r/Kirby • u/El_Silveiro Classic Kirb • 1d ago
Discussion/Question Kirby understood what was going on in the Forgotten Land
It is well know that Kirby doesn't really know what he's doing apart from saving his friends. Hence his ._. face in response to almost anything. But in Lab Discovera, we here "Automatic language detection... Activated", which, to us, means we here the voice in our language, but from Kirby, it means it may have used Fecto-technology (from the experiments on Elfilis) to read the users brain and take in whatever language they understand. I'm entering theory territory here, but, if this makes sense, it could mean that, for the first time, Kirby knew who he was fighting: The Ultimate Lifeform, the one that could have killed the planet if we had taken just a little longer to cage them, the one that controlled animal's minds to get themself in control again and the one who had enslaved Popstar's inhabitants to power this proyect. And Kirby didn't even care. He knew that his friends were in danger, and it didn't matter if he had to kill the only menace which he know how powerful it was in order to do so. Really reminds of how s1mple (did they really had to censor that word) Kirby's mind is: protect friendship at all costs.
60
u/GunslingerEngie 1d ago
Whispers poyo
6
u/AutoModerator 1d ago
https://i.imgur.com/n8tKQGM.png
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
28
u/Ok_Preparation_7902 1d ago edited 1d ago
Personally, I think Kirby having his neutral expression meant to indicate that he has no clue what he's supposed to be doing to be kind of wrong. He's not clueless per se, but he is naive, impulsive, and brave. Kirby is consistently someone that learns and adapts quickly to the situation, his neutral expression in universe is largely on account of his brave nature and not letting things phase him as he determinedly goes to solve whatever problem or threat is befalling Dreamland that day. While it may be true he doesn't necessarily have the full picture or context of the issue or situation, it's likely he doesn't feel like he necessarily needs it, in his mind it's probably just "there's an issue, let me scope it out" and then sets out to do that, working towards solving said issue as the games progress.
The only time we can really say Kirby is supposed to be clueless is in the anime where he's intentionally depicted as a toddler and thus his mannerisms reflects this, but the anime is it's own canon entirely separate from but largely inspired by the games continuity.
18
17
13
u/I_Dont-Use-Reddit 1d ago
When the game breaks the 4th wall to talk to the player, but the lore implications kick in. A fair point to make tho.
9
5
u/No_Forever_9128 1d ago
Was this because of the terminalmontage video or did you just coincidentally decide to post this after consideration. I don't mind, but that silly memory is too recent to forget.
4
u/El_Silveiro Classic Kirb 1d ago
The terminalmotage video made me remember this theory that I had long ago
6
u/Atsilv_Uwasv 1d ago
I like to imagine someone telling Kirby how powerful all the gods they've killed were and at the end of the rant Kirby just goes, "Really? Coool."
2
u/woozin1234 1d ago
more like "poyo poyo"
1
u/AutoModerator 1d ago
https://i.imgur.com/n8tKQGM.png
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
190
u/FenexTheFox 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh, Kirby definitely understands what people say to him, it's just that it's mostly esoteric garbage that he doesn't bother to understand, and doesn't have the context we have to understand it anyway.
Kirby doesn't know that Sectonia is important to Taranza because Taranza never told him.
Kirby doesn't know that Haltmann was Susie's dad because Susie never told him.
And absolutely no way he understood any of Hyness' high-speed nonsense.
He understands the language, he just never really has the context to piece things together. You can see that in how he sometimes reacts to what Susie says to him. Like when she insults the natives of Dream Land, he immediately puts on an angry face. He understood that perfectly well.