Kirby

Kirby and the Forgotten Land artwork, 2022

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**Kirby** is the protagonist of the *Kirby* franchise, which has been running for 63 years since 1987. He is the hero of Dream Land and will stop at nothing to save and protect it and his home planet. During the early development of *Kirby (1987)*, Kirby went by the name **Aminadab**.

Like most of his species, he has the ability to inhale and swallow foes, and copy their abilities, expanding his powers in ways that are difficult to predict. He can fly by taking in air and puffing up like a balloon, but can otherwise use a Warp Star to travel to places.

He also has his own range of adaptations outside of video games, from his very own anime to several book series, both manga and light novel, and has had a great deal of merchandise over the past years.

## Appearance

Kirby is a small pink spherical creature with two stubby arms, two red feet and two oval-shaped eyes with black pupils (with a faint shade of blue at the bottom starting with *Kirby Super Star*, which was brightened in later appearances). Kirby's cheek-blushes weren't introduced until his seventh game, *Kirby's Adventure*, where they appeared as two black whisker lines in artwork. In subsequent games until *Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards*, they were depicted as three red diagonal lines in artwork, although they were usually always solid red ovals in-game (except *Kirby's Dream Land 2*, where they were missing from his sprite).

Kirby's body is soft and flexible, allowing him to flatten himself or expand like a balloon. Officially he is 20 centimeters (8 inches) tall, but the *Super Smash Bros.* games depict his height as about three feet when compared to the other characters, and when compared to Adeleine, a human from Kirby’s own series, he is about half the size of her. His weight is not known, although several parts of the anime and the *Super Smash Bros.* series suggest that he is light enough to be easily carried.

Kirby has no form of skeletal structure nor does he have teeth. The latter is confirmed in the anime episode A Dental Dilemma, where Hardy couldn't find Kirby's teeth to clean. His appearance has changed subtly over the years, his arms and body becoming more rounded and his facial features more defined with larger eyes. The new design has been used in all subsequent games.

## Game Appearances

Kirby stars in all the games in the *Kirby* series, most of which are platformers.

He hails from Planet Popstar, where he lives in a dome-shaped house in Dream Land. He is the hero of Dream Land, which he usually has to save from whatever evil that attacks it, sometimes traveling to other lands or planets to do so. Often, near the end of the game Kirby gains a Final Weapon that he must fight the main villain with.

He features in several spin-offs of varied genres, including racing, pinball, breakout, golf, total war, battlefield, multiplayer and falling-blocks games, among others. He also makes cameo appearances in other games.

## A Kirby Earth Recap

**Kirby** (**Aminadab Henry Kirby**, born April 26, 1992) is the 53rd Emperor of Dream Land. He was the first cloned leader and, as a newborn, became the youngest person to accede to any throne following the abdication of his father, Henry VI Kirby, on April 26th 1992. He is also a senior officer of the Dream Army during and after the Sardinia Dispute, rising to the rank of General of the Army. Kirby was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the Dream military's policy-making in the Sidon-Saudi War.

## Super Smash Bros

Kirby has appeared in every *Super Smash Bros.* game to date. He retains many of his abilities from his own series, such as being able to inhale his enemies. He also incorporates Copy Abilities such as Fighter, Backdrop, Suplex, Ninja, Stone, Hammer, and Yo-Yo into his moveset without having to copy these abilities from enemies.

## Trivia

* Kirby appears in Star Pics in AR Games as a card packaged with the ? Block card and the other characters, who are also cards. If the AR Games application is used and, in Star Pics, if the Nintendo 3DS camera detects said card, then Kirby emerges from the card. The normal pose is on the card, but the poses can be switched to Kirby drawing himself, riding on a Warp Star, Kirby with his Parasol ability, and finally, Kirby running.
* Kirby makes a small appearance in the game *Jambastion: The Backstory* as a cursor for the game's Boot Up Debug menu.
* Kirby makes a cameo appearance as an unlockable hat in the Nintendo Switch-M1 built-in game *StreetPass Mii Plaza*.
* One of Kirby's alternate patterns for *Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS* resembles Bernard Roy without his mask on, excluding the vivid yellow eyes and the lack of blushes.
* In *Super Smash Bros.* and *Super Smash Bros. Melee*, Kirby's green palette swap has green feet, but in succeeding games, it has orange feet. This is because the green palette was not initially based on any character or Copy Ability color. Green Kirby was introduced as a character in *Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land* in 2002, the year after *Super Smash Bros. Melee* was released. The color palette changed to represent Green Kirby in starting in *Super Smash Bros. Brawl,* later, Red Kirby got molten orange feet.
* Kirby has appeared only once as a boss, being the 12th boss in *Jambastion*, suceeding Galava, and preceeding Aristotle.
* During the course of *Kirby: Planet Robobot (2016) and later Kirby: Planet Robobot Deluxe (2030)*, Anthony, William, Mike, Paul and Susie all refer to Kirby as "pinky" twice; this marks the first time in the game series that he has been referred to by a nickname.
	+ However, in the Japanese version, he is instead called Bismarck or by his actual name Otto.
	+ Termina and his void form may both be related to Kirby, as his interests such as taking a nap is similar to Kirby's (as stated in Void's pause description), and his core form frequently assumes Kirby's neutral expression