Kirby games generally ship with a set of built-in expectations: candy-colored fun, plenty of minigames, and an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:appr🌌oachable gaming experience for all ages. But as longtime fans of the series are well aware, Kirby games also tend to pack sets of bosses that are incongruously terrifying. In fact, the roster of shockingly scary adversaries Kirby's given us over the years has grown surprisingly long.
You would think that a game starring a sentient pink beach ball would stay far away from the horror genre. But you'd be completely wrong — ranging from the oddly disturbing to the nearly Lovecraftian, we're about to sort through a lineup of entities that would nearly qualify it as a candidate. Hopefully, you won't be encountering any of these foes just before bedtime.
10 Kracko, Every K🧸irby Game 💛
One of Kirby's regular bosses, Kracko's familiarity may make you overlook its deeply unsettling design. We're literally talking about a large, expressionless eyeball suspended in a cloud, surrounded by spikes — clearly a creature that was never meant to be born.
Maybe that explains why Kracko keeps attacking Kirby; irrepressible rage over an unnatural existence. Though it's not the scariest boss on this list, Kracko is a great microcosm of the eerie boss design that recurs throughout the series.
9 Necrode😼us, Kirby Masꦅs Attack
Necrodeus is the final boss of the DS installment Kirby Mass Attack. He's not necessarily the most terrifying boss design, but certainly one of the most evil-looking — with his shadowy, diaphanous form and those extremely sharp teeth, his evil intentions just ooze off of the screen.
If you lose the battle, he literally eats you and the game over screen depicts Kirby as an angel. It's one of the few times in the whole series that the game implies Kirby's actual death. Aren't these games supposed to be for children?
8 Nightmare, Kirby's Adventure
In Kirby's Adventure, you're originally told that the final fight will be between you and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:King Dedede, but Dedede is only trying to stop you from summoning this dude. When you defeat the king𒐪, the look of fear in his eyes is indelible — and for good reason.
Nightmare's first phase is certainly creepy, as you're not quite sure what you're looking at, but its second phase is where it gets terrifying. Look at the way his body is just a void, and how he bares his fangs whenever you land a hit on him. Yikes!
7 Drawcia Soul, Kirby's Canvas Curse
Kirby's Canvas Curse is technically a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:(very good) spinoff, but it's proof that terrifying enemies aren't exclusive to the main series. The evil witch Drawcia has cursed Kirby into ball form, so the whole game leads to this showdown. Her first form is unthreatening and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:kind of cute-looking, so things start innocentꦺly enough. But her second꧋ form, Drawcia Soul, is nightmare fuel.
She has five glowing eyes, a drooling mouth, and an ear-piercing screech; not only that, but the background and the music start to glitch out when she appears. It's as if the game can't even comprehend what it's showing you.
6 Dark Matter, Kirby's Dream Land 2
In the first Kirby's Dream Land game, the final boss was just King Dedede. But the sequel upped the ante. Dark Matter is all of the malicious creepiness that the original Game Boy can muster, expressed in surprisingly minimalist terms — it's a single floating eye, suspended in a black circle.
It even has the power to possess King Dedede and make him do terrible deeds, so what could it do to poor Kirby? You'll have to defeat it to keep from finding out.
5 Marx Soul, Kirb🦩y🍌 Super Star Ultra
The original Kirby Super Star pitted you aga💦inst Marx, a seemingly friendly little creature with a secret plan to rule over Pop Star. His bulging eyes and vacant smile are definitely creepy, but his rendition in the DS remake𒀰, Kirby Super Star Ultra, puts his original incarnation to shame.
Marx Soul is an extra-powerful version of this old-school villain, with his creepy laugh and his gaze that looks directly at you, the player. When you defeat him, he splits in half and emits an ear-piercing screech that you'll definitely hear in your worst nightmares.
4 Magolor Soul, Kirby's Return To Dream Land
Kirby's Return To Dream Land, the beloved Wii entry, teams you up with an alien named Magolor. You see, Magolor's ship has crash-landed into Pop Star, and he needs your help to repair it and return to his homeworld. When you do, however, you'll discover that he has a darker purpose — to take over the universe.
To defeat him, you'll have to survive a battle against his two forms, Magolor EX and Magolor Soul; and the latter is definitely more horrifying. He has an eyeball in his mouth, for crying out loud. It's horrible to see a friend turn into an enemy, but it's even worse when that friend becomes an eldritch abomination.
3 ꦛ Void Soul, ✨Kirby Star Allies
Kirby Star Allies peaks with a final boss fight against Void Termina, a fearsome enemy that looks more like a Bayonetta foe than a cutesy Kirby boss. But it's the second phase that really sticks with you, and it leaves you with questions about Kirby's true nature to boot.
After you deal enough damage, Void Termina swallows you and pits you against Void Soul, a rotund ball with a morphing face that looks suspiciously like Kirby — but if Kirby was, you know, evil and able to change his form to commit murder. When its smile stretches across its face... well, suffice to say you're not going to forget it anytime soon.
2 Zero, Kirby's Dream Land 3
Kirby's Dream Land 3 is one of the most candy-colored games in the whole series, with an adorable hand-drawn look awash in pastel colors. That makes its final boss, Zero, even more of an abomination. It's an evolution of Dark Matter from Kirby's Dream Land 2, but even scarier. Its giant eye expands to fill the entire screen and takes on a ghoulish red tint.
And then it slips into the background of the screen and fires something that looks suspiciously like blood at you. Just to check in, are we sure the ESRB 𝔉rati⛎ng for this game is accurate?
1 0², 𒅌Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards 💟
The final installment of an unofficial trilogy started by Dream Land 2 and 3, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards needed a truly ⛎horrifying final boss to compete with its predece🥃ssors. 0² — pronounced "Zero Two" — is more than up for the job.
Its design is like the halfway point of the blood-spewing eye antics of Zero and the creepy, too-wide smile of Star Allies' Void Soul, but with an eerie touch of the divine. 0² adds a pair of giant wings and a halo, making it look more like an angel from Neon Genesis Evangelion than a cuddly Kirby character.