Mid-Boss All Stars is a set of mid-bosses fought in succession in the Kirby series. The set of mid-bosses are fought in place of a standard boss battle, and appear in Kirby Super Star (and its remake), Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, Kirby's Return to Dream Land (and its remake), Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Kirby: Planet Robobot, Kirby Star Allies, and Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Mid-Boss All Stars usually pits the player up against three or four mid-bosses. They are exclusive to Boss Endurance modes, including The Arena and The True Arena. They are generally fought in a colosseum.
Games
Kirby Super Star and Kirby Super Star Ultra
There are two sets of Mid-Boss All Stars in Kirby Super Star, and a third one in Kirby Super Star Ultra. They are aptly named Mid-Boss All Stars 1, Mid-Boss All Stars 2, and True Mid-Boss All Stars (which only appears in The True Arena).
Mid-Boss All Stars 1: the first three mid-bosses encountered in Dyna Blade (excluding Iron Mam at VS. Iron Mam)
Mid-Boss All Stars 2: first two mid-bosses of Spring Breeze, mid-boss of VS. Iron Mam, and mid-boss in the Old Tower Area basement.
True Mid-Boss All Stars: the only mid-bosses present in Revenge of the King (excluding Kracko Jr.'s Revenge)
In Helper to Hero, Mid-Boss All Stars 1 is fought in Round 2 and Mid-Boss All Stars 2 is fought in Round 8, each with alternate palettes.
- Chef Kawasaki is brown.
- Bonkers is orange.
- Bugzzy is blue.
- Poppy Bros. Sr. is red.
- Mr. Frosty is green.
- Iron Mam is green.
- Jukid is blue.
Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
There are three sets of Mid-Boss All Stars in Kirby & The Amazing Mirror’s Boss Endurance, but do not have any given names, being represented by three purple balls with a couple of stars in them, and a differently colored background: red, purple, or green.
Mid-Boss All Stars Red: all mid-bosses featured in Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
Mid-Boss All Stars Purple: Arena Waddle Dee from Kirby Super Star and a couple of new mid-bosses
Mid-Boss All Stars Green: all new mid-bosses
Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe
Kirby's Return to Dream Land once again features two sets of Mid-Boss All Stars (however, Sphere Doomers act similarly to Mid-Boss All Stars).
Mid-Boss All Stars 1:
- Gigant Edge (EX)
- King Doo (EX)
- Bonkers (EX)
Mid-Boss All Stars 2:
- Kibble Blade (EX)
- Moundo (EX)
- Water Galboros (EX)
- Dubior (EX)
In The True Arena, the last two mid-bosses in each Mid-Boss All Stars are fought simultaneously.
Kirby: Triple Deluxe
Like Kirby Super Star, there are only two sets of Mid-Boss All Stars.
Mid-Boss All Stars 1:
- Grand Wheelie (DX)
- Bonkers (DX)
- Hornhead (DX)
Mid-Boss All Stars 2:
- Mr. Frosty (DX)
- Flame Galboros (DX)
- Gigant Edge (DX)
- Blocky (DX)
Kirby: Planet Robobot
As with Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Kirby: Triple Deluxe, there are only two Mid-Boss All Stars.
Mid-Boss All Stars 1:
- Kibble Blade (2.0)
- Blocky (2.0)
- King Doo (2.0)
- Dubior (2.0)
Mid-Boss All Stars 2:
- Security Force (2.0)
- Miasmoros (2.0)
- Bonkers (2.0)
- Telepathos (2.0)
Kirby Star Allies
As Kirby Star Allies only features five mid-bosses, enemies were added to the mix to pad out the battles. Due to The Ultimate Choice's difficulty scale, sometimes only one of the Mid-Boss All Stars are fought; starting from Fiery Showdown, the mid-bosses are upgraded to their Far-Flung - Starlight Heroes forms and the enemies are changed. Mid-Boss All Stars 1 is fought in seven levels of difficulty (Sweet Breeze, Spicy Adventure, Sizzling Threat, Fiery Showdown, Infernal Crisis, Soul Melter, and Soul Melter EX); Mid-Boss All Stars 2 is fought in eight levels of difficulty (Mild Stroll, Zesty Expedition, Spicy Adventure, Sizzling Threat, Fiery Showdown, Infernal Crisis, Soul Melter, and Soul Melter EX).
