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Series | Kirby (series) |
Age | N/A |
Birthday | N/A |
Sex | Male (localizations) Gender Neutral (Japan) |
Species | Puffball |
Height | 0'8"(20 cm) |
Weight | Unknown |
Alignment | Chaotic Good |
Kirby is the titular pink puff and main character of Nintendo's game series 'Kirby'. Kirby lives in his dome-shaped home in Dream Land, a country on his home planet called 'Planet Popstar'. His adventures take him throughout Dreamland and occasionally into the local star system for various reasons mostly to save his homeland. His name in Japanese is カービィ (Kābī or Kābyi).
“ | Hiiii! | „ |
~ Kirby Smash taunt since 64 |
Background[]
Kirby is a warrior destined for greatness. He came to Dream Land during a Spring Breeze, where he saved Dream Land from the selfish King Dedede. The people of Dream Land thank him by building him a dome-shaped house. Kirby soon became a regular denizen of Dream Land and constantly saves Dream Land from the gluttonous Dedede, Dark Matter, or a cosmic villain.
Powers & Abilities[]
- Float: Kirby's weight is unknown, but he is able to float for an infinite time. (Although this was not the case in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards)
- Inhale: One of Kirby's basic attacks and his signature move both in his games and SSB series. He is able to suck in enemies and copy their abilities; with a little more effort he can also spit them out in form of star projectiles. He can eat almost everything: large rockets, energy beams, ghosts, poison, most of a gigantic cake, large groups of enemies, as well as King Dedede, Meta Knight, and Waddle Dee (at once) and with no trouble at all.
- Copy Abilities: Using the power of inhaling, he is granted to copy any type of enemy's ability, but when he gets hit, he might lose the ability. Here is the list of abilities:
- Animal - Kirby grows claws and can dig through rough soil.
- Archer - Kirby gains a bow and quiver and can shoot arrows.
- Backdrop - Allows Kirby to grab an enemy and perform a backdrop on it. The precursor to several other abilities.
- Ball - Kirby turns into a ball and can bounce up and down.
- Balloon - Kirby turns into a light balloon that can burst, defeat enemies in an area.
- Baton - Kirby zaps the enemy with a baton, taking control of its movement (only present in the anime "Kirby: Right Back at Ya!").
- Beam - Kirby gains a magic wand and can shoot several different types of beams, from wave beams to large energy spheres.
- Beetle - Kirby wears a beetle head helmet and can stab enemies with the horn.
- Bell - Kirby grabs two bells and attacks enemies ringing them.
- Bomb - Kirby can produce and throw an infinite number of bombs from his hands.
- Chain Bomb - Kirby can throw bombs that can connect to each other for greater power.
- Homing Bomb - Kirby can throw bombs on wheels that drive to the nearest target and can connect for greater power.
- Bubble - Kirby can produce a plethora of bubbles, which absorb and defeat the enemies.
- Burning - Kirby dashes forwards in a fiery ball. Later became a part of Fire's move set.
- Circus - Kirby can juggle pins, make balloon animals, balance on a ball, and jump through a flaming hoop.
- Clean - Kirby gets a broom and sweeps enemies to death. We're not kidding.
- Copy - Kirby can copy an enemy's ability without eating it.
- Cupid - Kirby gains wings, being more maneuverable in flight and shoots arrows.
- Cutter - Kirby can attack with and throw a sharp boomerang.
- Chakram Cutter - Kirby can throw two chakram cutters at the same time, doubling his power.
- Buzzsaw Cutter - Kirby can shoot a buzzsaw-shaped cutter that can bounce off of walls.
- Doctor - Kirby gains a lab coat and can start crafting potions to attack the enemies.
- Drill - Kirby gains a drill helmet that allows him to burrow underground and then burst back out.
- Pencil Drill - Kirby gains a pencil drill helmet that can also shoot the pencil.
- Twin Drill - Kirby gains a double drill helmet that can also create an energy buzzsaw and shoot energy drills.
