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“	Soon, Dream Land will be wrapped around my knitting needles!”
	— Yin-Yarn • Kirby's Epic Yarn

Yin-Yarn is the main antagonist and final boss of Kirby's Epic Yarn and its remake, Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn. He shares the name of the stage he appears in, which follows Castle Dedede and preceeds Meta Melon Isle. He can manipulate most things made of yarn with his pair of wooden knitting needles, which are held in each of his hands. Yin-Yarn's true origins and motives are never revealed throughout the course of the game, and he comes across as a land-hungry villain ultimately seeking control of Dream Land, although he confesses himself that he is not sure what to do with it.

Physical Appearance

Yin-Yarn's body is made almost entirely out of yarn. He has a button for an eye, along with a black mustache. He has three eyelashes, one yellow and the other two red, and what appears to be a large, purple brow. His mouth is always in a grin, with white strings of yarn representing his teeth. He wears a green hat with a yellow band on his head. He also appears to be wearing an orange poncho with an intertwining red and green design. He wears a green necklace with the stolen magic sock around his neck.

Yin-Yarn's true identity is the two knitting needles he wields, which are actually sentient and are brothers according to his Japanese Cast Description, with his body seemingly only being a disguise. One of the needles has yellow eyes and a single horn, the other has purple eyes and two horns, and also bears a frown.

Games

Kirby's Epic Yarn and Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn

Story

For the story of Kirby's Epic Yarn, see Kirby's Epic Yarn.

The story begins with Yin-Yarn wreaking havoc in both Patch Land and Dream Land, but his work in Patch Land was already done. He unleashed yarn monsters all over Patch Land, stole one of a pair of magical socks, and unraveled the pieces of magic yarn holding Patch Land together, splitting it into seven pieces. He used the magic yarn to create bosses to stop heroes from reuniting Patch Land. As Prince Fluff later explains, the magical socks function as portals to each other, but with Patch Land in pieces, that power is lost. Yin-Yarn's sock now transports his victims directly into Patch Land, which he controls, and turns them into yarn in the process, and Kirby became his first victim.

Yin-Yarn did all this in Patch Land so he could suck in the residents of Dream Land and make them work for him later, and it allows him to take over Dream Land with little effort. How Yin-Yarn made his way to Dream Land in the first place is not explained. He removed King Dedede from his castle and Meta Knight from Halberd, controls their minds, and uses them to stop Kirby and Prince Fluff from reuniting Patch Land, which allows them to go to Dream Land and get to him. By the time Meta Knight became his victim, Dream Land is already made of yarn.

After the fight with one possessed Meta Knight, Kirby is saddened by King Dedede's account of how Yin-Yarn took over Dream Land, but with Patch Land fully restored, the magical socks regained their original power (including the one he stole earlier). Kirby, Prince Fluff, Meta Knight (now recovered) and King Dedede go into the remaining sock in Patch Castle in order to confront Yin-Yarn directly, but with Dream Land under his control, Yin-Yarn has already discarded his magical sock, so the heroes end up on a sock in a grassy yarn field instead. They eventually find Yin-Yarn anyway (by getting on his nerves with the Bells of Joy), and Kirby and Prince Fluff confront him in a final showdown.

Kirby and Prince Fluff succeed in unraveling Yin-Yarn, and proceed to do the Kirby Dance, but they are interrupted when Yin-Yarn's knitting needles reveal their sentience, and create Mega Yin-Yarn from Yin-Yarn's magic yarn to stop them. Meta Knight flies over all of them and drops a metamortex, giving Kirby and Prince Fluff their Tankbot form, and they proceed to decimate Mega Yin-Yarn. Kirby and Prince Fluff revert to normal after passing a reel gate, trap the scared knitting needles between them, toss them to Patch Land, and finally finish the Kirby Dance.

Dream Land shortly reverts to normal and the ending sequence plays.

Battle

See also: Mega Yin-Yarn

Initially, Yin-Yarn re-knits Fangora to stop Kirby and Prince Fluff, and then Capamari's second form, along with his Octopeas. Both bosses only require a single hit to defeat, and the strategies with their battles remain the same as before.

