I love the implications of the "how do I get outside??" like they just sort of keep Brian in a room and let him get his video game screaming out, then they send Jenna in every once in a while to check on him like a zookeeper. BDG is just in a tank somewhere knowing a whole bunch of weird info like Abe Sapien.
The Final Metaphor for Kirby; Calmness. Kirby is a Metaphor for Calmness; He cares only to eat and sleep, and what he eats is destroyed. Think about the things eaten as intrusive thoughts; Simply vanishing. This is why the Enemies are the eaten things. With Kirby being unable to speak but being a skilled technician, this exemplifies the required immense focus on meditation to bring calmness to mind. Unable to speak, but most definitely getting things done. Kirby having no origin but being able to become anything via copy ability is a representative of how when there is nothing in the mind, everything is equally possible. Kirby’s enemies being cosmic horrors is a metaphor for Intrusive thoughts and Sinful Urges being the largest wall toward true peace of mind; Ever seen a cursed image and haven’t been able to get it out of your head? As for Kirby being shaped like a friend, that is representative of the simple, peaceful demeanor of the final achievement of calm. The subtle happiness setting in as you look into the sunset, like the light shining into the mind when hearing the phrase for the first time. Even Kirby’s infinite power points to calm; With infinite calm, you have infinite focus. Infinite focus gives the power to achieve anything in life. The Simplistic Power balance even points to calm when you think about it. Calm’s power draws from how when the mind is nothing, everything is equally possible. Simple… but unlimited.
“How do I get outside?” -Brian, August 2019 Proof that Brian has been trapped in that room for years, with only a printer and changing bottles of nail polish.
Kibby is an anti-eldritch being, instead of being complex beyond mortal understanding he is the the opposite, so simple it could drive a mortal mad by trying to understand it.
hilariously, that does make this video an exact parallel to a lovecraftian story; instead of going mad and eventually reaching a state of perverse enlightenment from exposure to cosmic horror, Brian goes mad and eventually reaches a state of serene understanding from exposure to this cosmic mundanity.
Reminder that whilst creating this he was also in the process of reading every Halo book. He filmed Half of this video then went home and read a YA book about cyborg teenagers that was tangentially related to Halo to clear his mind
while kirby has low emotional intelligence, i wouldn’t say he has none at all. in kirby super star (and its remake) he fights dyna blade, a giant armored bird who has been destroying crops on dreamland. but after he defeats her, he finds a nest with chicks, and realizes she wasn’t destroying crops, and was in fact just trying to feed her babies. to make up for this, he takes care of the chicks while dyna blade recovers, bringing her babies apples to eat and teaching them to fly. by the time she’s well again, her babies are full fledged birds, and they fly away together into the sunset while kirby watches them go and waves goodbye. kirby not only understands right from wrong, but he is also capable of empathy. he deviates from his normal life of fulfilling his basic needs, sleep and consumption, probably for quite a while, for the sake of others, specifically to help someone he wronged. and he went beyond the bare minimum. he didn’t just make sure the chicks survive until dyna blade was better, he became a surrogate mother to them, making sure their wellbeing and development didn’t suffer as a result of his actions. kirby isn’t just shaped like a friend. somewhere in that bottomless pit of a gullet of his is a moral code that he lives his simplistic life by.
More than that, i believe kirby isa proponent or a way of life called Egotistical Altruism. in short, it's helping other because it will benefit YOU, YOU get to reap the spoils of their success, alongside them, of course. in Spring Breeze, Dedede stole all the food from a nearby town, and kirby goes and essentially returns everything. Why? well, because its food he can eat, but also because if the villagers are well fed, they produce more food, which means they can make luxury foods, like strawberry Shortcakes, which kirby canonicaly loves (see Squeak Squad). in Dyna Blade, it's beneficial for kirby in the long run to PERSONALLY take care of the dynalings, because they get imprinted onto him, which means he gets to have a defence weapon against Meta Knight, which he ends up destroying the Halberd because of one of the Dina Chicks, (see Dynablade and The Revenge of Meta Knight). Milky Way Wishes is a doozy. MWW basically boils down to "Kirby needs for the sun and moon to stop fighting so they stop interrupting the beautiful weather in which kirby sleeps, either day or night, but if the sun and moon are figthing, they are disturbing the day/night cycle, making it very hard to sleep for him." until Nova is revealed and Marx is the villian, and the situation got personal. kirby isnt going to stay there and get slapped in the face by marx, he needs to get his revenge against this douchebag. The FACT that all this is also very beneficial to everybody is pure coincidence. Kirby is only looking out for No.1, however, he also needs to take care of who basicaly sustain his way of life, so in order to get a confortable life, kirby goes against any and all things that may posses any form of threat to the people of Dreamland
Aww. This is so good and nice and lovely. He's not unknowable; he's a person, and the study of people (psychology) is one of those fields wherein we can understand basically nothing of relevance (because it's both horribly old and brand spanking new).