- ESP - Kirby gains psycho-kinetic powers (a reference to the videogame "Mother", known as "Earthbound" in America.)
- Fire - Kirby gains pyrokinesis and can attack with fire.
- Volcano Fire - Kirby's now able to breath flaming rocks.
- Dragon Fire - Kirby can breath a very long stream of purple fire and can also rush through the air with dragon wings made out of purple fire.
- Fighter - Kirby gains a bandanna and much greater skill in martial arts, can pull off many moves resembling those of Ryu from the "Street Fighter" franchise and is one of his most versatile abilities.
- Freeze - Can breathe an ice mist that freezes opponents and other obstacles making it possible for Kirby to kick them at other enemies. Was later incorporated into Ice.
- Ghost - Kirby becomes an intangible spirit and can possess enemies.
- Hammer - Kirby gains a large hammer that he can use to crush enemies, he can charge it up to produce incredibly powerful blows.
- Toy Hammer - Kirby gains a toy hammer which he can slam more times in a row.
- Wild Hammer - Kirby gains a stronger hammer that is also heavier.
- Masked Hammer - Kirby gains twin hammers which can create fire tornadoes.
- Hi-Jump - Increases Kirby's jumping capabilities, allowing him to jump or dive straight through blocks.
- Ice - Gives Kirby cryokinesis, allowing him to create and manipulate ice at will.
- Frosty Ice - When Kirby breathes ice, he creates snowmen. He can also create a trail of snowmen with his ice barrier.
- Blizzard Ice - When Kirby breathes ice, he creates streams of icicles, and he can also use his ice barrier to create ice spikes.
- Iron - Kirby turns partially metallic, gains a staff to deflect attacks and can turn into a golden statue of himself (only present in the anime "Kirby: Right Back at Ya!").
- Jet - Kirby gains a jetpack and can charge it up to propel himself forward at high speeds, and hover in the air with the jetpack.
- Kabuki - Kirby is dressed in a warrior-monk's outfit and hat and carries a rod to smack enemies with (only present in the anime "Kirby: Right Back at Ya!").
- Laser - Gives Kirby the ability to fire highly concentrated beams of energy at opponents. Fast, but notably weaker than other abilities.
- Leaf - Kirby can cause leaf whirlwinds, summons a beanstalk, and even become invulnerable by hiding in a leaf pile.
- Magic - Kirby gains a large top hat, and can do all sorts of magic attacks, such as releasing doves, throwing cards, and even summoning a giant jack-in-the-box.
- Mecha - Kirby gains a mech suit that includes two cannons that can shoot lasers, fireballs, or electric shocks, and have hover jets built into the cannons, and gauntlets that can drop electric bombs, deliver electric punches, and generate bursts of fire from their fingertips.
- Metal - Turns Kirby into solid metal, slowing him down, but giving him a large boost in strength and durability.
- Mini - Becomes small enough to fit into tiny crevices. Cannot float or inhale while in this form.
- Mirror - Can reflect projectiles, create barriers, and produce clones of himself.
- Missile - Turns into a missile and flies towards enemies and obstacles.
- Needle - Kirby gains a spiky helmet, and can shoot spikes and extend the needles on his helmet to prick enemies, or roll around.
- Clutter Needle - Kirby gains a helmet with spiky objects on it similar to the Needle-Needle combination, and can roll around and release junk.
- Crystal Needle - Kirby gains a crystal spike helmet that, when rolling, leaves behind a trail of crystals, and the helmet can also release crystals.
- Ninja - Kirby gains ninja-esque abilities (such as being able to cling to walls), and can throw kunai, swing a katana, and disappear in a puff of smoke, among other abilities.
- Parasol - Protects against nearly all projectiles and slows his descent when falling.
- Plasma - Kirby gains the ability to shoot plasma bolts, and he can build up kinetic energy to fire a more powerful blast. Later incorporated into Spark.
