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* TheResenter: Bluster. It's sometimes shown that he hates DK more than [[BigBad K. Rool]] does, and he even hates DK more than K. Rool who is the BigBad and mortal enemy of the Kong's. In the first episode, no less, he decides to destroy a potion that would've restored DK's strength to enable him to save the island from K. Rool, declaring he didn't care if K. Rool won if it meant getting rid of DK.

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* RedundantRomanceAttempt: In [[Recap/DonkeyKongCountryS1E24TheBigChillOut "The Big Chill Out"]], DK's sudden interest in big business is born out of the belief that this will impress Candy, due to comments made by Bluster. Naturally, Candy is not happy with her boyfriend becoming a "boring old Bluster clone" and sets him straight.
* TheResenter: Bluster. It's sometimes shown that he hates DK more than [[BigBad K. Rool]] does, and he even hates DK more than K. Rool who is the BigBad and mortal enemy of the Kong's.Kongs. In the first episode, no less, he decides to destroy a potion that would've restored DK's strength to enable him to save the island from K. Rool, declaring he didn't care if K. Rool won if it meant getting rid of DK.
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A French/Canadian/Chinese-produced {{All CGI|Cartoon}} AnimatedAdaptation of the popular UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem game ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''. The series lasted from 1998 to 2000, airing in Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and in the US on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]].

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A French/Canadian/Chinese-produced {{All CGI|Cartoon}} AnimatedAdaptation of the popular UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Platform/{{SNES}} game ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''. The series lasted from 1998 to 2000, airing in Canada on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and in the US on [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]].
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* MinimalistCast: Because of the limitations of CGI, it's practical to list all main characters who appear in the show - seven Kongs (Donkey, Diddy, Cranky, Candy, Dixie, Bluster, and Funky), K. Rool and his henchmen Klump and Krusha, and Captain Skurvy and his two henchmen. Only the occasional guest star or recurring minor character like Eddie the Mean Old Yeti or the Klaptraps appear otherwise. This sometimes leads to some interesting scenarios where there's apparently meant to be far more Kong's on the island than could ever be shown, such as "From Zero to Hero" when Dixie says "the whole island" is panicking because K. Rool stole the coconut; or the election in "Vote of Kong-Fidence" where most of the cast clearly was fooled into voting for K. Rool, but DK still somehow got enough votes to tie with him (Bluster's mom also voted for either K. Rool or DK).

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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: While not without his monstrous moments, K. Rool sometimes boils down to being less of a villain than the other two main antagonists, Captain Skurvy and Bluster Kong. K. Rool is happy to honor the truces established with the Kong's for holidays, while Skurvy doesn't give a damn and happily violates the truces for his own gain. In the first season finale, Bluster brews a love potion to brainwash Candy into marrying him, and while K. Rool steals the potion to brainwash Candy, it's only to get her to steal the Coconut for him, and he never considers going as far as Bluster planned to go.



* TheResenter: Bluster. It's sometimes hinted that he hates DK more than [[BigBad K. Rool]] does.

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* TheResenter: Bluster. It's sometimes hinted shown that he hates DK more than [[BigBad K. Rool]] does.does, and he even hates DK more than K. Rool who is the BigBad and mortal enemy of the Kong's. In the first episode, no less, he decides to destroy a potion that would've restored DK's strength to enable him to save the island from K. Rool, declaring he didn't care if K. Rool won if it meant getting rid of DK.
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* MindScrew: The AlternateUniverse in "It's a Wonderful Life" simply screams this. Diddy Kong as the villain? Seems legit. Candy and Bluster married? Fine. Eddie the Mean Old Yeti as a guardian angel? [[JustForPun Cool]]. [[spoiler:'''''KRUSHA AS THE VOICE OF REASON''''']]?! Okay, this is getting bizarre.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: In-universe. Bluster's movie, written by Funky, is based on the events of the series. Leading to an in-story WTHCastingAgency when K. Rool is cast as the hero and DK is cast as the villain.

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* WriteWhoYouKnow: In-universe. Bluster's movie, written by Funky, is based on the events of the series. Leading to an in-story WTHCastingAgency QuestionableCasting when K. Rool is cast as the hero and DK is cast as the villain.
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* ArtEvolution: Zigzagged. The models actually lose detail in the second season, presumably due to budget cuts, but more vibrant color palettes are used as compensation for this issue and the motion capture is replaced by regular 3D animation, removing the automated rapid lip-flapping and having each character's mouth accurately move to what they're saying. Character movements and clipping are much less abundant too, so it somewhat makes up for the drop in detail.

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* ArtEvolution: Zigzagged. The models actually lose detail in the second season, presumably due to budget cuts, but more vibrant color palettes are used as compensation for this issue and the motion capture is replaced by regular 3D animation, removing the automated [[HongKongDub rapid lip-flapping lip-flapping]] and having each character's mouth accurately move to what they're saying. Character movements Movements are less uncanny, characters are more expressive and clipping are is much less abundant too, so it somewhat makes up for the drop in detail.
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Parallel to the airing of ''Donkey Kong Country'', Medialab (co-producer and animator of the first season) produced the programming block ''La planète de Donkey Kong'' (later retitled ''DKTV'') for France 2 between 1996 and 2001. Outside of featuring some of the ''Donkey Kong Country'' cast, ''DKTV'' [[InNameOnly had little relation to the show or the Donkey Kong video games]], being a succession of surreal, pun-heavy skits starring the Kongs as AnimatedActors.

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Parallel to the airing of ''Donkey Kong Country'', Medialab Creator/{{Medialab}} (co-producer and animator of the first season) produced the programming block ''La planète de Donkey Kong'' (later retitled ''DKTV'') for France 2 between 1996 and 2001. Outside of featuring some of the ''Donkey Kong Country'' cast, ''DKTV'' [[InNameOnly had little relation to the show or the Donkey Kong video games]], being a succession of surreal, pun-heavy skits starring the Kongs as AnimatedActors.
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* WidgetSeries: ''La planète de Donkey Kong'' (especially its final years under the ''DKTV'' title) is pretty weird by design: it's basically a post-modern sketch show featuring a handful of the ''Donkey Kong'' characters, who behave [[NotAsYouKnowThem very differently]] from their portrayals in any other media, and features humor and subject matter raunchier than what you'd expect for something based on a Nintendo property. What pushes it into Widget territory is the frequent references to French pop culture and that most of the skits are built around untranslatable puns.

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