<clickbait>EVERYTHING YOU KNEW ABOUT STAR WARRIORS IS WRONG</clickbait>



Okay no, I am just excited! ;D



But hoo boy just when I thought I knew everything about the show, something shakes my convictions…

So I was reading some Japanese wikis for fun and out of boredom, and this one about Star Warriors and the Galaxy Soldier Army made a VERY interesting interpretation of Meta Knight’s words that I had never considered.

In episode 4, Meta Knight tells Fumu that Nightmare sent demon beasts everywhere to control the universe, and ‘those who cherished freedom stood up against him’.

I had always took that to mean ‘various brave people around the universe stood up to Nightmare’. Which is totally valid, right?



But these authors interpreted it to mean that ‘those who cherished freedom’ were specifically demon beasts that developed a sense of justice and rebelled. Basically that ALL Star Warriors were originally demon beasts.



And it honestly makes sense??? Because we know for a fact that Kirby is a failed demon beast, and that Star Warriors in general are Special in some way. (And many people have always headcanonned MK as being a demon beasts as well, but I haven’t seen many go as far as to say they ALL are.)



It would even make what happened with Knuckle Joe make sense. Wouldn’t it explain how he inexplicably transformed into a demon beast, with no outer influence, if his father originally was one?



And you have things like Mumbies which were designed and placed around the galaxy specifically to hunt down Star Warriors… Nightmare’s attempt at culling known ‘defects’?

Though I think maybe the writers originally backed down on the idea of demon beasts automatically being evil and it was an exception to be ‘good’, doing more of a ‘nurture over nature’ thing by the end of the show with PhanPhan. Honestly they never really made it clear, so this is still all super up to interpretation and I can’t say anyone is truly right or wrong in this case.



But it’s fun to think about still :D



I’d love to hear other thoughts!