@@Omegaweaponsguy2 I think youre over analizing. Kirby is extremely simplistic by nature, childlike if you will. Children are sometimes selfish, spoiled or sometimes mean but thats due to ignorance. Kirby lives his life to enjoy. Kirby also enjoy's his friends and doesnt like when people do bad things. He doesnt save people for gain, he does it because 'bad man doing bad things makes people sad and that makes me sad'.
“Kirby only cares about eating and sleeping, and yet, he gains no energy nor pleasure from consuming these things.” Well if that’s not relatable I don’t know what is
@@viewerawesome When you do it merely as a way to not feel the displeasure of hunger and/or not die. There's definitely days where I have no desire to prepare or eat food and gain no real pleasure from doing so, but I have to because hunger sucks more.
The more I see this series, the more I realize "Unraveled" doesn't quite refer to the exploration of various video game topics as much as it refers to the unravelling of Brian David Gilbert's sanity as a person.
The thing about Kirby is, you know how every action has an equal and opposite reaction? Well, Kirby is the equalizer when it comes to all cosmic horrors. If there's a sliding bar for cosmic beings, you can take it all the way to the "evil" side and get something like Void Termina or Yog-Sothoth, but if you take that same slider the same distance in the "good" direction, you'll get Kirby. He's basically the thing that sets the limit for just how much destruction an eldritch abomination is allowed to cause before the universe says "that's enough." You can't make sense of him 'cause he's just as incomprehensible as the otherworldly beings that he fights, as he is of the same nature. Whereas Cthulhu is maddeningly hideous to gaze upon because he's chaos and evil incarnate, Kirby is disarmingly adorable because he's happiness and innocence incarnate. Whereas Azathoth is so complex and bizarre that simply looking at him will shatter your mind, Kirby is as simple as he can be in appearance. Where as the myriad Elder Evils from beyond the void plot and scheme grand designs that play out over millenia, Kirby doesn't plan or want much, just to eat, sleep and enjoy life, not troubling himself with anything too complicated. It's two sides of the same coin. Two polar opposites. We're just so used to one extreme that when we see the other we don't recognize it for what it is. Kirby represents hope in a universe that would otherwise be hopeless, and joy in a universe that would otherwise be miserable. Simplicity in a universe full of complexity and stress. He's a lesson that reminds us that if we take the time to appreciate the little things, then maybe even the scariest things we worry about might not seem so scary anymore. Either that or he's.... You know, just a little pink placeholder sprite that got way too popular by mistake...
This is interesting as the division of a number by the limit approaching 0 is infinity, and yet the division of a number by 0 is undefined. Not a bad metaphor for Kirby.
The reason those cosmic horrors fear Kirby is the same reason you fear him. They do not understand him. They can't. Kirby is an existence beyond comprehension who could erase the entirety of reality, and yet he chooses to live a simple life.
The various descriptions of Kirby in this video are all gold. "Pink puffball" "This vacuous pastel marshmallow" "A barely living kickball" "A circle" "This sentient garbage bag" "This dumb fucking orb" "This dipshit sphere" "The rosy nightmare" "A wheel" *"A METAPHOR FOR CAPITALISM"* wait no hold on... "This horrifying bolus" "This bulbous boy" "An extremely strong circle"
Kirby: you want it to be one way. Brian: what? Kirby: you want it to be one way. Brian: stop saying that. Kirby: you want it to be one way... ...but it’s the other way.
