Meta Knight

Meta Knight is a character from the Kirby franchise. He appears alongside Mario characters in the , in which Meta Knight first appears as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Meta Knight is one of the main characters who serves as one of the foils and allies to Kirby's.
==Background==
Meta Knight is the head of the Meta-Knights, and something of a friendly rival to Kirby. He's quite an accomplished swordsman. Following his code of knightly ethics, he once delivered his sword to Kirby and demanded single combat. His giant cape transforms into wings, giving him the power of flight. He's shown his face briefly before, but his relationship to Kirby is still a mystery.
==In the Super Smash Bros. series==
===Super Smash Bros. Brawl===
Meta Knight is a newcomer in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and he is available to play from the start.
Meta Knight is widely considered to be the best character in Brawl due to his lack of disadvantageous match-ups (with one documented but heavily disputed even matchup against Pikachu) along with his overwhelming dominance in tournaments.
===Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary===
It is revealed that before the events of The Subspace Emissary, Meta Knight was attacked by the Subspace Army, which was intent of stealing the Halberd from him. He was able to hold them off until King Dedede attacked him, causing him to lose his ship.
When Meta Knight is first featured in The Subspace Emissary, he attacks a lone Marth outside of a large castle. He quickly realizes that Marth is not his enemy when they are both surrounded by Primids. After a successful battle, both warriors chase the Ancient Minister, who is carrying a Subspace bomb. Both are unsuccessful in their attempts in destroying the bomb (Meta Knight's left wing was shot by the Ancient Minister's laser, forcing him to land and change to his cape to extinguish the flame); luckily, Ike appears and uses his Aether to catch the Minister off guard and destroy the bomb. With the bomb destroyed, all three head back to the castle to clear out any remaining Primids.
Later, they are all seen traveling the wastelands together and battling Galleom. Meta Knight then saves Lucas and an unconscious Pokémon Trainer from a giant free-fall after they defeat the same boss. Meta Knight then begins to ascend a large cliff face, followed by the Ice Climbers (who see his ascent as a racing challenge), in order to reach the Battleship Halberd. At the summit, Lucario challenges Meta Knight to a sparring duel. To the relief of the Ice Climbers, the winner revives the loser, having no hostile feelings. The Halberd then crashes into the side of the mountain in an attempt to destroy the defeated Great Fox, which is being held by the arm of the Combo Cannon. Meta Knight and Lucario quickly board the Halberd, while the Ice Climbers fall off the summit, into the canyon.
The duo run into Snake while on board and join forces with him to reclaim the Halberd. After rescuing Peach and Zelda, the trio continues on to the control deck. There they discover that the ship is being piloted by a quintet of false Mr. Game & Watches. Snake attempts to dispose of all of them out the window and they land onto the bridge, whereupon they dissolve into Shadow Bugs and form into a fiend known as Duon. Once the monster is defeated, Mr. Game & Watch joins the group, along with Peach, Zelda, Fox, and Falco. Meta Knight remains in the Halberd's control room and does not take part in the battle.
Meta Knight takes back the Halberd and reunites with the members from other groups. The aircraft of the other heroes is placed inside the Halberd, which heads towards the Subspace Gunship with most of the heroes on board. After using the Subspace Battleship's main cannon to create another Subspace rift, Ganondorf and Bowser spot the Halberd on the horizon and orders the battleship to open fire. The Halberd is struck down, but the heroes are able to escape on board Samus's Gunship, Captain Falcon's Falcon Flyer, Olimar's Hocotate Ship and an Arwing. Kirby destroys the Subspace Battleship by slicing through it with the Dragoon air ride machine and the heroes enter Subspace to pursue Ganondorf and Bowser.
Meta Knight is turned into a trophy by Tabuu along with the rest of the fighters upon their entrance into Subspace. He is later revived by Kirby. He rejoins the others in the fight against Tabuu.
===Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U===
Meta Knight was confirmed as a playable character on August 13th, 2014. Possibly due to his dominance in Brawl, Meta Knight has been significantly nerfed from Brawl to SSB4.
===Super Smash Bros. Ultimate===
Meta Knight returns as an unlockable playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Although Meta Knight has received a mix of buffs and nerfs in the transition to Ultimate, but has been nerfed overall, although significantly less so than in his transition from Brawl to Smash 4. He also received a new Final Smash in the form of Darkness Illusion.
==Trivia==
*Meta Knight was the first newcomer confirmed for Brawl and the last veteran starter confirmed for Smash 4.
*Meta Knight is the first character in the series to be banned from tournament play, albeit temporarily, and also holds the longest ban for any Smash character. He is also the only banned character who is not downloadable in his banned appearance.
*Meta Knight is the first character to have a different victory fanfare from the other characters of his universe.
*Meta Knight is the only character that leaves the victory screen in their victory animation.
==External Links==
*Meta Knight on the Kirby Wiki
*Meta Knight on Smashpedia
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