Marx (Kirby)

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==Summary==
Marx is an antagonist and supporting character in the Kirby series. Insane and evil, Marx is a cosmic jester that enjoys and relies on trickery to achieve his goals, he portrays himself as cute and silly in general, showing active excitement and laughing around even in battle, unfolding the sinister truth of it all as he plainly demonstrates his emotion to not be innocent but caused by him looking forward to mess up his opponents, he proudly keeps parts his farced attitude after it's clearly uncovered and has a tendency to occasionally do bizarre, sometimes obscure things for fun.
Marx starts as the main antagonist and final boss of the Milky Way Wishes sub-game in Super Star and its remake, Super Star Ultra. He asks Kirby to help him end the conflict between the Sun and Moon, which Marx secretly generated. Kirby listens to his plea and does what he suggests, completely unaware of Marx's ulterior motives. The jester then turns up just in time to send the final part of his devious plan into motion and simultaneously reveals that he used Kirby the whole time in order to gain control over Planet Popstar. Upon Marx's defeat, he is tossed into space, crashing into the broken Galactic Nova and causing the planet-sized machine to blow up in the process. In The True Arena of Super Star Ultra, which is non-canon as far as we know, it's revealed that Marx managed to "survive" by absorbing Nova's power, resurrecting as Marx Soul. After once again suffering a defeat against Kirby his body is completely annihilated. In canon, Marx eventually came back in Star Allies, helping Kirby & co. in adventures and harnessing the power of friendship much like other villains assisting good in that game. Although his actions are still his own, this is more so a matter of the series' logic being intently cartoonish rather than a personal redemption, and he's suggested to be bent on taking over the galaxy.See here. One pause screen description Marx had was mistranslated and made him look a bit heroic when this wasn't actually the case, and the original wording could be interpreted as him wanting to take over the galaxy. He also receives the connotation of "Galactic Ambition" at the start of that mode, so this take is most likely correct.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: | | 
Key: Pre-Star Allies Base | Marx Soul | Post-Star Allies
Name: Marx | Marx Soul | Marx
Origin: Kirby Super Star
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown | Unknown | Around or over 1000 years old
Classification: Magician, The Cosmic Jester | As before | As before, Star Ally
Powers and Abilities:
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As in base (Pre-Star Allies) but with greater extent and/or capabilities, added Regeneration (High-Mid. Can reform from dividing into multiple drops and having an unspecified amount of them destroyed), Immortality (Type 3), Teleportation (Should be comparable to Nova's), Body Control (Can cut his body in half to generate black holes or to turn his two halves into living paint or spheres of energy), Spatial Manipulation (The area where he's fought has dozens of warped nebula, the floor looks like his wings, the background is constantly being distorted and unknown parts of the zone blows up with his defeat), Reality Warping (Absorbed Nova's power)
|-|Optional Equipment=
Post-Star Allies only: As before, Statistics Amplification (With Power-Up Hearts, which increase strength, health or speed of all allies at once), Healing (With various food items and health Power-Up Hearts, which heals all vitality), Invisibility (Invincibility Candy), Summoning (Can summon Helpers by directly throwing Friend Hearts to Copy Essences. Can summon a Dream Friend using the Dream Rod), Homing Attack (With Star Allies Sparkler), Resistance to Life Manipulation (Invincible Candy; Other users of it show being invulnerable to being one-shotted by Dethskullks, who "suck the life force out of anyone they touch" & are careful to not use that power on each other. Characters in Ghost formFor example Kirby, Bandana Waddle Dee or Meta Knight can't absorb a little bit of life from targets using an Invincible Candy), Sound Manipulation (Invincible Candy; Users are invulnerable to attacks from Kirbys using the Bell Copy Ability and characters using the Mike item)
