#Robobot Armour

[official-magolor-archive]

Archival 8, 14th of November 2023

Render featuring Magolor, Susie, Taranza, the Lor Starcutter, the Robobot Armour and the top of the Dreamstalk. This render is shown when you complete Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go! mode as either Magolor, Susie or Taranza in Kirby Star Allies (March 2018).

[kirbyofthestars]

every time i see someone insist meta knight doesnt care about kirby i think abt the ending cutscene of kpr where he’s heavily implied to have rescued kirby in the wake of the robobot armour’s destruction and then he lays them down gently on the grass to sleep

[your-fave-as-a-fate-servant]

Kirby would be a Foreigner.

Class Skills :

Existence Outside The Domain EX

Riding EX

Personal Skills :

Positivity EX : A mental heal, and it prevents madness entirely.

Warp Star EX

Copy EX : He swallows his enemy (this does not kill them) to copy their abilities.

Noble Phantasms :

Star Rod (EX rank anti-unit)

Landia (EX rank anti-army)

Supernova (EX rank anti-fortress)

Robobot Armour (EX rank anti-unit -> anti-army)

Attributes : Lawful Good, Star, Dragon-slayer, Demon-slayer, God-slayer, Resistant to Enuma Elish, Beloved one, Anti-darkness, Existence Outside the Domain, Spaceflight able, Protector of Life.

[moonmacabre01]

anyone else find it really funny that Kirby doesn't know how to read and yet manages to pilot the Robobot armour with ease. Boy how are you doing that.

[pinkestmenace]

I'm having Hero of Yore thoughts today. I still haven't drawn my versions of them, but I did make some moodboards for Aegle and Castor (and his mech Pollux)!

First up and associated with yellow is Aegle, the Brilliant Botanist. They were originally trained as a healer, but they're stubborn as a weed and might not have the best bedside manners. There's a stark contrast between their bright and sunny robes and their somewhat sinister personality and ever-shrouded face. But Aegle could do more than heal. In fact, they became mainly an elemental mage and were perfectly capable of causing damage. Hippocratic oath? That hadn't been invented yet! Dark magic? More like an interesting experiment! Teaching the sheltered Galacta Knight to question authority? Easy as pie!

Aegle went all in on magic and didn't like technology much. Although they had to adapt and reluctantly admit science can do great things while working with their 'esteemed colleague', Castor.

Their staff (which is topped with what looks like a golden gem apple) let them create and guide water into sharp icicles, grow ensnaring vines to trap enemies and create blinding light. They loved botany, especially poisonous or carnivorous plants, and they also enjoyed enchanting and summoning magic weapons. It was them, alongside Galacta Knight, who invented the Spears of the Heart.

Name origin: I named them Lumio at first, but I changed it because:

It just means 'light', so it wasn't very original.

My brain kept flagging that name as a 'he' behind my back even though I decided the character was nonbinary pretty much the second I came up with them. Yes, I know this is stupid. Yes, the name change fixed it instantly. I hate this.

Anyway, since I'm apparently a sucker for sprinkling mythology into everything they're Aegle (dazzling light) now, which is the name of both:

The daughter of Asclepius and Lampetia, god of medicine and daughter of Helios, god of the sun respectively.

One of the Hesperides, nymphs of the evening/sunset and the shine of sunlight, who guarded a tree with immortality granting golden apples alongside a many headed dragon called Ladon. I had to do it.

Relationships with the other HoY: The reluctant conflict resolver (to get their quiet back), liked to study elemental magic with Galacta Knight. Tolerated Castor's pro-tech antics, but quietly disagreed because magitech can't work without magic, now can it? Mostly cordial towards Olympea.

Next up and associated with blue is Castor, the Enigmatic Engineer, alongside his mech Pollux, the Mechanical Marvel. Together they would be the Stalwart Symbionts.

A hard worker, Castor relied heavily on science and machines. He built a name for himself as a stern and austere man who has an uncanny knack for engineering and little tolerance for silliness, sentimentality and lazing around. While he designed many weapons in the past (mostly out of professional curiosity) and felt little guilt over that, he later dedicated much of his time towards developing improved prosthetic limbs. (With some reluctance he had to admit enchanting them offers benefits like allowing fine motor control and helping the wearer feel what they're touching.) He rarely showed it, but helping people did make him feel fulfilled.

In the little time off he let himself have he liked to paint. Not that he would ever show anyone this little hobby, of course! Just like he rarely let anyone see him outside of the cockpit of his mech Pollux. It's not easy to be taken seriously when you are ultimately just a squishy little guy, after all.

He and his mech Pollux were inseparable. It had the ability to boost and its battle mode was outfitted with several weapons. (I, uh, still need to figure out which ones. But probably laser beams, bombs or rockets. Possibly rocket fists. Maybe a sword like Metal General?) While Pollux was hardly alive, it was no mere machine. In some ways it was even autonomous. Did it care about Castor? Much like how the Robobot Armours Kirby used retrieved the memory of Kirby every time he entered one, Pollux's AI and memory could be transferred between bodies too. Almost as if it's immortal in a way.

