Dark Space & the Great Meteor

Dark Space & the Great Meteor
Level code	Mighty-3
World	BF
Game	Princess Peach: Showtime!
Primary power-up	Mighty Peach
Boss	Large spherical entities
Level progression ← Previous Mighty Mission: The Rescue Next → The Dark Depths & the Swirling Currents Princess Peach: Showtime! levels

Dark Space & the Great Meteor is a level in Princess Peach: Showtime!, located in the third-from-left in the bottom section of the basement of the Sparkle Theater. It is the third level where the Mighty Peach transformation is used.

Layout

The show starts with Peach being approached by the Professor Theet in a spacecraft, who picks up the Mighty Sparkla's disstress signal and joins Peach in the mission to rescue them. Peach steps up on a hover platform, led along by the Professor Theet. The ride takes 1 minute 33 seconds. Initially, Uchūjin Dūkes land on the platform and are defeated. After a while, the Professor Theet speeds ahead, as he notices the disstress signal getting weaker; however, he ends up intercepted and captured by a Carry Alien, who moves ahead. Afterwards, as the hover platform ride continues, various meteors are sent towards the platform, and Peach must grab, lift, and throw the meteors to prevent the platform from breaking apart.

Upon arrival, the Carry Alien flees once again with the Professor Theet in tow, as Peach gets ambushed by four Uchūjin Dūke. After with the Uchūjin Dūke, Peach heads up some staircases into the base, and chases the Carry Alien around in a long room. She defeats the Carry Alien and rescues the Professor Theet, as they reunite and press on forwards. They find the Mighty Sparkla trapped inside a sphere with a window. The Professor Theet figures he can hack into its dashboard, but needs Peach to keep approaching meteors alongside Uchūjin Dūke, away from him in the meantime. After doing so, Peach is required to punch the sphere cage and destroy it, freeing the Mighty Sparkla. However, the three find their intended way out through a broken bridge is being bombarded by meteors, including a giant one, leading to Peach and the Mighty Sparkla taking an elevator up to and into the skies (leaving the Professor Theet behind).

Flying together, Peach and the Mighty Sparkla initially fly next to each other to punch their way through incoming meteors and trucks. As they fly towards a horde of large meteors, Mighty Sparkla then suggests a setup where Peach throws Mighty Sparkla in front of her repeatedly, allowing them to destroy meteors and trucks faster. Eventually, they reach the giant meteor, and use their combined power to smash through it.

Sparkle Gems

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

Image	Location
	Keep the hover platform unharmed from the falling meteors.
	In a backstage pose elevator just after saving the Professor. Defeat six Enban Gata UFOs inside it.
	Keep the Professor Theet unharmed during the Mighty Sparkla rescue hack.
	Destroy all the large meteors and trucks during the section where Peach can throw the Mighty Sparkla.
	Destroy the giant meteor at the end of the play.*

Stella ribbon

Ribboner's location

Multicolored Mighty Ribbon: Ribboner can be found at the 1 minute 3 second mark of the hover platform ride, as he's being threatened by three Uchūjin Dūkes. Peach has to throw a held meteor towards the Uchūjin Dūkes to save him. He awards the Stella ribbon for Stella.

• Help request: "Oh my... I'm doomed!"
• Rescue message: "Thanks for the rescue!"

Postgame hidden Ninja Theet

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

Image	Location
	On the immediate right of (and partway onto) the Mighty Sparkla rescue hack dashboard.

Lobby Shop stock

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

Gallery

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  Mighty Sparkla at the end of the level

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  Pictioneer's photo of the level

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	ヤミの宇宙うちゅうと大隕石だいいんせき Yami no Uchū to Dai Inseki	Dark Space and Big Meteorites		[?]
Chinese (Simplified)	黑暗的宇宙与大陨石 Hēi'àn De Yǔzhòu Yǔ Dà Yǔnshí	Dark Universe and Large Meteorite		[?]
Chinese (Traditional)	黑暗的宇宙與大隕石 Hēi'àn De Yǔzhòu Yǔ Dà Yǔnshí	Dark Universe and Large Meteorite		[?]
Dutch	De meteoriet in het duistere heelal	The meteorite in the dark universe		[?]
French	Dangers dans l'espace sombre	Dangers in the dark space		[?]
German	Gefarh aus dem dunklen All	Danger from dark Space		[?]
Italian	La meteora nello spazio oscuro	The meteor in the dark space		[?]
Korean	어둠의 우주의 거대 운석 Eodum-ui uju-ui geodae unseok	Giant meteorite in the dark universe		[?]
Portuguese	O Universo Sombrio e o Meteoro	The Dark Universe and the Meteor		[?]
Russian	Супергерой и метеоры мрака Supergeroy i meteory mraka	Superhero and the meteors of darkness		[?]
Spanish	Meteoritos de malguria	Meteorites of darkle		[?]