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Okay, in all seriousness, that depends.
The Kirby franchise as a whole doesn't have a continuos canon written down.
So it's kinda up to where you draw the line.
If you hold me at knifepoint I could try to break down like this:
* Game Canon:
Kirby's Dream Land, Kirby's Adventure, Kirby's Dream Land 2,
Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Land 3, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards,
Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, Kirby: Squeak Squad, Kirby's Return to Dream Land,
Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Kirby: Planet Robobot, Kirby Star Allies, Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
Those games are considered to be the 'core'/'main' line games
due to a bunch of reasons (direct interviews, internal game names).
Since a few of these games have "alternative" stories minigames
or special/extra modes,
some people only consider what happens
during the main story to be canon, but may choose to
include lore information (such as information in special
modes-exclusive bosses' descriptions)
to be canon.
In addition, there are several spin-off games that some people
may or may not include in what they consider as canon. Same as the special modes information,
some people only consider lore information to be canon, while disregarding the events
of the games themselves.
A further level of information comes from interviews, either to
news sources, videos or game magazines. Official websites, manuals, art books, game guides and concept art
may also be used to pull information and details from, which may be considered canon.
* Anime Canon:
This would be Kirby Right back at Ya!, which has its own lore,
worldbuilding, characters and stuff. The anime has been referenced
a few times in the games
(such as enemies appearing in Mass Attack), but if you ask me, I consider them
to be two completely different things.
* Light Novels Canon:
There's a collection of Kirby novels by Mie Takase. These
are based off the the games (main and spin-off),
and novels 18 and 20 have the games' direction as a co-writter.
* Manga Canons:
Each manga series has its own canon.
* Sakurai Canon:
This is like whatever Sakurai says. But uh, I don't know why you would do this.
* Anything else that is official (comics, ads, comments, etc etc, toys, collabs)
For maximum Kirby enjoyment I reccommend doing whatever you want.
For example, I like to
HC with full game canon,
with some pupupuhero manga sprinkled in for fun.
I believe all canons are made equal except Kirby german comic
but reality can be whatever u want man i dont give a gaf
magolor voice: I LOVE lying.
Kirby main stuff is videogames, it's where he started and his whole deal. (Keep in mind I'm biased, this is how I see things.) This is what I would list for the 'main' line games:
Kirby's Dreamland
Kirby's Adventure
Kirby's Dreamland 2
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Dreamland 3
Kirby 64: the Crystal Shards
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
Kirby: Squeak Squad*
Kirby's Return to Dreamland
Kirby Triple Deluxe
Kirby Planet Robobot
Kirby: Star Allies
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
* Kirby: Squeak Squad was not considered a main game for a while, as it and its sequel have cameos of anime character/locations. However, one of the characters of that game appeared in Kirby: Star Allies as a playable character, and according to interviews they only chose characters from "core games" to appear in Star Allies.
On an opposite note, Kirby's Epic Yarn was considered a main game by fans but now some think of it as a spin-off due to the same information: No character from EY appears in Star Allies, therefore it's not a core game.
The first game starts off in the country of Dreamland, a peaceful and carefree place in the star-shaped planet Popstar. But one night, a self-proclaimed king called King Dedede (or just DDD) steals all the food in Dreamland with the help of his minions, as well as magical stars that Dream Landers use to fly and play. The next morning, Kirby volunteers to retrieve the food and stars from Dedede's castle. He is successful!
In Kirby's Adventure, King Dedede stole a magical wand called the Star Rod, which powers the Fountain of Dreams. This causes the residents of Pop Star to be unable to have dreams, as the Fountain had the magical ability to give everyone good dreams and restful sleep. He broke the rod and gave the pieces to his friends, and of course, Kirby set out to stop the king once again! He defeats every one of the king's minions, including a strange enemy called Meta Knight, and he fixes the Star Rod. Then he defeats the king at the Dream Fountain and puts the Star Rod back in its place.
However, King Dedede was trying to protect Dreamland by deactivating the Fountain, because an evil wizard called Nightmare had corrupted it, and when Kirby returned the Star Rod to its place, the wizard escaped the Fountain and set out to cause havoc and nightmares to the universe.
So DDD yeets Kirby into space so he can defeat Nightmare. He is successful, and the Fountain of Dreams can be restored without further issues! However, Popstar's moon now has a hole in it.
Kirby's Dreamland 2, 3 and Crystal Shards all are part of the same story: An entity from space, Dark Matter, arrives at Dreamland. It's jealous of the Dream Lander's peaceful and friendly lives, as it was a lonely creature, so it destroys a Rainbow Bridge and possesses King Dedede. As one does when you're lonely. Kirby teams up with three friends: Rick the Hamster, Coo the Owl and Kine the Fish, to travel to seven islands to gather rainbow drops to make a Rainbow Sword to restore the bridge and defeat Dark Matter (who has a sword). They're successful!
