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* [[Mega Manning]]: Starting with ''Kirby's Adventure'', Kirby gained the ability to absorb the powers of certain enemies he eats. He may even be more famous for it than the trope namer himself.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Kirby gets one for almost every ability he can copy.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: He's rather infamous for unwittingly unleashing [[Eldritch Abomination|unspeakable horrors]] with his "heroic" acts.
** Granted, half the time, ''no one tells him there's an unspeakable evil sealed up in the [[MacGuffin]].''
* [[Real Men Wear Pink|Real Men Are Pink]]: His habits aren't exactly the most masculine out there.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Meta Knight. Kirby is the red.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]
* [[Silent Snarker]]: In ''Avalanche''. A few of his reaction shots also have shades of this, such as giving the camera a look when the Tutorial calls him jolly.
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Tropes associated with Fluff:
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]
* [[Brown Eyes]]
* [[Expy]]: Borrows some elements from Gooey. He's blue, player 2's character, and can lasso objects.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: He's not really that bad a guy, he's just vain, extremely greedy and occasionally mean-spirited. Of course, that doesn't mean he's not affable - in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'', he hugs Kirby towards the end of The Subspace Emissary when he realizes he's alright.
* [[Adipose Rex]]
* [[Anti -Villain]]
* [[Arch Enemy]]
* [[Authority in Name Only]]
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** [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: In ''[[Super Smash Bros|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', his hammer has a '''jet engine''' for the sole purpose of swinging extremely strong hits. In "Revenge of the King" in ''Kirby Super Star Ultra'', Masked Dedede has an even cooler new hammer. It can [[Macross Missile Massacre|launch missiles]], [[Kill It With Fire|shoot a gout of flame]], and be used for an extreme [[Spin Attack]].
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: to Kirby
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Penguins]]
* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: When possessed by Dark Matter in [[Kirby 64]], Dark Matter embeds its eye into his ''stomach''.
* [[Fat Bastard]]
* [[A Father to His Men]]: He seems to actually care very much about his Waddle Dees.
* [[Go Karting With Bowser|Go Karting With King Dedede]]: This is pretty much what Gourmet Race is. In any case, [[Anti -Villain|Kirby and King Dedede seem to be on good terms most of the time]].
* [[Harmless Villain]]: Dedede's not really bad ([[Alternate Universe|except in the anime]]), he's just big and greedy and Kirby has to bring him down to earth. In fact, he's been known to give Kirby giant hugs.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: In ''Kirby 64'', to help fight Dark Matter. He's pretty reluctant about the whole thing, though. Also in ''Kirby's Return to Dream Land''.
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* [[Weapon of Choice]]: His hammer.
** As of ''[[Kirbys Return to Dream Land (Video Game)|Kirbys Return to Dream Land]]'' and ''[[Kirby Mass Attack (Video Game)|Kirby Mass Attack]]'', he's picked up bombs lately as well.
* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: Played this part in Kirby's Adventure, as well as the remake Nightmare in Dream Land, where it seems like he was up to standard villainy by stealing the Star Rod from the fountain of dreams, but it is later revealed that he had a very ''good'' reason for doing so, as a horrifically evil entity, aptly named "Nightmare", had contaminated the fountain of dreams.
 
