Pon & Con

Pon the raccoon and Con the fox are bosses of Kirby's Dream Land 3. Along with Lololo and Lalala and Mr. Shine & Mr. Bright, Pon and Con are fought together in the form of a tag team. In the anime, Pon and Con appear as friendly characters who live in Acore's roots.

Con's name comes from the verb con, which means to deceive.



Kirby's Dream Land 3
Pon and Con serve as the bosses of Sand Canyon. The battlefield consists of two layers of paltforms and a celeing above that drops bombs. Before Pon and Con appear, several miniature versions of the duo march out into the open. Kirby simply has to inhale these small little creatures and spit them abck out at the real Pon and Con. The duo have no real for m of attacking besides just walking into Kirby. However, large spiked bombs drop from the sky throughout the entire battle that force Kirby to always remain moving. Pon and Con often lead a few animals of their respective species behind them, so they are often protected from back attacks. When not trailing behind one of the actual bosses, the small animals will sometimes venture out on their own.

If all the Heart Stars are collected for Sand Canyon, the two will be cured of their possession and peacefully march around the arena along with the miniature animals whenever Kirby enters the arena.

Physical Appearance
Pon is a tanuki (which was eventually localized as a raccoon) that has a creamy brown coat of fur and a light-gray underbelly. He has small back hands, feet, and ears. His tail consits of a round ball the same color of the rest of his body. In the anime, Pon keeps the same basic design, except has a different color pallet. His fur is still dark brown, but his underbelly and snout are a pinkish-tan color. The main difference between the two is that the anime version always has his feet showing.

Con is a fox that has bright yellow fur (slightly subdued and creamier in-game) with a white underbelly. He has pointy ears roughly the same size as his head. The anime version is actually very much different. Con's head and ears are much smaller and are now in proportion with the rest of his body, and his coloration remains the same as it did when seen in-game. Like Pon, Con's feet are always visible in the anime.