King K. Rool

King K. Rool, also known as Krusha K. Rool, Krudd, Kommander K. Rool, Kaptain K. Rool, Doctor Baron K. Roolenstein, King Krusha K. Rool, K. Fool and King Scaleface, is the main antagonist from the Donkey Kong series.
== Charactah Account ==
A fat crocodile who acts as Donkey Kong's arch-enemy. Prone to adopting new personas (Kaptain K. Rool, Baron K. Roolenstein, etc.) in different games, complete with new powersets for battle. Whatever he likes to call himself, K. Rool's goals remain the same — to get rid of the Kong clan and take over their island, and if he can't manage that, destroying the island along with every primate on it suits him just fine instead.
K. Rool seems to hate the Kongs, referring to them as "filthy apes" and "monkey brains", though he doesn't treat his own soldiers that much better, whom sometimes appear to be loyal to him regardless. Both Donkey Kong 64 and Super Smash Bros. Melee imply that K. Rool is somewhat insane and demented. The final battle of Donkey Kong 64 also showed him to be somewhat of showboater, constantly showing-off and making taunting gestures.
K. Rool's greatest weakness is his own incompetence. It's very common for him to be defeated simply because he keeps making the same mistake in a fight, such as in Donkey Kong Country when he keeps throwing his crown allowing Donkey and Diddy to jump on his head and Donkey Kong 64 when he kept showing himself off in DK's fight, allowing DK blast him in the face.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Donkey Kong Country
=== Comics ===
* Donkey Kong Country
=== Video Games ===
* 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 Land
* Donkey Kong Land 2
* Donkey Kong Land III
* Donkey Konga
* Mario Super Sluggers
* Super Smash Bros. Brawl
* Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
* Super Smash Bros. Melee
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
== Trivia ==
* The "K" in "K. Rool" does not have any meaning, it was simply added by K. Rool due to his egotistical character.
* K. Rool's name could be a reference to the word "cruel" as well as a corruption of "rule" as he is the ruler of the Kremlings.
* The character's full Japanese name roughly translates to "Kingu Kura-sa Kuruueru", it sounds like "King Crusher Cruel".
* During the early production of the game Donkey Kong Country, when it was originally going to be called Monkey Mayhem, K. Rool was originally going to be named "Krudd" and was going to be more serious and tough-looking than how he actually turned out. He was also almost called Kommander K. Rool before the final name was decided.
** The fake credits cutscene of the original Donkey Kong Country game allude to his second name, listing K. Rool as the "Kommander" of the game.
* In all of King K. Rool's artworks, he has an oversized left eye, but on Baron K. Roolenstein's artwork, his right eye is the one that is oversized.
** King K. Rool also seems to have an eye tic in his left eye. Tics are usually a result of an involuntary motor movement disorder.
* According to Gregg Mayles, designer of the game Donkey Kong Country and the Banjo-Kazooie game series, on Rareware.com's former "scribes" column, K. Rool's motivation for stealing the banana hoard is either that he wants Donkey Kong to starve to death so that he can occupy his treehouse, or suggested that perhaps he likes bananas. The latter explanation is not the case as in the game DK: Jungle Climber, K. Rool states he despises bananas. However, Palutena states in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate that he and the Kremlings do like bananas. It can be speculated that he wants to prevent the scurvy disease.
** The Tiki Tak Tribe had clearer reasons to steal the bananas of the Donkey Kong Island, in the games Donkey Kong Country Returns and Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, where they want them for generate new tikis.
* K. Rool's gold belly is confirmed by Steve Mayles to be armor.
* Apparently, Kaptain K. Rool used to be a student of Wrinkly Kong. During a visit to the Kong Kollege of the game Donkey Kong Country 2, Wrinkly can ask if Diddy and Dixie Kong could ask Kaptain K. Rool if he has done his homework, when they see him.
* Inside several of the sunken ships in the Gloomy Galleon level of the game Donkey Kong 64, portraits of Kaptain K. Rool can be found hanging on the walls.
