Meta Knight

Meta Knight, also known as The Lone Swordsman, is one of the main characters from the Kirby series.
== Charactah Account ==
A masked swordsman that travels Dream Land searching for worthy opponents to hone his strength. He follows his own personal code of honor, a rarity among the residents of Dream Land and commands his own army from his flying battleship the Halberd. His cape can transform into bat wings allowing him to fly, and he wields the legendary blade Galaxia with incredible skill and speed. While his morality is highly ambiguous, he generally seems to be an anti-hero, and while he resembles Kirby without the mask, his exact relationship with Kirby remains a mystery.
Due to Meta Knight's way of doing things and his often-hidden intentions, the relationship between Kirby and Meta Knight is unpredictable in nature, and range from being bitter rivals to being steadfast allies to one another and can change at a moment's notice. Meta Knight is a playable character in many spin-offs, and is presented in many of the newer games as a "friend or foe" character.
As a knight, he respects a code of chivalry, and always offers Kirby a sword whenever he fights against him. However, if the player waits long enough without collecting the sword, it will disappear (in Kirby Star Allies, Meta Knight instead loses patience and kicks out the sword away himself), and the battle will proceed. In Meta Knightmare Ultra, he is shown trying to become the greatest warrior in the galaxy, suggesting he prides himself in his strength and skill, yet wishes to continue to grow stronger.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Kirby of the Stars Special Episode: Take it Down! The Crustacean Monster Lobzilla
* Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
* Kirby: Right Back at Ya! Pilot
=== Comics ===
* Kirby: Canvas Curse
* Kirby: Squeak Squad
* Nintendo Power
=== Video Games ===
* Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe
* I Wanna Be The Boshy
* Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
* Kirby Air Ride
* Kirby and the Forgotten Land
* Kirby Battle Royale
* Kirby Fighters 2
* Kirby Mass Attack
* Kirby Star Allies
* Kirby Super Star
* Kirby Super Star Ultra
* Kirby's Adventure
* Kirby's Avalanche
* Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition
* Kirby's Epic Yarn
* Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn
* Kirby's Pinball Land
* Kirby's Return to Dream Land
* Kirby's Star Stacker
* Kirby: Canvas Curse
* Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
* Kirby: Planet Robobot
* Kirby: Squeak Squad
* Kirby: Triple Deluxe
* NES Remix 2
* NES Remix Pack
* Nintendo Badge Arcade
* Part Time UFO
* Picross 3D: Round 2
* Picross NP
* StreetPass Mii Plaza
* Super Kirby Clash
* Super Smash Bros. Brawl
* Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
* Super Smash Bros. Melee
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
== Trivia ==
* Meta Knight's intentions in Kirby's Adventure are unclear. His acts of giving Candy imply he is trying to help Kirby, but his frequent summoning of the Meta-Knights, and being fought as a boss himself, can be seen as contradicting this, actively trying to hinder him instead. However, it could be inferred that Meta Knight is training Kirby for his battle against Nightmare, a theme also present in the Kirby: Right Back at Ya! anime, which has a plot loosely based on Kirby's Adventure. However, in Kirby Super Star, his next main series appearance, he is apparently out for revenge, but it is never clear why. If he was helping Kirby, he probably wouldn't have a reason to enact revenge; if his intentions in Kirby's Adventure were to hinder him just like every other boss, and be loyal to King Dedede, revenge upon losing to Kirby would make sense. However, the plot for Revenge of Meta Knight never actually mentions revenge at all, or Kirby for that matter, only a desire to get rid of Dream Land's lazy lifestyle. Kirby is only involved in the plot by interfering with Meta Knight's plan; once Kirby appears to not be a threat, he is ignored.
* In Kirby's Avalanche, his AI is copied from the Puyo Puyo character Rulue.
* In each game Meta Knight fights Kirby, he always offers him a sword, with the only exceptions being in Kirby's Epic Yarn, Kirby: Squeak Squad, and Kirby: Planet Robobot, in which he had his own reasons for doing so; In Kirby's Epic Yarn and Kirby: Planet Robobot, he was being controlled by the game's main antagonist, and in Kirby: Squeak Squad, he was deliberately preventing Dark Nebula's release and thus had to ensure his victory over Kirby (however, a Sword Ability bubble appears in the room before fighting him).
* While his wings appeared purple in the escape sequence during Revenge of Meta Knight, his wings are dark blue in almost all other appearances.
* It is unclear whether or not Meta Knight is right-handed or ambidextrous. While he is generally seen wielding Galaxia in his right hand, there are various other official depictions which have him holding it in his left hand (sprite flipping aside).
* In the English dub of Kirby: Right Back at Ya! he is portrayed with a Spanish accent.
