Editing Colonel Pluck

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:ColonelPluck-DKCR.png|250px]]<br>Colonel Pluck inside the Stompybot 3000
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' ([[List of games by date#2010|2010]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns HD]]'' ([[List of games by date#2025|2025]])
|species=Chicken
}}
'''Colonel Pluck''' is the seventh and penultimate boss of ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and its [[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D|Nintendo 3DS]] and [[Donkey Kong Country Returns HD|Nintendo Switch]] ports. He is a white bespectacled chicken who operates a two-legged mech known as the '''Stompybot 3000'''. While Colonel Pluck is under the control of the [[Tiki Tak Tribe]], specifically being hypnotized by [[Cordian]], he is forced to mass-produce a large quantity of Tikis by using the Stompybot to mash up bananas, which transform empty masks into Tikis upon contact.

He is fought at the end of [[Factory (Donkey Kong Country Returns)|Factory]] in the boss level, [[Feather Fiend]]. In the first phase, Colonel Pluck controls the Stompybot 3000, walking around on the conveyor belt used for Tiki assembly. [[Donkey Kong]] and [[Diddy Kong]] must make their way under the mech. Occasionally, it will run across the screen quickly. Sometimes, Pluck will lift the mech into the air and then pounce on the ground. When green chains appear at some point, he will start lifting the legs into the air and back on the ground, one at a time, but very rarely will Pluck try to trick the duo by just scratching the belt with the mech's feet, which Donkey and Diddy can not go under. If Donkey and Diddy fail to damage Pluck, he will attempt to incinerate the Kongs with a flamethrower built into the mech, but not before lifting one of its legs, giving the Kongs a small chance to escape. During the second phase, Pluck will send in some eggs, where [[BuckBot]]s will hatch out. Donkey Kong must rid of these so he has enough room to avoid Pluck, who will try to use the Stompybot to body-slam him from above, resulting in the Stompybot getting stuck in the ground for a second before freeing itself. After damaging the Stompybot 3000 three times, the robot's outer shell will break off and will resemble a flying vehicle. Pluck, who still is inside the robot, will send in BuckBots at this point. Donkey Kong must dodge his attacks and stomp on Pluck three times. After this, Cordian will emerge, allowing Donkey Kong to send it flying off into the distance.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U''===
{{SSB4 trophy
|name=Colonel Pluck
|image=[[File:ColonelPluckTrophyWiiU.png|100px]]
|category=Series Related
|appears_in='''Wii''' ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'' (11/2010)<br>'''3DS''' ''Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D'' (05/2013)
|trophy_box=19: Donkey Kong Country Returns
|unlock=Purchase at the [[smashwiki:Trophy Shop|Trophy Shop]]
|desc=Stomp all night, stomp all day. Colonel Pluck has been hypnotized by the Tiki Tak Tribe to mash bananas with his Stompybot 3000. Looks like they're creating new tribe members with the resulting juice. Hopefully they're peeling those bananas... Nothing worse than leftover peel in a banana smoothie.
|desc2=He stomps stolen bananas into mush with his giant stomping machine. Why does he do it? Because the Tiki Tak Tribe are controlling him – that's why! They're using the banana mush to create new tribe members. Who knew bananas were so magical?
}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
ColonelPluckBattle1-DKCR.png|Colonel Pluck starting to move around
ColonelPluckBattle2-DKCR.png|The Stompybot 3000 revealing its weak spot
ColonelPluckBattle3-DKCR.png|Donkey Kong attacking the weak spot
ColonelPluckBattle4-DKCR.png|The Stompybot being damaged
ColonelPluckBattle5-DKCR.png|The Stompybot's destruction
ColonelPluckBattle6-DKCR.png|Pluck deploying some BuckBots
ColonelPluckBattle7-DKCR.png|Pluck becoming vulnerable to a jump attack
ColonelPluckBattle8-DKCR.png|Donkey Kong damaging Pluck
ColonelPluckBattle9-DKCR.png|Pluck defeated
DKCR Artwork Stampfobot 0815.png|Concept art of Pluck and the Stompybot
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ドクターチキン
|JpnR={{nw|Dokutā Chikin}}
|JpnM=Dr. Chicken
|Spa=Coronel Plúmez
|SpaM=Colonel + a portmanteau of ''plumas'' ("feathers") and ''-ez'' (a common Spanish surname ending)
|Fre=Colonel Plumy
|FreM=Diminutive of ''plume'' ("feather")
|Ger=Oberst Pluster
|Ita=Colonnello Bargiglio
|ItaM=Colonel Wattle
|Kor=닥터치킨
|KorM=Dr. Chicken
}}

===Stompybot 3000===
{{foreign names
|Ger=Stampfobot 0815
|GerM=Stompybot 0815 (from the German slang expression ''"Nullachtfünfzehn"'' ("Zero eight fifteen"), which is used to describe standard machinery or default utilities)
|Ita=Robopiuma
|ItaM=Robo-feather
}}

==Trivia==
*Colonel Pluck's name and him being a chicken might be based on Harland David Sanders, also known as {{wp|Colonel Sanders}}, the original founder of the {{wp|KFC}} chain of restaurants.
*The first line of Colonel Pluck's trophy description in the American English version of ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'' references the song "{{wp|Shake It Up (The Cars song)|Shake It Up}}" by {{wp|The Cars}}.

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[[Category:Chickens]]
[[Category:Donkey Kong Country Returns bosses]]
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