“ | There was once a painting said to depict a pair of sisters separated at birth. It slept, unnoticed, in a painter's studio for countless years before it came to life and vowed revenge on the world.” |
— VS Paintra • Kirby: Triple Deluxe |
Paintra is a boss in the Kirby series, debuting in Kirby: Triple Deluxe.
Physical Appearance[]
Paintra has the same basic appearance of Drawcia: both being limbless and wizardly-looking creatures with large hats and colorful clothes.
Paintra wears a red wizard hat with a wide rim, a white-ish green cloth around it, and a long, pointed top. There are what seem to be yellow flowers on the hat, as well. She has curly pink hair, a dark brown face, and yellow eyes. Under her eyes is a tightly wrapped, blue piece of clothing, held there by a yellow button in the middle. Paintra has a red and orange lined coat with fluffy red brims, and she wears a purple vest, with two yellow buttons underneath it. Paintra's "legs" resemble the tip of a paintbrush split in two. The left tip has red and yellow on it, while the other has blue and green on it. For some of her attacks, Paintra will combine her legs to form an actual paintbrush tip under her body.
Paintra DX wears a crooked black hat which looks similar to that of a witch. The cloth that is wrapped around the hat is red and is noticeably slanting towards the front. The yellow flowers that were on Paintra's hat have turned dark blue and are pointed at the ends, making them look like ears sticking out. Paintra DX has purple hair and eyes that are red instead of yellow. The cloth around her face and the button in the middle has swapped colors, meaning she has a yellow cloth held by a blue button. The red brims around her coat remains red, but the coat itself is lined with dark purple and light purple stripes. The two small buttons on her blue vest are blue and her "legs" remain the same.
Games[]
Kirby: Triple Deluxe[]
Paintra is the boss of Lollipop Land and holds the second Grand Sun Stone. She appears in a painting before Taranza disturbs her, to which she materializes from her frame and attacks Kirby. Paintra has six attacks normally. Paintra starts the battle by charging up and releasing three Magic Balls in Kirby's direction, with each successive Magic Ball fired at a more shallow angle; this technique is derived from Drawcia Sorceress. She then does either Paint View or Paint Ball: during Paint View, Paintra flies offscreen and then creates streaks of paint across the screen, obscuring the player's view; during Paint Ball, Paintra spins around in the background and releases six balls of paint that fall on random spots on the floor before covering parts of the screen with splatters from four paint balls. Paintra can float to Kirby's position and swipe twice, upward then downward, with her paintbrush-like bottom, before adjusting her position (and turning around if necessary) and doing it again; this attack leaves a star each time she swipes. She can rain down a barrage of paint blobs, once on the side she's on, then again on the opposite side, before either jumping back to the side she started on or staying on the side she's currently on; this attack leaves two stars after each attack. Lastly, Paintra can fly off the top of the screen and perform a Glide Attack from the background, leaving two stars as she passes by; this technique is derived from Drawcia Sorceress. After returning to the arena after Glide Attack, Paintra hovers around, briefly not attacking before resuming. When returning to the arena after Paint View, Paint Ball, and Glide Attack, Paintra will float to the half of the arena opposite of Kirby; she can also float to the opposite half if Kirby approaches her during the period between Glide Attack and Magic Balls. Her attack pattern starts as follows:
- Magic Ball
- Paint View/Paint Ball
- Brush Swipe
- Paint Ball/Paint View
- Magic Balls
- Paint Rain
- Paint View/Paint Ball
- Brush Strike
- Glide Attack
- Hover
After using the first Glide Attack, the attack pattern continues as follows, looping back after the Glide Attack.
- Magic Ball
- Brush Strike
- Paint View
- Magic Ball
- Paint Rain
- Paint Ball
- Brush Strike
- Glide Attack
After losing half of her health, Paintra releases a shrill laugh, identical to what she does at the beginning of the fight. Paintra can now perform two new attacks, and a couple of its other attacks have been upgraded. She starts with her first new attack, Trick Paint, which has five versions:
- Paintra summons three empty canvases and paints an iron ball on each of them, one of which isn't drawn as well as the others. She then floats offscreen and the canvases float to the top of the screen and tilt forward, dropping their contents; the "real" iron balls fall to the ground and release two small stars upon impact, but the "fake" iron ball, which can be inhaled or destroyed, harmlessly flutters down.