** This may be a reference to Zorro, a similar masked swordsman.
* According to Sword Knight and Blade Knight, Meta Knight is apparently not a good cook in the Kirby: Right Back at Ya! episode Cooking Up Trouble.
* In Kirby: Right Back at Ya! Meta Knight is one of the characters least often animated with CGI, the only instance being in Kirby's Duel Role.
* In Kirby: Right Back at Ya! when Meta Knight is asleep, his eyes appear dark orange. However, in the games, when Meta Knight blinks or briefly closes his eyes, his visor becomes pitch black. This is true in some episodes in the anime as well.
** However, when he closes his eyes in Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Kirby Battle Royale, and Kirby Star Allies (or otherwise being knocked out), there are two small yellow dashes representing his eyes, rather than his visor being fully blacked out.
** When he falls asleep in Super Smash Bros. Brawl or Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, his eyes don't change at all.
* In the E3 2006 trailer for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Pit fires at Meta Knight using his bow, causing Meta Knight to enshroud himself in his cape. Doing so gives him minor invisibility and Pit's arrow soars straight through Meta Knight, apparently not affecting him. Meta Knight has never been seen utilizing this ability since then, however, this is likely just a visualization of how his Dimensional Cape works.
* In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, it can be observed that Meta Knight's visor is not pitch black. When standing in a certain way, it is possible to see blue coloring around his yellow eyes.
* Meta Knight's battle theme from Kirby Super Star was remixed heavily for the battle against the Sphere Doomers in Kirby's Return to Dream Land.
* In a released concept art, an unknown knight was shown. Since this artwork was in Meta Knight’s section, many have presumed it to be an early Meta Knight design. However, in a Nintendo Dream magazine interview with Shinya Kumazaki, he confirmed that the design was originally for an entirely different knight that would have appeared in the cancelled Kirby GCN. This design would later be used for Morpho Knight in Kirby Star Allies, ​​​​except with a different sword.
* Meta Knight's mask makes a cameo appearance as a purchasable hat in the Nintendo 3DS built-in game StreetPass Mii Plaza. A version of this mask missing Meta Knight's shoulder pauldrons can be worn by Mii Fighters in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
* Two of Meta Knight's palette swaps in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U resemble Galacta Knight and Dark Meta Knight.
* In his amiibo description on the Nintendo website, it is stated that his relation to Kirby is unknown, which implies that there may or may not be one at all.
* Meta Knight's circumstances in Kirby: Planet Robobot parallel King Dedede's in Kirby Triple Deluxe, as both were kidnapped by the enemy before eventually being controlled to fight Kirby, but are defeated and have their masks shattered. They then assist Kirby to get his Final Weapon to fight the true antagonist, with a little help from a traitor of the antagonist's side.
** They go on their own adventures, battle with improved bosses, and also fight a knight as the final boss.
** King Dedede bears no involvement to Kirby: Planet Robobot’s main story, in the same way Meta Knight had no bearing on Kirby: Triple Deluxe’s main story. Instead, doppelgängers of them fill their absence as bosses.
** Both also make physical appearances in cutscenes, Meta Knight appearing in Kirby: Triple Deluxe’s 100% completion cutscene, and King Dedede in Kirby: Planet Robobot’s opening and ending story cutscenes.
* As of Kirby: Planet Robobot, Meta Knight's eyes were changed from white to yellow, and his blush was removed entirely.
* Meta Knight's appearance in the Story Mode for Kirby Battle Royale has him viewing the situation from above at a remote location, with his cape wrapped around him; this role may be a reference to Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, where he generally observes the situation from a remote area while wrapped in his cape.
* In Kirby Star Allies, if the player chooses to float up onto the ledge that Meta Knight is standing on or attack him with a Copy Ability before the battle begins, he'll jump off the ledge and start the battle himself by kicking away the sword he offered rather than doing his regular pose, seemingly out of frustration.
** Additionally, should the player decide to just sit there and do nothing, Meta Knight will begin whistling bits of his own battle theme for a while before jumping down to kick the sword away and initiate the fight.
** This makes him the only boss to have an entirely different splash screen, while others like Void Termina only have the title changed, or has alternative palette while retaining the same pose.
* In Kirby Star Allies, Meta Knight's mask appears as one of the symbols on Void Termina's body.
* According to a parfait dessert item on the Kirby Café menu, Meta Knight secretly indulges in a parfait every night. This, however, is not shown in the games.
* In The Subspace Emissary, not counting Mario and Donkey Kong (who have been both a protagonist and a villain), Meta Knight is the only villain fighter to not play a villainous role.
* Stealing Galaxia from Meta Knight during his fight in Kirby and the Forgotten Land will result in him pulling out the sword he wielded in Kirby's Adventure.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Meta Knight at Kirby Wiki
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