Badass Bookworm: If Kirby's Return to Dream Land is of any indication, as he's seen reading a book during the game's introductory cutscene.but don't let any of that distract you from the fact that he's known as one of the strongest beings on Pop Star for very, very good reason. It's made extra adorable by the fact that he tries to hide said face with his mask, acting extremely shy and either fleeing or frantically covering his face whenever it gets broken. Badass Adorable: Meta Knight's a Waddling Head with the same cute face as Kirby.Smash 4 depicted them as yellow in Kirby's Meta Knight-based alternate costume, which were then adopted in the main series from Planet Robobot onwards. In earlier games, Meta Knight's eyes were white under his mask due to technical limitations preventing his eyes from being colored yellow.Official artwork also occasionally showed armored gauntlets and sabatons that weren't consistently depicted in-game until Smash 4. Brawl that the color scheme was finally standardized (duller blue shoulder plates with the silver collar). In his sprites, his cape has a silver collar, but in the anime and official artwork it's cyan. The design of Meta Knight's armor was highly variable in earlier games in his sprites, he usually has silver shoulder plates, while in the anime and other official artwork they're a duller blue.Kirby's Avalanche changed it to the familiar navy and silver, which stuck with Super Star. In Kirby's Adventure, Meta Knight has a black body with a purple mask.Anti-Hero: He does a surprising amount of morally questionable things for such an adorable looking guy, but he does mean well most of the time and never really tries anything legitimately evil without some relatively benevolent end goal to it.The third, Meta Knightmare Returns (sub-game of Planet Robobot) is a non-canon What If? scenario where he fends off the Haltmann Works Company's invasion while Kirby takes a nap, and fights stronger enemies and bosses along the way. The second is Meta Knightmare Ultra (sub-game of Super Star Ultra) where he plays in the first 5 sub-games (not including Gourmet Race) as he journeys to become stronger and find a worthy opponent. The very first is a sub-game of Nightmare in Dream Land where he fights everyone including himself he has lower health than Kirby but can run much faster. Another Side, Another Story: The "Meta Knightmare" series are sub-games dedicated to playing the whole game in Time Trial as Meta Knight who wishes to become stronger by undergoing the same challenges Kirby went through.Similarly, Galacta Knight and Morpho Knight appear even more similar to Meta Knight than they do to Kirby. What, if any, significance this has is unknown. Ambiguously Related: Removing his mask reveals he look enough like Kirby to suggest they're the same species. Actually a Doombot: The first encounter with him and King Dedede in Kirby Fighters 2 turns out to be a pair of Waddle Dees in disguise.24-Hour Armor: He's never seen without his armor/mask.
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