“If you’re a Kong, you’re family.” Move over Fast and Furious franchise, Kong is the real family.

FANTASTIC movie, finding out about Uncle Kong changed my life

Tiny Kong aging is a little weird, but it's not THAT weird, considering Cranky became an old man and DK Jr became an adult and had DK, who himself grew up to be an adult, all within the span of probably just a few years. Kongs just mature really quickly. When you play as Tiny in DK64, she's a kid, but in the future games she's an adult. Dixie was always an adult. Tiny Kong just had pretty different genetics compared to Dixie, I guess. Growing up to have a build more like Candy than staying short like her older sister.

"If you are a kong, you are family" love this quote

Fun fact: on the Donkey Kong poster for the Mario movie, you can see Swanky in the background, marking his first appearance since DKC3

I legitimately thought Diddy and Dixie were twins my entire life whole time they've been smashing

34:57 At this exact moment, the mention of this name, I jolted up in my seat and knew my time had come. I was almost certain he wouldn't make it in this video, due to his sheer obscurity, but it's finally time, time for my encyclopedic knowledge of the DKC cartoon to come into play! You see, in the final episode of the cartoon, there is a letter addressed to Donkey Kong, stating that he's been invited to become the head of the Association of Future Rulers. They use this as en excuse to play a clip show of previous episodes, with the context being that DK is going to have to move away, so they're all reminiscing. *However,* at the end of the episode, it's revealed that the letter was misread- It's not addressed to Donkey Kong, it's addressed to *Monkey* Kong. This is, unsurprisingly, the first and only instance of this character ever being referenced whatsoever, and raises a ton of questions. Apparently, there is another Kong out there, who is ALSO a future ruler of... SOMETHING, and only God knows what. Not only is there a second Kong who is designated as a future ruler of some place, a title of VERY great importance- He's also apparently been elected as *the leader of all future rulers, meaning he outranks Donkey Kong.* The implications of this small, seemingly innocuous detail are wide-reaching and largely incomprehensible upon closer inspection. This is the case with many such moments in the show, which is why I consistently find it a joy to overanalyze.

The Kong family structure makes way more sense when you think of them as the Kong Clan. Which indeed means "if you are a Kong, you are family."

Leo Luster never fails to make an entrance.

Tiny Kong: is a small child and literally the second youngest character in the franchise only below Kiddy Kong, who is a baby. Some german Nintendo employee who worked on DK 64's website: Yeah, I'll write that Tiny Kong manages DK Island's finances into the official Donkey Kong lore because why the fuck not?

Monkey Kong is actually mentioned in the DKC cartoon. In the final episode of the series DK reads a letter that he thinks is addressed to him that he’s now the ruler of Kongo Bongo Island but at the end of the episode Cranky realizes DK misread it and it was actually Money Kong Who’s gonna rule Congo Bongo Island instead.

How is seemingly nobody talking about chunky literally being run over by a speed boat at 15:35 💀

Considering Diddy is Donkey Kong's nephew (the games are a bit inconsistent on if Diddy's actually related to DK or just considers himself DK's nephew, tbf), I'll theorize that Uncle Kong is Diddy's father and Donkey Kong's brother. It makes sense, especially since his primary clothes color is red, and he'd be helping out his son by giving tips in the strategy guide!

The commentary on this video gives me old school KZfaq vibes. Great and hysterical. Takes me back, and the video topic helps. 38 mins of pure bliss

My theory for why Chunky Kong also tries to get the player to pick him in the barrel in Donkey Kong N64 is literally "Monkey See, Monkey Do." He sees everyone else doing it and goes along with it, not realizing why. Which is why he gasps and is like "UH-UH. Pick TIny." when he gets put in the spotlight - because that's when he realized what he was doing. Because when you scroll off him, he lets out a sigh of relief and it takes a bit of time for him to start doing it again, unlike the rest of the Kongs.

