Shadow Dedede

Shadow Dedede Shadow Dedede, just after emerging from the Dimension Mirror. Details First game Kirby: Triple Deluxe (2014) Copy Abilities Bomb (missiles) Beam (Axe Shot) Relative(s) King Dedede Similar to Masked Dedede King D-Mind Parallel Dedede

Theme music "Dedede's Royal Payback" Clip of Shadow Dedede's theme from Kirby: Triple Deluxe

“

In the depths of a mysterious mirror hanging in the hall of the queen waits the dark king, Shadow Dedede! He wages battle against all comers, but Shadow Dedede's true opponent is the darkness in his own heart.

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— VS Shadow Dedede, Kirby: Triple Deluxe

Shadow Dedede is the penultimate boss in Dededetour! of Kirby: Triple Deluxe, and appears as the second of the Nightmare Four from The True Arena in that game. Shadow Dedede appears to be an evil doppelgänger of King Dedede, though his pause description describes him as a miserable automaton, lashing out in anger because he knows nothing else. Shadow Dedede looks more or less the same as King Dedede, but with an obviously darker color scheme, blank white eyes, and a different symbol on his coat and hammer, resembling a monochrome bulls-eye.

Shadow Dedede comes out of the Dimension Mirror after King Dedede defeats Queen Sectonia DX in Level 6 of Dededetour!.

Attacks

King Dedede facing down his dark duplicate in Dededetour!.

This fight effectively serves as the DX version of the fight with Masked Dedede in the Story Mode of Kirby: Triple Deluxe. However, there are a couple key differences. First, Shadow Dedede only has one life bar, and he switches to the axe portion after it is halfway depleted. Second, he possesses some oddly different attacks, including one where his belly sash opens up into a mouth, and fires out orbs of dark energy.

The following are all of Shadow Dedede's attacks. Attacks in italics are used in the second phase only. Note that attack names are conjectural:

Shadow Dedede's attacks in Kirby: Triple Deluxe
Attack	Description
ヘッドスライディング Head Slide	Shadow Dedede runs and then dives at Kirby or Dedede a much further distance than Masked Dedede. He may do this attack twice in a row.
スーパーデデデジャンプ Super Dedede Jump	Shadow Dedede leaps into the air and then lands suddenly in another location, before repeating two more times. In the second phase, these jumps create shockwaves upon landing.
ハンマー叩き付け/アクス斬り付け Hammer Slam/Axe Slash	Shadow Dedede raises his hammer and slams the ground with it twice in a row. If Kirby or Dedede is airborne, then Shadow Dedede will jump up and swing the hammer in midair. When he lands, a shockwave emanates from it. In the second phase, he does this attack with his axe instead, with each swing on ground level causing shockwaves.
ビッグバンすいこみ Hypernova Inhale	Shadow Dedede inhales, creating a big vortex. If Kirby or Dedede don't run fast enough from the suction, they will be sucked up and then spat out at the screen.
ブラックデデデミサイル Shadow Dedede Missile	Shadow Dedede preps his hammer, which opens up and shoots out four missiles. The missiles can be swallowed for the Bomb ability.
火炎放射 Flamethrower	Shadow Dedede preps his hammer, which opens up and shoots out a large gout of flame.
ホバリング Hover	Shadow Dedede surrounds himself with dark energy while taking in air and starts hovering toward Kirby or Dedede. He ends the attack by spitting out an Air Bullet and falling back to ground level.
斧の舞 Axe Dance	Shadow Dedede wildly swings his poleaxe about, aiming for Kirby or Dedede as he does so, and turning with his strikes as needed. He finishes with a series of long lunge attacks.
アクスボンバー Axe Bomber	Shadow Dedede jumps into the air with his poleaxe, and then comes crashing down, creating a large explosion where he lands. He does this attack three times in a row compared to Masked Dedede.
ベリィブラックマター Belly Black Matter	Shadow Dedede flies into the background and his belly opens up into a big maw. Out of this maw, a series of eight dark orb blasts are fired. Shadow Dedede then flies on-stage and fires three larger blasts which can bounce around.
アクストルネイド Axe Tornado	Shadow Dedede spins his axe rapidly around in an attempt to catch Kirby or Dedede in his dance. He gets dizzy afterwards.
シャイニングアクス Shining Axe	Shadow Dedede charges his poleaxe in the center of the stage, then releases two waves of spiky energy orbs across the stage that cover almost every portion of it.
アクスショット Axe Shot	Shadow Dedede charges his poleaxe, then releases a series of energy orb projectiles that slightly home in on Kirby or Dedede. Inhaling these projectiles will yield the Beam ability.
フライングアクス Flying Axe	Shadow Dedede spins rapidly around with his axe surrounded by dark energy and takes to the skies, flying in and out of the arena. He gets dizzy afterwards.

