List of Donkey Kong characters
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The following is a list of characters featured in the Donkey Kong series of video-games made by both Rare and Nintendo, among others.
[edit] Kongs
[edit] Baby Kong
Originally Donkey Kong after drinking a youth potion, Baby Kong eventually became an actual character, Donkey Kong's other nephew, after Diddy Kong.
[edit] Bluster Kong
Bluster Kong is a character that only appears in the animated series. A wealthy Kong with a moustache, he runs the island's resident barrel factory, which is actually owned by his mother (who is never seen). He is a cowardly, narcissistic buffoon who is constantly seen hitting on Candy Kong, his only employee, despite the fact that she loves Donkey Kong.
[edit] Candy Kong
Candy Kong is Donkey Kong's girlfriend, and provides various services for the Kongs throughout the different games. She first appeared in Donkey Kong Country and allowed the player to save their game. In other versions, she acted as a manager of mini-games, and ran a dance studio minigame. She was the first female character throughout the Donkey Kong Country series, although Dixie Kong was the first playable female character in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. Candy Kong also appeared in Donkey Kong 64; in this game, she provided instruments for DK and company to use against the Kremlings.
Candy was also a regular on the Donkey Kong Country animated series as well. She was voiced by Joy Tanner. However, in the series, she looked completely different from the pink-clad blonde seen in the games. Also, on the show, she worked at the barrel factory run by Bluster Kong, her boss, who constantly hit on her. Candy sometimes had a goal of buying the factory. Time to time, she had lunch with Donkey Kong. This version of Candy also showed off a very quick temper.
[edit] Chunky Kong
Chunky Kong is a large ape and one of the playable Kongs in the game Donkey Kong 64. Chunky is the older brother of Kiddy Kong and cousin of Dixie Kong and Tiny Kong. He was freed by Lanky in the level, Frantic Factory. Before he was freed, he was quoted that he doesn't like heights. His weapon is the Pineapple Launcher, his instrument is the Triangle Trample, and the potion enables him to do Hunky Chunky, turning gigantic, Primate Punch, unleashing a very powerful punch, and Gorilla-Gone, turning temporarily invisible. He can carry boulders and other heavy items that the other Kongs cannot carry.
[edit] Cranky Kong
Cranky Kong is an elderly and extremely grouchy Kong. It has been stated that he is in fact the original DK from the 1980s Donkey Kong arcade trilogy (as he himself implied in the Donkey Kong Country series of games), but this has not been reflected in recent titles and he is just seen as an ornery old man that rudely advises the other Kong sometimes.
[edit] Diddy Kong
Diddy Kong is Donkey Kong's young chimpanzee friend. He wears a red Nintendo hat and shirt with stars on it.
[edit] Dixie Kong
Dixie Kong is Diddy Kong's girlfriend and one of the more popular of the Kongs.
[edit] Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is the main character of the Donkey Kong series, appearing in almost all the series' games and constantly alternating roles between protagonist and villain throughout.
[edit] Donkey Kong Junior
Donkey Kong Junior (AKA Donkey Kong Jr., DK Jr. or DKJ) is Donkey Kong's son. His first appearance was Donkey Kong Junior. In this game, the object was for the protagonist to rescue his father, who had been captured by Mario. For a while afterwards, DK Jr. was used as a selectable player in a few multi-player Mario games. He appeared in Super Mario Kart followed by an appearance in Mario's Tennis for the Virtual Boy. He later appeared as a secret character in Mario Tennis 64. Donkey Kong Jr. also made cameo appearances in the Game Boy version of Donkey Kong and in the SNES and GBA versions of Super Mario Bros. 3 as the physical appearance of the transformed king of World 4: Giant Land. He also is seen in the crowds of Waluigi Stadium in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. Donkey Kong Junior also appears in the Game & Watch games Donkey Kong Jr (regular, tabletop and panorama versions) and Donkey Kong II. He also appears in the Game & Watch Gallery series.
