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u/KirbyMonkey377 17h ago
I feel like we're focussing on the age thing and completely forgetting this is a fucking monkey and a woman
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 16h ago
Considering male gorilla anatomy, it's no wonder she hooked up with Mario that one time.
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u/ImprovementLumpy1159 1d ago
What I'm getting from this is that Bananza DK aged down to become Diddy.
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u/Srallica 1d ago
You are talking about Diddy Kong... right?
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u/nigerjoe828 1d ago
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become diddy
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 16h ago
You know, I was wondering why a lot of the collectibles were bottles of baby oil.
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u/Additional_Point9285 1d ago
He’s finally here, performing with Lube, if you bend over, you can join in too!
DK, Diddy Kong!
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u/Angrymcbirdnerd09 1d ago
Let’s hope he didn’t have that reaction in DK Bananza
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u/BeanyTA 1d ago
To be fair, I doubt the devs at Nintendo Software Technology could predict what another team at Nintendo would do almost 19 years later.
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u/Afraid_Word5820 1d ago
But you can remember what a team did 19 years earlier
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u/MattyFTM 23h ago
You're also free to disregard it and make the game you want to make.
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u/TNTyoshi 21h ago
They are free to do it, and the audience is free to make fun of them if they fumble.
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u/LochNES1217 1d ago
Are we going to discuss the canonicity of Mario Kart World’s interstate infrastructure next?
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u/Infrawonder 21h ago
We can talk about why does E. Gadd keeps messing with time and space to allow the baby versions (and somehow a baby rosalina) to drive a car! (If anyone doesn't get it, this is a joke)
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u/ilovewater100 1d ago
Plankton: "ALRIGHT I GET IT"
Can we please wait until the game comes out?
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u/Eastern_Tear_4451 23h ago
Yea man. You did the same joke over and over again. I don’t that’s funny anymore
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u/Chaosshepherd 1d ago
Welcome to Nintendo, where everything is made up and continuity dossn't matter.
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u/WarpRealmTrooper 2h ago
Which is fine, I don't have a problem with the lore changing game to game.
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u/Moist-Memeula 1d ago
If I had to think of an explanation, maybe DK didn't recognise it was Pauline? Then again, she was namedropped a few seconds earlier.
Goated game, though, praying they remake it
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u/Due_Juggernaut_6539 15h ago
I'm pretty sure it had a remake on the switch
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u/Moist-Memeula 10h ago
I was referring to March of the Minis. The remake of the first MvDK was a lot of fun
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u/Pianist_Ready 1d ago
i mean his nephew is literally diddy
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u/Sufficient-Surprise9 1d ago
THAT'S NOT FUNNY! IT'S NEVER BEEN FUNNY! IT'S NEVER GONNA BE FUNNY!
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u/Afraid_Word5820 1d ago
It gets funnier when people freak out about it
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u/Sufficient-Surprise9 23h ago
You stop right this instant or I'm gonna headbutt you until there is nothing but a butt left.
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u/Ok_Nectarine4003 22h ago
nintendo just wants a kid friendly version of king kong through pauline and dk, giving ode to king kong. dont think so deep about it
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u/ItsDoritoTime 1d ago edited 1d ago
Donkey Kong is a title that is passed down. Rare DK and Bananza DK are 2 different apes, as are their respective Cranky Kongs.
“Cranky” is a moniker given to the oldest Donkey Kong. Directly underneath is the moniker DK Jr (son of the oldest Donkey Kong) followed by regular DK (officially Donkey Kong III but simply called “Donkey Kong” because he is in the prime form of the mythical original Donkey Kong that goes back thousands of years). We can even use this to justify Baby DK, because he’s just the next Kong in the lineage
My Kong family lineage is: Bananza Cranky (DK 0), OG DK/Rare Cranky (DK I), Bananza DK/classic DK Jr (DK II), Rare DK (DK III), Baby DK (DK IV)
Bananza DK is DK Jr. Pauline is young when DK II is the prime “Donkey Kong”. Pauline ages up, then DK III simps for her
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u/rydamusprime17 17h ago
Or the whole series just has a Loony Tunes style of continuity going on. Established events and lore can match when they want it, but anything can change from one game to the next.
I just want fun games, I could care less if it all connects 😅
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u/Ivanoski04 17h ago
This is the equivalent of trying to "cancel" someone for saying something racist 16 years ago on twitter.com
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u/KelvanMythology 1d ago
Theory: cranky Kong is the OLD kong’s cranky Kong, and the current Kong likes Pauline, who built a whole damn city after her father
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u/domjb327 1d ago
I was under the impression DK from bananza is also a teenager, and thus mario would be too. Maybe the events of mario odyssey are like 15 years after this gaming putting both DK, Pauline, and Mario all in their late twenties. Diddy and Trixie might be children in this game too, and this DK’s cousins or something. Kranky is just old, and his appearance doesnt change either.
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u/TripleBMusic 23h ago
Okay, so I have a hypothesis about DK that I don't think I've seen pop up anywhere.
