User blog:BigBadSquid/PE Proposal: ENeMeE/Lord Nightmare

Yet ANOTHER nightmare guy.

What's the Work?
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! is an anime adaptation of the video game series following everyone's favorite pink fluffball, Kirby. In this series, Kirby comes down from space to Cappy Town as fate to protect it from evil forces from the evil Nightmare Enterprises. Say hello to the CEO, ENeMeE/Lord Nightmare.

Who is ENEMEE/Nightmare? What has he done?
In this anime, Lord Nightmare was an evil wizard with plans of conquering the universe and reshape it in his own image. Creating his own monstrous minions, he sent them into battle to destroy everything that stood in his path of domination. A massive galactic war ensued between Nightmare and the Star Warriors. Nightmare also turned Knuckle Joe's father into a monster, forcing Meta Knight to mercy kill it. In the end, Nightmare was defeated and all but five Star Warriors were killed. Among the survivors were Kirby and Meta Knight.

Nightmare wasn't killed in the war, he instead spent his time hiding in his fortress to heal from his heavy wounds. In the meantime, he sent out his monsters minions out across the universe to cause as much destruction as possible. He set up a business called Nightmare Enterprises, where he sells his monsters to unsavory buyers, one of which is Dedede, the greedy king of Cappy Town.

When Kirby is awoken from his hundreds of years snoring and crashes into Cappy Town, Dedede orders monsters from NME to take out Kirby. From his fortress, Nightmare monitors Kirby to learn more about what he can do to take out the strongest galactic warrior. The answer comes in many episodes later where instead of a monster being summoned, a large meteor called Gerath heads straight towards Cappy Town to completely destroy everything. When that fails, he sends one of his Destroya ships to obliterate Cappy Town. No casualties thanks to Kirby, but the entire village is in ruins.

In the finale, Meta Knight sets up a raid to Nightmare Fortress where Kirby can finally take on Nightmare. But Nightmare comes prepared and torments with Kirby by kidnapping his friend Tiff and tortures her despite only being a young girl. Kirby exhausts himself and falls asleep, allowing Nightmare to enter his dream. Nightmare gains the upper hand and nearly kills Kirby's consciousness until Tiff tosses a warp star for Kirby to eat and creates the Star Rod. In the end, the evil wizard is defeated, but not before taunting Kirby (in the original Japanese version) that he may return as long as fear remains in mortal hearts.

Thus ending possibly the darkest and scariest villain the cute Kirby franchise.

Migitating Factors
Hahaha... no. Nothing this guy does counts as redeeming in any way. Sure he rather sits back and watches Kirby fight his creations, but once he gets involved in combat, his true personality comes out as a sadistic wizard obsessed with power. Why the regular Nightmare in the game series can't qualify is because he lacks any moral agency, and he didn't do much other than just spread nightmares around Dreamland. In the anime, Nightmare is fully aware of the destruction he's causing, but cares nothing about it with only that wicked grin on his face.

Heinous Standards
Okay, this one's a no-brainer just because nobody comes close to compare with Nightmare.

Sure Dedede does some nasty things through the series, such as taking Tiff and Tuff hostage and attempting to kill Kirby multiple times despite him having the intelligence of a toddler. He also tried to eat Dyna Blade's chick and once tried to turn him into a monster so Kirby could fight his friend. Oh yeah, does anyone remember that one episode where he MURDERS Whispy Woods and every other sentient tree just to make room for a golf course? However, it's hard to take him seriously since the show plays his slapstick as a joke and often makes him go on-off to help Kirby defeat the stronger foes.

Nightmare, on the other hand, goes far past this by committing multiple terroristic wars across the universe to build his empire, all without being played for laughs. Everything wrong is his fault, and yet he shows satisfaction to his horrific acts without pity. And that's only the tip of the iceberg to his character.

Final Verdict
Kirby is geared to kids, but this guy says otherwise. The final verdict is yes.