Right after the defeat of each boss he created, Yin-Yarn drops a curtain in front of Kirby with a single door at the top, and sends endless Soochers in set patterns behind the screen to try and hurt the heroes. The heroes can jump on the stitching left by the Soochers and reach the door above to get in front of Yin-Yarn's curtain and end the sequence.

Yin-Yarn later removes sections of the floor and sends in Scarfies, Buttonbees, Bow Waddle Dees, Uniclods, Chillys, and even Big Waddle Dees in an attempt to knock Kirby and Prince Fluff off, but the heroes can make yarn balls out of most of these and toss them at Yin-Yarn, which brings him to the ground and exposes his weak spot (a large button) to attack.

Etymology

Yin-Yarn's name is a portmanteau of "yin-yang" and "yarn."

His Japanese name, アミーボ・アモーレ (Amībo Amōre), comes from the Japanese word for knitting needle, あみぼう/編み棒 (Amibō).

Related Quotes

“	This sorcerer uses his knitting needles to weave his evil all across Dream Land!”
	— Cast Description • Kirby's Epic Yarn

Trivia

In the English version of the game, Yin-Yarn's true identity is only hinted at through the progression of the final battle, while in the Japanese version, it's made more explicit through his Cast Description, stating that the two knitting needles are brothers.
His battle theme is a remix of the boss theme and Miracle Matter's theme from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. In the final phase of the fight, the tempo increases even further.
During the battle there is a swirling black mass in the background. In the mass, one can see the Halberd, Meta Melon Isle, and Patch Castle, among other things. This is the case even if the player has not unlocked the two bonus levels, Battleship Halberd and Meta Melon Isle.
Yin-Yarn's possessed victims' eyes flash between yellow and purple, the same colors as the knitting needle brothers' eyes.
Yin-Yarn is the only final boss in the Kirby series so far to have facial hair.
Yin-Yarn is one of the three final bosses to resurrect previous bosses, the others being Necrodeus and Drawcia. However, Drawcia does not resurrect bosses during the final battle, but during several events of the game.
Just like Drawcia, Yin-Yarn transforms Kirby’s world, as well as Kirby's design and battle style.
Yin-Yarn does not directly attack in his first form; all of his attacks consist of resurrecting bosses or summoning enemies to attack Kirby.
Yin-Yarn has the most phases to his battle out of almost every boss in the game. His battle consists of six phases; Fangora, Soocher Wall, Capamari, Soocher Wall, the main fight, and finally, Mega Yin-Yarn.
Yin-Yarn appears as a collectible keychain in Kirby: Triple Deluxe.
Yin-Yarn and Void Soul are the only bosses in the Kirby series to completely flood the originally land-based arena with liquid.

