Kirby Lore ► Morpho, The Lurking God 

“Hey, y’know that butterfly from across basically all of Kirby? That’s the Grim Reaper.”

_Stares at all of my copies of Kirby games through the years_ What dark secrets do these games hide?

Kirby lore in a nutshell. Everything was secretly the oldest greatest evil ever.

fun fact in kirby crystal shards the butterfly appears among the enemy collectable cards which is weird because you can't interact with it nor it can't interact with you, then why was it listed as an enemy?

I didn't burn down the school. It was the butterfly I tell you, the butterfly!

You've single handily made Kirby make me feel uncomfortable

4:11 “He may destroy a planet or two but such is life” I love Kirby villains

I'm still not sure if I should take these videos seriously or not.

"The universe can only observe helplessly, as two unfathomably powerful cosmic entities, *are reborn as one."* The best part is this describes a plot point in a Kirby game, and it does so _accurately._

Pat, remember that you incited this.

Just got spoiled for forgotten land and this video was made 3 years ago. They weren’t lying when they said “contains spoilers for every Kirby game”

galacta knight was always my favourite. the idea that he's performing vertical slashes with a thrusting weapon amuses me.

kirby lore doesn't exi--

Morpho Knight being a unused design for Meta Knight is so hype. Love when they do that. It’s a new design for new fans, it’s a pop off for old fans. Hell, the fact it was in Project M before Kirby SA is amazing. I hope there’s a trophy of him in Smash Ultimate that provides at least even a touch more info. Sakurai still loves his puffball and we need more #DEEPLORE

This video did NOT upset Kirby immensely

When you think about it, everytime the butterfly lands on Kirby its trying to merge with him as he is the most powerful being in the universe. He simply wasn't ready yet.

Woolie is starting to become the dark souls of lore videos.

jesus christ, kirby continues to just go so much deeper than anticipated. the damn butterfly

This one’s for you, Morpho

Because no one EVER suspects the BUTTERFLY Some say the reason it lands on Kirby in every game is because it seeks the universes most powerful warrior to merge with, but Kirby simply isn't ready yet. But when Galactica knight swoops in from that portal in time, the butterfly who waited patiently for kirby's power to be fully realized, swoops in and takes what it believes to be his. After all he has the same essence as the star warrior he touched so many times... Could galactica knight be kirby from the future...

"Morpho, The Lurking God" Sounds like a good Dark Souls Boss

Sadly, you used the badly translated pause description. The original Japanese description directly point out that the butterfly show up when someone perish, basically implying to be the Grim Reaper of the Kirby series.

I find it cool that in Guest Star Allies instead of Hyness using Void Termina to exact his revenge, he tries to use Galacta Knight, but didn't account for the Butterfly Effect

IT WAS THE SAME BUTTERFLY!!! THE BUTTERFLY IS THE MOONLIGHT GREATSWORD OF HAL LABS

Galacta Knight doesn't feel so good

*DAT DEEP DANK PINK LORE*

People are wanting a Dark Matter/Zero lore video, while I personally want a video about the og Kirby cosmic horror, Nightmare.

Meta Knight Galacta Knight _Morpho Knight_ _"Beta Knight"_ *_Better Knight_*

"The butterfly was a lurking god" "God help us all" This gonna be awesome.

considering Kirby takes place in dreamland, and Dreamland is a setting in HP Lovecraft's extended universe of Eldritch Horror, this all makes sense and is entirely appropriate.

And now he is back.

Dang it, it’s a Kirby game I should have known the random butterfly was actually an Eldridge deity.

I actually believe the Milky Way Wishes portion of Meta Knightmare Ultra happens after the original Milky Way Wishes and the Marx Soul fight. The way Kirby and Meta Knight summon Nova is different, with Meta Knight’s looking like a reverse of Nova’s death. However there is still a part missing from above Nova’s eye, which blew off when Kirby destroyed the nucleus. These parts may have been the parts absorbed by Marx to become Marx Soul. So yeah, I think Galacta Knight is canon. Can’t explain his appearance in Robobot though.

Woolie I don't know if this is a weird joke or if you're actually doing a move here, all I know is that this is unironically some of the coolest shit I've ever heard and I'm unbelievably down for it.

"And they say Kirby games lore are often innocent and unfocu- oh look a butterfly."

Ok. With the post-game of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, I don't think the butterfly fuses with Galacta Knight to become Morpho Knight, because the butterfly does exactly the same thing to Soul Forgo, and still becomes Morpho Knight. I think that the butterfly by itself is Morpho Knight, but it needs more energy/power to become its warrior form. It gets this energy/power from powerful entities like Galacta Knight and Soul Forgo by vaporising them.

"Ma! The weird looking butterfly is back"

“The butterfly was a lurking god.” I mean, Kirby is also a lurking god, so I think it’s just another Tuesday.

and then, when we thought we were done with them... Morpho comes back in a *forgotten land*

Dark Souls Lore < NieR Lore < KIRBY LORE

In other news, Bandanna Dee and Kirby 64 Dee are confirmed to be the same Dee.