Dixie and Tiny’s relationship is interesting because despite starting off, well… Tiny, Miyamoto decided to age her up to be the same weight as Banjo during the making of Diddy Kong Racing DS, Dixie replaced Conker as well. You know how Mario is the older brother and Luigi is the younger brother despite their height differences I feel like it’s best to look at Dixie and Tiny the same way, even if we don’t really see them interact or go on adventures together.

Hearing Stickerbrush Symphony while you talk about Cranky beating Diddy with a cane really hit me in the emotions! 😢

Hello, DKC Fanatic here. Really impressed you mentioned so many. even the obscure ones like pinky and uncle. You forgot the following: krosshair - scrapped robot boss from dkc 3 that looks like a kong cyber kong - robot clones of dk from barrel blast. (would understand excluding these two because they are robots) cranky kong's great grandfather - mentioned somewhere in the dkc cartoon show but I forgot the episode. more info on the kong's you didn't know much about: the unnamed black kong was a scrapped character from jungle beat. I think he eventually became dread kong. Monkey kong was mentioned in the final episode of the dkc cartoon. there was a letter that was misaddressed to dk but actually was for monkey kong. Monkey kong is apparently some sort of royalty and invited to a council of future rulers or something.

I think the reason Tiny Kong is taller in later games comes from the fact she can "size-manipulate" herself. In DK64, she can become.... well, "Tiny" by entering a barrel. But what if she could also make herself grow taller to look more like Candy Kong, and found a solution to make it permanent? I think this is the most likely scenario for her differences between older and newer games.

Side note: Ukiki actually first appeared in Yoshi's Island, with a slightly different design that is now currently used as of Super Mario 64 DS. Back then, Ukikis were only known as Grinders, Shortfuses, and Seedy Sallies, depending on what they're doing. In early Yoshi games, Ukikis can be turned into eggs, but in more recent Yoshi games, they can't be swallowed and have to be spat out. Interestingly, Yoshi's Crafted World introduces a rounder, more gorilla-esque Ukiki that comes in two varieties, and are only known by internal data name: there's a pirate variety that wears a bandana, internally named Uckykong, and a white yeti variant internally named Snow Ucky Kong. I presume their names would be better translated as Ukikong or Uki-Kong, and these would obviously be a bridge between the Ukikis and the Kongs There was also a scrapped Ukiki boss for Yoshi's Island that bears more resemblance to Donkey Kong, with a bigger chest and the ability to throw barrels. I believe that there's also data for this boss in Yoshi's Island's prototype version, Super Donkey.

Donkey Kong has such an underrated side cast. Besides Donkey, Diddy, Dixie, Cranky, Funky, and Candy, almost all the Kongs are underutilized. I would love to see the rest of the Kongs return in future games. Also Kiddy is best Kong.

As entertaining as the German localizations can be, I do not know if we can consider them canon since they tend to be so far off from what the rest of the world gets (other examples include Ocarina of Time, Mario Party 5). That being said, Tiny Kong should be in the next game running some sort of financial agency. Better yet, just give us a new DK game!

THANK YOU, I've been waiting for a Kong Kollege graduate to give me insight and knowledge about the deep lore of the Kongs

The thing is, Tiny Kong didn't really age... She just started training with Candy because she wanted to be a model like her and got that appearence, did you think Diddy was the only one with character development?

In a Mario Movie poster for DK, you can see the crowd of Kongs watching the battle between he and Mario. In the crowd you can see Diddy, Dixie, and even Swanky!! So that might bring hope to the cameo appearances of other forgotten Kongs like Chunky & Lanky

A good addition to Donkey Kong December

My absolutely made up headcanon about Tiny's growth spurt is that since she both has some kind of shapshifting powers and she looks up to Candy, she just forced herself to grow to look more like Candy

15:32 Maybe this is why we haven’t seen Chunky for all these years. Bro literally drowned and no one saved him. What a sad fate for a Kong

10/10 I went bananas. Incidentally, DK's white Smash recolor being a reference to Eddie might actually be a thing. The cartoon was stupidly popular in Japan, it had action figures and complete playsets. You could own a playset version of Cranky's god damn cabin from the cartoon! As well as the show itself having a trading card game! If I recall correctly, in the GDS 1999 or E3 1999, I forgot which, they had mascot costumes of the characters while promoting Donkey Kong 64. One of these costumes was the man, the myth, the legend, Bluster.

