#and made me realize kirby bosses have gotten really fucked up lately like damn

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Who do you think is the most evil Kirby villian?

[KATFL MAIN GAME SPOILERS WITHIN]

     Surprisingly interesting question cause this series has villains with motives and goals that range from abstract stuff like covering the land in darkness, to pretty complex narratives about corruption and greed.

     Haltmann Works/Star Dream, The Jamba, and Elfilis are the three who are the worst because they were consciously seeking (or have somewhat succeeded in) inter-planetary conquest and destruction. I'm not counting Zero because his motives and the impact of dark matter are abstract, and I’m not counting Magolor because he only became corrupted by the crown and failed. I’m also dropping The Jamba because even though they literally wanted to commit omnicide, the backstory of being a persecuted religious group turned revenge cult gives them a bit of sympathy points - plus they failed.      So it's between these two - an interplanetary imperialist corporation headed by an omnicidal super computer, and an alien demigod with teleportation magic who destroys planets for fun...      Haltmann and Star Dream are complicated cause neither started their arcs maliciously. Haltmann just seemed to be an inventor who was unknowingly corrupted by his creation, and Star Dream is omnicidal but only because it’s a computer acting on the data it was given. The real villain of their story is imperialism and its self-eating nature, but those two cause very real damage. Through hints and backgrounds you can see that their imperialist reach is very far, and by the time you reach Haltmann and his computer, he is entirely just a heartless, greedy man in charge of one of the largest campaigns of inter-planetary destruction we’ve seen.      Elfilis is weird though... because we don’t know the most about their history before they came to the planet of Forgotten Land. We know that when they come to a planet to conquer it they try to destroy everything on it, but its not clear why they do that instead of trying to rule? The scale also isn’t clear because we cant tell how many planets they’ve destroyed before, but I doubt this planet was their first. So from a lot of assumption you can say that Elfilis is a powerful, sadistic alien who enjoys testing their strength by destroying planets. Which is very scary lol.

     So I think based on motive and the scale of destruction, Haltmann Works and Star Dream is the most PLAINLY evil. In the text of the story there is a lot of emphasis put on their racist, greedy, and, sadistic campaign of destruction that makes them narratively, the most vile and destructive villains in the series. But if you think hard on it, Elfilis might be the worst because they seem to be on some DBZ villain shit of blowing up planets just because they can! Which I find incredibly interesting given how Elfilin is one of the most beloved companion characters in the series, but was once part of what might be the most straight fucked-up villain in the series.

TL;DR Haltmann and Elfilis!