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+{{quote|Soon, [[Dream Land]] will be wrapped around my knitting needles!|Yin-Yarn|[[Kirby's Epic Yarn]]}}
+'''Yin-Yarn''' is the main antagonist and [[final boss]] of ''[[Kirby's Epic Yarn]]'' and its remake, ''[[Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn]]''. He shares the name of the stage he appears in, which follows [[Castle Dedede #Kirby's Epic Yarn|Castle Dedede]] and preceeds [[Meta Melon Isle]]. He can manipulate most things made of yarn with his pair of wooden knitting needles, which are held in each of his hands. Yin-Yarn's true origins and motives are never revealed throughout the course of the game, and he comes across as a land-hungry villain ultimately seeking control of [[Dream Land]], although he confesses himself that he is not sure what to do with it.
+==Physical Appearance==
-'''Yin-Yarn''' is the main villain and final boss of [[Kirby's Epic Yarn|Kirby's Yarn]]. He wreaks havoc in both [[Dream Land]] and [[Patch Land]], turning people into yarn, splits Patch Land into pieces, and uses the sock around his neck to suck [[Kirby]] into Patch Land. Yin-Yarn was responsible for splitting Patch Land into seven parts, thus sending Kirby and [[Prince Fluff]]y on a quest to recover the pieces of yarn that will allow them to piece Patch Land back together. He created many yarn monsters that attempted to stop the two from their quest. He also brainwashed and manipulated [[King Dedede]] and [[Meta Knight]] and turned them into yarn, and made plans to take over Dream Land, which he did successfully, covering Dream Land in darkness and turning it into his own world of patches and yarn.
+Yin-Yarn's body is made almost entirely out of yarn. He has a button for an eye, along with a black mustache. He has three eyelashes, one yellow and the other two red, and what appears to be a large, purple brow. His mouth is always in a grin, with white strings of yarn representing his teeth. He wears a green hat with a yellow band on his head. He also appears to be wearing an orange poncho with an intertwining red and green design. He wears a green necklace with the stolen magic sock around his neck.
+Yin-Yarn's true identity is the two knitting needles he wields, which are actually sentient and are brothers according to his Japanese Cast Description, with his body seemingly only being a disguise. One of the needles has yellow eyes and a single horn, the other has purple eyes and two horns, and also bears a frown.
-Eventually, after Kirby and Prince Fluff patched all seven pieces of Patch Land back together, they returned to Dream Land to find that Yin-Yarn had taken over. The two made their way across the yarn monster-infested Dream Land until they found him and challenged him to a final showdown. However, after he was defeated after many phases of the fight starting with a fight against a reincarnated [[Fangora]], an underwater boss fight against a reincarnated [[Capamari]], a fight involving [[Scarfy|Scarfies]], [[Bow Waddle Dees]] and [[Uniclod]]s, and a battle on three platforms where he would summon Scarfies, [[Big Waddle Dee]]s and [[Chilly]]s, his knitting needles unexpectedly came to life to the two's surprise. With magic learned from the Metamato, they generated the yarn to bring him back for round two as a mechanical monster called [[Mega Yin-Yarn]] Thanks to Meta Knight's quick thinking, Kirby assumed his [[Tankbot]] form and engaged Mega Yin-Yarn in a missile-to-missile battle. In the end, Mega Yin-Yarn was ultimately defeated by Tankbot Kirby. The knitting needles became scared of Tankbot Kirby as he chased them, reverting back to normal Kirby in the process. Kirby and Prince Fluff trapped the frightened knitting needles between them and tossed them to Patch Land. They went flew and landed in Hot Land and Water Land, signifying that Yin-Yarn's reign of terror was over, thus freeing Dream Land from Yin-Yarn's spell and control.
+==Games==
-==Physical Appearance==
+===''[[Kirby's Epic Yarn]]'' and ''[[Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn]]''===
-Yin-Yarn is a yarn sorcerer who has a green hat, a black moustache, and a button for a nose. He wears a sock around his neck which he uses to suck [[Kirby]] up into [[Patch Land]]. Yin-Yarn has an orange body with bright orange stripes. He wields two knitting needles, one with yellow eyes and a single horn, and the other with purple eyes and two horns that frowns.
+====Story====
+:''For the story of Kirby's Epic Yarn, see [[Kirby's Epic Yarn#Story|Kirby's Epic Yarn]]''.
