On the surface, all Kirby games are generally cute, fluffy, and family-friendly. How could Kirby, the little pink cream puff that he is, be anything but smiles and sunshine after all? But longtime fans of the Kirby franchise have repeatedly seen through the cracks in this facade. Thanks to trails of breadcrumbs left by the franchise's developers, many of the darker aspects of the franchise have come to light, and one of the most disconcerting is the identity of the mysterious Morpho Knight.
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If you played through the post-game content of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, you may have been surprised by the sudden appearance of this fluttering dream eater within Forgo Dreams, supplanting Soul Forgo as the area's main antagonist. This strange knight may seem like he came out of nowhere, but in actuality, he may be older than time itself, wrapped up in a mystery spanning all the Kirby games.
Before we can get into Morpho Knight, we need to cover his previous identity. In a time before time, when the galaxy was governed by a race of hyper-advanced ancients, there existed a creature of similar stature to Kirby or Meta Knight. This creature was Galacta Knight, a warrior of such unimaginable strength that his mere name inspired awe and terror in equal measure. According to the ancient comets Galactic Nova and Star Dream, Galacta Knight's power was so immense that he could casually wipe out a couple of planets without much effort or thought.
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Because he was so powerful, Galacta Knight simply could not be destroyed. Instead, the ancients sealed him away in a crystal and sent him adrift through space-time. Though, according to a
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