Marx (Boss)

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## **Boss Info**

When the Sun and the Moon were fighting Marx used Kirby’s naivete and convinced him to gather the power of the stars to summon Nova and wish for them to stop. However just as Kirby was about to make his wish, Marx knocks him away and steals the wish for himself so that he can control all of Popstar! His plans were ruined though when Kirby fought back against Marx and sent him crashing down with Nova, seemingly to his death. Despite their history, it seems Marx has a bit of a soft spot for Kirby for when he sensed the threat that was Hyness he returned to Popstar to help out Kirby as a Dream Friend.

## **Boss Fight Details**

Marx floats around in his winged form for this boss fight having just transformed from his normal form in a short cutscene just before the battle began. He doesn’t fly around as he likes though and will instead teleport from place to place either after he’s been in one spot too long or when the player gets a little too close. Sometimes Marx will chain his teleports and won’t remain in one spot for longer than half a second before teleporting to another spot. Marx teleports more often based on how high the difficulty for this fight is.

## **Attacks**

### **Shooter Cutter**

Marx will fire four crescent blades out from his body that shoot off diagonally from him before circling back around like a boomerang. Usually Marx only fires off one volley of cutters, but at times he’ll fire off two. The higher the difficulty of the fight, the more likely he’ll fire two volleys.

### **Marx Laser**

Marx will fly over to one side of the screen and begin to charge up energy. A massive laser covering most of the screen will be fired from his mouth which deals a high amount of damage. When the laser gets fired the force of it will actually push Marx temporarily off screen. Luckily if you duck fast enough against the stage you can avoid being hit.

### **Ice Ball**

Marx will fly up to the top of the screen and drop a large spike ball below him. This spike ball contains compressed frozen energy inside of it meaning it will not only damage players but also has a chance to freeze them on contact. When the spike ball hits the stage it will split into two identical, but smaller, spike balls which roll across the stage.

### **Dark Seeds**

Marx will fly off screen as several small dark seeds fall from above and plant themselves into the stage. Moments later these seeds will all one-by-one sprout into tall thorny vines which grow insanely fast and cover a decent amount of the screen. They don’t deal a high amount of damage, but in a boss fight any damage can be deadly. On lower difficulties Marx may drop as few as two seeds while on harder difficulties he may drop up to five.

### **Marx Flip Ultima**

For this move Marx will be seen diving down into the stage and merging with the shadows. A dark purple shadow will then appear underneath the player and follow them as they move. When the shadow suddenly gets bigger, watch out! Moments later Marx will come rushing up out of the shadow for an uppercut-like move damaging and knocking the player away.

### **Black Hole**

Teleporting to the middle of the screen, Marx will split his body clean in half and as the two halves separate a black hole opens up between them. At this point any player should happens any thought of attacking and just try to run in the opposite direction against the pull of the Black Hole’s gravity. If a player gets too close to the Black Hole they’ll be sucked inside of it where they’ll take a massive amount of damage before being thrown out and spiked against the stage.

### **Shadow Eyes**

For what might be Marx’s creepiest looking attack, his eyes will suddenly go completely black as small balls of shadow fall off of them almost as if they were his tears. These “tears” will bounce around the stage off of any surface they find. They deal a small amount of damage, but it adds up if you get juggled by them.

### **Blood Vessels**

Marx will teleport to the center of the screen as his retract into his body only to be replaced by branching appendages that resemble blood vessels which stretch across the screen. These blood vessels have a few different patterns that they can spread out in, but they all fall under one of two categories: one where the blood vessels spread out more into the center of the screen leaving the far edges safe, and one where the opposite occurs where they reach out to the far ends of the screen making it safer closer to Marx. Interestingly these blood vessels deal a small amount of fire damage if you happen to make contact with them.

### **Compound Eye Beams**

For this move Marx’s eyes will grow huge and become compound in nature before thin laser beams fire off from them and begin to slowly sweep across the screen. On lower difficulties each eye will only fire off 1 beam each, however on the hardest difficulties you could see Marx fire four beams per eye.

### **Prank Balls**

For this move Marx will flap his wings as up to four colorful balls coming flying out from him. These balls are identical in design to the ones that his jester form uses to travel on. These balls are also all infused with a different element and they are randomly chosen when this attack is used. Sizzle Balls are infused with fire and deal the most damage, Bluster Balls are infused with wind and fly faster around the screen, Zap Balls are infused with lightning and leave behind them a short trail of electricity that can be damaging to the player, Blizzard Balls are infused with ice and have a small chance to freeze the player, and Splash Balls are infused with water and will leave behind small puddles on the stage when they make contact with it which can trip the player if they run through them. On lower difficulties Marx could fire as few as 1 ball while the harder difficulties see him use up to four.

### **Thousand Arrows**

For this move Marx will be seen tracking the player’s location with his eyes before opening his mouth and firing a concentration of arrows at the spot where the player last was. This could be classified as a “beam” like attack, however each arrow deals its own separate amount of damage. It’s highly damaging though as once caught in the attack you are stuck in it until the attack ends. Players are advised to try and trick Marx to fire at a location that’s easily dodgeable and then moving out of the way just as  he opens his mouth as at that point the direction of the attack is locked in.

## **Soundtrack**

* **Kirby Super Star**
	+ Vs. Marx - A remix of the Vs. Marx theme. [SSBB]