Diddy Kong

Diddy Kong is a supporting character in the franchise and the deuteragonist of the series.
He is the fastest and most agile member of the Kong Family. He is Donkey Kong's best friend, nephew, and companion. He and Donkey Kong live in Jungle Japes, and he is introduced in the first game as his main companion when setting out to defeat King K. Rool. Diddy is a creation of the British company, Rare, Ltd.; however, he has a Nintendo logo on his trademarked red hat, probably because Nintendo owned Rare at the time and holds the rights to the Donkey Kong franchise.
He was voiced by Chris Sutherland and currently is voiced by .
==Powers and Abilities==
*Superhuman Speed: Diddy Kong can run and move at extremely fast speed.
*Superhuman Agility: Diddy Kong is extremely agile.
*Superhuman Jump: Diddy Kong can jump to an extremely high or far distance.
*Superhuman Strength: Although he is not as strong as Donkey Kong or King K. Rool, Diddy Kong is extremely strong.
==Physical Appearance==
Diddy Kong shares several traits with his uncle. He has versatile feet, and his face is somehow similar to Donkey Kong; however, Diddy Kong has big eyes and a less frowned space between the eyebrows, covered in fur, as opposed to Donkey Kong's. However, he is quite different than Donkey Kong. He is the only known Kong to possess a prehensile tail. 
Diddy Kong's clothing consists of a red cap showing the logo of Nintendo on its front, and a red tank top, with yellow Stars on it.
==Personality==
Diddy Kong is a young, affable and adventurous monkey, willing to help out his friends during times of need, evidenced by the Donkey Kong Country series. He also matches Donkey Kong in bravery, best exemplified when he goes to Crocodile Isle to rescue his uncle from K. Rool. In contrast of his uncle's aggression, Diddy Kong is somewhat of a peacemaker, as he asks a Kremling to "show himself if he was friendly" in Donkey Kong Country. Diddy Kong's defining personality trait is his boundless energy, to the point of childishness. Diddy Kong always shows excitement in various competitive sports (as shown in the Mario sport-related game series) and kart races, as evidenced by his idle and victory animations, which see him cartwheeling, backflipping, sideflipping, jumping up and down, or clapping his hands while yelling and screeching in happiness and enjoyment. 
==History==
===Donkey Kong Country===
Diddy first appears as Donkey Kong's apprentice guarding the banana hoard. One stormy night, Donkey told Diddy to guard their huge banana hoard until midnight to see if he can be a hero in his own right. Diddy seemed to be doing a good job as the hoard was safe. However, the Kremling Krew attacked. Diddy was able to defeat a handful of Kritters who came after him, but was eventually overpowered by Krusha and beaten. Afterwards, Diddy was sealed in a barrel and the Kremlings took off with the stolen bananas.
The next morning, Donkey awoke and realized that Diddy and the bananas were missing and vowed to make the Kremlings pay. He found and released Diddy and the two set off to reclaim their bananas and drive the Kremlings off of Donkey Kong Island.
===Donkey Kong Land===
Frustrated by the success of DKC, Cranky Kong gave the Banana Hoard back to King K. Rool and challenged Donkey and Diddy to retrieve it again using an 8-bit format, as he believed that no one would buy the video game without the graphics from DKC.
===Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest===
Diddy appears as the main protagonist alongside his girlfriend Dixie Kong. They journey to rescue DK from K. Rool. In the end, they find him and take him down with help from Donkey Kong, who punches him off his ship. The three later watches as Crocodile Isle sinks into the ocean.
===Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble===
The game's plot revolves around Dixie Kong and Kiddy Kong trying to find Donkey and Diddy, who have both mysteriously vanished at the Northern Kremisphere. DK isn't seen until the end of the game when it's revealed that he and Diddy were captured and forced to power the Kremlings' new robotic leader KAOS, which was built by Baron K. Roolstein.
