Fire Kirby

Kirby with the fire ability.

Fire Kirby is one of Kirby's copy ability forms, first appearing in Kirby's Adventure. Kirby becomes Fire Kirby by inhaling fiery enemies, such as Hot Head and Galbo. With the Fire ability, Kirby is able to breathe fire and in newer games engulf his body in flames to attack nearby foes. The helper for Fire ability is Burning Leo.

Appearance

As Fire Kirby, Kirby wears a flaming crown with a twisting gold circlet at the base. In the center of the circlet is a green circular gemstone. In some games, his skin takes on a reddish tone.

Monster Flame replaces the green gemstone with a glowing five-pointed star and the four golden prongs of his circlet turn red, untwisting and curving upwards to resemble horns. The crown's flames also become much larger and brighter.

Abilities

Fire Kirby is an element-type copy ability, centering around the use of fire and heat. It gives Kirby the ability to spew burning hot flames from his mouth, dealing continuous damage per second to ignited enemies. Starting with Kirby Super Star, Kirby can also cloak himself in fire when dashing, an ability originally part of Burning. In Kirby's Return to Dream Land, he can drop fire balls below as he dashes and in the 3DS games, he can cancel his dash early with an explosion. Fire ability is useful for melting ice blocks and burning tall grass and some ice and plant based enemies are weak to it. It can also be used to light cannon fuses allowing Kirby to reach hidden areas. In Kirby Star Allies, Fire Kirby can be used to bestow the Sizzle element on certain weapon-type copy abilities and characters giving their weapons properties of Fire.

Monster Flame

In Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Return to Dream Land Deluxe, a stronger version of the Fire ability called Monster Flame appears as a Super Ability, obtained from Super Hot Head. Like all Super Abilities, its use runs on a timer and when that timer runs out, Kirby returns to normal. When activated, Kirby summons a fiery dragon that can light large swaths of terrain on fire, destroying enemies and obstacles in its path. The dragon is controlled by moving the control pad up and down on the Wii Remote.

Robobot Armor: Fire Mode

In Kirby: Planet Robobot, the Robobot Armor can scan fiery enemies to become Fire Mode. The Fire Robobot Armor is equipped with twin flamethrowers with a longer range of spewing fire. It can also leave a trail of fire behind while dashing and clear enemies at its sides using Red Carpet.

Evolved Forms

In Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Kirby can upgrade the Fire ability once he has unlocked the Waddle Dee Weapons Shop in Waddle Dee Town and collected the appropriate ability scroll, giving it new properties and abilities. The two evolved forms of Fire Kirby are Volcano Fire and Dragon Fire. Volcano Fire Kirby can spit rapid fire magma balls that stick to surfaces and continuously burns enemies that walk over them. Dragon Fire Kirby can incinerate enemies with intense purple flames and has an improved Burning dash, sprouting dragon wings as he gains altitude.

Enemies that give Fire

• Burning Leo*
• Galbo
• Hot Head
• Heat Phanphan
• Flamer (Kirby: Squeak Squad forward)
• Acchi
• Prank's Fireballs
• Red Antler
• Sizzle Guard's shield
• Fire Lion (Kirby Super Star Ultra forward)
• Flame Galboros
• Mario, Luigi and Charizard Amiibos (Kirby: Planet Robobot only)

Super Smash Bros. series

Fire Kirby appears in the Super Smash Bros. games as a collectible trophy. Additionally, when Kirby copies Bowser's fire breath attack, his pose is the same as Fire Kirby in Kirby Super Star and Kirby's Adventure. In Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee, Kirby's red alternate costume is loosely based on Fire Kirby's reddish skin tone from Kirby Super Star.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Kirby's dash attack is the Burning Attack, which has been a part of Fire Kirby's moveset since Kirby Super Star. Originally this move was its own Copy Ability.