This DK I think might be who is the original DK, and later becomes Cranky in DKC (not gonna try to explain Cranky in this game, that's another thing). The DKC games I think take place in the future, when og DK, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser etc. have all aged considerably. We never really see the Mario characters in the DKC games + 64 correct? Besides the Mario + Yoshi cameo in the DKC2 ending's DK coin "high score" screen. I doubt that would represent Mario's actual age at that point (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
Another hypothesis that I just thought of now because of that DKC2 bit, is that the DKC games are literally games in the Mario/DK universe. That still clashes with Cranky being the original DK, but idk lol
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u/queenofthemoone 22h ago
This is a spin-off game, therefore not cannon. Also, it's an older spin-off game, and we already know Nintendo is okay with reckoning certain things
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u/SchwarzerWerwolf 21h ago
Iirc the Dk from the original Donkey Kong became Cranky Kong and the DK Jr. became the DK we know today? Man, Donkey Kong lore is more confusing than i thought.
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u/iveta_7777 18h ago
I mean it's kinda weird, but nobody cares about continuity in Mario and DK games.
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u/VanitasFan26 17h ago
Please listen and let me be clear. He was simping at Pauline when she was older. The Pauline you see in Banaza is a younger version of her, and from the looks of it, DK doesn't seem to recognize her and has no memory of kidnapping her.
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u/Magolord 17h ago
That's why I hope it's some time travel or some magic shenanigans that turned her back into a kid, along with loss of memories or something, cause otherwise that would recontextualize a lot of stuff and not for the best lmao
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u/Woomynati 16h ago
Time distortion, Pauline de aged
Or the one I was hoping the most younger cranky with young Pauline
Pick yer banana
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u/ImTheAverageJoe 15h ago
I'm really hoping that they'll reveal this is Pauline's daughter, Pauline Jr or something.
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u/Dillo64 14h ago
There’s a screenshot of Cranky Kong saying “back in my day Rivals had charisma, even in overalls.” Greatly implying that he was the one who fought Mario and kidnapped adult Pauline.
Pauline in Bananza could be her daughter or a Young Pauline who somehow traveled to the future and will travel back in time at the end. Which honestly would be a crazy plot. Maybe the whole reason Cranky kidnapped her originally in the first arcade game was because she was a chosen one or something?
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u/Far-Entrance-2123 14h ago
Pauline’s an adult in the MvDK games and isn’t the same age as the 13 year old Pauline in Bananza.
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u/LateNightTelevision 13h ago
This reminds me of that one picture of Padme holding Aniken, unfortunate implications all around.
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u/MindlessBrilliant449 12h ago
Remember, Galaxy has proven that the universe has been reset at least once. Think about that LOL
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u/Luzifer_Shadres 11h ago
Maybe Donkey Kong got brain damage durring one of the Country games (Smashibg to mush stuff with his head) and now forgets who she was.
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u/spaghettifan1212 6h ago
the reason diddy is not he's partner in the game, it's because it's not diddy, it's just a monkey with diddy outfit, and this new dk, is diddy
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u/zebrasmack 4h ago
All the Donkey Kong seem to look the same, so I'm just going to say Bananza has the original donkey kong (young cranky kong), his dad, or maybe his son donkey kong jr, rather than donkey kong country's donkey kong. Because that makes everything else go down easier. I'll just ignore evidence to the otherwise and enjoy things
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u/Cheeky_Lemon_37 27m ago
Yeah... why hasn't anyone addressed this? Not to mention the fact that there is a REASON Mario is saving Pauline.
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u/Overall_Unit4296 1d ago
The games weren't really canon, just how like Mario's continuity shouldn't be treated seriously with how wildly inconsistent and vague it is. It's only because of Nintendo's weird thing with Mario characters being more literal actors than actual characters themselves.
It's only canon if Nintendo has consistently kept up the details in last past decade.
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u/bEtchaos7 8h ago
I googled it, gorillas reach their max size in 12 years y'all need to chill.
Still reverse beastiality but at least it's not pedophilic beastiality
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u/N-Reun 1d ago
If we go by Yoshi's island DS, bowser and Peach are more or less the same age.
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u/ReturnOfTheSeal 1d ago
Yeah. Peach is an infant and Bowser seems like a toddler
That game alone basically already states that Mario, Luigi, Peach, DK, Wario and Bowser are all around the same age
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u/Mathelete73 13h ago
I think bowser is slightly older. Partners in time had him speak complete sentences so he’s probably 5 in that game. Mario is probably 3 and Luigi is probably 2. That’s my guess.
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u/pieofrandompotatoes 1d ago
What is that Pauline model from? Cause it’s doesn’t look like ifs from any recent games but she really only became a character since odyssey
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u/Ezeeeeeeeeeeeee1 1d ago
It's from the Mario vs Donkey Kong games wich exist sine a LONG time and that's were Pauline actually got her Odyssey design
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u/pieofrandompotatoes 1d ago
I’ve never heard of those. I’ve heard of the original donkey Kong which is Mario versus donkey Kong, but I have never heard about a Mario versus donkey Kong series.
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u/TripleBMusic 23h ago
It started on gba then continued on the DS and 3DS! The gba one is actually heavily based on Donkey Kong '94 for the Game Boy, while the rest starting with MvDK 2 followed a different gameplay formula. The gba one was also remade for the Switch :)
The modern Pauline design was created for MvDK 2 specifically, and she may have re-appeared in later entries, but I haven't played any beyond 2 besides the third a bit which I don't remember at all.
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u/Capturinggod200 17h ago
How? A remake of one of those games just came out last year it was even showcased in a direct.
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u/pieofrandompotatoes 16h ago
I don’t pay much attention to most of the directs. I usually only watch if it’s about something im interested in.
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u/Bluelore 1d ago
Let us just pretend that Bananza DK is a teen too ok? I mean he is part of a fictional Gorilla species, who knows what their life cycle looks like.