===Diddy Kong Racing===
===Donkey Kong 64===
Diddy Kong starts off the game unavailable due to being kidnapped along with Tiny, Lanky and Chunky Kong by King K. Rool's Kremling Krew on his orders. Along with re-stealing Donkey Kong's Golden Banana hoard, K. Rool did this as a means to distract DK while he had his secret weapon, the Blast-O-Matic, repaired due to it being damaged when his mobile fortress crashed as a result of his minions' incompetence. K. Rool intended to use this weapon to outright destroy Donkey Kong Island to get revenge on the Kongs for his past defeats. Thankfully, he is soon found in Jungle Japes, the first stage of the game, and is freed from imprisonment by Donkey Kong after he blasts three nearby switches with Coconut Shooter he gets from Funky. 
From this point on, Diddy becomes available for the rest of the game, during which he can collect red bananas, red Banana Coins and red Blueprints from the Krushas with red hair, the latter of which are used to buy time at the end of the game to disable the Blast-O-Matic. He also learns the moves Chimpy Charge, Rocketbarrel Boost and Simian Spring from the potions he buys from Cranky, gets the Peanut Popguns from Funky and an electric guitar from Candy when he pays each of them enough Banana Coins. Like the rest of the Kongs, he can collect five Golden Bananas in each of the main levels and around Donkey Kong Island itself. In the Angry Aztec level, Diddy fights the second boss of the game, the Dogadon, and defeats him by avoiding the fireballs he shoots at him and hurling TNT barrels at him when he lands in-between, and like the rest of the Kongs, he is available to use in the fight against King Kut-Out in Creepy Castle. He is also seen in the cutscene that plays when entering Frantic Factory for the first time where King K. Rool checks in on the Kongs' progress, during which he witnesses Diddy easily evading a couple of Kremlings by using his new rocketbarrel pack to spin in circles around him. He then lands in between them and taunts them to try and catch him, only to shoot back into the air when they charge him from both sides, causing them to collide into one another, much to K. Rool's embarassment. 
After the Kongs make it to Hideout Helm, stop the Blast-O-Matic in the time Snide provides them using the Blueprints they collected and confront King K. Rool in his airship, which was grounded by the freed K. Lumsy, they each take turns fighting him in a boxing arena. Diddy fights him second, during which he needs to use his jetpack and the Peanut Popguns in combination to drop the arena spotlights on K. Rool while avoiding his boxing glove, which he throws at him repeatedly like a boomerang. After dropping all the spotlights on him, K. Rool collapses and Diddy wins the round. Eventually, after all the Kongs defeat him, Candy and Funky get rid of him for good by devising a plan where the former distracts him with her looks while Funky uses a bazooka that shoots out a boot that kicks K. Rool out of the airship and off into the distance. In the aftermath, Diddy is seen celebrating with the rest of the Kongs on their island and subsequently riding on top of K. Lumsy with most of them as he floats in the water into the sunset. 
===DK: King Of Swing===
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===DK: Jungle Climber===
The Kong Family are on vacation at Sun Sun Island when a giant banana-shaped spacecraft appears above a nearby mountain. Donkey, Diddy and Cranky Kong go to investigate and discover that an alien named Xananab has been searching for Kremlings who have stolen powerful Crystal Bananas from his home Planet Plantaen. DK and crew decide to help Xananab locate the Crystal Bananas before the Kremlings use their power to conquer the universe. Using special devices, the Kongs are able to travel into different dimensions where DK battles the Kremling’s forces and retrieves the Crystal Bananas before confronting King K. Rool on Planet Plantaen. K. Rool swallows the last Crystal Banana and becomes gigantic with new powerful abilities. However, Donkey Kong still manages to defeat him and is rewarded by the planet's people with countless bananas before returning home.
