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* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]:

** After you defeat masked Dedede in ''[[Kirby Super Star Ultra]]'', you get a surprisingly depressing scene of King Dedede sulking off into the sunset as somber music plays. Thankfully, it makes a transition into heart-warming since King Dedede's Waddle Dees slowly go and follow him, showing that no matter how many times he's defeated, they will never abandon their king.

** Nightmare from ''[[Kirby: Right Back at Ya!]]'' is the franchise's biggest example, compared to the [[Generic Doomsday Villain]] he was in ''Kirby's Adventure'': instead of being a vague threat only encountered at the end, he's a mass murderer of intergalactic proportions and an arms dealer who sells dangerous monsters to people who would happily abuse them.

** Not only is Hyness a doomsday cultist trying to summon {{Spoiler|Void Termina}} and have it destroy the universe, if not ''reality itself'', but he's willing to {{spoiler|use his loyal followers' corpses as weapons before sacrificing them to Void}}. {{spoiler|He seems to turn over a new leaf by the end of Heroes of Another Dimension, but whether it's a genuine redemption on his part or [[Heel Face Brainwashing]] by way of the Friend Heart is left to the player's imagination}}.

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: The series has its moments, but above them all stands the ''[[Kirby Super Star]]'' segment "Revenge Of Meta Knight", where [[Enemy Chatter|you get to hear the bad guys]] becoming ''progressively more and more afraid of you'' while you singlehandedly destroy Meta Knight's airship!

** The whole "storm the castle while your enemies panic" bit is repeated in the final level of "Revenge of the King" in Super Star Ultra.

* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Many Kirby fans think Zero is a lonely, sad being that just wants some friends - though this does have some basis in canon, as it's stated that it can't feel positive emotions and wants to destroy the world out of jealousy. The awesome battle music probably helps (especially the Zero 2 music mentioned above.)

* [[Ear Worm]]: Pick a song, ''any'' song from the games. It doesn't help that the games have a habit of endlessly recycling and remixing music used from previous games.

** Galacta Knight of ''Kirby Super Star Ultra''. At that point, he had only showed up for one battle and didn't even get a single line of dialogue, yet already fans are spinning [[Fan Wank]] about his origins and clamouring for him to appear in another game. {{spoiler|[[And the Fandom Rejoiced|They got what they wanted]] not only in ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'', but in ''[[Kirby: Planet Robobot]]'' and ''[[Super Kirby Clash]]''}}.

** Meta Knight, to the point where he gets to be a playable character in Air Ride, Nightmare in Dreamland, and Super Star Ultra, and now Return to Dreamland. His [[Face Ship]], the [[Stealth Pun|Halberd]], is a major plot point in the [[Super Smash Bros.|Subspace Emissary]] and the only original Kirby stage in the game.

** Ribbon. Kirby's first love interest, {{spoiler|and the only person to ever kiss Kirby}}.

** Bandana Dee, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a Waddle Dee with a bandana]] seems to be rapidly gaining popularity, especially after the announcement he was playable in ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]''. [[Lampshaded]] by his pause screen description in the game, which calls him "everyone's favorite idol".

* [[Even Better Sequel]]: The original Kirby game was a fairly standard side-scroller that was pretty enjoyable for what it was, but was laughably short and easy (although the latter is compensated by the unlockable Hard Mode--[[Nintendo Hard|and it lives up to its name]]) and didn't even allow you to copy abilities! ''Kirby's Adventure'' then came out on the NES and blew the original out of the water by offering more levels, the series-trademark copy abilities, and a save feature! ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'', while not quite as good as ''Adventure'', at least brought these improvements down to a portable level.

* [[Evil Is Cool]]: Kirby villains as a whole tend to be ''very'' popular. While a lot of them are [[Generic Doomsday Villain]]s such as Nightmare, Dark Matter, Zero, 02, and Necrodeus, they make up for their lack of personality with their awesomely creepy designs and memorable encounters. Meanwhile, better-fleshed out villains like {{spoiler|Marx}}, {{spoiler|Magolor}}, Queen Sectonia, Taranza, Susie, and President Haltmann are strongly characterized, go through genuine development, and - in the case of Haltmann and Sectonia - are ridiculously tragic in spite of their appalling villainy. Then you've got King Dedede's more malicious outings where he's your typical hammy and fun Nintendo villain, as well as ''[[Epileptic Trees|Epileptic Woodsman]]'' Void Termina with the crazy implications its existence has for multiple villains ''and'' heroes in the series. Uniting them all is amazingly fun boss fights, great boss music, and intriguing lore, which results in one of Nintendo's strongest rogues galleries yet.

* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: The entire series, until [[Mood Whiplash]] [[Vile Villain, Saccharine Show|kicks in]] and you fight the [[Eldritch Abomination|final boss]].

* [[Tear Jerker]]: The ending of ''Revenge of the King'' in ''Super Star Ultra''. Poor Dedede. {{context}}

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]] / [[It's Easy, So It Sucks]]: ''Nightmare in Dream Land'' is markedly easier than the game it's a remake of, ''Kirby's Adventure''... and it removed the [[Visual Effects of Awesome|rotating tower]] segments from Butter Building for no apparent reason. Fans were not pleased.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Kirby and Meta Knight in ''Kirby Squeak Squad.'' Why would freakin' [[Badass|''Meta Knight'']] steal a chest containing ''cake''!? Meta Knight also fought Kirby instead of bothering to let him know that the chest [[Sealed Evil in a Can|contained]] the [[Monster of the Week]]. At least ''Kirby'' has the excuse of being childlike in his impulsiveness.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Zero can't feel positive emotions and is jealous of Dream Land's happiness, reasoning that if it can't be happy, nothing will be. Due to this, some of the Kirby fandom sees Zero as a [[Draco in Leather Pants]].