#also yeah the intro is a chazington reference

[chowmoon2]

Kirby and the Amazing Mirror is a pretty interesting game especially for a mainline title

It contains some cool characters that originate from that game such as Big Waddle Dee, Moley, Dark Meta Knight and Capcom’s Nightmare -

What the fuck are you Dark Mind? I’m sick of it

There is two things that really intrigues me with this series, thing number one:

Fuck you Dark Mind!

(A small essay/analysis/theory(?) about a very mysterious villian in the Kirby series, under the cut!)

Okay, I think Dark Mind is the most Nothing Burger mainline Kirby villian ever, if not in the entire series

Almost nothing is known about him ingame besides “He is evil and wants to take over the Mirror World”

And yeah, he is referenced by Void Termina in one of their attacks which might mean something but like, almost every boss is so he is not special

I will argue that Nightmare and Dark Nebula (two similar final bosses with little to no info on them) are more talked about, the former because of the anime (without it, he won’t really be that popular me thinks) and the latter because ‘Lord of the Underworld’ title (despite being a localization thing) and his possible connection to the Sparkling Star among other reasons

Not saying nobody cares for him at all, he just have less attention then all of the other mainline villians because the lack of depth and info he has compare to the others

Now, a theory that I have seen thrown around is that Dark Mind is the Mirror World counterpart of either Nightmare or Zero. or even a combination of both counterparts, and yeah, I can see it especially since he have aspects of both of them

However

As shown in this official tweet by the Kirby Twitter account, it heavily implies that Magolor doesn’t have a mirror counterpart because nothing is shown while looking at the dimensional mirror

This tells me that not everyone has a Mirror World self and if Magolor doesn’t have one, I seriously doubt both Nightmare and Zero would have one as well

I still do think that Dark Mind is atleast somewhat connected to Dark Matter, even if it’s just the substance and not the actual species (if that makes sense)

His name brings the phrase “Mind over Matter” to mind (heh, mind) which means this:

So my epic game theory is that maybe he is like, a advanced version of Dark Matter that gained perception or something???? I think that would be cool

Or maybe he is just his own thing exclusive to the Mirror World, since some Mirror Worlders (like Dark Meta Knight) reflects the darkness their Popstar counterpart, maybe Dark Mind was formed by the leftover darkness from the hearts of many? That may be true but it is still very vague compare to other bosses lore

There is the possibility that he corrupted Queen Sectonia because of the whole mirror thing, it’s way more likely then DMK doing it, that’s for sure

Oh, let’s now talk about something that is also l related to Dark Mind, sorta!

This is King D-Mind from the Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, a king of darkness who is summoned through the Black Mirror by Dark Taranza but he proceeded to shatter the dumb spider

After clashing with Team Kirby, they managed to trap him back the mirror and shatter it, saving the Dream Kingdom

He also had a role in Super Kirby Clash but idgaf

In a interview about Kirby Clash,which can be found here:

I found some interesting stuff like with Taranza using the Black Mirror so much that the balance of worlds breaks and lots of Parallel versions are born alongside Taranza’s dark counterpart

And King D-Mind being born from Dark Taranza’s evil mind who he considers to be the most strongest and savage warrior

Let’s take a look at the Black Mirror itself actually, it bears a striking resemblance to Dark Mind himself, perhaps it was created with him in mind or his origin place because remember, even before Dark Taranza summoned him, King D-Mind was manipulating regular Taranza through this mirror to summon rampaging monsters

Of course, the Kirby Clash games take place in a alternate universe but I always saw the Mirror World as can be visited/connected to all these universes as long if they have a variant of the Dimensional Mirror

Oh, and also it’s probably not important but his internal file name is “MaskedBlackDedede” Black Dedede being Shadow Dedede name In Japanese, but there is not enough evidence (if at all) to suggest Shadow Dedede and D-Mind are the same

In fact, this might not even BE the same Dark Mind from the Amazing Mirror

So like, can multiple D-Minds exist as long as if people has evil minds? What’s up with the skull mask and flaming eyeballs? Did Dark Taranza considered both Shadow Dedede and Dark Mind as extremely savage it created King D-Mind?

Who knows?

So in conclusion, idk, maybe Dark Mind isn’t meant to be that deep,he was just a villian that needed to be overcomed and that’s it

Either way,I enjoyed rambling about him, let me know if you I want to see more of these kinds of post from me and feel free to tell me what are your interpretations of Dark Mind!