>Be King K. Rool
>Disappear for nearly two decades
>Everyone thinks you’re trapped in Rare/Microsoft hell
>Written off as irrelevant, no longer DK’s main villain
>Out of nowhere, Sakurai saves you
>Get added to Smash Ultimate with one of the best remixes ever made (still unbeaten)
>Fans lose their minds, your finest hour
>Nintendo sees the potential they’ve been ignoring
>They make you the final boss of the new Donkey Kong game
>They give you a canonical reason for your absence
>You literally dug to the planet’s core to retrieve the Bananium Root
>Plan? Use it to make a wish that wipes out every Kong in existence
>The primordial god behind the root senses your overwhelming malice and it's simply disgusted
>Seals you and your entire species away for being too rotten to the core
>Now you’re joining the Mario Kart roster and getting your first cinematic debut in the upcoming DK animated movie

Is there any comeback arc better than this?

Okay but where did he put his pirate outfit and his mad scientist outfit?

>>716524814 (OP)
King K Rool is probably the greatest execution and use of the hijacked by Ganon deal in a game. Also every bit of animation from him just oozes personality and his new voice actor really sells the character even if he's not Benedict Campbell from the cartoon.

>>716524891
His wife made them

>>716524814 (OP)
>Everyone thinks you’re trapped in Rare/Microsoft hell
nobody thought this

>>716525303
EVERYONE thought this, even you.

>>716524814 (OP)
>Magical thing that can grant wishes
They made the crystal coconut from that weird french cartoon real??

>>716525515
It was also in 64 but yeah he did pretty much finally get wishes he wanted besides getting Klump to stop his schizo dance.

>>716525058
I hope to God they hire Benedict to voice him again in the movie. Maybe Miyamoto will put his foot down and keep Illumination from hiring celebrities this time.

>>716525058
>All of the prolonged, guttural hissing noises in each line of dialogue
They clearly knew where to go with K. Rool.

>>716524814 (OP)
>>Everyone thinks you’re trapped in Rare/Microsoft hell
only people who dont play video games thought this

stealth belly thread

>>716524814 (OP)
>Everyone thinks you’re trapped in Rare/Microsoft hell
Only fake fans and game "journalists" actually thought this. Everyone else knew he was benched because Retro wanted to make their own bad guys after Metroid Prime and Dark Samus did pretty well, which is exactly what they said during interviews for DKCR back in 2011.

>>716524814 (OP)
>credits start with Gangplank Galleon while you escape the planets core
>nostalgia hits hard
>music turns into rock
>King K Rool opens his eyes
>NOT ON MY WATCH BITCH
>chases you from the planets core to the surface while laughing like a maniac
Fucking kino, I wish I could play it again for the first time.

>>716524814 (OP)

>>716526428
For me it's the fact that they knew people were expecting the fake kredits, so they did everything they could to drag the entire sequence out to make you double think about it.

>>716525868
Wishful thinking but if we all get that crystal coconut can make it come true. I've suggested if they absolutely had to get a celeb then Willem Dafoe or Ralph Fines wouldn't be bad choices since they can do threatening and goofy.

>>716525971
I think it's the same VA as Demise from Skyward Sword but he really does K Rool great managing to sound very guttural, goofy when needed but also bombastic and yeah he really sounds like a crocodile that just learned to communicate with all the sounds you mentioned that add a sense of threat.

>>716526434
>Roman themed Kremlings and K Rool
>DK falling into the magic potion
>Diddy able to eat what no one else wants to since he's a brit

>>716526898
>>Roman themed Kremlings and K Rool

K. Roolius Kaesar.

>>716524814 (OP)
You forget the most meta part of it: The Banandium Root can grant wishes, guess what DK fans have been wishing for the most?

>>716524814 (OP)
Why is he standing on glistening piss?

>>716524891
I hope they add them to Mario Kart but they dont like to add canon outfits from other games. At least not on World.

>>716526980
>Kalypso is Cleopatra themed

>>716527568
Hold up! Wait a minute!

>I have covered you with an egg shell, thus making me the victor

>Plan? Use it to make a wish that wipes out every Kong in existence
But that's wrong, he never cared much about kongs except DK64, where it's an act of revenge for sinking the crocodile isle.

>>716527761
>where it's an act of revenge for sinking the crocodile isle.

Which happened because he kidnapped Donkey, which was to get revenge for Gangplank Galleon, which happened because he stole Donkey's POTASSIUM, which was because...?

>>716525691

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKdhUgoI2YM

Remember his retarded brother from 64?

>>716524814 (OP)
>Out of nowhere
No, that was the fans who voted on him on Smash Ballot. Sakurai couldn't care less, especially because that, even selling decently, the DK franchise was considered legacy.