- Poison - Similar to water (see down below), but with puddles of poisons that leave a residue.
- Ranger - Kirby gains a blunderbuss that allows him to shoot star-shaped bullets at enemies.
- Noble Ranger - Kirby wields twin blunderbusses, allowing for more firepower.
- Space Ranger - Kirby now wields a blaster that allows him to fire laser shots, or charge up to fire an ultimate energy blast.
- Sand - Kirby gains sand powers, which he can use to create sand castles, sand waves, an arm made out of sand, and can even hide in sand.
- Smash - Kirby gains his Super Smash Bros. moveset. Includes Hammer, Fighter, Cutter, and Stone, among many other moves.
- Spark - Kirby can electrically charge himself, create an electric force field, and can fire lightning bolts from his body.
- Spear - Kirby can produce and throw an infinite number of spears, which have a long-range and are good in close-quarters-combat.
- Stone - Kirby turns to stone to land on enemies and becomes almost completely invulnerable to attacks.
- Suplex - Kirby can grab enemies, and perform a large number of different throws, backdrops, and suplexes on whoever is unfortunate enough to be caught.
- Sword - One of his most famous abilities. Kirby dons a green Link-esque cap and can perform over a dozen moves with his sword. It can also fire beams when at full health.
- Gigant Sword - Kirby gains a giant sword that may be slow, but it's very strong.
- Meta Knight Sword - Kirby gains similar powers to Meta Knight, such as slashing out energy waves at full health and performing the Upper Calibur.
- Morpho Knight Sword - Kirby gains similar powers to Morpho Knight, such as teleportation, slashing out energy waves at full health, self-healing, generating energy waves from himself, summoning familiars, releasing fire tornados, and making his sword giant.
- Throw - Kirby can grab and throw enemies in one of four directions. Later incorporated into Suplex.
- Top - Kirby can send out dozens of spinning tops with star designs on them, which can slice up anything they touch and then explode. It is very similar to the Yo-Yo ability (only present in the anime "Kirby: Right Back at Ya!").
- Tornado - Kirby can turn into a nigh-invulnerable whirlwind, speeding all around the area, and can pick up objects.
- Fleur Tornado - Kirby can turn into a bigger tornado that can pick up more objects and also pirouette.
- Storm Tornado -Kirby can wrap himself up in a dark and stormy tornado that can grab objects, electrically charge them, and shoot them at enemies.
- UFO - Kirby turns into a flying saucer. Kirby can fire different, chargeable beams that vary in power and range.
- Water - Kirby gains hydrokinesis, allowing Kirby to create streams of water, surf on land, create rainbows, and even spew waterfalls.
- Wheel - Allows Kirby to transform into a near-invincible tire, and roll around at high speeds, can drive through Gordos without getting hurt, and can drive on water.
- Whip - Straight from Indiana Jones, Kirby gets a long-ranged whip, with which he can grab and pull enemies and items.
- Wing - Kirby gains wings, increasing his already superb flight capabilities. He can also fire razor-sharp feathers and perform loops and dives in the air.
- Wrestler - Wrestler focuses grabs and body blow maneuvers to deal damage.
- Yo-Yo - Kirby can whip around a yo-yo to attack enemies, can do a hammer drop, and, most importantly, breakdance!
- Copy Abilities: Using the power of inhaling, he is granted to copy any type of enemy's ability, but when he gets hit, he might lose the ability. Here is the list of abilities:
- Super Copy Abilities: By absorbing a Super Enemy, Kirby can get one of five Super Abilities, which are copy abilities enhanced multiple times over.
- Ultra Sword: Kirby can slash opponents multiple times at high speeds with various oversized swords and sword-like objects. It is strong enough to overpower Magolor and chop a volcano in half.
- Monster Flame: Kirby can summon a massive fire dragon that covers almost the entire screen.
- Flare Beam: Kirby summons a gigantic energy ball that can be moved around to attack enemies or activate out-of-range switches.