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Attack Potency: Large Planet level (Fought evenly with Kirby back in Super Star as the final boss of a canon minigame and of the game), can ignore durability in some ways | Multi-Solar System level (Absorbed the power of Nova and became significantly stronger than before back in Super Star Ultra), can ignore durability in many ways | Low Multiverse level (Can assist Kirby & two fellow Star Allies in the canon defeats of Void Termina, Corrupt Hyness, the retaliators Three Mage-Sisters [at once], as well as Morpho Knight EX and the stronger incarnations of Void Termina on side content. Can confront Kirby & three Star Allies during the credits of Heroes in Another Dimension), can ignore durability in some ways
Speed: Massively FTL+ (Fought Kirby. Can keep up with fellow Star Allies such as Meta Knight, King Dedede, Bandana Waddle Dee, Ribbon and the Three Mage-Sisters, and they are comparable to Morpho Knight and Void Termina, with whom they can fight. Along with other Star Allies, he can chase and keep up with the Jamba Hearts several times, which were scattered across the universe. Can fight against four Star Allies alone)
Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown | Multi-Stellar (Can survive harm from a Black Hole from Magolor and another Marx in the same way that Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede and Bandana Waddle Dee do, who can withstand outrunning and outflying , including the stars in the background of it, and survive getting sucked in it)
Striking Strength: Large Planet level (Briefly incapacitated Kirby with a kick. Can harm comparable beings by colliding onto them) | Multi-Solar System level | Low Multiverse level
Durability: Large Planet level (Took many hits Kirby, surviving his defeat until his body took a part of Nova's explosion, which destroyed it to small pieces, Nova being a planet-sized machine that survived traveling at relativistic speeds [4.63 Ronnatons]. Side content portrays that Marx died from this, but he somehow remained active to absorb things and power around) | Multi-Solar System level, regeneration makes him difficult to kill | Low Multiverse level
Stamina: Very high. Comparable to Kirby. Absorbed Nova's power and pieces after himself being defeated, moveless and having his body with turn off colors | As before. Could still scream rather loud after being bisected in half, without making safe use of his body control | Very high. As the first key
Range: Standard Melee Range physically, Interstellar with projectiles and shockwaves (Scaling from Kirby) | As before, Galactic via teleportation (Scaling from Nova) | As his first key, Interstellar, likely Galactic via Extrasensory Perception
Standard Equipment: His Ball | None notable | His Ball. A floaty
*Optional Equipment: None notable | None notable | Power-Up Hearts, various food items, Invincibility Candy, Maxim Tomato, Dream Rod, Friend Star and Star Allies Sparkler
*Can Create/Summon: None notable | None notable | Endless new balls. A Friend Star
Intelligence: High. Influenced the sun and moon, sentient celestial bodies, to fight against each other for a prolonged amount of time, with Kirby going into an adventure with the end goal of making them stop. Played innocent and instructed Kirby to go into said adventure to make peace between the sun and moon through a wish that it would be granted to him, which Marx took for himself to rule Planet Popstar. Can keep up in combat with a Kirby using any Copy Ability | As before, kept in combat with a Kirby who defeated Galacta Knight | As the first key, possesses vast combat skills due to being able to contend with, and defeat, Meta Knight, the Three Mage-Sisters, Hyness, Void Termina, Morpho Knight, as well as any Star Ally
Weaknesses: Insane
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Note that there is no distinction between his keys in this section.
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*Radiant Flight: Marx grows wings and hovers. The wings damage enemies on contact.
*Teleport: Marx contracts his body and teleports. He does this repeatedly and mostly after finishing an attack, making him hard to hit. In Star Allies, he has this move whereas fellow allies have an air dodge, implying Marx uses it evasively.
Marx's Shooter Cutter-Kirby Super Star.gif|Shooter Cutter (Super Star)
Marx's Seed Attack-Kirby Super Star.gif|Seed Attack (Super Star)
Playable Marx's Marx Flip Ultima & Shadow Uppercut-Kirby Star Allies.gif|Marx Flip Ultima & Shadow Uppercut (Star Allies)
*Shooter Cutter (シューターカッター): Throws at once 4 cutting projectiles downwards in different directions. This is a recurrent technique by several final bosses, others may do it differently.
*Seed Attack (シード攻撃[ - こうげき]): Flies upwards and throws sharp seeds. They then quickly grow into stretched thorns.
*Shadow Uppercut: Appears as an invulnerable shadow that follows his targets, then Marx ascends to attack them. He can be a shadow without visually entering to the floor, likely teleporting into it to do so.
