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KPR Susie artwork This article is about the monster in Kirby: Right Back at Ya! created from Escargoon's Insta-Monster-Mixture in The Empty Nest Mess. For the titular monster of Caterpillar Thriller, see Mosugaba; for the regular enemy debuting in Kirby Super Star, see Capiller.

Escargoon! Get this caterpillar off of me!
— King Dedede • The Empty Nest Mess

The caterpillar monster is a minor character that appears only once in the entire anime for a very short portion of episode 23, The Empty Nest Mess. It is a caterpillar that Escargoon found in the Castle Dedede garden, and he uses it as a demonstration for his Insta-Monster-Mixture formula that he had created. The caterpillar was injected with Escargoon's serum and eventually grew and transformed into a huge monster mutant that squashed King Dedede and Escargoon. After its short-lived rampage, the caterpillar monster picks up Escargoon with his mandibles and swings him about virtuously. It was at this exact moment when Dedede happily realized that the invention worked and that he could make all the monsters he wanted without having to spend money buying them from Nightmare Enterprises. The caterpillar monster never appears again after this scene, so whatever happened to him after his small appearance in the beginning of the episode is unknown.

Physical Appearance[]

The caterpillar monster starts out as a small, fuzzy purple caterpillar Escargoon finds wandering around on the castle grounds. While still in this harmless form, its body consists of three purple segments with small orange spots on them. It has a small, light green head, olive green legs, and an orange mouth. Shortly after being injected with Escargoon's formula, it grows into a giant monster and gains solid silver mandibles, glaring blue eyes, and bright golden spikes running down his back in the process, now having eight dull purple segments with a dull tan-ish underbelly.

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  • The caterpillar monster is the first monster in the anime that Kirby never fights.
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