However, Dark Matter isn't one of a kind, but a group of creatures. And time later, the leader of the Dark Matters, Zero, arrives at Dream Land alongside a large number of Dark Matters, who start possessing the inhabitants of the planet. Kirby sets out with 4 friends, Nago the Cat, Pitch the Bird, Chuchu the Octopus and a strange creature called Gooey, to defeat Zero and restore the peace. Gooey is also a Dark Matter, but his origins and reasons of being different are unknown, and since he has memory problems, he himself doesn't know. Despite everything, they're successful and Zero dies. Also, Samus from Metroid appears in this game.
Then, far away from DreamLand, the planet Ripple Star is attacked by Dark Matter much like Popstar was, but its inhabitant, fairies, don't have anyone to defend them against the invasion. The Dark Matters are trying to get to a giant crystal that the Queen keeps in her castle, so she tasks one faeries, Ribbon, to take it and keep it safe. But Ribbon is intercepted and attacked by three Dark Matters (Rimuru, Rimura and Rimuro) and the crystal is destroyed, its shard flying all over the galaxy and getting lost.
Ribbon herself is unharmed, and she crash lands in Popstar where she meets Kirby. He volunteers to help her gather the broken crystal shards and save Ripple Star. They start searching in Popstar, but the Dark Matters are following them and they possess 3 different characters: Ado/Adeleine (a human painter), a Waddle Dee (the most common enemy species) and King Dedede. Kirby and Ribbon help all of them, and they all join in their quest as they go to different planets.
They gather the shards and fix the crystal, and defeat the Dark Matter in Ripple Star. But there are two endings depending on if the player got ALL the crystal shards or not.
The bad ending shows the Queen with an evil expression at the end after the heroes leave Ripple, implying she was possessed by Dark Matter.
The true ending confirms that, as the Dark Matter possessing her flees when seeing the full crystal. Ribbon and Kirby have to fight the REAL final boss: Miracle Matter and 0²/Zero2, which is usually believed to be Zero, who came back to life somehow. They succeed with the help of the Crystal Shards gun and everything's fine after that.
Kirby Super Star (and its remaster/remake, Kirby Super Star Ultra) are a collection of small games, each of them with their own story.
Dyna Blade: A rainbow bird called Dyna Blade starts terrorizing Dream Land in search of food, Kirby has to defeat it. However, Dyna Blade is a mother and she was searching for food to feed her chicks. So Kirby helps gather food for them and teaches them to fly. Dyna Blade then becomes Kirby's friend.
Meta Knight's Revenge: One of King Dedede's minions/friends from Kirby's Adventure, Meta Knight, decides he has had enough of the king and decides to stage a coup with his giant flying battleship, the Halberd, to take over Dream Land. Kirby must stop him because he's not going to let anyone take over Dream Land. Kirby defeats Meta Knight and crashes the Halberd in the sea. Meta Knight isn't very happy about this but Kirby just leaves the crime scene with style and calls it a day.
Milkyway Wishes: The Sun and Moon start fighting PvP style, causing the day and night cycle to go out of control. A clown-like creature called Marx asks Kirby to stop them! And the only way to do so is to summon something called a Clockwork Star, or Nova, to ask him to make them stop as he can make any wish come true. But when Kirby summons Nova, Marx appears out of nowhere and yeets him out of the way, and he reveals it was HIM who made the Sun and Moon fight, specifically so Kirby would do all the hard work of summoning Nova. Then he makes his wish: to control Popstar. Nova grants him great power, as well as some cool wings, but Nova loses his energy and starts falling towards Popstar. That does make the Sun and Moon to stop fighting. So Kirby defeats Marx, and in the process Nova is destroyed tragically. But Marx doesn't give up so easily, and he absorbs Nova's power and becomes Marx Soul. But that is still no match for Kirby, and he makes Marx split in half and explode while screaming. Despite that, Marx is fine.
Revenge of the King: King Dedede has had enough of Kirby and challenges him to a final fight, throwing his whole army to stop him. But Kirby just defeats everyone. At the end, there's only one Waddle Dee left who has hope in the king, a waddle dee with a blue bandada, a.k.a Bandana Waddle Dee, and he makes a valiant last stand against Kirby to defend his king.
Bandana is the easiest boss in the game and Kirby just breezes past him to fight King Dedede, who he also defeats.