Or, simpler: Kirby has achieved ultimate power, and has nothing left to aspire to. So, instead of working towards that which is beneath him, he lives happily in the moment only taking what he needs to survive and defend those he loves. A hero we can aspire to.
@@gravitygas3891 he is a cosmic horror but rather than conquering, he lives happily in the moment, doing anything that gives him joy. he doesn't feel hungry or tired but he eats and sleep because that was the closest thing he's had left that resembles his once mortal life. he does things simply because he could
@@usagi2934 The cosmic horrors that are his enemies are terrified of him themselves. They know it is too much power for one to command, and they want it for themselves.
It's implied he lets them back out like in Smash Bros, or they just re-materialize somewhere. He's swallowed Bandana Waddle Dee, before, and here he is many games later as the second playable character in Forgotten Land-not to mention King Dedede. I personally imagine it being like when Strange moved Loki into the falling dimension for half an hour to put him in cosmic timeout while he dealt with Thor.
This whole Unraveled was just an excuse for BDG to demonstrate his ability to cry on cue so that Nintendo picks him up for that psychological drama Waluigi movie
There are exactly two Kirby facts that matter 1) Kirby has enemies who are sad and need friends 2) Kirby is shaped like a friend I'll allow you to do the math yourself, but Kirby already knows the answer
It's all in the song. "First you draw a circle." A line wrapped around a Central point. Ending where it began. Alpha meets Omega. Infinite length constrained to two dimensions. Infinite potential housed within the finite construct of reality. Yet nothing can contain the infinite and so "nothing" it must be. And so the shape of it, a circle, rhymes with zero, null, nothing, another circle. o "Then you dot the eyes." It sees. It knows. It observes. But what can observe other than a mind? So a mind it must contain. A soul. A subjective experience. A person. A life. "Add a great big smile" Joy, beauty, happiness, love, excitement. Unconditional acceptance. Its point of view and its understanding of everything. The very nature that transforms an empty shape of infinity from circle to friend. "And presto! It's Kirby!" Presto, it's Kirby. Your wonderful friend who loves you just the way you are.
Kirby is the number zero. He is everything and nothing at the same time, his mouth divides the world into his endless stomach and the endless outside universe. Also, the shape. Think about it Brian
@@emmanuelvargas296 saying Kirby is something more defeats the essence of Kirby. Kirby is just a round pink and simple creature named Kirby, thats it really
Common metaphores: "Getting turned into a bug" "Getting old" "Having a weird painting of yourself" Thank you Brian for helping me understand (I love how this thread has become a wealth of weird literary metaphors)
Kirby is made out of the same thing of the cosmic horror villains, but encarnated into pure friendship and happiness. He's literally the god of friendship
@@risky_busine55 How many times must our pride make us stumble. Oh the hubris. I. too. might once have ruled. but stupidly beguiled by power and pride. misused my strength-I acted wantonly
Bdg giving off strong "high school teacher who grew a mustache to hide the fact that he just graduate college and is only 5 years older than his students" vibes
Actually, there is information on Kirby's origin: Kirby is implied to be made of the same thing as Void in Kirby Star Allies, the ultimate personification of evil in the Kirby universe (Zero, 02, all of the Dark/Dark Matter bosses except for one, and every form of Void (Void Termina, Void Soul, and Void) are incarnations of Void). However, while Void Termina is made up of evil emotions, Kirby is made up of kindness and love. That's how he is so strong. He is literally pure good. Also, if Kirby was summoned by the same process as Void, that means that Kirby was summoned by a cult ritual involving collecting pure good hearts as a sacrifice.
I mean saying he is a cosmic horror( like void) keeps his species and origin just as vage as it could be a new species or litteraly just a cluster of sentient energy that isn't a species but is in reality a mere concept that wanders the cosmos and plagues or bless the space time
Imagine being in the edge of Destruction, the end of the world, and a lot of pure good hearth people standing for one last try at saving everything, then they perform the ritual sacrificing their lives in order to summon this being, not Knowing the future. Their souls creating Kirby.
