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Pointless trivia about everyone's favourite pink puffball, Kirby. Kirby's character design was initially a placeholder, but developers liked it so much that it was made into the final design for the character. Initially there was disagreement over what colour Kirby should be - series creator Masahiro Sakurai thought he should be pink, while Nintendo thought he should be yellow. (Or the other way around, I'm going off memory here). Since the first game was released on the Game Boy, which doesn't use colour graphics, the box art designers compromised by making Kirby white on the box art, which is the colour he appears in the game. Kirby is the trope namer for American Kirby Is Hardcore, which is when something portrayed as cute and innocent in Japan gets an "attitude boost" in the US, named for the fact that, while in Japan the box art for Kirby games portrayed him as smiling and happy, the US versions made him look angry and serious. Another trope, know...