Galeem (Japanese: キーラ, Kiira) is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Dharkon) of the 2018 video game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the sixth installment of the Super Smash Bros. franchise. He is the light counterpart of Dharkon. While Dharkon wishes to eradicate all life in darkness, Galeem wishes to bring it into pure light. ADVERTISEMENT Appearance Galeem appears to be a massive glowing eyeball of light. It is surrounded by metallic wing-shaped objects that orbit its body, aiding it in its attacks, and vary through bright colors. Throughout its battle with the fighters, Galeem can change into different forms using its wings. When reaching half of its health, Galeem's core shines brighter and grows spikes. ADVERTISEMENT Biography Galeem appears at the beginning of the story where he is confronted by every known fighter present. Here, it has a bunch of Master Hand clones by his side. Galeem then proceeds to wipe out all of the fighters in light, which then expands throughout the entire universe, wiping out all life. Kirby was the sole survivor of the attack. The other fighters were captured by Galeem's forces rather than destroyed (or else Galeem revived them). Using his light, Galeem creates copies of the fighters and used spirits of the lifeforms it absorbed to animate the hollow copies, creating an army of hostile puppets. After all fighters trapped in Galeem's world have been revived, Galeem is confronted once more at his base to the north, where it is defeated in battle. Dharkon then emerges from the sky, leading an army of Crazy Hands. Galeem manages to flee but comes back once Dharkon has been defeated. From here on, Galeem, leading an army of Master Hands continues on his conflict with Dharkon. If the player chooses to fight and defeat Galeem, Dharkon will deliver the final blow upon Galeem and drown the world into darkness. However, if the player defeats Dharkon instead, Galeem defeats Dharkon before eradicating all life once more into the light. If both are defeated, their bodies will shatter into bits as they fall down into the ocean below them, erupting in a flash of light and ending their conflict once and for all as the spirits they once controlled fly free. After their defeat, both Galeem and Dharkon become primary legendary spirits themselves, being the two most powerful spirits in the entire game and granting fighters the abilities "Bane of Darkness" (for Galeem) and "Bane of Light" (for Dharkon), allowing fighters to deal massive amounts of damage to light spirits (for Dharkon) or dark spirits (for Galeem) at risk of receiving higher damage. Galeem appears once more in Sephiroth's reveal trailer, in which the latter knocks away several fighters. However, before he can unleash his beams of light on the fighters to vaporize them as it did in World of Light, it is sliced in half and destroyed by Sephiroth before the latter reveals himself to the fighters. It is unknown if this is canon to the "World of Light" storyline and, if so, whether or not this is Galeem's permanent death, given that it would presumably have already been destroyed and turned into a spirit before. This could be considered non-canon as a character reveal trailer. Galeem is referred to using neutral pronouns when it makes its first appearance. However, in the tips that explain how the Spirits work in the World of Light, Galeem is referred to using masculine pronouns. Galeem's name is a corruption of "Gleam", similar to how Dharkon's name is a corruption of "Darken". Additionally, Masahiro Sakurai revealed that Galeem's Japanese name "Kiira" is derived from "Kirahoshi" (in Japanese: 綺羅星, glittering star) in the Famitsu column published in November 2021. The colors of Galeem's wings are the same colors used for the logo of Super Smash Bros. For 3DS and Super Smash Bros. For Wii U. Galeem's appearance, a ball of energy with multiple wings, resembles a Seraph, an angel of the highest order of celestial hierarchy and serving as protectors of God's throne. Both Galeem and Dharkon seem as though they were created based off of the Angels from the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. However, whether this is true or not is still unknown at the moment. In Sephiroth's trailer, the way he kills Galeem to fight the other fighters instead is similar to how killed President Shinra to cement his status as the main antagonist of Final Fantasy 7.