Technically Kirby is developed by 2nd party HAL Laboratory, but back in the early '90s, HAL essentially joined with Nintendo for the Kirby franchise and, 10 years later, for the Smash Bros franchise. Still, I acquiesce that Kirby is a Nintendo published character since this same argument could be applied to Pokemon being developed by Freak.
Saved his galaxy multiple times and all of it by himself like Master Chief, Survived a planet filled with dinosaurs, and pilots the best space ship of all time as said by Watch Mojo which is the R-Wing/Arwing