Moundo is a mid-boss in the Kirby series, debuting in Kirby's Return to Dream Land. He gives the Stone ability when inhaled.
Physical Appearance[]
Moundo is a large brown rock, with what looks like snow on top of three small peaks on his head, giving him the appearance of having craggy gray "hair" on top. He has a jagged mouth set in a frown with bits of moss on his lower lip and small, angry eyes with brown pupils. Just like Rocky, he has no hands or arms. He wears brown sandals with orange bands on his large yellow feet. Moundo also wears a red and white striped headband around his forehead.
Moundo's Extra Mode counterpart, Moundo EX, has a gray body and red eyes instead of both being brown, and his feet are a dark red. He also lacks the small pieces of moss that regular Moundo had on his bottom jaw. A last coloration difference between Moundo EX and his counterpart is that his headband now bears yellow and black stripes.
Attacks[]
Moundo has main four attacks that he uses in battle: charging into Kirby after building up some speed, a homing jump where he uses a whirlwind around himself to float into the air in hopes of crushing Kirby below him, leaping high into the air to smash Kirby, and spinning around on the floor and sliding to track Kirby if he evades the first spin, which he will use at low health. Furthermore, when he reaches that point, he may telegraph his jump smash by taking a few short hops along the ground instead of walking. The charging attack and crushing attacks leave stars behind for Kirby to use. When Moundo is in the middle of his spinning move, he will flash gray during it and be invincible to all attacks.
Moundo EX behaves the same as the normal form of Moundo, but can still take and dish out more damage like all the other EX enemies. He can use his whirlwind jump to bounce up and down three times towards Kirby and his spinning move lasts longer. After reaching half health, he add two more attacks involving his whirlwind jump. The first is to float above Kirby and grow to a bigger size, becoming even harder to avoid after he slams down. He shrinks down to normal size after he finishes the attack. The second is to hover in the air for a while before landing. Finally, when he uses his whirlwind jump attack several times in a row, he does so four times instead of three.
In Other Languages[]
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マウンデス | Translates to Moundeath. |
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Moundo | |
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Opa Klops | Translates to Granddad Meatball. |
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Grabuge | Translates to Mayhem or Scrap. |
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Monte sumo | Translates to Mount sumo. |
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Montaño | Montaño. Derived from "Montaña," which means "Mountain." The O at the end is likely to make it masculine; Montaño is also a Spanish surname. |
Trivia[]
- Moundo vaguely resembles Grumples and Giant Rocky.
- Moundo EX's headband is used as an alternate costume for Hammer in Kirby Fighters Deluxe and Kirby Fighters 2. This costume also turns Kirby's hammer solid gray like Moundo EX's body.
- Moundo, Water Galboros, and Super Bonkers are the only mid-bosses from Kirby's Return to Dream Land to not appear in a Kirby game between Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe.
- Blocky instead takes the role as the Stone mid-boss in the Nintendo 3DS entries and Super Kirby Clash.
- In Kirby Star Allies, when playing Guest Star Magolor: Best Friends Forever, some of the stage layout in Level 5 is changed to reflect Stage 3 of Dangerous Dinner from Kirby's Return to Dream Land. Moundo is represented by a large Rocky.
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