>>713472902
You Kong Wars timeline morons are fucking retarded.
The answer is DK has always been Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong is... a crank who was never Donkey Kong because that has never made sense or fit with Nintendo's canon timeline.
Cranky Kong was NEVER canonically Donkey Kong, that was third party Rare nonsense.
Canonically Mario is canonically 24, and so is DK because Yoshi Island DS LITERALLY SHOWS US Mario and donkey Kong being delivered by the storks at the same time.