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Kirby[1] is the main character[2] and namesake[3] of the Kirby series.[4] He[5] is a small pink creature[6] who resides on[7] and protects all of Planet Popstar,[8] though his true origin is unknown.[9] Despite his simplistic appearance, Kirby is easily recognizable[10] by his ball-like stature,[11] his large glossy eyes,[12] and his cheerful demeanor. [citation needed] He is often seen riding a Warp Star,[13] but can otherwise fly by taking in air and puffing up like a balloon.[14] While Kirby has many ways to combat his foes, the most well-known by far is his ability to open his mouth[15] wide to suck up his opponents and then swallow them whole.[16] Doing this allows Kirby to copy the attributes of whatever he just ate,[17] expanding his powers in ways that are difficult to predict. [citation needed] Using these abilities is often crucial for Kirby to overcome the greater challenges he faces on his adventures. [citation needed] Kirby is classified as a silent protagonist; that is, he does not speak audibly or in text to the player in most instances, but characters in-game are implied to understand him.[18] However, certain supplementary material, especially earlier in the series' history, has shown Kirby with the ability to speak normally, often in separate continuities from the games.[19] Despite this, he is very vocal, using lots of grunts, shouts, and monosyllables[20] — most famously, his cheery[21] elongated[22] "Hi!"[23]

Since 1992, Kirby has starred in over 30 video games[24] (thirteen of which can be considered part of the core series, not counting remakes)[25], has appeared to some capacity in several other Nintendo games and products,[26] has had an anime series,[27] several manga series,[28] a novel series,[29] and has a great deal of merchandise in the form of figurines,[30] plush dolls,[31] clothing,[32] and the like.[33] Kirby and his series were created by Masahiro Sakurai under HAL Laboratory, with the latter of which retaining the rights to the Kirby series and characters despite Sakurai's departure from the HAL Laboratory team in the mid-2000s. [citation needed] To this day, Kirby remains one of Nintendo's most famous and recognizable mascots, with Kirby games garnering millions of sales worldwide, [citation needed] thanks in part to his reoccurring role as a fighter in the Super Smash Bros. series. [citation needed]

Kirby has been consistently voiced by Makiko Ohmoto[34] since 1999, when he appeared in the first Super Smash Bros. game[35] on the Nintendo 64.[36] Ohmoto also voiced his anime counterpart in all versions of the series,[37] with the exception of some lines that were dubbed over by Amy Birnbaum for the English version.[38] Prior to Ohmoto's debut, the role was passed between various actors and actresses for one-off appearances.[39]
  1. ↑ Referred by this name in almost every game he's in; full name "Kirby of the Stars" in some languages only
  2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named protag
  3. ↑ The series bearing the name of the character can be verified by comparing the MD5 hashes of the respective names. The series name of "Kirby" has a MD5 hash of 3882a94c64066370fa15aa4d8fec006b, while the character name of "Kirby" has an essentially identical MD5 hash of 3882a94c64066370fa15aa4d8fec006b. The likelihood of two completely random 128-bit hashes colliding is minuscule at 2-128, although for two MD5 hashes colliding accidentally this figure is only a lower bound due to the pseudo-randomness of hashing algorithms. Nonetheless, this hash comparison suggests that "Kirby" and "Kirby" are highly likely to be identical strings of characters, in turn rejecting with very high probability the hypothesis that Kirby is not the namesake of the Kirby series.
  4. ↑ Kirby was named before the series was: they changed his name from Popopo to Kirby (see: Kirby's Dream Land/development)
  5. ↑ Though Kirby is a gender-neutral character in Japanese (see Kirby's characteristics#Gender), he is referred to with masculine pronouns in nearly all English-language material (i.e. the English commercial for Kirby's Dream Land: "He's Kirby, and he packs a mean bite."); the only exceptions thus far are official Play Nintendo videos that refer to Kirby with singular they (i.e. "Kirby is a hungry hero who's famous for their ability to inhale almost anything that stands in their way!"). As these are currently outliers and masculine pronouns are used in the vast majority of circumstances, this article will refer to Kirby as such.
  6. ↑ "He may only be eight inches tall, but you should never underestimate this little pink hero." –Kirby Portal profile
  7. ↑ Kirby's house is generally accepted to be located on Planet Popstar. The exception is in Kirby and the Forgotten Land, which features a version of Kirby's house in the new world; however, even in this case this is explicitly a copy of Kirby's house on Popstar, which is shown during the end credits of the game.