Kirby isn’t pure good. It’s more that anybody who disrupts his routine is the enemy, and it’s just a coincidence that most of the beings who do that are pure evil.
The list of common metaphors in the background is absolutely SENDING ME Turning into a bug The frivolity of the jazz age A large red A Loving Sleds Don't do a murder Having a weird painting of yourself A REALLY BIG FISH
What are all of them from? The only ones I know are The frivolity of the jazz age - the great Gatsby Loving Sleds - Citizen Kane Don't do a murder - The Tell-Tale Heart? (Though can probably apply to many stories) and a really big fish is moby dick like he said
the metamorphosis, great gatsby, the scarlet letter, the giver, crime and punishment, dorian gray, moby dick... man, high school english class flashbacks
For those wondering, Kirby was named taht after John Kirby, a lawyer who won a lawsuit where Warner Bros. sued Nintendo by saing that Donkey Kong was ripped of of King Kong. You might find this sweet, but in actuality, this is devastating, because we could have had Kirby just be named John.
@@JamesCPotter13 yes and no, most cosmic horrors has the ability to make you go insane by observing them, of course you have to witness them or at the very minimum have an incomplete understanding of them, since the incomplete understanding does not mesh well with once understandings of reality and without fully understanding the cosmic entity You go insane by trying to figure it out almost like attempting to solve a puzzle despite the fact you are missing pieces and continuing to do so knowing you are missing a piece
And also Darling in the Franxx … I'm sure there is more but yes apparently coming-of-age/ sexual tension is necessary for piloting a mech in an anime. Currently watching Gurren Lagann so the juries still out on that one.
DoABarrelRoll in like episode two they say it’s powered by Manly Vigor™ but like the next episode they’re hungry and must restore their Manly Vigor™ with food
@@Cosmolovescheese maybe i shouldve mentioned his chaotic traits more, for example he went on a rampage and accidentally unleashed a god of evil because someone stole a slice of cake. he almost never considers the consequences of his actions and causes a ton of HUGE problems by accident as a result. this could be chaotic neutral i guess since he only ever does this stuff by accident, but when he is able to see and understand that something is evil, he will ALWAYS do whatever it takes to stop it, and always succeeds because of his immense power. hes definitely good by nature because when he isnt angry and acting based on emotions and impulses hes always able to see the good in people, as shown by the fact that hes friendly with king dedede despite the conflict between them which is usually caused by a misunderstanding or by some outside force
@@putriscool I still can’t consider Kirby chaotic good/neutral. I mean first off as a chaotic neutral person, sure we do things of our own desires but we are capable of both good and evil. I’m general we do not care about what’s good or what’s evil, we could do either or depending on how we are feeling. Kirby in the other hand does not do evil. He accidentally causes bad things to happen due to his desires but what about the times he didn’t? He still does good. He still springs straight into action no matter the circumstances and he never would ever purposely do anything bad. Naivety does not equate to chaotic. Freedom is the ideal we strive for. Kirby doesn’t want to be free, he’s just chill. Kirby would very well obey the law strictly if there were any. Something that goes against chaotic neutral beliefs As for chaotic good, they have similar desires of freedom. They do good but typically goes the abstract way of it. Such as not following the law. In general chaotic is simply doing why they want and disregard anything else. Kirby sticks to the path of righteousness no matter the situation and even if he accidentally unleashed something evil because he wanted to eat, that by no means make someone chaotic. A lawful good person could pull out an an ancient sword said to be capable of destroying evil and accidentally releases said evil. That doesn’t make them any less lawful good. Accidents happen, and Kirby surely wouldn’t be interested in eating if he was aware that it would unleash evil
This video is my favorite thing that Polygon has ever done, hands down, no argument. I never get tired of it. The spiel about the cosmic horrors, ending with the phrase "a barely living kickball" kills me every time.
Kirby represents the guileless, yet utterly boundless imagination of children. It’s so simple, yet so complex. The genuine, bright, vivid and innocent things that go on in the heads of children, untampered by the darkness and iniquity of the world. Such simplicity and purity, yet it is quite conversely juxtaposed to infinite power to which the entire world bends. Those are, unequivocally and indisputably, qualities Kirby shares with the mind of a child. Quite fitting, given he’s from a game that was made for children.
