<ཐི༏ཋྀ> Morpho Knight <ཐི༏ཋྀ> (YEEEEEHAW)

MORPHO KNIGHT'S BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Morpho Knight is a character in the Kirby series, debuting in Kirby Star Allies as the final boss of Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go!. He is a mysterious being in the form of a butterfly that arrives at the site of great battles to cast judgement.

APPEARANCE

Morpho Knight is a spherical creature with black skin, white glowing eyes and no mouth. He has yellow shoes and gloves and red sparkling butterfly wings on its back. His armor is red with black ornamentations and silver-white shoulder pads with a red swirl on both of them. His mask has long horns which resemble antennae. It wields a sword that looks similar to Galaxia, but it has a red and gold coloration with a butterfly pattern on its handle and capri colored jewels on both sides of the sword's blade. What appears to be a blue gemstone can be seen on the handle, which has a thin black line across it, giving it a similar appearance to a snake's eye.

INFORMATION

While most information is left ambiguous and mysterious in the English versions of Morpho Knight and Morpho Knight EX's pause screen descriptions in Kirby Star Allies, the Japanese versions give more details about what Morpho Knight actually is. The butterfly that is seen before Morpho Knight's birth is described as a "butterfly of paradise". It's said to appear after something perishes, arriving to bring about judgement day. This essentially means that the butterfly is an ethereal being of judgement that decides the fate of the souls of the dead. The butterfly is also stated to have the ability to cross dimensions into other worlds. Morpho Knight himself is seemingly formed only when a butterfly of paradise absorbs a soul that outlasts death through sheer power.

In Japanese mythology, butterflies are often associated with death and spirits, where they are sometimes believed to be guides of the spirits of the dead that take them to the afterlife, akin to a psychopomp, and seeing as how Morpho Knight is a butterfly, this appears to further its association with death.

ETYMOLOGY

Morpho Knight's name may hold multiple meanings. "Morpho" means "changed" or "modified", referencing how the butterfly transforms into Morpho Knight upon making contact with Galacta Knight and Soul Forgo; this is also a reference to the process of metamorphosis through which caterpillars transform into butterflies. Morpho is also a genus of tropical butterflies, although this is likely a coincidence with regards to Morpho Knight's name, as Morpho butterflies have ocelli (eyespots), which Morpho Knight lacks, and Morpho butterfly wings don't have tails, unlike Morpho Knight's. Its name may also be derivative of Morpheus, a god associated with sleep and dreams, in reference to its boss title of Fluttering Dream Eater.