Editing Donkey Kong Jr.

{{about|the character|other uses of the name|[[Donkey Kong Jr. (disambiguation)]]}}

{{distinguish|Baby DK|Baby Kong}}

{{character infobox

|image=[[File:Donkey Kong Jr MT64 art.png|300px]]<br>Artwork from ''[[Mario Tennis (Nintendo 64)|Mario Tennis]]''

|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'' ([[List of games by date#1982|1982]])

|latest_appearance=''[[WarioWare: Move It!]]'' ([[List of games by date#2023|2023]])

|portrayed_by=[[Frank Welker]] (''[[Saturday Supercade]]'')

While he is occasionally [[Cranky Kong#Identity confusion|identified]] as a younger version of the modern Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. has also referenced to be his father and the son of [[Cranky Kong]].<ref>{{cite|quote=''Super Mario Kart'' is the only ''Mario Kart'' game to feature Donkey Kong Jr. Due to the success of ''Donkey Kong Country'', all future ''Mario Kart'' entries featured Donkey Kong, who is actually Donkey Kong Jr.’s son, with Cranky Kong, aka Donkey Kong Sr., canonically being the character featured in the original ''Donkey Kong'' game. Makes sense, right?|title=''Playing With Super Power: Nintendo Super NES Classics eGuide'', ''Super Mario Kart'' 16 Bits Tab}}</ref>

====''Donkey Kong Jr.''====

[[File:DKJ Donkey Kong Jr Holding Key Artwork.png|thumb|120px|Donkey Kong Jr. holding a key]]

Donkey Kong Jr.'s premier appearance is in the eponymous ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'' He is the star of the game and the only playable character. Following the events of the original ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'', Donkey Kong Jr.'s father, [[Donkey Kong]], has been locked up by [[Mario]]. Donkey Kong Jr. must travel through four stages by climbing up vines and navigating other obstacles, as well as avoiding the enemies Mario sends at him to impede his progress, such as [[Snapjaw]]s and [[Nitpicker]]s. However, if he drops fruit on the enemies, they are defeated. Once Donkey Kong Jr. reaches the top of each stage, he attempts to insert a [[key]] into his father's cage, but appears confused as Mario hauls his father away to the next stage. In the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] version, all characters simply remain idle at the end of each stage before the next one begins.

 

When Donkey Kong Jr. defeats Mario at last by inserting all of the keys into their keyholes in the [[Chain Scene]], Donkey Kong and Mario both fall, but Donkey Kong Jr. catches his father and then walks off-screen with him as Mario chases them. In the NES version, this scene only has Donkey Kong Jr. catch his father, with the rest of the scene being omitted.

In the original arcade game, he also appears during the transition scene between the [[Jump Board Scene]] and [[Mario's Hideout]], where he pursues Mario's chopper by floating with a parasol.

In the [[Game & Watch]] version of ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (Game & Watch)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. appears as the playable character. He must dodge birds and Snapjaws and grab a key swinging from a tree to unlock his father's cage.

In ''[[Donkey Kong II]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. appears in the same capacity as the previous Game & Watch title. In this game, he must dodge Snapjaw, Sparks, and birds and use keys to open the locks on his father's restraints.

 

Donkey Kong Jr. makes another playable appearance in ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. Math]]''. In Calculate A and B, his father stands at the top of the stage, holding a sign with a random number placed on it. Donkey Kong Jr. must climb among multiple vines to gather the correct numbers and mathematical signs to create the number on his father's sign. In +-×÷ Exercise, Donkey Kong Jr. has to solve equations by climbing multiple chains to input the digits of the answer. In the instruction booklet, he is dubbed '''Junior (I)'''.<ref name=FuzzyMath/>

 

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This game also features a pink-colored palette swap of Donkey Kong Jr. named '''Junior (II)''',<ref name=FuzzyMath>{{cite|language=en-us|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=1985|title=''Donkey Kong Jr. Math'' instruction booklet|page=5}}</ref> who is playable in a Calculate A and B. He and Donkey Kong Jr. compete to calculate Donkey Kong's number until one of them does so five times.