**Marx Flip Ultima: Dives into the ground "becomes" an invulnerable shadow, leading into a Shadow Uppercut.
Marx's Ice Bowl (1)-Kirby Super Star.gif|Ice Bowl (Super Star)
Marx's Ice Bowl (2)-Kirby Super Star.gif
Marx's Marx Cannon-Kirby Super Star.gif|Marx Cannon (Super Star)
*Ice Bowl (アイスボウル): Spits a bullet that divides left and right when the horizontal axis coincides with its target, freezing it on contact. This could work on Kirby despite their battle taking place in some moon.
*Arrow Arrow (アローアロー): Shoots consecutive and overwhelming amount of arrows from his wings.
*Gust (突風 [とっぷう]) / Marx Cannon (マルク砲 [- ほう]) / Laser (レーザー): Shoots a powerful energy beam from his mouth while doing a whimsical expression.
Kirby Super Star Ultra-Marx's Black Hole.gif|Black Hole (Super Star Ultra)
Playable Marx's Black Hole-Kirby Star Allies.gif|Black Hole (Star Allies)
Marx's Shooter Cutter, Marx Cannon & Black Hole-Kirby JP twitter, Feb 8, 2019.gif|Shooter Cutter, Marx Cannon & Black Hole (Star Allies)
Marx's black hole (Ultimate).gif|Black Hole (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, non-canon portrayal)
*Black Hole: Marx splits his body in half and generates a black hole in the center. In Star Allies he stays split for the duration of the attack, as a boss he stays there for a while and then teleports away. As of the latter game, the potency of this hax is enough to harm Meta Knight, King Dedede and Bandana Waddle Dee.
*Jester Ball Ride: Marx creates a Jester Ball under him in which he rides.
Marx's Jester Ball Ride & Ball Kick-Kirby Star Allies.gif|Jester Ball Ride & Ball Kick
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Marx's Time-Bomb Jester Ball-Kirby Star Allies.gif|Time-Bomb Jester Ball
**Ball Kick: Marx kicks the ball at enemies. It will ricochet if it hits a wall, still damaging enemies.
*Prank Kick: Marx will trap and trample on the enemy or object under his feet, ultimately kicking it away. The thrown enemy or object works as a projectile.
*Time-Bomb Jester Ball: Marx places a ball on the ground, which can be left to explode or kicked into a foe.
*Ball Kick Shot: Marx creates and kicks a ball at a high speed that initially travels straight, then may bounce if it does not collide with anything.
*Jester Ball Spit-Drop: Marx spits a more powerful ball straight down.
*Marx Megaspin: Marx performs a unique dipping motion and spews arrow projectiles on the upswing.
*Rush: Marx charges forwards surrounded by a rainbow aura. This can be chained in succession with other moves such as Marx Megaspin or Marx Flip Ultima.
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Same as before (Presumably didn't develop the newer, regular moves he showed after Super Star Ultra), and these ones:
Marx Soul's Arrow Arrow-KSSU.gif|Arrow Arrow
Marx Soul's Marx Cannon-Super Star Ultra.gif|Marx Cannon
Splash Marx-Super Star Ultra.gif|Splash Marx
*Splash Marx (スプラッシュマルク): Marx splits in half, turns into paint, and splits those into many parts as they throw themselves above, then they rain down in the battlefield coming quickly from different directions at once. After that Marx reforms his body, regardless of the amount of parts Kirby may have destroyed/absorbed.
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*Acrobatics: Marx can instantly make leaps of around a meter, mobilize by spinning around to dodge attacks, and easily & quickly do flips and wacky moves during diverse victory dances, as well as making an immediate flip at the highest reach of a jump.
*Chuckle: Marx chuckles, squashing his body and making himself an even smaller target less likely to get hit.
**Slide Kick: Marx simply slides against the ground, foot first.
*Guard: Marx blocks damage coming in any direction. He can also perform a perfect guard blocking something just in time.
**Dodge: Acrobatically twirls to one side or in place to dodge attacks.
*Face-to-face food transfer: On contact Marx shares a recently eaten healing food item with an ally at a time, making them be as healed as himself.
