Cleaning

Cleaning
Artwork of Cleaning Kirby from Kirby Star Allies.
Details
First game	Kirby's Dream Land 3 (1997)
Latest game	Kirby's Dream Buffet (2022, reference)
Other game(s)	Kirby: Triple Deluxe (reference) Kirby Star Allies
Usage type	Unlimited use
Obtained from	Broom Hatter (only some games), Keke (from the foe or her broom), Bukiset (broom-wielding variant), Haboki
Power(s)	Attacks using cleaning utensils; provides Bluster and Splash augments.
Helper	Broom Hatter

Cleaning, originally known as Clean or Broom, is one of eight Copy Abilities that Kirby can acquire from his enemies in Kirby's Dream Land 3. It also appears as an ability in Kirby Star Allies, which currently makes it the ability with the longest gap between two appearances. The ability can be obtained from broom-related enemies, and its attacks are also usually associated with cleaning or broom-related activities.

Characteristics

In its most basic form in Kirby's Dream Land 3, Cleaning is somewhat unremarkable, only involving Kirby sweeping the ground with a broomstick, throwing up dust that can harm enemies at very close range. Its true potential comes when paired with an Animal Friend, giving Kirby a number of much more potent techniques, including dashing forward with Nago, sweeping in a much larger area with Coo, and even flying with ChuChu. In Kirby Star Allies, Cleaning is upgraded significantly, giving Kirby much more effective broom sweeps and also allowing him to call on many of his animal combinations at will. The Cleaning ability is also able to give the Bluster and Splash Power Effects to friends. In Kirby: Right Back at Ya! and Kirby Star Allies, Kirby wears a yellow or white bandana with green stars on it when he has this ability.

Game appearances

Cleaning Kirby's video game appearances
Game	Role	Notes
Kirby's Dream Land 3	Copy Ability	Obtainable from Broom Hatter, broom Bukiset, Keke, and Haboki. Can be paired with an Animal Friend.
Kirby: Triple Deluxe	Reference	Appears as two randomly-obtained keychains.
Kirby Star Allies	Copy Ability	Obtainable from Broom Hatter. Can be used to make a Broom Hatter ally. Can impart "Bluster" and "Splash" Power Effects on weapons, and is also used for Friend Super-Vac and Clean Curling.
Kirby's Dream Buffet	Reference	Cleaning Kirby appears on a Character Treat.

Kirby's Dream Land 3

Artwork of Clean Kirby from Kirby's Dream Land 3.

Clean + ChuChu artwork from Kirby's Dream Land 3.

When Kirby or Gooey possesses the Clean ability in Kirby's Dream Land 3, they may use a broom to clean the area in front of them when the Y button is pressed. Apart from being able to hurt enemies with the cleaning instrument itself, performing this action causes white dust clouds to be raised in front of Kirby or Gooey, which act as harmful projectiles towards opponents. As such, they can be reflected back by a Dogon. Holding the Y button will cause Kirby or Gooey to continue sweeping in place, and holding "up" will direct the dust upwards to hit airborne enemies more easily.

The Clean ability or one of its combinations is required to obtain three separate Heart Stars in the game: Clean + Pitch for Kamuribana's star in the first stage of Ripple Field, the base ability or any combination for Oba-chan's star in the second stage of Sand Canyon and Clean + Coo or Clean + Rick for Hibanamodoki's star in the first Cloudy Park stage.

Combinations

Like other Copy Abilities, the basic Clean ability can be enhanced by uniting with an Animal Friend, the resulting power depending on the Friend that Kirby teams up with. The following combinations are possible:

Friend	Appearance	Description
ChuChu		While the Y button is held, ChuChu and Kirby or Gooey ride on a flying broom, the bottom end of which can harm enemies.
Coo		Kirby or Gooey stop and use Coo as a living feather duster, defeating enemies in front of him.
Kine		While the Y button is held, a plunger protrudes from Kine's mouth. All enemies touched by the plunger will stick to it; these can be pushed into other enemies to harm them or launched as projectiles by letting go of the button.
Nago		Nago dashes forward while the Y button is held, polishing the floor with Kirby and sweeping it clean of enemies. Nago cannot jump or turn around while using this power.
Pitch		Pitch briefly transforms into a bucket, letting Kirby or Gooey chuck a large blob of water at enemies. Holding "up" while doing so causes him to throw it at a higher angle.
Rick		Rick cleans the area directly in front of him with a blue feather duster, harming opponents.

