The Dark School & the Twisted Fist

Level
The Dark School & the Twisted Fist
Level code	Kung Fu-3
World	BF
Game	Princess Peach: Showtime!
Primary power-up	Kung Fu Peach
Boss	Yami no Kung Fu Master
Level progression ← Previous A Kung Fu Legend Next → — Princess Peach: Showtime! levels

The Dark School & the Twisted Fist is a level in Princess Peach: Showtime!, located on the sixth-from-left on the top section of the basement of the Sparkle Theater. It is the third level where the Kung Fu Peach transformation is used.

Layout

The show starts with Princess Peach in her Kung Fu transformation. Stella senses an "ominous presence" from the eponymous school up ahead, believing the Kung Fu Sparkla to be captured there. After passing a couple boulders and a red staircase, A group of Kung Fu Dūke and Bōjutsu Dūke ambush her after trapping her between four more boulders. After defeating the enemies and destroying the boulders, she presses on, while two more boulders drop down her path and another Bōjutsu Dūke attacks her. She eventually fights five Kung Fu Dūkes on poles in a ravine, and two more hordes of Kung Fu Dūke and Bōjutsu Dūke in front of the school following that. Defeating them allows her to enter the building.

Inside the academy, Peach finds the Kung Fu Sparkla captured with dark energy, as the Yami no Kung Fu Master arrives to challenge Peach to a final bout. He is imbued with dark energy bestowed by Grape, allowing him to create two duplicates of himself, which fight Peach on each side of the battlefield while the original stays in the background with the Kung Fu Sparkla. Peach starts fighting the clone on the right first and switches between targets after each successful combo. The clones fight similarly to the Yami no Kung Fu Master in the first fights, preferring to use physical attacks; however, the clone on the right also uses a dash attack while the clone on the left uses a jump attack. After fending both off long enough, the original Yami no Kung Fu Master attacks Peach as well, using straight and curved energy balls as in the fight in A Kung Fu Legend. Fending off the energy ball lets Peach switch back to the clone on the right; using a successful combo there allows her to defeat this clone and now target the one on the left.

After defeating this clone as well, the Yami no Kung Fu Master engages into the fight proper and lobs energy balls at her, but this time can teleport to the left or the right side of the battlefield as well. A final large thrown energy ball requires multiple kicks from Peach to kick it back at him, defeating him as he loses his dark energy. With Kung Fu Sparkla freed, the Yami no Kung Fu Master quickly regains his dark energy and makes one last attempt to defeat Peach. Peach and Kung Fu Sparkla parry a couple of fast attacks from him before making one final simultaneous kick to defeat him once and for all.

Sparkle Gems

Sparkle Gems marked with an asterisk ⁽*⁾ will always be obtained during regular gameplay.

Image	Location
	On a small cliff immediately upwards from the start platform.
	A backroom pose elevator on some dark brickstones soon after the first attempt by the Sour Bunch to trap her. Peach must use horizontal and vertical spin poles to make her way up to the gem.
	On the upper left of the platforms, where the first boulder after the first trap has fell.
	After the clouds have cleared on poles the Kung Fu Dūke have been defeated, there is a path of poles on the right. The Gem is on the highest pole, following a second-highest pole with a large 10-coin.
	Defeat the Yami no Kung Fu Master.*

Stella ribbon

Ribboner's location

Multicolored Kung Fu Ribbon: Ribboner can be found behind a breakable boulder on a platform immediately after the start of the level. He awards the Stella ribbon for Stella.

• Help request: "This rock is so heaaavy..."
• Rescue message: "Phew, thanks a bunch!"

Lobby Shop stock

Completing the level allows Peach to buy the Special Kung Fu Dress for 300 coins at the Lobby Shop.

Postgame hidden Ninja Theet

The stage has one Ninja Theet when it is played in the postgame:

Image	Location
	On the immediate right end of the red staircase, very near the start of the level.

Gallery

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  Pictioneer's photo of the stage

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  Kung Fu Sparkla as he appears during the end of the level

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	ヤミの道場どうじょうと暗黒拳あんこくけん Yami no Dōjō to Ankoku Ken	Dark Dojo and Dark Fist		[?]
Chinese (Simplified)	黑暗的道场与暗黑拳 Hēi'àn De Dàochǎng Yǔ Ànhēi Quán	Dark Dojo and Dark Fist		[?]
Chinese (Traditional)	黑暗的道場與暗黑拳 Hēi'àn De Dàochǎng Yǔ Ànhēi Quán	Dark Dojo and Dark Fist		[?]
Dutch	De duistere vechtschool	The dark fighting school		[?]
French	École sombre et poing maléfique	Dark school and evil fist		[?]
German	Die Faust der dunklen Schule	The Fist of the Dark School		[?]
Italian	La scuola e il pugno oscuro	The school and the dark fist		[?]
Korean	어둠의 도장과 암흑 권 Eodum'ui dojang'gwa amheug gwon	Dark Dojo and Dark Fist		[?]
Portuguese	Lições Sombrias do Punho Perverso	Dark Lessons from the Wicked Fist		[?]
Russian	Школа кун-фу и кулаки мрака Shkola kun-fu i kulaki mraka	Kung Fu School and Fists of Darkness		[?]
Spanish	El puño de la malguria	The darkle fist		[?]