===Donkey Kong Country Returns===
Diddy returns in this game as one of the main characters. A group of mysterious wooden creatures known as the Tiki Tak Tribe emerge from Donkey Kong Island's volcano and hypnotize the island inhabitants into stealing Donkey Kong's Banana Hoard. Diddy notices this and chases after the Tiki's. He’s captured and sealed into a barrel just like his first adventure but is promptly rescued by Donkey Kong. The two then adventure across the Island to recover their bananas and destroy the Tiki Tak Tribe. In the end, Donkey and Diddy both (or alone) face Tiki Tong, the leader of the Tiki Tak Tribe, and destroy him after a long battle. The explosion blasts the Kongs (or just the one who is there) all the way to the moon. If both Kongs are together, Diddy helps Donkey Kong as he punches the moon out of orbit. If Diddy is alone, he panics and his jetpack malfunctions, and he smashes his head into the moon. Regardless, the moon will fall onto the Tiki Statue’s head and destroy it. The volcano explodes, sending the moon back and rains bananas over the Island ending the Tiki’s control over the animals. Diddy catches Donkey Kong and safely lowers them to the ground. But if Diddy was alone, he falls unconscious from hitting his head and lands in Donkey Kong’s arms. The two Kongs share a hug. They then both celebrate their victory. 
===Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze===
Diddy is first seen celebrating Donkey Kong's birthday along with Dixie and Cranky, which gets interrupted when Donkey Kong Island is taken over by a tribe of snow Vikings known as the Snowmads, whose leader, Lord Fredrik, uses a special horn to summon an ice dragon to freeze the island, as well as fierce frozen winds that blow the Kongs off the island. However, the Kongs travel across five other islands that the Snowmads' forces are on and manage to defeat all of the foot soldiers and bosses that they encounter before they eventually make it back to Donkey Kong Island. Going through the frozen fortress, the Kongs eventually confront the leader of the Snowmads, Lord Fredrik in the depths of the frozen volcano. The Kongs defeat Lord Fredrik in a final battle, and Donkey Kong unleashes a flurry of punches, which sends him flying through the roof of his ship. Exiting the ship, the Kongs watch as Lord Fredrik crashes into the remaining Snowmad ships, destroying them and defeating the entire Snowmad tribe. Donkey Kong then notices that Lord Fredrik dropped his horn during his fall, and catches and blows into it. This creates a trail of flowers that transports the Kongs to the bottom of their island and creates a warm breeze that gets rid of the ice and snow created by the ice dragon, reverting the island to its normal state. The Kongs then celebrate the liberation of their island by jamming out together on their instruments.
Throughout the game, Diddy can be utilized as a partner whenever DK finds a barrel with his initials on it. His main ability is to use his jetpack to help DK hover in the air after jumping to act as a sort of double jump. However, unlike Dixie's ponytail twirl, it only helps cover more horizontal distance and doesn't get him any higher. Additionally, when DK fills up the Kong-POW meter by collecting enough bananas, like Dixie and Cranky, he can perform a special move with him that defeats all the enemies on the screen. When Diddy performs the move with him, all the enemies leave behind Red Balloons, which provide extra lives.
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==Trivia==
*In Super Mario Odyssey, there is a Diddy Kong costume for Mario to wear.
*Diddy Kong first existed as a redesign of Donkey Kong Jr., but Nintendo thought that the character's appearance differed too much from the original. Rare Ltd., developers of the original Donkey Kong Country, were given a choice to revert Junior's design or use it for a new separate character, and the latter option was chosen.
*He has been playable in more Donkey Kong Country games than Donkey Kong himself.
*Diddy Kong is one of the only Kongs that has a monkey tail (another one is Baby Donkey Kong) which he uses for his tail whip attacks and Simian Spring.
*In the mode Subspace Emissary of the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Diddy Kong's team-up with the characters Fox McCloud and Falco Lombardi, both from the Star Fox game series, relates to the Japanese fairy tale of Momotarō Momotarō on Wikipedia. In the tale, the character Momotarō is a boy born from a peach, and later on, he travels to a distant island to defeat a group of oni (ogres and demons). During the travel, Momotarō befriends and forms a group composed by a dog, a monkey and a pheasant. In the Subspace Emissary, Diddy simply reflects with a monkey, while foxes and dogs belong to the Canidae familyCanidae on Wikipedia, whereas Falco is also a bird, like the pheasant.
**It could also be a reference to Rare, who made Diddy, since the studio also made Star Fox Adventure on the GameCube.
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