For a dude with 95subs, this is one of the best video essays I've seen in months. Had me rollin. We got like the exact same kinda humor, dude.

Chunky Kong is actually alive and well!! He was in the Mario movie, in the audience with Diddy and Dixie

An important detail to note about Lanky Kong is that he has a funny face.

I bet that we won't know much about all the Kongs in the Mario movie trailer until DK gets his own movie afterwards.

That opening sequence with Cranky Diddy and DK is gonna be my entire personality for the next 6 months

Coney sent us from stream. Thanks for the banger video

Really enjoyed the video, it's really nice to see a fellow Donkey Kong fan that tried to find out just how many Kongs in total there are! I did notice some Kongs were missing, and a few mistakes too, so here are some corrections: - The "artwork" you've shown to represent the "Kong species" is actually a fan-made modification of an artwork of a Helper Monkey from Jungle Beat. - "Great Aunt Grouchy" was specifically mentionned in the episode "The Curse of Kongo Bongo" from the DKC cartoon. Cranky even calls her in that episode about a curse from that episode, and mentions that he's her favorite nephew. - "Bink" from Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga being a Kong was actually redacted in the Nintendo 3DS remake, where he is instead a regular skeleton crewmate. - Monkey Kong is a Kong that was mentionned once in the final episode of the cartoon, "Message in a Bottle Show", chosen to lead the "Federation of Future Rulers". - Mini Donkey Kong (not to be confused with the Mario VS DK toy) is the alarm clock in the Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong. - The "unnamed Kong with dark fur" is an early version of Dread Kong from Jungle Beat. - The "old Kong that looks important" in the movie is actually Cranky Kong. When the cast was first revealed back in September of 2021, Cranky Kong was said to be voiced by Fred Armisen. So the Donkey Kong that appears in the trailer is actually the modern DK and not Cranky. Oh also fun fact, but Diddy, Dixie & Swanky all appeared on the DK-focused poster for the Mario Movie, and Funky and Kiddy both appeared in the trailer on the Rainbow Road section. - Donkey Kong Jr (II) was created exclusively for Donkey Kong Jr Math, a game for the NES, never appeared outside of that game, and has an actual name in the manual, where they're known specifically as "Junior (II)", and not "Donkey Kong Jr (II)". Just thought that was a funny fun fact. Now as for Kongs you forgot: - The "Chained Kongs" enemies from Super Mario RPG, which look identical in appearance to the Guerillas enemies that you did mention. - Funky Kong's late great uncle Spacey (was mentionned once by Funky Kong in the "Monkey Seer, Monkey Do" episode of the DKC cartoon) - The "Ucky Kong" and "Snow Ucky Kong" species (both only appeared in Yoshi's Crafted World) - Ringo (a cartoonist Kong friend of Donkey Kong who only appeared in the "Donkey Kong Jungle Action Special" magazine) - Donkey Kong Jr's Uncle Julius (appeared in the "Gorilla Ghost" episode of the Saturday Supercade cartoon) - No idea if these would count, but there was also Sonny, Momma, and Poppa (all from the "Hairy Parent" episode of the Saturday Supercade cartoon), and the "Wrestling Gorilla" (from "The Ventriloquist Caper" episode). - The German Club Nintendo comic "Donkey Kong In: Banana Day 24" also includes a Kong news reporter, and I don't know if you'd count these, but also two aliens based on Donkey Kong and Candy Kong. - King Kong himself was also mentionned in the "Legend of the Crystal Coconut" episode of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon, said to be Donkey Kong's idol. - There were also generic-looking Kongs on some Donkey Kong tracks from Mario Kart Arcade GP DX. - If we are to include unused/cut Kongs/Kong lookalikes, then we can include the early designs for the Helper Monkeys from Jungle Beat, and an unused boss enemy from Yoshi's Island (named BOSS SARU in the internal data for the game and in the gigaleak) which looks like a mix of the Ukikis and Donkey Kong. - And if we want to be crazy, we could also include the many robotic Kongs that have existed, like the many Minis from the Mario vs DK games, "Candy Clone" from the DKC cartoon, and the Cyber Kongs from Barrel Blast.

