Kirby Face/Offs King Dedede

I’ve gotten a newfound appreciation for Dedede putting up with Kirby’s shenanigans at this point in the manga. But even duck royalty has a breaking point. In “Body Double Kapar, Protect King Dedede!,” Dedede decides he needs to hire a body double to keep himself safe from Kirby’s nonsense. Since no other character within Dream Land resembles Dedede’s distinctive visage, Hikawa ended up drawing frequent Kirby video game enemy Kapar in a shoddy Dedede disguise.

Despite Kirby being none the wiser to Dedede’s body double, somehow Dedede ends up being injured by Kirby whenever he thinks it’s safe to switch back out of his disguise. These injuries include having a tennis racket pierce his forehead and Kirby singeing his tongue in a vain attempt to cook a raw potato in his mouth. When Dedede wants to call it quits with Kapar, Kapar refuses. Then the craziest shit happens: Wielding his hair like a buzzsaw, Kapar slices off Dedede’s face and wears it over his own, just like Nic Cage did in John Woo’s iconic, 1997 cheesefest Face/Off

Although Kirby quickly susses out Kapar’s ruse, the chaotic pink elder-god decides he wants to switch places with Dedede too, and chases him with a broom while wearing his face. While Kirby Face/Offing King Dedede is undoubtedly one of the most horrific bits of body horror this cutesy manga contains, it’s still second banana to the last entry on this list.