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Back around the time ''[[Diddy Kong Racing]]'' was the big Rareware game, Rareware had already begun promoting their two projects starring two of its costars. People had liked what they saw in ''Banjo-Kazooie.'' ''Twelve Tales: Conker 64''...not so much. Besides its very juvenile, unfunny story, the game featured [[Tastes Like Diabetes|flamboyant, excessively-cutesy graphics]], and test audiences were much more skeptical. Seeing this, Rareware sent the game into [[Development Hell]] for several years, where it underwent excessive changes. When unveiled, the game had been transformed into ''[[Conkers Bad Fur Day]]'', an M-rated, subversive take on the anthropomorphic-animal-platformer genre, released in 2001, and Nintendo was not amused. Despite good ratings, the game was a commercial flop as a result of Nintendo's utter (and deliberate) lack of coverage for it and an excessive scare-campaign to repel everyone under 17 away from the game.
The schism having been seeded between Nintendo and Rare, it would only grow. Though Rare launched into the Gamecube and Game Boy Advance era with high hopes (and plans to make many new games for many of their franchises), in the end they would only get to release one game for the Nintendo
About this time, mainstream media that had praised Rare's games years before began to take a more negative stance, and a large number of Rareware games found their way onto lists of "overrated" games. Additionally, an infamous quote from [[Shigeru Miyamoto]], criticizing ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'', was taken as an ill-omen and further proof that a massive anti-Rareware backlash was beginning. Fans of Rare's legacy on Nintendo consoles began to fear Nintendo would begin to dismantle that legacy in their absence, a fear that was not helped by the releases of 2004's ''Mario Vs. Donkey Kong'', which undid much of the latter's [[Character Development]] and returned him to his original role as a villain, and 2005's ''[[Donkey Kong Jungle Beat]]'', whose [[Word of God|developers declared]] that they [[Canon Discontinuity|intended to wipe the slate clean of iconic elements of the past era's DK games.]]
Thus, pro-Rareware fans who had congregated on Donkey Kong's Jungle Vine decided to make a stand against the percieved negative tide. Fearing the worst for the ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' series-proper, and assuming Rareware (who had retained the rights to Banjo and Conker when moving) would be the only party interested in continuing the trends once common on Nintendo platforms, the site was renamed "Donkey Kong Universe," as a reference to the more peripheral games in the canon. It became
Throughout these years, the DKU became a small, but tight-knit and definitive community, with vocally unique opinions from the majority of gaming websites, and a cynical, but often [[Black Comedy|darkly-humorous]] outlook on life. Through dedicated observation, they successfully linked two new Rareware games, ''[[Grabbed By the Ghoulies]]'' and ''[[Viva Pinata]]'', into the Donkey Kong Universe canon, and eagerly anticipated each new game from the original, Nintendo-era DKU franchises. However, another shift was coming.
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* [[After Action Report]]: The Slush Fun'd, in which Slush catches up with the games he missed out after he lost interest in the DKU, and posts his progress on the site's forums. He covers the games released between ''[[Mario Party]] 5'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]''. That's fifty-five games! He's currently up to ''[[Donkey Konga]] 2''.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The site loves digging up the most minute details of game plots. They have ''multiple essays'' on these things.
* [[
* [[Canon Welding]]: How DKU canon works.
* [[Caption Humor]]: Used in the now-defunct Gallery section of the site (with official artwork and screenshots from related games), as well as the artwork and screenshot pages for ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]''.
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* [[Death of the Author]]: After the Old Staff quit, their final sway in controlling DKU canon was lost. Aussie Ben would later take over the forums in attempt to enforce his will over [[Viva Pinata|Viva Pinata's]] canonicity.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: New Staff: Chad as The Hero, Slush as The Lancer, Aussie Ben as the smart guy, Andrey as the Big Guy, and Our Friend as the chick.
* [[Left Hanging]]: [http://www.dkvine.com/features/dkuepic.html Fun With Pass A Story: The Epic Donkey Kong
* [[Long Runners]]: 11 years and counting. "I can't believe this forum is still here", "I can't believe my old password still works" and "I can't believe how long it's been" are phrases you'll hear a lot from returning members.
* [[Podcast]]: Two of them;
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** The Vine Audio Programme, initially the same, only featuring large scripted elements and soon evolving into an epic and crazy story arc. Features the original DKU staff members and their friends.
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: The afore-mentioned [http://www.dkvine.com/features/dkuepic.html Pass-A-Story] feature laid the foundations for ''[[Elvis And Slick Monty]]''.
* [[Series Fauxnale]]: [http://www.dkvine.com/features/endgame.html The End], which is also a two-fold [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to the [[Grand Finale
* [[Serious Business]]: The very definition of it with regard to fandom, in many people's opinions.
* [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick]]: Our Friend, Chad's camera inhabited by a lost soul. At one point he got hit in the lens cap by a wayward hoe, thought he was [[Bob Newhart]], and {{spoiler|transformed into [[Barack Obama]]}}. [[It's a Long Story]].
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