Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong is the head of the Kong family and the protector of DK Island. Grandson of the original Donkey Kong who terrorized Mario on his first outing, this DK has a more jovial relationship with the plumber. Most times. He’s considered to be one of the strongest forces in the Mario universe, hampered only by his limited intelligence. But whenever someone or something threatens his home and his family, and especially his bananas, Donkey Kong will stop at nothing to put a stop to it.

Striking Strength - Punches

  • Beats up a Tiki hard enough to shake his house, then knocks it and his door into the jungle. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Hits a homerun by punching the baseball. (source) (Mario Superstar Baseball)
  • Punches an egg hard enough to stun the roc holding it. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Punches a large coconut hard enough to demolish the tree it came from. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Sends the Cactus King, who’s over 4 times his size, flying back with a kick. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Punches K. Rool through the roof of his own airship and clears his tower. (source) (Donkey Kong Country 2)
  • Punches a mole larger than himself hard enough to heavily damage a mining car. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Beats the inside of an old airplane hard enough to heavily dent the metal and split the whole plane in half. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Hits Lord Frederik hard enough to crack his mountain-sized ship in half on impact, and cause a building-sized splash upon landing in the ocean. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Punches the moon out of orbit to crush Tiki Tong. Notably, this did hurt his hand to do. While the moon is clearly not the size of the real life moon, it is larger than Donkey Kong Island which takes hours to traverse, even accounting for blast barrels. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)

Striking Strength - Ground Slams

  • Buries Wario with a lazy double-handed swing. (source) (Mario Superstar Baseball)
  • Batters around a large mech by slapping it with one hand, hard enough to shake around the chicken in the cockpit. After a few hits like this, the mech breaks in half. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Shatters large blocks of ice. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Hits the ground hard enough to heavily crack it and send nearby players flying away. (source) (Super Mario Strikers)
  • Demolishes stone blocks by beating down on them. Demolishes toppled stone towers. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Knocks over a large stone fixture and causes it to shatter by hitting the ground next to it. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Drives a metal cage down into a stone floor. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Drives a massive spike into the ground, splitting the torn up ground around it and knocking it aside. (source) (DonkeyKong Country Returns)

Striking Strength - Rolls and Full-Body Charges

  • Sends Luigi flying with a shoulder check. (source) (Super Mario Sluggers)
  • Slams the ground from a height hard enough to demolish stone. Does the same to steel hatches. (source) (Donkey Kong Country)
  • Counters and wins out against a charging water buffalo. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Smashes a giant watermelon. (source) (DK: Jungle Climber)
  • Busts open iron grates. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Shatters a two-story pillar of cracked ice. Shatters the ice around and then topples a two-story stone pillar. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Demolishes a large statue/mech by repeatedly hurling himself into it. (source) (DK: King of Swing)
  • Destroys Xananab’s interplanetary spaceship. (source) (DK: Jungle Climber)

Striking Strength - Thunderclaps

  • Claps in the water hard enough that enemies can feel it, in a different body of water. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Blows back large streams of fire. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Sends several metal soccer balls flying. (source) (Mario Strikers Charged)
  • Knocks a large coconut into the air. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Destroys a wooden bridge to splinters. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Destroys small meteors. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Blows back the darkness. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)

Non-Striking Strength - Lifting

  • Carries a barrel overhead while it holds hundreds of bananas. (source) (DK: Jungle Climber)
  • Pulls a large tree stump out of the sand, displacing its massively overgrown roots. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Lifts a large stone platform out of the ground, while standing on it. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Briefly lifts a building-sized metal structure, while standing on it. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Pulls a ship up and out of the water, while standing on it. Pulls half a ship with a large ice shelf on top of it out of the water, while standing on it. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Lifts a towering wooden pole, while standing on it, which is heavy enough that when it drops it shakes the surrounding trees. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)

Non-Striking Strength - Throwing

  • Throws a wooden barrel hard enough to smash a wooden and metal barricade. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Can throw wooden barrels hard enough to smash holes in rock walls. Does the same to a metal wall. (source) (Donkey Kong Country)
  • Throws a wooden barrel hard enough to demolish a large section of brick wall. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Throws large rocks at stone blocks hard enough to destroy both. (source) (DK: King of Swing)
  • Chucks a large bomb across the battlefield. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)

Non-Striking Strength - Pushing/Pulling

  • Spins around a ferris wheel by pulling while hanging from it. (source) (Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem)
  • Swims hard enough to bust through wooden barricades and crates. Swims hard enough to bust through damaged stone blocks. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Able to ‘jump’ inside a minecart by pulling up on it. (source) (Donkey Kong Country)
  • Directs an in-flight rocket barrel by pulling on it. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Able to ‘jump’ inside a massive snowball, heavy enough to topple castle walls. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Swings around a giant eel skeleton. (source) (DK: King of Swing)
  • Steers the body of a giant fish monster after knocking it out. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)

Agility

  • Can scale sheer surfaces by jumping from wall to wall. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Scales up a stone tower. (source) (Mario Superstar Baseball)
  • Can quickly scale up and down ropes and vines. (source) (Donkey Kong Country)
  • Can move along the ceiling going hand-over-hand as fast as he can walk. (source) (Donkey Kong Country)
  • Can get the same height pulling himself up with his hands as he can from jumping with his feet. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Can run on top of a rolling barrel. (source) (Donkey Kong Country)
  • Slips around a target while in mid-air. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Dodges an attack while mid-air. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)