[[File:Donkey Kong Jr Gameboy.jpg|thumb|130px|Artwork of Donkey Kong Jr. pushing a switch]]

In ''[[Donkey Kong (Game Boy)|Donkey Kong]]'' on the [[Game Boy]], Donkey Kong Jr. teams up with his father to kidnap [[Pauline]], and Mario must defeat both of them before rescuing her. For most of the game, Donkey Kong Jr. usually stays in areas inaccessible by Mario, activating and deactivating [[switch (Donkey Kong)|switch]]es in ways that can either help or harm Mario. Sometimes, Donkey Kong Jr. appears out in the open and throws [[Poison Mushroom]]s. It is shown in [[Stage 4-11]] and [[Stage 8-9]] that Donkey Kong Jr. can cause Mario to lose a life if Mario touches him. In [[Stage 9-4]], Donkey Kong Jr. gets locked in a cage by Mario in a fashion similar to the Vine Scene of the original ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' In the ending, Donkey Kong Jr. manages to free himself and lays in wait as Pauline gives Mario a [[Super Mushroom]] to catch Donkey Kong, and acts as soon as his father calls for help. In the end, the group take a photo together.

===''Saturday Supercade''===

Donkey Kong Jr., voiced by [[Frank Welker]], is featured as the main protagonist of the cartoon short ''Donkey Kong Junior'' from the animated series ''[[Saturday Supercade]]''. Here, Donkey Kong Jr., after discovering his father is missing from the circus, decides to track him down with the help of a clumsy biker named [[Bones Bailey]].

===''Nintendo Adventure Books''===

Donkey Kong Jr. makes an appearance in the sixth [[Nintendo Adventure Books|Nintendo Adventure Book]], ''[[Doors to Doom]]''; in the book, Mario and [[Luigi]] find themselves in Donkey Kong Jr.'s jungle after entering one of the doorways created by [[Dr. Sporis von Fungenstein]]. Upon seeing Mario and Luigi, Donkey Kong Jr. attacks them, forcing the two to flee. Eventually, after a vine-climbing chase, the Mario Bros. escape Donkey Kong Jr.

====''Super Mario Kart''====

[[File:Donkey Kong JR SMK artwork.jpg|thumb|120px|left||Donkey Kong Jr. in ''Super Mario Kart'']]

Donkey Kong Jr. appears as a playable character in ''[[Super Mario Kart]]''. He is classified as a heavyweight character alongside [[Bowser]]. His preferred item is the [[Banana]], with which he litters the racecourses as a CPU. His kart has maximum top speeds; however, if he drifts away from the main course, its speed decreases greatly.

 

Official artwork of ''Super Mario Kart'' shows a red "J" on Donkey Kong Jr.'s shirt, but his sprite during his victory animation shows a yellow "V" on his shirt instead. This was likely an intentional design choice to make Donkey Kong Jr.'s sprite entirely symmetrical. This means only half of the sprite is required to be stored in the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]'s limited graphics memory as tiles of 8x8 pixels each, with the same tiles being flipped to display the other half of the sprite. During gameplay, the letter on Donkey Kong Jr.'s shirt is obscured by his kart's steering wheel.

 

In the next title of the series, ''[[Mario Kart 64]]'' onward, Donkey Kong Jr. was replaced by the modern Donkey Kong since ''Donkey Kong Country''.

 

Donkey Kong Jr. makes a cameo in the background audience of [[Waluigi Stadium (GCN)|Waluigi Stadium]] in ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]''. Interestingly, as the image for the audience is repeated, multiple, countless versions of him can be seen at one time. In this game, his head is redesigned to be more reminiscent of the modern Donkey Kong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

====''Mario's Tennis''====

In ''[[Mario's Tennis]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. is the largest amongst the playable characters, and this is also the only game where he wears shoes and socks. The game's menu lists him as '''Donkey Jr.''' and the scoreboard lists him as just '''Donkey'''.

[[File: DKJR789.jpg|thumb|Donkey Kong Jr. in ''[[Mario Tennis (Nintendo 64)|Mario Tennis]]'', seen on Donkey Kong's court]]

In the [[Nintendo 64]] version of ''[[Mario Tennis (Nintendo 64)|Mario Tennis]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. (who is referred to as '''DK Jr.''' on the player select screen) is classified as a Power character, who can be unlocked by winning the [[Star Cup]] in Doubles. Unlocking Donkey Kong Jr. makes him Donkey Kong's partner in doubles; otherwise, Yoshi takes his place. In the [[Mario Tennis (Game Boy Color)|Game Boy Color version]], Donkey Kong Jr. cameos as one of the Nintendo 64 status icons.