- Snow Bowl: Kirby turns into a big snowball and can roll over nearly everything in his path.
- Grand Hammer: Kirby can use an enormous, chargeable hammer that can create shockwaves, and is many, many times more powerful than his regular hammer ability.
Equipment[]
- Hammer: After swallowing a enemy with a mallet, Kirby can use his copy ability and gain a hammer. He also has his own Hammer.
- Sword: After swallowing an enemy with a sword, Kirby uses the Sword Ability, giving him a sword.
- Star Rod: By inhaling his Warp Star, Kirby obtains the Star Rod, allowing him to fire stars and beams from it, and it alone possesses enough destructive capability to destroy a part of the moon. Even when it cuts through small pieces, it is easily shown to be put back into pieces.
- Warp Star: Kirby's main mode of transportation. He can summon it at any time by calling it from his cell phone, or he can simply create one at any time. It can either travel without Kirby's aid or even fly when over-encumbered. He can also inhale it to obtain the Star Rod. It can smash through walls, gates, boulders and enemies and has attacks that involves spinning or bashing. It can travel through between planets and even galaxies regularly and can decently weave through obstacles.
- Rainbow Sword: By collecting all of the Rainbow Drops, Kirby obtained this sword, which is specifically designed to destroy darkness.
- Triple Star Cane: A special cane belonging to Daroach. It can fire up to three stars at a time, doing massive damage to evil entities.
- Galaxia: A legendary sword. While not technically his sword, Meta Knight has often lent it to him on occasion.
- Robobot Armor: A mech that Kirby hijacked from the Haltmann Work Company. The armor can copy enemy abilities, just like Kirby. It can casually lift large objects or even destroy them, and the arm can transform into a drill or a wrench which have impressive weight. It can restore the pilot in full health. It has flight capabilities with the Jet ability, it's strong enough to rip planet-sizes robots in half and can make long jumps. It can make a giga-size drill which can rip through Star Dream, who is a planet-sized computer and reality warper, can destroy two huge walls armed with teeth with defensive artillery, and can shoot down an upgraded version of the Kabula.
- Halberd Mode: A powerful mode of the Robobot armor. Once it scan's Meta Knight's ship, it turns into a pink version of Meta Knight's halberd. It is powerful enough to fight off the shell, the heart and the body of a robotic planet and can blow off large flaming meteors. Capable of travelling from the ocean depths to the far reaches of outer space within a minute. Also, the front switch is used to eject Kirby of the ship.
- Combo Cannon: Halberd can shoot a continuous stream of fire that is its main move and projectile. It can also comes with an impressive laser cannon despite not being used against the Star Dream.
- Planet Buster: A more powerful move than the standard Combo Cannon, the blasts can become even more powerful, stronger and dangerous depending on how much Kirby inhales.
- Capture Inhale: He can inhale the debris of space and can convert it into energy for the Planet Buster.
- Sail Wing: The Halberd can perform a barrel dodge, deflect or even destroy both physical and energy based attacks.
- Halberd Mode: A powerful mode of the Robobot armor. Once it scan's Meta Knight's ship, it turns into a pink version of Meta Knight's halberd. It is powerful enough to fight off the shell, the heart and the body of a robotic planet and can blow off large flaming meteors. Capable of travelling from the ocean depths to the far reaches of outer space within a minute. Also, the front switch is used to eject Kirby of the ship.
- Bow: Kirby uses a bow when using the Cupid ability.
- Parasol: Kirby has a parasol when using the Parasol ability.
- Whip: Kirby uses a whip when using the Whip ability.
- Spear: Kirby uses a spear when using the Spear ability.
- Broom: Kirby uses a broom when using the Cleaning ability.
- Love-Love Stick: The Love-Love Stick is a wand formed from all of the Heart Pieces in Kirby's Dream Land 3, and has the power of shooting hearts that can damage the Dark Matter species.