A beautiful video. I really like how the Mario Movie is giving us a lot of unique new Kongs to show them as more of a civilization. But I do hope we see a lot of the actual Kong Family we know in there too. Funky alone would make the movie an 11 outta 10.

Candy Kong is a certified baddie, you have to admit

DK Jr is literally the unloved son. Cranky Kong clearly has a fondness for his grandson. DK Jr was probably disowned or something.

15:21 Apparently Chunky’s back, *IN THE MOVIE BABY* !!!!😁😁😁

Can't wait to see DK Jr 2 in Mario Kart 9 along sides with Metal Mario, Tanooki Mario, Pink Gold Peach, Cat Peach, and Green Bronze Luigi.

You know, if Cranky Kong fought Mario in his prime, get old and become a grandpa without Mario or Pauline aging one bit, I think Tiny having a growth spurt is acceptable. Another sort of theory I have is that perhaps Kongs reach maturity way faster than humans, explaining how DK Jr. was pretty young when he met Mario but now current DK is an adult.

I'm pretty sure (based on their character models) that tiny is built more like candy. Walks on two legs, skinny, she was always going to age differently

Here from Coney’s video posted today; keep up the good work homie!

The fact this video came out 4 days before I went a crazy DK binge is wild

Dude the way this video was narrated and the swearing was AWESOME, love to see more videos like this in the future

Came from CONEY, got a sub. You are amazing!

Came from Coney's video. amazing content

This is awesome. Tiny lore is insane. Also Dixie best Kong.

Thank you all for enjoying the video! I appreciate it a lot, it took a long time to make ❤️ I’m currently working on my next video but finals week is making me really busy, expect it sometime next week regardless. Thank you guys so much

Watched Coney react to this, and bless your delivery. Auto subbed after that vid can’t wait to see what else you make

I know there have been debates over the modern DK's identity, but Leigh Loveday (one of the main writers for Rare and the one who originally came up with the backstory) said that Cranky is the arcade DK and the modern DK is Jr. all grown up. Honestly, I like that explanation the best because it factors in real-life gorilla aging while also fitting into the main Mario timeline (i.e. it explains how Mario is able to still be young while Cranky is old and there's another Donkey Kong). Three generations of DK are at odds with Mario but two generations still fit nicely.

Great Video. When it comes to the movie it was confirmed that Cranky Kong was gonna be in the Mario Movie and his voice actor was announced with the same announcement that announced Donkey Kong and everyone else actors. Because of this I believe that the Kong on the throne is Cranky Kong. What I am wondering is if Mario will already know Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong or if this will be his first time meeting him as this movie will be a origin story with Mario going from what looks to be Brooklyn to the Mushroom Kingdom. They could say that Mario already fought Cranky Kong and won and that is why Mario is fighting Donkey Kong. There was also a poster that was leaked a day before the second trailer that looks to be Mario and Luigi in Brooklyn and in the background there is a woman who looks to be Pauline in her Odyssey suit so the events of Donkey Kong could have happened before the movie but we don’t know yet. One argument I have heard is that this is an origin story and Mario doesn’t look experienced going through the obstacles and facing Bowser at first but you could say that this new adventure in the Mushroom Kingdom is not like anything Mario has ever experienced before. Anyway I would be disappointed if Mario didn’t already know Cranky Kong because of the Brooklyn to Mushroom Kingdom Origin story but I wouldn’t be too upset. Also the poster that was released that features Donkey Kong looks to have Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong in the background. And in the Mario Kart scene people believe that the racer to the right of Mario is Funky Kong. I am interested to learn more about the movie and the Kong’s roll in the story.