===''Mario Clash''===

In ''[[Mario Clash]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. appears alongside Donkey Kong, and the two congratulate the player for scoring over 800,000 points.

Donkey Kong Jr. is a recurring character in the ''[[Game & Watch Gallery (series)|Game & Watch Gallery]]'' series, often having to be rescued.

In ''[[Game & Watch Gallery]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. appears in the Modern versions of three games: ''[[Manhole (Game & Watch)|Manhole]]'', ''[[Fire (Game & Watch)|Fire]]'', and ''[[Oil Panic]]''. In ''Manhole'', Donkey Kong Jr. is one of the pedestrians whom [[Yoshi]] must keep from falling into the water. In ''Fire'', Donkey Kong Jr. is one of the characters whom the Mario Bros. must rescue from a fire at [[Peach's Castle|Princess Peach's Castle]]. If the Mario Bros. do not catch Donkey Kong Jr., he runs away with a sore bottom, earning the player a miss. In ''Oil Panic'', Donkey Kong Jr. fiddles with a stick while sitting on the ground on the left side of the [[castle]] from the top of which [[Bowser]] dumps oil. If any oil is spilled on Donkey Kong Jr., he gets mad, earning the player a miss.

 

====''Game & Watch Gallery 2''====

In ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 2]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. is one of the characters that [[Mario]] must catch in ''[[Parachute (Game & Watch)|Parachute]]''. Donkey Kong Jr. opens his parachute at the last minute.

 

In ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 3]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. is the star of his own minigame, which is a small remake of the original ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (Game & Watch)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'' [[Game & Watch]] game. He is also the star of another minigame: ''[[Donkey Kong II]]''.

 

In ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 4]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. reprises his roles in ''Fire'' and ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' He also appears as one of the characters that Mario must protect from Bowser's water balloons in ''[[Rain Shower]]'', hanging from the rope beside the swing on the lower left. If a water balloon hits Donkey Kong Jr., he releases the rope and gets mad, giving Mario a miss.

 

Donkey Kong Jr. also appears in a scene that plays for ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' if the player selects the game yet does not actually start it. Specifically, Donkey Kong Jr. attempts to jump to get a hanging piece of fruit, to no avail. Mario then jumps to grab it himself, knocking Donkey Kong Jr. out of the way in the process. This results in Donkey Kong emerging, with Mario fleeing and crashing into something offscreen, after which Donkey Kong walks towards him and then returns with him trapped in a cage as Donkey Kong Jr. watches.

Donkey Kong Jr. has made a few cameo appearances in the ''[[Super Smash Bros. (series)|Super Smash Bros.]]'' series. In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', there is a [[Trophy (Super Smash Bros. series)|trophy]] of Donkey Kong Jr. In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', there are two {{iw|smashwiki|sticker}}s of Donkey Kong Jr.: one shows him holding a [[key]] over his head, and it raises launch resistance by twenty-one in [[smashwiki:Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary|The Subspace Emissary]], while Donkey Kong Jr.'s other [[sticker (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)|sticker]] shows him holding a tennis racket from ''Mario Tennis''. Additionally, '''DKJR''' is one of the names that appears when the "Random Name" button is pressed during the naming of a custom stage. In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. appears as a [[Spirit (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)|spirit]].

 

Donkey Kong Jr. did not return as a collectible trophy, though [[List of Super Smash Bros. Brawl pre-release and unused content#Models|unused data]] shows that he would have appeared as one.

 

Donkey Kong Jr. appears as the playable character in the [[Donkey Kong Jr. (WarioWare: Twisted!)|Donkey Kong Jr.]] microgame in ''[[WarioWare: Twisted!]]'' and ''[[WarioWare Gold]]'', as well as the ''[[WarioWare: Move It!]]'' [[Donkey Kong Jr. (WarioWare: Move It!)|microgame of the same name]].

 

 

 

 

Donkey Kong Jr. has made some appearances in Kodansha's ''[[Super Mario (Kodansha manga)|Super Mario]]'' manga.

Donkey Kong Jr. was featured in [[List of unreleased media#Fleetway Super Mario comic pitch|Fleetway Publication's pitch for a Nintendo comic]], looking much bigger and monstrous than his usual depictions.