- Paintra summons three canvases and a pink pillar with yellow spikes on each of them, one of which is "fake"; the "real" pillars thrust out of the paintings in the background and drop two stars each upon returning, while the "fake" pillar harmlessly falls off in the background.
- Paintra summons four canvases and paints the one-headed Landias, one of which is "fake". The "real" Landias exhale fire into the foreground, first straight, then angled away from the "fake" Landia, then angled toward the "fake" Landia; the "fake" Landia harmlessly flutters off.
- Paintra summons four canvases and paints a cannon on each, one of which is "fake". The "real" cannons fire three cannonballs, one down at the ground, one in the middle, and one upward; the "fake" cannon flutters off.
- Paintra summons three canvases and paints herself on each; she then stacks the canvases and hides behind them before they spread out again, revealing a fourth canvas that the real Paintra is inside; Paintra and her painted copies then emerge from the canvases. Afterward, Paintra then casts magic on them one at a time, setting each on fire and causing them to explode; the Paintra paintings can be inhaled before they are set on fire.
Her second new attack is Hide & Seek, which has two versions:
- Paintra floats into the background and calls down a large white sheet to hide behind; she now appears as a silhouette and tracks Kirby's position before gliding through the sheet through the foreground, leaving two stars as she passes by, similarly to the Glide Attack.
- Paintra calls down the sheet and hides behind it, but glides through three times instead of once; the three positions are random, but one of them targets Kirby's while the others do not. The exact order at which she targets Kirby's position as opposed to a different position is also random.
In addition to her new attacks, Paintra now performs the Magic Ball attack twice in succession, the second time on the other half of the arena and with less charge time, and her Paint View technique now always paints four or five streaks across the screen instead of two or three. Her new attack pattern starts as follows:
- Trick Paint (iron balls)
- Hide & Seek
- Trick Paint (spike pillars)
- Paint View
- Magic Ball
- Hide & Seek x 3
- Trick Paint (Landia)
- Trick Paint (Paintra)
- Glide Attack
- Paint Rain
- Trick Paint (cannons)
- Paint Ball
- Magic Balls
- Brush Swipe
- Paint View
- Brush Swipe
The attack pattern continues as follows, looping back after the second Brush Swipe.
- Trick Paint (iron balls)
- Hide & Seek
- Trick Paint (iron pillars)
- Paint View
- Magic Balls x 2
- Hide & Seek x 3
- Trick Paint (Landia)
- Trick Paint (Paintra)
- Glide Attack
- Paint Rain
- Paint Ball
- Magic Balls x 2
- Brush Swipe
- Paint View
- Brush Swipe
Paintra DX shoots seven Magic Balls instead of three. Her Paint View either consists of two horizontal streaks at the top or bottom of the screen, three horizontal and two vertical streaks, four alternating diagonal streaks, or five vertical streaks. She now swings her paint-brush like bottom four times consecutively instead of twice and repositions herself to do it again; each fourth swipe drops a star. Her Paint Ball attack now releases 12 paints balls that fall on random spots on the ground and six paint balls that hit the screen. Her paint rain attack is now used in the middle of the arena in addition to both sides; she always starts by using it on her side, but alternates switching the order of the other two. Her Glide Attack behaves the same as before. Her attack pattern starts as follows:
- Magic Ball
- Paint View
- Brush Swipe
- Paint Ball
- Magic Ball
- Paint Rain (Same Side, Middle, Opposite Side)
- Paint View
- Magic Balls
- Paint View
- Paint Rain (Same Side, Opposite Side, Middle)
- Brush Swipe
- Glide Attack
After using the first Glide Attack, the attack pattern continues as follows, looping back after the Glide Attack.
- Magic Balls
- Brush Swipe
- Paint View
- Magic Balls
- Paint Rain (Same Side, Middle, Opposite Side)
- Paint Ball
- Magic Ball
- Paint View
- Paint Rain (Same Side, Opposite Side, Middle)
- Brush Swipe
- Glide Attack
After losing half of her health, Paintra DX now has access to Hide & Seek and Paint Trick. Her Hide & Seek has her glide through the sheet at four different positions instead of once; the first time is usually at the player's position, the second usually half a screen away, the third usually between the first two, and the fourth in the area of the sheet that hasn't been touched. Before Trick Paint (except when she makes paintings of herself), Paintra DX uses Paint View strategically to obscure some of her paintings:
- Paintra DX draws a single vertical streak of paint in the middle with Paint View, then paints three spike pillars with Paint Trick; the middle painting is obscured.