As how Sora won the ballot overall, K. Rool was technically on the top 5 and Bayo was the biggest on Europe and Ridley had a decent margin, if he wasn't even a Top 2, we can only assume that it was Nintendo who said to add those in Ultimate.

Considering everything, it was the few times where the fans had their voice heard in a Nintendo project.

>>716528157
I don't care what anyone says, this show is genuinely great. Also every actor was pretty much perfectly cast and genuinely did 10/10 va work. Candy Kong was a cunt though and they shoulda used Dixie more is my only complaints.

>>716528378
I find it ironic DK has a better singing voice in this show than Pauline does in Odyssey and Bananza.

>>716528378
I only remember some flashes from my childhood, but considering how the things are in Bananza, I think his whole personality comes from this cartoon.

>>716528378

The cartoon is fucking weird that the animation is jarring but the acting is phenomenal and put their heart and soul into it. Even the singing was great (with the exception of Diddy of course)

>>716528543
I'm now just imagining a pouty Pauline while DK outsings her.

>>716524814 (OP)
I can’t lie from an outsiders perspective who’s only played 2 of the country games and returns on 3DS years ago it just seems like Nintendo didn’t like the fact a western studio basically revived one of their dying characters and were trying to stay as far away from kremlings as much as possible after rare got bought out.

With rare gone, they didn’t want the series to be seen as something some filthy gaijins helped shaped and transform so they had a hand in both of the revival games development and tried to make TWO new main villains for Tropical Freeze and Returns that of course didn’t have any staying power on top of not being memorable, so they just caved in and bought K Rool back

>>716528671
Oddly whenever General Klump got a focus episode is whenever it got the most emotional, they put their pathos into that southern sounding scaled lunkhead. Also the show is genuinely funny as much as it is unintentionally funny, like everyone fighting over a hidden treasure only for K Rool to find out it's rotten bananas DK burried as a kid...in hindsight he'd of been happy enough with that with what we now know about the crocs eating habits.

>>716528694
It's weird because they technically had no problems still using Rare's characters considering Diddy, Dixie, Cranky, Funky, Rambi and Squawks all show up in Retro's games and we even know Enguarde was seriously considered before being dropped, so it's not like there was a total ban on using Rare's stuff.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/01/enguarde-the-swordfish-almost-returned-in-donkey-kong-country-tropical-freeze

>"“We were thinking that bringing back the familiarity that players experienced in Donkey Kong Country Returns would be a good way for us to further strengthen their love for these characters. We felt this was the right choice over adding different buddies in their stead..."

>"...we would have loved to have introduced some new animal buddies. Like Enguarde, for instance, who did come close to being added.”

>>716524814 (OP)
In retrospect, it was extremely fucking retarded that Nintendo needed to have an online popularity poll to figure out that the main antagonist of one of their most popular franchises was someone people loved and wanted to see again. And even then, it took until there was an entire dev team full of people that loved and played his games to finally get him back in a mainline game. A lot of these shot callers are extremely out of touch.

>>716528694
To give only the slightest leniency to Nintendo, I think it was more so Retro wanting to do their own thing and have some different villains that just didn't have the same raw appeal as the Kremlings even if the Snowmads managed to get close but fell short with their leader being boring and just underwhelming...that one anon was on point with saying I'd be was an Orca lt'd been cooler.

>>716524814 (OP)
>Plan? Use it to make a wish that wipes out every Kong in existence
Wrong, he wanted to turn the entire world into expired banana product so he could CONSOOM everything there is because he's a fucking sicko. DK was a complete non-factor in this plan, hell fucking Void didn't even know K. Rool was there and thought his fat ass was the Banang Root, everybody involved in the game's main plot just happened to converge towards the same macguffin. If the Root didn't hit K. Rool with a three-day ban he'd have actually succeeded.

>>716529034
Didn't Retro ask multiple times to use the Krocs but were stonewalled the whole way? Did Nintendo think they were working with the only people who remembered them or what?

>>716526048
>Bowser and K Rook canonically met before
>they're around the same height and can increase their size to that of a giant
Can't wait for Nintendo to make a mainline Mario and Donkey Kong game that merges their stories together so we have a villain team up.

>Sakurai saves you
Why are Smashfags so retarded and obnoxious?

>>716530036
Is he the same size as he was in the first boss fight here or smaller?

>>716526048
If next level games doesn't count bamco sure as hell doesn't count

>>716524814 (OP)
I don't like him because he looks like a bara fetish character.
I also don't like Nu DK because they made him also look like a bara fetish character.
Frankly i think all you baraniggers need to fucking die so the twunk master race can rule the gay world.

>>716530456
I don't think a game from 17 years ago counts either.

>>716530634
mentally touched

BRING HIM BACK

>>716527346
sex?