Marx's Dodge-Kirby Star Allies.gif|Dodge
Everybody using Friend Hearts-27th anniversary twitter video.gif|Marx making use of a Friend Heart
*Friend Heart: Obtained in Kirby Star Allies, Marx generates a Friend Heart which is then thrown to his objective(s). This can be done an unlimited amount of times as well as repeatedly. Upon contact or near it, the Friend Heart will generate a major change in the empathy of the being(s) affected to the point of making them change their morality towards being friends & allies with Marx. The Friend Hearts have also shown to make feel objectives extremely happy, make them have a deep appreciation for the one who used a Friend Heart on them, generate clothes in others, work on robots, heal & purify others, operate without making direct contact to others' bodies as well as affect more than one being at a time. Friend Hearts were also shown either creating or turning small areas they reached into Friend Platforms (Creation or Transmutation), an ability any Star Ally may possess, but no character in Star Allies uses Friend Hearts in this manner or were aware that this happened. The last function the Friend Hearts have is that their sentient targets will immediately be bestowed with the ability the generate and use Friend Hearts with all previously mentioned characteristics.
*Friend Ability: Powers the Star Allies could use in Star Allies, they were bestowed to them due to being reached by a Friend Heart (be it by another ally or off-screen from one of the many that scattered in space, much like it happened to Kirby).
**Friend Action: They all supposedly need 4 allies in total to be done and, gameplay wise, a special platform to be used; This are only Game Mechanics, the narrative seems to indicate the Star Allies Sparkler to have been made by the Star Allies without mentioning said platform, Hyness can use his own version of the Friend Circle without it, even when using 3 woods as his partners, and the Three Mage-Sisters themselves can use a Friend Circle on their own too.
***Friend Circle: The friends form a donut circle by holding each other, then they constantly roll forward while being coordinated enough to make jumps while they advance. They use this to travel faster on stages and power through minor enemies instead of bothering to deal with them with their moves.
***Friend Star: Through their collective power, the friends use energies from their bodies that combine to create a Friend Star, much like how Kirby alone can create a Warp Star, the Friend Star is basically a better version of it. One drives while the others are behind sustained by nothing but the energies generated by the Friend Star, they can change driver mid-use. They can fly around with the vehicle, do spin attacks, and shoot projectiles which can be charged and have different attributes depending on the leading friend's ability (ice, wind, fire, water, electricity, cutting properties or explosives).
***Friend Bridge: The friends hold each other in a line to form a bridge, which they can move up or down. They likely use some form of telekinesis to hold themselves too as energies go around them and they don't reach each other perfectly. They only use this for puzzle solving.
***Friend Train: Using their powers the leading friend gets a train chimney created in their head, while the other friends line up behind. The train continuously runs forward powering through minor enemies, they can jump, travel up walls, across ceilings, and over the surface of the water (it can't jump while on a wall or ceiling).
***Star Allies Sparkler: A Friend Star combined with the 4 Heart Spears, see the section of Optional Equipment for more info.
*Positive Energy Manipulation: Star Allies, especially Kirby, can likely infuse others with positive energy, even as the targets are being fought, and the energies they manipulate while doing Friend Actions and Team Attacks (The white one with colorful stars around, which may trigger with a heart-shaped wave) is specifically something called "positive energy". What exactly positive energy is is a bit vague, but it's related to friendship and companionship, and should be the opposite of "negative energy", which is conformed by , . A series of things show that they can manipulate this energies:
**Kirby's innocent heart began to mix with Void Termina's urge to destroy after defeating his First Core (expelling the crazy Hyness from Void's body is also remarked, and he was presumably manifesting negative energies there, but even without him Void . The happened to the other 2 incarnations of Void Termina shown, without Hyness being initially there in his body). This made Void Termina's Final Core adopt a face like Kirby's, among others more akin to his evil nature.
