| “ | Whoooaaa - Big Man! | „ |
| ~ Kiddy Kong, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! |
| “ | Kiddy is a portly toddler with lots of power. He can reveal secret areas by breaking down doors and smashing the ground. He's much like Donkey and Diddy Kong in the way he seems to get into trouble all the time. | „ |
| ~ Donkey Kong Country 3 SNES instruction manual. |
Kiddy Kong, also known as Dinky Kong in Japan, is the deuteragonist of the 1996 platform game Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and its 1997 follow-up, Donkey Kong Land III.
He is Dixie Kong's infant cousin who follows her around on her adventures. Despite his young age, Kiddy Kong is just as strong and powerful as the fully-grown Donkey Kong and is able to skip across bodies of water.
He was voiced by Mark Bettridge in the original version of Donkey Kong Country 3. He was later voiced by Chris Sutherland in that game's Game Boy Advance port.
Appearance[]
Kiddy is a big brown ape toddler who wears blue baby pajamas. He has brown eyes, and a spike of fur on the top of his head. Like the other Kongs, Kiddy has a large muzzle and a large lower lip, and a very small nose. His pajamas have a white placket that goes down his clothes. The placket has three yellow buttons, and he also has a green pacifier with a yellow teat, but only in some official artwork. The fabric on his feet goes over his toes.
In Donkey Kong Country 3's 2-Player Contest Mode, Kiddy's pajamas will turn from cyan to green.
Skills and Abilities[]
Kiddy's tremendous strength can be used to defeat certain enemies and destroy weak floors. He can also roll to bounce across the waters surface to reach items and secret areas.
History[]
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble![]
Kiddy Kong first appears at Funky's Rentals, where Funky Kong lets Dixie Kong babysit him during her search for Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. Although Dixie cannot throw him very far due to his weight, she can briefly bowl Kiddy across the ground and jump on him while he does so to perform a Kong Roll.
When they reach Kastle Kaos, he and Dixie discover that Kaos was being controlled by K. Rool, under the alias Baron K. Roolenstein, who was behind the events of the game up to this point. After defeating him at the castle, which saves Donkey and Diddy in the process, and the Knaultilus after forcing it to emerge at Krematoa, Kiddy and Dixie discover that he imprisoned the mother of the Banana Birds and sealed up most of her children in caves across the North Kremsphere.
Donkey Kong Land 3[]
Kiddy Kong returns with his cousin in a race to find the Lost World before Donkey and Diddy or K.Rool could. As they travel across the land, they fight against K. Rool's minions.
Donkey Kong 64[]
Kiddy doesn't appear in Donkey Kong 64, but he is mentioned in the game's manual being the baby brother of Chunky Kong.
Donkey Konga 2[]
Kiddy (referred to his Japanese name Dinky) is briefly mentioned in Dixie's Notes, in which he learned to play the bongos for the first time.
Other Media[]
The Super Mario Bros. Movie[]
After several years of not appearing in games, Kiddy Kong very briefly reappears in the computer animated film The Super Mario Bros. Movie. He joins Mario, Toad, Peach along with Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong, and the other Kong racers, in order to defeat Bowser's army.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Kiddy was one of the confirmed characters for the game Donkey Kong Racing before it was cancelled.
- Two of Kiddy Kong's abilities would eventually be used by Donkey Kong in other games of the series. The Kong Roll is used in Donkey Kong Country Returns and its sequel Tropical Freeze. And the water skip ability is used in both Tropical Freeze and Donkey Kong Bananza.
