List of Kirby's allies

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Kirby and all his friends

This is a list of fictional characters from the Kirby video game series that appear as allies to Kirby during his adventures. Their function is to aid Kirby with various unique abilities in Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, as well as having non-playable appearances in Kirby's Star Stacker and Kirby no Kirakira Kizzu. Also, in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Kirby can turn into a statue depicting a random animal friend by using the stone/cutter ability.

In Kirby's Dream Land 2, the player must either battle a mini boss or regular enemy to rescue one that has been trapped. In Kirby's Dream Land 3 three of them can be found waiting in various special rooms, of which only one can be chosen to help.

The animal friends will share Kirby's powers if he obtains a copy ability, but with often show different and unique effects depending on the power and what friend you're using (for example, the Parasol ability with Coo causes Coo to spin rapidly, but Parasol and Rick has Rick balancing a Kirby ball on the top of it).

Helper friends

Rick the Hamster

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Rick as he appears in the anime

Rick is the first ally encountered in Kirby's Dream Land 2. Kirby rides on his back. Rick can run, jump and climb walls, but being a hamster, he cannot fly. He has very good traction on ice and sand, making him very useful in frozen and desert levels. He has a girlfriend named Pick who wears a pink bow, and appeared in Kirby's Dream Land 3. He also appeared on a trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Rick appears as a minor character in the Kirby: Right Back at Ya! anime. He is very casual and often sarcastic, but does not seem to have a close friendship with Kirby. He lives with many other animals in Whispy Wood's forest, in a great tree called Acore.

He was given an Australian accent in the dub. In the original Rick is voiced by the same actress as Kirby, Makiko Omoto.

Coo the Owl

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Coo as he appears in the anime

Coo is a wise and level-headed bird with the ability to fly against strong winds. He carries Kirby with his talons.

He appears as a cameo character in the anime, and is respected by many others such as Tokkori. He is voiced by Chiro Kanzaki in the Japanese version.

Kine the Ocean Sunfish

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Kine as he appears in the anime

Kine is the most useful in underwater levels, being able to swim against the strongest currents. He is a sunfish that carries Kirby inside his mouth, and allows Kirby to inhale and swallow enemies while underwater instead of just spitting water. While he can stay on land indefinitely, he's very slow and awkward to move and cannot jump well. Also, unlike the other characters, Kine's abilities work the same underwater as on land(the other animals abilities are stunted underwater) In the games he has a wife, a pink sunfish named Mine.

Kine was a slightly more prominent character in the anime than the other two, even getting an entire episode devoted to him. His personality is rather youthful and naive, and he has a huge crush on the character Tiff. He is voiced by Nobuo Tobita in the original.

Chuchu the Octopus

According to Nintendo Power Magazine, Chuchu is an octopus. She is the only female animal friend, and rides by sticking to Kirby's head. She has the ability to stick to ceilings and travel that way. She can also fly inflating and deflating her body like a jellyfish, but each successive "puff" gives less and less height until eventually she can only use them to slow her fall. She has a friend called Nyupun that looks like her, but is smaller, yellow, and wears a sailor cap with a pink ribbon.

She never appears in the anime.

Nago the Cat

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Nago from unused design art from the anime

Nago is a Japanese Bobtail and rolls Kirby in front of him like a ball. He has a triple-jump but cannot fly. He has a girlfriend who is a white cat called Shiro.

Nago never appeared in the anime; he appears in early design art.

Pitch the Bird

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Pitch

Pitch is the smallest of all the animal friends, even smaller than Kirby. While Kirby carries Pitch while they walk, Pitch will carry Kirby when he runs or flies but looked very strained when he does. Pitch is said to look up to and admire Coo, wanting to be as strong as he is when he grows up. Pitch's mother, a large pink bird, also appears in Kirby's Dream Land 3.

Pitch never appears in the anime.

Gooey

(Stub: Gooey)

Gooey is Kirby's best friend, and described as a friendly blob of Dark Matter. He first appeared in Kirby's Dream Land 2, and could be found in the various bags in the game under certain conditions. In that game, his only function was to restore Kirby's health, but in Kirby's Dream Land 3 he was a playable character. He is essentially a small blue blob of goo with a silly expression on his face. Gooey has similar powers to Kirby (except that he licks up enemies), and a second player can take control of him while the first player controls Kirby. In a single player game, Gooey can be summoned as a computer-controlled ally and during the game's final battle in space, Gooey's flying form is similar to Dark Matter. There is also a girl version of Gooey found in Kirby's Dream Land 2 who has similar function as Gooey did in that game. She also gives a single game completion percentage point for the first encounter with her. The girl Gooey looks exactly like Gooey, except she's lighter and wears a bow. In the Japanese version, the female Gooey did not exist and was rather a cameo that only Japanese players would understand. Gooey also appeared on a trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Ribbon

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Ribbon from Kirby 64

Ribbon is a fairy-like girl from Ripple Star, a planet near Kirby's residence of Pop Star. She has only appeared in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.

In the game's intro, Ripple Star is attacked and conquered by a mysterious black cloud known as Dark Matter, which previously to the game appeared in Kirby's Dream Land 2 and Kirby's Dream Land 3. The Dark Matter is out to take a large crystal that Ribbon's people had, and Ribbon flies off into space with it to stop the Dark Matter from taking it. The crystal is however shattered by some following Dark Matter monsters, and Ribbon crashes on Pop Star, and Ribbon meets Kirby, who promises to find the shards of the shattered crystal and restore Ripple Star. Unlike to her appearance, Ribbon seems to be very strong, being able to carry Kirby during the whole fight against 02.

Adeleine

Adeleine appears as an ally to Kirby during Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards where she is possessed by Dark Matter and Kirby must defeat her through battle to free her from its grasp, after which she joins him on his adventure.

She is a young female artist with the uncanny ability to paint objects then bring them off the page into reality, with the exception of Kirby’s battle with her where she bring monsters to life she mainly creates power-ups like food and extra lives to help Kirby throughout his adventure. She appears to have no quarrel with Kirby outside of possession by Dark Matter.

Her official description in the Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards game manual is "Adeleine is a motivated young artist who travels to Pop Star to study art at a famed academy. Instead of improving her painting skills, she has to brush up on her survival skills when she is overcome by the dark matter."

Adeleine is not to be confused with Ado, a similar character from Kirby's Dream Land. The difference is that Ado has brown hair and brown eyes, while Adeleine has black hair and blue eyes. Nintendo of Japan has confirmed that they are different, as they are referred to as different characters on the Japanese sites for their games.

A similar ability also belongs to a boss character called Paint Roller, who has appeared in Kirby's Adventure, its remake Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, and Kirby: Canvas Curse.

Waddle Dee

Main article: Waddle Dee

A single Waddle Dee appears as Kirby's ally in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.