Zero (Kirby)

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Background

Zero is the final boss and true main antagonist of Kirby's Dream Land 3, seen in the oblivion known as Hyper Zone. Zero's role as the leader of the Dark Matter, as well its capability to produce smaller Dark Matter look-alikes from its body suggests that it is possibly a source of Dark Matter.

Overall, no background is known about it, and as such, the only hints towards its motivations are from the actions of Dark Matter. They are known to invade and infest planets such as Planet Popstar. However, it is not known what Zero intends to do with Dark Matter-infested planets. The somewhat unusual name of the Love-Love Stick, which is the weapon Kirby uses against it at the end of Kirby's Dream Land 3, suggests that it is weak to positive emotions.

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

Zero and Dark Matter are the extra, final bosses in the game. They can only be fought if Kirby has collected all of the Heart Stars; if Iceberg's Heart Stars are not collected, the game simply ends after Kirby defeats the possessed King Dedede and an ominous, dreary ending plays in which Zero appears as a shadowy figure. Together, the two evil entities are fought inside the Hyper Zone. Right after Kirby delivers the final strike to Dark Matter, the screen begins to flash and Zero suddenly appears. The way it attacks is very similar to Dark Matter; it flies around shooting projectiles at Kirby and attempts to crash into him. It attacks by shooting blood from cuts that open around its eye and launches miniature Dark Matters at Kirby. Sometimes it moves across the screen in an erratic manner trying to ram into Kirby. Due to its size, this can be difficult to avoid. Sometimes, Zero flies forward, off-screen, and into the background. When it does, it will begin to deploy more blood from its eye, which deals damage if it makes contact with Kirby. When Zero's life meter is depleted, its eye detaches from its body in a rather gory manner and begins the final phase of the fight, with Zero's ruined body drifting away until it is off-screen. The eye will then start to circle around Kirby continuously closing in and ramming into him. Ramming Kirby is the eye's only form of attack. It does not have much health, and can be taken down in eight hits. Once the eye's life meter is depleted, it spirals out of control, severely hemorrhaging, then explodes.

General Information

Name: Zero

Origin: Kirby's Dream Land 3

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Leader of Dark Matter, Dark Matter Being

Species: Dark Matter

State of Being: Regular

Occupation: None

Affiliations: Dark Matter

Enemies: Kirby, King Dedede

Status: Deceased (Was killed by Kirby during the events of Kirby Dream Land 3)

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

Codex Statistics

Tier: Low 5-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Small Planet level (Can harm Post-Super Star Kirby who can crack Pop Star in half with splitting the earth in half being calculated at this level)

Durability: Small Planet level

Striking Strength: Small Planet Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: Faster Than Light (Should be comparable to the original Dark Matter's who traveled past several galaxies while chasing after Ribbon which gets these results)

Attack Speed: Faster Than Light (Can tag Kirby who can simultaneously move and react on the warp star which can fly past 53 galaxies in a few seconds, and flies to another galaxy in under a second)

Reaction Speed: 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 (About 1.22 meters in size), Several Meters with Blood Manipulation, Planetary with the HyperZone (The Hyper Zone’s clouds spread across the entire planet, with Dark Matter being confirmed to control those clouds), 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: Master level (Is the leader of the Dark Matter army, heavily the original person responsible for their success in taking over planets)

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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), Spaceflight (Freely flew through space in the Hyper Zone to reach Pop Star), Blood Manipulation (Can shoot their own blood out of them), Spatial Manipulation (Zero seems to have more control over the hyper zone then regular Dark Matter's and its death causes the destruction of the Hyper Zone), Teleportation (Teleported into the battlefield), Creation (Can create mini Dark Matter's), 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 it’s eye)

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Equipment

• Dark Matters: The Dark Matter species is a race of beings that are often characterized by having a single eye. Most members and speculated members appear as a major antagonistic force in various games of the Kirby series. Although their goal may vary between individuals, most of them attempt to invade planets and cover them in darkness. Presumably being made of darkness and negative energy, some members are weak to light and positive energy, as shown with the Rainbow Sword and the Love-Love Stick. Members of the species also have the ability to possess and control others’ bodies to do their bidding. In the past, Hyness’s clan worshipped the “matter of darkness.” This implies that the Dark Matter species (or the material they’re made of) was worshipped by them.

