Dark Mind

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Background

Dark Mind is an evil entity that serves as the main antagonist and final boss of Kirby & The Amazing Mirror. Dark Mind is a mysterious figure who wants to conquer the Mirror World, so he corrupted it with his evil. Meta Knight found that this would threaten Dream Land, so he went to the Mirror World. However, he found himself defeated and imprisoned by his evil counterpart, Dark Meta Knight. It was then up to Kirby and his newly-born clones to save Dream Land and the Mirror World, so they ended up there.

General Information

Name: Dark Mind

Origin: Kirby & The Amazing Mirror

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Dark Matter Being

Species: Dark Matter

State of Being: Regular

Occupation: None

Enemies: Kirby, Shadow Kirby, Meta Knight

Status: Deceased (Killed in battle by Kirby)

Alignment: Neutral Evil (Dark Mind's plans were to conquer the mirror world)

Codex Statistics

Grade: A

Tier: Low 5-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Small Planet level (Can harm 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 (Comparable to Dark Matter who traveled past several galaxies while chasing after Ribbon which was calculated at this)

Attack Speed: Faster Than Light (Kept up with Kirby while he was riding on the Warp Star)

Reaction Speed: Faster Than Light

Stamina: Likely Limitless (Should be comparable to Dark Matter, who 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, 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 Supercluster with Corruption (Corrupted the Mirror World), Multi Supercluster with Spatial Manipulation (Can flip space upside down)

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence

Knowledge: Expert level (A member of the army of Dark Matters, who have 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 then 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), Supernatural Resilience (Can exist as just an eye), Afterimage Creation (Can leave behind afterimages from movement), Teleportation (Can teleport around freely), Summoning (Can summon enemies), Light Manipulation & Spatial Manipulation (With a flash of light, can flip space upside down), Vibration Manipulation (The defeat of its second form caused massive vibrations across the entire area), Portal Creation & Battlefield Removal (Application Based; Pulled Kirby into a deeper layer of the mirror world), Power Modification (Negated the mirror's ability to grant wishes to those it reflected upon and cause it to only reflect bad things), Body Control & Telekinesis (Can telekinetically control mirrors. Dark Matter can remove parts of its body to throw at Kirby), Homing Attack (The parts of its body home in on Kirby), Curtain Fire (Fires off a multitude of star projectiles. Can fire off multiple energy beams of darkness at once), Energy Manipulation (Can shoot out star like projections. Can shoot out sword beams and sword energy waves. Can shoot a massive energy beam out of it’s eye), Electricity Manipulation (Can shoot out electricity out of its eye), Immersion (Can emerge from paintings)

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Equipment

• Mirrors: Mirrors that allow him to travel in and out of the mirror world, along with using it for a variety of different attacks.

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Notable Techniques

• Energy Attacks: His main attack in his cloaked form is firing a large number of stars in wave or stream formations or constantly teleporting around.

• Star Drop: Drops stars in corners that later home in on the opponent.

• Mirror Swing: Swings his mirrors around in a circular pattern that have the opponent take damage if they come into contact with it.

• Mirror Shapeshifting: If attacked when his core is not exposed, he will shatter into glass.

• Bomb Drops: Drops large bombs whose explosions reach the whole screen if not promptly destroyed.

• Laser Reflection: Aligns the mirrors in the corners of the stage, where he fires a single laser shot which can reflect in different directions, though the mirrors may also follow to reflect the laser at the opponent.

• Enemy Summoning: The mirrors will crisscross the stage before one of them drops three random enemies onto the ground.

• Beam Attack: Sometimes he will fire a large beam from his eye and fire it in various ways: in bursts at set locations, bursts aimed at the opponent, or a long-lasting beam that he sweeps across part of the arena.

• Screen Flip: He will flip the screen upside down, potentially disorienting the opponent.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Dark Mind has shown to modify the powers of and corrupt an entire universe first handedly, when getting into a fight he has two forms. Dark Mind's first form has two mirrors orbiting him and a core below his cloak. His main attack in this form is firing a large number of stars in wave or stream formations or constantly teleporting around.

