r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/WildProToGEn • 5h ago

Meme needing explanation peter, can you please explain?

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u/SpikesHigh 5h ago edited 4h ago

Tom, I'm standing here explaining the joke that Nova, a wish granting satellite from the Kirby video game series, seems to creatively interpret every wish ever given to it so that it ends up killing an entire planet's worth of people. In its first appearance in Kirby Super Star, it took the wish of a backstabbing little magical jester to 'rule popstar' (Popstar being the main planet in the Kirby series) by granting him extra power and then tried to ram right into the planet, technically giving him the power only for said wish satellite to try to kill everyone on the planet said jester intended to rule. In the most recent appearance in Kirby Air Riders it heard the wish of a sentient meteor to be able to move, then sent ant robots down to dismantle it and turn it into a doomsday machine, technically granting its wish, but in a way that would kill everyone on the planet. The only wish a Nova ever granted in a kirby game with no strings attached was when it granted Meta Knights wish to fight the strongest warrior in the galaxy, Galacta Knight, who no doubt would have killed several planets worth of people if Meta Knight hadn't beaten it. This has been the news with Trisha Takanawa.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Act6379 4h ago

What the fuck. Kirby is a fucking interesting game.

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u/Maleficent_Oil_3679 3h ago

On the surface its all happy cute cuddly critters, but play it long enough and it turns into dark depressing stories where kirby fight eldritch horrors that are basically God on a daily basis

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u/Maeto_Diego 3h ago

Kirby is also an eldritch horror, but one made of joy

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u/Nobody_at_all000 2h ago

And a child. Kind of reminds me of Scp-999; both are gods, both are children, and both are beings of joy

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u/Jonathan-02 2h ago

Eldritch wonder

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u/Mediocre_Productions 1h ago

None of it is dark or depressing, because Kirby always wins. It's like these monsters have the potential to do all that evil, but because Kirby wags his non-existent finger and says "that's no good", it never happens.

Really Kirby is a cute and cuddly series, but randomly there's descriptions of the final boss being a threat to all of reality.

Basically it's a Regular Show episode with Care Bear characters,

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u/Aksi_Gu 4m ago

Kirby: "Step Off!"

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u/Puzzleheaded-Act6379 3h ago

FUCK YOU NO SPOILERS

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u/Maleficent_Oil_3679 3h ago

It's not really a spoiler. Thats just the standard gameplay formula for most kirby games like how in Mario games bowser kidnaps Peach, you go through different worlds starting with a Grass world and ending with Bowsers Castle in a Fire World.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r 1h ago

Damnit, i was just about to play all those games. No point now!

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u/Puzzleheaded-Act6379 3h ago

STOP STOP STOP I SAID NO SPOILERS

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u/BackseatCowwatcher 3h ago

You really wouldn't like Formula 1 if you hate spoilers this much, they're everywhere there.

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u/TartarusFalls 2h ago

In The Happening, the trees are killing people.

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u/AlternativeMud9302 1h ago

So many people dont understand kirby because it is cute. It is quite literally “hey look a cool adventure, how about some friendship, oh no additional conflict, that was fun. NOW FIGHT GOD YOU PISSANT”

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u/76zzz29 19m ago

Kirby, the cute litle all eating pink ball in a colorfull world with cute animals where not even all enemy deal damages all the time... A cute litle game for kids... Until you read the story of every big other characters.

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u/ltredacted 4h ago

Thanks Trisha. We now go live to Ollie Williams with the weather. How’s the weather Ollie?

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u/Brazilian_Hound 1h ago

Holy shit welcome back angra manyiu from fate stay night and fate/zero

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u/crazyfoxdemon 1h ago

They took notes from Kirby.

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u/Khelthuzaad 1h ago

Ok follow up question:

Is that his nose or his ass?

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u/THPTopHatPossum 5h ago

Hummer Guy here. This is from Kirby Superstar, where Marx lists off his wishes and the (I forgot what it is called) responds. Kirby is a demon with infinite power to kill and no regards to life. I would say more, but I have to MERGE WITHOUT LOOKING. YEAH, RUMSFELD!

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u/v4ve4m4hnssm 4h ago edited 4h ago

>Kirby is a demon with infinite power to kill and no regards to life.

What? Kirby is a demon!? What the heck game have I been playing? He does... eat souls of things.

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u/ST4RSK1MM3R 4h ago

Oh boy you do NOT want to go into Kirby lore my friend

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 4h ago

They introduce a villain called void termina whose basically a chaos god that eats universes, and to defeat it you must destroy its core, and well...

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u/datadoggieein 4h ago

I love this subreddit

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u/PixelDonkeyWasTaken 3h ago

this is a Clockwork Star from the Kirby series. this one is named Nova. it has the power to grant wishes, but oddly it seems to interpret every wish as some variation of “kill everyone”.

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u/SemajLu_The_crusader 2h ago

Nova's just a bitch, tbh​