• Hyper Zone: Hyper Zone is a black, cloud-like void that appeared in the skies of Planet Popstar during Kirby's Dream Land 3. Its mysterious arms spread to the five corners of the planet, scattering its dark influence throughout Dream Land. It is the hidden final level where Kirby fights Dark Matter and Zero if he collected all the Heart Stars and defeated each previous boss. On the outside, Hyper Zone appears as a massive black cloud with a vaguely-defined central sphere shape. It can spit smaller yet longer tentacle-like clouds to expand its reach, which causes ill effects on living things. It reveals an ominous red eye with a black pupil (most likely Zero) in the introductory illustration. Hyper Zone's inner environment resembles a big, blue oblivion composed of dark oval splotches sailing through it. In comparison, its counterpart Dark Star in Kirby's Dream Land 3’s sequel, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, appears as a red oblivion with ribbons of Dark Matter-esque energy.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Zero will fight within the hyper zone flying around with it and sending out Dark Matter clouds to attack the opponent. if the opponent resists the affects and confronts them to fight they will fly around shooting their blood out and attempting to crash into the opponent. When Zero's life meter is depleted, its eye detaches from its body, and will then start to circle around the opponent continuously closing in and ramming into them.

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

• It is stated in the Japanese-exclusive 20th Anniversary Kirby Pupupu Encyclopedia that Zero is the leader of Dark Matter.
• Despite its close resemblance to 0², and the latter also seemingly leading Dark Matter invasions, no relationship between the two has been officially confirmed.
  • The Bad Boss Brothers Celebration Picture depicts all of the Kirby series' final bosses (up to Kirby Star Allies), excluding different forms of existing members or characters that are only final bosses of certain sub-games. Here, Zero and 0² are both depicted, suggesting that they are in fact different characters entirely, despite their similarities.
• Zero is the first final boss in the Kirby series to attack from the background.
• Zero, 0², Dark Meta Knight, Shadow Dedede, and Star Dream Soul OS are the few characters in the series to bleed or shed blood-tinted tears when fought.
• Zero's bloody battle did not affect the K-A rating of Kirby's Dream Land 3, but later turned the rating of Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition from an E (K-A's replacement) to an E10+.
  • This is presumably, in part, due to the fact that the E10+ rating didn't exist or have an equivalent at the time.
• Dark Matter's size in Kirby Mass Attack is similar to Zero's size.
• Zero's introduction in the Virtual Console version (and the one included in Kirby's Dream Collection: Special Edition) includes a different effect during his appearance, with less rapid flashes and a gray tone rather than bright white.
• Concept artwork seems to suggest that Zero was considered as a playable character in Kirby: Canvas Curse.
• Zero (when written in numeric form), Oro, HR-H, and Geg are the only characters in the Kirby series whose names are palindromes.
• Zero's animation of its eye bursting out of its body resembles the unused sprite of Waddle Doo in Kirby's Block Ball.
• When playing as Rick & Kine & Coo, Marx, or Gooey in the Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go! sub-game of Kirby Star Allies in version 2.0.0, Hyper Zone can be seen through a pool in the center of the arena used for the final boss rush.
• In the fourth update of Kirby Star Allies, the final opponent of the Soul Melter EX difficulty for The Ultimate Choice, Void, has a color scheme that closely resembles Zero. His splash screen also invokes the appearance of the Boss Butch's version of the Hyper Zone. With dark being one of the forms of matter Void Termina can reincarnate into, this could also suggest a deeper connection between Void and Zero.
• Zero makes a cameo appearance in Kirby's Dream Buffet as a Character Treat that can be obtained after completing a match.

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