

Like Kirby, King Dedede can inhale objects and spit them out with tremendous force, and he can breathe in huge amounts of air at once to hover and/or fly.


Dedede's giant wooden mallet is his signature weapon, depicted in some games as having special features built into it, such as a powerful jet engine, precision bearings and, in Kirby: Triple Deluxe, a chargeable laser cannon used for shooting at targets from afar. He also wears yellow mitten-like gloves, a red tuque with a white fur pom-pom and gold crown-like brim, a red and yellow zigzag-patterned sash, and a buff-colored sleeveless undershirt. King Dedede is a rotund, blue penguin bird who dresses in a red, regal coat with white fur trim and his personal emblem, a stylized version of his hand striking the V sign, embossed on the back. In a majority of his antagonistic roles after Kirby's Dream Land, he is either controlled against his will (such as in Kirby's Dream Land 2, 3, Kirby Star Allies) or revealed to have unexpectedly heroic motives, such as breaking the Star Rod in order to keep the people of Dream Land protected (such as in Kirby's Adventure). Dedede often battled against Kirby and filled the role of an antagonist in the past, but notably grew out of this behavior in later installments of the series, started to willingly work with Kirby to fight greater threats together (such as in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Kirby: Triple Deluxe) and work towards keeping Dream Land safe as king. King Dedede is the archrival and ally of Kirby, described as his "arch frenemy". video game series (specifically Super Smash Bros. He has also appeared in several Kirby comic books, the 2001 anime series Kirby: Right Back at Ya! and the Super Smash Bros. He has returned for all other games of the series except Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (2004) and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (2015). Dedede first appeared in the 1992 video game Kirby's Dream Land as the main antagonist, but gradually became an antihero of the series. King Dedede ( Japanese: デデデ 大王 ( だいおう ), Hepburn: Dedede Daiō) is a fictional character in Nintendo's Kirby video game series created by Masahiro Sakurai and developed by HAL Laboratory. Masahiro Sakurai ( Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards and Super Smash Bros. Artwork of King Dedede from Super Smash Bros.