This has got to be one of the greatest videos ever

Dk has been one of my favorite Nintendo characters learning about the lore and the family tree had always intrest me great video! I subbed!

*MONKEY KONG* is from the DKC TV Series episode titled "Message in a Bottle Show" Donkey Kong receives a letter to go join some supreme leader council or something and they have a big clipshow party to say goodbye to DK. But then at the end it turns out DK misread the letter, and it was supposed to go to some guy named Monkey Kong.

This wad incredibly helpful, thank you for making this masterpiece

Great Kongtent, Man! Keep It up!

“On March 19, 2018 Chunky Kong was found inside his home” Im actually crying rn.

Came here from coney! I’ll definitely have to check out your other stuff too!

Tiny Kong is such a genius that she somehow mature her body faster than any to mach her mind with her body, literally the perfect kong.

I would love to see more family tree videos like this from you.

Man I can't buy this man's only has 300 subs this video was like peak production I loved it and I'd love to see more content and Donkey Kong stuff keep it up man I love your efforts

With what you said about Chunky's lack of appearances in the DK main games and spinoffs the modern DK rap saying that chunky's dead makes sense.

I think tiny has whatever gene that candy has that makes her have an upright posture rather than the knuckle walking posture that dixie has I’d argue that the apes/monkeys in the Mario universe are at a bit of an evolutionary turning point where there still close enough to genetically that they can still mate with each other and produce healthy offspring but different enough that you can get these huge differences in skeletal construction

Coney gang, anyone?

Guys i have the pleasure to tell you CHUNKY'S NOT DEAD HES IN THE MARIO MOVIE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO in all seriousness though. This is a pretty interesting video. Getting to know all of DK's family members and even some obscurely unknown ones. Nice vid!

A reason that was given as to why tiny looks so different is because "younger siblings tend to physically age faster than their older siblings".

MAINLINE KONGS: 1:19 Donkey Kong (Cranky Kong) 1:19 Donkey Kong Jr. 3:21 Fedora Kong (Scrapped) 4:20 Wrinkly Kong 4:57 Donkey Kong III 6:11 Baby Donkey Kong III 7:31 Diddy Kong 7:57 Uncle Kong 9:11 Candy Kong 9:42 Dixie Kong 10:48 Tiny Kong 12:09 Chunky Kong 14:10 Kiddy Kong 16:06 Lanky Kong 17:26 Funky Kong 19:09 Swanky Kong 21:40 SUBSPECIES OF KONGS 23:57 Manky Kongs Minkey Kongs DKC CARTOON EXCLUSIVE KONGS: 24:33 Baby Kong 25:04 Grouchy Kong 25:41 Bluster Kong (Leo Luster) 25:56 Eddie The Mean Old Yeti (Not really a kong) 27:34 Kong Fu 28:35 MARIO MOVIE KONGS 29:29 New DK Design 29:57 Cranky Kong? 30:18 (The Remaining Kongs were background characters btw) OTHER KONGS: 30:45 Rabbid Kong 30:45 Mega Rabbid Kong 31:10 Rabbid Cranky Kong 31:35 JUNGLE BEAT KONGS: 32:06 Dread Kong Karate Kong Ninja Kong Sumo Kong Ghastly King/Cactus King/Final Kong KINDA KONGS: 33:20 Guerilla Ukiki Bink/Binky Ancient Kongs Cranky Kong's Great Grandfather Ba-Booms the Boisterous Super Kong Super Diddy Mini Donkey Kong Helper Monkeys Redneck/Hillbilly Kong (Scrapped) Monkey Kong Unnamed Kong with Dark Fur (Scrapped) DK Junior (II) TOTAL KONGS: 45

I always get confused on how Mario fought a young Cranky Kong while DK Jr was just a small child, but then was a baby at the same time DK the Third was a baby. So either there's some time travel shit going on or arcade Mario is current Mario's father

Came across your channel recently and just binged your videos. You’re going places, can’t wait to see what you come out with next

Came here from Coney. Impressive video, keep it up!

