Sword Knight (anime character)

Sword Knight File:Swordanime.png Artwork from Kirby: Right Back at Ya! Details First episode Kirby Comes to Cappy Town Main role Supporting character Similar characters Blade Knight Voice actor(s) Eric Stuart (English) Hikaru Tokita (Japanese)

This article is about the character in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. For the enemy from the video games, see Sword Knight. For the Copy Ability, see Sword.

Sword Knight (Sword for short) is a recurring supporting character in the anime series Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. He is one of Meta Knight's apprentices, along with his companion Blade Knight.

In the 4Kids dub, Sword Knight speaks with a British cockney accent, which sets him aside from his partner Blade Knight who is usually unintelligible.

Personality

Sword Knight is a stout and disciplined soldier, but he is somewhat inexperienced, particularly when compared to his sworn master Meta Knight. Sword Knight takes his role as an apprentice seriously, though almost to a fault, since he treats the other residents of Dream Land as little more than entities to be protected, rather than people to engage with socially. He does tend to speak more often to the people he protects than Blade Knight, however, though that may be primarily due to his speech being more understandable. Since Sword and Blade Knight have known each-other longer than they have any other member of the cast, they trust each-other implicitly and work well together. However, this leads them to being largely interchangeable in personality, much like Fololo & Falala.

In the episode Hour of the WolfWrath, Blade Knight and Sword Knight are revealed to have once been road-side bandits and attempted to rob Meta Knight once before he saved them from WolfWrath. It was this act that led them to swear loyalty to him. Because of this history and despite their loyalty, both Blade and Sword are somewhat temperamental and undisciplined, which sometimes leads them into trouble. However, they have permanently left their criminal pasts behinds, and do not disturb the people of Cappy Town.

Filmography

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The following is a complete list of all of Sword Knight's appearances in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, along with other information regarding his role in each episode:

Sword Knight's appearances in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
Episode	Image	Role	Selected quote	Notes
Kirby Comes to Cappy Town		Secondary character	"We're looking for a blob named Kirby!"
Kirby's Duel Role		Secondary character	"With a little more time, you could have taught Kirby to master the Sword Beam!"
Dark and Stormy Knight		Tertiary character	(no dialogue)	Appears only in a flashback.
Un-Reality TV		Tertiary character	"It's weird that the monster showed up on the same day as the teles!"
Curio's Curious Discovery		Tertiary character	(no dialogue)
The Pillow Case		Tertiary character	"We've got to take back those pillows!"
Here Comes the Son		Tertiary character	(no dialogue)
Dedede's Snow Job		Tertiary character	(no dialogue)
Escargoon Rules		Tertiary character	"King Escargoon?"
Hour of the WolfWrath		Primary character	"The struggle turned the whole galaxy into a wasteland! To survive, we became bandits!"	This marks Sword Knight's first leading role in an episode.
Abusement Park		Secondary character	"The cameras are all out of commission!"
The Kirby Derby - Part I		Secondary character	"We finally got Kirby's Starship ready for the race, Meta Knight."	This is the first episode that reveals Sword and Blade's expert engineering skills.
The Kirby Derby - Part II		Secondary character	"We're the crew now!"
Escar-Gone		Secondary character	"What was that light?"
Monster Management		Secondary charactar	"Look how they fight! Like smoke and fire!"
Prediction Predicament - Part II		Tertiary character	"It's a long shot."
Sheepwrecked		Tertiary character	"That talking sheep must be a monster!"
Pink-Collar Blues		Tertiary character	"I had no idea there were so many Waddle Dees here!"
Kirby Takes the Cake		Tertiary character	(no dialogue)
Snack Attack - Part II		Tertiary character	"Now it's a fair fight!"
One Crazy Knight		Secondary character	"Easy there, pops!"
Dedede's Pet Threat		Tertiary character	(no dialogue)
Crusade for the Blade		Secondary character	"Forget it, it was probably just a shooting star."
Mabel Turns the Tables		Tertiary character	(no dialogue)
Masher 2.0 (episode)		Secondary character	"There's something creepy about this storm."
Buccaneer Birdy		Tertiary character	"That monster!"
Waddle While You Work		Tertiary character	"Tiff can't seem to find Kirby, so we thought we'd check out the castle, no luck so far."
Dedede's Raw Deal		Tertiary character	"That looks great, can we take a lunch break?"

Trivia

• In the Kirby Mass Attack Sub-Game Kirby Quest, one of the battles features Meta Knight with a Sword Knight and Blade Knight at his side. These two supporting knights are very likely meant to represent Sword and Blade from the anime.
• Eric Stuart (Sword's voice actor) only took the role of voice acting him in episode 82 and episodes after.
  • Sword's voice actor before then is unknown, nor why he quit.
    • It is not proven, but his voice actor may have been Bernd Vollbrecht.

Gallery

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  Screenshot of Sword Knight and Blade Knight from Kirby's Duel Role

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  Flashback scene where Sword and Blade are swearing loyalty to Meta Knight from Hour of the WolfWrath

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  Sword Knight in action, from Abusement Park.