Mid-Boss All Stars 1 (Sweet Breeze, Spicy Adventure, Sizzling Threat):
Mid-Boss All Stars 2 (Mild Stroll, Zesty Expedition, Spicy Adventure, Sizzling Threat):
- Chef Kawasaki
- Two Anger Maskers
- Vividria
- Bugzzy
True Mid-Boss All Stars 1 (Fiery Showdown, Infernal Crisis, Soul Melter):
- Bonkers
- Sizzle Guard and Blizzard Guard
- Twin Frosty
True Mid-Boss All Stars 2 (Fiery Showdown, Infernal Crisis, Soul Melter):
- Bugzzy
- Chef Kawasaki
- Two Floaty the Cell Cores
- Twin Vividria
True Mid-Boss All Stars 1 EX (Soul Melter EX):
- Mr. Frosty and two Floaty the Cell Cores
- Two Anger Maskers
- Twin Bonkers
True Mid-Boss All Stars 2 EX (Soul Melter EX):
- Chef Kawasaki and four Two Faces
- Vividria, Sizzle Guard, and Blizzard Guard
- Twin Bugzzy
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Kirby and the Forgotten Land only features four mid-bosses, and as a result, both sets of the Mid-Boss All Stars only features two mid-bosses each. Unlike previous games, mid-bosses have no visual differences in appearance to distinguish harder variants from normal variants, although the Ultimate Cup Z of the Colosseum have the mid-bosses perform harder attacks first seen in encounters in Isolated Isles: Forgo Dreams and the Masked Hammer and Morpho Knight Sword Treasure Roads. Both sets of Mid-Boss All Stars are always fought regardless of the cup in the Colosseum.
Mid-Boss All Stars 1:
Mid-Boss All Stars 2:
True Mid-Boss All Stars 1:
True Mid-Boss All Stars 2:
Trivia
- The "Mid-Boss All Stars" name is only used in Kirby Super Star/Ultra and Kirby: Planet Robobot.
- The position in which each Mid-boss spawns in changes depending on the game:
- In Kirby Super Star/Ultra, odd-numbered Mid-bosses (Chef Kawasaki, Bugzzy, Poppy Bros. Sr., Iron Mam, Mr. Tick-Tock, and Phan Phan) spawn to the left of the player, and even-numbered Mid-bosses (Bonkers, Mr. Frosty, Jukid, Grand Wheelie, and Fire Lion) spawn to the right of the player. The Mid-boss always spawns a set distance away from the player based on the player's position when the previous Mid-boss is defeated (or the initial position of the player in the case of the first Mid-boss of each group). This is the only time where a Mid-boss' position is not set.
- In Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, all Mid-bosses spawn at the right side of the coliseum, with the first Mid-boss already being present. Mid-bosses like Bombar, Batafire, and Master Hand, all spawn in the air, at varying heights.
- In Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Mid-bosses spawn on the opposite side of the arena that the player is on. If there are two Mid-bosses, the second one (Bonkers EX in the case of True Mid-Boss All Stars 1, and Dubior EX in the case of True Mid-Boss All Stars 2) spawns on the same side of the arena that the player is on.
- In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Kirby: Planet Robobot, Kirby Star Allies, and Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the Mid-bosses have set positions and, like Kirby Super Star/Ultra, alternate between the right and left sides of the arena.
- All of the Mid-bosses in Kirby Super Star/Ultra’s Mid-Boss All Stars 1 grant Copy Abilities that can only be obtained from Mid-bosses or Copy Essences.
- This is the same case for Kirby Star Allies' Mid-Boss All Stars 2.
- All of the Mid-bosses in the True Mid-Boss All Stars are present in Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land.
- Bonkers appears in every game in which a Mid-Boss All Stars group is present, if also counting his Wild Bonkers variant in Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
- Kirby: Triple Deluxe’s Mid-Boss All Stars 1 bears resemblance to Kirby Super Star/Ultra’s Mid-Boss All Stars 1, having Bonkers be the second Mid-boss fought, with the third Mid-boss being a beetle (Bugzzy and Hornhead).
- The alternate colors used by the Mid-boss All Stars in Helper to Hero are from when they're fought in Cavius.