This video hasn't gone viral yet. But I know that it will. And that scares me

the dk jr 2 thing isnt too absurd when mario lost levels has bowser's brother (literally just blue bowser you fight before the real one)

Carlito: Here's Uncle Kong. Also Carlito: DK Jr 2 makes no sense. Pink is just light red. Uncle Kong is just DK Jr 2, but grown up.

I love this video. I love how you give it details about every Kong. I love that you are awesome.

When it comes to Tiny Kong’s design change one explanation that I thought of when you were discussing Tiny Kong is that Tiny Kong looks that way she does because like you said in your Tiny Kong section, Tiny Kong looks up to Candy Kong as a role model so her new look was an attempt to be more like Candy Kong. Now how Tiny Kong was able to look like that I don’t know but maybe it has something to do with her powers or abilities but who knows.

Kongs I was able to remember and name by hand and mind immediately before this video: 1: Donkey Kong 2: Diddy Kong 3: Dixie Kong 4: Cranky Kong 5: Funky Kong 6: Tiny Kong 7: Lanky Kong 8: Chunky Kong 9: Kiddy Kong 10: Wrinkly Kong 11: Swanky Kong 12: Mankey Kong

I love this guy's energy, thanks for the educational content

So Cool! There’s even more Kong’s than I thought, this is some pure dedication. Major props to the amounts of studying that went towards this video! 😁😁😁

i'd shower this video with coconut cream pies

this feels like 2009 youtube. i love this so much

"You've listened to me talk about fictional monkeys for 30 minutes now" hit me so hard, I got whiplash from the revelation

Make more of these, we love you! You have the most chill, yet aggressive demeanor, and I fucking love it.

See, I think Retro messed up by making Cranky a playable character. What they should have done, is instead of having the Super Kong where it just plays through the whole level for you, it should have been Cranky, with little dialogue boxes that pop up and berate the player for taking the easy way out.

This guy has the best delivery

I was honestly pretty surprised when I saw your amount of subscribers and it was only around 800, this is some high quality stuff and is severely underrated, keep up the good work!

I didn't realize how long I was watching until he told me 💀😭

In the Donkey Kong Jungle Action Special done by Fleetway, there's this character named Ringo that claims to be DK's cartoonist who teaches you how to draw DK. I don't think he's related to the family, though. He's likely just a family friend like Funky.

*IF* the Pink DK junior is jr.'s brother, he could be the father of Diddy Kong.

Ok I watched this cuz I was curious how many I’d recognize but u made this VERY ENTERTAINING! Thank u for that!

Dope video, I love the part about Lanky! Chunky also is my favorite Kong.

I love the way this video is worded. Gives me cybershell vibes. Keep up the great content!

Before i watch this whole video, i'd say i know about 10 Kongs by name. Donkey. Diddy. Dixie. Kiddy/Kiddie? Cranky. Wrinkly. Chunky. Lanky. Funky. Swanky. Donkey Jr.? (does he count?) That's like 10, 11, if Jr. counts.

Dude. Your videos are hilarious. Something about expletive language and classic Nintendo games makes me chuckle.

Donkey Kong and Mario were my first ever gaming experience at about 2/3 yrs old with my dad on the Nintendo 64 I loved those games so much. Such good games for the time. My little boy loves Donkey Kong he calls him “donking tong” cutest thing ever. Will always have a soft spot for these 2 games it’s crazy how they have lasted up until today.

Monkey Kong is just Luffy in Gear 4 Also, Very EduKONGtional

Damn this is funny. I want more!

When you said, "you've listened to me talk about fictional monkeys for 32 minutes now" it really put things into perspective for me about what I was doing on a late Friday night. So I subscribed.

Awesome video man, I really learned a lot about all the Kongs.