Nintendo Owns the Kremlings: Squashing a Myth

[Jermungandr]

... the game blatantly calls Kiddy Dixie's "cousin".

Also: Monkey + Monkey = Gorilla?

[SchAlternate]

Diddy is DK's nephew

He he, get it? That mean's DK's a monkey's uncle.

Huehuehue.

[Koopaul]

The relationships between the Kong's has changed so much over the series. Even when Rare was in control of the series they made Cranky DK's grandfather and then in DK64 they made him his father. Then when Nintendo got ahold of things he became his grandfather again.

Anyway, here's the current relations between the Kongs:

Cranky and Wrinkly are DK's grandparents.
Diddy Kong is not actually blood related to DK.
Diddy and Dixie are a couple.
Dixie and Tiny are sisters, and are cousins to Kiddy and Chunky... somehow.
Everyone else is a friend.

Also...

GORILLAS
Donkey, Cranky, Wrinkly, Funky, Candy, Swanky, Kiddy, Chunky

MONKEY
Diddy

CHIMPANZEES
Dixie, Tiny

ORANGUTAN
Lanky

[Kriven]

Isn't Diddy "officially" considered a chimp, despite clearly not actually being one?

Where does Manky Kong fit in?

[Koopaul]

I've heard Snake call him a chimp. I think I've heard "chimp" used before somewhere else... But he's clearly a monkey and I often see him referred to as such.

Then again I hear people call DK and other apes "monkey" too.

[Pik]

Monkey, ape, chimp, what's the difference am I right? These monkeys...



are all kongs.

[Kosheh]

ok ok I've been King K Trollin' nice to see everyone else took the bait but Koopaul himself. I knew the whole time DK is Diddy's uncle and Kiddy is Dixie's cousin (which distances him as far as possible from the Kong family, if you think about it, lol)

Isn't Diddy "officially" considered a chimp, despite clearly not actually being one?

Where does Manky Kong fit in?

I think this is actually referred to in one of the Player's Guides or the instruction booklet, but the Manky Kongs are orangutans that are only related to the Kongs in name; they're distant relatives exiled from the family for some reason. It's probably because they (the developers) wanted to bring back the barrel-tossing back into DKC somehow but didn't bother with a mythos back then and just made up a "Kong reject" to fill that role


Now, there's thing in the Donkey Kong fan community that presumably ties the events before the series together known as the "Great Ape War", and it ties together the relations between DK and the other residents of the DK Isles as well as explain why the Kremlings are always so aggressive in the DKC games: he's constantly at war with the Kongs. The community frequently uses this to leverage the Manky Kong population's awkward placement in the Kong family: the orangutans on DK Isle betrayed the Kongs during the Great Ape War, and since have been exiled from the Kong family.

However, Lanky's the only orangutan somehow that's been "accepted back" into the family, so speculation has it that he was too young at the time to be affiliated in the war and thus the Kongs just don't hold it against him.




yep

[Kriven]

Well, that's something I guess :p

[Darky's Manifestation]

i googled ''The Great Ape War'' and it's actually a thing

Manky Kong Betrayal

''When the future was looking bleak for the Primate Alliance, certain groups started questioning whether the war could truly be won. One specific group, the Manky Kongs, began to prioritize the survival of their kind alone, resulting in a rebellion against the Primate Alliance. The Alliance did not forgive them for this and the Manky race remained Kong Family Rejects throughout history. While uncertain, it is speculated something similar may have happened with the Minkeys.

It is unknown how Lanky Kong, being a reject orangutan, was accepted into the Kong Family later on. It's possible that he was too young to be involved in the betrayal, or he was more close with the main family of Kongs.''

god dammit people it's about a big goofy ape with a red tie

[Ark Kuvis]

I always thought it was weird that Dixie is Diddy's girlfriend.

Do they fuck and make out?

The most one sided relationship ever.

[MrYoshbert]

Let's complicate things even further by bringing Donkey Kong Jr. into this.

Cranky is DK's grandfather. Cranky is also the Donkey Kong, Sr. from the arcade games. Modern-day DK is said to be the Donkey Kong Jr. featured in the arcade titles... which doesn't make sense since "Jr." implies "son," not grandson. Jr. should actually be DK's father. Is Country DK actually Donkey Kong III and Jr. really has been missing for all of these years?

Also, Cranky becoming a frail old ape in the Country series while Mario is still young as ever. Do gorillas age faster than humans? Or is the "Jumpman" Mario from the arcade games actually the grandfather of present-day Mario?

[Kriven]

Gorillas do age faster than humans, but even assuming that.... Donkey Kong should have been about fifteen in the arcade original and about thirty or forty as Cranky Kong... So, assume a fifteen to twenty year timeskip. Since Mario's age has never been classified as far as I know, it's possible for him to have been about 19 during the arcade classic and into his mid-thirties by the present. All that jumping has probably kept him pretty healthy (he's even gotten skinnier in recent times).

This gets a lot weirder when you look at Yoshi's Island DS, where we meet Donkey Kong (presumably the same Donkey Kong that serves as the protagonist in Donkey Kong Country) as a baby... and he's a little bit older then Mario (when, by the Cranky-Was-the-Original theory, he would have to be decades younger).

[Ton]

The relationships between the Kong's has changed so much over the series. Even when Rare was in control of the series they made Cranky DK's grandfather and then in DK64 they made him his father. Then when Nintendo got ahold of things he became his grandfather again.

Anyway, here's the current relations between the Kongs:

Cranky and Wrinkly are DK's grandparents.
Diddy Kong is not actually blood related to DK.
Diddy and Dixie are a couple.
Dixie and Tiny are sisters, and are cousins to Kiddy and Chunky... somehow.
Everyone else is a friend.

Also...

GORILLAS
Donkey, Cranky, Wrinkly, Funky, Candy, Swanky, Kiddy, Chunky

MONKEY
Diddy

CHIMPANZEES
Dixie, Tiny

ORANGUTAN
Lanky

Maybe they mean EVOLUTIONARY cousins. So Stanley the Bugman is Stanley Kong, and he's the next member of the DK Crew.

[Iceman404]

I can tell neither the seriousness or direction of this thread anymore

[Gors]

And what are the kremlings' genealogy? Are all reptiles within the same clan? They're definitely a recurrent theme in the DKC games, why?