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| Donkey Kong | |
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| General information | |
| Powers | Hand Slam Super Strength |
| Species origin | Kong |
| Species | Gorilla |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Protector of Kong Island |
| Homeland | Kong Island |
| Hometown | Kongo Jungle |
| Family | Cranky Kong (grandfather) Wrinkly Kong (grandmother) Donkey Kong Jr. (father) Diddy Kong (nephew) |
| Affiliations | Kong Family |
| Enemies | Kremling Krew Ghastly King Tiki Tak Tribe Snowmad VoidCo |
| Portrayed by | Mark Betteridge (1994)[1] Grant Kirkhope Takashi Nagasako |
| Appearances | |
| First appearance | Donkey Kong Country (1994) |
| Latest appearance | Tetris 99 (2025) |
Donkey Kong (also shortened to DK) is the main and titular protagonist of the Donkey Kong franchise, Cranky Kong's grandson and Donkey Kong Jr.'s son.[2]
His goal is protect his Banana Hoard, defend the Kong Island and help his friends. He is always accompanied by his nephew Diddy Kong on his adventures, but of course he is replaced by his sidekicks as the main protagonist when he is in trouble.[3]
Characteristics
- “She came to have lunch with DK! Big, tall with lots of muscles DK! Not the half-pint version!”
- —Diddy Kong, Ape Foo Young
Donkey Kong is a pale-skinned gorilla, brown fur, brown eye and a hairstyle. He wears a red tie with the initials D and K in yellow. In his spare time, Donkey Kong is lazy, as he is often relaxing in a beach or at his treehouse.
History
Donkey Kong franchise
Main series
In Donkey Kong Country, DK was charged with protecting the Banana Hoard until it was stolen by the Kremling Krew soldiers. He with the help of his nephew Diddy explored the whole island to recover all his Bananas, expel Klump with his army and defeat the big boss K. Rool.
In Donkey Kong Land, Donkey Kong with his nephew Diddy is tested by his grandfather Cranky to recover the Banana Hoard from K. Rool's hands.[4]
In Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest/Donkey Kong Land 2 and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble, Donkey Kong was held hostage by K. Rool.[5] First he was imprisoned in the Crocodile Isle to extort his Banana Hoard and serves as a power source for KAOS together with Diddy.[6][7]
In Donkey Kong 64, DK had to recover the Golden Bananas, free his friends, find the Banana Fairies and mainly save his island from the Kremling Krew's bellicose power called Blast-O-Matic. It was on this journey that Donkey Kong received his Coconut Gun by Funky Kong, he was allowed to use his pad by Cranky Kong, received his Bongo Blast by Candy Kong, received the Strong Kong by Cranky Kong, collecting various items with his color code which is yellow, defeating Army Dillo twice to win the keys to K. Lumsy's cage and defeat K. Rool.
In DK: King of Swing, Donkey Kong explore the whole island for second time to recover all DK Medals which was stolen by K. Rool and save the Jungle Jam Tournament. As playable in the Jungle Jam, his Jump and Attack are 3 out of 5.
In DK: Jungle Climber, DK and his gang find a giant banana on top of Sun Sun Island first. Donkey Kong meet Xananab discovering that K. Rool and his minions stole the 5 crystal bananas from same. He with the help of his nephew Diddy explored the more 4 islands to recover all the Crystal Bananas and save the universe from K. Rool's hands.
In Donkey Kong Country Returns, DK discover that the animals on his own island steal the Banana Hoard, is faced by Kalimba and throws him out starting his journey. He explore the whole island by third time with Diddy to recover all his Bananas again, break the enchantment of the Tikis freeing the enslaved animals, preventing the Tiki army production, destroy the Tiki Tong and get the Orbs in the Key Temples to open the Golden Temple's entrance.
In Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze on his birthday, Donkey Kong and the Kong Family are expelled from own island by the Snowmads and discovers that the islands are conquered by them too. So DK along with Diddy, Dixie and Cranky will have to remove the Snowmads from islands first to recover his home, kick out Lord Fredrik with his underlings and get the Relics in the Key Temples from islands to activate the Secret Seclusion.
Spin-off
In Donkey Konga series, DK together with his friends make their performances on magic bongos that were found in the beach.
In Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, DK had to go through several kingdoms to recover his bananas which was stolen by Ghastly King. He freed the Kong Kings from spell, strikes Rocs, fought with Hogs, destroy Tusks and defeated Ghastly King twice.
In Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, DK is first playable character from selection in which his Boost, Speed and Agility are 3 out of 5. His counterpart is a individual Kritter. If the player complete all 32 of Candy's Challenges, the Ultra Barrel DK is unlocked where the Boost, Speed and Agility are 5 out of 5.
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Appearances in other media
In Donkey Kong Country television series, Donkey Kong is the main protagonist where he finds the Crystal Coconut on Inka Dinka Doo's temple and was predicted by the same that he would be the future ruler of the Kongo Bongo Island.[8] His job was to protect the coconut from K. Rool with his army and Kaptain Skurvy with his mates.
Quotes
- Main article: List of Donkey Kong quotes
Profiles
- Main article: List of Donkey Kong profiles and statistics
Gallery
- For this subject's image gallery, see Donkey Kong/gallery.
Music theme
- Main article: DK Island Swing
References
- ^ Shesez (November 22, 2019). The Donkey Kong Country 25th Anniversary Interview Documentary. YouTube.
- ^ Playing with Super Power: Nintendo Super NES Classics Prima Games, p. 112 - "THE DK LINEAGE: Super Mario Kart is the only Mario Kart game to feature Donkey Kong Jr. Due to the success of Donkey Kong Country, all future Mario Kart entries featured Donkey Kong, who is actually Donkey Kong Jr.'s son, with Cranky Kong, aka Donkey Kong Sr., canonically being the character featured in the original Donkey Kong game. Make sense, right?"
- ^ Rareware.com
- ^ Cranky Kong: I'll call old K. Rool and arrange everything. You'll wake up tomorow without your bananas." - Donkey Kong Land Instruction Booklet, Nintendo, 1995, p. 3
- ^ Donkey Kong Land 2 Instruction Booklet, Nintendo, 1996, p. 2 - INTRODUCTION: King K. Rool and his band of Kremlings apenapped Donkey Kong. They're demanding the Kongs to hand over the banana hoard for Donkey's safe return. Donkey Kong would have a fit if they lost the banana hoard again. So tt's up to diddy and Dixie Kong to save him. Help the two monkeys make their way through all the Kremlings and all the traps to find Donkey Kong."
- ^ K. Rool: Hah-arrrrh! We have got the big monkey! If you want him back, you scurvy dogs, you have to hand over the banana hoard! - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
- ^ Donkey Kong: Whoooooaaaa... My head... What happened? One minute, I was dreaming about the world's biggest pile of bananas... The next, I was a power-crazed madman! - Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
- ^ "Kaptain Skurvy: ♫A stupid ape just wandered by and snatched my treasured prize♫" - Booty and the Beast