* In the Bumm-Badabumm Im Urwald comic, K. Rool, despite being dressed as Kaptain K. Rool, is never referred to as such. Instead he is always called King K. Rool.
* It appears that K. Rool was somewhat prepared in switching his "job" between each of the Donkey Kong Country games. In Donkey Kong Country, he is fought on a pirate ship while he is known as "King K. Rool" although it would make more sense for a captain to own a ship. In Donkey Kong Country 2, he is fought inside The Flying Krock, a huge drivable air base, as Kaptain K. Rool although it would make more sense for a more tech savvy person to be using it. Lastly, in Donkey Kong Country 3, he is fought inside a castle as Baron K. Roolenstein although it would make more sense for a king to rule it (though many mad scientists have labs in castles).
** It can be speculated that K. Rool may have multiple personality disorder and that all of his aliases are not literal, and are just roles he likes to role-play as because they make him feel powerful.
* Considering how Diddy and Dixie Kong have sunken the Crocodile Isle twice at the true endings of the games Donkey Kong Country 2 and Donkey Kong Land 2, it is safe to assume that being the reason why K. Rool wanted to destroy the DK Island during the game Donkey Kong 64.
* The flying vehicle King K. Rool uses in the game DK: King of Swing is similar to the Koopa Clown Car, Bowser's iconic flying vehicle from the Super Mario Bros. game series, and the Egg Mobile, Doctor Eggman's iconic flying vehicle from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
* In the game Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, K. Rool's rival is Cranky Kong. This could be a possible nod to both of them having been good friends during the episode "Best of Enemies" from the Donkey Kong Countryanimated series.
* K. Rool did not appear as an antagonist in the games Donkey Kong Country Returns, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. However, there is a rock formation resembling King K. Rool's face, seen in the background of the Bright Savannah level Grassland Groove of the game Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (see Screenshots in the Gallery section above). At the same location, between two shaking platforms and just after the first checkpoint of the level, there is also a big banana bunch, floating over the same plane of the Kongs in the game, positionated in order to resemble King K. Rool's crown.
* In the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl, one of the names that appears when the player picks the option "Random Name" when naming their custom stage is "KROOL", a possible reference to King K. Rool.
** Also, in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, his trophy information says he can be so good at playing dead sometimes the credits roll by as he lies there, a reference to the original Donkey Kong Country game.
* King K. Rool's trophy in the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl erroneously claims that he and Kaptain K. Rool are "brothers". They are actually the same character, but with different roles.
** The real brother of K. Rool is actually his younger sibling K. Lumsy, who is against him and on the Kong's side, during the events of the game Donkey Kong 64.
* In the game Mario Super Sluggers, K. Rool pitches with his left and bats with his right, meaning he is likely ambidextrous.
* K. Rool is really similar to Bowser the main antagonist of the Super Mario Bros. series. They are both bulky and tough reptiles (Bowser a turtle, K. Rool a crocodile), both tyrants which rule with authority and kings of a reptilian race (however Bowser is an actual king descended from royal blood and actually cares for the welfare of his troops whereas K. Rool's title is simply a role that he likes to play and is usually merciless to his underlings). Both of them are main antagonists and always kidnap someone who has a good relationship (love, friendship or relative, etc.) with the protagonist, both defeated in a lot of games but always return alive in following sequels.
** In the game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the redesign of K. Rool also wears two gold armlets on his arms, which is likely also a reference to Bowser, who also wears spiked armlets on both of his arms.
** Unlike Bowser who appears to treat his minions with respect, K. Rool treats his minions though fear and many are afraid of him.
* King K. Rool's laugh in the game Donkey Kong 64 is a pitched-down version of stock sound effect "Evil Laugh" from Cartoon Trax Volume 1 album. This same sound effect is also used for the enemies Kloakand Krosshair in the GBA versions of the games Donkey Kong Country 2 and Donkey Kong Country 3, respectively.
* Cranky Kong mentions in the instruction booklet to the game Donkey Kong 64 that K. Rool had given up his silly disguises. This proved to be true, as he has not gone incognito since Baron K. Roolenstein.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* King K. Rool at Donkey Kong Wiki
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