Tabuu

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Tabuu.

Tabuu (タブー, Tabuu) is the leader of the Subspace Army and the final boss of Subspace Emissary. He uses the subspace bombs to send entire locations to his dimension, where he absorbs their power to increase his own.

Role in The Subspace Emissary

According to the Ancient Minister trophy, Tabuu took over The Island of the Ancients, the home of the R.O.B.s and forced them to serve him under the threat of annihilation. He also took over the Master Hand. Tabuu first discovered that the Game & Watch had Shadow Bugs in them and captured him to harness the power, and thus the Subspace Army was born.

Ganondorf realizes that Tabuu was actually controlling Master Hand and that he was not following Master Hand's orders. Enraged, he charges a futile attack at Tabuu who quickly turns him into a trophy. Ganondorf's body hits the puppetered Master Hand, thus breaking him of his chains. Master Hand also charges at Tabuu, but to no avail. Tabuu then turns everyone into a trophy as soon as they approach. However, Luigi, Kirby, King Dedede and Ness are later revived thanks to the Dedede Badge and rescue everyone. Tabuu then creates a maze out of the worlds that have been consumed by Subspace and brings back the old enemies. He also creates dark clones of all the heroes to slow them down. Once the player has reached Tabuu, he will attempt to turn everyone back into trophies again. Before Tabuu can unleash his attack however, he is ambushed by Sonic the Hedgehog. Anyone can fight Tabuu, however the player must first pick up the trophies of the fallen comrades in order to do so.

Trivia

Tabuu (ta-BOO) could also be thought of as Taboo, who seems as another impossible being in the Smash universe, relating to the word taboo's definition: proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable. For example, it can be inferred that Tabuu deems the world "improper or unacceptable", which is why he has ordered it to be carried off into subspace. Another definition of taboo is "something that is not to be spoken of", referring to Tabuu's hidden presence as a puppetmaster of Master Hand.

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