Kirby: Triple Deluxe

While Cleaning does not appear as a Copy Ability in Kirby: Triple Deluxe, it does appear as two of the collectible Keychains, one being Kirby using the ability alone, while the other is the combination with ChuChu.

Kirby Star Allies

An image from the Kirby JP Twitter showing the various Animal Friend cameos in the Cleaning Abilities, and comparing them to the Kirby's Dream Land 3 counterparts.

Francisca describes Cleaning Kirby in Kirby Star Allies game report from Kirby JP Twitter.

Clean returns in Kirby Star Allies after a 21-year absence from the series, now called Cleaning. When Kirby gains the Cleaning ability, he is given a broom and a white bandanna with green stars on it. The ability gains a number of combo attacks, much like other abilities in the game, with several causing the Animal Friends from Kirby's Dream Land 3 to cameo in the process. Cleaning also gives the Bluster element with its standard sweeps along with 'Clean ChuChu', while the Splash element is provided through the 'Clean Nago' and 'Clean Pitch' moves. Broom Hatter represents the ability as its Friend.

Cleaning also has access to its own Friend Ability by simply holding ↑, known as Friend Super-Vac, in which Kirby takes out a vacuum cleaner. This Friend Ability is one of the few to have an effect even if there are no Friends to help out, as enemies and various other items are sucked into the vacuum while Kirby holds it up. In addition, it is one of the abilities that can be combined with Stone to use the Curling Friend Ability.

Cleaning moveset for Kirby Star Allies
Skill	Button Execution	Description	Damage (Star Bullet=52)
Sweep	Press and release B	Kirby sweeps in place.	16
Sweep and Move	↔ while pressing B	Kirby sweeps while moving horizontally. Moving in the opposite direction to which the player is facing will cause Kirby to move slower instead of turning to face the other way.	16
Broom Flick	Press and hold B, and then release	Kirby releases one final stronger attack with farther range than a normal sweep.	40
Clean Pitch	↑ + press and release B	Kirby uses Pitch as a bucket, letting him chuck a large blob of water at enemies.	24
Charged Clean Pitch	Press and hold ↑ + B, and then release	Kirby charges the attack for extra range and more damage.	36
Clean Nago	Dash + B	Nago dashes forward while the button is held, polishing the floor with Kirby and sweeping it clean of enemies.	16
Clean ChuChu	Dash + B in midair	ChuChu and Kirby ride on a flying broom.	32 (20 for the broom's glitter)

Kirby's Dream Buffet

In Kirby's Dream Buffet, Cleaning Kirby appears as a Character Treat, being referred to as "Pixel Clean Kirby". The treat uses Clean Kirby's sprite from Kirby's Dream Land 3.

In Kirby: Right Back at Ya!

Cleaning
Artwork of Cleaning Kirby from Kirby: Right Back at Ya!.
Details
First episode	A Novel Approach
Last episode	A Trashy Tale
Obtained from	Inhaling a broom

“He is now Cleaning Kirby!”

— Meta Knight, in A Novel Approach

In Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, the Clean ability appears, under the name Cleaning. Unlike in Kirby's Dream Land 3, Kirby's appearance changes when he obtains the power in the anime, causing him to don a yellow bandanna with green stars.

In a similar manner to the Kirby's Dream Land 3 base ability, Cleaning enables Kirby to use a broom to attack; unlike in the game, however, it possesses a blue handle, looks more modern overall and is able to generate colorful stars instead of dust clouds when swung.

The end of the Cleaning transformation sequence.

The ability first appears in the episode A Novel Approach. Here, Kirby acquires it by absorbing one of the brooms sent at him and his friends by Broom King, a Monster that resembles Haboki. After obtaining it, Kirby uses the ability to brush numerous besoms aside, proceeds to use it as a blunt melee weapon against Broom King itself and eventually sweeps a large cloud of dust back at his adversary with it. Similarly to the Clean + ChuChu combination, Kirby subsequently climbs onto the cleaning instrument and uses it to fly, pursuing Broom King through the air and defeating it with a final sway of his broom. Although he does not use the ability anymore afterwards, Kirby keeps his Cleaning attire and broom until the end of the episode.