[edit] Funky Kong
Funky Kong usually supplies services to the Kongs such as allowing the Kongs to go back to worlds he's previously completed in the game. However, come Donkey Kong Country 3 he took on a different role as a watercraft merchant, allowing Dixie Kong and Kiddy Kong to reach new areas of the game world. In Donkey Kong 64, Funky switched jobs yet again to become the munitions expert of the group. He supplied various weaponry and upgrades to the Kongs, and donned camouflage clothing, goggles and a large rocket on his back in favor of his old board shorts and sunglasses. He is also a playable character in some spinoff games.
Funky was also a regular on the Donkey Kong Country cartoon, where he was voiced by Damon D'Oliveira. An obvious difference one might notice is that the cartoon version of Funky had tan fur as opposed to the brown fur his video game counterpart had. He was also given a Jamaican accent. However, like his game counterpart, Funky is keen on surfing (although we never see him doing it), and like in the first game, he runs his own airline service. He often talks about karma and is the best dancer on the island. Funky is obviously not fond of the adventuring or fighting the Kremlings. Nor is he keen on doing very much work, he often tries to take the easier way out of a situation, or just leave it up to DK and Diddy. Funky is more peace-loving than the other Kong Family members.
[edit] Kiddy Kong
Kiddy Kong (known as Dinky Kong in Japan: ディンキー コング Dinkī Kongu) was created by Rareware to be partnered up with his cousin Dixie Kong in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! for the game. He also served as Dixie's sidekick in the Game Boy follow-up, Donkey Kong Land III and in the GBA port of Donkey Kong Country 3. Kiddy had great strength which allowed him to throw Dixie further than Diddy ever could, and allowed him to destroy cracked floors when thrown. Chunky Kong of Donkey Kong 64 is his older brother. When making Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble, many of the games team suggest that Kiddy should be named Tiny Kong. They decided to change his name to Kiddy Kong. However, Tiny Kong appeared 3 years later as Kiddy's cousin in the Nintendo 64 release, Donkey Kong 64.
[edit] Lanky Kong
Lanky Kong is an orangutan with unknown relations to the Kong family. Lanky's first appearance was in Donkey Kong 64 as one of the games five playable Kongs. He was freed by Donkey Kong in the Angry Aztec level in the Llama's temple. His weapon is the Grape Shooter, his instrument is the Trombone Tremor, and the potion enables him to do OrangStand, walking on his hand to climb steep slopes, Baboon Balloon, inflatin himself to reach higher areas, and OrangSprint, allowing him to run really fast on his hands. In the level, Gloomy Galleon, he can transform into Enguarde the Swordfish when he enters the Enguarde Crate, and the Enguarde Crate is transparent if you're playing the other Kongs. Some fans say he is related to Manky Kong.
[edit] Swanky Kong
Swanky Kong is a member of the Kong family who often runs business ventures such as quiz shows and sideshow attractions. In his first appearance, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, he ran a quiz show, and in the Game Boy Advance port, Donkey Kong's girlfriend Candy Kong appeared in it. In Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble, he ran a sideshow attraction, where the objective is to beat Cranky Kong while in the Game Boy Advance version of the game, he runs a virtual reality-dome entitled "Swanky's Dash"; here, Dixie Kong had to run through a metal tunnel while collecting stars.
In Mario Superstar Baseball, a wooden billboard in the background of Donkey Kong's field has a picture of Swanky Kong on it.
[edit] Tiny Kong
Tiny Kong is a character in the Donkey Kong games, who first appeared in Donkey Kong 64. She is a Kong that has blonde hair and pigtails. She was officially known as Dixie Kong's younger sister (and is now older then her), and is a cousin to Chunky Kong and Kiddy Kong.
