Mike

"Use a microphone to deliver a powerful sonic attack!"

- Kirby Battle Royale - Kirby's 25th Anniversary Copy Ability Poll

Mike (or Microphone) is one of Kirby's Copy Abilities. It's often shown with three different hats, which only appear when the ability is activated. Otherwise when simply moving around, Kirby periodically pulses with light if there are still charges of the ability left. Mike is the only three-use ability that has appeared in the Kirby series to date.

General Information
Kirby loves to sing, but his voice is only useful in annihilating all enemies on-screen, which find the singing to be both too loud and completely horrendous. Kirby doesn't seem to mind his own singing, as he is wearing earphones. It can be used three times with increasing power, unlike other limited-use abilities that can be used only once.

In Kirby's Dream Land, there was a Mike item that could be inhaled. When the mike is spat out, Kirby will screech into it, destroying all enemies on screen. The item reappeared years later in Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble and could be activated simply through touch, eliminating Kirby's need to spit it out. This wasn't the true Copy Ability however, as it didn't come from a Walky or Mr. Tick-Tock, and it could only be used a single time.

In Kirby's Return to Dream Land, the ability is slightly altered - a visible sound wave is seen every time the move is used, and its area grows progressively larger with each use. Only enemies caught in the sound wave will be damaged; the ability no longer damages everything on screen. However, the third use (stand mike or encore) has a much wider range that surrounds Kirby. Also, Mike can now destroy blocks.

In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, the Mike item returns in the Kirby Fighters sub-game. Here, it behaves as it did in Kirby's Dream Land. The Mike Copy Ability also appears in this game. This item reappears in Kirby Fighters Deluxe.

In Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
In the anime, it is perceived as the most dangerous of Kirby's abilities as it cannot discern from friend or foe, often destroying everything nearby (in both cases of its appearance in the anime - it also wrecked most of Castle Dedede) but otherwise it doesn't change from the games. Not even Tiff can stop him once he starts singing. It also reveals that Kirby is tone deaf and has a terrible singing voice.

During the transformation sequence, he grabs headphones and dances to music while grabbing a microphone. Instead of just shouting down the microphone, Kirby sings. In fact, the first time it is used, Kirby sings the ending theme from the Japanese version, Kihon wa Maru (First you draw a circle) in his Poyo style of speaking.

Appearances

 * Abusement Park (First Use)
 * Fitness Fiend

Trivia

 * Mike is the only Copy Ability that has three different icons and appearances in the same game. In Kirby's Adventure, he uses a stand mike, while in its remake, he instead uses a modern cordless mike. In Kirby Super Star and its remake, Mike Kirby has three hats, which are (in order): a megaphone and a white baseball cap (with a red star on it in Kirby Super Star Ultra), earphones and an old-fashioned radio microphone (the most commonly represented Mike form) and a green (multi-colored in Kirby Super Star Ultra) mohawk and a stand mike.
 * The white baseball cap Kirby dons while using Mike the first time in Kirby Super Star Ultra is a Hanshin Tigers cap (used from 1982 to 1999).
 * In the anime, this ability seems to be the few Meta Knight doesn't know about, the other being Throw. When it first appeared, he called a few other names in a rather confused manner, before settling for "Microphone Kirby". This name has been used ever since.
 * A glitch in Kirby's Adventure allows Kirby to get many more than three mikes – 255, to be exact, displayed as P5. He needs to time his third mike EXACTLY right, and it can be done while defeating Kracko or Paint Roller, or while hitting a switch.
 * Kirby's Return to Dream Land is the first game to give Mike a Copy Essence and offer it in The Arena (and The True Arena).
 * In many games, Mike is a rare opportunity to hear Kirby's voice, though this varies greatly. In Kirby Super Star and its remake, the third mike gives Kirby an unfitting, very low-pitched human voice, which was provided by Masahiro Sakurai himself. He exclaims "Chesuto!" in Sakurai's voice, an expression originating from a southern dialect of Japanese, which is associated with the exertion of swinging a sword.
 * In Kirby Super Star and its remake, the first attack uses the same sound as the one in Kirby's Adventure.
 * In both Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Kirby: Triple Deluxe, when Kirby's third attack is charged, he emits a noise that sounds similar to his Kirby Super Star Ultra noise.
 * The other two attacks had their sounds modified.
 * The Mike item can destroy Shotzos in Kirby's Dream Land, making it the only attack in the Kirby series that can do so.
 * Mike is the only limited-use ability to have a Mode for the Robobot Armor in Kirby: Planet Robobot.
 * In addition, Mike's Robobot Armor Mode is not limited-use, unlike the base Mike ability.
 * Mike is the only ability whose Copy Essence can effectively be re-acquired while Kirby already has it, however, this is only when Kirby has already used it at least once. The re-acquirement recharges the number of uses left.
 * Mike is the only limited-use ability to appear in Kirby Air Ride.
 * In Kirby: Planet Robobot, repeatedly using Destructo-Amp while in the Robobot Armor will play the first ten notes of the Green Greens theme.

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