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  • How is it that, if you're carrying a barrel, and die, you drop the barrel, and come right back out, but only if you have your second monkey still? This implies that you are carrying yourself, but this defiance of the laws of physics is only possible when you have someone watching, like Schroedinger's Cat in reverse.
    • The Kongs probably bred really quickly and had LOTS of twins...yeah...
    • The barrel is empty until the Kong dies, then they get instantly teleported into the barrel as soon as it breaks - look closely at your Kong after he dies and falls off the screen - he instantly vanishes as soon as he pops out of the barrel. I think the bigger issue here is the two Enguardes in the first underwater level.
  • Is there any official word on what started the Kremlings' animosity towards the Kong clan? It seems pretty random that a bunch of anthropomorphic crocodiles would suddenly declare a small group of gorillas their mortal enemies...
    • (Deep movie-guy voice) The ancient war between mammals and reptiles...continues...here. That and K Rool's a Jerkass.
    • Bazooka Bear mentions having fought in the "Kremean Wars"
    • Most Nintendo franchise games have some sort of animal as the main enemy species. In Donkey Kong, they're Crocodiles, in Mario, they're turtles, in Zelda, they're pigs, in Star Fox, they're monkeys, and in Metroid, they're lobsters and jellyfish.
    • I also think crocodiles are some of the few natural enemies of gorillas.
    • No, wait. In the first game, the Kremlings discover DK Island on one of the seafaring missions, go "Hey, nice island... we'll take it!" and begin the invasion. Most of them aren't even aware that the Kongs have pretty much staked a claim to it already, and the conflict doesn't really become "personal" until Donkey Kong Country 2.
  • Why are almost all the characters named "Kong"? Is that a last name or some sort of thing they stick to all names? And why do they call Diddy a chimp? He has a tail, people!
    • It's a reference to King Kong. Unknown if that's their last name and they're all related though. Probably not though, considering they're different types of monkeys/apes, and the fact that Diddy and Donkey both have Kong girlfriends.
      • Not to mention Lanky Kong. He's an orangutan, and, as such, is very unlikely to be directly related to the other Kongs (assuming, of course, that the gorilla Kongs are related).
    • "Kong" means "ape". With the exception of Diddy, they're all apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans).
    • Given the mix of species and the relationships, Kong appears to be a clan. That said, Donkey Kong fights other Kongs in Jungle Beat.
  • If Cranky Kong is the Donkey Kong from the original arcade game of the same name, why isn't he a gorilla? For that matter, if DK is Junior, why is he a gorilla and not a chimp?
    • Pretend that they're both a fictional species of ape that looks like a chimp when very young and very old, and looks like a gorilla when in its prime. "Kongs". And I don't think DK Junior looked like a chimp at all.
      • DK Jr. was a gorilla. No tail, fairly large arms, strong enough to lift a cage that has his old man in it? Seems pretty much to confirm he's a gorilla.
    • Cranky IS a gorilla. just a less physique one. He IS old at this point, but was beefier in his younger years.
  • Why does K. Rool care about taking away Kong's bananas so much? They're bananas, for god's sake! They're not weapons or anything a pirate king would find important.
    • Maybe he and his crew all had scurvy?
    • He was taking over the island, getting bananas was just extra.
    • Everyone knows crocodiles can't resist bananas.
    • He just wanted to be an asshole?
    • No, it's obvious. Collecting one hundred bananas nets you an extra life. The real question is, why wouldn't K. Rool want a huge cache of extra lives?
    • None of the above. DKCR shows banana juice gives temporary invincibility... As well as bestowing life to instruments.
    • According to the first game manual, they're just really, really, REALLY good tasting bananas.
  • Why haven't the bananas gone bad? This is why you don't typically "hoard" perishable fruit. To make matters worse, bananas ripen and spoil more quickly when they're near other bananas, so the massive piles of bananas we see in the boss levels will surely become horrible brown pulp long before the Kongs can eat even a few of them.
    • Magic Kong Island bananas can do anything, including never spoil. Presumably, that's why DK was so ticked. Imperishable bananas are rare, and K. Rool just up and takes the biggest stash of the best sort of bananas anywhere? NOT ON DK'S WATCH.
    • That would actually go a long way towards explaining WHY K. Rool would want the bananas. An abundant non-perishable source of scurvy-fighting Vitamin C would be VERY attractive to a band of seafaring pirates.
      • Plus imagine all the profits they would make from selling ever-ripe bananas around the world. Kinda makes the Kongs look like idiots for not considering that option.
    • Also, getting to K Rool in the first game might have only taken 2 or 3 days, depending on how much they rested between levels. There is sunset and nightfall in the early levels, but they theoretically could have done everything else the next morning (also, if days went by faster here, and bananas ripened at normal speed, all the better for the plot).
  • Why are there both temperate deciduous trees and tropical palm trees on the same island?
    • Maybe DK Island is very big, with part of the island in the tropical latitudes and part of the island in the temperate latitudes.
      • This makes sense when you consider that DK Island has a mountain high enough for the peak to be frozen. A mountain has to be spread over a much larger base than the size of a typical tropical island. So it follows that DK Island is not the size of a typical tropical island.
      • Conversely, the world the island is on may be small.
      • It is called Donkey Kong "Country"
  • If the Kong's are a family of all or most primates were are the baboons?
    • We don't talk about them.
    • It seems like they're the butt monkeys of the Kongs then.
    • According to DK Vine, Kiddy is a baboon.
  • Why is there a factory level in every DK game except Crocodile Isle (DKC2)
    • The factories in DKC (and DCK Returns, as they're the same factories) were set up by the crocodiles to steal the resources from DK Island. Same with 3, only with a different region. The reason there is none in 2 is because their own resources have been used up, and whatever's left is completely useless, which is why they need to steal others resources in the first place. Why there's no abandoned factories? They let the buildings deteriorate to nothing. Look at the state of the buildings that they do use, Kremland!
  • So if Cranky Kong was the original Donkey Kong and the current Donkey Kong is his grandson, whatever happened to Cranky's son A.K.A. Donkey Kong Jr.?
    • I thought DK was Donkey Kong Junior. Where is he said to be Cranky's grandson?
      • Throughout the DKC series. It's only DK64 where Cranky claims to be DK's father.
    • You know. Around. Nintendo only ever seems to acknowledge his existence when one of their sports spinoffs need some roster padding, and even thats stopped recently.

Cartoon

  • In one episode of the cartoon, everyone gets mad at DK when they think he sent the Crystal Coconut to the moon. It turns out at the end that he just sent a song, but are we given any reason to believe that sending the Crystal Coconut far away from the island where no one can get it is a bad thing, especially if the heroes don't allow themselves to use it (in most episodes)?
  • In one episode of the cartoon, Cranky seems to be think that Bluster making a movie is crazy, until he hears that the auditions are "tomorrow at noon" and then Cranky says "did he say, noon?" why would he be on board with it now?
    • Presumably he's in now because he can be in the movie, and the noon part has something to do with his sleeping habits.

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