Dark Mind is fought more than once, and as phases go on, he becomes more erratic and he gains new attacks, such as dropping stars in corners that later home in on Kirby, swinging his mirrors around in a circular pattern, shattering into glass if attacked when his core is not exposed, and dropping large bombs whose explosions reach the whole screen if not promptly destroyed.

Dark Mind will open his cloak for all his attacks: although Dark Mind is always vulnerable, he will take much more damage, Defeating Dark Mind in the first three battles will cause him to shatter, but the fourth defeat will cause him to explode violently and glow white as his cloak vanishes.

After each of the first three battles, Kirby is placed in a rest area, usually with a few enemies.

The second form is the most important battle against Dark Mind; he starts out as a giant ball with a vertical-slit eye and grows enormous in a red, gaseous area. Dark Mind uses a variety of attacks, many of which involve his mirrors.

One attack has Dark Mind slowly floating down the screen with the mirrors moving in a lemniscate pattern around him, circling them around in various directions (e.g the ground, mid-air or moving alongside them). After performing this attack, he will have two additional follow-up attacks. The first one aligns the mirrors in the corners of the stage, where he fires a single laser shot which can reflect in different directions, though the mirrors may also follow to reflect the laser at Kirby. Alternatively, the mirrors will crisscross the stage before one of them drops three random enemies (UFOs being the rarest) onto the ground.

Sometimes Dark Mind will prepare a large beam from his eye and fire it in various ways: in bursts at set locations, bursts aimed at the player, or a long-lasting beam that he sweeps across part of the arena. He is also capable of flipping the screen upside down, potentially disorienting the player, though the input buttons work as normal. He is also capable of dropping the screen-engulfing bomb that he used in the previous phase.

After this form is defeated, Dark Mind shuts his eye and starts to shrink.

Now in a smaller, unstable, fireball-like form, Dark Mind retreats into the sky. Dark Mind shoots out barrages of stars from his eye and trying to ram Kirby.

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

• Dark Mind's second form does not give contact damage, unlike most enemies and bosses (including his first form).
• Dark Mind's second form resembles Ghroth, a lovecraftian monster from Cthulhu Mythos created by the author Ramsey Campbell. Co-incidently enough, it also resembles the Zelos Force from the Gradius series.
• Dark Mind's first form appears to have four eyes and as two faces, but on closer inspection, the "face" resembling Nightmare is actually a sort of crown worn by him, with his true face residing under it.
• An armor set based on his helmet and mirror weaponry appears in Team Kirby Clash Deluxe.
  • The final boss of Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, King D-Mind, is also based on Dark Mind.
  • The music that plays during the latter half of the battle against King D-Mind contains a remix of Dark Mind's theme.
• When playing as Dark Meta Knight and fighting Morpho Knight in Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go!, Dark Mind’s second phase theme is remixed along with the regular boss theme from Kirby & The Amazing Mirror.
• One of Void's forms in his second phase references Dark Mind's second form, in that his body turns orange and grows in size. He then moves on the ground with "mirrors" rotating around him before rotating 90 degrees and firing a laser which is reflected several times.
• Dark Mind is the only boss that uses Marx's cutter attack as a counterattack, not a normal attack.
• Dark Mind's battle works in a similar, but opposite, manner to Nightmare's battle. Nightmare starts with an orb-like form that requires shooting to defeat him before going into his second phase in which Nightmare protects its vulnerable body with his cloak. Dark Mind starts with a cloaked form that protects its vulnerable body before going into its second phase that requires shooting to defeat it.
  • Both of their cloaked forms also have oppositely-acting weapons that Kirby must use to defeat them. The Star Rod is mostly projectile-based, while Master is mostly melee-based.
• Dark Mind's second form resembles Dark Matter and Zero from Kirby's Dream Land 3; this more then likely means he's the mirror world version of the Dark Matter species.

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