Paint Roller

Paint Roller is a boss character fought in Kirby's Adventure and its remake Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland as well as a few other games. He appears as a circle with eyes, rollerskates, a hat and a giant paintbrush. His name (obviously) is based on the fact that he paints and has wheels. He also appeared in an episode of the anime. It is often implied that he is a baseball fan, however this is unknown.

Kirby's Adventure and Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland
In these games he is the boss of the second level, Ice Cream Island. The area he is fought in has on floor, two platforms, and four canvases on each corner of the room which Paint Roller will run to before painting a picture that will come to life. Kirby can either inhale and spit the paintings back at Paint Roller or get an ability that differs depending on what the painting depicts. Paint Roller is vulnerable to attack while he is painting.

List of Paint Roller's paintings
 * Waddle Dee: A painted Waddle Dee will run in Kirby's direction. No ability.
 * Cloud: Flies away while shooting lightning. Gives Spark.
 * Car: similar to Waddle Dee but faster, if drawn on an upper level it will hit the opposite ledge and turn around. Gives Wheel.
 * Baseball: Flies directly at Kirby. Gives Ball.
 * Parasol: A painted parasol that chases Kirby similar to some of the parasols released by Waddle Dee. Gives Parasol.
 * Bomb: Just explodes after a while. Gives Crash.
 * Microphone: A walking mike. Gives Mike.
 * Painted Kirby: Very rarely Paint Roller will draw this. It behaves the same as Waddle Dee and doesn't give an ability.

Kirby: Canvas Curse
Paint Roller is once again a boss in Kirby: Canvas Curse though the way he is fought is more like a mini-game. Paint Roller paints a picture that the player must redraw, using the DS's touch screen, so Kirby can get to the next room before he is blown up by Bombers. In the last room the player has to hit numbers as they highlight to type in a self-destruct code that will blow up Paint Roller.

The cutscene before the fight sugests that this Paint Roller is just one of Drawcia's paintings brought to life and not the same one from Kirby's Adventure

Trivia

 * Although he doesn't appear in Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, There is a boss named Wiz who's behavior is similar to that of Paint Roller's and is thought of as Paint Roller's Mirror World correspondent.


 * Even though Paint Roller has a brush, due to its design in Kirby's Adventure and Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, some people think it's a giant marker.