+The story begins with Yin-Yarn wreaking havoc in both Patch Land and Dream Land, but his work in Patch Land was already done. He unleashed yarn monsters all over Patch Land, stole one of a pair of magical socks, and unraveled the pieces of [[magic yarn]] holding Patch Land together, splitting it into seven pieces. He used the magic yarn to create bosses to stop heroes from reuniting Patch Land. As [[Prince Fluff]] later explains, the magical socks function as portals to each other, but with Patch Land in pieces, that power is lost. Yin-Yarn's sock now transports his victims directly into Patch Land, which he controls, and turns them into yarn in the process, and [[Kirby]] became his first victim.
+Yin-Yarn did all this in Patch Land so he could suck in the residents of Dream Land and make them work for him later, and it allows him to take over Dream Land with little effort. How Yin-Yarn made his way to Dream Land in the first place is not explained. He removed [[King Dedede]] from his castle and [[Meta Knight]] from [[Halberd]], controls their minds, and uses them to stop Kirby and Prince Fluff from reuniting Patch Land, which allows them to go to Dream Land and get to him. By the time Meta Knight became his victim, [[Dream Land]] is already made of yarn.
-His Mega form is a round robot similar in appearance to Kirby's [[Tankbot]] form. He has his then-enlarged knitting needles, his hat, and a more evil version of his facial features. He has bladed wheels for feet.
+After the fight with one possessed Meta Knight, Kirby is saddened by King Dedede's account of how Yin-Yarn took over Dream Land, but with Patch Land fully restored, the magical socks regained their original power (including the one he stole earlier). Kirby, Prince Fluff, Meta Knight (now recovered) and King Dedede go into the remaining sock in Patch Castle in order to confront Yin-Yarn directly, but with Dream Land under his control, Yin-Yarn has already discarded his magical sock, so the heroes end up on a sock in a grassy yarn field instead. They eventually find Yin-Yarn anyway (by getting on his nerves with the Bells of Joy), and Kirby and Prince Fluff confront him in a final showdown.
-==Attacks==
-Yin-Yarn will attack by knitting the first boss Fangora, and then water, which floods the stage and 4 bowls will appear, two [[Octopea]]s will come out of each, and then Capamari.
+Kirby and Prince Fluff succeed in unraveling Yin-Yarn, and proceed to do the [[Kirby Dance]], but they are interrupted when Yin-Yarn's knitting needles reveal their sentience, and create [[Mega Yin-Yarn]] from Yin-Yarn's magic yarn to stop them. Meta Knight flies over all of them and drops a [[metamortex]], giving Kirby and Prince Fluff their [[Tankbot]] form, and they proceed to decimate Mega Yin-Yarn. Kirby and Prince Fluff revert to normal after passing a reel gate, trap the scared knitting needles between them, toss them to Patch Land, and finally finish the Kirby Dance.
-Mega Yin-Yarn will shoot missiles at a very high rate, or if Tankbot Kirby gets too close to him, he will attempt to whack him with a kintting needle.
+Dream Land shortly reverts to normal and the ending sequence plays.
+====Battle====
+{{See also|Mega Yin-Yarn|Mega Yin-Yarn}}
+{{Level-infobox
+|image=[[File:Yin-Yarn Stage Preview.png]]
+|caption=''[[Kirby's Epic Yarn]]'' stage preview
+|appearance={{LevelSequence|KEY|48|8/5|type=Stage}}
+|theme= Yin-Yarn's lair
+|world= [[Dream Land]]
+|treasure=[[Magic yarn]]
+|common enemies=[[Big Waddle Dee]], [[Bow Waddle Dee]], [[Buttonbee]], [[Chilly]], [[Octopea]], [[Scarfy]], [[Soocher]], [[Uniclod]], [[Waddle Dee]]
+|notes = [[Metamortex]]: [[Tankbot]]
+}}
+Initially, Yin-Yarn re-knits [[Fangora]] to stop Kirby and Prince Fluff, and then [[Capamari]]'s second form, along with his [[Octopea]]s. Both bosses only require a single hit to defeat, and the strategies with their battles remain the same as before.
+Right after the defeat of each boss he created, Yin-Yarn drops a curtain in front of Kirby with a single door at the top, and sends endless [[Soocher]]s in set patterns behind the screen to try and hurt the heroes. The heroes can jump on the stitching left by the Soochers and reach the door above to get in front of Yin-Yarn's curtain and end the sequence.
+Yin-Yarn later removes sections of the floor and sends in [[Scarfy|Scarfies]], [[Buttonbee]]s, [[Bow Waddle Dee]]s, [[Uniclod]]s, [[Chilly]]s, and even [[Big Waddle Dee]]s in an attempt to knock Kirby and Prince Fluff off, but the heroes can make yarn balls out of most of these and toss them at Yin-Yarn, which brings him to the ground and exposes his weak spot (a large button) to attack.
