#also yeah: I like seeing stuff where kirby just gets dededepression

[makerofmadness]

Does anyone else hate seeing people conflate game and anime canon despite how much they contradict?

Like, I can make an entire list right here:

*In the show, Wheelie was just one monster (basically this one character named Fang just turned into a monster because rage or something, I dunno, whatever happened to Knuckle Joe-) who gets blown up and presumably dies because he was never seen again after. In the games, it’s an entire species and NOT inherently hostile (honestly a LOT of sometimes-friendly game characters are monsters in the show, and a lot of them DIED in the show so- [Kracko, Paint Roller, Chilly, etc.)

*Kabu in the show was some totem or something where Star Warriors could rest and heal (IDK, whatever Meta Knight said, I forgot-). In the games, they’re just that one random enemy you never pay attention to as you kill them all for attacking you for no reason (oh yeah, they’re also tiny in the games. While there ARE large variants, well... they have different heads than the small ones, while the anime versions were basically oversized small ones [I guess the Kirby Clash games had something like that but those games are canonically their own universe separate from the main games anyway and contradict anime canon even MORE).

*We probably would’ve seen Escargoon outside of that one Mass Attack sub-game cameo if he were actually canon. Like, he would’ve been in Triple Deluxe. Dedede gets Princess-Peached in that game. Seriously-

*Waddle Dees are flat-out unable to speak in the anime while they can speak just fine in the games. Check out the transcript of Revenge of the King, or Kirby Battle Royale, or Revenge of Meta Knight. They talk. The Dees can talk.

*Meta Knight would've had to go backwards in maturity because he just fricking tries to kill Kirby (who’s, like, five) in Revenge of Meta Knight. That and him trying to take over Dream Land and all are just... I could never picture the anime version of him doing that.

*Apparently some official material referred to Cappy Town as anime-exclusive so it literally doesn’t exist in the games (if it did, we would’ve seen it because it was located REALLY close to Castle Dedede)

*According to Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Kirby just “blew into Dream Land on a spring breeze.” That’s his origin story (minus the Void Termina stuff but-). I think that’s a bit far off from CRASHING INTO THE LAND IN A SPACE SHIP.

*Dedede just doesn’t talk the way he does in the anime, and I’m talking about straight up with the Japanese media. Basically, in Japanese, there are multiple pronouns that mean the same thing as I/Me in English, and they can reflect different things. In the anime, he uses わし (”washi”), which is commonly associated with elderly men. In the games (and the light novels too. IDK about the manga ‘cus I haven’t read any of that, though (apart from Epic Yarn where he just talks the way he does in the anime there in generally apparently, though from what I can tell that thing went off the anime quite a bit in other aspects so I’m not surprised. Eh, either way, Epic Yarn is still just one game as compared to multiple others), he uses オレ様 (”oresama”), which is... really just pompous. He also doesn't end sentences with ぞい (”zoi” [an archaic particle used to add mild emphasis... as far as I know, at least), further setting him apart from his anime counterpart.

*Kine in the anime is presumably about Tiff’s age since he had a crush on her or something (IDK, whatever the frick that was)... Kine in the games has a wife (Mine, who appeared in Kirby’s Dream Land 3. She also appeared in the light novel, “Kirby: Save the Rainbow Islands!”)

*Rick’s girlfriend from the games, Pick, is nowhere to be found in the show.

*The show was basically one big weird advertisement for Nightmare in Dream Land, let’s be honest. Otherwise Nightmare wouldn’t have been an important villain. In the games, he was really just some guy who appeared before the lore really started to kick in. Like, he’s pretty underwhelming and NOT that powerful in the games compared to how he was in the anime.

*Apparently Coo got hit with a Gender Flip (look it up in TV Tropes-) in the Japanese version of the show specifically and no one ever talks about that.

*Cappies in the show don’t wear caps.

*Apparently there was some drama in the show where it was like “Dedede’s family stole the right to rule Dream Land from the Cappies” or whatever but in the games he literally just proclaimed himself king and no one cared. 

*Dedede and Meta Knight are totally gay for each other in the games but there’s now way that’d happen in the show- (ok this is a joke one but frick it I ship Metadede anyway- though, like, they’re at least canonically friends in the game despite Dedede’s greediness. In the show, though, Meta just fricking kicked him down a hill once)

*Why would Lololo and Lalala work for Dedede and try to fight Kirby in the games if they were the same characters as they were in the anime? They were his friends in the anime.

*The Star Rod in the show was some end-level copy ability Kirby got from inhaling the Warp Star. In the games, it’s some probably-artifact powering the Fountain of Dreams, which was absent in the show.

*Pretty much everything I’ve seen implies that Kirby and Dedede first met during the events of the first game.

All those and more are why the anime and games are separate universes and should be treated as such.

Also: It’s funnier to imagine that everyone just had no previous history when this pink gumball showed up and started wrecking them in battle. Like, imagine some random toddler just walking into your room and beating the crap out of you because you committed tax fraud. Imagine that. 

Oh yeah and just imagine the anime and game worlds meeting-

Like, imagine Game-Kirby just going up to Anime-Meta Knight and being like “y’know I beat up your counterpart on a daily basis, right? like that one time he tried to take over Dream Land” and then Anime-Meta just has a stroke or something-

(before anyone says Game Kirby can’t talk either: the official Kirby Drama CD disagrees, and so do the light novels [which at least keep the characters in-character, despite being their own universe. Tbh, the novels are what I wished the anime had been like, and they deserve the amount of attention it’s gotten, or maybe even more... then again I’m a sucker for seeing depressing Kirby sh-)