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On one hand this is a clever idea, and I'd be all for it! On another, Taranza, or at least his non dark version, is shown to much more preferably use his magic to create a threat to stop Kirby and wait on the sidelines during the actual battle. We've seen what moves he has, so its not out of the realm of possibility, but its unlikely to ever really happen in a game, looking at his fighting style.

‘Kirby is the strongest character in gaming’. ummm hello, Gordo is right there.

You know one area from kirby mass attack that always stood out to me in a good way? Dedede resort. It feels totally up his alley to construct something like that, and it being the only area in the game with waddle dee’s as a common enemy adds to the feeling it’s just a place for him and his minions to hang out. I wouldn’t be against it reappearing in the future, just change the waddle dee’s into npcs or background characters and have each level be based on a resort area. After all, if Eggman and Bowser are anything to go by, entertainment areas turned into lairs are all the rage... though obviously Dedede wouldn’t have any villainous plans in building a place to kick back.

Oof, I was gone a short while, besides the liking of posts. Just too distracted by life for a bit to come up with new ideas, but I’ll start that again now that I’m a bit more focused.

‘Meta knight trained kirby in the ways of the sword’: questionable, kirby already showed sword skills surpassing meta knight by beating him in their first encounter, and his move set has remained pretty unchanged whenever he uses sword, making their fights less training sessions and more duels.

‘Dedede trained kirby to use a hammer’: A take less often stated, and like with meta knight kirby had already surpassed dedede by their super star encounter. However, it has been suggested the hammer kirby wields was passed on to him by dedede, so technically more plausible then meta knight.

‘bandanna waddle dee trained kirby in the ways of the spear’: massive brain take, kirby can’t use the ability until the very first game bandee was playable, and bandees motivations of getting stronger would encourage him to train with his close friend.

‘adeleine taught kirby to paint’: it’s canon because it sounds cute.

King dedede’s talent for inventing is a subtle but well established part of his character. It’s heavily implied that masked dedede’s hammer and the various forms of dedede mechs throughout the series are all his own personal designs. What I’m more interested in though is the construction that goes into these devices!

Yeah, it’s likely that due to the size of the masked dedede hammer that he entirely designed and made it himself, but all the other inventions seem much too large for one penguin king to craft all by himself in the time that he does! The answer is almost certainly the waddle dees though. While dedede has a talent for inventing, the waddle dees are shown to be particularly good at building in katfl.

It’s nice to just picture dedede having a personal team of waddle dees to help him assemble some of his inventions, and massive amounts of waddle dees are likely responsible for building his castles to his design (which I guess mean dedede is an architect as well?). Dedede is rarely shown being the brains of any operation despite the fact he’s far from stupid, which is why I like the idea of him masterminding these potential constructions.

Hate to break it to you magolor fans, but the best magician in dreamland is taranza, and I have the evidence.

Taranza: able to defeat king dedede and drag him all the way up the dreamstalk, magically creates at least two bosses to halt kirby, directly powers up dedede for the pre sectonia fight, and has the willpower to switch sides for the good of both dreamland and the land of the sky. Earns a spot in dreamland and forges genuine friendship with kirby and dedede.

Magolor: no magic before final boss fight, has never defeated king dedede, efforts to repair ship halted by unrelated bosses, relies on magic crown for the final battle, and has so little willpower that he can’t even keep control of the crown for long before it makes him a husk. Earns a place as kirby’s friend by making a pity park and probably manipulates himself into dreamland.

Then again, I guess being a bit of a scumbag is why magolor has fans in the first place. I’d describe him as more of a conman then a wizard.

There’s almost a comical side to robobots story, as ultimately tragic and anti capitalistic it is, because while a large majority of enemies have been altered to put them under haltmann’s control, or spawned from the new planet environment like Miasmoros, just as many enemies haven’t been controlled. They wander around these industrial areas, seemingly working for haltmann of their own free will. Now I know what you’re thinking.. ‘you have to have the kirby staple enemies in order to be recognisable and give copy abilities’, and you’re right. But in the case of the waddle dee’s they actively seem to be interacting and even helping to construct this new world. They drive cars, they wear construction hats, they pilot cute little mechs and they lug around spiked bars for a very important reason only their minds can comprehend. It makes sense why haltmann would want to make waddle dee’s work for them though, considering how capable they are at constructing things they’re practically a perfect workforce. But.. do they have to go through orientation? Are they trained by supervisors, do they get paid? If you ask me, susie and haltmann make magalor look like a rank amateur as far as spreading capitalism to dreamland goes. Keep selling your apples egg boy, but they introduced economy to the whole planet. No wonder star coins are used as currency in forgotten lands, the dee’s got a taste for finance.

Gotta love how the enemies in dreamland just go with the flow. Alternate universe, new world, they’re down to just wander around and attack the heroes on sight, and join a beast gang if it means getting new threads. Must be that casual dreamland lifestyle.

A recent post I saw talked about a low stakes kirby game, and how it’s been a long time since we’ve actually seen one. I mean, kirby going on grand adventures in unexplored lands is fun and all, but so is him just chilling out and helping his friends. That got me thinking about a game idea where the whole objective is to help kirbys friends!

Everyone knows about dedede’s iconic scene in forgotten lands. Broken free from mind control, dreamlands king risks it all to save a waddle dee from the beast pack, cementing himself as an undeniable hero to new fans of the series. But what if that waddle dee hadn’t tripped? If dedede had followed kirby up into that elevator, would he even be able to help kirby in the face of fecto forgo’s psychic power? If you ask me, the answer is yes! 

I’ve seen a lot of people make jokes about how and why meta knight has fought gorimondo thirty times, but I believe the reason he’s done that is actually quite simple!

Gorimondo is explicitly named as the executive beast pack council member in charge of capturing waddle dees. Since it’s made quite obvious that kirby beating him in the first world doesn’t take him out for good (he’s got enough energy to get himself all the way over to the forbidden lands for the boss rush stage), and his base is the closest to waddle dee town, gorimondo would be in charge of any raids on the makeshift settlement!

Naturally meta knight is hard at work protecting the town while kirby is off to rescue more waddle dees, so it falls on him to defeat gorimondo each time he raids.. which means meta knight has fought off the beast packs invasion into waddle dee town at least 30 times! No wonder the residents are so thankful.