Name: Game Theory: What is a Kirby? The SCIENTIFIC PROOF!
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Urk. *cough* Stuck in my throat! S-stuck in my throat! (I warned you!)

Providing you with your weekly serving of free range

organic brain food since 2011. Now in case

the title, thumbnail, and opening gag didn't give it away

today we're going to be discussing the playful pink puffball from planet Pop Star

the Dynamic Dreamlander, Kirby. For anyone

that's unfamiliar with the series, and let's face it, if you don't know

who Kirby is at this point then you're going PRETTY far out of your way

to avoid it. The Kirby franchise started back in 1992

with the initial entry Kirby's Dream Land and has since

launched over two dozen games, selling over 35 million

copies, which is more than double Metroid sales and triple Star Fox.

And here's the Internet wondering why Nintendo's so slow to release more Samus games.

Why create a sprawling space opera when all you gotta do to sell some games is

give a pink blob the superpower of friendship? I mean, look at that!

He's holding an umbrella to stop the water! AWWWWW

Which may come as a bit of a surprise considering that this is the first

dedicated Kirby theory since the Yarn Bombing episode

and that one didn't have anything to do with it.

If you're new to this channel or missed that one or just want Cringemas

to come early, watch that one. Click the i icon in the upper right hand corner

of the screen. You will be... I don't know. Good luck. You will be... Mildly entertained...

and confused why people still think the early days of Game Theory were better...

ANYWAY, the holiday season always makes me think of Kirby

Kirby Super Star was my all-time favorite birthday present growing up.

My birthday's in November so I associate it with the holiday season,

and two-player Epic Yarn around Christmas was the way Steph and I celebrated

getting engaged when it was too cold outside in New York to do really anything else (Awww :D)

So, I wanted to take some time today to look at Kirby, and I mean REALLY look at Kirby.

Because what the heck is he supposed to be? Sonic is a hedgehog, Crash is a bandicoot,

Mario is a homo-nintendonus, which is a WHOLE other episode. But Kirby is a-

What? Pop Starian? What exactly does that mean?

We know that this is a universe with Earth on it. Post-apocalyptic frozen over Earth, but Earth nonetheless,

so it can't be too far outside the realm of our own biology.

So I took to the Internet, scouring the pages of the web for information. Clues, anything that would help me scratch this itch,

Even Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Kirby,

claims to not know what his own creation is. Well, all of that ends TODAY.

What exactly is Kirby, you ask? Well, loyal Theorists

brace yourself for this one cause I think I've solved it.

Kirby is a single celled organism known most commonly as an amoeba.

So grab yourself a hyperactive lolly pop and hop aboard your warp star,

cause it's long past time I tackle the science behind this sucker.

but it does have consistent behaviors throughout the series.

For one, we know his body is elastic. Notice here

that the force of him hitting the ground causes his body to shift to the side of impact

It's a lot like a water balloon bouncing off the floor when it's dropped.

When he runs, we clearly see that the force of the wind against his face deforms him a bit, too.

These details about his movements suggest that Kirby doesn't have a solid internal structural system

and instead is just a giant ball of fluid. But, we don't just have to guess that we can actually

scientifically prove it! With an X-ray of Kirby.

You might call it (cringy pun alert) Kirby's Inside Story!

*softly* Different franchise, that was just wrong and stupid, Matpat.

But you may be asking me right now, how do you get an X-ray of a fictional character?

Easy! The original Smash Brothers. Yeah, of all places.

In this game, and only in this game, when characters are electrocuted by Pikachu,

you can see all of their skeletons. Hey, uh, Captain Falcon

looks like you might be missing a rib or two there.

Uh, Star Fox I'm a bit concerned that your tail is literally ONE GIANT BONE!

But across the twelve characters in the game, three show themselves as not having a skeleton.

I'll wait! But not too long, because you literally have a pause button and you can just pause and think about it.

Kirby is obviously one because we wouldn't be talking about this if he did.

Jigglypuff is another fairly obvious example. What you can see here for both of them

they clearly have no bones inside of them when compared to their bone-bearing opponents.

And the third character, the one you might not have guessed. Fun fact, is actually Samus,

who doesn't reveal her skeleton, but rather her real body hidden inside of her space suit.

Cool details, right? Now let's look at Kirby's... arm hands?

Hand arms? Let's just call them nubblies, Kirby's nubblies.

Kirby's been shown holding objects like hammers, whips, and swords,

but in every single instance he's holding something

he never ever sprouts fingers from his pink, stretchy, fleshy nubblies.

Instead, it's almost like whatever he holds just sticks to him.

He's making a choice to stick his nubblies onto these objects.

Otherwise, anything he smacked, bumped, or ran into

would stick to him. And I think it would be a VERY different game at that point.

In fact, I know what game it would be at that point-

it's a Katamari game. Katamari Kirby! Kirby-mari epic crossover!

No need to pay me for the brilliant game idea, Nintendo, just send me more of that Super Mario Odyssey cereal.

As if I didn't collect enough moons in that game.

Moving further up on the nubblie (or is it nubbly for singular?) we see what's happening between his arm and his body.

Take a look at Kirby Return to Dream Land. In his running animations,

Kirby just slides his hands up above his head, as if his nubblies are just rolling around on the surface of his body.

They're not in one fixed position like how our arms are attached at our shoulders.

But, rather the nubblies are able to shift where on his body they're springing out on

depending on the way that he's using them.

This is also found in Kirby's Mass Attack and in Triple Deluxe

when he's floating, jumping, using the whip - oh and to make things even more interesting,

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