Donkey Kong

"Hooo hi!"

- Donkey Kong

"Banana slamma!!!!"

- Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong (full name Donkey Kong III or Donkey Kong the Third) is the main protagonist of the franchise of the same name, and a recurring character in the Mario franchise. The original Donkey Kong was once a rogue in the Nintendo universe and regularly antagonized Mario (who, in turn antagonized him back in one game ) - however he was revealed to be Cranky Kong in the Donkey Kong Country series. The current Donkey Kong is the protagonist of his own series, first appearing in Donkey Kong Country. He often stops the villain King K. Rool from stealing his banana hoard.

He sometimes appears in the Mario series, playable in spin-off games, such as Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros.. DK also became an ally to Mario in the Mario Party series. Other than spin-off games, Donkey Kong appears as a baby in Yoshi Island DS, and as a primary antagonist in the Mario vs Donkey Kong series.

Appearance
The current design of Donkey Kong analyzes him as a big brown gorilla with huge muscles wearing a red tie with two yellow letters D and K, standing for his name.

personality
Donkey Kong is a loose cannon who lives as he pleases and is driven by his own impulses and agenda. A flawed hero, DK is fearless, but greedy, helpful, but vengeful, strong, but lazy. He is also materialistic, jealously clinging to his banana hoard, and will personally hunt down whoever robbed him, and beat them to a pulp and the animated series portrayed him as a big eater who was very unintelligent and somewhat big-headed. Despite his flaws, he is still a noble, compassionate heroe, who would always look out for diddy, and adored kranky Kong, even allowing cranky to make fun of him at his own expense. DK also loves animals, and they love him. He rescues others in need, and offers support to anyone who needed it. He also appears to love nature and hate industrialism, as the kremlins activities angered him before he realized his bananas where missing, and in donkey Kong country returns, he liberated all the hypnotized animals along the way. He also has a human fettish, similarly to king Kong.

Appearances In Other Media

 * Donkey Kong, alongside other Nintendo characters, is a playable character in the Super Smash Bros. series.
 * A monster truck based on the character appeared at Monster Jam 2007.

Biography
Donkey Kong is the protector of Donkey Kong Island, defending it from the likes of King K. Rool, the Tiki Tiki Tribe, and other villains as well. He is the leader of his own crew - known affectionately as the Kongs.

Powers and abilities
Donkey Kong is capable of punching very hard, that he can even knock the moon out of orbit using his bare fists, as seen in the ending of Donkey Kong Country Returns. In the intro of the game, it reveals he is apparently immune to mental assault as one of the Tikis attempted to hypnotize him, but failed to do so.