**When defeating Void, the last incarnation shown, he blows up with energies around his body that are the same as the ones used for the Star Allies' Friend Powers, all while smiling happily and in peace, implying he . Note that Void Termina wasn't indicated to gather positive and negative while already alive, only after the end of his life to reincarnate himself. While it could be speculated that Void Termina still gathers those energies while alive, the fact that implies it's an over time process, which 4 Star Allies can get done in the time it takes them to defeat "Void Termina, True Destroyer of Worlds" in their non-canon fight. Though they likely got better at using positive energy by then, as the first Void Termina they did fight and defeated did not go down in peace.
*Space Jump: A technique most Kirby characters have, Marx transforms into a small ball of energy which turns out to be intangible, he uses this power to mobilize himself or regroup with mates faster. Any carried item is transformed too, as proven by other users of Space Jump.Kirby's Return to Dream Land
*Revival Spell: A technique that, depending on the game, either resurrects dead allies or merely heals them from being defeated & unconscious. Both uses are applied to their users as they are doing the same process over what seems to be the same spell given the same name. Initially appearing in the Team Kirby Clash mini-game, the Kirbys there could approach others Kirbys and revive them when being defeated, which meant falling into the floor with their souls leaving their bodies. On the Team Kirby Clash Deluxe & Super Kirby Clash games the Kirbys there could even obtain items to improve their ability to resurrect others. Before the latter game, in Kirby Star Allies, every playable character became able to "Revive" defeated allies, but these defeated allies don't lose their souls and it's notable how some are still breathing.
*Team Attack: In Star Allies when piggybacking an ally or more, they can briefly charge energy to shoot an energy beam. The more allies charging energy the more powerful the attack will be.
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===Items===
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|-|Maxim Tomato=Heals all of his health when eaten.
|-|Various Food Items=Heal varying amounts of his health.
|-|Invincible Candy=When collected, Marx becomes invincible and faster for a short time, and almost any enemy he touches will be instantly defeated, or at least damaged.
|-|Dream Rod=When picked up and used Marx summons one of the following Dream Friends to assist him
*Bandana Waddle Dee
*King Dedede
*Meta Knight
*Rick, Kine & Coo
*Marx
*Gooey
*Adeleine & Ribbon
*Dark Meta Knight
*Daroach
*Magolor
*Taranza
*Susie
*The Three Mage-Sisters
|-|Star Allies Sparkler=The Final Weapon in Star Allies, used to take out Void Termina. The Star Allies Sparkler fires projectiles from the tip, fly around quickly and efficiently, and spin counterclockwise to avoid all damage on a relative scale (Sparkler Turn). Kirby canonically took the lead in the center of the Sparkler while his friends rode in the tail. Still, the leader can be rotated to imbue the shots with a different element depending on the leader (the technique is called Rider Switch). The Sparkler can fire different homing projectiles with varying power depending on charge time. An uncharged shot is called the Sparkler Comet, and it fires a star-shaped projectile. A charged shot is called the Sparkler Starshot, and it fires a projectile shaped like two intertwining stars. The strongest attack is called Team Star Allies!, which, if everyone who's riding charges together and releases at the same time, fires a giant laser at the opponent. Marx uses this item on his own when used in The Ultimate Choice of Star Allies.
|-|Power-Up Hearts=Used to increase his statistics. The effects are shared with allies.
*Speed Power-Up Hearts: Increases speed.
*Health Power-Up Hearts: Increases & heals all health.
*Attack Power-Up Hearts: Increases attack potency.
*All Power-Up Hearts: Gives all previous effects at once.
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==Gallery==
Winged Marx-Kirby Star Allies.png|Marx's True Form in Star Allies
Marx's True Form by None-Kirby Star Allies.png|Marx's True Form in Star Allies by None
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Marxvsbattles.png|Fanart of Marx Soul, credit to TheCrowdedOne
Marx Battle - Kirby Super Star Ultra OST Extended|Marx Battle - Kirby Super Star Ultra
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Shadow Kirby (Kirby) Shadow Kirby's Profile (Post-Star Allies Marx used)
Losses:
Magolor (Kirby) Magolor's Profile (Both were in base forms, bloodlusted and speed was equalized)
Dimentio (Mario Bros) Dimentio's Profile (Speed was equalized, Pre-Star Allies Base Marx and Base Dimentio were used)
Inconclusive:
==References==
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