| “ | A threatening cloud of Dark Matter is luring the inhabitants of PopStar to evil, but not if Kirby & Co. have anything to say about it! | „ |
| ~ Part of the description • Kirby's Dream Land 3 website |
| “ | A blade said to be wielded by a dark swordsman who, lurking in shadow, plots to shroud the world in darkness. | „ |
| ~ Dark Matter Blade's description • Team Kirby Clash Deluxe &Super Kirby Clash |
Summary
Dark Matter is a species of body-snatching horrors originally led by a large, blood-spewing eyeball named 0. They travel around the cosmos conquering planets by poisoning the atmosphere with their mind-controlling clouds. Their origins and goals are a mystery though, according to a Japanese guidebook, at least one member was motivated by its perpetual jealousy and loneliness. In either case, they are among the most notorious threats to Kirby's universe.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 5-A | 4-A
Keys: Regular Dark Matter being | The Dark Matter being shown in Kirby Quest
Name: Dark Matter
Origin: Kirby's Dream Land 2
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Species of mysterious black clouds, or specific member of said species ("Dark Matter" can refer to individual members of the species, a plural amount them or the whole species)
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Non-Physical Interaction (Scaling from Gooey, another Dark Matter. Their influence presumably affected ghosts such as Wapods and Noos), Self-Sustenance (Type 1), minor Acrobatics, Flight & Spaceflight, Inorganic Physiology (Type 1) & Regeneration (Mid-High. Repeatedly stated to be cloud, even with their eyes visible, and can quickly recover from exploiting or having its parts scattered), Immortality (Types 3 & 6), Possession (Can possess the bodies of others), Phasing (They don't make any change to their bodies while using it, should likely be their natural state), Duplication (Can split themselves into several more Dark Matter), Body Control, Natural Weaponry (Can make use of the orange petal-like spheres around his body as projectiles and control them when detached from it, regenerating them without problems afterwards), Size Manipulation (Some of them became continental in size after coming outside the Fairy Queen's body, creating the planet Dark Star), Expert Swordsman, Energy Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Homing Attack (Can shoot dark balls that follow targets), Corruption, Morality Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Type 2), Likely Fire Manipulation, Earth Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, and Shapeshifting (Miracle Matter is a Dark Matter being), Likely Absorption/Power Mimicry (Gooey is a Dark Matter being), Creation & Self-Memory Manipulation (Can materialize things from his memories), Blade Generation, Light Manipulation (A clone of the first Dark Matter being shown could recreate the Rainbow Sword, which was used to defeat him), Life Manipulation (A big cloud of Dark Matter was creating N-Zs, regular enemies), Resistance to Morality Manipulation & Madness Manipulation
Attack Potency: Large Planet level (The first one shown fought Kirby with the Rainbow Sword as a final boss, after Kirby defeated his rival King Dedede, leaving the former unconscious after Dark Matter lost. He was later listed among the most powerful warriors in Popstar, which has many beings on Kirby's level. Another Dark Matter fought Kirby with the Love-Love Stick and Gooey at once, who had already defeated King Dedede, but he was weaker than the final boss, 0 [See notes below]), able to ignore durability in some ways | Multi-Solar System level (The first Dark Matter being shown reappeared to fight Kirby in a non-canon minigame as its final boss, after the defeat of Drawcia), able to ignore durability in some ways
Speed: Massively FTL+ (Flew to Planet Popstar while passing by stars in the background[1]. Fights while flying, reacting to things like this. Dark Rimuru, Dark Rimura & Dark Rimuro flew past 8 galaxies in 7 seconds while chasing Ribbon, who was doing the same. While weakened, many Dark Matter briefly flew past a galaxy, and they're able to do the same while less weakened, making a pirouette in the process. Kept up with Kirby and Gooey, and a clone could keep up with Meta Knight)
Lifting Strength: Unknown, far higher via Size Manipulation (The biggest Dark Matter beings shown were the size of continents, making up the planet Dark Star)
Striking Strength: Large Planet level | Multi-Solar System level
Durability: Large Planet level (Took many hits from Kirby), Regeneration makes them difficult to kill | Multi-Solar System level, Regeneration makes him difficult to kill
Stamina: Superhuman (One has enough energy to eventually sustain mind-controlling clouds over a planet)
Range: Standard Melee Range physically, Unknown with Size Manipulation (Massive amounts of them could surround a planet "in an instant"), Intergalactic with Morality Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, and projectiles (Their influence affected 6 different worlds galaxies away from each other, Dark Matter was only physically present in the first and last of those worlds. Physically scattered the Crystal Shard around those 6 worlds)
Standard Equipment: Dark Matter Blade as Bladed Dark Matter, can create new weapons from his memories
Intelligence: Gifted. Created several plans to take over planets and possessed the queen without the main cast finding that out
Weaknesses: Weapons and magic that use love, friendship and positive energies are often used to defeat them and are likely effective against them to an unknown degree (Their opposition can both take hits from Dark Matter unprotected and damage those who can harm them, making the power-ups used to face Dark Matter only cinematic. Dark Matter have also been defeated with no such power-ups and are able to laugh and feel joy). Some of them become stunned or injured when knocked out of someone's body, but not all of them.