Meta Knightmare Ultra: Similar to Milkyway Wishes but the player uses Meta Knight instead of Kirby, as Meta Knight sets out to summon Nova to make his wish to fight the strongest warrior in the galaxy. Nova grants his wish and summons someone called Galacta Knight. This mode isn't considered canon, but it is Galacta Knight's first appearance.
In the Amazing Mirror, a magical mirror that exists in the skies of Dreamland becomes corrupted and Meta Knight tries to fix it himself. He fails, becomes trapped in the mirror, and his doppelganger from the mirror (Dark Meta Knight) wrecks havoc in the regular Dreamland. This havoc includes making 3 copies of Kirby, but they're good sooooo. So Kirby and the other 3 Kirbies go inside the Amazing Mirror to save the Mirror World and Meta Knight. They're successful, and they meet Kirby's Mirror Doppleganger, Shadow Kirby, who helps them a little bit in the final fight. The day is saved and everything related to the mirror becomes even more confusing later on.
The Squeak Squad is a band of rodent-like thieves who steal Kirby's cake, but he believes it was King Dedede so he goes to hit him with a stick. He is successful in doing so but the thieves storm the castle and steal a lot of DDD's stuff, so Kirby realizes he messed up and goes after the true cake thieves. Their leader, Daroach, is trying to keep one of the chests he stole when Meta Knight appears out of nowhere and takes it, just running away without saying anything. Both Kirby and Daroach go after him, but in the end Daroach gets the chest and opens it. Inside the chest there was an evil entity called Dark Nebula who possesses Daroach. Kirby defeats him again with a stick. Daroach and the Squeak Squad now have learnt their lesson. They don't change their criminal ways at all, just learnt to not mess with Kirby so they become friends.
In Kirby's Return to Dreamland, a weird spaceship crashes into Dreamland and Kirby, Bandana Waddle Dee, King Dedede and Meta Knight go to see what happened. Inside there's an alien egg who is now all sad because his ship is missing parts so he's stranded away from home. He says his name is Magolor and that the ship is Lor Starcutter, that he's from another planet far away called Halcandra. He talks a little bit about an ancient civilisation he was researching: The Ancients, who were rumoured to build fountains of dreams and stars that could grant wishes. As well about his ship, which might be able to talk. He also mentions that he has heard of Dreamland and its pink hero before, from someone. But he just doesn't elaborate on any of this.
The heroes volunteer to help him, and when they fix the ship, Magolor takes them on a trip to Halcandra. Halcandra sucks. They're attacked by a dragon called Landia, and Magolor explains that Landia is the reason he crashes in Dreamland: He tried to fight Landia but lost. Kirby and his friends offer to defeat Landia, and they do so.
But that was a mistake because Landia was guardian a magical item called the Master Crown, which was what Magolor was trying to get in order to use its power to take over the universe. Usual cat stuff. So Kirby and his friends, alongside Landia, have to defeat Magolor. They do so, but at one point the Crown possesses Magolor and then he vanishes into thin air. He's fine though.
He's so sorry about that whole situation that he builds a theme park in Dreamland.
The Amazing Mirror appears again in Kirby's Triple Deluxe. A spider-creature called Taranza gave it as a gift to the Queen Sectonia from Floralia; a floating archipelago. However, the mirror corrupted her and made her evil, so she sent Taranza to kidnap "The Hero of Dreamland" so she could take over the world without issues. The citizens of Floralia make a wish upon a small seed called the Dreamstalk to bring them help, and the seed grows into a giant stalk that lifts Kirby's house (and King Dedede's castle) into the sky, giving him access to Floralia.
Taranza got confused and he kidnapped King Dedede instead of Kirby, so Kirby had to go save the king. Sectonia is furious with Taranza and calls him useless, and goes on with her plans and fuses with the Dreamstalk, becoming a giant flower. Kirby of course defeats her.
Spin offs and character descriptions imply that Sectonia and Taranza used to be friends, and that he might've even been in love with her, and that Sectonia went so mad and obsessed with her own beauty that she stopped caring about her friend. Sectonia dies.
Planet Robobot also hits the "oh that's so sad" character backstory, as the main villains of the game Pres. Haltmann and Susie (two aliens) are father and daughter, but the father has lost all memories of his daughter and could no longer recognize her.
They lead a company called Haltmann Works, that invades Dreamland to drain it of its natural resources and take over the flora and fauna. Kirby, once again, goes to defeat them. Then it's revealed they wanted the resources to power up a machine called Star Dream, which was a Clockwork Star they built, which the President was going to use to wish to have his daughter back. While she was right there.
