Donkey Kong Junior

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This article is about the character. For the arcade game, see Donkey Kong Junior (arcade game).

Donkey Kong Junior (AKA Donkey Kong Jr. or DK Jr.) is a character from a Nintendo's Mario series. He is the son of Donkey Kong'. 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. After that he appeared in Super Mario Kart followed by an appearance in Mario's Tennis. 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 a transformed king. He also appeared om am educatoal NES game called Donkey Kong Jr. Math. In the game's two-player mode, the second player controlled different-colored Donkey Kong Jr.

In the game, Donkey Kong Jr. wears a white leotard with a red J printed on the front. On the box of Donkey Kong Jr. cereal, he wears a red shirt with white trim and has a big yellow J.

In Super Mario Kart , Donkey Kong Jr. was in the heavyweight driver class, (along with Bowser) and boasted stats of high top speed, low acceleration, and as his class-name states, a heavy weight. The computer controlled Donkey Kong Jr. character in this game had infinite banana peels at his disposal to use as weapons. These banana peels could be thrown in front of Donkey Kong Jr., or set down behind him.

Donkey Kong Jr. was ousted from the Mario Kart series in Mario Kart 64 and replaced with his father. Although he was in a series of educational games on the NES (Donkey Kong Jr. Math) and PC (in the days of the SNES), he has not been in a starring role since. The other members of the Donkey Kong family, like Diddy and Dixie Kong, have taken more prominent roles. However, Junior does still make the occasional appearance, most notably in Donkey Kong '94, Mario Tennis (N64), and the Game & Watch Gallery series.

Though information on this matter is contradictory and unclear, it was confirmed by Leigh Loveday, writer for the Donkey Kong Country series of games, that the current "adult" Donkey Kong character is supposed to be a "grown-up" DK Jr. This information, however, is controversial, as it is stated in the Donkey Kong Country 2 manual that the current Donkey Kong is DK Sr.'s grandson. This was likely an error or joke to make Cranky seem older than he is. In Donkey Kong 64, he is thought to be the current DK.

However, Nintendo indicates that the current Donkey Kong is the original Donkey Kong. Fans explain this by saying that Donkey Kong Jr. has simply been "written off" of the series. In addition, Nintendo previously referred to the current Donkey Kong, in such games as Mario Kart 64 and Super Smash Brothers, as "Mario's oldest rival". Thus, Cranky Kong being Donkey Kong is not canon in any as far as Nintendo was concerned, as Nintendo ultimately has more power than Rare for its characters. This was contradicted in the Mario Superstar Baseball manual, however, which said that the actual original Donkey Kong is an ancestor of the current one. However, this either is a mistake or this doesn't explicitly state the nature of this ancestor (except that he didn't wear a tie), making it a moot point. It is Rare that made any implications at all, not Nintendo. Most likely, he was the same since the beginning, and he has merely evolved from his original look to his current look, just like Mario.

Television Appearances

• Donkey Kong Jr. featured in his own segment of Saturday Supercade, where he and a biker named Bones traveled around the country searching for his missing father (possibly a tie-in to Donkey Kong's own segment, where he traveled around the world trying to escape from Mario). When going in to action, DK Jr. would often yell "Monkey Muscles!" sounding much like Scrappy Doo.

External links

• [Donkey Kong Universe]
• [Donkey Kong Galaxy]

See also: Donkey Kong Jr. (arcade game)

 

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