Alternative Forms[]
- Hypernova Kirby: By absorbing a Miracle Fruit, Kirby can transform into his Hypernova form, which increases his already insane inhale capabilities. In this form, he can inhale anything, from giant tanks to kaiju-sized monsters. He can inhale gigantic lasers and several incredibly sized eels. The Hypernova is strong enough for Kirby to throw four dragons into a volcano which caused to erupt badly as well as redirecting missiles and pulling a large metal block.
Feats[]
Strength[]
- With the Fighter ability, cracked Planet Popstar in half with just a karate chop (Kirby Super Star).
- In the manga, he completely destroyed Popstar (Over 1,900 septillion tons of TNT) (What's crazier about it is that Kirby's only 8 inches tall). In the words of Boomstick from DEATH BATTLE!, "[Kirby]'s a planet buster, that fits in the palm of your hand"!
- Threw a monster sized Popon all the way to the sun.
- Punched a hole in the earth.
- Reflected a meteor with just simple cannonballs.
- Can throw foes into different planets.
- Decimates several incredibly large peg-shaped buildings. Each of them is large enough to reach outer space and is wide enough to cover an entire small continent.
- Regularly chucks Dedede miles away through the sky.
- Kirby once systematically destroyed a massive warship while fighting off Meta Knight's army in the process. He destroyed the ship's gun, the ship's left wing, indirectly destroyed the ship's right wing during the fight with Heavy Lobster, and finally baited the security system to shoot off the reactor (Kirby Super Star).
- Reduced giant robots to scrap metal several times.
- Defeated both Master Hand and Crazy Hand on his own (Kirby and the Amazing Mirror).
- Defeated a mini boss that can quickly cut mountains in half.
- With the Ultra Sword ability, sliced a volcano clean in half (Kirby's Return to Dreamland).
- Kirby’s singing can crack the walls of Castle Dedede.
- Kirby caused Lor Starcutter to violently fragment and implode by kicking a pebble into it too hard.
- Completely obliterated Castle Dedede on accident by swinging their arms down.
- Can plow through large meteors as a semi-truck.
- Destroyed a portion of the moon while fighting Nightmare (416.1 petatons of TNT)
- Is able to inhale hard enough to pull the moon out of orbit towards the surface of Popstar (829.8 zettatons of TNT)
- Casually tossed a massive building sized snowball to another point in the solar system very quickly (71.9 - 240.4 times FTL)
- Hit a meteor 9999 light-years away (14.333 Billion c).
- Destroyed Star Dream, which took up large portion of Popstar’s surface.
- Uppercut Meta Knight so hard he created a massive constellation (At Least Solar System)
Speed[]
- Able to run on water.
- His Warp Star is able to travel faster than light.
- With Wheel ability, drove around the entire kingdom of Dream Land about five times.
- Can outrun light-consuming vortexes by Magolor and Marx (Kirby Super Star and Kirby's Return to Dreamland).
- Could dodge cloud to ground lightning attacks from Zan Partizanne.
- Can catch with his mouth enemies that fly at high speeds.
- Able to display a split-second reaction time.
- Kirby summoned the Warp Star from Pop Star to Ripple Star, with it arriving in about 3 seconds (8 trillion times FTL)
- With the Circus Ability, can leave blur lines from attacks.
- With the Ninja Ability, can perform faster-than-an-eyesight attacks.
- With the Fighter Ability, his punches and kicks are supersonic and jabs so quickly that looks as if he's attacking from multiple angles at a time.
- With the Jet ability, it's heavily implied that he can fly at least at Mach 1.
- Took a massive bite out of the actual fucking sun (6.8 FOE)
- Taking this chomp out of the sun had to be pretty fast (31% SoL)
- Proceeded to consume the sun in its entirety immediately afterwards
Durability[]
- Survived a planet-explosion.
- Survive 1000 tons of pressure.
- Has been able to fight in black holes.
- Tanked hits with the likes of Magolor (who has unlimited magic potential) and Marx (who absorbs every life on a planet).
- Shrugs off hits from King Dedede with ease.