@KingdomHearts How to preserve the light? How to resist the darkness? Children. Xehanort was never going to succeed. His enemy was a cosmic horror he could never anticipate: Sora, an ever regressing child who forgets why he should be afraid. His friends protect him from the unknown so he can fulfill his role as "the one who connects". Everything connects to him because he sees no reason why it shouldn't.
“This sounds like the lowest form of life, someone who is stuck on the base of Maslow hierarchy of needs. He wakes up, eats his caloric intake for the day, and falls asleep watching the Great British bake off” ....I am Kirby
that just sounds like depression. IS KIRBY DEPRESSION?! assimilates traits of others instead of forging his own identity, only knows to eat and sleep, fears nothing. WAKE UP AMERICA
i’m pleased to say the first quote i’ve written in my new notebook is “the sea stretches endlessly in front of me, revealing the gentle, kirby-like curve of the planet, and i finally understand.”
I always assumed that Kirby was simply the primitive young version of a cosmic horror. I also assumed that there was another dimension that was holding all the things Kirby ate, and when it got to universe size he would ascend to his next form
"Kirby is an extremely strong circle." Kirby is the Ouroboros metamorphosed, constantly consuming, devouring all because it is all. It's round, like the wrold, because it is the soul of the world. Kirby is the unbroken chain. Kirby is the genesis and the terminus. Kirby is the imago of the Ouroboros -- at peace with its immutable nature. You see, it's a metapho-
But, like all metaphors, this too must break down into dust. For alas, I have yet to see anyone pull a giant legendary f***ing sword from kirby's *******. Maybe it was in beta?
The point about Kirby releasing his opponents in Smash Bros is particularly hilarious. As it's a clear indicator that he has no need to destroy the thing he consumes to assimilate their essence. It's merely the more convenient and expedient option to leave no enemy living. Or he gets some sort of pleasure from absorbing their whole being. In either case he makes the choice to kill.
Not to mention he can give up the power and reanimate the character that was probably trying to harm him, back into a living thing. Now that I mention he can create friends with just sucking projectiles. CAN KIRBY CREATE SENTIENT LIFE?
It could be that perhaps certain enemies are strong enough to remain after. The lesser enemies are destroyed by the copy process but those with certain strengths can withstand it unharmed. I don't see him choosing to let his opponents live in a battle to the death.
@Liam Keogh Incorrect! My girl potted piranha is the apex of the species, holding the power of every other piranha plant and even boasting some unique qualities all her own.
I think its because he can't gain full access to a creature's powers without damaging them beyond repair. When he absorbs someone in smash, he only copys one ability. The other fighter is damaged during this process, but only a little. Still, this shows that just copying one trait of a creature causes damage to them. Copying the entirety of a creatures arsenal would definitely kill them
I think you somehow missed the trick AND hit the mark: He eats when he's hungry and sleeps when he's tired, remarkably similar to the Zen monk Bankei's teaching of performing no miracles - "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep." Also a circle - the first thing to draw when realising Kirby - is the symbol of Zen. At the same time, realising that not everything needs an explanation and that life is easier when you don't overthink things too much is pretty much in line with this ideology. I can't tell if that's deliberate or not, either way well done.
Well that's kinda the point of unraveled. To overthink things that, as Brian's own mother says, don't really matter. So far the lesson we learn at the end of every single video is that, maybe we just should accept what we've got instead of questioning dumb stuff. Unraveled is the series that is a metaphor for what it is like to be the complete opposite of zen. So is this comment.
@@manoumanou2859 basically, Theres this Thing called void, and its basically an non-concious creator god, and every time it Hits a positive or negative Emotion, it creates a mini-god. Kirby was created by a very strong positive Emotion, and void Termina, the Games Boss, was created by a strong negative one. Thats why His Heart(the Bubble Thing you Fight while inside His Body) kinda Looks like kirby
Kirby is the positive incarnation of an elder god. The final boss of every kirby game is made of hatred and anger, and kirby is the opposite, made entirely of positive energy. He's literally a god
In b4 the usual "he was a product of his time" bullshit, as if our being more progressive today weren't the result of many people in previous generations knowing better and refusing to tolerate their fellows' nonsense.