- Paintra DX draws a single horizontal streak of paint in the middle with Paint View, then paints three spike balls with Paint Trick; only the bottoms of the paintings aren't obscured.
- Paintra DX draws two horizontal streaks of paint, one on the top and one in the middle, with Paint View, then paints four one-headed Landias EX with Paint Trick; the paintings can be seen through a sliver between the two paint streaks. The Landias EX track the player instead of the fake, aiming their flames away from the player, then toward the player.
- Paintra DX draws two horizontal streaks of paint, one on the top and one in the middle, with Paint View, then paints four cannons with Paint Trick; the paintings can be seen through a sliver between the two paint streaks. The cannons shoot twice in each position instead of once.
- Paintra DX summons three canvases and paints herself on each; she then stacks the canvases and hides behind them before they spread out again, revealing a fourth canvas that the real Paintra DX is inside; Paintra DX and her painted copies then emerge from the canvases. Afterward, Paintra DX casts magic on them one at a time, setting each on fire, after which they float in the background and home in on the player's position one at a time before exploding; the Paintra DX paintings can be inhaled before they are set on fire.
In addition to her new attacks, Paintra DX now has two versions of her Paint Ball attack; in addition to the original, Paintra DX can continuously spin, floating into the arena and sweeping from side to side before emerging in the foreground and spinning through in a similar manner to the Glide Attack, leaving two stars as she passes, then floating upward and covering the screen with six paint balls. Her paint rain attack is now preceded by Paint View with two horizontal streaks, one at the top and one in the middle, but is now consistent, starting on her side, then the opposite, then the middle. Her new attack pattern starts as follows:
- Hide & Seek
- Paint View (vertical)
- Paint Trick (spike pillars)
- Paint View (horizontal)
- Paint Trick (spike balls)
- Paint View
- Magic Ball
- Paint Ball (rush)
- Glide Attack
- Paint View (two horizontal)
- Paint Trick (Landia EX)
- Paint Trick (Paintra DX)
- Paint View
- Glide Attack
- Paint View (horizontal)
- Paint Rain (Same, Opposite, Middle)
- Paint View (horizontal)
- Paint Trick (cannons)
- Paint Ball
- Paint View (4 V)
- Magic Ball
- Paint View (2 H B)
- Brush Swipe
The attack pattern continues as follows, looping back after the Brush Swipe.
- Hide & Seek x 4
- Paint View (vertical)
- Paint Trick (spike pillars)
- Paint View (horizontal)
- Paint Trick (spike balls)
- Paint View
- Magic Ball
- Paint Ball (Rush)
- Glide Attack
- Paint View (two horizontal)
- Paint Trick (cannons/Landia EX)
- Paint Trick (Paintra DX)
- Paint View
- Glide Attack
- Paint View (two horizontal)
- Paint Rain (Same, Opposite, Middle)
- Paint Ball
- Paint View
- Magic Ball
- Paint View
- Brush Swipe
In Other Languages[]
Trivia[]
- Paintra pays homage to Drawcia, the main antagonist of Kirby: Canvas Curse. Besides looking very similar, both are born out of a painting, both draw enemies and other hazards, and both are forced back into their painting upon defeat; they even have a similar high-pitched cackle. Their names in Japanese also both end in シア, shia.
- The pause description during the fight against Paintra implies that she is Drawcia's sister, and that the two were separated at birth. This was seemingly confirmed later in concept artwork for Vividria, their apparent younger sister, in the Kirby Star Allies Soundtrack art booklet. In it, Paintra and Drawcia are both labeled as "姉様" (ane-sama), meaning "older sister". Claycia is brought up as well, but she is referred to with the "-san" prefix, implying no relation between her and the other three.
- Paintra DX's pause description mentions that her painting was painted by a "mysterious brush". This is implied to be the Magical Paintbrush. The description also mentions an artist creating the painting, but no specific implications are made about him/her.
- Paintra is the third witch in the series, after Gryll and Drawcia.
- Vividria, a mid-boss later introduced in Kirby Star Allies, appears similar to a smaller Paintra, and also has a paintbrush on her body.
Related Quotes[]
“ | Born from a forgotten painting made by a mysterious brush, Paintra DX has come to take her revenge. One must wonder if the painter who created her regrets giving her form.” |
— VS Paintra DX • Kirby: Triple Deluxe |