So. You know how you fight Metal General in Egg Engines? Somebody had to have built it, right? Who's to say Castor didn't make a prototype before he perfected Pollux, but could not give it a heart? Perhaps he couldn't bring himself to scrap it and repurposed it as a security robot. Only to die and leave his lesser creation to roam its post forevermore, chained by its rigid programming.

Name origin: The two of them are of course named after the mythological twins/half-brothers Castor and Pollux, who were remarkable horsemen and boxers, as well as the namesake of the constellation Gemini. As the mortal Castor lay dying, Pollux sacrificed part of his immortality to let Castor live, after which they alternated between Olympus and Hades.

Relationships with the other HoY: Didn't like 'Aeon' at all, at least at first, thought he's stuck up (envied his inborn power). Bickered about whether technology or magic is better with Aegle, gave in sometimes but secretly shook his head at them because magic enjoyers use technology all the time while saying their magic is better (hypocrites)! He got along with Olympea the best (she liked his gadgets). This was not awkward whatsoever.

Themes

Because the Ancients fell apart into a technological and a magical faction I knew I wanted the four Heroes of Yore to reflect that. So I made them rely on magic and technology to varying degrees. Two all in on opposing sides and two in between. I did think about having them map to the classes in Super Kirby Clash, but figured that was too restrictive. Besides, Galacta Knight doesn't map to those either (unless you consider him the Sword Hero parallel). So while they do share some traits —like their pink, yellow, green and blue colour schemes— I decided they didn't have to match perfectly. 'Sword Hero' is actually Galacta Knight with his lance and shield, 'Hammer Lord' prefers a club over a hammer and has other weapons including a glaive, 'Beam Mage' has elements of 'Doctor Healmore', instead of a dedicated healer we have a mech user (who shoots laserbeams), etc. If you squint there are some parallels to the Dream Land quartet, but I didn't make each of them map perfectly to one person either.

[gethoce]

🍨 (Ice Cream) for Heiadoze!

[🍨 (Ice Cream) - The Invader Armour undergoes a drastic transformation depending on its pilot. If they were to wield it, what appearance would their mech take on? What abilities would it have?]

Here is a crude doodle of the Sleep Robobot Armor, aka the walking bed. Guarantees a good night's sleep while transporting her to her next destination.

[starflungwaddledee]

🍅 (what copy ability would starstruck give), ⚡️(what power effects would starstruck give if any), and 🍨 (what the robobot mech might look like with starstruck as the pilot) for the ask game!

[ >>> kirby oc ask meme <<< ]

🍅 answered here, but i will add that some other shortlisted ones were archer, burning, and copy or mirror!

⚡️ (Lightning Bolt) - Which Power Effects [Blizzard, Bluster, Sizzle, Splash, Zap] would their attacks grant? Do they have any particular weaknesses or resistances, elemental or otherwise?

i think she might not grant one and instead might receive them, BUT if she could grant one i think she would grant bluster. it's an air element, and also at least imo, gives bandee in particular one of the most enjoyable enhancements with his waddle copter and spear throw i think broadly she is weak to everything but also nothing. she's quite physically sturdy!

🍨 (Ice Cream) - The Invader Armour undergoes a drastic transformation depending on its pilot. If they were to wield it, what appearance would their mech take on? What abilities would it have?

w... would she not just... 😂

but genuinely i do think her aesthetics are pretty similar to kirby's; pink and stars! so it might very well be quite similar to this, if not a marginally different shade. maybe it would have an openable panel on the back that spread out to make a shape like her bow, like a beetle carapace! could have rotors a little like parasol mode but they'd be star-shaped and glassy, and would move around all over the place to deflect attacks. would be mostly evasion and ranged based! or maybe, being a waddle dee, it would become compact like the walker waddle dee armour, except that the rocket launcher would be shooting off multicoloured blasts of space dust

[pokemonbattletournament]

Does the Robobot Armour come with Kirby? Cause a mech might make a big difference.

Let's see what the audience thinks

[melonthesprigatito]

The amount of hatred people have to Z-Moves, Dynamax and Terestalisation drives me crazy, ESPECIALLY the people who are all like "They need to stop adding cheap gimmicks that are going to be forgotten about in the next game."

Like, do they want the battle system to be the exact same in every game or something? I think each game having its own gimmick distinguishes them from each other.

Kirby does this too! It's why we had Super Copy Abilities in Return to Dream Land, Hypernova in Triple Deluxe, Robobot Armour in Planet Robobot, the various Friend abilities in Star Allies, and Mouthful Mode in The Forgotten Land.

tell me a pokemon take that will get you ostracized from the fandom. ill go first, i think hop is one of the better rivals in the mainline series at least conceptually.

