Kirby (character)

''This article is about the Character. for other uses of the word "Kirby", see here.''

Kirby (カービィ, Kābī?) is the main character of Nintendo's Kirby video game series created by Masahiro Sakurai and developed by HAL Laboratory. The Kirby series is one of Nintendo's many well-known game franchises, spanning nearly twenty games since 1992. His first appearance took place in the 1992 video game Kirby's Dream Land, where he was portrayed by a two-dimensional sprite; he has also been conveyed by a three-dimensional computer-generated image in some games. He has been featured in other video games from Nintendo, on Nintendo's merchandising, on comic books, and even on a television show about the Kirby series.

Powers
Kirby's powers are very unique to him. He has the ability to inhale up his enemies and swallow them to gain their copy abilities. This makes Kirby a very powerful fighter who is thus hard to defeat. He also has a power to float in the air for some time (Forever in some games.), making falling into chasms nearly impossible. However, if he is hit while floating above a chasm, it is hard to escape, as Kirby is temporarily unable to move.

Appearances
Kirby stars an anime named Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, and appears in manga Kirby of the Stars too. Kirby is the round, pink hero of the Kirby series. Kirby lives in Dream Land on Pop Star. According to Nintendo, Kirby was originally going to be yellow.

In Anime
In Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Kirby is a legendary Star Warrior, creation of the emperor of darkness, Nightmare, who disobeyed him. He crash landed to Pop Star when his Warp Star noticed the monster King Dedede has summoned. This resulted in Kirby awakening 200 years before scheduled. There Meta Knight started to teach him to become strong, so that one day, he would destroy Nightmare. Kirby could only say "Poyo" in a way similar way to how Pokemon "speek", though he could say names too (examples: Fofar, Dedede and his own)

In the Super Smash Bros. Games
Kirby has appeared in all 3 Super Smash Bros. Games. He retains his abilities from the games, such as inhaling his enemies. The abilities he earns are more often then not based on the Kirby games, for example: Bowser is similar to Fire. In addition, Captain Falcon borrows Fighter Kirby's moves.

His Final Smash in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is Cook. IT works in exactly the same way as Cook works in it's video game appearences.