Kirby - Zero Two - With Lyrics by Man on the Internet

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How's this for a weeping angel?

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards by Nintendo and HAL Laboratories
Composer - Jun Ishikawa

Vocals and Lyrics by Alex Beckham

Mix by Marc Gardner

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

[ChaosSniper]

This boss FREAKED me as a kid. This song truly captures how I always saw him: A being of darkness and chaos, mimicking a angel.

[reesewhittington]

The pure genuinity and curiosity "Do you fear me?" is asked with is chilling when you stop to think about it.

[rubengarcia]

1:31
“The MIRACLE of shadow rising, All that MATTERS now colliding.”

These lyrics are sung while footage from the Miracle Matter boss fight is playing.

[shadeskitsune]

I like the different parallels between Marx and Zero 2's song such as "At least I dare to dream" and "I dare not dream". but also how differently they view Kirby. Marx calls him a "demon in pink who can't think what I can think" belittling him and making it look like he's the villain of the story. While Zero 2 calls him "warrior of the stars" or also "you who stand blessed under starlight" he knows Kirby is the hero who was born to stop him and refers to him as such, not so much as praise but so much as stating facts, probably aware of both Kirby and his origins.

[ExDixionconderoga]

A fitting battle. Zero can’t understand good emotions, Kirby can’t understand bad ones.

[berserk.]

Honestly, this fits Zero perfectly. Unlike most other final bosses, he's perfectly aware of everything. He does not sing "look at my sad past", "look how powerful I am" or "I was right all along", he rather sings about things that are true in a metaphoric way that aren't played that much attention at, such as "light surrounded by the dark", sounding like he's perfectly aware Kirby is the hero and that he is just darkness.

[megamike]

kirby must now face something he will never truly understand: nihilism.

[basketbomberslackingson]

I know it’s basic and obvious to everyone already, but I like “everything will fall to zero.” It’s not only saying “everything will end, ” it’s also saying “I will conquer all.”

[notimportant]

According to the game manual Zero sees itself as a benevolent force. Saving worlds from their own free will. If all life is Zero nothing will hurt anymore, if all life is Zero nothing will die, perfect order out of chaos.

[SleepiAbyss]

The interpretation of Zero Two here is pretty awesome to me. No asking for sympathy, no re-framing Kirby as the villain, no trying to justify his actions. He is completely committed to his role as Kirby's antagonist. He lives for it. In fact, that's all he lives for, to the point of not being able to comprehend positive emotions, and even when he asks if you fear him it isn't trying to make you afraid, it's a genuine question. He wants to know, if you fear him. And you should. Because a villain who is ready to play the role of the villain, ready to oppose the hero with everything they have, and who understands that the hero is a threat, is an utterly terrifying force.





Then in the game he just kinda cries at you

[TayoEXE]

You know, one consistent theme of Zero's design is its one bloody eye. One who dares no dream, never closes its eye, so it is bloodshot. Literally.

[Moss_Dude]

Kirby doesn't care about your greater cause.
Everything is beyond his understanding.
All he understands is you are making his friends sad.
That's all the reasoning he needs.

[CoriSparx]

I hadn't even thought about it before but holy shit, 02 actually IS based on an Ophanim! The spinning "wheels within wheels" are in the background, while the thing you actually fight is the "spirit of the living creature within the wheel"

[therewasanattempt]

If anyone is curious anathema has two meanings, the first one is “something or someone that one vehemently dislikes” and the Second one is “a formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine”. And I believe both could fit in this since 02 looks like a Biblically accurate angel, but he also detests the light.

[ThatBeePerson]

I think it's super interesting that 02 doesn't refer to itself, but to just "the shadows"
it doesn't explicitly say that it itself is the shadows until "everything will fall to zero"

It sounds more like a warning, that the shadows will come, that everything is in danger, not a threat, not a promise, but a warning, and as several have pointed out, this song is also quite sad in how it depicts 02.

especially the "Do you fear me?", it doesn't sound like "Because you should." it sounds like a genuine question. Honestly this is so well written even by MotI standards

[mrfrog]

Ya know... I find it interesting how subdued Zero in this is in his lyrics compared to some other villains like Marx, Dimentio, and ironically even fellow eldrich abomination Lavos. While most of the others are dismissive of the good guys Zero actually addresses them directly and uses the term 'we' and 'ours', even asking about the characters feelings almost as if he's seeking some form of connection but he flat out struggles to comprehend the idea of anyone being anything but miserable, and if the 'dare not dream' line is anything can only see ways for things to get worse. Ironically this means that despite being a walking bloody eyeball of pure misery he doesn't go through the breakdowns Lavos and Marx do.... after all he wouldn't be happy even if he won and the painful emotions associated with loss are already his entire existence so really its just more of the same to him.

[navybee]

I love how Zero in a way knows he’s going to lose, so he constantly reminds Kirby that he’ll always be watching, as dark matter will continue exist as long darkness, hate, and agony is felt across the land, for that it what zero and dark matter is made of… it’s sad that dark matter CAN actually feel emotions other than sadness as gooey is an example of this but they’re just to stubborn to notice….

[TaosoftheVoid]

I don't know a lot about Zero Two but I want to point something out: They start out sounding almost emotionless as they begin the first few lines, as if this isn't something they even remotely feel anything towards but as the song progresses, they show small signs of emotion which progress until by the end you can hear this is something they are getting almost....angry about.

Notice how it sounds intentionally flat as the first lines are given, it comes across as if this is something that was meant to happen no matter what Kirby does - at least in the eye of Zero Two. It doesn't feel really mocking as they sing about Kirby flying to take them down, only challenging the pink blob. The emotions just build as it goes on but the line "I weep, I scream, I dare not dream!" feels almost sad to hear when Zero Two claims "Only in dreams can we awaken!" I can only imagine a character looking saddened in some way as they utter those words.

The way the emotions build throughout the song yet Zero Two doesn't try to excuse their actions or get any sort of sympathy, empathy, etc out of Kirby, only building up to a question that you'd expect to be some asking for pity or something, we get the chilling line "Do you fear me?" not in some triumphant villain shout but in the voice of an angel with little care for what stands in their way. Zero Two isn't asking it for the ego boost, it sounds more....genuine? It sends chills down my spine, I don't imagine someone saying it with some mocking look or a snarky smirk but rather someone with a marble like emotionlessness in their face, as if a statue was asking it, looking down at you like you're nothing.

The ending feels pretty awesome too, all that build up doesn't slowly leave, it drops with the final words so suddenly. From the beginning to the end, Zero Two fought without holding back for a moment, never begging for life or telling Kirby that this isn't what's right or something. Zero Two just keeps trying to take down the hero, letting nothing stop them until they're put down by planet popstar's pink protagonist. There's something to it all that I can't describe well but this really feels like listening to some harbinger of the end times, something with such an alien way of thinking that they don't seem to feel any emotion at all. Or at least, none positive. They are apparently dark matter after all.

[perr]

I love how this is not "Look at me, I'm sad", "I'm the most powerful being" or "My ideals are right".
This is just Zero wanting to devour the people, and then the planet, and then the sistem, and then the galaxy, and then the universe...

[ShmeengusDingus]

It’s crazy that the most dangerous enemies Kirby faces might all be members of his own species. Makes King Dedede’s fear of Kirby becoming a monster without proper guidance all the more understandable and Meta’s desire to see him get stronger more alarming