Kirby

How Kirby joined the Tourney
Kirby began as an entirely different character design named Popopo that starred in Masahiro Sakurai's early NES game in development, originally called "Twinkle Popopo". During development he used a placeholder sprite resembling a ball with a happy face on it. Sakurai eventually came to prefer this more simplistic design and decided to use this character design instead of the original one. The little protagonist was eventually named Kirby and the game itself named Kirby's Dream Land. A later design change gave Kirby one of his most alluring characteristics -- his color. Kirby was originally to be yellow, but Sakurai had imagined him as pink. His name has two possible inspirations: a vacuum cleaner company named Kirby Corporation, or the legal counsel of Nintendo, John Kirby, who saved Nintendo during a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Universal Studios over the name of Donkey Kong.

Inhale (Neutral)
When the special move button is pressed, Kirby opens his mouth and begins to inhale, creating a vortex of wind. Kirby will not stop inhaling until the button is released. If a character comes near the vortex, they will automatically be sucked inside Kirby, who will bloat up with the person inside of him. He cannot move in Super Smash Bros., while in Melee and Brawl, he will move at extremely slow speeds and jump a short distance. Increased weight causes Kirby to fall faster as well. The goal of the attack is to swallow the victim (by pressing down or the special move button), which will make Kirby copy their powers, enabling him to perform that character's neutral special move (the character pops out after being swallowed and can still perform their neutral special attack). If Kirby traps the wrong character in his mouth, or simply doesn't want the character's move, Kirby can spit the character out by pressing the attack button and it has set knockback. Any player who is hit by the character that was spit by Kirby will take damage and decent vertical knockback.

Hammer (Side)
Kirby takes hold of a hammer and horizontally swings it forwards, dealing a strong blow to enemies at medium range.

Final Cutter (Up)
Kirby draws a silver blade, similar to a scimitar, jumps into the air a bit less than the height of Falco's full jump, (meaning that it's a decent vertical recovery), and falls quickly, releasing a blue "wave" projectile forward if he lands on a solid surface, traveling the distance of a Falco Phantasm.

Stone Kirby (Down)
Kirby transforms into a rock, becoming impervious to damage and knockback for a short time.

Super Inhale (Hyper Smash)
Same as the regular Inhale, but allows Kirby to inhale bigger opponents such as Azazel. After copying someone's ability, Kirby's Hyper Smash will be the same as the owner's Hyper Smash.

Cook Kirby (Final Smash)
Kirby puts on a chef's hat and clangs a spatula & frying pan, and nearly everything within a limited radius is drawn into the cauldron to stew. After a short while, the characters that are sucked in and various items, mostly food items, are launched upward, causing about 24% and relatively weak knockback that may not generally KO those under 100%; though this can be helped by using the move closer to the blast lines. Its true strength is in its decent range against multiple foes, and the helpful items it produces. After copying someone's ability, Kirby's Final Smash will be the same as the owner's Final Smash.

Victory Animations
All of Kirby's victory poses are variations of his victory dance from various Kirby series games.
 * 1) Kirby spins, and holds his hand up.
 * 2) Kirby does some flips, and holds his hand up.
 * 3) Kirby skids to each side, and holds his hand up.

Trivia

 * Kirby shares his voice actor with Ness.
 * Kirby's Super Smash Bros. Tourney rival happens to be King.