Starship

Starship is One of Kirby's Copy abilities.

The Starship (originally called the Star Chariot) is the ultimate Copy Ability of Kirby Super Star. It is used for the sole purpose of taking down the giant comet, NOVA, but also appears later during the battle against Kabula.

The chariot itself has the basic layout of a Roman chariot, but without the wheels. However, it distinguishes itself with a star on the front and two long streamers serving as walls.

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The Starship's first appearance is in Kirby Super Star. It is used as the final and ultimate ability of the game, and as such, cannot be dropped (similar to the Love-Love Stick and the Star Rod). It only appears after a cut scene between Kirby and NOVA. In it, Kirby is knocked out of the way by Marx, who wishes upon NOVA for ultimate power. With NOVA under his control, Marx leaves Kirby in an seemingly hopeless position, when the power of the Dream Fountains that Kirby had been activating created the Starship. Inside it, Kirby then soared off to the interior of NOVA to destroy it before it reached Dreamland. In Kirby Super Star Ultra's Revenge of the King, the sparkling stars banded together to form the Star Chariot to help Kirby fight Kabula after she shot him down.

The Starship is similar to the UFO ability, but with different projectiles. The Starship rapidly fires star bullets, which do not need to be charged before use. However, there is a small delay between the bursts of shots. It also accelerates Kirby at extremely high speeds. However, it is very fragile, as it takes major damage if it touches any object inside NOVA's first level. In the Galactic Nova Nucleus, the Starship does not take damage when it hits a wall, but it may get crushed if you stay behind a wall too long and the scrolling stage meets up with the wall. The Starship is primarily used for the destruction of the Heart of Nova. The particular level the Starship is used in resembles a shoot-em-up game, such as R-Type.

There is a helper available for the Starship. It resembles what would be a metallic bug with a large blue eyes.It is golden, has a horn on the top and bottom of it's head, and rockets in the back of it. The helper has the same properties as the Starship. It is only available in the two-player mode and cannot be used in single player. In The Arena and The True Arena, if you have a helper on the Starship bosses, it is destroyed automatically.

Oddly, after using the Starship to escape the exploding Heart of Nova, the Starship completely disappears in the battle against Marx. This is rectified in Kirby Super Star Ultra, where it is shown that the stars used to create the Starship disappeared, leaving only the Warpstar.