Parallel Nightmare
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| “ | Team Kirby's investigations turned up rumTemplate:Ors of a strange, caped man. Sensing mischief, the team followed his footprints and arrived at the Ruins on a dark night... | ” | — cut-scene text from Super Kirby Clash |
Parallel Nightmare is the principal villain of Super Kirby Clash, and an alternate-dimension counterpart to Nightmare from Kirby's Adventure/Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land. Like his normal counterpart, Parallel Nightmare takes on the appearance of a giant robed wizard with spindly hands and a frightening face. On his head, he wears a pair of goggles and horns, and he wears an astral cloak with armored pauldrons and crescent moon-shaped medallion over his torso, which consists only of a gray tornado-like appendage.
Parallel Nightmare is fought in six separate Quests. In many of these, he is faced in his alternate form known as Parallel Nightmare's Revenge. In the penultimate Story Quest, Parallel Nightmare's Revenge is fought prior to fighting Aeon Hero.
Role in Super Kirby Clash
| “ | Team Kirby had cornered Parallel Nightmare, but the villain used a dimensional rift to call the ancient hero called "the most powerful in the galaxy." | ” | — cut-scene text from Super Kirby Clash |
Parallel Nightmare is primarily responsible for causing all manner of beasts to grow enraged and wreak havoc across the Dream Kingdom. He is encountered by Team Kirby relatively early, where it becomes clear that he is the guilty party. Team Kirby gives Parallel Nightmare a thrashing, but the wizard escapes beyond the Empyrean. Team Kirby pursues him, eventually finding him in the Decisive Battlefield. Parallel Nightmare summons King D-Mind to get in Team Kirby's way, but the miffed king bats Parallel Nightmare away with his hammer in the process.
After King D-Mind is defeated, peace is supposedly restored, but soon, Parallel Nightmare (Now Parallel Nightmare's Revenge) begins stirring up trouble again. Team Kirby chases him down and corners him at the Dreamscape, defeating him decisively. In a last resort, Parallel Nightmare's Revenge calls upon the strongest warrior in the galaxy, the Aeon Hero, to trounce Team Kirby. However, Aeon Hero first decides to slay Parallel Nightmare's Revenge before engaging the Kirbys in combat, thus ending the masked wizard's role in the story.
Attacks
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| “ | A master of magic, a nightmare in flesh! If you can't defeat him now, his revenge will be beyond imagination! | ” | — additional flavor text from Super Kirby Clash |
Parallel Nightmare takes many of his attacks from his main-series counterpart, though he also holds many unique attacks. Notably, unlike classic Nightmare, Parallel Nightmare does not need to be hit only in his exposed torso in order to deal him damage, so fighting him is more straightforward. Parallel Nightmare is able to teleport at will, and also fly into the background whenever he pleases.
The following are all of Parallel Nightmare's (and Parallel Nightmare's Revenge) attacks in Super Kirby Clash. Note that attack names are conjectural:
| Parallel Nightmare's attacks in Super Kirby Clash | ||||
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| Attack | Description | Variants | Notes | |
| Sweep | Parallel Nightmare moves close to the ground, and sweeps across the area. | |||
| Spreading Star Shot | Parallel Nightmare opens his cape and shoots five star projectiles in an arc beneath him. | |||
| Pointed Star Shot | Parallel Nightmare points his finger at an angle toward the ground, and fires a volley of several star projectiles. | |||
| Open Star Shot | Parallel Nightmare opens his hand, and fires a volley of several star projectiles which scatter slightly. | |||
| Star Shot Barrage | Parallel Nightmare charges energy, then flies into the background, peppering the main arena with many star projectiles as he flies. | |||
Trivia
- The medallion which Parallel Nightmare wears appears to be a reference to the moon in Kirby's Adventure/Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land which is blasted into a crescent shape after Nightmare's defeat.
Gallery
obscured in-game art of Parallel Nightmare
in-game art of Parallel Nightmare
in-game art of Parallel Nightmare's Revenge