- Shrugs off getting trampled by a stampede.
- Tanks really long falls due to his puffy body.
- Shrugs off being spit into orbit by Dedede, so Kirby could get up to Nightmare (Kirby's Adventure).
- Can continue fighting after taking two shots from a massive cannon.
- Gets shot through several layers of brick, only stopping after he destroys a large bell with his body. He's perfectly fine afterwards and immediately follows up on this by running an obstacle course.
- Once, had a battle that caused earthquakes and could collapse an ocean wave.
- Survived the dying explosion of Sectonia at near point blank, which encompassed the majority of Popstar (2.39 petatons of TNT)
- Endured the dying explosion of Void Termina, which spread to and consumed several nebulae and multiple galaxies (Multi-Galaxy)
Skill[]
- Defeated Nightmare and Dark Matter.
- Defeated Magolor who has a crown that gives people cosmic powers, and is powerful enough to conquer the entire universe, though Kirby needs Super Abilities to destroy and uses his regular powers to fight him off for the vast majority of the fight.
- Destroyed Nova, who is planet sized.
- Built a Rocket Ship in a minute.
- Defeated Meta Knight on different occasions, one of the strongest knights in the galaxy.
- Defeated Marx twice, who gains enough power to conquer a planet.
- Defeated Queen Sectonia, who is a magic manipulator and body snatcher, and merges herself with a giant plant that made her large enough to squeeze an entire planet.
- Defeated Yin-Yan while having a power nerf, who rips apart planet Yarn.
- Defeated Claycia, who can drain all of the life on Earth and create a solar system in place.
- Defeated Dark Nebula, which may have created a mass of dark matter / vortex / black hole as large as a nearby galaxy (At Least Galaxy Level)
- Even if it didn’t create it, it and Kirby can both withstand being within it
- Defeated Drawcia who turned Popstar into paintings and turned Kirby into a ball.
- Defeated Chaos Elfilis, which is superior to Soul Elfilis, which created an entire psychic dimension using its own energy (Universal)
- Defeated Necrodeus who can destroy floating islands simply by shouting.
- Got all the pieces of the Star Rod back from Dedede's army and the King himself.
- Saved Planet Popstar on multiple occasions.
- Regularly beats King Dedede both in one-on-one and much more unfair fights.
- Defeated Zan Partizanne, who’s electricity was powerful enough to power one of the smaller Jambastion ships, which takes up a massive portion of Popstar.
- Defeated Miracle Matter, which after being launched from Ripple Star created a massive explosion.
- Defeated Fecto Elfilis, the Ultimate Life-Form in the Kirby series, by running F.E. over as Truck Kirby.
Weaknesses[]
- Very Impulse-Driven: Kirby has shown to act on impulse on multiple occasions, and it's more or less a double-edged sword. An example of this is when he accuses Dedede of interfering with the Fountain of Dreams in Kirby's Adventure, and then leaves to retrieve the pieces of the shattered Star Rod without even letting Dedede explain himself. This recklessness can often lead him into trouble or cause him to create trouble (such as when he accidentally released Nightmare). However, in recent games, he seemingly no longer does impulsive acts.
- If he gets hit hard enough then he can lose his Copy Ability.
Fun Facts[]
- It is speculated that Kirby's name is named after a vacuum product, Kirby. It's no surprise that a vacuum Kirby and Kirby himself can suck things up.
- Not only that, but it is also speculated he is named after a lawyer called 'John Kirby'. The same lawyer that stopped the case Nintendo's copyright claim of Donkey Kong and King Kong.
- Kirby was originally going to be named PoPoPo. This was referenced in Kirby Mass Attack, where there's a place named PoPoPo Islands.
- Kirby was originally white on the Gameboy game cover-arts, because the developers were unsure of what color to make Kirby, due to the Gameboy being black-and-white.
- Kirby appeared in the second season of the popular web series DEATH BATTLE! where he fought against Majin Buu and won.