Zero Two
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| Full Name | Zero Two |
| Debut | Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (2000) |
| Ability | None |
| Category | Boss |
Zero Two (officially written as O2 or 02) is the final boss of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. It resides deep within a gargantuan sphere of amassed Dark Matter entitled Dark Star. Zero, back from the dead and still controlling Dark Matter, returns as as a being that resembles a 'fallen angel'. Zero Two's juxtaposition of angelic and macabre qualities has earned it the title of being one of the most horrific bosses of the series. It resumes its designs of conquest by invading the surrounding planets of Pop Star (particularly Ripple Star). Unlike its previous existence, Zero has reincarnated as an entity of purely negative energy. It reasons that if it cannot feel happiness, then neither should anyone else. Thus, its mission is to spread its darkness and misery throughout the cosmos.
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[edit] Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
Because Zero Two isn't even encountered until late in the game, it stays behind the scenes causing trouble through its Dark Matter minions. Zero Two is truly the one responsible for breaking the Power Crystal on Ripple Star and causing trouble on the different planets. Zero Two's ultimate goal, like its predecessor, appears to be to rid the universe of all traces of happiness, leaving only sorrow and despair.
Zero Two is a secret and optional boss that can only be faced if the player has every single Crystal Shard. Unless every shard is collected, Miracle Matter serves as the "final boss". Kirby has the supreme Crystal Gun during the fight, and Ribbon uses her wings to guide Kirby around. At first, Zero Two is impervious to absolutely any attack. It can be stunned, however, by continuously shooting at its eye. During this process, though, it will constantly shoot exploding energy balls with decent accuracy. While it is stunned, Kirby must fly up and aim for the halo. After enough damage is done to the halo, Zero Two flips over revealing a long green thorn-like tail on his bottom. This is its weak spot, so Kirby has to get as much real damage as he can before it flips back over and the whole cycle repeats. However, when attacking the tail, it shoots several green globs at random directions. The tail itself is also a threat; Zero Two can swing its tail at Kirby to damage him.
After blasting Zero Two with holy energy from the Crystal Gun, the monster overloads and implodes, destroying it and Dark Matter once more, ending its reign of terror on the galaxy for now.
[edit] Physical Appearance
02 appears as an angelic version of 0 with a halo hovering over the bandage on the top of its head, which is a reference to the previous game where 0's eye bursts out of its body(a surprisingly bloody animation), and two white wings with blood red feathers(in the game its wings are segmented geometric shapes). 02 also has a green spiked tail (resembling a cactus).The cactus 02 sports represents its undying hatred toward everything and its halo symbolizes its resurrection and distant memory of its ability to have positive feelings. 02 highly resembles a fallen angel.
As Kirby enters the core of Dark Star, 02 first wears an amiable visage; two black dots resembling beady eyes above a wide smile. As Kirby and Ribbon form the Crystal Shard Gun, its mouth opens up wide, its trademark blood red eye is revealed, its false eyes disappear, and the battle initiates.
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[edit] Trivia
- During the fight with Zero Two, the "Try Again" option is replaced with "Tough It Out!". This option has the same effect as "Continue".
- At least one kind of official Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards strategy guide erroneously refers to Zero Two as being a benevolent being that rarely causes trouble in the cloudy regions of Shiver Star. Such facts are untrue, as Zero Two is not benevolent, nor is it located in Shiver Star. Also, Zero Two is never mentioned as the final boss, the guide simply ends on the "bad ending" of the game, though this may be just a mistake in the guide.
- The bandage on Zero Two's head may be a reference to when its eye separated from the rest of its body in Kirby's Dream Land 3. This would mean that there is a gaping hole beneath the bandage left from when the eye broke away.
- Although Zero Two and the planet-sized mass of Dark Matter were both defeated and exploded at the end of the game, it should be noted that a similar destruction happened when Kirby first beat Zero in his original form, so whether Dark Matter and Zero are truly gone remains unknown.