Donkey Kong Jr. appears in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqZgEIELERs an e-Reader commercial], where he is on an assembly line and undergoes a personal hygiene makeover, only to be compressed into an e-Reader card.

In ''[[Tetris DS]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. appears on the title screen. He distracts Mario long enough for him to get hit by a Tetrimino block thrown by Donkey Kong.

In ''[[NES Remix]]'' and ''[[Ultimate NES Remix]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. appears in the stages derived from the ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' game.

===Unused appearances===

 

 

Donkey Kong Jr. is portrayed as the hero of [[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|his own game]] and a villain of Mario in [[Donkey Kong (Game Boy)|''Donkey Kong'' for the Game Boy]]. He always sides with Donkey Kong, and is shown to be athletic and mischievous.

 

==Profiles and statistics==

{{main|List of Donkey Kong Jr. profiles and statistics}}

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''"Ukki. My papa was kidnapped by Mario, the circus master. My poor papa. I'm coming to the rescue. Uhoho."''<br>

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!width=40%|Title

!width=25%|Description

!width=20%|Release Date

!width=20%|System/Format

|Playable character

|Arcade

|Playable character

|''[[Donkey Kong II]]''

|Playable character

|Game & Watch

|''[[Donkey Kong Jr. + Jr. Sansū Lesson]]''

|Playable character

|[[Family Computer]]

|''[[Donkey Kong Jr. Math]]''

|Playable character

|{{wp|Punch-Out!! (arcade game)|''Punch-Out!!''}}

|Cameo as member of crowd

|{{wp|Super Punch-Out!! (arcade game)|''Super Punch-Out!!''}}

|Cameo as member of crowd

|1984

|Playable character in port of ''Donkey Kong Jr.''

|Nintendo Entertainment System

|Playable character

|Cameo as the transformation of the [[Giant Land|World 4]] [[Kings|King]]

|Super Nintendo Entertainment System

|''[[Donkey Kong (Game Boy)|Donkey Kong]]''  

|Enemy in certain stages

|Cameo as a picture hanging in [[Bowser's Museum]]

|Nintendo Entertainment System

|Cameo as the transformation of the [[Giant Land|World 4]] [[Kings|King]]

|Super Nintendo Entertainment System

|Playable character

|NPC in Modern versions of ''[[Manhole (Game & Watch)|Manhole]]'', ''[[Fire (Game & Watch)|Fire]]'', and ''[[Oil Panic]]''

|Game Boy

|NPC in Modern version of ''[[Parachute (Game & Watch)|Parachute]]''

|Game Boy

|Playable character in Modern and Classic versions of ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (Game & Watch)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'' and in a port of ''[[Donkey Kong II]]''

|[[Game Boy Color]]

|Unlockable playable character

|Cameo as N64 Status's Icon (after N64 Link)

|Game Boy Color

|[[Nintendo GameCube]]

|''[[nookipedia:Animal Crossing (GCN)|Animal Crossing]]''

|Playable Character in emulation of ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' and ''Donkey Kong Jr. Math''

|Nintendo GameCube

|''[[Game & Watch Gallery 4]]''

|Playable character in Modern and Classic versions of ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (Game & Watch)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'' and NPC in Modern versions of ''[[Rain Shower]]'' and ''[[Fire (Game & Watch)|Fire]]''. He also appears on the title screen.

|Cameo as the transformation of the [[Giant Land|World 4]] [[Kings|King]]

|Game Boy Advance

|Cameo as similar-looking [[Kong]] audience members in [[GCN Waluigi Stadium|Waluigi Stadium]].

|Nintendo GameCube

|''[[Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr./Mario Bros.]]''

|Cameo in [[Donkey Kong Jr. (WarioWare: Twisted!)|microgame]]

|Game Boy Advance

|[[Nintendo DS]]

|Cameo as [[Sticker (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)|Sticker]]

|''[[Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition]]''

|Cameo as the transformation of the [[Giant Land|World 4]] [[Kings|King]]

|Wii

|''[[NES Remix]]''

|Playable character on the ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'' stages

|2013

|''[[NES Remix Pack]]''

|Playable character on the ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' stages

|2014

|Wii U

|''[[Ultimate NES Remix]]''

|Playable character on the ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' stages

 

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