In Donkey Kong 64, her clothing was a beanie hat, blue overalls, a white T-Shirt, and white shoes. She was freed by Diddy Kong in Angry Aztec in the building near Candy's Music Shop. Her weapon is the Feather Crossbow, her instrument is the Saxophone Slam, the potion enabled her for Mini-Monkey, Pony-Tail Whirl, and Monkey-Port. She can shrink when she jumps into her barrel and fit into places other Kongs cannot fit. She can do a helicopter-spin, equivalent to Dixie's to slow down her descent, in order to avoid taking damage from landing, especially when she's lots of feet high. She can Monkey-Port to secret areas that other Kongs cannot go to when she steps on her pad, and you press the Z Button, though her pad has a counterpart for locating that the other Kongs do not have. She encountered the mother of the Banana Fairies on the Banana Fairies Island, and was given to her and all other Kongs the camera to take pictures and a special move to charge and release to create a forcefield to eliminate the enemies on the same land they're on, and they need to take pictures of all twenty hidden Banana Fairies and when a Banana Fairy's picture is taken, their Ammo and number of Oranges get increased up to the maximum. In the level, Jungle Japes, she used her Feather Crossbow to shoot the switches to open the gate to the secret area of the jungle. In the manual, it was stated that Cranky first thought it was Dixie, until she told him she's Dixie's younger sister. There was a hint to go to the secret Golden Banana that has a Rare logo on it, instead of a Nintendo 64 logo, after collecting all 200 regular ones to get Donkey's Banana Hoard back in which the player has to follow the Banana Fairy using Tiny, and get to the secret Golden Banana, and though each Kong can collect all 5 Golden Bananas in the overworld and in each level, Tiny will have collected 6 out of 5 in the overworld.
She made a cameo appearance in the GBA port of the SNES games, Donkey Kong Country 2 and Donkey Kong Country 3. In Donkey Kong Country 2, Diddy, Dixie, or both must rescue her from the Zingers in a mini-game called, Kongnapped, and you must rescue six of her to win. In Donkey Kong Country 3, she appears in one of Funky's Motorboat Challenges. These two games she appeared in are the only games where she is not a playable character.
In the Donkey Konga series, she only appeared in Donkey Konga 3, which was released only in Japan.
In Diddy Kong Racing DS, her clothing was a beanie hat, sweat pants, a spaghetti-strap top, sandals, and fur wristbands, and she wore earrings that she did not wear in any other games. She and her sister Dixie replaced Conker and Banjo after Rare was purchased by Microsoft in September 2002. Rare changed her appearance, despite the fact that Nintendo owns the rights to this character and Rare was sold to Microsoft. She is one of the first eight playable characters. Her acceleration and handling are slightly below average, and she has a medium top speed. In the game's commercial, she was using a Hovercraft and instead of being in the usual position in the game, she was standing, leaning forward.
[edit] Wrinkly Kong
Wrinkly Kong is an elderly gorilla, mother of Donkey Kong, and the wife of Cranky Kong. Wrinkly first appeared in the game Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest for the Super Nintendo, where she ran Kong Kollege, where she gave the player advice and allowed the player to save their game. She appeared again in Donkey Kong Land 2, and again in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! This time, she resided in Wrinkly's Save Cave, where the player could both save their game and deposit Banana Birds, which were found throughout the game. This concept remained, sans birds, in Donkey Kong Land III. In the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country 3, Wrinkly was portrayed as a spiritual follower of the Banana Birds.
Wrinkly next appeared in Donkey Kong 64; she had apparently passed away at some point after Donkey Kong Land III, as she was now a spirit. Every world lobby in the game, with the exception of Hideout Helm, featured five doors with Wrinkly's face on them; each door presented a hint for the level that applied to the Kong that corresponded to the door color (Yellow for Donkey Kong, Red for Diddy Kong, etc.). When the player begins meeting her in Donkey Kong 64, she says "Don't be afraid of me young ones! It's only me, Wrinkly Kong," and then she teaches the player a few things to win a Golden Banana on the corresponding level.
