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Shadow Dedede
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| “ | In the depths of amysterious mirror hanging in the hall of the queen waits the dark king,Shadow Dedede! He wages battle against all comers, but Shadow Dedede's true opponent is thedarkness in his own heart. | ” | — VS Shadow Dedede,Kirby: Triple Deluxe |
Shadow Dedede is the penultimate boss inDededetour ofKirby: Triple Deluxe, and appears as the second of the Nightmare Four fromThe True Arena in that game. Shadow Dedede appears to be an evil doppelgänger ofKing Dedede, though his pause description describes him as a miserable automaton, lashing out in anger because he knows nothing else. Shadow Dedede looks more or less the same as King Dedede, but with an obviously darker color scheme, blank white eyes, and a different symbol on his coat and hammer, resembling a monochrome bulls-eye.
Shadow Dedede comes out of theDimension Mirror after King Dedede defeatsQueen Sectonia DX in Level 6 ofDededetour.
Attacks[edit]
This fight effectively serves as the DX version of the fight withMasked Dedede in the Story Mode ofKirby: Triple Deluxe. However, there are a couple key differences. First, Shadow Dedede only has one life bar, and he switches to the axe portion after it is halfway depleted. Second, he possesses some oddly different attacks, including one where his belly sash opens up into a mouth, and fires out orbs of dark energy.
The following are all of Shadow Dedede's attacks. Note that attack names are conjectural:
| Shadow Dedede's attacks inKirby: Triple Deluxe | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack | Description | |||
| ヘッドスライディング Head Slide | Shadow Dedede runs and then dives at Kirby or Dedede a much further distance than Masked Dedede. | |||
| スーパーデデデジャンプ Super Dedede Jump | Shadow Dedede leaps into the air and then lands suddenly in another location. He can do this either once or three times. In the second phase, these jumps create shockwaves upon landing. | |||
| ハンマー叩き付け Hammer Slam | Shadow Dedede raises his hammer, runs up to Kirby or Dedede's current location and then slams the ground with the hammer twice in a row. If Kirby or Dedede is airborne, then Shadow Dedede will jump up and swing the hammer in midair. When he lands, a shockwave emanates from it. | |||
| ビッグバンすいこみ Hypernova Inhale | Shadow Dedede inhales, creating a big vortex. If Kirby or Dedede don't run fast enough from the suction, they will be sucked up and then spat out at the screen. | |||
| ブラックデデデミサイル Shadow Dedede Missile | Shadow Dedede preps his hammer, which opens up and shoots out four missiles. The missiles can be swallowed for theBombability. | |||
| 火炎放射 Flamethrower | Shadow Dedede preps his hammer, which opens up and shoots out a large gout of flame. | |||
| ホバリング Hover | Shadow Dedede surrounds himself with dark energy while taking in air and starts hovering toward Kirby or Dedede. He ends the attack by spitting out anAir Bullet and falling back to ground level. | |||
| Second phase only | ||||
| 斧の舞 Axe Dance | Shadow Dedede wildly swings his poleaxe about, aiming for Kirby or Dedede as he does so, and turning with his strikes as needed. He finishes with a series of long lunge attacks. | |||
| アクスボンバー Axe Bomber | Shadow Dedede jumps into the air with his poleaxe, and then comes crashing down, creating a large explosion where he lands. He does this attack three times in a row compared to Masked Dedede. | |||
| ベリィブラックマター Belly Black Matter | Shadow Dedede flies into the background and his belly opens up into a big maw. Out of this maw, a series of eight dark orb blasts are fired. Shadow Dedede then flies on-stage and fires three larger blasts which can bounce around. | |||
| アクストルネイド Axe Tornado | Shadow Dedede spins his axe rapidly around in an attempt to catch Kirby or Dedede in his dance. He gets dizzy afterwards. | |||