I think he was just making a joke. I try not to assume every time someone mentioned it they are making a political statement. Then again maybe I'm just naive.
Kirby is Nintendo's SCP-999. A blob of pure goodness with no ulterior intentions or motives, who stops evil with kindness and brings happiness to those around him.
If Kirby is everything and nothing then he has achieved Zen, becoming one with the universe and thus dissolving his sense of self and ceasing to be Kirby. No wonder he is so hard to define. Kirby has achieved enlightenment, but has not reached Nirvana? Or perhaps Kirby IS Nirvana itself, drawing in those fully enlightened to become nothing and yet part of his everythingness, but spitting out the heroes who have not yet achieved Zen. He eats and sleeps, but does not desire? He is living Zen, in the present--washing his bowls, to quote the koan. He does not speak--what use are words when one is enlightened. Yet he has great knowledge? But of course. He is shaped like a friend? He is the embodiment of contentment and freedom from suffering. **Kirby is the ultimate destination of every living soul. He is all of us, or shall be by the end of all life.**
-I believe you’re thinking of Buddhism and the eightfold path my friend- Edit: wait no nevermind, turns out i dont know shit about buddhism who’da thunk
No cap, my first thought after watching this video was that the story of Kirby is the perfect example of a koan, but as I gave it more consideration after reading your comment, I realized that he is so much more than that. In terms of teaching great doubt as through koans, both Kirby and this video demonstrate that the pursuit of knowledge instead of enlightenment is ultimately useless. There is no answer as to why Kirby exists, and that is his purpose: to remind us that we do not require answers in all things. BDG presents Kirby through dichotomy, but in reality these seemingly contradictory characteristics exist in one being. Through accepting this contradiction and the impossibility of true understanding, we accept that there are questions without answers. This video perfectly portrays the acceptance of great doubt, but beyond that, it explains how Kirby embodies Original Face- he is the everything and nothing of enlightenment. Without origin, he literally shows us what his face was before his parents were born, because he exists beyond his origin, and what does that face look like? A friend. As you said, Kirby may even be Nirvana itself, a physical manifestation of enlightenment and our relationship to it, and I strongly appreciate your analysis of this relationship. Kirby is one of the greatest tools for expressing the realities of Zen through modern media, and may help us all on the path towards enlightenment through his story and his games.
I love how he never mentioned that kirby is positive emotion. The implied canon backstory is that kirby is dark matter made of or with positive emotions. He has at least as much power as dark matter world destroyers such as void termina, but positive emotion is stronger than negative emotion making him stronger than the world destroyers he fights.
Unraveled has gone through different phases: It all started with gamer analyst Brian, describing Zelda, Skyrim, Castlevania, Sonic and Megaman. Then Brian reached his professional maturity and became the greatest beurocrat of RU-vid. Smash Osha violations, Bowser military hierarchy (best of all time in my humble opinion) and Game of the year. Needing some respite from his technocratic life Brian then explored different aspects of everyday life, a simpler phase but one that carried much meaning. Hobbies like calculating your pet HP, relationships in mortal kombat best kuddlers, cooking with zelda recipes, all culminating in Brian looking at his life as a whole in the sims episode. Then came this new phase, with the acceptance of his everyday life, Brian has now turned to his inner self, to unravel the philosophical realities that fight inside him and out in the world. The Luigi episode was a darker look at his fears and insecurities. Kirby reflects the eternal curse of having an insatiable thirst for understanding a world that cannot be understood. Where will you bring us next philosopher Brian? What dark corners of your mind will you unravel next? I will always love beurocrat Brian for his applying irl society standards to videogames, but I welcome you and praise you still
16:11 The worst part is that according to the trailer for Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the beginning of the game is the literal foil for this scene. The developers at Hal Laboratories are some sly rascals and I LOVE it.
it's implied in Kirby star allies that Kirby is the opposite of dark matter, where dark matter is a being born of negative emotions, kirby is one born of positive emotions. both are born from the entity known as void.
