Kirby (voiced by the late Thurl Ravenscroft) is an upright Hoover vacuum cleaner based on the Kirby Dual Sanitronic 80 from 1969. Seemingly cantankerous and bossy toward the others, it actually cares very much about them and risks its life to save them more than once. However Kirby cannot help but keep up the appearance that he is independent and being held back by the others.