Dark Matter

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Background

Dark Matter is a character and species in the Kirby series, debuting as the main antagonist and final boss of Kirby's Dream Land 2, where he stole the rainbow bridges connecting the Rainbow Islands and possessed King Dedede in an attempt to shroud the world in darkness. He also appears as the secondary antagonist and penultimate boss of Kirby's Dream Land 3.

Dark Matter, after being purged from King Dedede in Dark Castle, appears as a black sphere with a single eye, as well as spiky hair. When the battle commences, he now wears a cloak, a mask, and wields a sword. This form is dubbed Dark Matter Blade in the North American version of Kirby: Planet Robobot’s The True Arena. After being defeated, Dark Matter transforms into Real Dark Matter, which resembles a black sphere adorned with ten purple petal-like appendages, and a single eye in his center. In his appearances in other games, Dark Matter appears in his Real Dark Matter form, but his appendages are orange and spherical, and the amount varies between eight, ten, or twelve of them.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Dark Matter’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Kirby Dream Land 2 Dark Matter first terrorized Planet Popstar in Kirby's Dream Land 2 by stealing the Rainbow Bridges that connect the Rainbow Islands of Dream Land. Taking control of King Dedede, the sinister being hid himself away in Dark Castle, plotting a future of darkness for Dream Land. The only way Kirby can fight Dark Matter is to collect all of the Rainbow Drops and defeat King Dedede, who has fallen into an unnatural sleep. Once this is completed, the Rainbow Drops form the Rainbow Sword. Dark Matter leaves Dedede's body and flies high into the sky, and Kirby uses the Rainbow Sword to pursue him. Dark Matter first confronts Kirby as Dark Matter Blade. He attacks by dashing forward trying to stab Kirby, firing energy beams from his sword, and by launching dark energy orbs. Although Kirby can deal minor damage (a fifth of a health point) to Dark Matter Blade by slicing his body with the Rainbow Sword itself, Kirby can more significantly deplete his health by deflecting the energy orbs back at him. When defeated, Dark Matter Blade transforms into Real Dark Matter, and Kirby must fight him again while slowly sinking toward Popstar. This time he attacks in a pattern, first releasing four of his purple appendages at Kirby twice in a row, then shooting dark beams in a circular motion twice more, then launching himself forward three times, and finally shooting two Dark Lasers from his eye three times. To ultimately defeat Real Dark Matter, Kirby has to repeatedly slash its appendages back at him during his first attack, similar to the Dark Matter Blade battle, and then damage him directly with the Rainbow Sword during the rest of his attacks. If Real Dark Matter is not dispatched quickly enough, Kirby will reenter the atmosphere and begin taking a single point of damage at regular intervals, eventually resulting in a life lost similar to the battle with Nightmare's orb form in Kirby's Adventure and its remake. If Kirby loses a life against Real Dark Matter, but has lives to spare, he will have to fight Dark Matter Blade again. After his defeat, Dark Matter was obliterated. Kirby's Animal Friends and even an awakened King Dedede celebrated as their benefactor rides his Rainbow Sword through the air. With one last wave of the sword, Kirby restores the islands' rainbows and reverses Dark Matter's plans. Kirby Dream Land 3 In Kirby's Dream Land 3, a mysterious giant cloud breaks through the rings of Planet Popstar to get to the surface, and its long reaches possess King Dedede again as well as Whispy Woods, Acro, Pon & Con and Ado far off the land. Dedede is once again bound to an unnatural sleep. Obtaining all the Heart Stars of an area will relieve that level's boss of possession upon defeat. If Kirby collects all the Heart Stars and saves all the boss characters, he will use the Love-Love Stick to reach the black cloud (and may be accompanied by Gooey), where Dark Matter will re-form and attack. Dark Matter retains his appendage attack, which is modified to have the orange orbs home in on Kirby (though they can be destroyed with the Love-Love Stick). Like the previous encounter, Dark Matter can also shoot Dark Lasers out of his eye; he will shoot a bolt of lightning in one direction, then another, then a third, and finally a fourth. After defeating Dark Matter, he is once again banished and Kirby comes face to face with Zero, the true main antagonist. Kirby 64 During the battle against Adeleine, a representation of Real Dark Matter appears as one of her paintings. His only attacks involve dropping down orange projectiles when above Kirby, or flying around in an ellipse in an attempt to ram Kirby. Kirby Mass Attack Dark Matter appears in Kirby Mass Attack as the final boss of the Kirby Quest mode. He has both his Dark Matter Blade and Real Dark Matter forms. If Kirby picked up Galaxia, it is super effective to both forms, possibly in reference to his original weakness to the Rainbow Sword.

