Mumbies

Mumbies is a floating mummy-head-like enemy that can't be inhaled. It has appeared in Kirby's Dream Land 1, 2, 3, Kirby's Pinball Land, Kirby's Block Ball and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. It chases Kirby around the levels, though in Kirby 64, Mumbies only chase him when his back is turned, like the Boos in the Mario series.

Its name is a combination of the words mummy and zombies. In Kirby's Dream Land's Extra Game, they are replaced with Skuller.

In Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
Episode 84 of the anime, "Mumbies Madness", featured Mumbies. It was found in a jar that King Dedede hypnotized Professor Curio into digging up. After Curio released it from inside its jar, the mummified ball then flew around Cappy Town at night, scaring everyone it went to see with its scary faces. It even attacked Kirby; that was its true mission, which was to hunt down and assasinate Star Warriors. Interestingly enough, unlike its game counterpart, Mumbies is only active at night, so naturally, every time the sun came up, it would retreat and go back to sleep inside its jar, until, in the end, Bomb Kirby was able to trick it into clamping onto him with its teeth and keep holding on to it until the sun came out and the sunlight burnt Mumbies to a crisp, causing it to disintegrate.

The Mumbies in the anime is shown to have sharp, jagged teeth, and can bite anyone, ram anyone, or shoot dark blasts from its eyes. This tricky monster lives in a jar and is known to be full of surprises. Its eyes can glow many different colors, and if you look into its eyes when they're glowing dark blue, you'll grow tired. Oddly enough, unlike in the games, Kirby was able to inhale Mumbies, through Mumbies didn't give Kirby any ability, and he was forced to cough it back up, because the Mumbies has no abilities for Kirby to copy. It is also revealed in the episode that there are multiple Mumbies scattered all over the universe, each one with the same mission as the other. The Mumbies were probably created by Nightmare Enterprises.