DJ Grooves

Background

DJ Grooves is a major character in A Hat in Time. He appears in Battle of the Birds as one of the two birds running Dead Bird Studio, the other being his rival, The Conductor. Having a rivalry with the Conductor, he's one of the two birds that Hat Kid can help win the competition for the Annual Bird Movie Awards.

If Hat Kid helps him win then Hat Kid fights him in a boss fight. If Hat Kid helps The Conductor win she will fight The Conductor in a boss fight, DJ Grooves will show up to the ceremony, saying that he will find a way to defuse the bomb placed on Hat Kid in the middle of the boss fight. After Hat Kid lands a few more hits on The Conductor, DJ Grooves will hold out a huge pair of scissors to defuse the bomb with. When running over to him, he will cut the fuse off, thus making the bomb disappear.

Statistics

Key: Regular | EX Version

Tier: 6-C, higher with Bomb, 2-C with Time Pieces | 2-C

Name: DJ Grooves, actual name unknown

Origin: A Hat in Time

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown, possibly in his late 50s (Around the same age as the Conductor as shown in Conductor and Grooves' Big Dreams Storybook)

Classification: Bird, Movie Director, Boss

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Island level (Can harm Hat Kid), higher with Bomb (Plants a bomb on Hat Kid that one-shots her if the timer runs out), Universe level with Time Pieces (Has a time piece. The time pieces can rewrite the timeline into an alternate reality. Mustache Girl with it's powers created a realm with stars and nebulae) | Universe level (Amped by the Death Wish Time Pieces which can create realms with countless stars like the Twilight Bell which is meant to be the Twilight Realm, an alternate universe)

Durability: Island level, Universe level with shield (Mustache Girl used a forcefield that was created by the Time Pieces) | Universe level, Higher with shield

Striking Strength: Island Class | Universal

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Travel Speed: At least Supersonic (Moved so fast that Hat Kid saw multiple knives at once. His diving attacks are hard for Hat Kid to outrun) | At least Supersonic

Combat Speed: FTL (Can tag Hat Kid. Amped by time pieces which serve as the fuel for Hat Kid's ship allowing it to move. Could tag Hat Kid's ship before it could take off) | FTL

Reaction Speed: FTL | FTL

Stamina: Very High

Range: Standard Melee Range, Extended Melee Range with Knives, Dozens of meters with shockwaves, Universal with Time Pieces (Can manipulate, stop, and slow down time on a universal scale), Low Multiversal with Dimensional Travel (Hat Kid can use the time pieces to travel from out of time rifts back into the main reality)

Intelligence: Genius (Competent movie director and with props which he can use in combat, very skilled with knives)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Uses knives and buzzsaws in his fight), Acrobatics, Self-Sustenance (Type 1. Can breathe in space), Summoning (Summmons birds to follow Hat Kid around and mimic her movements), Homing Attack (His attacks home in on Hat Kid), Afterimage Creation (Moves his knives so fast they look like multiple knives at once), Shockwave Generation (Calls down a disco ball that causes shockwaves once it lands), Possible Invisibility & Intangibility (Turns out the lights and Hat Kid is only able to see the knife in this state his body is unseeable and he cannot be hit), Explosion Manipulation (Via the bomb he plants), Resistance to Cosmic Radiations (Can be in the vaccum of space just fine)

All previous powers and abilities to a far greater extent, Weapon Creation (Can create several knives at once)

Reality Warping, Teleportation (Mustache Girl showed to teleport around during her boss fight), Spatial Manipulation, Burrowing (Mustache Girl burrows underground during her boss fight), Time Manipulation (Can stop and reverse time), Time Travel (The Conductor states how he was going to use the time pieces to return back to the one year he lost a movie trophy and reclaim it), Energy Manipulation & Technological Manipulation (Time Pieces are the fuel for Hat Kid's ship, it also restores power to deactivated parts of the ship), Conceptual Manipulation, Memory Manipulation & Dream Manipulation (Can make time rifts based off the memories and backstory of characters, the Mafia Goon even notes it as a place of "thoughts and dreams". These time rifts are non-linear temporal disturbances, that represents the thoughts and dreams of entire species or groups, with it's complexity is based off the species (an example being Mafia being simple so the rift is extremely simple and Twilight Goats are afterlife, enlightened beings so the rift is far more complicated). In addition, it has sub-layers showing the entirety of the species history), Law Manipulation (Time Rifts made by time pieces have their own sets of rules), Pocket Reality Manipulation, Dimensional Travel (Can get out of the time rifts via the time piece), Space-Time Manipulation, & BFR (Time pieces can create rifts in space-time which are outside of the reality), Shockwave Generation (Creates shockwaves upon landing), Darkness Manipulation (Throws time pieces that cause black shadow lines), Explosion Manipulation, Power Bestowal, Forcefield Creation (Mustache Girl created a forcefield that made Hat Kid unable to harm her), Energy Projection (Shoots purple beams), Light Manipulation (The time piece completely lightened up Snatcher's dark realm)

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Standard Equipment

Buzz Saws, Knives, Stage Props, Disco Ball, and Time Piece

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Notable Techniques

• Disco Ball: DJ Grooves jumps up and comes back down with a large disco ball that upon falling causes shockwaves and an earthquake capable of making Hat Kid temporarily fall over.
• Knive Afterimages: DJ Grooves moves his hand so fast that it looks like multiple knives are attacking at once.
• Buzzsaws: Throws buzzsaws at his opponent.
• Lights Out: Turns the lights out with a single knife and goes completely invisible attacking with the single knife before reappearing again.

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Other

Weaknesses: None notable.

Battle Records

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Discussions (Link For Mobile Users):

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