Kirby's Return to Dream Land/Characters

Quick link to the main Kirby character page.

Characters from Kirby's Return to Dream Land include:

Main Characters

Kirby

"No Copy Ability? Then try a Super Inhale! Slide to evade! Press (insert Wii Remote A button graphic here) to Guard! You can defeat any foe with little skill."

—In-game description

Tropes associated with Kirby:

King Dedede

"The king of Dream Land! This big dude is one tough cookie. With his trusty hammer, it’s aim once, WHAM once!"

—In-game description

Meta Knight

"The masked knight cometh! His intense training allows him to soar through the air, swinging his sword with unrivaled speed!"

—In-game description

Waddle Dee/Bandana Dee

"Hey, it’s everyone’s idol! Don't let the cute fool you! He’s a brave warrior who may be small, but his spear packs a huge wallop!"

—In-game description

Ascended Extra: His first appearance was as an opponent in Kirby Super Star's Megaton Punch. In Super Star Ultra, he appears as King Dedede's personal helper in Revenge of the King. In Kirby's Return to Dream Land, he is now a playable character, aiding Kirby, Meta Knight, and his King.
Badass Normal: Unlike his allies, he has no real abilities in Kirby's Return to Dream Land. In fact, he only wields a spear.
Blade on a Stick: His spear. He can even twirl it like a helicopter blade to fly.
My Friends and Zoidberg: He's teaming up with The Hero, The Lancer, and the Big Bad. Naturally, he's getting this treatment.
No Name Given: All official material refers him simply as "Waddle Dee". Bandana Dee is just his nickname.
Powerup Mount
Spin Attack
Super Strength
Unwitting Pawn

Magolor

"I'm so, so thankful for all of your help! High five, low five, all that."

Aliens Are Bastards
Affably Evil: He's certainly quite friendly, masking his Evil Plan all along with his friendly demeanor.
Badass Adorable
Big Bad: He's the villain that drove the plot along by manipulating the four to do his dirty work.
Bullet Hell: A trademark of his fighting style--he shoots things everywhere.
By the Lights of Their Eyes
Call Back: His boss form is similar to that of Marx from Kirby Super Star and its Nintendo DS remake.
The Chessmaster: His Evil Plan involves Kirby and co. recovering the Master Crown from Landia, who he fought against to get it but lost to it.
Cheshire Cat Grin: In his final form. And that mouth contains an eye.
Expy: To Marx. Sets Kirby up to go on a quest, collect stuff important to his plot, in order to obtain great power? Marx did it first.
Hidden Depths: After getting all of the energy spheres, Magolor will explain the history of the Lor Starcutter. He mentions that the Lor may have a mind of its own and that he hopes that it will speak to him one day.
- He also mentions that he heard of Kirby and the others through a friend, long before he actually met them, and loosely recalls the events of Milky Way Wishes. This has made fans speculate that Magolor's friend was Marx.
Eldritch Abomination: His final form, the slight variation in EX mode predicably moreso.
Evil Overlord: His dream is to become one.
Evil Sorcerer: Once he gains magical abilities from the Master Crown.
Evil Sounds Deep: Compare how he sounds when you speak to him in the Lor Starcutter to when you fight him in the final battle.
Eyes of Gold: Which later become Red Eyes, Take Warning when he obtains the Master Crown.
Hand Blast: Which he combines with the portal version of Teleport Spam for a neat power stunt.
Informed Ability: He's the captain of the Lor Starcutter and requires you to find the energy spheres for him, but he never actually repairs the ship. At least not in front of Kirby.
- Or maybe he just rebuilds everything while you're away and playing through the levels.
- Despite the fact we never see him use any combat abilities outside of his Master Crown forms, Magolor attempted to fight Landia by himself before he enlisted the help of Kirby and his friends. Even though Magolor lost against Landia, it still implies he can fight a bit without the Master Crown.
The Jester: Looks a lot like one.
Manipulative Bastard
Non-Indicative Name: Magolor Soul is anything but; it's implied in the pause screen text that you've killed the actual Magolor by this point, and what you're fighting is nothing more than the Master Crown itself using his corpse as a host to channel its power through.
Raymanian Limbs
Teleport Spam
Treacherous Advisor: He gives helpful hints to Kirby and co., but is secretly a bad guy.
Took a Level in Badass: EX Mode turns his second form into a Soul version, which both looks more awesome and is even harder to beat.
The Trickster: By playing the innocent victim, he tricked Kirby and co. into defeating Landia for him so he could take the Master Crown.
Vile Villain Saccharine Show: As per the series trademark. He isn't nearly as disturbing as other villains in the series, but he wouldn't be out of place in a Tales (series) game in his Master Crown-enhanced forms.

