Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong
Universe	Donkey Kong
Appears in	Super Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. 4 Super Smash Bros. Tourney Super Smash Bros. Tourney 2: The New Challengers
Availability	Starter
Bonus Costume	No Bonus Costume
English voice actor	Takashi Nagasako
Japanese voice actor	Takashi Nagasako
French voice actor	{{{frenchactor}}}
German voice actor	{{{germanactor}}}
Arabic voice actor	{{{arabicactor}}}
Mandarin Chinese voice actor	{{{chineseactor}}}

How Donkey Kong joined the Tourney

A character named Donkey Kong made his first appearance in the arcade game of the same name. Here, he was Mario's first opponent who held his girlfriend, Pauline, captive over a construction building. Mario had to make his way to the top of the tower to rescue Pauline from Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong would later return in Donkey Kong Jr. which saw his young son rescuing him from the now antagonist Mario. He would once again be featured in Donkey Kong 3 which saw him go up against Stanley the Bugman. However, this Donkey Kong is generally thought of as a separate character to the Donkey Kong prominent in future games of his franchise, as well as Super Smash Bros.

Character Select Screen Animation

When highlighted

Eats some bananas.

After the announcer calls his name

DK does a backflip while the camera zooms and holds up his arms while making a gorilla noise.

Special Attacks

Mega Punch (Neutral)

DK winds up a punch which is released once the button is pressed again. Damage increases by 2% for each arm swing he pulls off before punching (with the first having no effect); if he stops charging and his head starts smoking, it'll be fully charged.

Headbutt (Side)

A sideways headbutt that sends the opponent straight down into the ground.

Spinning Kong (Up)

DK spins around with arms extended. Has super armour on the ground and intangibility frames in the air.

Hand Slap (Down)

An earth-shaking attack with okay range, but cannot hit opponents that aren't on the ground.

Giga Punch (Hyper Smash)

Same as Mega Punch, except much stronger.

Bongo Blast (Final Smash)

DK breaks out the bongos and launches waves of sound at opponents. The waves increase in size and power based on music-matching button presses; the exact mechanics of this are unknown.

Victory Animations

1. DK beats his chest. This is similar to his Up taunt.
2. DK holds his hands above his head and shakes them.
3. DK backflips and holds his arms in a strongman pose.

Hidden Victory Pose

DK does his Donkey Kong 64 Golden Banana Obtained pose.

On-Screen Appearance

DK breaks out of a DK Barrel and does a strongman pose with a gorilla sound.

Trivia

• Donkey Kong shares his Japanese voice actor with Cervantes and Greil.
• Donkey Kong's On-Screen Appearance SFX was previously featured in Tekken: Blood Vengeance when a wooden wall broke open and Kazuya appeared afterwards. This makes Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong the only veterans to use the wooden wall break SFX in SSBT and SSBT2.
  • They are also the only two veterans to have a hidden victory pose.
• Donkey Kong, Ness, and Luigi are the only veterans to reuse their select poses from the original Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64, albeit with a zooming camera for the former two.
• In the ending of Gabi, she uses one of Donkey Kong's lines from the Donkey Kong Country cartoon before she falls asleep at the end.
• Jun Kazama is Donkey Kong's Super Smash Bros. Tourney rival.