Kirby

''“It's time to draw Kirby! Get some paper and a pen ready! Now, let's go!'' 🎵 First you draw a circle, 🎵 🎵 Then you dot the eyes, 🎵 🎵 Add a great big smile 🎵 (Then add the arms and feet!) ''🎵 And presto, it's Kirby! 🎵 Did you draw me well?” ― Kirby, Kirby Drama CD'')

Kirby (カービィ, Kābī in Japan) is the main character and namesake of the Kirby series. He is a small pink ball who lives a peaceful and carefree life on the Planet Popstar. However, whenever there's trouble, Kirby will always arrive, riding on the spring breeze, to be a hero and resolve whatever conflict that threatens his way of life.

Why He's The Star of The Show

 * 1) Kirby's design, whilst somewhat simplistic, is appealing and it does a great job at making him look adorable. In other words, Kirby is "shaped like a friend".
 * 2) *His face is also very expressive when it needs to be despite its basicness.
 * 3) Kirby has many innovative and creative abilities, like the power of flight and his trademark ability to inhale and spit out enemies with great force, or swallow them to copy their abilities. He would also gain new powers as the series went by, like the Super Abilities from Kirby's Return to Dream Land, the Hypernova inhale from Kirby: Triple Deluxe and the brand-new Mouthful Mode from Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
 * 4) * In some games, Kirby can even combine two different copy abilities to create a new ability, like in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.
 * 5) He is the perfect balance of cute and powerful. It has been stated in in-game flavor text, that Kirby wields nearly infinite power, and most of the final bosses Kirby faces and overcomes in his games are all-powerful deities whose power eclipses that of entire planets, stars, or even entire universes, and yet even after everything Kirby goes through, he remains a jolly fellow.
 * 6) While it is heavily joked about, Kirby is more than a god-slaying baby that will go on rampages over a slice of cake (that only ever happened once, by the way). He is a character of his own, and while still young, independent enough to live on his own, heroic enough embark on quests by himself, smart enough to tell good from evil, and compassionate enough to give those who have tried to kill him in the past a second chance.
 * 7) *He developed a very close friendship with King Dedede in particular, as they have the most history together. In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Kirby embarks on an adventure to rescue Dedede after he was kidnapped by Taranza, with no knowledge of Queen Sectonia's existence or the People of the Sky's plight. According to many in-game flavor text, the hammer Kirby wields as an ability was loaned from the King himself, and Dedede just straight up hands over an upgrade for the hammer in Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
 * 8) While he isn't nearly as popular as the likes of Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog, his legacy has lasted just as long, and he has definitely earned his place among them as videogame icons. In fact, they, as well as countless other famous faces in gaming, all owe their lives to Kirby in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 's World of Light.
 * 9) He's been featured in his own anime series, many manga publications in several countries, several merchandise lines (although many of them are only released in Japan), and even his own line of cafés with absolutely adorable food themed after himself and his friends (also exclusive to Japan only, unfortunately).
 * 10) Makiko Ohmoto's performance is the perfect voice for Kirby, and does a great job at making him sound as adorable as possible.

The Only Bad Qualities

 * 1) Kirby has been out-of-character at least twice in his games:
 * 2) *He was very badly portrayed in Kirby's Avalanche/Kirby's Ghost Trap, becoming a rude, overly sassy and wise-cracking jerk, and in the first game where Kirby is portrayed in a negative light. Although that was a reskin of Puyo Puyo, so chances that it isn't canon are really high.
 * 3) *His portrayal in Kirby Squeak Squad is bad too, where he was totally clueless about the threat and only cared about his strawberry shortcake. Thankfully, it was only temporary and he reverted back to his normal personality in the later games.
 * 4) In the anime adaptation, Kirby Right Back at Ya, he was just a baby and basically a plot device that, while still cute, isn't nearly as functional as his game counterpart. As Kirby himself is very important key component to why the franchise works as well as it does, stripping him away of all agency and personality doesn't work as well. To elaborate:
 * 5) *Dedede changed because of Kirby. When Dedede stole all the food in Dream Land, Kirby himself thought it was wrong, so he came to his castle and beat some sense into him. This is what made Dedede realize the error of his ways. In the anime, Dedede doesn’t treat Kirby as a "person", but rather, a force of nature that shows up whenever he does something bad, which is a huge difference with how Dedede in games always treated Kirby with respect as his equal and a person.
 * 6) *Kirby in the anime has no power in changing anyone’s lives, because, at the end of the day, he can barely control his own life. Fumu/Tiff commands him like some sort of Pokémon Trainer, and even summons his Warp Star for him when needed. He can’t make his own choices, he doesn’t have his own goals. Kirby in the games is not a complicated character by any stretch of imagination. but we know that he loves peace, his friends, and will do anything to restore it if something goes awry, even if it interferes with his snacktime and/or naptime.

Trivia

 * Kirby was first called Popopo, his original name, and his model was created as a blob placeholder sprite during the development of what would be the first Kirby game.
 * In some supplementary material, he has shown the ability to speak, but this is uncommon and not generally considered canon. Despite this, he is vocal enough to use grunts, shouts and monosyllables — most famously, his cheery elongated "Hi!".
 * Prior to Makiko Ohmoto's debut as the character, the role was passed between various actors and actresses for one-off appearances (one of them being Taeko Kawata, Amy's current seiyū).

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