Bosses

Present for all of the bosses

AI Roulette
Palette Swap: All the bosses sport new color schemes in EX Mode.
Tactical Suicide Boss
Turns Red

Whispy Woods

Whispy Woods is the boss of Cookie Country and a recurring character within the Kirby series.

Blow You Away: One of his attacks is shooting gusts of wind.
Flunky Boss: Drops Bronto Burts, Waddle Dees, Comos, and Gordos from his branches. In EX Mode he drops mostly Gordos... and Scarfies!
Edible Ammunition: In the form of apples.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He can suprisingly invoke this on Kirby of all characters by inhaling him after powering up.
Poison Mushroom: In EX Mode, don't inhale the purple apples that fall. Those who fought Whispy's Revenge in Kirby Super Star Ultra will remember this.
Stationary Boss
Warmup Boss: It's Whispy Woods. What did you expect?
- Took a Level in Badass: You know EX Mode is hard when even Whispy Woods can mop the floor with you.
When Trees Attack

Mr. Dooter

The boss of Raisin Ruins.

Badass Mustache: He gets one along with his EX recoloring
Ballistic Bone: He doesn't just throw the skulls, he juggles them. And in EX Mode the skulls are on fire.
Expy: They way he summons smaller enemies is very similair to how Wiz does it in Kirby and the Amazing Mirror.
Fluffy the Terrible
Jackass Genie: Not in the fact that he makes wishes backfire, but in the fact that he will whup your ass if you let him.
Our Genies Are Different
Raymanian Limbs: His hands seem to have minds of their own; as shown when they try to summon the body out of the hat, and begin to hit it frustratedly when it does not appear.

Fatty Puffer

The boss of Onion Ocean.

Balloon Belly: He is this normally, but takes it Up to Eleven when his health is cut to half.
Ceiling Cling: In his EX boss fight he somehow can stay on the ceiling to spit water at you.
Expy: Somewhat one of Fatty Whale, though they don't share much.
Fangs Are Evil
Making a Splash: It can shoot a huge water blast from its mouth.
Puffer Fish

Goriath

The boss of White Wafers.

An Ice Person
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: In this case, a yeti.
Disney Villain Death: He gets this in a cartoonish fashion and explodes into many stars upon hitting the ground when you defeat him, knocking him off the platform.
Everything's Better with Monkeys: He climbs walls just like a monkey would for trees.
Expy: Seems to be that of Son Goku.
- He can also be considered one of Donkey Kong; his arms stretch, much like Donkey Kong when he reaches for bananas in Jungle Beat, and Ground Pounds to get to new parts of the arena.
Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: His defeat animation involves this.
Kamehame Hadoken
Oh Crap: Upon being knocked off the platform after his defeat, he strikes a pose but then gets this face when he realizes that he's no longer on solid ground, and thus achieves his cartoon-style Disney Villain Death.
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Shout-Out: He's heavily inspired by Dragonball Z, going Super Saiyan when he Turns Red and even using Kamehameha wave and spirit bomb attacks.
- The Kamehameha also looks specifically like a Hadouken, and he has the ability to stretch his arms to ridiculous proportions to hit you. Remind anyone else of Dhalsim?

Grand Doomer

The boss of Nutty Noon.

Disc One Final Boss: Certainly set up like a final boss. If it weren't for how early in the game it is you'd have no reason to believe there's anything after it.
Eldritch Abomination
Feathered Fiend
King Mook: One can assume that this thing rules over all of the Sphere Doomers.
Teleport Spam

Metal General and HR-D3

The bosses of Egg Engines.

