The creation of NDC (new donk city had Pauline get kidnapped by og dk is the oddessy lvl is to be believed.
Dk banaza has NDC boxes meaning new donk city already exists and this can't be a retcon on how new donk city was created.

could be prequel. ndc could mean anything. maybe new donk construction for exapmle

>>713615438
It could be nice dick compadre like a compliment to a friend

>>713615532
it's not far fetched that construction company would make a city! especially when donkey kongs grand father was kinda involved in construction work

>>713615913
Pretty sure new don't was created by wrecking crew

Only retards cling to Cranky Kong bring the original Donkey Kong. Cranky Kong is a a crank.

Donkey Kong is... Donkey Kong!

>>713616276
who cares about basics or instincts. construction or demolition is no big difference same shit in different shapes

>>713616620
New donk city being created by a construction company that also has ndc sounds more convoluted than just Pauline being de aged with memory loss

>>713616415
Rare, and by extension nintendo agreed that Cranky was the DK from the 80s that kidnapped Lady and was beaten by Jumpman. Period.

switch 2 is such an unmitigated disaster that tendies are unironically trying to lorefag to try and attract schizos

>>713614050 (OP)
The only reason you guys are speculating so hard is because Nintendo is being coy about why Pauline is a 13 year old girl in this. Personally the time travel theory is the only one that makes sense. VoidCo kidnapped her from the past.

>>713616940
>dk lore thread.
> THIS IS ACTUALLY DAMAGE CONTROL FOR TENDIE SCHIZOS
you all right there bud?

>>713616810
it's not big deal. nintendo isn't big on that stuff. they'd just make it for lulz. like your building new donk city in this game. doesn't matter if it matters to anything

>>713618280
We can't be building it if it already exists

>>713618101
>forgive me bingwahoobart

>>713618428
i don't see why not

>>713621142
The song level in oddessy is the story of new donks creation and if ndc already exists we can't be building it

>>713616815
Nintendo does not give a shit about then third party, now Microsoft owned Rare's idea of canon. Never has.

Nintendo lore is simple. Donkey Kong is Donkey Kong. Mario is Mario. Mario battled Donkey Kong in the Arcade classic Donkey Kong 1981, saving Pauline.

Cranky Kong is either A) a crank or a liar, B) Nintendo being extremely generous and saying he never battled Mario/Jumpman, but ages ago he had some unseen parallel adventure that mirrored the events ala Luigi in Mario Thousand Year Door.

Bananza is a prequel to Donkey Kong 1981. This is far more simple and makes more sense than "Pauline was aged down and everyone forgot all memories of her for... some reason" or "Pauline and Mario had a baby as pre-teens, and called her Pauline, AND abandoned her"

>>713623430
Explain why paulines clothing is baggy and ripped short.
No shoes can also be because her old shoes are now too big because she got de aged

>>713622132
fake history?

THIS COCONUT SHIT
ISNT FUNNY

>>713623663
Why would Pauline celebrate fake history?

Oh my fucking god who cares what's wrong with ninteniggers

>>713614050 (OP)
>>713615438
>>713615532
>>713615913
Why do you retards still pretend Nintendo gives a shit about timelines or lore or continuity?

>>713623657
Pauline NEVER WORE the outfit we see her in as an adult.

Her outfit is ragged and she has no shoes because she's clearly very poor, probably an orphan.

>>713623657
Baggy clothes are currently trendy

>>713614050 (OP)
Or its a nintendo game and they decided the setting based on whats fun and fits the gameplay theme.
I love nintendo games, I really do, but this time line bullshit is so stupid.
>did you know?
>If you look at these enemies in Tropical freeze combined with these background elements, you can tell its before DKC2 and between world 1-8
THATS SOOOOO INTERDASTING OMGG

>>713623717
Because she's ruler and made the history seem more glorious than it was for reasons for it to be more glorious

>>713623841
Nah

>>713624650
No argument, you admit I'm correct.

>>713623784
Ever since they immediately plopped echos of wisdom onto the timeline after it released.

>>713624703
Mario wore like a billion outfits in oddessy.
But Pauline only has one set of clothing? She doesn't even were her oddessy outfit in mariokart.

