Miracle Matter

Miracle Matter Miracle Matter's standard form, seen in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. Details First game Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (2000) Copy Abilities Bomb, Burn, Cutter, Ice, Needle, Spark, Stone Weakness(es) Copy Ability-specific projectiles it provides during the battle; Respective Copy Ability/Ability Star to its particular current form Relative(s) Dark Matter (cloud), 0²

Theme music "Miracle Matter" Clip of the music used during Miracle Matter's fight.

Enemy Info Card

Miracle Matter is the composition-shifting boss of the Ripple Star realm in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. If Kirby hasn't collected all the prior Crystal Shards, it would be the final boss that leads to the bad ending. Collecting all the prior shards and defeating Miracle Matter will unlock Dark Star and the true final boss.

Physical appearance

Miracle Matter takes the basic form of a white icosahedron figure (similar to a 20-sided die), awash with small red damage indicators on its body. These red circles will turn black over the battle's duration, and act as accurate health markers: the more black spots on Miracle Matter's body, the closer it is to defeat.

Miracle Matter also takes other forms throughout the fight as it attacks Kirby. It can temporarily become any one of the following when it attacks:

• An ice cube (Ice form)
• A red, yellow, and black circle (Burn form)
• A large black bubble/sphere (Bomb form)
• A large, octagonal rock (Stone form)
• A look similar to that of Fishbone from the same game (Cutter form)
• A Sun-like shape with points in eight directions (Needle form)
• A sparking ball of energy (Spark form)

Forms and battle

Miracle Matter's fight makes heavy use of a gimmick unique to this fight: it is capable of rapidly shifting forms to attack Kirby in various ways, all of which mirror one of his seven Copy Abilities. Kirby can only hurt Miracle Matter by using an aspect of its form against it - for example, only Spark, or a Power Combo involving it such as Spark-Needle, can hurt Miracle Matter in Spark Form (details below.)

When a specific form's health has been depleted during the battle, Miracle Matter will stop using the attack in question. This will eventually lead Miracle Matter to use the same attack over and over at the end of the fight, also forcing Kirby to abandon his Copy Ability at some point in order to continue dealing damage.

The sections below discuss the various forms Miracle Matter can take on during the battle. They are in alphabetical order, and in no shape or form are listed in the order they appear, as it attacks completely randomly. Further, it can repeat various forms multiple times during a battle.

Bomb form

The Bomb form might look harmless to touch, but it's not.

Miracle Matter morphs from its standard form to that of a purple bubble-like appearance, from which it procures four similar purple bubbles that bounce about the stage, ejected 90 degrees apart from one another in an attempt to hit Kirby. These bubbles will abruptly split into eight smaller hazards, and eventually they will all pop. Four of the bubbles will leave floating cores to attack with for the last few seconds of this form.

Before the bubbles fly off of Miracle Matter, they will rotate around it for a time while much smaller, and may stop at any of a large variety of angles. Kirby cannot inhale them yet, but may attack them in any other way to destroy them.

Out of all of Miracle Matter's forms, this is the only one which is defeated in two hits - all others take three.

Burn form

The Burn form is too hot to touch.

The foe will morph into a flaming ball of various colors, then will usually glide to a new location before it attacks with flame pillars. When each burst is over, a glob of lava will be left behind for Kirby to attack with.

This attack has three variants, signaled by how Miracle Matter moves before it attacks:

1. Miracle Matter will move left or right and spout flames upward and downward, which it repeats twice. After the third attack, it will return to the center. It may skip the first movement and immediately attack, as it usually attacks once to the left, once to the right, and once in the center.
2. Miracle Matter will move up or down and spout flames left and right. It does this twice before returning to center.
3. Miracle Matter will move on both the X- and Y-axis before jetting out its fire in all four directions. It then returns to the center position.

With exceptional speed, it is possible to entirely destroy this form in one turn, even if Kirby started without the Burn ability.

Cutter form

The Cutter form resembles a green Fishbone.

Miracle Matter will turn into a series of green curves, and begins to cycle around the arena. It cycles several times, with each cycle going closer to the ground than the last before making a final pass directly along the ground. It loops back up to the center position and stays there for a moment before reverting to normal.

Every time it attacks, it misses the corners. If Kirby takes note of this, he can inhale this form's backside, which is the only object he's given to fight back with, and spit it at Miracle Matter the next time it circles past him. If done quickly, Kirby will eliminate this form in one turn.