Development Gag: HR-D3 originally sported a King Dedede theme in the original Gamecube prototype, Kirby's Dream Course, and the Kirby Quest sub-game of Kirby Mass Attack (in that game, it looked like it does in this game, but had King Dedede's Insignia on it and not the one it has in this game) although it looked more like King Dedede in Dream Course. The D3 part of the name is undoubtedly a reference to that.
Expy: HR-D3 shares numerous traits with Kirby 64's boss HR-H.
- Metal General has many moves that are similar to Meta-Knight's, possibly making it a sort of mecha-Meta Knight.
Mini-Mecha: Metal General is only slightly larger than Kirby. HR-D3 is a Humongous Mecha, though.
Shows Damage: Played with: Metal General flashes small, electronic numbers when hit, indicating how much damage it has taken. Then it's played straight at its halfway mark when it starts to spark and twitch. In EX mode HR-D3 loses armour, and at the very end, its arms, as it takes damage.
What Happened to the Mouse?: It is unknown what becomes of Metal General after HR-D3 is beaten, though one could assume that it simply shut down.

Landia

The boss of Dangerous Dinner

Big Bad: Or so Magolor wants you to believe...
Big Damn Heroes: At the end, giving Kirby and co. a lift out of the dimension.
Cool Crown: The Master Crown.
Disc One Final Boss: Yes, they pulled this twice in the same game.
Good All Along
Kaleidoscope Eyes: Landia starts out with Green Eyes. Then, when it Turns Red, it gets Red Eyes, Take Warning. Finally, after its defeat, it is depicted with Blue Eyes for the remainder of the game.
Me's a Crowd: By splitting from one four-headed dragon into four one-headed dragons.
Multiple Head Case
Our Dragons Are Different
Powerup Mount: What's the only thing cooler than defeating a dragon? Riding on its back in the next level!
Shout-Out: In EX mode, its palette swap makes it look a lot like Spyro.
Strange Bedfellows: If it weren't necessary to save the universe, you'd think Landia would be hesitant to team up with the heroes who just beat it up.

Lor Starcutter

Blow You Away
Bullet Hell
Create Your Own Villain: Literally! Well, the Lor hardly counts as a villain since it's just a ship^[1] but you did bring back all the pieces to build it with.
Evil Costume Switch
Red and Black and Evil All Over: As Lor EX, in Extra mode.
Unexpected Shmup Level: Interesting case here. Most Kirby Shmup levels have you riding/using the item you've assembled during the game in order to fight a foe who has only recently been revealed (Or only recently shown to be an enemy, at least). This fight inverts it, by having you ride on the previous boss and fight against the item you assembled during the game!

Galacta Knight

Badass
Bonus Boss
Evil Counterpart: Do you really need to be told who he is this to?
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Sealed Badass in a Can: Starts out the fight trapped in a crystal, similar to how we saw him in Super Star Ultra.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Though he is a returning character, one can help but wonder if he was mainly added to fill in the Meta Knight type boss role that was left open when Meta was playable in this game.

Minibosses

The Sphere Doomers

Tropes associated with the Sphere Doomers:

Color-Coded Elements: No ability is purple, Fire is red, Spark is green, Ice is a whitish grey.
Dual Boss: When you fight the no ability one with the fire one in 7-3.
Fire, Ice, Lightning: Three of the four variants, but the ice appears after the lightning.
Lovecraft Lite: Not nearly as noneuclidean as the Grand Doomer, but they still are what you'd expect for a creature from a foreign dimension.
Recurring Miniboss: Just with a little bit of a difference in the battlefield each time.

King Doo

Giant Mook: A giant Waddle Doo, obviously.
King Mook

Gigant Edge

BFS: Almost as big as Gigant Edge itself.

Water Galboros

Giant Mook: A bigger version of the new Water Galbo enemy.
Making a Splash

Bonkers

Drop the Hammer
Playing with Fire: Can use Hammer Flip in EX Mode.

Super Bonkers

Drop the Hammer
Playing with Fire: Like Bonkers, it can use Hammer Flip in EX Mode. Unlike Bonkers, however, it can use the move in normal mode too.

Moundo

Dishing Out Dirt
Giant Mook: A larger version of the Rocky enemy.

Dubior

Shock and Awe

Kibble Blade

Giant Mook: A giant version of the Sir Kibble enemy.

Enemies

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↑ Magolor suggests that it might be sapient, but even if it is Magolor is fully controlling it during the fight so it isn't a true villain anyway, just Brainwashed and Crazy.

[1] Magolor suggests that it might be sapient, but even if it is Magolor is fully controlling it during the fight so it isn't a true villain anyway, just Brainwashed and Crazy.

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