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Lopen posted...

To me it's mostly how he implements the attacks he steals (he's definitely more of a shapeshifter than like Mr. Fantastic who was technically allowed), and the fact that some of the abilities have rather elaborate alterations (like UFO Kirby or Wing Kirby-- he wouldn't necessarily need to turn into a UFO for example to have the abilities of one but that's how his body decides to do it) that lets Kirby barely qualify.

See, I'm still under the argument that it's more convenience than anything.

A major example of Digestive Assimilation without Digestive Shapeshifting is Wapol from One Piece, depending actually on how you want to view this argument. Someone can correct me as I describe this. Wapol eats metallic objects and then gains the properties of them. Like he can make a cannon appear out his mouth or on his body after eating one. What he does is somewhat different from shapeshifting, since it's more like a machine, where he upgrades but can't really revert himself. But also, he can eat things that don't give him powers as they don't possess them.

Kirby does a similar thing in his normal power where he can eat a lot of things, but not everything will give him a power. And even many things that give him powers don't give him shapeshifting. His full on shapeshifting due to a power in a basic game (Rock and Wheel for example) are more the side of this game from the power, not Kirby. Many other cases he does have an aesthetic change like yes, UFO, Wing. But he doesn't do that with everything. This is something called Consumptive Replication (The power to gain the powers of others by consuming them.) A similar user of this was actually Naraku in Inuyasha, who similarly could take on a body part he ate from an enemy, not to be mistaken to be shapeshifting. (Granted, don't quote me on this one, I know Genny and maybe a few others would know him better to explain his power)

Kirby's still different since Digestive Assimilation includes items, as opposed to Consumptive Replication. Kirby instead, in a sense, swallows the enemy and kind of takes its soul which becomes a hat. Obviously this isn't explained, but Super Star (where the hats were introduced) would let you take off the power to create a helper. The helper stuff wouldn't continue past Super Star but the hats would, which you can assume is aesthetics, but the way it works is essentially the same. This can also be though about in the fact that if Kirby gets hit or releases his power manually, the power up floats around as a Star until Kirby picks up another power-up or re-eats the star. The fact that the power is still solidified kind of helps the fact that Kirby's power comes from the soul of the enemy that was absorbed. I hope that makes sense finally where I'm coming from in the case of how I'm fighting for his power to not be shapeshifting.

HOWEVER, I do want to say that after other arguments, I do agree with the elasticity stuff regarding Kirby 64 (in particular for power-ups being merged) and just Kirby's powers in general (since the very beginning) and of course Yarn Kirby being the same character, which was criticized when I said no to same character.
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I'll just go back to gifs. Not like the winner was gonna click my topic.
https://imgur.com/SXyi7uX