Taranza

Taranza appeared in 2014 video game called Kirby Star: Triple Deluxe. He is a spider-like magician and a former servant of Queen Sectonia.

Taranza is a floating, limbless creature a little over Kirby's height. He has a brown head topped with two yellow-tipped horns, as well as silver, curvy hair; additionally, his mouth contains two fangs. On the front of his hair, Taranza has two orange eyes, two white eyes below those, and four more eyes on the back of his head. He wears a red scarf and a dark green cape with a spider-web design. The clothing on his body has two sets of white buttons on its front and red circle designs on either side. Finally, Taranza has a stinger-like appendage on his bottom and six white and orange-gloved hands.

In Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, Taranza now dresses in a red and purple color scheme due to being corrupted by the black mirror. His cape and clothing are now black. The spider-web design on his cape is now red, and his horns are purple with red tips. He now dons a purple scarf and white and red gloves. The buttons on his clothing are now yellow, and the circle designs have changed to purple. When the player has completed the game, Taranza will revert back to his original design.

Taranza is shown to be very resourceful, as he often uses his magic to turn objects into monsters, control other beings, or simply agitate them and pin the blame on Kirby to stop him from getting in his way. After Queen Sectonia’s demise, Taranza was overcome with minor grief. This is shown in a few pieces of the official Twitter artwork, where he is seen associated with things reminiscent of Queen Sectonia, as well as in Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, where he is seen holding a flower reminiscent of Queen Sectonia’s flower form. Despite this, Taranza still lives happily and peacefully, such as when he sits atop Magolor’s Shoppe in Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, sniffing the flower and twirling around its petals while smiling. His pause screen description in Kirby Star Allies states that he is clumsy and that he is a bit of a smarty-pants.