I've always wondered how powerful Meta Knight actually is. Galacta Knight is like the strongest man of all time, he can slap down planets casually. I'm pretty sure Galacta Knight would defeat Void Termina is a fight. But then Meta Knight beats him in a sword fight every single time. Meta Knight could honestly take over the known Kirby universe with that much power if it weren't for Kirby being the actual strongest man of all time. What really bothers me the most is that Galacta Knight one shots Star Dream, and then Meta Knight beats Galacta Knight. But somehow Meta Knight got defeated by the Haltmann company, and turned into Mecha Knight. I don't know why I even try to powerscale Kirby. Kirby can baseball bat a meteor thousands of light-years away in a matter of a couple seconds, yet he doesn't one-shot literally everything. It's a game that's not supposed to make sense, and I take it too seriously

*ELSE-WHEN?????*

Curiously enough, in Forgotten Land, the Morpho Knight power up says Kirby can control its power like a breeze... just how ungodly powerfull is the small puff ball

Perhaps the Butterfly is drawn to those who have extinguished lives to such an extent to tip the balance of life and death, destroying them in an act of vengeance, and to see that the lost souls can gain a mortal body once again. Time and time again, it arrives to bring justice to the most grievous of offenders... And failed each time, the infinite void of pure hatred snuffing out any power the butterfly may employ to destroy to infant body of the lurking god. And so, the flickering flame of Hades follows this, this adorable atrocity throughout time and space, trying in vain to perhaps catch it with its guard down. Across these adventures, it meets many peculiar creatures, a greedy, selfish King and his careless, naive protege, a ruthless military conquerer, an odd, somewhat damaged fellow who wished to rule a planet, a manipulative halcandran with a thirst for power, and a vain, prideful Queen driven mad by a mirror of darkness, to name a few. While some of these mad lads had their sights on conquering the universe, Morpho simply did not care. What a tyrant did to torment their subjects was of no consequence to him. At this point, Morpho had begun to lose faith in his powers. If he could not bring justice to the slaughterer of the innocent, what else could it do? That is, until one of Halcandra's clockwork stars, driven mad by its own self-awarness, vowed to extinguish every life in the universe. Until it was pulverized by the very creature who had done the very same, long ago. But. When this sentient Machine began to become undone, it's thoughts raced through any who would listen. Aside from the nonsensical babble spewed from the minds of its previous users, almost all of them emenated one strong, unmistakable emotion. *Fear.* A fear for SOMETHING. Something terrible, that brought a massive calamity upon not just the galaxy, but the universe. During this time, this living disaster was being bounced from timeline to timeline, ever since its first defeat at the hands of a certain masked warrior. He had been summoned an infinite amount of times, by many. Meta Knight, Galactic Nova, Star Dream, and of course, that... That *thing.* And of the infinite times it was summoned, it was always greeted with a fight, of which it has won and lost and endless amount. But this was the last straw. It was FURIOUS now. In an attempt to catch whatever poor soul off guard, it tore through time and space, emerging upon a group of four "heroes", tired after their struggle with a mad cultist. Before the enraged knight could throw itself at the friends, it was stopped. There were not four beings here, but five. And the fifth could sense the endless amounts of blood wiped clean off the Temporal warrior's blade. And so, it fluttered unassumingly onto its target, as it has always has, but unlike Morpho's previous target, there was no dark, divine oblivion within the poor, unfortunate soul to protect it. And thus ended the story of Galacta Knight. No. It's not over. It'll NEVER be over. The anguished souls of all Galacta Knight has slain cry out from their guardian angel, absorbing the very power that brought their demise. And now... The butterfly has been reborn. He was not Morpho, nor was he Galacta Knight. He was... Extinction.

The reason why Morpho Knight cannot posses or eliminate Kirby It's because according to Forgotten Land Kirby's power surpasses that of Morpho Knight an such level of power is nothing but a breeze to him, so I guess he can only do that to those that are weaker than him

Anyone came back to rewatch the series after the additions that Kirby and the Forgotten Land made to the lore?

Kirby is the dark souls of lore

Eyyy we back boys. Also can i say the reveal of Morpho was the biggest pop off

kirby games always start with something like "oh no! your cake is gone! try to get it back!" and somehow they always turn into "kill god"

"This one's for you morpho!"

Who would've thought? The first friend we had ever made on our journey... was none other than a lurking God!

And now Morpho Knight has made a legit canon appearance, but manifested in a stranger way than Star Allies. There was no apparent presence of Galacta Knight; I wonder what that's about...

The butterfly is the embodiment of the infinite voices of the dead pleading for life. That is a lovecraftian grim reaper for sure! I wonder if it is friends with kirby, or if it cannot kill him. Is it watching him in fear of the day kirby loses control and the void devours all things, or in anticipation of it?

