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{{Infobox-Boss

|weakness=[[Master]]

|theme title=[[Last Boss / Second Form]]

|theme music=[[File:KatAM Dark Mind Second Form BGM.mp3]]

|description=Clip of the theme that plays when battling Dark Mind's second form.

Dark Mind has three forms. In the first, he wears a mask resembling an animal skull with large golden spikes coming out from it that conceals most of his face. The main body is usually covered by his large, fiery cloak, which reveals itself to have a fiery-looking glowing eyeball with seven metallic spikes protruding out from it, including two curved large ones on top. He also has two grey floating hands with long silvery claws, in addition to carrying two hexagonal golden-framed mirrors that can be used in some attacks.

[[File:KatAM Intro7.png|thumb|Dark Mind's second battle of his first form in Story Mode.]]

When the Kirbys defeats [[Dark Meta Knight]], a portal suddenly appears in the center of the arena, sending them into a fight against Dark Mind's first form. To help the Kirbys, [[Meta Knight]] tosses in his own sword, which Kirby can pick up to get the [[Master]] ability. The battle doesn't start until Kirby picks up the sword.

When the battle against Dark Mind's first form begins, he will initially be intangible to most of Kirby's attacks for a while. Dark Mind is capable of using various attacks from shooting star projectiles to teleporting and even spinning his mirrors to attack the Kirbys. Dark Mind can be attacked at any point, but he has a special weak point (represented by a fiery-looking orange eye) that he sometimes reveals when shooting star projectiles, and can be attacked to make him recoil and take more damage.

|Near the end of the battle, Dark Mind attempts to target Kirby (P1) several times by quickly teleporting around and shooting out one star projectile targeted towards him every time.

Once Dark Mind's first form is finally defeated after his fourth battle, Dark Mind appears to be defeated as he explodes in a spectacular fashion while the screen fades to white. However, it instead fades to an ominous arena featuring a scrolling orange sky, and a fiery orange eyeball appears to pulsate in the background. This turns out to be Dark Mind's second form as he grows giant and begins attacking the Kirbys once again. [[Shadow Kirby]] appears to toss Meta Knight's sword to Kirby for the [[Master]] ability, if he had lost it in the prior battle or loses it midway through this battle.

|Starting at roughly 75% of his remaining health, Dark Mind will move up or down while making his mirrors dance in a curved, irregular but symmetrical path.

|Dark Mind shoots a big, white vertical laser beam that sweeps across the arena. Once the attack ends, the last beam leaves [[Drop Star]]s in its wake.

|Dark Mind attempts to sweep downwards into Kirby's Warp Star, usually in a U-shaped arc or in a straight arc.

In ''[[Kirby: Triple Deluxe]]'', Dark Mind appears as a [[keychain]]. Dark Mind's keychain is unique, and can be found in [[Royal Road - Stage 2]].

*The mask Dark Mind wears resembles [[Nightmare|Nightmare Wizard]], particularly in the large golden horns, long nose, and defined chin. Dark Mind's mask later became the inspiration for [[Masked Dedede]].<ref>{{Cite|Incidentally, the mask's design is a heavily altered version of Dark Mind's mask from Kirby & The Amazing Mirror. If you look reeeeeally closely, you might be able to see the similarities. Some very eagle-eyed players may have noticed already!|[[Shinya Kumazaki]]|[https://web.archive.org/web/20170829071213/https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAADVHkd0c4F6Q Miiverse]}}</ref>

KSqS Graphic 4.png|Dark Mind appears in this graphic in ''Kirby: Squeak Squad'' (upper-left)

Bad Boss Brothers.png|Dark Mind cameos in the "Bad Boss Brothers" [[Celebration Picture]]

SKC Hammer Lord Dark Mind Gear.jpg|Dark Mind Gear [[Alternate costumes|equipment set]] in ''Super Kirby Clash''

KDB Pixel Dark Mind character treat.png|[[Character Treat]] from ''Kirby's Dream Buffet''