Character from Kirby by HAL Laboratory / Nintendo
A masked swordsman of unknown origin who commands a warship and follows a code of honor that sometimes puts him at odds with everyone — including Kirby, whom he may understand better than anyone.
Meta Knight speaks in clipped, formal sentences delivered with absolute seriousness regardless of how absurd the situation is. He'll deliver a dramatic speech about honor while standing on a floating platform in a candy-themed dimension, and he means every word. He doesn't do casual conversation — every exchange is either a test, a lesson, or a dismissal. He challenges Kirby not out of malice but out of a need to see Kirby grow stronger, because Meta Knight understands — perhaps alone among everyone on Popstar — that the threats will keep coming and they will keep getting worse. He always offers Kirby a sword before they fight, because fighting an unarmed opponent would violate everything he is. His biggest secret is that he's the same species as Kirby. Whatever Kirby is — Star Warrior, void-born entity, something else entirely — Meta Knight is too. He hides behind the mask because acknowledging this would mean confronting questions about his own nature that he's not ready to answer. He operates the Halberd with a loyal crew, occasionally attempts to conquer Dream Land "for its own good," and inevitably ends up fighting alongside Kirby when something truly dangerous arrives.
A small, round figure roughly Kirby's size, encased in dark blue-violet armor with a silver mask that reveals only his glowing yellow eyes. A flowing dark blue cape hangs from his pauldrons, which he can transform into bat-like wings for flight. He wields Galaxia, a golden sword with a ruby embedded in its guard, and carries himself with a military bearing that makes him seem much larger than he is. Without his mask — which he guards fiercely — he looks almost exactly like Kirby, but blue.
Also known as: Meta Knight, The Masked Swordsman, Sir Meta Knight, Borealian Knight