Kirby/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** It's the same Waddle Dee that appears in the Arena in ''[[Kirby Super Star Ultra]]''.

* [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Music]]: There are a massive list of songs from the series that are just plain amazing to hear, a list can be found [[Kirby/Awesome Music|here]].

** 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.

** 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.

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: ''[[Kirby Super Star]]'' again. When you start ''"Milky Way Wishes"'', the tutorial tells you that {{spoiler|you can't copy your enemies' abilities as you previously did}}. Cue Kirby's obvious, hilarious [[Oh Crap]].

** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Have fun]] [[Kirby/Funny|with the rest.]]

* [[Cult Classic]]: ''Air Ride'' has been getting more and more popular each year since its release.

* [[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.)

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:''

** 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 ''[[Kirby Super Clash]]''}}.

** Adeleine from ''[[Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards]]''. For being a minor character in two games, she has quite a fanbase - possibly helped by ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'', where she's a prominent character. When she finally returned in ''Star Allies'', saying that fans were thrilled is an understatement.

** Arguably Nightmare - despite only appearing in the second game, its remake, and the [[Kirby: Right Back at Ya!|anime]], fans remember him and want him to make a comeback. He's not as popular as Marx, but memorable nonetheless, and fans were pleased to see him return for ''Super Kirby Clash'' in the form of Another Dimension's Parallel Nightmare.

** 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".

* [[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.

* [[Fridge Horror]]: [[Jim Sterling]] gives a lecture on the [[Fridge Horror]] of the Kirby franchise in [https://web.archive.org/web/20121108235935/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/4850-National-Kirby-Day this] episode of the Jimquisition.

* [[Game Breaker]]: You can ''destroy'' The Arena (and later The [[Nintendo Hard|True]] [[Harder Than Hard|Arena]]) in ''any'' game with Hammer and Plasma/Spark: the former has Hammer Flip, which has one of the highest damage outputs of a non one-time-use ability in the game, and the latter provides an extra shield when fully charged. This makes them both [[Awesome Yet Practical]].

** Chu Chu's [[Flying Broomstick|Clean power]] trivializes pretty much any midair segment (short of those that require quick movement).

** From ''Return to Dreamland'' onward, Water and its sister ability Poison are hilariously overpowered thanks to the crazy amounts of invincibility frames their attacks provide, as well as their safe ranged attacks and Poison's [[Damage Over Time]] mechanics.

* [[Goddamned Bats]]: The Bronto Burts and Pteran placement in the later levels of ''Dreamland 3'' rival that of the Medusa heads in the early ''[[Castlevania]]'' games. And yes, ''also'' bats.

* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: Combining this with [[Most Annoying Sound]] gives you the final phase of ''"Revenge Of Meta Knight"''.

** The music for Ripple Star's second level. The cute [[Sugar Bowl]] of the first level [[Mood Whiplash|is quickly cut off]] when you reach the second and are welcomed with the ruined fairy castle and hear that damn [[Scare Chord]] dirge.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: One look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-8db508yrE this commercial] for ''Kirby's Adventure'' and suddenly the concept of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvULlC9c7xg Kirby's Epic Yarn]'' becomes all the more hilarious.

** Rick the Hamster. With the Stone ability, he can [[Rickroll|roll]].

* [[It's Easy, So It Sucks|It's Easy So It]] [[Stealth Pun|Sucks]]: The games may be easy, but this is generally [[Averted Trope|averted]] - they were actually designed to be very easy yet nobody seems to have any problem. This becomes quite weird when you hear this trope being invoked elsewhere, since how many other games allow you to ''fly over most of the stage'' without even having to find a power-up?

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Without a doubt, Meta Knight. In fact, even leaning more towards being a [[Guile Hero]] in [[Kirby Right Back At Ya]].

** {{spoiler|Marx, who arranged for the sun and moon to fight and used Kirby to summon Nova so he could wish to take over Popstar.}}

** {{spoiler|Magolor does the same thing Marx did, minus getting the sun and moon to fight.}}

* [[Memetic Badass]]: During the [[Boss Rush]] in ''Super Star'', you will have to fight a Waddle Dee with five times the health of a normal Waddle Dee. It's still a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] [[Breather Boss]] (he doesn't move, and you can still [[One-Hit Kill|inhale him.]]) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Uu0dyH9CU A video] on the internet portrayed him as an unstoppable god of destruction (via a player who thought it would be hilarious) and the fandom's pumped him up ever since.

** Kirby himself is this. There are Nintendo fans who firmly believe the pink puff's badassery is only rivaled by [[F-Zero|Captain Falcon]].

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Gourmet Race has become one of the most remixed songs on Youtube. Sand Canyon and Candy Mountain/Skyhigh are hot on its tail. [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|Stupid Statement Dance Mixes]] of ''[[Lucky Star]]'' voice clips to the tune of various ''[[Kirby Super Star]]'' tracks are also quite popular.

** '''INVINCIBLE CANDY!''' (A running gag on Something Awful [[Let's Play]] of any Kirby game, second only to...)

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110621171624/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4574001248690584099 DELICIOUS!] (Whenever any food item is eaten, but especially Maximum Tomatoes.)

** The "Kirby ASCII Dance": (> ")> <(" <) (^ ")^ (v ")v

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]:

** [[Kirby Mass Attack|Necrodeus]] split Kirby into ten and quickly killed off each individual form, and he only survived because the last Kirby made a miraculous escape. And this is '''''at the start of the game.'''''

* [[Never Live It Down]]:

** In ''Kirby: Squeak Squad'', Kirby went on a rampage over a piece of cake. In every other platform game, his goals are more noble, although some fans hang on to this one instance and insist Kirby is a [[Sociopathic Hero]].

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

* [[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.

** That goes for Dedede ''and'' Meta Knight in ''Kirby's Adventure'' - neither tells Kirby of the fact that taking the Star Rod will unleash Nightmare from his prison. Meta Knight is [[Subverted Trope|implied to be preparing Kirby for the fight with Nightmare]], but still...

* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: We've got a whole page for it [[Kirby/WMG|here]].

 

{{reflist}}