Diddy Kong

Diddy Kong, also known as Little Buddy, Little Warrior, Donkey Kong Wannabe, Champion of Chimpanzees, The Fastest Kong of Them All, The Acrobat, Second Banana and Prince of the Jungle, is one of the main characters from the Donkey Kong series.
== Charactah Account ==
Donkey Kong's little buddy, sidekick, and nephew wannabe, Diddy is a teenage monkey in a red baseball cap and tank top. Diddy is more carefree than DK and loves to play rap music and eat peanuts. He spends most of his time hanging out or having adventures with DK or his girlfriend, Dixie Kong.
Diddy Kong is a friendly and adventurous character, willing to help out his friends during times of need and is somewhat of a peace seeker, which is an offset to Donkey Kong's more aggressive behavior against his enemies, since he asks a Kremling to "show himself if he was friendly".
Diddy Kong has been shown to be quick and nimble to offset Donkey Kong's great strength. As a result, Diddy, while more more agile, has more trouble defeating larger enemies.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoon ===
* Donkey Kong Country
=== Comic ===
* Donkey Kong Country
* Donkey Kong in: Banana Day 24
=== Manga ===
* Super Mario-kun
=== Video Games ===
* Diddy Kong Racing
* Diddy Kong Racing DS
* DK: Jungle Climber
* DK: King of Swing
* Donkey Kong 64
* Donkey Kong Barrel Blast
* Donkey Kong Country
* Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
* Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
* Donkey Kong Country Returns
* Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
* Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
* Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong
* Donkey Kong Land III
* Donkey Kong Land
* Donkey Kong Land 2
* Donkey Konga
* Donkey Konga 2
* Donkey Konga 3
* Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
* Mario Golf: World Tour
* Mario Hoops 3-on-3
* Mario Kart Wii
* Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
* Mario Party 9
* Mario Party DS
* Mario Party: Star Rush
* Mario Power Tennis
* Mario Strikers Charged
* Mario Super Sluggers
* Mario Superstar Baseball
* Mario Tennis Aces
* Mario Tennis Open
* Skylanders: SuperChargers
* Super Mario Party
* Super Smash Bros. Brawl
* Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
== Trivia ==
* Diddy Kong was originally a redesigned Donkey Kong Jr. for the game Donkey Kong Country, however since Nintendo was not fond of the redesign by finding it drastically different, they told Rare to either have Junior in his original appearance, or make the redesign its own new character. Rare chose the latter choice and the redesign became Diddy Kong.
** Donkey Kong Jr. in the Saturday Supercade animated series had a personality somewhat like the character Scrappy-Doo from the Scooby-Doo franchise, complete with his catchphrase MONKEY MUSCLE!!. Diddy Kong however in the Donkey Kong game series seems to have fully adopted Jr.'s cartoon counterpart's traits barring the catchphrase while Junior became more of a Mario/Mickey Mouse type character. In Donkey Kong Country Returns, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Diddy strikes up a fighting pose similar to Scrappy during the boss cutscenes. To add, both Diddy and Scrappy are the boisterous machismo nephews of the main characters (Donkey Kong and Scooby-Doo, respectively).
* Diddy Kong's Chimpy Charge move sound effect in the game Donkey Kong 64 is very reminiscent to the running sound effect from the Scooby-Doo franchise.
* In the Donkey Kong 64 Instruction Booklet, Diddy is referred to as DK's "little nephew wannabe".
** Cranky Kong has been mentioned as being related to Diddy in both games Donkey Kong Countryand Donkey Kong Country 2, and Rare's old website, gaming news websites, and the game Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 64 have all called him DK's nephew.
* Some artwork for the games Donkey Kong Country 2, Donkey Kong 64 (and his in-game model), Diddy Kong Racing, and in the sidelines of the two Mario Kart Arcade GP titles depicts Diddy Kong with blue eyes.
** On the other hand, Super Smash Bros. Brawl gives him brown eyes. The color of his eyelids varies depending on his appearances, sometimes they are either brown (like in Donkey Kong 64 and Diddy Kong Racing DS), tan (like in Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2, Super Smash Bros. Brawland Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U), or he may have no eyelids at all, with his irises stylistically blinking instead.
* Cranky Kong, Wrinkly Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Dixie Kong, and Diddy Kong have conjoined eyes whereas modern Donkey Kong does not.
* 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.
* Diddy Kong is generally a very positive, happy/enthusiastic guy with a curious fixation on superheroes and justice, standards of what makes a superhero, and what a superhero is supposed to do, his hat-stomping outbursts normally only arise from his own mistakes, he considers himself an apprentice/sidekick of DK (Diddy looks down on himself), until Donkey Kong Country 2. He is a little sensitive also does not take too kindly to being ignored
* The ages between Dixie and Diddy Kong are left uncertain. Rare mentions that Dixie is a young chimp Kong and Diddy's designer Kevin Bayliss stated that Diddy was made to resemble a spider monkey Kong which aligns with Diddy's long limbs and so he can use his prehensile tail as his main tool to climb and it suits his eager personality.
* 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, from the Star Fox game series, relates to the Japanese fairy tale of Momotarō. 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 family, whereas Falco is also a bird, like the pheasant.
* In the game Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, Diddy Kong's limbs can stretch farther, similar to Lanky Kong in the game Donkey Kong 64.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Diddy Kong at Donkey Kong Wiki
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