Necro" = from Greek nekros, "corpse". "Deus" = Latin for "god". So his name essentially translates to "god of the dead". In Japanese, his name is Necrodias instead, but "dias" comes from a similar Latin word, "divus", meaning "divine", essentially making his name "divine corpse".
The Night That Never Ends: The darkness that Necrodeus wants to bring about is so absolute that Daroach claims he won't even be able to see his gold shine.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: 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 swallows his staff to keep it out of their hands.
Obviously Evil: The appearance of a Physical God? Check. Skull motifs everywhere? Check. Deep, evil laughter whenever he appears on-screen? Check. Technically killing Kirby nine times before the game even starts? Check.
One-Hit Kill: All of his attacks will immediately kill the Kirbys on contact, making it impossible to get a silver star on his boss stage.
Physical God: Necrodeus appears to be a god of darkness and death, and his magic is powerful enough to split Kirby into ten weaker copies of himself. In his boss fight proper, all of his attacks can One-Hit Kill the seemingly Invincible Hero (though, granted, Kirby is still split into those weaker copies at the time). When his hands are destroyed, he lets loose a Mighty Roar that destroys the floor and leaves the Kirbys floating in space.
Pinball Projectile: In his second phase, he can shoot bouncing energy balls. His third phase can spit much larger ones that also bounce.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Or "Glowing Red Eye Lights, Take Warning", as he does not seem to have actual eyes. His skull necklace has them, too.
Satanic Archetype: Plays this front and center. He's a sociopathic monster of pure evil with a hatred for light, can corrupt people into doing evil, lives in his own world, and has a pair of scary, animalistic horns on each side of his head.
Scary Skeleton: As befits an evil god of the dead.
Sequential Boss: First, Necrodeus will try to pound the Kirbys with his fists, and they'll need to break the glass on the back of his hands. Then, he'll try to smash them with a deadly clap and shoot energy balls from his fingers, and they'll need to attack the target on his palms. Lastly, his hands will be destroyed, and the Kirbys will need to attack the eye in his mouth.
Skull for a Head: His head is a giant skull with a pair of giant horns and a smaller horn on top; he also has a necklace made of smaller skulls.
The Sociopath: He is probably one of Kirby's most monstrous enemies, existing only to cause suffering.
Undead Abomination: A skeleton-themed Physical God whose main body is made of darkness; his skull has three sharp horns, glowing red orbs for eyes, very sharp teeth, and 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.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: He's a skeletal Physical God whose sole purpose is to obliterate any being of light he finds, and by far the only villain in the franchise who has actually gotten close to killing the main character in cold blood. Must we say more?

Claycia

Debut: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse

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.

Ambiguously Related: She follows the same pattern of art medium naming as Drawcia, Paintra and Vividria, and is even grouped with them in a specific piece of concept artwork, but it's implied that while the others may be related (using familial honorifics), Claycia is not (using the generic -san).
Art Attacker: Like Drawcia, Paintra and Yin-Yarn before her, she attacks with artwork - this time, it's clay figures.
Artsy Beret: She is a clay artist who wears a purple beret.
Big Bad: She's set up as the main villain of Rainbow Curse. But just like with Landia, that's what they want you to believe.
Beat the Curse Out of Her: Kirby essentially has to beat her up in order to free her from Dark Crafter's possession.
Blush Sticker: A pair of pink ones.
Bring It: Will perform this gesture before you fight her proper.
The Cameo: She's a sticker in Planet Robobot.
Death from Above: She may create laser drones that fire lasers from above. They can be blocked by drawing a rainbow line across the lasers' lines.
Demonic Possession: Those Sinister Shades she was wearing? Those actually belonged to Dark Crafter, who was possessing her.
Disc-One Final Boss: The game assumes that she's the final battle, but then Dark Crafter shows up after that and Kirby has to beat him, too.
Evil Former Friend: To Elline, whom she betrayed because she was possessed by Dark Crafter. In the end, after she is beaten and freed from Dark Crafter's influence, she and Elline go back to being best friends again.
Excuse Me While I Multitask: 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.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: The two huge hands on her scarf have eyes in the palms, though it's tough to notice. This is due to being possessed by Dark Crafter, who had the same eye-hands.
Face–Heel Turn: Seemingly stopped being Elline's friend at her own will, but once she's beaten, they reconcile without problems. The truth is that she was possessed by Dark Crafter, making her invoke the trope against her will.
Floating Limbs: Her hands don't appear to be attached to her body.
Giant Hands of Doom: One of her attacks is to create a pair of fists out of clay and use them to smash Kirby.
It's All About Me: Elline's diary describes her as "totally selfish", although it's not evident at all once she shows her true colors.
Letting the Air out of the Band: After she's beaten, Kirby and Elline (and Bandana Waddle Dee) do the usual Victory Dance coupled with the usual jingle. But then the music slows down to a halt... as something comes out of Claycia's shades. Cue Dark Crafter.
Power Nullifier: Like Drawcia before her, she can create "gray zones" where you can't draw lines in.
Psycho Pink: She's a boss with tons of pink (albeit of varying shades).
Purple Is Powerful: Most of her wardrobe is colored with various shades of purple. She's also a powerful (magical) sculptress.
Scarf of Asskicking: Her scarf ends in a pair of hands that she can use to create "gray zones" and some of her clay figures. They look like the Grab Hands mooks.
Sinister Shades: Wears a pair of purple/black sunglasses. They actually belong to Dark Crafter, who possessed her through those glasses.
Steven Ulysses Perhero: A magician named "Claycia" who has the ability to make and shape things out of clay.
Tennis Boss: In order to dispel her gray zones, you have to redirect her black clay balls towards her. This will make her dizzy and open to attacks.
Villain Teleportation: Surprisingly, she doesn't utilize Teleportation Spam like other Kirby bosses, she mainly does it to start her background attacks.
Wham Shot: 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 were due to her being possessed.
Wicked Witch: 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: she's not so wicked, because she was possessed by Dark Crafter.