=== '''Meta Knight''' ===
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Tropes associated with Meta Knight:
* [[Anti -Hero|Anti]] [[Hero Antagonist]]: Is typically trying to do what's right/protect Dreamland from evil, though he sometimes goes into [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]] territory. Opposes Kirby because he tends to trigger what Meta Knight is trying to prevent.
* [[Badass]]: {{spoiler|Without the mask, [[Badass Adorable]].}}
* [[Badass in Distress]]: In ''The Amazing Mirror'' he goes off to quell the threat, but is trapped inside the mirror instead.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Every once in a while.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Towards Kirby and Galacta Knight in particular.
* [[Blow You Away]]/[[EverythingsEverything's Better With Spinning]]: One of his signature moves is Mach Tornado.
* [[Cape Wings]]
* [[Char Clone]]: Lacks the usual color scheme, but embodies most of the other traits.
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* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]
* [[The Dragon]]: To King Dedede in Kirby's Adventure/Kirby's Nightmare in Dream Land.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Two of them: Dark Meta Knight and Galacta Knight, though no one is sure if Galacta is actually evil or not.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: At least when his mask is on; without it, he appears to have [[Milky White Eyes]].
* [[Father to His Men]]: In Revenge of Meta Knight, where he tells his crew to abandon the Halberd so they'll be safe. When Axe and Mace refuse, he acts like he doesn't care, but in a way that sounds like he's trying to get them mad enough to leave him.
* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}: Seemingly in Kirby Super Star, but {{spoiler|[[Well -Intentioned Extremist|his real motive is that he thinks Dreamland would be a better place if he ruled it.]]}}
* [[Grumpy Bear]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: The Halberd is on fire and plummeting towards the ocean, so naturally he throws Kirby a sword and will wait half a minute for him to pick it up before their duel.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Given that Kirby is an idiot, this is why Meta Knight ends up fighting him a lot.
* [[Playing With Fire]]: Has a fire attack in Squeak Squad.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Though he often fights Kirby because he knows some terrible secret and is trying to keep Kirby from [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|screwing things up]], he will never, ever, ever indicate this in any way until it's too late.
** [[Hero Antagonist]]: As a result.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Kirby. He's appropriately the blue.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Sometimes uses electricity-based attacks.
* [[The Southpaw]]: Oddly enough, character art of him that shows up in ''Kirby and the Amazing Mirror'' depicts him as left-handed. In all other games he's right-handed. It can be because mirrors reflect things. [[Fridge Brilliance|While he was in the mirror world, it changed which hand he uses.]]
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* [[Teleport Cloak]]
* [[The Rival]]: To Kirby.
* [[Twenty Four 24-Hour Armor]]
* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: Is often the hardest (or at least second-hardest) boss in the games he's fought in (including ''[[Kirby and The Amazing Mirror]]'', as Dark Meta Knight fights exactly like him). It's particularly noticeable in boss rushes such as Helper to Hero.
* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: Especially in Revenge of Meta Knight.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Always refuses to fight you until you pick up the sword he offers. [[PowerupPower-Up Letdown|Too bad several powers are better]].
** The only time he breaks this pattern is in Revenge of Meta Knight, and even then, he'll wait a bit before jumping into the fray. Which is reasonable, since by that point {{spoiler|the Halberd is going down fast.}}
** He'll also break the pattern in Squeak Squad - while he doesn't hand you a sword, there is one in the room you're in before you fight him. Additionally, the stars his attacks leave give you the Sword ability when you swallow them... for some reason.
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* [[Dual Boss]]
* [[Expy]] (or [[Identical Grandson]], depending on interpretation) of Lolo and Lala from the ''[[Adventures of Lolo]]'' games.
* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy|Red Girl Blue Boy]]
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Aside from colors, the only distinguishing feature between them is a ribbon on Lalala's head.
* [[Walking Head|Walking Heads]]
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** He tends to alternate between Waddle Doos, who resemble him to an extent, and starmen, who provide Kirby with [[Tactical Suicide Boss|the power that's probably the most effective against him]].
** [[Throw Down the Bomblet]]: What he did in the first game.
* [[Non -Indicative Name]]: Kracko Jr is not his son, although it is his previous form.
* [[Recurring Boss]]: Expect him to show up in every game in some way, shape or form. Except in ''Return to Dream Land''.
* [[Shock and Awe]]
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Tropes associated with Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright:
* [[Dual Boss]]
* [[Light 'Em Up]]
* [[Playing With Fire]]
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: Mr. Shine
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Tropes associated with {{spoiler|Nightmare}}:
* [[Bigger Bad]]: The plot is caused by [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|King Dedede]] trying keep him sealed.
* [[Deface of the Moon]]: His defeat causes it.
* [[Living Dream]]
* [[High Altitude Battle]]: In his first form, while falling towards the surface of the moon. You have to complete the phase before Kirby hits the ground and dies.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Kirby frees him by defeating King Dedede and re-forming the Star Rod.}}
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Definitely.
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]
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* [[Big Bad]]: It has been the final boss for multiple games, and it's implied, if not stated to have connections with others (Drawcia and Dark Nebula).
* [[Bloody Murder]]
* [[Clipped -Wing Angel]]: In ''Kirby's Dreamland 3'', for its final phase, it tears out its own iris, which will pursue you until you kill it. Very freaky, yes, but considerably easier than the rest of the fight.
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Zero is unable to feel positive emotions, and this is its motive for attacking Dreamland. It hates that the inhabitants of the world live in such blissful joy.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]
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* [[The Cameo]]: A statue of him is one of Stone's forms in ''[[Kirbys Return to Dream Land]]''. He also shows up in the Kirby Master cutscene, and the friend that Magolor says told him about Kirby (as well as {{spoiler|the person on Halcandra whom Kirby has fought before}}) is widely speculated to be him.
* {{spoiler|[[The Chessmaster]]: The entire plot of Milky Way Wishes is entirely his [[Evil Plan]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Fangs Are Evil]]: He gets them when he goes [[One -Winged Angel]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[From Nobody to Nightmare]]}}
* [[The Jester]]: Looks like one, {{spoiler|but is more like a [[Monster Clown]].}}
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* [[Not Quite Dead]]: In ''Super Star'', he just kind of flies away after you beat him and apparently crashes into NOVA. ''Super Star Ultra'' shows that he was really retreating to take about 9000 [[Took a Level In Badass|levels in badass.]]
** On the other hand, Marx looked pretty damn lifeless, just floating there motionlessly, before NOVA was sucked into him. This would mean that Marx Soul is actually a zombie... Which is disturbingly fitting.
* {{spoiler|[[One -Winged Angel]]}}
* [[Purple Eyes]]: ''Not'' mismatched, as commonly depicted in fan art.
 
