Ask Guru Gobbo #80

1) Chuchu is, by anyone's best guess, an octopus. Some say "a blob", others (don't) say gum, but being as they are Animal Friends, the octo proposal makes the most sense. Sadly, the second wave of pets didn't have introductions such as "Name the What" like the initial breed did.

2) Could? Yes, very much so. Will I? No. Said before, this is supposed to be an insightful section answers questions. What the half-thought-out, funny cartoon figure to the side of the answers does is irrelevant and shouldn't be cared about

3) Nightmare is just a nightmare. This is entirely his origin. He had no real power. Zero, on the other hand, is a powerful force that enslaved worlds under his dark dominance. Nightmare, of course, was pretty much given the entire 0-trait sheet when he became the villain in the animated series since Nightmare, previous to that, was a one-shot, never-to-be-seen-again foe. Zero had several encounters under his belt at that point, but, no, the Kirby team was fractured and had something against "those" titles and went the other route.

1) That is Buu-Robot. Truthfully, "mini" does not belong before any of those people's names. That is just an unofficial prefix adjoined to the name to differentiate it from the Boss of that level since they are, in every case, preceded by a micro-version of themselves. Or, in the case of folks like Cappy and Squishy, they are followed by an inflated version of themselves. Regardless, Buu Robot has his name reported on the Boss page. It was a joyous day when Kine the Genius found out what that thing was called for everyone. It would seem that the excitement had quickly caused the boss page to be updated but not the enemy page that also mentioned, in effect, that boss's name. There's tons of that junk floating around Rainbow Resort. It's like an Easter Egg hunt.

2) Yes, there are several flawed names on that page. I have a lot of enemy pages in updated versions but, due to layout hitches, they have yet to be posted. "Birdy" is one of those crummy, false names that is thrown out every now and then. But, hey, when you have things like "Sparky" and "Spiky", who can blame one for trying? As for Kabooma, that is not Bomber. Bomber is the the Crash enemy, shaped like a bomb similar to an atomic bomb. Heavy duty stuff. Kabooma, on the other hand, is shaped like the spherical, cartoon bomb, like those tossed by Poppy Bros. Sr. Now, in truth, I don't really know if that is its real name, but it is different enough to warrant a different denotation than the familiar and established skull faced bomb foe.

3) I would complain about something like that, and probably have. Thing is, Buboo is in a game I don't have. I don't normally go near or touch any pages related to games I don't play or have knowledge on since I can't verify that the information is true. There's a lot of garbage proliferated across the internet, trust me. Why, take this for example. Man, this is a steamin' load.

4) I have no idea what your talking about, be it the question having come up before or what paintings you are referring to. Anyhoo, I've delved into it, and they barely even get mention. They aren't recorded on any enemy lists, and that's mostly the way I know stuff about Canvas Curse. It's not to well documented of a game, sadly. However, in this case, it seems more that they are just that unimportant. Just a wield thing thrown at players to give 'em the creeps in conjunction with the sinister music.

Nope. "Dream Land" is just the American name. I know I sometimes like to think that, but it's just a load of bull. The real name is "Pupupu Land". The States just went with Dream Land since, well, it sounds a lot more magical over here than a string of syllables that resemble feces. Not good. Yep, "Pupupu" has no connotations of dreaming or fantasy to it. It's all just a translation error.

1) Meta Knight only has one slew of minions, The Meta Knights: Ax Knight, Trident Knight, Mace Knight, and Javelin Knight. The other knights of the blades do not count as his minions, even though they are used in the animated series and Super Star Ultra.

2) No. I ... I really think it would just not be good. Really, they have Smash Bros. That's all of the crossover any video game characters need. It's about the only way to mesh all of the different game plays together.

3) He would have very bad breath for a very long time. Skunks don't have powers, after all. He absorbs abilities. It's fun to say stuff would happen, but that's not really the case. The animated series be damned! Eating ice cubes doesn't give you Ice power.

Thank you! Now, I'm not thanking you for ending it, I'm thanking you for confirming something I always thought. You see, I could have sworn I remembered the official Galacta Knight flavor text saying "sealed away long ago", but the problem was that I could never find this text replicated from an actual screen shot. There's even been mention of his pastness before, but since more mention of temporal distortion came up than a tragic past, I couldn't just fly with this scenario.

In fact, in my original response to Future Kirby question, I originally had this large, over-the-top chew out about how stupid the proposal was because of the very specific text, "seal away long ago". The problem was, I couldn't find this. I could only find mention of time being bent. Man, I wish I saved that whole spiel, too, as I really went all out on the guy. But, no, no one could have a simple screen capture of this text or easily found mention of it. Now, I look the fool when, from the start, I had it right but couldn't find actual support to that end. And that's why I hate stupid people who miss blatant and obviously given facts.

Also, that's not really "research". Research generally involves more than looking at the screen. That's just ... well, looking at the screen. I don't really do "research" on a person by telling you what their hair color is when I'm just looking at them.

1) The easiest boss, is by far, King Dedede. He's still a final boss, people. Just because it was the first game doesn't mean he's exempt from the running.

2) No, Marx was evil. He wanted what every cartoony super villain desired: to rule the world and have ultimate power. That's selfish power mongering. Nightmare, evil. Darm Matter, evil. Daroach, power hungry. Once again, King Dedede takes the cake, literally. All he did was have the munchies. Selfish and greedy, yes, but in the end harmless... kinda.

3) People like to waste time.

4) That's not a guess at all. It's what I've stated in sessions before. Original concept to poor reception any day.

No. Not at all. No where close. This is deja vu. At least your assumption is more logical. "Meta-" is a lot closer to "metal" than it is "mecha-". I don't know where that nut was coming from.

But, yeah, no. "Meta-" is a defined prefix of a certain meaning. It fits nicely with Meta Knight in comparison to all the other ones, setting him out as the diamond in the rough. If he was to be named after his mask, then he'd be "Mask Knight", not what it was crafted from. In fact, I think every other one of the Knight enemies has more metal in their character than he does. Suits of armor, wider covering helmets, bigger weapons, or are totally robotic.

1) Dark Matter is a dominating, all controlling, all feared, super powerful force that held the solar system on the brink of despair. You think collecting some space debris is a feat out of it's league? Believe me, that's not going to break it.

2) Miracle Matter is suppose to be a clever, thought provoking battle that requires use of abilities and mixing to challenge the player. However, from what I've heard about it (having never faced the fiend myself), the concept went far beyond what it would seem to reach and turned out far more demanding a fight than it should have been for the rest of the game's pace.

Kookler sets you off but Bounder being named "Climber Guy" doesn't set off any bells? Yeah, that page, and most of the old enemy pages, are ripe with misinformation. As for the culprit, every page, ever, gives the creator or at least the last person responsible for righting it (yes, righting it). Yeah... it's an old page. Information wasn't as easy to find back then. Again, per your previous question, I have a large cache of updated pages to plop out, but they're sitting in some mess with layout hassle and whatnot.

1) Tradition has Pac-Man's saying as "wacka-wacka-wacka". I don't know where that H and R come from. I blame human resources, always trying to meddle with us. Aaand, that's all I'll dignify to answer there.

2) There is no official artwork of Galacta Knight release, that I know of at least. All the Super Star Ultra official artwork can be found in the multimedia gallery, and it's really just Kirby, King Dedede, and some powers.

3) They could have, yeah, but that picture would have just been some fan art for a fan fiction that pulled every ounce of that garbage straight out the same source they used to write said fiction. Hint: It's a toilet. 'Cuz it's stupid fandom banter/babble/bull.