Dark Crafter

Debut: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse

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 he is certainly very destructive.

Ambiguously Related: He's heavily suggested to be connected to the Dark Matter species, and it ticks off almost all of the boxes. He follows their trademark Dark Is Evil motif (even though he spent most of the game as a large, rainbow-colored cloud), has a prominent Eye Motif, is able to possess people, and of course, only emerges to fight Kirby once he defeats the Pre-Final Boss.
Astral Finale: The battle against him takes place in space.
Big Bad: He's the true villain of Rainbow Curse, being the one who possessed Claycia and drove her to try to suck the color out of Dream Land.
Bright Is Not Good: He's a living, rainbow-colored clod of clay, and very destructive. Although he was black beforehand.
Dark Is Evil: He used to be a big black clod of clay before absorbing all of the colors Claycia stole, causing him to become rainbow-colored.
Demonic Possession: Does this to Claycia through his sunglasses.
Dirty Coward: After giving his all to fight against Kirby while possessing Claycia, Dark Crafter responds to his first defeat by fleeing the Purple Fortress. Notably, the Final Battle against him has Kirby chasing him down while he spews bombs at him in an attempt to throw him off his trail.
Eldritch Abomination: A lighter-looking example than most until you start thinking about what this thing actually is. He's a gigantic sentient clod of clay with an eye in his mouth that sucks the color out of everything in sight, turning people and places into lifeless grey husks. Meanwhile, he stores everything he's collected in his body as a swirling mix of life and colors for some unknown purpose.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: His single eye is inside of his mouth, below the "shades". He also has eyes on his hands.
Final Boss: Of Rainbow Curse, though he doesn't reveal himself until later after Kirby defeats Claycia, forcing the monster to separate himself from his host.
Floating Limbs: Like with most Kirby characters. They're the same Grab Hands that Claycia has.
Gag Lips: His eyelids look like a pair of oversized lips.
Generic Doomsday Villain: Why he wanted to drain the color and life from everything has not been made clear.
"Get Back Here!" Boss: Immediately flies off the planet he's on, and Kirby has to fly after him in rocket form.
Giggling Villain: Whenever he hits Kirby, he makes a creepy, mocking giggle.
Macross Missile Massacre: His main attack is firing tons of mines as Kirby chases him down.
The Man Behind the Woman: He possessed Claycia through his Sinister Shades so he can use her to drain all the color out of Popstar.
Near-Villain Victory: He almost made off with the colors he still had while everyone else was simply stunned at his manifestation.
Nonstandard Character Design: He is by far the most smoothly animated character in the game — which, given the choppy clay look, makes him look almost completely out of place, fitting for an Eldritch Abomination.
Paper-Thin Disguise: His figurine description suggests that his shades are a disguise. It's... not very effective. The Japanese version does specify that he disguised himself as the shades, which makes a lot more sense since nobody expected Claycia to be possessed by him while she wore them.
Psycho Pink: Has some pink, and is a villainous Final Boss.
Punny Name: His name appears to be a pun relating to his Dark Matter inspirations.
Purple Is Powerful: Dark Crafter's hands are one of his only features to be a single color, of course, being purple.
Sadist: If him giggling whenever he hits Kirby says anything.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Or maybe it's Know When to Fold 'Em, but immediately after being beaten out of his host, he runs off with the color he still has.
Shows Damage: Dark Crafter loses his colors as he takes damage.
Sinister Shades: Possibly as a Shout-Out to Nightmare, his eyes act as this. He can also disguise himself as a seemingly harmless pair of sunglasses. Wearing them will let Dark Crafter hijack your body, as Claycia found out the hard way.
Take Over the World: His stated aim, according to his Figurine description.
Technicolor Death: Appropriately enough, he flashes between his various stages of damage, goes up in colorful flames, and explodes in a flashy light.

Characters / Kirby - Other Major Antagonists

Mainline antagonists

Debut: Kirby's Adventure

Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (Super Kirby Clash), Hisao Egawa (Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Debut: Kirby Super Star

Debut: Kirby Super Star

Debut: Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Debut: Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Spin-off antagonists

Debut: Kirby: Canvas Curse

Debut: Kirby's Epic Yarn

Debut: Kirby Mass Attack

Debut: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse

Debut: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse

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Mainline antagonists

Debut: Kirby's Adventure

Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (Super Kirby Clash), Hisao Egawa (Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Debut: Kirby Super Star

Debut: Kirby Super Star

Debut: Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Debut: Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Spin-off antagonists

Debut: Kirby: Canvas Curse

Debut: Kirby's Epic Yarn

Debut: Kirby Mass Attack

Debut: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse

Debut: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse

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