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* [[Jousting Lance]]
* [[Light Is Not Good]]
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|Luckily My Shield Will]] [[Sword Beam|Shoot Crescent Beams]] [[Subverted Trope|At You]]
* [[Real Men Wear Pink|Real Men Wear Pink and White]]: ''Ooohhhh yeah.''
* [[Shock and Awe]]: in ''Return to Dream Land'', he can summon columns of lightning.
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can|Sealed Evil In A Crystal]]
** [[Sealed Badass in A Can]]
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Galacta Knight in the US and Galactic Knight in Japan.
* [[Storm of Blades]]: One of his attacks in ''Return to Dream Land''.
 
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Tropes associated with Dark Mind:
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Clipped -Wing Angel]]: The last part of the battle has its mind clearly unstable and is very easy to defeat.
* [[Expy]]: Shows a clear resemblance to both Dark Matter and Nightmare.
** Its final form looks like {{spoiler|a flaming version of Zero.}}
** {{spoiler|Its final form immediately brings to mind the [[Lord of the Rings|Eye of Sauron.]]}}
* [[Faceless Eye]]: His second form.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: The actual mind for the last 2 phases of the battle.
* [[Sequential Boss]]: It's fought 4 times in its standard form, then twice as its mind. To date, this is the boss with the highest number of times you're supposed to fight it in the series.
 
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Subverted, she's said to be a painting that came to life, which is not too strange in this setting. The fact that it isn't may actually be worse.
* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: The first phase of her fight has this.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|After her initial defeat, she transforms into her soul, which is a giant multi-eyed screeching ball of paint}}.
* [[Wicked Witch]]: Her high-pitched cackle is more than enough to creep you out.
 
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* [[Ethnic Magician]]: Daroach.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Storo.
* [[Five -Bad Band]]
** [[Big Bad]]: Daroach
** [[The Dragon]] / [[Dark Chick]]: Spinni
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Tropes associated with Yin-Yarn:
* [[Affably Evil]]: Despite going through a very ambitious plan to take over a kingdom by kidnapping and mind-controlling its de facto leaders and succeeding in doing so with virtually no effort, Yin-Yarn has no idea what to do with the kingdom once he has it and seems to have no real motive.
* [[And Then What?]]: Pulls this on himself at one point in the game. He really doesn't have a plan for what to do after conquering Dreamland, but he says he'll think of something.
* [[Art Initiates Life]]
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Performs this by turning people into yarn.
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* [[The Trickster]]
* [[Walking Spoiler]]
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: {{spoiler|Unlike most other dark being final bosses, he seems to have escaped from his apparent destruction in the end.}}
 
 
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: It turned him into a Waddle Doo, minus the Beam Power.
* [[Minecart Madness]]: He usually shows up for this sort of sequence. River-rapids-boating and snow-sledding are also possible.
* [[Universal DriversDriver's License]]: His specialty in ''Crystal Shards'' is providing transportation via various vehicles.
 
=== '''Adeleine''' ===
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: Her reason for attacking Kirby at first.
* [[Expy]]: Of Ado from Kirby's Dreamland 3 (if they're not actually the same person).
* [[One -Hit -Point Wonder]]: As a boss, she can literally be killed in one hit... But you had to fight her drawings before you can approach her.
* [[Token Human]]: Aside from Ado, is the only human character to be seen in the Kirby francise.
 
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: His first appearance was as an opponent in Megaton Punch in ''Super Star''. In ''Super Star Ultra'', he appears as King Dedede's personal helper in Revenge of the King. In ''[[Kirbys 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 [[Kirbys Return to Dream Land]]. In fact, he only wields a spear.
* [[Blade On a Stick]]: His spear. He can even [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Spinning|twirl it]] [[Improbable Use of a Weapon|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 [[Fan Nickname|nickname]].
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