Cleaning reappears in A Trashy Tale, where Kirby acquires it from a besom thrown to him by Meta Knight. In this episode, Kirby makes use of the ability to knock the various forms of waste sent at him by Trash Basher out of the way, as well as eventually finish off the trash can monster itself when it has run out of refuse.

After disposing of Trash Basher, Kirby finally demonstrates the ability's literal cleaning powers, using the colorful, sparkling energy generated by his broom to do away with all the garbage that has accumulated in Chief Bookem's house and all over Cappy Town throughout the episode.

Profiles

Flavor text

Image	Game	Flavor text
	Kirby Star Allies	Fly about the sky on your broom and sweep up a breeze to blow fallen leaves and enemies away. You can even put out flames with a bucketful of water! And perhaps old friends will pop up to help you scrub?

Nintendo Today!

• Fly about the sky on your broom and sweep up a breeze to blow fallen leaves and enemies away!

Trivia

• Cleaning was intended to appear in the canceled Kirby for Nintendo GameCube with Broom Hatter as its Helper, just like in Kirby Star Allies. Its appearance was shown to be identical to the anime, featuring a yellow kerchief with green stars. Although Cleaning had a 21-year absence between Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby Star Allies, it would have only been eight or nine years if the canceled GameCube game had released on schedule in 2005–2006.
• Clean Nago's cry in Kirby Star Allies is sampled from Shinya Kumazaki's deceased pet cat, Tom, whose voice was also used for Star Dream.

Gallery

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  Icon from Kirby's Dream Land 3
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  Keychain from Kirby: Triple Deluxe
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  Keychain of Clean + ChuChu from Kirby: Triple Deluxe
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  Artwork of Cleaning and Curling from Kirby Star Allies
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  Pause screen artwork from Kirby Star Allies
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  Ability Star from Kirby Star Allies
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  Model of Nago from Kirby Star Allies, as part of the Clean Nago attack
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  Tip image of Cleaning Kirby sweeping away leaves in Kirby Star Allies
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  Heroes in Another Dimension credits picture from Kirby Star Allies, featuring Cleaning Kirby as part of a Friend Circle
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  Pixel Clean Kirby Character Treat from Kirby's Dream Buffet
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  Character Treat from Kirby's Dream Buffet depicting Clean + ChuChu
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  Alternate artwork from Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
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  Cleaning Kirby in Find Kirby!!
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  Cleaning Kirby in Find Kirby!!
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  Cleaning Kirby in Find Kirby!! Full of Kirby
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  Banner from the Kirby Personality Quiz
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  Kirby #2 from the Kirby 30th Anniversary site
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  Mascot plushies of various Copy Abilities from Kirby Star Allies, manufactured by San-ei
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  Big plushie of Cleaning Kirby
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  Cleaning Kirby plushie, manufactured by San-ei
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  Plushies of Cleaning and Artist Kirby from "Kirby Copy Ability Selection" merchandise line
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  Fourth set of mascot plushies of various Kirbys, created for Kirby's 30th Anniversary
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  Figurines of various Kirbys made of soft vinyl, featuring Cleaning Kirby
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  Gashapon figurines based on "Kirby Star Allies", featuring Cleaning Kirby
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  "Volume 6" figurines from the "Yura Yura Mascot" merchandise line, featuring Cleaning Kirby
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  "Line Up!" figure from the "Poyotto Collection Kirby 30th Anniversary" merchandise line, featuring Cleaning Kirby
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  Set 2 of the Kirby hanafuda cards, featuring Clean + ChuChu
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  Set 10 of the Kirby hanafuda cards, featuring Cleaning Kirby

Videos

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	クリーン Kurīn	Clean
Traditional Chinese	清潔 qīng jié	Cleaning
Simplified Chinese	清洁 qīng jié
Dutch	Schoonmaak Schoonmaker	Cleaning Cleaner
French	Ménage	Cleaning
German	Putzfimmel Besen Reinigen	Cleaning Obsession Broom Cleaning
Italian	Scopa	Broom
Korean	클린 Keullin	Clean
Polish	Broom	-
Brazilian Portuguese	Limpeza Faxina	Cleaning
Russian	Уборка Uborka	Cleaning
Spanish	Limpiador (Kirby Star Allies) Limpieza	Cleaner Cleaning
Thai	Cleaning	-