| シャイニングアクス Shining Axe | Shadow Dedede charges his poleaxe in the center of the stage, then releases two waves of spiky energy orbs across the stage that cover almost every portion of it. | |||
| アクス斬り付け Axe Slash | Shadow Dedede raises his poleaxe, runs up to Kirby or Dedede's current location and then slams the ground with the axe twice in a row, creating shockwaves with each swing. If Kirby or Dedede is airborne, then Shadow Dedede will jump up and swing the poleaxe in midair. When he lands, a shockwave emanates from it. | |||
| アクスショット Axe Shot | Shadow Dedede charges his poleaxe, then releases a series of energy orb projectiles that slightly home in on Kirby or Dedede. Inhaling these projectiles will yield theBeam ability. | |||
| フライングアクス Flying Axe | Shadow Dedede spins rapidly around with his axe surrounded by dark energy and takes to the skies, flying in and out of the arena. He gets dizzy afterwards. | |||
In phase 1, Shadow Dedede attacks in a fixed order on loop as follows:
- Head Slide
- Head Slide
- Super Dedede Jump x3
- Hammer Slam
- Hypernova Inhale
- Head Slide
- Shadow Dedede Missile
- Head Slide
- Super Dedede Jump
- Hammer Slam
- Flamethrower
- Hover
- Hammer Slam
In phase 2, Shadow Dedede attacks in a fixed order on loop as follows:
- Axe Dance
- Super Dedede Jump x3
- Axe Bomber
- Head Slide
- Belly Black Matter
- Head Slide
- Axe Tornado
- Shining Axe
- Head Slide
- Axe Slash
- Axe Shot
- Flying Axe
- Axe Dance
- Hypernova Inhale
Once defeated, Shadow Dedede turns into a silhouette, then bursts into shards of glass.
Trivia[edit]
- The English, French, German, Italian and Spanish flavor texts misinterpret the last sentence. According to the original Japanese and the localized Korean versions, it should be "King Dedede's true opponent is the darkness in his own heart."[1][2] The Japanese version also calls himブラデ (Burade) for short, which is an abbreviation of his full Japanese nameブラックデデデBlack Dedede.
- The Japanese abbreviation could be a parody ofDark Pit fromKid Icarus: Uprising (Black Pit in Japanese), who is nicknamed ブラピ (Burapi) in that version for short.
- King D-Mind is named "MaskedBlackDedede" in the internal game files ofTeam Kirby Clash Deluxe. "Black Dedede" is the Japanese name of Shadow Dedede, and King D-Mind's moveset can be considered an even more souped-up version of Shadow Dedede despite them being two different characters.
- When Shadow Dedede opens up his belly sash to reveal a mouth, he spurts what appears to be blood.
Gallery[edit]
The True Arena Icon fromKirby: Triple Deluxe
Model fromKirby: Triple Deluxe
Early version of Shadow Dedede's model that goes unused
The back of the unused Shadow Dedede model
Shadow Dedede emerging from theDimension Mirror
Shadow Dedede using his Hypernova Inhale
Shadow Dedede attacking with an axe
Shadow Dedede firing dark volleys from the background
Shadow Dedede opening his belly up wide, similar to King Dedede's second phase inKirby's Dream Land 3
Teaser image for Shadow Dedede's appearance inDededetour, from the Story Mode credits
Dededetour credits picture of King Dedede battling Shadow Dedede
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ブラックデデデ Burakku Dedede | Black Dedede |
| Canadian French | Dadidou ombre | Shadow Dedede |
| European French | DaDiDou ombre | Shadow Dedede |
| German | Shadow-Dedede | - |
| Italian | Dedede Ombra | Shadow Dedede |
| Korean | 블랙 디디디 Beullaek Dididi | Black Dedede |
| Spanish | Dedede oscuro | Dark Dedede |
References
- ↑"女王の間に かざられていた なぞのカガミ。
そこに うつしだされた ブラックなデデデ、
りゃくして ブラデ があらわれた！
大王が のりこえるべき あいて…
それは、大王じしんの 心のカゲだった。" –VS Shadow Dedede (Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Japanese version) - ↑"여왕의 방에 걸려 있던 수수께끼 거울.
그 거울에 비춰진 검은 디디디가
거울 밖으로 튀어나왔다!
대왕이 뛰어넘어야 할 상대...
그것은 대왕 본인의 마음 속 그림자였다." –VS Shadow Dedede (Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Korean version)
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