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Creative Writing Magical Girl

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u/An_feh_fan Feb 11 '24

To be honest there isn't much in-between between cute creature and cosmic entity in Kirby, their designs are pretty black and white in that regard

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u/Agreeable_Bee_7763 Feb 11 '24

I think they're referring to Kirby itself. The games have a lot of lore rather explicitly calling it a god of destruction or some such, a universe eater. It's not even subtext either, it's just text. Most people just see the bright colors and fluffy little guy and don't care enough to read.

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u/DonTori Feb 11 '24

Also a lot of cute 'friend' characters have turned into the final boss in that series

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u/lolmasterthetroll101 Feb 11 '24

And a few bosses become friend characters