Speed

  • Rolls fast enough to skip across the surface of the water (though requires help to maintain these speeds). (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Punches a creature a dozen times in a single second. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Kicks a creature a dozen times in a single second. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Headbutts a roc’s egg a dozen times in a single second. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Eats piles of bananas in the span of seconds. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Outswims sea turtles. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Can react to and maneuver around fish fired from a bow. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Dodges cannonballs fired from long range. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Dodges shockwaves/quakes running through the ground and cannon shots launched from a rocket. (source) (Donkey Kong 64)
  • Outruns/outmaneuvers a missile. (source) (Donkey Kong 64)
  • Can react to and maneuver around sound waves. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Squid timing. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)

Durability - Barrel Blasts

  • Gets blasted into a wooden tower hard enough to topple it. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Gets blasted into a large tree hard enough to topple and shatter it. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Gets blasted through a brick wall. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Gets blasted through a thick solid wood pillar. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Gets blasted through several walls of solid ice. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Gets blasted through rock faces. (source) (Donkey Kong Country)
  • Gets blasted through several meters of cracked earth. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Gets blasted through two stone walls hard enough to topple the pillars holding them up. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Gets blasted through rocks strong enough to hold up stone statues, into stone statues hard enough to topple them, and through stone statues. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Gets blasted into a wall made of large stone blocks hard enough to send the blocks flying. Twice. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Gets blasted through a metal catwalk. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns 3DS)
  • Hits the top of a crow’s nest hard enough to crack a pirate ship in half. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Gets blasted through a building-sized stone dome hard enough to shatter it. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Hits a stone floor hard enough to heavily crater it and walks out without issue. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Gets blasted into Krusha K. Rool hard enough to knock him back. Krusha K. Rool is heavy enough to squash a microphone flat and didn’t move from having a large stage light dropped on his head. (source) (Donkey Kong 64)

Durability - Blunt Force

  • Gets hit by a lever hard enough to get sent flying back. (source) (Donkey Kong 64)
  • Has a barrel larger than himself dropped on his head and just seems kinda sad about it. (source) (Mario vs. Donkey 2: March of the Minis)
  • Shrugs off a several hundred foot fall. (source) (Mario Strikers Charged)
  • Tanks several cannonballs from Kaptain K. Rool’s blunderbuss. (source) (Donkey Kong Country 2)
  • Hits an old airplane hard enough to bust straight through the metal and snap off a wing. (source) (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze)
  • Takes a blast from the tip of the volcano to the moon (in all likelihood, not the real world distance, but at least a mile regardless). (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)

Durability - Explosions & Energy

  • Takes the explosion of a barrel of TNT, presumably survives. (source) (Donkey Kong Country)
  • Has several bob-ombs explode against his head, and walks away. (source) (Mario vs. Donkey Kong)
  • Gets launched into the air by the cockpit of his mech exploding and is more frustrated than anything. (source) (Mario vs. Donkey Kong)
  • Shrugs off getting hit by missiles which destroy a metal platform. (source) (Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem)

Durability - Energy & Esoteric

  • Shrugs off getting hit by enough electricity to char, damage, and destroy a metal platform. (source) (Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem)
  • Isn’t bothered standing on a meteor experiencing the friction of atmospheric entry. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Can walk off touching lava. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Quickly breaks out of being frozen solid. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Can swim through freezing cold water without issue (can also hold his breath for a very long time). (source) (Donkey Kong Country)
  • Swims just as easily through a ‘poison pond’ filled with a factory’s chemical runoff. (source) (Donkey Kong Country)

Gear

  • His coconut gun can fire in spurts. If he shoots you, it’s gonna hurt. Later upgraded with homing shots. (source) (Donkey Kong 64)
  • Carries a large stash of oranges, which are explosives. (source) (Donkey Kong 64)
  • A giant banana peel. (source) (Mario Kart: Double Dash)
  • A giant banana, which he can throw like a boomerang. (source) (Mario Power Tennis)
  • A barrel cannon. More barrel cannons. (source) (Mario Power Tennis; Mario Tennis Aces)
  • A rocket-harness that accelerates when DK plays the bongos. (source) (Donkey Kong Barrel Blast)
  • A very large barrel. (source) (Mario Super Sluggers)
  • A burlap sack. (source) (Mario vs. Donkey Kong)

Other

  • Weighs 800 lbs. (source) (Donkey Kong 64)
  • Defeats Ninja Kong, a skilled martial artist, in combat. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Blows hard enough to put out a burning Tiki as large as himself. Blows away clouds of smoke. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Can stretch his arms to quickly reach faraway targets. (source) (Donkey Kong Jungle Beat)
  • Electrocutes a soccer ball when he punches it. (source) (Super Mario Strikers)
  • No sells a hypnotic effect that had hypnotized the other animals on the island. (source) (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
  • Squeezes through the lock on a small door. (source) (Mario vs. Donkey Kong)
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