[edit] Friendly characters
[edit] Bachelor
Bachelor is a swingin' cool bear encountered only in the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. Bachelor takes Barnacle's place as the Brothers Bear member located in Lake Orangatanga. When the Kongs first speak with Bachelor he will say he has a hot date coming up, but he needs flowers and chocolates for this date, something he doesn't have. The Kongs, if they wish can get some chocolates from Bazaar and a rose from Bramble and give these to Bachelor, in exchange Bachelor will give the Kongs his pet Banana Bird.
[edit] Baffle
Baffle the bear lives near the entrance to KAOS Kore in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. Baffle's speciality is code breaking, unfortunately, Baffle can't seem to break the code he currently has; if the Kongs bring Baffle a mirror though, he will crack the code and reveal to them how to find a hidden Banana Bird Cave.
[edit] Barnacle
Barnacle is a deep-sea diving member of the Brothers Bear family encountered in Lake Orangatanga in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. During the events Donkey Kong Country 3 Dixie and Kiddy Kong, if they choose too, can buy a sea shell from Bazaar and give it to Barnacle in exchange for a Banana Bird. In the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 3, Barnacle is moved from his house in Lake Orangatanga to a ship in Pacifica, Bachelor takes Barnacles place in Lake Orangatanga.
Barnacle also appears in Donkey Konga 3
[edit] Barter
Barter is a bear who runs a swop-shop near K3 on the main map of Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. If the Kongs have bought a mirror from Bazaar, they can give it to Barter in exchange for a wrench, which they can use to fix Bjorn's chairlifts. Later in the game, Dixie and Kiddy can buy back the mirror from Barter and give it to Baffle.
[edit] Bazaar
Bazaar is a member of the Brothers Bear family encountered in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. In this game Bazaar runs Bazaar's General Store, which is located near Funky's Rentals and Wrinkly Save Cave/Wrinkly's Retreat on the main map of the game. Throughout Donkey Kong Country 3, Dixie Kong and Kiddy Kong had to venture to Bazaar's General Store, usually to buy information or various goods.
[edit] Bazooka
Bazooka is a veteran soldier (he fought in the "Kremean War") encountered on Mekanos in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. If Dixie and Kiddy bring Bazooka the bowling ball they can obtain from Blue, Bazooka will launch the Kongs to a nearby Banana Bird Cave, oddly suspended from a crane.
[edit] Benny
Benny is a polar bear who operates the chairlifts, along with his brother Björn in the area Razor Ridge in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. Dixie and Kiddy can use Benny's chairlift to reach to cross a large chasm in the middle of Razor Ridge.
[edit] Björn
Björn is the twin brother of Benny. Like Benny, Björn operates the chairlifts of Razor Ridge in Donkey Kong Country 3. It seems Björn's chairlifts have broken down and he is unable to operate them. If the player wishes, they can have Dixie and Kiddy Kong bring Björn a wrench that can be obtained from Barter; with this wrench, Björn can fix his chairlift, using the now repaired chairlift Dixie and Kiddy can reach a Banana Bird Cave.
[edit] Blizzard
Blizzard is a polar bear encountered on the snowy mountain K3 in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. Blizzard is the only member of the Brothers Bear family who remembered his brother, Blue's birthday. Unfortunately, Blizzard is unable to attend Blue's birthday, the Kongs can do him a favor though by bringing Blizzard's present for Blue to him.
[edit] Blue
Blue is a rather depressing bear encountered in Cotton-Top Cove in Donkey Kong Country 3. The reason Blue is so depressed is because he believes the other members of the Brothers Bear family have forgotten his birthday. Dixie and Kiddy Kong can cheer Blue up by bringing him the present Blizzard prepared for him, in exchange for this present, Blue will give the Kongs a bowling ball.
[edit] Blunder
Blunder is an intelligent, yet arrogant bear with a habit of having words slip off his tongue. In Donkey Kong Country 3 Blunder can be found on the games main map near Kremwood Forest, if the Kongs speak with him he will accidentally reveal that there is a secret world in the game.