General Information

Name: Dark Matter

Origin: Kirby’s Dream Land 2

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Dark Matter Being

Species: Dark Matter

State of Being: Regular

Occupation: None

Affiliations: Dark Matter Species

Enemies: Kirby, King Dedede, Dream Land, Ripple Star

Status: Deceased (In canon the entire Dark Matter species has seemingly been completely destroyed as of Kirby 64)

Alignment: Neutral Evil (The Dark Matter's go after planets and proceed to possess and corrupt everyone in the vicinity, spreading throughout multiple galaxies)

Codex Statistics

Key: Kirby’s Dream Land 2 | Kirby’s Dream Land 3 | Kirby 64 | Kirby Mass Attack

Grade: A | A | A | A

Tier: Low 5-B | Low 5-B | Low 5-B | Low 5-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Small Planet level (Can harm Pre Super Star Kirby, who can crack Pop Star in half with splitting the earth in half being calculated at this level. Kirby could also defeat Nightmare, whose death destroyed a huge portion of the moon which was calculated at this) | Small Planet level (Can harm Post Super Star Kirby]) | Small Planet level | Small Planet level (Can harm Kirby)

Durability: Small Planet level | Small Planet level | Small Planet level | Small Planet level

Striking Strength: Small Planet Class | Small Planet Class | Small Planet Class | Small Planet Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown

Travel Speed: Faster Than Light (Kept up with Kirby in the sky) | Faster Than Light | Faster Than Light (Traveled past several galaxies while chasing after Ribbon which gets these results) | Faster Than Light

Attack Speed: Faster Than Light | Faster Than Light | Faster Than Light | Faster Than Light

Reaction Speed: Faster Than Light | Faster Than Light | Faster Than Light | Faster Than Light

Stamina: Likely Limitless (Dark Matter is a cloud-like object that seems to have no true organic parts asides from its eye)

Range: Standard Melee, Several Meters with Energy Projection & Electricity Manipulation, Planetary with the HyperZone (The Hyper Zone’s clouds spread across the entire planet, with Dark Matter being confirmed to control those clouds), Planetary, possibly Stellar with Dark Star (Implied to be a star, though due to Kirby 64 naming regular planets stars this might be the same case for Dark Star), Multi-Galactic with Corruption (In Kirby 64 Dark Matter’s influence is spread across different planets that are in different galaxies)

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence

Knowledge: Expert level (Has orchestrated attacks on Pop Star twice, and Ripple Star once, with them learning from their previous failure and attempting to hide within the possessed Queen without the main cast finding out, with the Crystal Shards being the only reason they did)