Note 1: Other 3 Dark Matter later shown in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Dark Rimuru, Dark Rimura & Dark Rimuro, were easily defeated by Kirby as early bosses. This is either because he outgrew them in power by that point, Kirby being on the level of the leader of the species, or because the 3 were too young, having potentially been created when they splitted away from a mass of Dark Matter.
Similarly, when Kirby defeated 02, another leader of the species, this led to a planet of continent-sized Dark Matter beings blowing up, all of them dying. This likely somehow happened as a chain reaction because of 02 dying.
Note 2: Dark Matter Clone should have his own profile. He's a clone of the first Dark Matter shown that scales to the Master Crown, given the point in time where he appeared. However, scaling other Dark Matter from older games to the clone would be inconsiderate for a number of reasons:
- He comes from a non-canon mode and so it holds less relevance to scale others off him.
- Creating the clone didn't push Star Dream to the limits of its abilities, that was a mistranslation.
- Another clone done by the company who made Dark Matter Clone was said to have a strength that "might be even greater" than the original subject cloned. This could be the case for Dark Matter Clone too.
- If other Dark Matter scale from the Master Crown, so would many other beings in Kirby, which would defeat the idea of Magolor wanting to use the crown to take over the universe. It would at least be more logical if a power around that of the Master Crown started to show up on characters after Kirby & co. dealt with the crown. They were also a few grows in power implied in Return to Dream Land that would be ignored if everyone was already on a comparable level to the crown since the beginning.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Corruption: Despite not being visible where the victims are, Dark Matter can corrupt others with dark clouds and potentially without them: Dark Matter was stated to control others with dark clouds, this is shown in Dream Land 3 as a massive cloud of Dark Matter dispersing through the planet "luring the inhabitants of PopStar to evil". While going through the planet and fighting the victims, the Dark Matter beings and dark clouds are nowhere to be seen until defeating the bosses of that game and expelling Dark Matter's influence from sectors of the planet. In Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards it's indicated many times in the Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Strategy Guide that Dark Matter had influenced beings on the 6 different planets Kirby & co. travel through, despite the fact that once again Dark Matter beings and dark clouds aren't shown while travelling for most of those planets (it should be noticed that said guide has several inaccuracies in it, however, it is still an official guide, the information is repeated numerous times, and the game alone already suggests this by having the randomly scattered Crystal Shards hidden and guarded by enemies. Additionally, Ripple Star, a planet that was completely took over and covered by Dark Matter, doesn't always show dark clouds in its levels). All of this indicates that Dark Matter are able to influence others without physically entering inside of them, and presumably without using mind-controlling clouds.
- For reference, a singular Dark Matter was able to target the small country of Dreamland and aim to eventually shroud the world in darkness, presumably referring to the use of dark clouds. There were areas plagued by "pests" in Dreamland, but it's unclear how many beings this one Dark Matter affected.
- As their influence was stated to have affected Planet Popstar and other planets in general during Dream Land 2 and Crystal Shards respectively, it presumably also affected Wapods and Noos, regular enemies present there that are ghosts. Though not all inhabitants from those planets were affected.
- This corruption also shows to work on robots such as Pluggs and HR-H in Crystal Shards.
- The dark clouds that mind control others seem to also be called Dark Matter.
- Possession: Dark Matter enters inside of the body of other and takes control of the target. While doing this, it is able to manipulate the victim's body, make it levitate, or transmute it entirely. Along with Corruption, Dark Matter usually begins an encounter with others by possessing them as shown here, here and here. One took control of King Dedede off-screen by possessing him in Dream and 2, and others along with Zero-Two possessed the Fairy Queen off-screen, showing they're smart enough to target authority figures when invading.
- Dark Laser: A dark, electricity-like energy beam of unknown properties (It's not real electricity as it doesn't have those properties when Gooey uses it, and it's not a real laser). It has a very high attack speed, with targets only being able to aim-dodge it.
Gallery
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Discussions
| Discussion threads involving Dark Matter |
- ↑ Popstar is located at the edge of the universe, but they came from an unknown starting point