[edit] Boomer
Boomer is a trigger-happy bear encountered in Krematoa in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. It seems the other members of the Brothers Bear, sick of Boomer's explosive habits, decided to banish him to Krematoa. When the Kongs run into Boomer they can pay him (with Bonus Coins, he won't except Bear Coins) to blow a path for them to the levels of Krematoa.
At the end of every level in Krematoa, Dixie and Kiddy will come across a cog. If they bring these cogs to Boomer he will put them in a machine he had found when he first moved to Krematoa. Once all the cogs are in the device, it will somehow awaken the dormant volcano in Krematoa.
[edit] Bramble
Bramble is the nature loving member of the Brothers Bear family located near Cotton-Top Cove and Mekanos in Donkey Kong Country 3 on the game's main map. If players choose too, they can find and give Bramble a rare type of flower; in exchange, they will gain a Banana Bird. In the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 3 players will get a rose from Bramble instead of a Banana Bird; a Banana Bird can be obtained from Bramble later in the game for no price.
[edit] Brash
Brash is a somewhat arrogant member of the Brothers Bear family encountered in Kremwood Forest in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. If Dixie and Kiddy Kong manage to beat Brash's racing record in the level "Riverside Race", Brash will become so enraged that he will accidentally open the path to a hidden Banana Bird Cave. After his record is beaten Brash cannot be spoken to again, if the player tries to converse with him he will simply kick the Kongs out of his cabin/stadium.
[edit] Bumper
Bumper is a black badger and one of the playable characters in the Nintendo 64 game, Diddy Kong Racing and the Nintendo DS remake, Diddy Kong Racing DS. A resident of Timber Island, as the story goes Bumper was apparently one of the many allies called upon by Diddy Kong and Timber to help them defeat the evil Wizpig. In Diddy Kong Racing DS, he appeared in the opening with Diddy Kong and Tiptup.
[edit] Drumstick
A rooster wearing a pair of overalls, Drumstick is one of the playable characters from Diddy Kong Racing. When the evil Wizpig invaded Timber's Island, Drumstick attempted to challenge him. Unfortunately Wizpig simply transformed Drumstick into a frog. Later in Diddy Kong Racing, players may come across a red-billed frog; if this frog is run over it will transform into Drumstick. When transformed back to his original state Drumstick decides to aid Diddy Kong and his fellow adventurers in their quest to take down Wizpig. In Diddy Kong Racing DS, Drumstick is unlocked by throwing a frog at a green frog silhouette and then driving over the frog that comes out.
[edit] Eddie the Mean Old Yeti
Eddie the Mean Old Yeti, or Eddie the Yeti for short, is a Yeti who appears in the Donkey Kong Country television cartoon. Like a few other characters featured in the show, he does not appear in the video game the show is based on, but is roughly based off of one of its characters. In personality, he seems to be based off of the orangutan enemy Manky Kong, who threw barrels at Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong in the style of the original arcade game, and appeared in the "Ice Age Alley" level of Gorilla Glacier.
Living in Kongo Bongo Island's White Mountains, Eddie is a solitary ape, differing from the other apes on the island in several ways, the most obvious being that while most of the apes are brown in fur color, Eddie has white fur. Wearing a bobble hat, Eddie usually walks around bearing a large club, which he often bangs things with.
[edit] Inka Dinka Doo
A large stone idol, Inka Dinka Doo possesses three faces, each one representing a different mood. Inka Dinka Doo apparently has a vast amount of knowledge, despite this, he can be extremely vague.
[edit] Pipsy
Pipsy is a yellow, bow-wearing mouse and one of the playable characters in Diddy Kong Racing. Pipsy, along with various other characters such as Bumper and Conker, were apparently contacted by Diddy Kong and Timber to aid them in freeing Timber's Island from the control of an evil alien pig named Wizpig.
Pipsy has recently made a return appearance in Diddy Kong Racing's Nintendo DS port, Diddy Kong Racing DS.