In phase 1, Shadow Dedede attacks in a fixed order on loop as follows:

1. Head Slide x2
2. Super Dedede Jump
3. Hammer Slam
4. Hypernova Inhale
5. Head Slide
6. Shadow Dedede Missile
7. Head Slide
8. Super Dedede Jump
9. Hammer Slam
10. Flamethrower
11. Hover
12. Hammer Slam

In phase 2, Shadow Dedede attacks in a fixed order on loop as follows:

1. Axe Dance
2. Super Dedede Jump x3
3. Axe Bomber
4. Head Slide
5. Belly Black Matter
6. Head Slide
7. Axe Tornado
8. Shining Axe
9. Head Slide
10. Axe Slash
11. Axe Shot
12. Flying Axe
13. Axe Dance
14. Hypernova Inhale

Once defeated, Shadow Dedede turns into a silhouette, then bursts into shards of glass.

Trivia

• The English, French, German, Italian and Spanish flavor texts misinterpret the last sentence. According to the original Japanese and the localized Korean versions, it should be "King Dedede's true opponent is the darkness in his own heart." The Japanese version also calls him ブラデ (Burade) for short, which is an abbreviation of his full Japanese name ブラックデデデ Black Dedede.
  • The Japanese abbreviation could be a parody of Dark Pit from Kid Icarus: Uprising (Black Pit in Japanese), who is nicknamed ブラピ (Burapi) in that version for short.
• King D-Mind is named "MaskedBlackDedede" in the internal game files of Team Kirby Clash Deluxe. "Black Dedede" is the Japanese name of Shadow Dedede, and King D-Mind's moveset can be considered an even more souped-up version of Shadow Dedede despite them being two different characters.
• When Shadow Dedede opens up his belly sash to reveal a mouth, he spurts off blood. This is one of the few Kirby bosses with on-screen depictions of blood; with the others being Zero, 0², Dark Meta Knight's Revenge, Star Dream Soul OS and Void Termina's First Core.

Gallery

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  The True Arena Icon from Kirby: Triple Deluxe

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  Model from Kirby: Triple Deluxe

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  Early version of Shadow Dedede's model that goes unused

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  Shadow Dedede emerging from the Dimension Mirror

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  Shadow Dedede using his Hypernova Inhale

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  Shadow Dedede attacking with an axe

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  Shadow Dedede firing dark volleys from the background

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  Shadow Dedede opening his belly up wide, similar to King Dedede's second phase in Kirby's Dream Land 3

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  Teaser image for Shadow Dedede's appearance in Dededetour!, from the Story Mode credits

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  Dededetour credits picture of King Dedede battling Shadow Dedede

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ブラックデデデ Burakku Dedede	Black Dedede
Canadian French	Dadidou ombre	Shadow Dedede
European French	DaDiDou ombre	Shadow Dedede
German	Shadow-Dedede	-
Italian	Dedede Ombra	Shadow Dedede
Korean	블랙 디디디 Beullaek Dididi	Black Dedede
Spanish	Dedede oscuro	Dark Dedede