>>716524814 (OP)
>Out of nowhere, Sakurai saves you
No, Iwata and the actual K. Rool fans saved him. Sakurai simply complied to our demands.

>>716531094
Instead of K.Stompenklomper, they could have Klump act as a Grumpy Kong equivalent, then have Krusha later down the core act as a Poppy Kong clone. Finally maybe have Kutlass act as a void kong clone before the final boss against K.Rool.

I don't think Sakurai would have even thought about K. Rool without that poll.

What did you guys think of Void Kong? Couldn't care less about this other two but I thought this guy was great.

>>716531838
race traitors

>>716530309
His bananza forms make him bigger, this is his regular size
Also did you notice they rolled up his cape when he's wearing the propeller pack?

>>716531838
He’s like DK Wario

>>716531838
Great design, great voice acting and personality I genuinely think he's the best non-K Rool villain in Donkey Kong so wouldn't mind him becoming a recurring rival or villain. I'd love if his next appearance leans into him having hit rock bottom and lost everything financially.

>>716531838
I wonder where the series would be now if Retro's DKC games had a villain like this.

>>716529236
No, Retro specifically didn't want to use the Kremlings and wanted to do their own thing. Their own thing being a floating head with hands.

>>716529236
I still thought the Snowmads were going to be stealth Kremlings. K Rool LARPing as a viking is up his alley. ViKing K Rool.

>>716526048
I was gonna bring this up because super sluggers is was the first time i ever saw him and the kremlins

>>716532617
It makes it look like his cape from the cartoon. Was neat

>>716531838
>>716532634
I'd be in to Void persisting as a permanent nucance to DK's existence but also hang out for sports.

>>716532780
I actually quite liked Fredrick/the Snowmads. I think if the Kremlings future wasn't in so much doubt, people would have been more receptive to them.

Can't defend the drums though, they were boring.

>>716531838
I hope he’s in Mario Kart alongside Rool, Pauline, Diddy, and Cranky.

>>716533514
I mostly like the Snowmads, I think Fredrik is lame and hate the rabbits faces but Skowl, Bushmaster and Pompy are great plus the Tucks are just neat. If they did another new villain faction for DK I think dinosaurs/prehistoric animals might be fun since you could have DK finally fight a T-Rex since ape vs dinosaur is a classic rivalry like dog vs cat or Mongoose vs snake

>>716533701
>Void Kong is in Mario Kart but he's in a poverty look after the events of Bananza

>>716531838
All the Voidco guys are great, but he's not K. Rool and that will always work against him.

>>716532617
I didn't notice this, good find.

>>716527669
Scatman Mario

>>716531838
Krool should make him his tech slave monkey so he can starscream it up in a future game

>>716525330
No we didn't. he was in sluggers just fine and in smash.

I think its safe to say the game is proof that everybody was right that DK's real nemesis should be the kremlings even if im not opposed to the jungle beat apes or void kong being secondary antagonists still.

>>716534648
I don't mind the other villains or DK having other bad guys but yeah Kremlings will always be number one. I actually wouldn't mind if they made new Kremlings as boss characters or used Kalypso and Kludge as bosses in future.

>>716531838
It'd be cool if he returned

>>716531838
I think he's pretty memorable, way better than the tikis and Frederik; the snowmads themselves are cool though. His gremlin voice reminds me of Jason Griffith's Jet the Hawk which sold the character for me.

>>716534790
Kalypso in a mainline DK game would be pretty neat.

>>716534648
>>716534790
The kremling diary in bananza speaking like a pirate makes me wonder if thats how the internal team perceives them officially now.

The pirate theming in DKC2 is the best of the entire series with the best kremling designs so i wouldnt be opposed to more pirate stuff.

>>716535049
Frankly I'd be cool with more Kremling woman in general for the series. Also yeah I could see them leaning into her disco theming in a boss maybe with grooving Kritters jumping in or her using the barrel blast rocket barrels for certain attacks or a phase.

>>716524814 (OP)
>>Seals you and your entire species away for being too rotten to the core
Oy vey!

>>716529236
Other way around, they specifically wanted to avoid the Kremlings because they wanted to make the games their own

>>716535214
I mean you can't really go wrong with pirate theming, it's just naturally fun. I do hope with Kong K Rool back that they bring back his kosplay antics for future appearances.