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Powers and Techniques

Longevity (The Dark Matter species seem to lack standard biological functions meaning they can live far longer than human life spans), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance; Can breathe in space), Weapon Mastery (Dark Matter can wield and use a sword to combat Kirby), Afterimage Creation (Dark Matter can leave behind afterimages from movement), Body Control & Telekinesis (Dark Matter can remove parts of its body to throw at Kirby), Homing Attack (The parts of its body home in on Kirby), Intangibility (Elemental; Its body is a mere cloud-like object that is made of Dark Matter. Phasing; Dark Matter can phase through objects), Regeneration (Mid-High; Dark Mind can regenerate from all of his mirror pieces being shattered. Dark Matters can regenerate from a small piece of his body which his body is a cloud-like object. Dark Nebula can regenerate back it’s full body from a cloud of smoke), Electricity Manipulation (Can shoot out electricity out of its eye), Immersion (Can emerge from paintings), Dark Matter Manipulation (It’s composition is Dark Matter), Possession, Mind Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, & Corruption (Non-Physical Corruption; Corrupted the Mirror World Dark Matter has clouds that can spread out and affect all life on Popstar. Stated that it was luring the citizens of Popstar to evil. in Kirby 64 Dark Matter's influence spread to 6 different planets in different galaxies. It’s influence can corrupt entire planets/stars. Their influence even being able to affect the likes of Pix whose made up of 3 diamonds, and its influence possibly affected HR-H), Resistance Bypassing (Dark Matter’s direct possession can affect the likes of Adeleine who is unaffected by Dark Star which is Dark Matter’s corruption cloud), Weather Manipulation & Darkness Manipulation (Dark Matter could spread dark clouds across an entire planet to possess all the inhabitants. Can shoot energy of darkness), Duplication (Can split itself into smaller Dark Matters to attack opponents), Life Manipulation (A cloud of dark matter were creating N-Zs), Adaptation & Evolution Manipulation (Dark Matter can possess beings and upgrade the species, such as turning a Waddle Dee into a Waddle Doo. Can seemingly give non-sentient objects such as lava sentience).

Resistance to Attack Reflection (Some of its attacks cannot be reflected by Kirby’s rainbow sword)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight (Can freely fly around), Curtain Fire (Can fire off multiple energy beams of darkness at once), Energy Manipulation (Can shoot out sword beams and sword energy waves. Can shoot a massive energy beam out of its eye), Electricity Manipulation (Can shoot out electricity out of its eye)

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Equipment

• Dark Matter Sword: A weapon wielded by Dark Matter Blade. He attacks by dashing forward trying to stab Kirby, firing energy beams from his sword, and by launching dark energy orbs.

“	A blade said to be wielded by a dark swordsman who, lurking in shadow, plots to shroud the world in darkness.	„
	~ Weapon Description • Team Kirby Clash Deluxe

“	Armor that borrows its appearance from the dark swordsman with a single eye. It is said that isn't hair but part of his body.	„
	~ Armor Description • Team Kirby Clash Deluxe

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Notable Techniques

• Dark Clouds: Dark Matter can corrupt others with dark clouds and has corrupted people without them. He controls others with dark clouds, that lures the inhabitants to evil. The influence of the dark clouds spread across different galaxies as shown in Kirby 64.
• Possession: Dark Matter enters inside of the body of the essential leader of an area, though to stop characters such as Kirby on their quest, they will possess people to get in their way. Not only during this possession do they get the characters innate abilities but they also grant them new ones and can mess with their physiology allowing them to have a mouth in their stomach and fly around.
• Dark Laser: A dark energy beam of made most likely of dark matter. It has a very high attack speed, with targets only being able to aim-dodge it.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Dark Matter instantly goes for possessing a being, along with using the hyperzone or the Dark Star to create a massive planet to star wide possession. If the opponent resists Dark Matter will proceed to shoot sword beams/sword waves, shoot out electricity, or use parts of its body to attack.

Weaknesses: The Dark Matter's main weakness is love and joy, with those things creating a weapon that can harm it. The Rainbow sword can reflect some of its attacks.