+==Etymology==
+Yin-Yarn's name is a portmanteau of "yin-yang" and "yarn."
+His Japanese name, アミーボ・アモーレ (Amībo Amōre), comes from the Japanese word for knitting needle, あみぼう/編み棒 (Amibō).
+==Related Quotes==
+{{Quote|This sorcerer uses his knitting needles to weave his evil all across Dream Land!|Cast Description|[[Kirby's Epic Yarn]]}}
 ==Trivia==
+*In the English version of the game, Yin-Yarn's true identity is only hinted at through the progression of the final battle, while in the Japanese version, it's made more explicit through his Cast Description, stating that the two knitting needles are brothers.
+*His battle theme is a remix of the boss theme and [[Miracle Matter]]'s theme from ''[[Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards]]''. In the final phase of the fight, the tempo increases even further.
+*During the battle there is a swirling black mass in the background. In the mass, one can see the Halberd, Meta Melon Isle, and Patch Castle, among other things. This is the case even if the player has not unlocked the two bonus levels, [[Halberd#Kirby's Epic Yarn|Battleship Halberd]] and [[Meta Melon Isle]].
+*Yin-Yarn's possessed victims' eyes flash between yellow and purple, the same colors as the knitting needle brothers' eyes.
+*Yin-Yarn is the only final boss in the [[Kirby series|''Kirby'' series]] so far to have facial hair.
+*Yin-Yarn is one of the three final bosses to resurrect previous bosses, the others being [[Necrodeus]] and [[Drawcia]]. However, Drawcia does not resurrect bosses during the final battle, but during several events of the game.
+*Just like Drawcia, Yin-Yarn transforms Kirby’s world, as well as Kirby's design and battle style.
+*Yin-Yarn does not directly attack in his first form; all of his attacks consist of resurrecting bosses or summoning enemies to attack Kirby.
+*Yin-Yarn has the most phases to his battle out of almost every boss in the game. His battle consists of six phases; [[Fangora]], [[Soocher]] Wall, [[Capamari]], Soocher Wall, the main fight, and finally, [[Mega Yin-Yarn]].
+*Yin-Yarn appears as a collectible [[keychain]] in ''[[Kirby: Triple Deluxe]]''.
+*Yin-Yarn and [[Void Soul]] are the only bosses in the ''Kirby'' series to completely flood the originally land-based arena with liquid.
+==Artwork==
+<gallery>
+KEY Yin-Yarn2.png|''[[Kirby's Epic Yarn]]'' (background removed)
+MangaYin-Yarn.png|''Kirby's Epic Yarn'' manga (''[[:ja:星のカービィ プププヒーロー|Kirby of the Stars: Pupupu Hero]]'')
+a.png|Yin-Yarn appears in one of the celebration pictures in ''[[Kirby Star Allies]]''
+Epic Yarn Twitter.jpg|''Kirby Twitter''
+Yin Yarn novel.png|''[[Kirby of the Stars (Mie Takase)|Kirby's Major Incident in Patch Land!]]''
+</gallery>
+==Gallery==
+<gallery>
+KEY Yin-Yarn.png|''[[Kirby's Epic Yarn]]''
+Yin-Yar 3.PNG|''Kirby's Epic Yarn''
+</gallery>
+== Sprites ==
+<gallery>
+Triple deluxe keychain yin-yarn 67403.png|''[[Kirby: Triple Deluxe]]'' ([[Keychain]])
+</gallery>
+{{Levels}}
+[[de:Grimmgarn]]
-*The music heard in all phases before Mega Yin-Yarn sounds very much like a remix of the music heard during the boss fights in ''[[Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards]]''. The same music is also used for Mega-Yin-Yarn, it is just much faster-paced.
+[[es:Zur-Zir]]
-*The last phases of the fight against Mega Yin-Yarn were inspired by Danmaku (Bullet hell) games such as Touhou Project, as shown where he rapidly fires many missiles in every direction.
+[[it:Malandrana]]
-*During the phase with the Big Waddle Dees and the Chillys, there is a swirling black mass in the background. In the mass one can see the Halberd (Meta Knight's ship) and Patch Castle, among other things. This is the case even if the player has not unlocked the two bonus levels, [[Battleship Halberd]] and [[Meta Melon Isle]].
+[[ja:アミーボ・アモーレ]]
-*Yin-Yarn is the only final boss in the series so far to have facial hair.
+[[zh:阿米博・阿莫烈]]
-*Yin-Yarn's name may be based off of Yin-Yang.
-*{{stub}}He's very similar to Drawcia,a witch.The main diference is that drawcia is female and don't have a mostache.Drawcia is the final boss of ''Kirby: Canvas Curse.''Also The yarn is very similar to Drawcia paint powers , and as well her world of paint is similar to the yarn world.Also they both had a dream of a world, shortly lived , as they both where destroyed quickly by Kirby.And they both have a round last form
-*Yin-Yarn is probably the only final boss to bring previous bosses back.
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