About

Heavyweight Susie refers to a series of memes and fan art about the Kirby Air Riders racer Susie being a heavyweight rider despite her small stature. The memes began on October 13th, 2025, when the official @KirbyAirRiders X / Twitter account posted, "Susie is actually a heavyweight rider." The post inspired numerous memes and artworks depicting Susie as a "heavyweight" and responding to the claim that she's a heavyweight, including art showing Susie with an exaggeratedly large posterior and body in general.

Origin

Susie is a character in the Kirby video game series who first appeared in the game Kirby: Planet Robobot.^[1] She has since appeared in several Kirby games and is set to appear in Kirby Air Riders on the Switch 2, which is slated to release on November 20th, 2025.

On October 13th, 2025, the @KirbyAirRiders X^[2] account posted an image of Susie in Kirby Air Riders, writing, "Susie is actually a heavyweight rider. Launch off a jump ramp to deploy propellers in mid-air and float!" garnering over 8,700 likes and 1,700 reposts in three days.

Spread

The post inspired memes and fan art over the following days about Susie being a heavyweight rider.

For example, on October 14th, 2025, X^[3] user @realisticdino posted a piece of art depicting an overweight Susie, writing, "Yeah she's a heavy weight, She rocks it. Susie is epic! ✨" garnering over 2,500 likes in two days.

On the same day, DeviantArt^[4] user awesomesir posted a comic in which Susie complains to Metaknight about being a heavyweight, garnering over 36,000 views in two days.

Later on October 14th, Redditor u/chang_e_ posted two pieces of original art referencing Susie as a heavyweight to the /r/Kirby^[5] subreddit, garnering over 2,000 upvotes in two days.

On October 15th, 2025, X^[6] user @ScottFalco posted a meme in which Susie has "heavyweight" written on her posterior, garnering over 29,000 likes in a day. The meme references a scene in Dexter's Laboratory.^[7]

Later that day, X^[8] user @SXodium posted a piece of art showing Susie with an over exaggeratedly large posterior riding on a Rex Wheelie, garnering over 20,000 likes in a day.

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