Metagala

Metagala is the slash ship between Meta Knight and Galacta Knight from the Kirby fandom.

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During the Meta Knightmare Ultra sidegame/mode in Kirby Super Star Ultra (2008), Meta Knight goes out on a self-imposed one-man challenge to fight several powerful inhabitants of Dreamland to test his might, motivated to become the 'strongest warrior in the galaxy', leading to him summoning Galactic Nova in order to summon the current strongest warrior, who is Galacta Knight, for the sake of fighting and defeating him, in which Nova at least seemingly attempts to warn Meta Knight that doing so would be a bad idea. Meta Knight only cares for the good fight that will come so he has Galacta Knight summon his fated rival anyways.

After defeating Galacta Knight, the pink warrior is resealed in the crystal prison he had been sealed in for the many eons beforehand and warped back to where he was taken from. However, all of Galacta Knight's boss fights are consiered non-canon, due to always being in explicitly non-canon sidemodes.

Galacta Knight then makes his second appearance in Kirby's Return To Dreamland, released in 2011, once again as a non-canon bossfight in round 13 of The True Arena, where you can fight him as either Kirby, Dedede, Meta Knight, and/or Bandana Waddle Dee.

Meta Knight and Galacta Knight do not physically appear in Kirby Triple Deluxe, and are both reduced to keychains (though Meta Knight's Mirror World counterpart, Dark Meta Knight, does appear as the final boss of Dededetour and the game's overarching villain).

Both Meta and Galacta once again appear again in Kirby Planet Robobot, in which the Haltmann Works Company takes Meta Knight prisoner after the latter loses to the company's secretary, Susie, and turns him into a cyborg, being given the title of Mecha Knight, leading to Susie making him fight Kirby, you fight Mecha Knight again after he is upgraded to Mecha Knight +, before having 2 more boss fights in the form of President Haltmann and Star Dream.

However, in the Meta Knightmare Returns mode, you can once again play as Meta Knight and go on another of Meta Knight's self-imposed challenges to save the day while Kirby takes a nap in the middle of the Haltmann Works invasion, culminating in another Galacta Knight boss fight, after Meta Knight takes over Star Dream from President Haltmann by defeating the latter and later on defeating clones of Dark Matter Swordsman and Queen Sectonia which were summoned by Star Dream to satisfy his desire for a good fight. Almost immediately after being summoned by Star Dream as the last and best challenge for Meta, Galacta Knight lashes out at the supercomputer and destroys it with a single swipe of his lance before turning his sights and fury on Meta Knight who defeats him again and sends him back to his prison yet again.

Galacta Knight's final mainline appearance outside of Super Kirby Clash is in Kirby Star Allies, where he's not even fought but is instead a mere cameo in the introduction to Morpho Knight in the ''Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go mode, Meta Knight himself gets a boss fight early on in both the Story Mode, but also Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go'' mode, where he is under control of the Jamba Hearts, which he can only barely control before it fully overtakes him.

Fanon
Since Meta Knight's characterization is extremely vague and limited within the games and his motives to fight Galacta are almost always boiled down to a simple desire for a good fight, fans thought that his constant fights with Galacta Knight might just be that he has no idea on any other ways to interact with the other knight, due to possibly being in love with Galacta. Many fans on specifically websites like Deviantart see Galacta Knight as being female, while other people see Galacta Knight as being male. Regardless, Meta Knight's still shipped with Galacta Knight sometimes, albeit the fact that the ship is usually overshadowed by the far more popular ship, Metadede which it ocasionally directly rivals.

Common portrayals show the ship as a sort of romantic type of rivalry, almost like a Naruto and Sasuke situation, and mainly on sites like Tumblr, will even portray it like a found family situations, often involving Kirby as their adoptive son. Galacta Knight is also quite often portrayed in a way similar to how Meta Knight was portrayed in Kirby Right Back At Ya, albeit with some differences such as the usual chosen ethnicity.

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