Trivia

• The amount of appendages Dark Matter has is inconsistent with his appearances. His Kirby's Dream Land 2 sprite has ten (only eight are shown in his Kirby's Dream Land 2 artwork due to the side view); his Kirby's Dream Land 3 sprite always has eight (even in side view), as does Ado's artwork, however, the official artwork for his Kirby's Dream Land 3 appearance gives him ten; in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Adeleine's drawing gives him eight; his appearance in |Kirby of the Stars Pilot gives him twelve appendages; his appearance in Kirby Mass Attack also has twelve appendages, but in different positions than they were in the pilot; his appearance in Kirby: Planet Robobot has eight appendages; his appearance in Team Kirby Clash Deluxe as the shield when wearing the Dark Matter gear depicts him with eight appendages.

From page 106 of "最新星のカービィ大百科"

• A Japanese Kirby encyclopedia by the name of 最新星のカービィ大百科 Saishin Hoshi no Kābyi Ōhyakka ("The Latest Kirby of the Stars Large Encyclopedia") states that Dark Matter targeted Planet Popstar because he was lonely, and grew jealous of Dream Land since everyone there is friends with each other. He "couldn't say 'be my friend."
  • This information has since been repeated in the January 2019 issue of the Nintendo Dream magazine.
• Dark Matter Blade has a laser attack with the same sound as Laser Ball from Kirby's Adventure.
• Dark Matter appears capable of altering his form so he is suited to whatever task he must carry out. This is first seen when Kirby first confronts Dark Matter in Kirby's Dream Land 2, where he assumed the form of a masked swordsman, presumably to combat against the overwhelming strength of the Rainbow Sword. In subsequent appearances except Kirby Mass Attack and cameos of the swordsman form, he would only possess others to combat Kirby or fight in his natural state.
• Dark Mind's second and final forms resemble Dark Matter.
• For a split second during his transformation (and during his attacks) in Kirby Mass Attack, his orbs are purple like his debut appearance.
• Concept artwork seems to suggest that Dark Matter was considered as a playable character in Kirby: Canvas Curse.
• A heavily remixed version of Dark Matter's theme from Kirby's Dream Land 3 is used as one of the tunes during the first phase of Magolor's theme in Kirby's Return to Dream Land.
• "Reproduction of Darkness," the theme that plays during the battle against Dark Matter Clone in Kirby: Planet Robobot, is a remix of Dark Matter's themes in Kirby's Dream Land 2, starting with Real Dark Matter, followed by Dark Matter Blade's theme.
• Dark Matter Clone in Kirby: Planet Robobot can turn his sword into something similar to the Rainbow Sword to attack, ironically, as the Rainbow Sword is the original Dark Matter's weakness.
  • According to a HAL Laboratory Miiverse post, this is because Dark Matter can materialize his memories.
  • The cutscene before the battle against Dark Matter Clone is also called "The Dark Rainbow Thief".
• In Kirby: Planet Robobot, Dark Matter Clone is referred to as Dark Matter Blade in The True Arena's rest area. In Japanese, both his name in battle and in the rest area is 「クローン剣士ダークマター」, meaning "Clone Swordsman Dark Matter."
  • Additionally, in the European English version, his name remains "Dark Matter Clone" both in battle and in the True Arena's rest area.
• When activating the portal for the Dark Matter Clone, Star Dream reveals the clone is filed as Sword_Master.exe.
• The official strategy guide for Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards by Prima Games, Adeleine's Dark Matter painting is erroneously called mutant Mumbies.
• The clone fight in Kirby: Planet Robobot reveals that the Rainbow Sword is not the only weapon capable of reflecting the dark energy balls Dark Matter Blade fires, as Meta Knight's sword, Galaxia can also do so. Additionally, in The True Arena, any of Kirby's attacks, even the basic slide kick and Air Gun, can reflect the dark energy. This may be because the clone was imperfect.
• Dark Matter is the sixth-strongest Kirby series Spirit usable by the player in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, with 10,089 power at max level. He is only beaten by Nightmare Wizard's 12,671, Dyna Blade's 11,203, Marx (True Form)'s 10,886, Dark Daroach's 10,897, and Galacta Knight's 13,345.
  • Dark Matter has the second highest power when fought as a Spirit Battle, only after the Dragoon.

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