Susie didn't seem to know her dad had forgotten her, and held a grudge against him due to him not treating her like his daughter, going as far as to betray him to try to steal Star Dream to "teach him a lesson", but this causes the machine to malfunction and "delete" her father's soul. Susie is fine, but her dad isn't-
Kirby Star Allies, a family of 4 mages who were banished to the edge of the galaxy eons ago decide to summon a dark god to destroy the universe, but the ritual goes wrong and the summoning crystal, the Jamba Heart, is destroyed, its pieces scattering across the galaxy. The three sisters, Flamberge, Francisca and Zan Partizanne, set out to gather the broken pieces of the Jamba Heart. But those pieces are also evil and they possess people, making them violent and giving them superpowers. King Dedede is possessed and he steals the food of Dreamland again. Kirby finds a good piece of the Jamba Heart which is full of positive energy, and he goes to save his friends from the weird evil heart pieces.
He fights the sisters, who get angrier with him every time, and chases them until their HQ in outer space, where their father, Hyness, is. He has gone mad much like Queen Sectonia, and his obsession with the Jamba Heart made him cold and unfeeling towards his own daughters, using them as literal shields from Kirby's attacks. In the end, the family does succeed in summoning the dark god: Void Termina but Kirby defeats it with the power of friendship. Then Hyness gets lost in Another Dimension, his daughter are even angrier with Kirby but it all works out in the end, and with the end of the universe avoided and the evil energy of the Jamba Heart destroyed, Hyness can return to caring about his daughters. They go on vacation to the beach.
The most recent game, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, one day, interdimensional portals open up all over Popstar and start sucking everything in, but mainly Waddle Dees. Kirby and some other characters also get sucked in.
They end up in the Forgotten Land, the ruins of a mysterious civilization. The Waddle Dees are captured by a bunch of animals, called the Wild Pack, and Kirby goes and saves them. In the process, Kirby saves a little creature called Elfilin. Meta Knight starts protecting a group of Waddle Dees who setup a small town to live in, and they also make a house for Kirby there, copying his house from PopStar.
As Kirby goes around saving everyone, he find King Dedede who's gone feral/mind controlled, and is working for the Wild Pack. King Dedede steals Elfilin and Kirby goes to save him. One epic adventure later, turns out the big boss of the Wild Pack, Leon, has been under mind control of a creature that the previous inhabitants of the civilization experimented on. Elfilin is a part of that creature, who's called Elfilis. Stuff happens, and Kirby hits Elfilis with a truck. The end. For now. Until Elfilis elder kin, Meteonelfilis shows up, but it's fine because Kirby also fixes that.
Spin-offs
Kirby's Pinball Land: Kirby pins in land
Kirby's Dream Course: Keeby first appearance. golfing
Kirby's Avalanche: This one is a reskin of another game (like that one mario game), so Kirby talks and is kinda rude
Kirby's Block Ball: Kirby block balling
Kirby's Star Stacker: Tetris. This is where Gryll is
Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble: Kirby balling again
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land: Remake of first game
Kirby Air Ride: Kirby gets a DIU
Kirby: Canvas Curse: An evil painting comes to life and makes life a painting, Kirby beats her up
Kirby Super Star Ultra: Remake of Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Epic Yarn: Kirby steals a man's tomato, gets sent to the Yarn Dimension, meets Prince Fluff, and they go beat up the guy Kirby stole the tomato from
Kirby Mass Attack: A being of darkness and evil tries to kill Kirby but he just splits him into 10 smaller but weaker Kirbies. The Kirbies go beat him up. Daroach is there
3D Classics: Kirby's Adventure: Kirby..remake
Kirby's Dream Collection: Kirby races Magolor. Magolor cheats. Magolor loses anyway somehow
Kirby Fighters Deluxe: Kirby Smash
Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe: King Dedede hits the drums. Taranza is there
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse: Two girls make a world of rainbows, then evil attacks and turns one of them evil and sucks the color out of the world, and also sucks the color out of Popstar (turning everything grey and to stone). The other girl paints Kirby and Bandana Waddle Dee back to life help her save her friend who is also a girl, perhaps, her girl friend.
Team Kirby Clash Deluxe: Kirby Fantasy AU, im not even kidding. this is a different dimension. In a strange land, a wanderer arrives to stop an evil wizard
Kirby's Blowout Blast: Kirby is very small but in 3D
Kirby Battle Royale: King Dedede holds a battle royale but he prints out Kirby copies to beat up Kirby. Kirby just wants some cake
Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn: Kirby epic yarn remake
Super Kirby Clash: Same thing as Clash Deluxe. Magolor is there
Kirby Fighters 2: Kirby Smash 2, but King Dedede and Meta Knight built a "buddy tower" and used evil masks and got possessed
Kirby's Dream Buffet: Kirby eats a lot and has a lot of fun
Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe: Remake of Return to Dreamland, but has the extra "soggy homeless Magolor" mode
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