Donkey Kong/Characters: Difference between revisions

=== Donkey Kong ===

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Debut: ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' }}

 

[[File:dkjr.jpg|frame|[[Face on a Milk Carton|Have you seen this primate?]]]]

 

Debut: ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' }}

 

=== Diddy Kong ===

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Debut: ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' }}

 

=== Dixie Kong ===

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Diddy Kong's girlfriend, Dixie, is a hero in her own right. She helped Diddy rescue Donkey when the big ape was kidnapped by the Kremlings, then rescued Diddy himself when he befell the same fate. Dixie has long blonde hair that she wears in a huge ponytail, which she can use to spin helicopter-like over long distances and, inexplicably, pick up large objects. She can act childish at times, but makes up for it with her courage. Tiny Kong is Dixie's (bigger) little sister.

=== Kiddy Kong / Dinky Kong ===

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Kiddy Kong is Chunky Kong's baby brother and Dixie and Tiny's cousin. Although he's only a toddler, he's absolutely massive, roughly the same size as Donkey Kong himself. Kiddy accompanied Dixie when Donkey and Diddy were kidnapped in the Northern Kremisphere. He cries and throws tantrums at times, but possesses the same natural courage as the rest of his family. His name in Japan is "Dinky Kong", continuing the [[Theme Naming]] of characters with the initials "DK".

=== Lanky Kong ===

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"A twisted twig on a distant branch of the family tree", Lanky is an eccentric oddball orangutan who hangs out with the other Kongs. He marches (or handstand-walks...) to the <s>beat of his own drum</s> tune of his own trombone. Lanky's distinguishing characteristics are his goofy personality and ridiculously long arms. He joined up with Donkey and Diddy during one of King K. Rool's invasions of DK Isle.

[[File:tiny_kong.jpg|frame| Left: ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' appearance. Right: appearance as of ''[[Diddy Kong Racing]] DS''.]]

 

 

Dixie Kong's little sister, Tiny Kong shares Dixie's speed, helicopter-like hair, and adventurous spirit. She's good friends with her cousin, Chunky Kong. After her first appearance, Tiny apparently hit puberty, as she is now much taller and more mature-looking than her big sister.

=== Chunky Kong ===

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The biggest and strongest member of the Kong clan. Chunky is Dixie and Tiny's cousin and Kiddy's big (very big) brother. Chunky is big, strong, and tough, but has a very gentle personality and is very easily frightened. Like a true Kong, though, he always pulls through in the end.

[[File:cranky_kong.jpg|frame|GO HOME AND LET ME GET SOME SLEEP!]]

 

Debut: ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' }}

 

* [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!]]: Hoo boy, this is taken [[Up to Eleven]]...

* [[When I Was Your Age]]: Frequently indulges in this trope.

 

=== Funky Kong ===

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Debut: ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' }}

 

=== Candy Kong ===

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Debut: ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' }}

 

=== Wrinkly Kong ===

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Debut: ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]] 2'' }}

 

[[File:swankykong.jpg|frame|Would you buy a used car from this ape?]]

 

Debut: ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]] 2'' }}

 

 

=== Snide ===

 

A weasel of questionable honor who appears in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''. Snide was a former member of the Kremling Krew and their chief engineer, but K. Rool got paranoid and suspected Snide of working against him, so he kicked the weasel out. Snide created the Blast-O-Matic superweapon that the Kremlings intended to use to destroy DK Isle; as his revenge, he helped the Kongs by giving them back some of the Golden Bananas K. Rool stole from them, as well as by holding of the Blast-O-Matic's firing sequence so that the Kongs could disable it.

=== King K. Rool ===

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Debut: ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' }}

 

=== The Kremlings ===

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The minions of King K. Rool, the Kremlings are a clan of nasty-tempered, dim-witted reptiles from Crocodile Isle. They have a seafaring culture with an emphasis on piracy. Despite their [[Always Chaotic Evil|generally evil disposition]], [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|a few Kremlings have]] [[Heel Face Turn|switched sides to help out the Kongs]].

=== KAOS ===

 

The apparent new leader of the Kremlings in [[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]] 3, and a killer robot intent on world conquest, it's found to be secretly under the control of K Rool in his latest guise and powered by the captured Donkey and Diddy Kong. Has multiple heads that appear when each is destroyed.

 

== [[Canon Foreigner|Canon Foreigners]] ==

=== Bluster Kong ===

 

The boss of DK Island's barrel factory (owned by his mother), and Donkey Kong's rival for Candy's affections. Appeared in the ''[[Donkey Kong Country (animation)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' cartoon.

 

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: In Raiders of the Lost Banana, he claims he's turning good...only to turn back at the end of the episode.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Expy]]: of Squawks, only evil. Possible a combination of Screech from ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]] 2'' and Squawks.