[edit] Scoff
Scoff is a large blue hippopotamus encountered in Donkey Kong 64. The Kongs must feed Scoff a certain number of bananas in order to get him and his friend Troff to open a door to allow the Kongs to battle a game boss.
[edit] Snide
Snide is a weasel and former engineer and technician of King K. Rool who first appeared in Donkey Kong 64. After building the Blast-O-Matic, a weapon K. Rool had planned on using to blow up Donkey Kong Island with Snide was fired by K. Rool and had all his work confiscated.
Eventually Snide met the Kongs and decided to help them take down K. Rool. If the Kongs bring Snide a blueprint he will give them a Golden Banana, in increasingly bizzare ways. Every blueprint given to Snide will increase the amount of time the Kongs have to shut down the Blast-O-Matic in Hideout Helm.
[edit] T.T.
T.T. is an anthropomorphic stop-watch and the one in charge of most of the races in Diddy Kong Racing. In the hub of every location on Timber's Island T.T. can be found, he usually updates players on their scores and status. If players manage to beat T.T.'s record in all of Diddy Kong Racing's Time Trials except for the four courses you can buy from Taj, T.T. becomes playable in the game's main adventure.
Contrary to popular assumption "T.T." stands for "Tick Tock", not "Time Trials". In the Nintendo 64 version of the game, the narrator says his name as "Tick Tock!". In Diddy Kong Racing DS He is in charge of T.T.'s Wish Races.
[edit] Taj
A large, blue elephant and genie, after he is evicted from his home by Wizpig in Diddy Kong Racing, Taj decides to aid Diddy Kong and his friends in defeating Wizpig. It is obvious he is form India hence his name is common in India and most genies are Arabian. In Diddy Kong Racing he didn't sound genie like at all. In the DS version of the game he sounds more like a genie. It should be noted that in the second ending cutscence the wizpig face is replaced with Taj's face which may mean he owns the island instead of Timber's family.
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[edit] Timber
Timber is a young tiger cub who wears a blue baseball cap. He is apparently a long-time friend of Diddy Kong. Timber's first appearance was Diddy Kong Racing. As the story of the game goes, Timber was apparently left in charge of Timber's Island when his parents went on vacation. Unfortunately disaster struck Timber and his family's island when an evil, intergalactic pig, aptly named Wizpig invaded the island.
As Wizpig took over the island Timber managed to send letters to his various friends, requesting their assistance in helping him defeat Wizpig. With the aid of his friends Timber managed to defeat Wizpig and reclaim ownership of his island.
Timber has reappeared in Diddy Kong Racing's Nintendo DS remake; Diddy Kong Racing DS. Also, in the game, Timber's cap now bears the Nintendo logo instead of Rare's logo, since Nintendo owns the rights to the character.
[edit] Tiptup
Tiptup is a green, somewhat clumsy turtle and one of the playable characters in Diddy Kong Racing. During the events of Diddy Kong Racing Tiptup is one of the many allies called upon by Diddy Kong and Timber to aid in their quest to defeat an invading alien named Wizpig. It seems Tiptup may live in the same vicinity as Banjo as he makes various cameos in his game series. Due to the fact that Banjo was removed from the DS port of Diddy Kong Racing but Tiptup wasn't, and the fact that a new Banjo game was announced for the Xbox 360, Tiptup may have been removed from the Banjo series' continuity.
[edit] Troff
Troff is a large pink pig encountered in the game Donkey Kong 64. The Kongs must feed Scoff's friend Troff a certain number of bananas so he can lift Troff up so he can reach the key in a boss door.
| Kongs | Donkey | Diddy | Dixie | Cranky | others |
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| Villains | Kremlings | K. Rool | Non-Kremling enemies |
| Donkey Kong series | Donkey Kong games | Donkey Kong's animal buddies | Mario games | Mario characters | |
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Donkey Kong • Jr. (Math) • 3 • Donkey Kong (1994) • Mario vs. DK • 2 • Country • 2 • 3 • Land • 2 • III • 64 • Jungle Beat |
