King Dedede

"Holy crap! It's that fat guy! King Dedede! I must've tried to stop him, but now I will stop him! I hate this guy, 'cause he's to darn fat! Darn it! God help me to stop him... for Kirby."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Fall of Dream Land

King Dedede (written as King DeDeDe or King De De De in certain older games) is Kirby's arch-enemy and the main antagonist and/or anti-hero in Nintendo and HAL Laboratory's long-running Kirby video game series. He or his likeness has appeared in every game in the series except Kirby & The Amazing Mirror. As such, he is the most recurring major character of the series besides Kirby and Waddle Dee. Nintendo has described Dedede as Kirby's "arch frenemy," as he has helped more than harmed him since Kirby's Return to Dream Land; it is debated whether or not Dedede is the main (or even an) antagonist any longer.