>Tropical Freeze is a near perfect game but it uses stickerbrush horribly in a tiny segment of a non bramble stage and has a weird flute so you can barely hear it
>Bananza has the most faithful rendition since DKC2 and is used in a proper bramble blast tribute

I hate the remix in brawl by the way sorry

>>716535369
>The Banandium Root was promised to me 26 years ago

>>716535049
>>716535214
How do earrings work for reptiles

I hope the rest of the Kong family doesnt get neglected in favor of DK, though they'd have to come up with different gimmicks for them because Diddy kr Dixie likely wouldn't be able to just mindlessly beat the shit out of everything like DK can

>>716528694
I don't think Nintendo hated Rare, in one interview Miyamoto even referred to them as rivals, which according to my shonen mangas is high praise. But while they respected them on a technical level I don't think they understood the charm Rare added to their characters. But with Bananza I think the younger developers who were fans of these characters have more control and they're going all out with the fanboy stuff.

>>716528694
It is just what everybody is saying where younger devs make these games now who played the games growing up as opposed to being ones who worked on those said games.

Mario Kart World having mario land and warioware anything in it wouldnt have happened 15-20 years ago.

>>716535935
I'm sure we'll get more playable Kongs in the next game, especially if they go the DK64 route. I just hope switching characters is as easy as switching bananzas.

>>716535914
They are probably just put on with lil bits of tape

>>716536103
What are the chances of Wario characters being added as DLC?

>>716536189
Ashley got her own april fools event for badge arcade and is the most popular warioware character so i wouldnt doubt it

>>716535214
The pirate theme just works. Even better since it was alluded to in DKC1.

>>716536189
Never ever
You will get the King (and maybe VoidCo kongs) and you will like it

>>716536446
Badge Arcade shovelware doesn't mean anything, Trashley will NEVER join Mario Kart

>>716534648
I will happily accept the Tikis and the Snowmads if their next appearance is K.Rool getting them to help him FINALLY KILL THESE FILTHY FUCKING MONKEYS

>>716536519
I dunno about the ashleyfag, but I personally want Captain Syrup. Imagine the pirate rivalry between her and K. Rool!

>>716536989
Would be funny if she's Pauline's sister or cousin.

>>716536189
After Sluggers opened the door for more Kongs and Kremlings/Rool, Ware characters should have been in Mario Kart 8 in 2014. Syrup should have been added in every subsequent Mario spin-off to ease the other Wario characters in gradually.

>>716524814 (OP)
Its too bad he has a cartoon voice like Bowser, we could have gotten singing K rool in this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttK_pBRtKes

>>716524891
in his prison wallet

>>716537079
>Yeah, she didn't like that I became mayor, so she just ran away to the sea for some reason...

>>716536989
While she's nowhere near as cringe as Trashley, she's about as unlikely since they don't care about Wario PERIOD, which includes the Wario Land series
Unless we get another game, we'll never get another Wario character in these games

I just realized…
King K. Rool
King Krool
King Cruel
???

>>716531838
I actually like him for being a DK villain that isn't just "Bad guy who is more or less as big and strong as DK" for once. He's more of the physically weak schemer type villain, which the series didn't really have until now.
I also appreciate him for exiting the plot at the perfect time and letting K Rool have his grand return. I think the reception to Void Kong would be a lot more negative if he turned out to be the final boss with K Rool nowhere in sight.

>>716531838
his "Byee" voiceline sold me on him

>>716533961
>DK gets pulled back in time
>prehistoric versions of Kremlings (and also regular crocs for historical accuracy)
>they're led by a massive dinosaur chief
>jk its just K Rool
>also there was no time travel and it was just an elaborate hoax to gaslight Dk

>>716531838
The only ape in that family of hedonistic kidnappers that managed to hold down a career. All of the Void Co. employees being named Kong means they're still related to each other somehow, right?

>>716534648
Are the Neckys and Zingers part of K.Rool's army? It always felt like they were just hazardous fauna that happened to be in the way.

>>716537605
Imagine if King K Rool got devolved into a sarcosuchus as the final boss but also the idea of him elaborately just trying to gaslight DK into thinking he's gone back in time is pretty funny.

>>716535935
You could've had DK swap characters instead of using Bananzas.
>Kong - Chunky
>Zebra - Funky
>Ostrich - Diddy
>Snake - Lanky
>Elephant - Bluster

>>716538061
Not all Kongs are related. Candy is very much not related to DK, and the same goes for Dixie's family (which includes Tiny, Kiddy, and Chunky). Also, I'm pretty sure Lanky is a domesticated Manky Kong.

>The Giraffes and Lions simply "left" their layers
what dark secrets are Big Tone hiding I wonder

>>716538175
Queen Zinger and King Zing are explicitly allied with K. Rool. As is Master Necky and the purple recolor. The Armies are a little questionable, outside of DK64. Things like Slippas are wild merely dangerous wild animals.

>>716536189
There are some small, easily missed references to Wario Land/Ware in the game. If DK is getting a big push, I honest-to-god think that the fat fuck could be next in line.

>>716538352
>fucking Bluster instead of Dixie
Fuck off

>>716538776
This is a Bluster chad board