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{{ | {{about|a mechanical foe first appearing in ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]''|a human character from ''[[Mario Golf: Advance Tour]]'' also named Buzz|[[Buzz (character)]]}} | ||
{{ | {{Species-infobox | ||
|image=[[File: | |title=Buzz | ||
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]]) | |image=[[File:Buzz2.jpg|200px|]]<br>Artwork of a Buzz from ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'' | ||
|latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country 3 | |first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'' ([[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]]) ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]]) | ||
| | |latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!#Differences in the Game Boy Advance version|Donkey Kong Country 3]]'' ([[Game Boy Advance|GBA]]) ([[List of games by date#2005|2005]]) | ||
|related=[[Zinger]] | |||
}} | }} | ||
{{quote2|Multi-talented flying baddy, whose buzzsaw protects his whole body from attacks.|''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!|Donkey Kong Country 3]]'' manual, page 19}} | |||
'''Buzzes''' are robotic wasps<ref>[[Media:Twitterpost Buzz.jpeg|Twitter confirmation by former Rare employee Mark Stevenson]]</ref> that appear in ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Land III]]''. They have legs made of metal and a buzzsaw in their abdomen, though their bodies and wings appear to be organic. | |||
Buzzes act as the successor to [[Zinger]]s, an organic wasp species from the previous two ''[[Donkey Kong Country (series)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Land (series)|Donkey Kong Land]]'' games. Buzzes are comparable to Zingers in numerous ways, such as being one of the most common enemies in both of their game appearances. Buzzes have the same behavior and attacks as Zingers and are among the harder enemies to defeat. Similar to Zingers, Buzzes have a standard type (which are green rather than yellow) and a less common red variant, which like red Zingers, are almost entirely invulnerable except to certain objects, such as [[TNT Barrel]]s. Purple Buzzes are shown in three artworks relating to ''Donkey Kong Country 3'' despite not appearing in the game itself. | |||
Buzz's name directly references the onomatopoeia "buzz", which both represents the sound made by wasps as they fly and the sound of a buzzsaw. Their name might have been derived from the "buzz" prefix of buzzsaw. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! | ===''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!''=== | ||
In ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'', Buzzes are the most common enemy, usually posing as obstacles. Green Buzzes can be defeated by a thrown [[barrel]] or by a certain [[Animal Friend]], but the tougher red Buzzes can only be defeated by a TNT Barrel, an [[Invincibility Barrel]], with the [[fireball]]s launched by [[Kroc]] in [[Krack Shot Kroc]], or with the flames from the exhaust of a [[Rocket Barrel]] in the SNES version only. | |||
Buzzes are absent in [[Lakeside Limbo]], [[Skidda's Row]], [[Koindozer Klamber]], [[Poisonous Pipeline]], and all underwater levels. | |||
In the final level [[Rocket Rush]], if the Kongs defeat a Buzz by hitting it with rocket exhaust, the Buzz turns black and is defeated. This effect did not return in the Game Boy Advance version. | |||
===''Donkey Kong Land III''=== | |||
In ''[[Donkey Kong Land III]]'', Buzzes behave the same way they did in ''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!'', though only the green type reappears due to the monochromatic screen of the [[Game Boy]]. This means that the game lacks the red variation of the enemy, therefore, every single Buzz can be defeated with regular barrels. In the Japanese Game Boy Color version, every Buzz was recolored to green. | |||
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===''Diddy Kong Pilot'' (2003 version)=== | |||
==='' | Prerelease footage for the [[List of unreleased media|canceled]] 2003 version of ''[[Diddy Kong Pilot (2003)|Diddy Kong Pilot]]'' reveals that pink Buzzes were going to appear in the game as items. When used, Buzz would home in on the nearest pilot and cause them to crash on contact (similar to [[Red Shell]]s in ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]''). The game would have also featured a blue variant, which would home in on the lead driver and attack them (similar to the [[Spiny Shell (blue)|Spiny Shells]] in ''Mario Kart''). | ||
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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
Buzz DKC3 green.png| | Green Buzz.jpg|A green Buzz | ||
Buzz DKC3 red.png| | Buzz DKC3 green.png|Sprite of a green Buzz | ||
Buzz-RocketBarrelDefeat-DKC3.png| | Buzz DKC3 red.png|Sprite of a red Buzz | ||
Buzz DKC3 Photo Album.png| | Buzz-RocketBarrelDefeat-DKC3.png|Sprite of a Buzz who was defeated by the Rocket Barrel's exhaust pipes. | ||
Buzz | Buzz DKC3 Photo Album.png|A Buzz, as seen in [[Dixie Kong's Photo Album]]. | ||
Buzz DKP.png|Sprites of a pink and a blue Buzz as they would have appeared in ''Diddy Kong Pilot''. | |||
Doorstop Dash DKC3 art.jpg|Artwork of Green Buzzes in [[Doorstop Dash]]. | |||
KastleKAOS.jpg|Artwork of two pink Buzzes chasing [[Dixie Kong]] and [[Kiddy Kong]] outside [[Kastle KAOS]]. | |||
Pipeline DKC3 group art.jpg|Artwork of two pink Buzzes and a [[Krimp]] chasing Dixie Kong and Kiddy Kong in [[Demolition Drain-Pipe]]. | |||
Buzz | Buzz DKL3c sprite.png|Sprite in ''Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong'' | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Names in other languages== | == Names in other languages == | ||
{{foreign names | {{foreign names | ||
|Jap=バズ | |Jap=バズ | ||
|JapR=Bazu | |JapR=Bazu | ||
|JapM=Buzz | |JapM=Buzz | ||
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[[Category: | [[Category:Bees and wasps]] | ||
[[Category:Robots]] | [[Category:Robots]] | ||
[[Category:Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! | [[Category:Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Enemies]] | ||
[[Category:Donkey Kong Land III | [[Category:Donkey Kong Land III Enemies]] | ||
[[de:Buzz]] | [[de:Buzz]] |