  8. ↑ The International Astronomical Union's 2006 resolution on the definition of a planet, which disqualified Pluto from being a planet on account of its inability to have "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit"—an incredibly vague and bizarre choice of language with no quantitative criteria attached[subreference 1]—only applies to planets within the Solar System (i.e., the system around our own Sun, the one that includes Earth). Note that the IAU working definition of an extrasolar planet[subreference 2] would still certainly require Popstar to orbit a star, brown dwarf, or stellar remnant, as opposed to simply being a free-floating planetary mass object incapable of thermonuclear fusion (in which case the appropriate designation would be Sub-brown Dwarf Popstar). Whether this is the case is unclear based on the depiction of the sun and moon in Milky Way Wishes, in which the sun and moon both appear to be satellites of Popstar. However, the events of that game reflected an unusual set of circumstances involving a space-time manipulating clockwork comet and cannot be taken as reflecting the normal astrophysical state of Popstar's star system.
  9. ↑ Cite warning: <ref> tag with the name origin cannot be previewed because it is defined outside the current section or not defined at all.
  10. ↑ "Kirby debuted in 1992 and has since gone on to become one of Nintendo’s most recognizable characters." Eat like a cute, round pink Nintendo character called Kirby, The Japan Times
  11. ↑ "[Kirby is] so round, he's sometimes treated like a ball." — Super Smash Bros. Brawl trophy
  12. ↑ The Drawing Song's second line in the English version of Kirby's Adventure ("Then you dot the eyes") specifically confirms that these features are eyes.
  13. ↑ Kirby's Dream Land, at the end of the first primary room of Green Greens.
  14. ↑ For a reference on the tendency for balloons to take in gases to inflate, see, for example, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica's article on the "balloon", "a globular bag [...] which, when inflated with gas lighter than common air, can be used [...] for any purpose for which its ability to rise and float in the atmosphere adapts such a mechanism". Curiously, the same article notes the word's derivation from the Italian word ballone, meaning "a large ball"; although Kirby is ball-like, Kirby is far from large. This key difference firmly establishes Kirby as merely like a balloon with a number of shared traits, rather than being an actual instance of a balloon.
  15. ↑ The naming of Mouthful Mode as well as numerous other references strongly suggest that the opening located below Kirby's eyes is a mouth. See, for example, the use of 口 in the following passage from the description of the Water Gun on the Japanese website for Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (Wayback Machine snapshot): 水中では、吸ったりはいたり、コピー能力を使用したりはできません。かわりに口から勢いよく水をはきだして、敵を攻撃できます。 (Translation: 수중에서는 빨아들이기나 카피 능력을 사용할 수 없습니다. 대신에 입에서 물을 세게 뿜어서 적을 공격할 수 있습니다.)
  16. ↑ Objects that Kirby swallows are officially described as being swallowed,[subreference 3] but not as being eaten or digested; instead, they simply "poof" and reappear elsewhere in the world.[subreference 4]
  17. ↑ Kirby's Adventure, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby's Fun Pak, Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Land 3, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, Kirby: Squeak Squad, Kirby Super Star Ultra, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Kirby: Planet Robobot, Kirby Star Allies, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, among others.
  18. ↑ A clear example where Kirby holds a conversation despite being unheard by the player appears near the beginning of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, where Elfilin speaks to Kirby, and responds to implied dialogue: "I have to go save them. I have to! [...] What? You'll help me save everyone? That's great! [...] So...your name is Kirby?"
  19. ↑ See Continuity#Continuity of adaptations. There are likely innumerable Kirby continuities due to the series' many adaptations, with the three most prominent ones covered on this wiki being the games, the anime, and the novels. The novels consistently depict Kirby having the ability to speak in full sentences.
  20. ↑ The Sounds Resource, a website compiling video game sound effects, indicates that Kirby has at least 73 distinct voice clips in Kirby and the Forgotten Land. While this is not as many as Mario in Super Mario Odyssey and Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (who have at least 200 voice clips each), this is a adequate number to indicate that Kirby is highly vocal: as a benchmark, Mario in Super Mario 64 has 42 distinct voice clips.
  21. ↑ The high spectral variation in most of Kirby's renditions of "Hi!" is an acoustic factor often consistent with identification of positive emotions like achievement, contentment, and relief. See, for example: Sauter, Disa A et al. "Perceptual cues in nonverbal vocal expressions of emotion." Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) vol. 63,11 (2010): 2251-72.
  22. ↑ The first instance of Kirby's voice, a rendition of "Hi!" in Super Smash Bros., has a duration of approximately 700 milliseconds. Most speakers do not enunciate syllables for this length of time. For instance, the TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus, a compilation of speech from 630 American English speakers, averages 210.5 milliseconds per syllable according to Mark Liberman writing in Language Log (Wayback Machine snapshot). This makes Kirby's "Hi" over triple the length of a typical American English syllable, suggesting non-negligible elongation.