Woolie: it was the butterfly I tell you! The butterfly! Pat: sure sure, it was always the butterfly woolie Matt (dressed as a butterfly) : *hotel mario bowser laugh*

Guess who shows up again in the Forgotten Land

I dont know its motives, but Kirby Triple Deluxe's opening makes me think of it as a regular visitor to Kirby,perhaps watching over him,like a friend.

So a butterfly is also a god, that’s good to know

HE’S CANON NO ONE IS SAFE

We need an update to this.

Our third Morpho knight theme should be called "the butterfly effect"

Considering Morpho Knight’s Japanese name (Freyja - Norse leader of the Valkyries), it may be the first member to be the same species to be female. Morpho Knight is basically the Kirby world equivalent to the Grim Reaper - a motif I find fitting, since it searches for lingering souls and those that should be long dead, but transcended time (like Galacta Knight).

You also have to update this one with Heroes in another dimension, in which Morpho Knight's epithet becomes "Dark Winged Disaster"

I can’t wait to learn about Kos!

I can't wait for dark matter/Zero (2) lore

A lot less mistakes this time around, but for the few there are... > Meta Knightmare Ultra clearly is a what if scenario placed AFTER Milky Way Wishes, given Nova is damaged and is reformed in a reverse of the explosion animation at the end of MWW. Minor mistake though, I'm just moreso happy you made sure to specify it as a what if scenario as the devs had said regarding extra modes. > Star Dream wasn't really giving Meta Knight the bosses in Meta Knightmare Returns as a means of self defense, they were testing him since they thought he was the new admin. It literally says this in game. I get trying to be dramatic and all but that shouldn't come at the cost of accuracy. Not really much else to say. Very solid video that didn't dwell on as much speculation as the first, keep it up!

You dont know how much ive been looking forward to your kirby lore videos

"The militant extremist meta knight" is not an incorrect description. But it does show how important framing is

Morpho Knight is said to be the most powerful warrior in the galaxy (Galacta Knight) responding to the calls of the dead from the underworld, pleading for life. The two combine, creating Morpho Knight. We know that Galacta Knight (formerly known as Aeon Hero) was one of the four heros of lore, the ones to seal away Void Termina. So what if, the butterfly, the many voices of the dead Were the other three?

i think i got lost somewhere why did woolie start making these? and why is it just now that i realise how scary kirby really is?

And now it's made a canon appearance. I imagine that Kirby may very well descend into the depths of hell to fight a butterfly.

You know, Kirby, *F o r K i d s*

Good to see everyone is back & is doing well.

god damnit is this legit? I don't play Kirby, but now I kind of want to if shit like this is in it.

INFINTE ANTICIPATION for coverage on Zero Two from Kirby 64.

Kirby Lore>Dark Souls Lore

This hits a little differently after Forgotten Land... :D

"The militant extremist called 'Meta Knight..'"

"Kirby Lore |> FORGOTTEN LAND", go!

NEVER STOP MAKING LORE VIDS ITS ACTUALLY SUPER NICE!

You'd better get ready to break out your kirby lore phase because kirby and the forgotten land comes smack dab in this lore stuff.

Fun Fact: In Kirby Star Allies if you look at the boss tab for Morpho Knight, it implies that Morpho Knight was created by Galacta Knight. My theory is that in all the games, the butterfly was lookiing for it's creator, the "strongest warrior in the galaxy." I rest my case...

And I'm just here like "i love my overpowered knight children"

I never held my mouth agape for SO LONG until I saw this episode. OH. MY. GOD. THE BUTTERFLY WAS THE TRUE VILLAIN.

Metaknight's resummoning of Nova isn't a separate timeline. His story takes place after Milky Way Wishes. Notice Nova's body is still damaged from when Kirby defeats it the first time.

I see that there are a lot of theories going around because of the butterfly using the friend heart, like Kirby and co. and Hyness and his the three mages. However, had noone noticed that the hearts Kirby and friends use pump in the opposite way than the butterfly's? Kirby's flow outwards while the butterfly' s flow inwards. Just a little thing I noticed

We now return to RU-vid's greatest lore channel about a series that _actually_ matters. - Awsm Chimera

Can Nintendo let woolie write the story for the next Kirby game?

Praise the [B-U-T-T-E-R-F-L-Y]!

This video gave Kirby Lore justice. Thank youm

The first time I heard of Morpho Knight this exact point was brought up. Morpho Knight has been with Kirby since the very beginning, and with the latest game, apparently it seeks out powerful opponents similar to Meta Knight.

*guess who's canon now*

"I just want some sleep!" -Galacta Knight

it was the butterfly i tell you

And now it has consumed the ultimate life form, ID-F86. Who knows what other life forms it will consume in order to defeat its future foes?

This takes the meaning of "Butterfly Effect" to the next level.

and now he's in the latest game! OH BOYEEEEEEE

Won't lie...didn't know there was Kirby Lore outside the cartoon

Nobody ever suspects THE BUTTERFLY

As a Kirby fan myself, I will never trust a butterfly again and will instead run away in fear of them.