King Zing

Template:Character-infobox King Zing is the boss of Krazy Kremland in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Land 2. He appears in the levels Rambi Rumble and King Zing Sting. When Diddy and Dixie Kong first enter the level, they see a Squawks Barrel that they must jump into to transform into Squawks and fight King Zing, making him first boss in the series to be fought against using an Animal Friend.

Rambi Rumble

King Zing appears near the end of the level. Here, he begins to chase Diddy and Dixie, who have transformed into Rambi, upon reaching his location, and chases him until he reaches the end of the level. In Donkey Kong Land 2, King Zing does not appear on this level.

K1ng Zing Sting

In order for Squawks to score a hit on K1ng Zing, he has to hit K1ng Zing's stinger with his eggs. After an egg hits K1ng Zing, he starts to flash yellow and red before returning to normal, resuming his normal patrol around the level, but going a little faster. If Squawks hits him again, he turns red and starts chasing Squawks while shooting out stingers in all directions three times before returning to his normal state.

After Squawks hits him in the stinger a few more times, he transforms into a normal Zinger, turns red and shields himself with four yellow Zingers that surround him. K1ng Zing then starts to chase Squawks again. Squawks has to defeat all four of the Zingers. Once they are all defeated, K1ng Zing becomes a yellow Zinger and it takes three more hits to finally defeat him. If he isn't quick enough at defeating all of them, the yellow Zingers then regenerate.

In Donkey Kong Land 2, the battle with K1ng Zing is similar, but after being struck, he will not fire stingers, and instead will home in on Squawks while invulnerable, before returning to his normal zig-zag flight pattern. After being struck a few times however, K1ng Zing will begin to spawn normal Zingers. These Zingers will appear behind him as he moves and will remain stationary. They will shortly disappear, and act as obstacles during the battle as K1ng Zing gets faster and faster with each hit, continuously spawning Zingers.

In the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, the K1ng Zing battle is hardly changed. The only differences are that K1ng Zing is slower and his stingers are faster. Also, his stingers in the remake only make one sound per blast, instead of an echoing sound.

Trivia

• Screech's theme song "Bad Bird Rag" plays in the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 2, while King Zing is chasing Rambi through the stage, although the original song is still present in the sound test menu.
• King Zing is the only boss in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, where Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong will not show a shocked expression upon encountering.

See Also

• Queen B., the queen of the Zingers.