Headscratchers / Kirby & the Amazing Mirror

• Within the Mirror World or whatever it's called, how come Shadow Kirby wasn't evil like Shadow Meta Knight?
  • Kirby's got a near-instinct to defeat Eldritch Abominations. Unfortunately, that translated into his clone.
  • It's implied that the Mirror World isn't naturally evil. The real question is why Dark Meta Knight is so mean compared to Dream Land's Meta Knight. Possessed by Dark Mind? Chose a darker path because of natural variations between the parallel universes? Or was the one we fought just a creation of Dark Mind, and the real mirror Meta Knight was somewhere doing something else?
  • Perhaps the Shadow characters are Character Exaggeration forms of the normal ones? What do you see in a mirror?
    • That makes the most sense. Kirby tends to cause a few problems while trying to save the day, so Mirror Kirby does the same to you until the true villain is revealed. Meta-Knight has very Templar views on right and wrong, and his mirror self takes it over the edge into villany. And, in Triple Deluxe, Queen Sectonia is turned evil because she used the Dimension Mirror as her own personal looking glass and it amplified her vanity, her most negative trait. (Heck, maybe she was outright replaced by Mirror Sectonia and nobody noticed.)
• What are Master Hand and Crazy Hand doing in Amazing Mirror? Shouldn't they be at Final Destination or something?
  • Real answer, the hands were created by HAL, who also made Kirby, so they put them in a Kirby game for fun. In-universe answer: It's possible the Mirror World is their home dimension, much like how the Smash characters each come from somewhere.