[vegetablejester]

Currently battling to get the 30th Ann Kirby Nendoroid. I think I got scammed again lmao. I was holding it off due to space but I realised they'll stop selling it soon so I wanted to get it before it's scalped to hell and back. Idk how much the Robobot armour was when it came out, but I see it at 200 minimum second-hand.

[official-magolor-archive]

Archival 15, 21st of November 2023

Artwork of a poorly drawn Magolor sticker. Officially named "Magolor Doodle" and available as a cosmetic sticker item for the Robobot Armour in Kirby: Planet Robobot (April 2016).

Bonus: Small version from the Sticker Room selection menu.

[your-fave-as-a-fate-servant]

Second Kirby post, in which I ignore the Foreigner and Ruler classes.

For Assassin, there’s the Ninja Copy Ability. For a Noble Phantasm, I’ll have to go with him not having one in this class. Yes I’m allowed to do that.

For Lancer, there’s the Spear Copy Ability. For a Noble Phantasm, he gets the Star Allies Sparkler by default.

For Archer, there’s the Bow Copy Ability. For a Noble Phantasm, he gets Ribbon’s Crystal.

For Caster, there’re so many choices, like Fire, Ice, Water, Spark, etc. For Noble Phantasms, he gets the Star Rod and Monster Flame.

For Saber, there’s the Sword Copy Ability. For Noble Phantasms, he gets the Rainbow Sword and the Ultra Sword.

For Rider, he doesn’t have a Copy Ability for it, but a whole bunch of Final Abilities, so his Noble Phantasms would be Landia, Robobot Armour (with mode switch) and Big Rig. Riding skill rank EX.

[dumb-but-happy-trist]

So, although Kirby couldn’t transform in the first game (Kirby’s dreamland); he could still inhale, swallow, spit out, jump and float; and he was designed around all that, which is probably why he is round like a balloon. So the first game is very barebones but it still set up the basics of Kirby.

The second game (Kirby’s adventure) is where it starts to get interesting, with transformations first appearing here. Some of the staples, such as fire, ice or sword, begin in this game; with each of them only having one attack and only parasol being usable underwater.

The dark matter trilogy :

Now, we get to Kirby’s dreamland 2; with everybody’s favorite being introduced, Dark Matter (DM for short). The concept of allies is also introduced in this game, with Rick, Kine and Coo. Each transformation has one attack per friend; making a whopping four different attacks with a single button. There is also the bad end, which happens if you don’t collect all of the collectibles and it’s a concept unique to the DM trilogy

(Small note, I will talk about super star later but it came out here)

In Kirby’s dreamland 3, the boss of the DM, Zero, appears for the first time. Same concepts as the previous game, but with more animal friends.

Kirby cristal shards, a switch from 2D to 2.5D, meaning that the background can be interacted with and they used that a lot for this game. This game also marks one of the two apparition of transformation combination. Zero 2 appears and is a wild problem when looking for pictures on google. Also where most of the cursed Kirby images come from.

Now comes the drought, with either small games or remakes

First came nightmare in dreamland, which is a remake of adventure

Then came the amazing mirror, which is a confusing game, both in lore and gameplay

Then squeak squad, where google can help you more than I can.

Then came super star ultra, which is a remake of super star, which contains a lot of interesting game modes such as : Milky Way Wishes, where swallowing an enemy did not give you a transformation; a few small games of smaller importance; and the arena, which is a boss rush. In ultra, they added two remakes of the first game and the True Arena, which becomes a staple of the serie, containing the Ex or equivalent forms of the bosses.

Now begins the modern era, where each game has a gimmick :

First is Return to Dreamland, which contains the super abilities.

Second is triple deluxe, which contains the supernova fruit.

Third is planet Robobot, which contains the Robobot armour and is, in my opinion, the peak of 2D Kirby.

Fourth is star allies, which contains the friend heart and the second occurrence of transformation combination.

And finally is Forgotten Land, which is a 3D Kirby game and has transformation upgrades.

You’ll notice that I didn’t talk much about the modern era, that’s because the best things they have are spoilers.

Ever since the first game, there has been an extra mode except for the DM trilogy and the drought games (except super star ultra). This extra mode usually contains : stronger enemies, changed patterns for bosses, additional lore, reduced health, in forgotten land, it’s a follow up to the story and in return to dreamland deluxe, it’s the canon mode.

Would you like to hear me ramble about how Kirby is peak?

Yes.

[saltyfinalboss]

Planet Robobot turns 2 at April 28th but I just got it now and I can’t hold my excitement for another 2 weeks! This game is so so good!

Please click on the pictures for better quality!

[thewinterraven]

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Happy Anniversary to my favourite Kirby Game!

[fullmoonfireball]

yknow what i was based and correct when i made these MS paint doodles forever ago. meta knight SHOULD be able to put the stickers on his pauldrons.

mf already can destroy like, all of the things the robobot armour can. it's only fair. he needs to be fancied up.