>>713623784
for fun and they sometimes mention timelines i guess

>>713624984
The implication you're trying to make is that Pauline was wearing the outfit she has in Bananza, somehow got de-aged and this ripped up the dress and lost her shoes.

This is silly. A momentary glance is all you need to see this is a child's dress, it would not fit a adult woman. Pauline doesn't wear jeans under her dress as an adult, nor does Bananza feature a scene where she is turned back from a rock and finds a pair of jeans to wear. She just has the jeans on, indicating this is what she was wearing before the events of the story began.

Why is her dress ripped and dirty? Since this game is a prequel it is giving Pauline a backstory, and if you want to indicate a character is poor / orphan you depict them wearing ripped clothes.

>>713626063
Poor people clothing is not ripped from the bottom the dress.
It's un natural.

There just going to pull a Metal Gear with this game.

Kojimba wanted to retcon why Big Boss was the bad guy in Metal Gear.
Nintendo are going to retcon why DK was a bad guy in Donkey Kong Arcade and why he kidnapped Pauline. That's the reason this game exists

I kinda don't want them to turn cranky into a dindu

How long before we get loli Pauline in a microbikini mod.

>>713626414

>>713626414
Thankfully we have a high resolution picture of her outfit.

Its not just torn by the bottom of the dress, the whole outfit is distressed. Looked at the frayed hem of the arms and neck. The bottom of the dress looks like it was styled with a pair of rusty scissors. This is tattered by definition.

This is the picture of a Nintendo version of a street urchin.

>>713626896
Yeah and the differen here is that it's ripped at the ankles where it makes sense.
Not the fucking waist line.

>>713614050 (OP)
I think it’s just a full reboot. No connections except characters and references.

>>713627137
She's way too clean to be an urchin

>>713627137
Seeing as her black shirt underneath looks like it fits perfectly. My theory is that she was de aged and that void co just hap hazardly made her baggy clothing trimmed to fit.

>>713627448
This is Nintendo.

They're not going to depict a street urchin as a disgusting filthy homeless person, they're going to depict them as a cool hero. AND she's not even confirmed to be homeless, she could just be living in a very poor household/orphanage.

>>713627137
Thats clearly Mario and Pauline's daughter, her hair even forms the shape of an M.

BIG if true. mario lore might never be the same.

>>713627976
>implying Mario (who is canonically 24) has a child that is canonically 13

The actual answer is that cranky kidnapped Pauline sr.
And the Pauline we know is Pauline Jr.

>>713627137
That there is a family friendly interpretation of a punk rock singer

>>713628216
Do punk rock singers often not afford shoes?

>yfw they get to the core void co steals the wish and wishes to be the strongest kong ever.
>he transforms from small monkey to a giant ripped one and then steal Pauline and goes to the top of construction site with her.

>>713628484
Would be a pretty kino plot twist that this was never cranky kong in the first place.

>>713628108
Counterpoint: this takes place at some point in the future, after Odyssey, thus everyone is older and the DK in this game is actually DK Jr (maybe Kong names are actually titles) and this is Pauline Jr. Look at the outfit, she has Pauline's face but Mario's thick eyebrows and similar clothing scheme (blue jean bottoms and red top).

>>713617116
This.

>>713623430
Sure, it makes more sense than those two dumb theories but it makes less sense than time travel. Time travel is easily the cleanest and most logical theory. Doesn't contradict anything and ties into Odyssey.

>>713626063

>>713629097
And she's a midget.

>>713630775
She hasn't hit puberty.

>>713631050
What if this is the tallest she gets?

>>713614050 (OP)
Not that I believe it's a prequel but your explanation means nothing.
Could just as well be
>What are we going to call the city DK?
>*A NDC crate flows by*
>NDC... New Donk City!

>>713632774
That doesn't make sense.

>>713632902
NDC doesn't have to mean anything and just serve as an inspiration to call the city New Donk City

>>713633130
I feel like that might be a stretch.

Ok, here's a theory as to why "Pauline" might be Mario's daughter.
She utters "Bing-Bing Wahoo!" phrases and can turn them into rocks.