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Mirror World • Black Mirror |
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| “ | High above the skies of Dream Land, the mirror world needs help! A shadowy figure is unleashing chaos on the peaceful world! Meta Knight flies into the mirror world to protect Dream Land! | „ |
| ~ Narrator - Kirby & the Amazing Mirror |
Summary
Dark Mind is a mysterious figure who wanted to conquer the Mirror World, so he corrupted it. Meta Knight found that this would threaten Dream Land, so he went to the Mirror World. However, he found himself beaten and imprisoned by his evil counterpart, Dark Meta Knight. It was then up to Kirby and his newly-born clones to save Dream Land and the Mirror World, so they ended up there.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 5-A
Name: Dark Mind
Origin: Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
Gender: Vaguely male, likely unknown
Age: Unknown
Classification: Shadowy figure, Dark Entity, Inhabitant of the Mirror World
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Self-Sustenance (Type 1), Flight, Regeneration (Mid-High. Can reform from being shattered in combat, and was presumably defeated & shattered three times in a row, always coming back until his second form), Immortality (Type 3), Limited Power Nullification & Corruption (See his Notable Attacks/Techniques), Portal Creation & BFR (Demonstrated here), Teleportation, Elemental Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation, Self-Size Manipulation (Grew as his second form started, later being shown to turn smaller), Attack Reflection & Summoning (Can create mirrors and manipulate them to redirect attacks or summon enemies), Spatial Manipulation (Can make it so that the setting shown flips upside down, although this attack's range is unknown)
Attack Potency: Large Planet level (Fought 4 Kirbys at once back in Amazing Mirror as the final boss), able to ignore durability in some ways
Speed: Massively FTL+ (Kept up with 4 Kirbys in combat. Later kept up with those Kirbys in their Warp Stars as he was trying to escape them, managing to fight them in the process even while weakened and blowing up)
Lifting Strength: Unknown
Striking Strength: Large Planet level
Durability: Large Planet level (Exchanged blows with 4 Kirbys during his battles with them, when one of the Kirbys had Meta Knight's sword), regeneration makes him difficult to kill
Stamina: Very high (Comparable to Kirby)
Range: Standard melee range physically
Weaknesses: None notable
Note: Contrary to popular belief, in Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, he didn't possess King Dedede/Shadow Dedede as his presence has been mentioned in said game.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Corruption: Dark Mind's most notable feat is to have corrupted the Mirror World, however, the feat's not what it seems; Dark Mind didn't alter the minds of everyone in the Mirror World to make them evil. What exactly he did can be described by knowing most of the information we know about it:
- 1. The opening of Kirby & the Amazing Mirror vaguely states him to have unleashed chaos on the peaceful Mirror World.
- 2. Stated that Dark Mind made the Mirror World into an evil world[1].
- 3. The instruction booklet states that Dark Mind made it so that the Mirror World's mirrors could only reflect bad things.
- 4. Stated that the Mirror World "turned into an evil world that only reflects bad hearts"[2]
- 5. Stated that Amazing Mirror "started as evil minds were copied inside the Dimension Mirror and were born" (in the Mirror World)[3].
- 6. While King Dedede fights Shadow Dedede (A victim of this corruption), it's stated that "The opponent [King Dedede] needs to overcome... It is the shadow of [King Dedede]'s own heart".
- 7. Dark Meta Knight (Another victim of this corruption) was described as "a being who was copied from the darkness in Meta Knight's heart"[4][5].
- 8. Shadow Kirby (Another victim of this corruption) was stated to be Kirby's faintest evil spirit revealed by the mirror and materialized[6].
Meaning that the Mirror World was already copying the inhabitants of the main universe, but Dark Mind corrupted its mirror/s so that they could only copy the evil in the hearts of their main universe's counterparts. As such Dark Mind didn't display Mind Manipulation and Morality Manipulation, he only made some artifact/s work on a lesser manner. Shadow Kirby had no reason to be evil as he's born from Kirby's innocent and pure mind/heart/spirit. While it was stated that peace would return to the Mirror World in Dark Mind's defeat, this appears to be exaggerated, as Dark Meta Knight, Shadow Dedede, and an unknown more remain evil.
Gallery
Notable Matchups
Notable Victories:
Notable Losses:
Inconclusive Matches:
- ↑ The Japanese site for Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
- ↑ 星のカービィ 鏡の大迷宮 4コマ大事典/"Kirby of the Stars Labyrinth of Mirrors 4 Frame Encyclopedia"
- ↑ An interview in the Nintendo Dream magazine
- ↑ Kirby JP twitter post of Sep 16, 2020
- ↑ Kirby JP twitter post of Jun 6, 2023
- ↑ 星のカービィ キャラクター大図鑑 ("Kirby Characters Encyclopedia") page 3
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