- Alternate Character Interpretation: Is the main character a hero who defeats the monster or is he a villain who goes into the home of a perfectly harmless nonhuman who can't even escape his own home, and slaughters it without remorse?
- Awesome Music: The well-deserved credits music. You'll be humming it all day long afterward.
- Designated Villain: The colossus seems like a pretty friendly, happy guy, if only you weren't trying to drop a chandelier on his head.
- Fan Nickname: Indy Kirby for the protagonist due to resembling a cross between the two characters.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The most common way to describe the main character is "a cross between Kirby and Indiana Jones." A few years later, we get Kirby's Return to Dream Land, where Whip Kirby wears a familiar-looking hat...
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