Gim

Gim is a robotic enemy. Its body is entirely mechanical, featuring a tinted lens for an eye, a toothy smile substituted by a grate, and exhaust pipes rising from its back. It wears a blue cap with a yellow brim, and has red metal feet (like other enemies though Gim can come in a variety of different colorations). It has a retractable arm with a white glove on the end. It also carries around a yo-yo, which it can utilize as a surprisingly dangerous weapon. Upon being eaten, Gim yields the Yo-Yo ability. It is also the Helper for the ability.

In Kirby Super Star Ultra, a card of him appears in the sub-game Kirby Card Swipe. Gim's card features his enemy coloration.

Gim also appears as a keychain in Kirby: Triple Deluxe.

Games

Kirby Super Star and Kirby Super Star Ultra

Gim appears as a regular enemy appearing mainly in industrialized and mechanical areas. It slowly makes its way across the ground and tries to damage Kirby with his little red yo-yo when he gets into range. When Gim is a Helper, his yo-yo doesn't go as far as when he is an enemy. He serves as both the supplier and Helper to the Yo-Yo ability in both games. As a Helper, Gim is capable of using all of the attacks in Yo-Yo Kirby's arsenal. Gim can also perform Break Spin underwater.

In Helper to Hero, Gim is playable. This version of Gim features purple feet, a red lens, and a light red hat.

Kirby Star Allies

Gim appears in Kirby Star Allies as the enemy and Helper for the Yo-Yo ability, as with Kirby Super Star and its remake. It has a few design changes, however, namely its feet being replaced by tennis shoes. Like all other Helpers, it gains its respective ability hat when made a Helper.

Etymology

Gim's name is feasibly derived from gimbal, a pivoted support comparable to a gyroscope. It is used in objects such as compasses and camera apparatuses and allows them to rotate freely along a single axis. This is paralleled in Gim's ability to preform spinning break-dance moves.

Gim's name may also be based on the word gimmick, a trick or mechanism meant to draw attention, which may explain Gim's eye-catching yo-yo tricks and spinning break-dance moves when he is a Helper and a playable character in Helper to Hero.

Trivia

Gim's feet in Kirby Super Star and its remake heavily resemble the shoes of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Even though Gim has one eye, when he turns around, it "switches" sides of his body. This is due to sprite mirroring, a technique used by the game designers to use up less data.
In Kirby Super Star, Gim has an unused enemy palette featuring a red hat with a yellow brim, a red eye, a brighter metal body, and light-purple feet. This was later used in Kirby Super Star Ultra as its Helper to Hero coloration, but with the dark-red feet instead being light-purple.
In Kirby Star Allies, Gim's arm is attached to the side of its body in-game, despite it coming out of the hole in his face in official artwork.
In Kirby Star Allies' pause screen description for Gim, the description mistakenly reads "With word of a mechanized invasion in the the works...".
Gim's special quote in Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go! appears to imply that he is unaware that the events of Kirby: Planet Robobot have already been resolved.