King Quackers

King Quackers is the being who would become King DDD. The ancient king of Pop Star, he is a benevolent duck who is skilled in ancient white magic.

Appearance/Personality
Like most characters in the canon, he is never described in great detail in the texts and was intended to be shown through scanned in artwork that was never scanned in and is now lost, if it was ever completed at all. His appearance was that of a kind yellow duck in a crown and with a flowing white robe with a large diamond in the center containing the source of his powerful ancient white magic.

He is kindhearted to a fault, and existed only to serve his people and better the citizens of Pop Star. Unfortunately, he was corrupted once and is ultimately corrupted again.

History/Appearances
King Quackers only appears in Meta Knight Story. He appears for the first time in Part 8 when Kirby uses an extra powerful Crash attack on King DDD, powerful enough to kill him, but instead it simply destroys the curse that had been placed on him.

King Quackers emerges and tells the history of Meta Knight Senior and Dynablaze, explaining he existed at the same time as them long ago and was the only one powerful enough to seal away Dynablaze, doing so to seal away her reign of terror. He explains he had been corrupted by a powerful dark magic curse by Dark Matter/Meta Knight Senior Soul, which turned him into the evil blue penguin King DDD and completely flipped his benevolent and selfless personality. He had only been brought to power due to his dedication to being such a good and kind leader, but on this technicality it meant his kingdom had to deal with King DDD from that point on instead as king for life.

In Part 10, when Dynablaze reveals she faked her death, King Quackers tries to use a move called Poisonpeck to defeat her, but it fails miserably. He then returns to his most powerful attack, King's Diamond Attack: Beam of Crash, and defeats her, leaving her unable to move or function any longer.

Unfortunately, after this short lived victory, Nightmare returns to avenge his fallen master, and puts King Quackers back under the ancient evil spell, turning him back into King DDD. As King DDD is never injured badly enough to break the curse again (even when he's described as being hospitalized for some reason in a later story), poor King Quackers never appears again.