This form can cycle either clockwise or counter-clockwise, irrespective of Kirby's position. It will move the same way each time this form appears.

Ice form

The Ice form dances beautifully as it tries to clobber that there Kirby.

Miracle Matter will morph into a spinning ice cube, and eject a set of icicles. These projectiles will orbit Miracle Matter, expanding and contracting their radius around Miracle Matter. This continues for a few loops, and then Miracle Matter will wait at the center for about one second before returning to its basic form.

In this form, the foe moves toward the bottom right before looping around, effectively making a figure eight around the arena a few times. Miracle Matter and its projectiles also move in various ways, such as tilting and spinning, making it difficult for Kirby to inhale the icicles without getting in harm's way, but he'll need to do so in order to damage Miracle Matter. By acting efficiently, Kirby may be able to take out this form in one turn.

Needle form

The Needle form is... very spiky.

Transforming into an orange sun-like appearance denotes the beginning of Miracle Matter's Needle form. The spikes on its body will extend and retract starting at the top and circling around either clockwise or counter-clockwise in an attempt to pin Kirby in place.

Kirby may dictate which way Miracle Matter attacks by standing on either side of this form as it spawns. This is because Miracle Matter will always attack either toward or away from Kirby - which one it chooses varies between fights, but remains consistent throughout an individual battle.

As each spike retracts, a pointy object will be left behind for Kirby to attack Miracle Matter with. Three of these attacks will suffice to remove this form from Miracle Matter's list.

Spark form

The Spark form is not to be touched, as the pattern would dictate.

Miracle Matter will literally morph its appearance to that of a sparking ball of light, and it will shoot a sequence of lasers at Kirby periodically. These lasers wrap around the screen, and may ricochet off of Miracle Matter as they try to hit Kirby.

When the lasers move, they gradually become shorter. After enough time, they will slow down and become simple balls of electricity mimicking Miracle Matter's own appearance in this form. Kirby can only inhale them after they've gone into the ball form, and then he may spit them back at Miracle Matter.

Stone form

The Stone form is also painful. Maybe just don't touch Miracle Matter?

Miracle Matter will transfigure itself into a heavy, brown boulder and hover ominously over Kirby, tracking his movement briefly. Suddenly, rocks eject from its sides, two of which immediately fall and try to hit Kirby. Miracle Matter will follow Kirby again before repeating this same trick with the other two.

When the smaller rocks land, they break and can be inhaled in order to obtain the Stone ability or attack Miracle Matter. Miracle Matter itself will roll back and forth along the arena floor, stopping just before each safe zone in the bottom corners. It then rolls to the middle of the floor and rises back to center position, immediately reverting to its standard form.

Music

Main article: Miracle Matter (theme)

Miracle Matter's theme is composed by Jun Ishikawa and can be found as Music 20 in the Sound Check mode of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. Interestingly, 20 is the exact number of the faces Miracle Matter has. This track shares the same intro with the regular boss battle theme from The Crystal Shards (Music 19 in Sound Check), but they have totally different melodies. Miracle Matter's theme is oddly not included in Hoshi no Kirby 64 Original Soundtrack, but is included in The Very Best of Kirby: 52 Hit Tracks and simply titled "Miracle Matter".

In Kirby Star Allies, Miracle Matter's theme is reused during the Rocky ambush and Chef Kawasaki mid-boss battle of the Sector B stage in Jambastion, which can be found as Track 87 in the Jukebox.

In addition, the battle theme of Adeleine & Ribbon vs. Morpho Knight is an arrangement of "0² Battle", "Miracle Matter" and Ripple Star's map theme, which can be found as Track 178 in the Jukebox (as of Version 4.0.0). This track is named おとめたちのやみとのたたかい (The Girls' Battle with the Darkness) in the Original Soundtrack, and was arranged by Hirokazu Ando.

Trivia

• In Kirby Star Allies, the Final Core of Void Termina and its alternate versions Void Soul and Void have an attack that resembles Miracle Matter's Needle Form: they burst into laughter and poke eight needles out of their body. Void and Void Soul can duplicate themselves in their versions, and in the original, the needles are rotated 22.5 degrees from their position and each version fires the needles at the same time. Internally, Void Termina's core's version is called Laughing Needle, and Void Soul's version is called Full Smile.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ミラクルマター Mirakuru Matā	Miracle Matter