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| “ | He's back again and about time too, And this time he's in the mood! He can fly real high with his jetpack on, With his pistols out, he's one tough Kong! He'll make you smile when he plays his tune, But Kremlings beware 'cause he's after you! | „ |
| ~ DK Rap |
Diddy Kong is the deuteragonist of the Donkey Kong franchise. He also appears as a recurring guest character in the Mario franchise. He is the fastest and most agile member of the Kong Family. He is Donkey Kong's nephew, sidekick, and companion. He and Donkey Kong live in Jungle Japes, and he is introduced in the first game as his main companion when setting out to defeat King K Rool. Diddy is a creation of the British company, Rare, Ltd.; however, he has a Nintendo logo on his trademarked red hat, probably because Nintendo owned Rare at the time and holds the rights to the Donkey Kong franchise.
He was voiced by Chris Sutherland and currently is voiced by Katsumi Suzuki.
Powers and Abilities
- Superhuman Speed: Diddy Kong can run and move at extremely fast speed.
- Superhuman Agility: Diddy Kong is extremely agile.
- Superhuman Jump: Diddy Kong can jump to an extremely high or far distance.
- Superhuman Strength: Although he is not as strong as Donkey Kong or King K. Rool, Diddy Kong is extremely strong.
Physical Appearance
Diddy Kong shares several traits with his uncle. He has versatile feet, and his face is somehow similar to Donkey Kong; however, Diddy Kong has big eyes and a less frowned space between the eyebrows, covered in fur, as opposed to Donkey Kong's. However, he is quite different than Donkey Kong. He is the only known Kong to possess a prehensile tail.
Diddy Kong's clothing consists of a red cap showing the logo of Nintendo on its front, and a red tank top, with yellow Stars on it.
Personality
Diddy Kong is a young, affable and adventurous monkey, willing to help out his friends during times of need, evidenced by the Donkey Kong Country series. In contrast of his uncle's aggression, Diddy Kong is somewhat of a peacemaker, as he asks a Kremling to "show himself if he was friendly" in Donkey Kong Country. Diddy Kong's defining personality trait is his boundless energy, to the point of childishness. Diddy Kong always shows excitement in various competitive sports (as shown in the Mario sport-related game series) and kart races, as evidenced by his idle and victory animations, which see him cartwheeling, backflipping, sideflipping, jumping up and down, or clapping his hands while yelling and screeching in happiness and enjoyment.
History
Donkey Kong Country
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Donkey Kong Land
Frustrated by the success of DKC, Cranky Kong gave the Banana Hoard back to King K. Rool and challenged Donkey and Diddy to retrieve it again using an 8-bit format, as he believed that no one will buy the video game without the graphics from DKC.
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Diddy appears as the main protaginst alongside his girlfriend Dixie Kong. They jorney to resucue DK from K rool. In the end they find him and take him down with help from Donkey Kong who punches him off his ship.
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
The game's plot revolves around Dixie Kong and Kiddy Kong trying to find Donkey and Diddy who have both mysteriously vanished at the Northern Kremisphere. DK isn't seen until the end of the game when it's revealed that he and Diddy were brainwashed into powering the Kremlings' new robotic leader KAOS, which was built by Baron K. Roolstein.
Donkey Kong 64
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DK: King Of Swing
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DK: Jungle Climber
The Kong Family are on vacation at Sun Sun Island when a giant banana-shaped spacecraft appears above a nearby mountain. Donkey, Diddy and Cranky Kong go to investigate and discover that an alien named Xananab has been searching for Kremlings who have stolen powerful Crystal Bananas from his home Planet Plantaen. DK and crew decide to help Xananab locate the Crystal Bananas before the Kremlings use their power to conquer the universe. Using special devices, the Kongs are able to travel into different dimensions where DK battles the Kremling’s forces and retrieves the Crystal Bananas before confronting King K. Rool on Planet Plantaen. K. Rool swallows the last Crystal Banana and becomes gigantic with new powerful abilities. However, Donkey Kong still manages to defeat him and is rewarded by the planet's people with countless bananas before returning home.
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Diddy returns in this game as one of the main characters. A group of mysterious wooden creatures known as the Tiki Tak Tribe emerge from Donkey Kong Island's volcano and hypnotise the island inhabitants into stealing Donkey Kong's Banana Hoard. Diddy notices this and chases after the Tiki's.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Donkey Kong Island is taken over by a tribe of snow vikings known as the Snowmads, who use an ice dragon to freeze the island, blowing the Kongs off the island in the process. The Kongs travel across five different islands and eventually make it back to Donkey Kong Island. Going through the frozen fortress, the Kongs eventually confront the leader of the Snowmads, Lord Fredrik. The Kongs defeat Lord Fredrik in a final battle, and Donkey Kong punches him one last time, which sends him flying through the roof of his ship. Exiting the ship, the Kongs watch as Lord Fredrik crashes into the remaining Snowmad ships, destroying them and defeating the entire Snowmad tribe. Donkey Kong and diddy then notices that Lord Fredrik dropped his horn during his fall, and catches and blows into it. This transports the Kongs to the bottom of their island, and gets rid of the ice and snow created by the ice dragon, reverting the island to its normal state.
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Trivia
- In Super Mario Odyssey, there is a Diddy Kong costume for Mario to wear.
- Diddy Kong first existed as a redesign of Donkey Kong Jr. but Nintendo thought that the character's appearance differed too much from the original. Rare Ltd., developers of the original Donkey Kong Country, were given a choice to revert Junior's design or use it for a new separate character, and the latter option was chosen.