  23. ↑ Note that although "Hi!" is a monosyllabic shout in English, from a Japanese point of view it comprises at least two on, three if counting the elongated vowel. See, for example, はぁ～い as used in Kirby's character profile for the Japanese Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards website (Wayback Machine snapshot).
  24. ↑ The official Japanese Kirby website lists 37. The official English Kirby website lists 34, dropping Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe, Kirby Fighters Deluxe, and Team Kirby Clash Deluxe and substituting the SNES version of Kirby's Star Stacker with Kirby's Avalanche.
  25. ↑ The developers stated in a Miiverse post that they consider Kirby: Triple Deluxe the tenth mainline Kirby game, which would exclude the two previous remakes.[subreference 5] Furthermore, when it was decided that Kirby Star Allies would include one Dream Friend from each mainline game, remakes were excluded.[subreference 6] However, the internal codename of Kirby and the Forgotten Land is "Kirby15",[subreference 7] which counts the two prior remakes (as it would be the thirteenth mainline game otherwise).
  26. ↑ Kirby's first cameo in a non-HAL Laboratory Nintendo-developed product was The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening in 1993.
  27. ↑ The English theme song for Kirby: Right Back at Ya! states: "Kirby, Kirby, Kirby, he's the star of the show!"
  28. ↑ "Several" may be an understatement. I mean, look at this book list from the Japanese Kirby wiki.
  29. ↑ Merchandise/Literature and CD soundtracks#Kirby novel series
  30. ↑ Merchandise/Plushies and toys#Figurines
  31. ↑ Merchandise/Plushies and toys#Plushies
  32. ↑ Merchandise/Wearables
  33. ↑ Merchandise/Other
  34. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ohmoto
  35. ↑ "Super Smash Bros. [...], also called Super Smash Bros. 64, often shortened to SSB or Smash 64, is the first game of the Super Smash Bros. series." - SmashWiki
  36. ↑ "The game released in Japan on January 21st, 1999, in North America on April 26th, 1999 and in Europe on November 19th, 1999 for the Nintendo 64." - SmashWiki
  37. ↑ Makiko Ohmoto (translated as "Makiko Oomoto") is credited in the production credits of the series' English dub, for example.
  38. ↑ Amy Birnbaum's official website credits her as the English voice of Kirby and provides an audio sample to demonstrate.
  39. ↑ Actresses confirmed to have voiced Kirby before Ohmoto include Taeko Kawata (in the 1994 Kirby of the Stars Talking CD Comic)[subreference 8] and Mayumi Tanaka (in the 1995 Mario Kirby Masterpiece Video).[subreference 9]
  1. ↑ This is not to say that it is impossible to design a quantitative "dynamical dominance" criterion of "clearing the neighborhood" consistent with the results of the IAU resolution. See, for example: Margot, J.-L., "A Quantitative Criterion for Defining Planets", The Astronomical Journal, vol. 150, no. 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ See also: Lecavelier des Etangs, A. and Lissauer, J. J., "The IAU working definition of an exoplanet", New Astronomy Reviews, vol. 94, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Swallow your enemies and duck to copy their moves! Experiment by swallowing different kinds of enemies!" –Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land ("About Copy Abilities")
  4. ↑ "Because the base world is a fantasy world, it's not like they get swallowed and digested inside of Kirby. Because that might be jarring, and because we made the game to be approachable, having that kind of extreme or violent expression might negate making the game so approachable. Instead, we have this comical, funny depiction where the enemies poof. When an enemy or creature gets swallowed by Kirby, they may disappear but they do resurface somewhere else in the world." –Shinya Kumazaki (Polygon interview)
  5. ↑ "By the way, have you ever wondered how we came up with the game title?
    Well, we started with a variety of ideas. One was a title that would reflect the game's theme of an adventure through floating islands. Another idea was to use the letter "X", since this is the tenth traditional Kirby platformer.
    We also wanted to find a title that reflects the game's full use of Nintendo 3DS features, such as the 3D function, motion sensors and StreetPass. Something short and catchy that we could use all around the world. That's how we came up with the title "3DX" - in other words, "Triple Deluxe"!    " –Shinya Kumazaki (Miiverse)
  6. ↑ "There were other characters that we wanted to make special guest appearances, like Drawcia, Elline, Shadow Kirby, Galacta Knight, and so on. But we established a certain rule for our selection process. The rule was to select one character from each title in the main action games over the years, the so-called core Kirby games, the equivalent to numbered sequels." –Shinya Kumazaki (Kotaku interview)
  7. ↑ According to The Cutting Room Floor's research.
  8. ↑ Twitter link featuring a scan of the CD/manga credits Twitter favicon.png (Wayback Machine snapshot) showing Taeko Kawata's birth name (Taeko Yamada)
  9. ↑ A-SUMA! (webmaster kikai)


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