Bowser's Fire Breath and Charizard's Flamethrower control identically to Fire Kirby's Fire Breath in side-scrolling Kirby games, with the stream being able to be angled by the player. However, in Smash Bros., they are nerfed so as to lose range over time.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

When Kirby swallows a fire-wielding enemy, he transforms into Fire Kirby. Not only does he breathe fire in this form, but he can also sprout flames on his entire body and damage enemies by crashing into them. Fire Kirby wears the bright red headdress of his enemy Burning Leo. The hat turns into a helpful weapon when thrown.

NES - Kirby's Adventure - 5/93

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Kirby when he inhales an enemy who uses fire. Shooting fire from his mouth, Fire Kirby can cook enemies from afar. This ability also allows Kirby to light explosive blocks, fuses, and so on. In Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land and Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, Fire Kirby can roll his burning body into enemies as an attack move.

SNES - Kirby Super Star

Nintendo DS - Kirby: Canvas Curse

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

When Kirby first copied the Fire ability he was only able to breathe fire. Nowadays, he can do all sorts of neat things! For example, he can engulf himself in flames and roll forward, burning grass, lighting fuses, melting ice, and so on. What we'd really like him to do, though, is help us make the perfect s'more. Mmmmm.

NES - Kirby's Adventure - 5/1993

SNES - Kirby Super Star - 08/1996

Trivia

• Fire ability shares many traits with the Burning ability in that they both use flames. The main difference being that, in early games, Fire was a ranged attack while Burning was a more physical dash attack. In many later games, most of Burning's moves were merged into Fire Kirby.
• Fire Kirby is one of the four elemental Copy Abilities that corresponds to the four classical elements (Fire, Water, Wind and Earth). The other three are Water Kirby, Tornado Kirby and Stone Kirby. In Kirby Star Allies these are tied to the elemental properties of Sizzle, Splash and Bluster respectively; however, Stone doesn't have an elemental property associated with it.
• Super Smash Bros. Melee's trophy bio rather infamously claims that Fire Kirby's crown "turns into a helpful weapon when thrown". While Kirby can throw the hat in Kirby Super Star, it cannot damage enemies, and instead is used to transform his current helper into Burning Leo.
• Fire Kirby does not appear in Kirby's Dream Land 2 or 3. However, if Kirby combines the Burning ability with Rick the Hamster it will give Rick the ability to breathe fire.
• Although Fire Kirby's first appearance was in Kirby's Adventure, the Superspicy Curry from Kirby's Dream Land can be seen as a prototype of the ability as it allowed Kirby temporary fire breath.
• Volcano Fire Kirby is based on the Burn + Stone combo ability, from Kirby 64.
• Dragon Fire Kirby's dash attack is based on the Burn + Burn combo ability, from Kirby 64.
• While Burning Leo is usually the helper for the Fire ability, in the canceled Kirby GameCube game Heat Phanphan, an enemy from Kirby Air Ride, would have been the ability's helper.
• The flame dragons that Monster Flame Kirby summons first appeared as stage obstacles in Kirby Air Ride, on the Magma Flows and City Trial stages.
• The Mario and Luigi Amiibos giving Kirby the Fire ability Kirby: Planet Robobot is a reference to their Fireball special in the Super Smash Bros. series, which Kirby can copy. Additionally, Mario is associated with fire powers in many of his spinoff games such as the Firebrand in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the Fireball power-up in Mario Kart: Double Dash‼, and his special shots in Super Mario Strikers, Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, Mario Superstar Baseball and Super Sluggers, and Mario Hoops 3-on-3 as well as Mario Sports Mix.
• If Fire and Burning are considered one ability, as they are in many later games, then together they are one of the few Copy Abilities to appear in every mainline Kirby game with the exception of Kirby's Dream Land (however see Superspicy Curry above). The only other Copy Abilities to share this trait are Ice and Cutter.
• Fire Kirby is one of the most recurring abilities in the Kirby anime, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!; appearing in 10 out of 101 episodes. It also appears in episode 64, The Kirby Quiz, a clip show episode (alongside Ice, Stone, Needle, Cook, Mike, Tornado and Sword) through reused footage from previous episodes.