I remember the anime mentioning something about Kirby being in a stage of infancy, that he was technically a baby form of whatever his "species" is. _Which means he isn't even at his most powerful form yet...._
Yeah. If i recall, he was created by N.M.E. as a monster. But he was the one monster that wouldn't bend to N.M.E.'s will, which basically resulted in him being a star warrior??? Also Meta Knight or someone said that Kirby wasn't meant to awaken for another THOUSAND YEARS. The only reason he woke up so early was DeDeDe's obsession with monsters. Which basically means that Kirby was meant to be the ultimate monster, is just an infant, in 1000 years he'll basically become god because he'll actually have the intelligence to use his powers, but will have lost all his friends (except maybe meta knight? Who knows?) and as such we should fear him.
Swift-Wind-ll I don’t it it’s cannon that Meta Knight was referring to Kirby when talking about a creature created by Nightmare with incredible power but wouldn’t bend to his will, not to mention the anime isn’t the best to pull Kirby’s origins since it doesn’t fit in with the game, because in one of the games it mentions that Kirby was brought by a spring breeze, Kirby and Dedede’s first ‘adventure’ together was because Dedede stole all the food without using any monsters, and the fact that in Star Allies, Void will sometimes pull a Kirby face...
@@gordo8354 it's hinted that he's basically sentient dark matter that just decided to hang out with his pals and eat food instead of devour all existence
yeah Kirby was meant to be a powerful star warrior who was traveling in a spaceship or whatever but he crash-landed hundreds of years too soon so he didn't get the time to fully age and become as powerful as he's meant to be
I always figured Kirby was an expression of Taoism: soft but tough, unique but universal, simple but complex... The dichotomy is a false dichotomy. Apparent contradictions can coexist in a perfectly balanced being. Kirby lives simply because desire is the root of suffering. The Circle is a metaphor for the Yin and the Yang of Life.
Not just any human buildings. They mention riding the train to Coney Island in the end credits. That's the most civilization you can get; New York City.
@@Novaliod Void Soul is called a god of destruction, and Kirby is the result of void assimilating positive energy rather than negative; therefore, Kirby is a friendly god of destruction.
In actual Kirby lore (Star Allies spoilers ahead), Kirby is actually heavily implied to be made of or somehow related to Void/Dark Matter, and also is heavily implied to be an eldritch godlike being.
The Breath of the Wild foods one is my personal favorite, the fact that he's not really acting and is just being hilarious as himself is great. This one was amazing too though.
every unraveled episode makes me want to put on a fresh pot of coffee even though its 10pm and start writing a 20 page thesis due in 24hours on some obscure topic that nobody in my life cares about
And then you stumble around your apartment for a few hours before realising you're not talented enough to write a 20 page thesis on anything, let alone something someone in your life cares about. You then cry yourself to sleep after realising your own worthlessness, and wake up the next day and do it all again.
@@svgarangy80 the power of bullshitting your way through an essay you know nothing about and not getting to terribly stressed is arguably the greatest skill you can learn
I KNOW RIGHT? I actually did it! It took me a whole week tho, but I ended up with a video essay analyzing and drawing all of the Pokemons HAHAHA Now I admire BDG even more.
Kirby’s enemies are cosmic horrors because he himself is a cosmic horror, he has simply forgotten about it. The same way that mortals go mad when the true nature of cosmic horrors are revealed to them, Kirby’s mind has eroded from knowing all there ever was to know. He is now incapable of much language, or emotional intelligence, or higher thought. But his body still remembers. His friend shape used to draw people in for him to unleash his endless power, and now these things exist without reason, for he himself has forgotten why. The other cosmic horrors still see him as an enemy to keep him in check in case he one day awakens again. For he used to rule them all.
To add to this, the Second phase of Void Termina's battle has Kirby's face, and if Void Termina had not been stopped, it would have destroyed ( or eaten) the worlds. Do not anger him or he will feast on your soul, while smiling with joy.
Brasstail Except they’re also the same cosmic horror, a different incarnation of the same one, he’s just the only one that’s “friendly” and by extension opposed to the chaotic, malicious powers that seek to destroy him
