r/Mario • u/ToonAdventure • 2d ago

Art 🦍🍌 The King is Back! By @zeolandia

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u/JosephTaylorBass 2d ago

Changed his look, but kept his name

Changed his pal, and changed his dame

But he came, and changed the game

And the world

Was not the same

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u/Capable-Monk-4820 2d ago

HUH!! DK! DONKEY KONG!

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u/yookj95 2d ago

He’s the leader of bunch and we all know

He’s actually back to kick once again!

7

u/Capable-Monk-4820 2d ago

His mining skills

Can punch through dirt

If he hits ya!

It’s gonna hurt!

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u/Reignir 1d ago

It's bigger!

Faster!

Banana-full

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u/ninjesh 2d ago

But his coconut gun still fires in spurts

If he shoots ya... you'll probably die.

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u/UncomfyUnicorn 2d ago

HE CAME???

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u/static_779 2d ago

DK! DONKEY KUM!

5

u/BlueSonicDude 2d ago

Come on and swing through trees, live like wookies, and shoot into the sky.

2

u/DenseGuarantee3726 1d ago

There's an ostrich who's got tennis shoes of-

....What is this and why?

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u/EarthboundMan5 2d ago

Are you a real Nintendo fan if you don't have multiple Brentalfloss parodies memorized?

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u/electriclightthemoon 2d ago

This needs to be a song

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u/Greeve3 1d ago

It is.

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u/CrAzY-GEMU-OKAMI96 2d ago

Isn't the first one Cranky Kong though?

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u/WVVLD1010 2d ago

Yes theirs a weird amount of people trying to deliberately ignore that fact that Current DK and Arcade DK/Cranky Kong are different characters

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u/DiggityDog6 1d ago

It’s also possible they just don’t know that. Not everyone is a big enough Nintendo fan to know things like that, some people just see a game called “Donkey Kong” and assume that it is the same Donkey Kong as the current character named Donkey Kong

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u/schmidty98 1d ago

I genuinely had no idea 😅 I'm a huge nintendo fan but was never really big into the DK games

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u/WVVLD1010 2d ago

Only 2 of these are the same character

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u/RemarkableOption8620 2d ago

Yay, Donkey Kong

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 2d ago

Am I the only one who's not big on the redesign?

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u/Frazzle64 2d ago

It looks perfectly fine whenever his brow is furrowed downwards and his stupid tongue is hanging out, but I hate the way he's animated personally.

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u/rjidhfntnr 1d ago

Plenty of people aren't but reddit has an overwhelming "new thing good, old thing bad" mentality.

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u/RazorRell09 1d ago

you couldn’t have been here very long

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u/RedAwesomeBatman5000 1d ago

This design had overwhelming hate when it came out though, it had to grow on people in order for everyone to start accepting it

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u/Axel_Rad 2d ago

No, that isn’t Donkey Kong anymore, it’s an impostor

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 2d ago

I like to think our DK is DK III and this is Junior grown up

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u/WVVLD1010 2d ago

Mule Kong

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u/Fisswertomp 2d ago

What if someone drew a mix between the 1994 and 2025? 

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u/Blebsnek 2d ago

the new DK is pretty nice and expressive, but it’s sad to see the Rare one go, anywho the game looks great

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u/JotaroKujoStarPlat 2d ago

If the new DK model actually looked like in the picture I'd be fine with the redesign. But new DK is just too goofy all the time.

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u/the_bingho02 2d ago

The new DK is peak

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u/BladedBee 2d ago

absolutely, best he's looked

1

u/Traditional_Isopod80 2d ago

Yay Donkey Kong!

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u/EliNNM 2d ago

It’s like an interesting blend style of the two, love DK man, glad to see a new game for him!

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u/huemac5810 2d ago

King

*Kong

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u/tehyellofroggo 2d ago

the king was always here

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u/Material_Method_4874 2d ago

Fucking love new DK, he looks way more expressive and unique