Keeby

Keeby Artwork of Keeby from Kirby's Dream Course Details First appearance Kirby's Dream Course (1995) Similar Kirby

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Keeby is the official nickname of the yellow Kirby who serves as the second player character in Kirby's Dream Course. Keeby is also often used by fans to refer to other yellow Kirby appearances in the Kirby series.

Keeby is bright yellow with large blue eyes and orange feet. Like Kirby, he is also able to obtain Copy Abilities, and plays exactly the same in every respect to his pink counterpart.

Game appearances

Officially, Keeby only appears in Kirby's Dream Course, but generic yellow Kirbys have made appearances in multiple other games. Some fans speculate that these appearances of Yellow Kirby are Keeby, but no official source has stated that to be the case. Keeby was only used internally as a nickname by the developers of Kirby's Dream Course, and official material simply refers to him as a yellow Kirby. On the official website for the Nintendo 64 Super Smash Bros., Masahiro Sakurai gives the same nickname to Kirby's yellow palette swap in said game. He also gives a similar nickname to Green Kirby: くさもちカービィ (Kusa mochi Kirby). Kusa mochi (literally "grass mochi") is a green Japanese sweet.

Trivia

• Keeby's color scheme may be a reference to how Shigeru Miyamoto and other HAL Laboratory employees initially thought Kirby was yellow before seeing his color design.
• The yellow hue is similar to Beam Kirby's appearance in Kirby Super Star and Kirby Super Star Ultra. However, Beam Kirby's feet are a pinker hue, whereas Keeby's are more orange.

Gallery

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  Keeby's in-game sprite
  in Kirby's Dream Course

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  Alternate sprite

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  Having just finished the Kirby Dance

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	キービィ Kībii	Combination of: 黄色きいろ (kīro, yellow) カービィ (Kābii, Kirby)