This case was absolutely wild too.

Universal was arguing that Nintendo infringed on their brand, as they have done with a bunch of companies in the past.

Those companies typically just adhered to C&D rather than fight it, but Kirby was sure he could win it.

Kirby spent the first part of the case arguing all the ways that Donkey Kong was different from King Kong, and then closed his argument by citing a case between Universal and RKO pictures(The studio that made King Kong), where they themselves had successfully argued that King Kong was in the public domain.

So......RKO Pictures makes king kong. Universal pictures then gets sued by RKO, and Universal argues it's in the public domain.

Then universal tries sueing Nintendo to protect their IP. Nintendo then shows King Kong is in public domain.

Soooooo........if I make Danky Kang, as a new IP, who wants to bet Nintendo would instantly sue me?

And here's the degoogled link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/11/20/nintendo-kirby/

TIL there was a Kirby vacuum cleaner company

TIL there's a Kirby vacuum company.

And of course someone else already said this lmaoooo

He’d be a ghost white character when he was named. Kirby’s first appearance was on the OG monochrome GameBoy, and he was white on the box art. He picked up his pink & red color scheme in his second game, on the NES.