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| |description=''"Makes your mine cart or rocket barrel temporarily invincible!"'' | | |description=''"Makes your mine cart or rocket barrel temporarily invincible!"'' |
| |first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D]]'' ([[List of games by date#2013|2013]]) | | |first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D]]'' ([[List of games by date#2013|2013]]) |
| |latest_appearance=[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)|''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze'']] ([[Nintendo Switch]] port) ([[List of games by date#2018|2018]]) | | |latest_appearance=[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)|''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze'']] ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2018|2018]]) |
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| {{quote|Crash into too many things, and even this stuff can't save you.|Cranky Kong|Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D}} | | {{quote|Crash into too many things, and even this stuff can't save you.|Cranky Kong|Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D}} |
- “Crash into too many things, and even this stuff can't save you.”
- —Cranky Kong, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
The Crash Guard is an item that appears in the New Mode of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and later reappears in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. In the former game, the Crash Guard is a potion similar to the Banana Juice except that the potion liquid is a light blue color. In the latter game, the Crash Guard was redesigned to a blue shield, lined with silver and with three small, metal circles positioned near the top.
History
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
In Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, the Crash Guard can be purchased from Cranky Kong's Shop for ten Banana Coins. It can only be used in levels that feature either a Minecart or Rocket Barrel section. Before starting one of either stage, the player must equip it in their inventory. When used, the Crash Guard protects Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong from up to two hits if they crash into an enemy or obstacle while they ride in the vehicle. If the player adds a second or third Crash Guard to their inventory before a stage, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong can survive four or six hits respectively.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
In Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, the Crash Guard can be purchased at Funky's Fly 'n' Buy, still retaining its price of ten Banana Coins. Unlike Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, the Crash Guard only protects the Kongs from taking damage once, partly because the Mine Cart and Rocket Barrel can withstand two hits before the Kongs lose a life. The Crash Guard does not respawn if the Kongs lose a life.
In the Nintendo Switch port, the Crash Guard is recolored green, but it still operates the same way as in the original Wii U version.
Gallery
The Crash Guard, in Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D.
The green Crash Guard from the Nintendo Switch version of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
Names in other languages
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Name
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Meaning
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Notes
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Italian
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Antischianto[?]
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Anti-crash
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Spanish
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Parachoques[?]
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Bumper
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Trivia
- When highlighting the Crash Guard in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Funky Kong will say "Vehicle troubles? It's dangerous to go alone--take one of these!", referencing the quote "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this!" from the first The Legend of Zelda game.
Donkey Kong Country Returns / Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D / Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
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Characters
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Protagonists
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Donkey Kong • Diddy Kong • Cranky Kong • Rambi • Squawks • Super Kong • Tutorial Pig • Wigglevine
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Bosses
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Mugly • Scurvy Crew • Stu • Mole Miner Max/Train • Mangoruby • Thugly • Colonel Pluck • Tiki Tong
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Enemies and obstacles
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Tiki Tak Tribe
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Fireball • Flaming Tiki Buzz • Giga Goro Ball • Screaming Pillar • Screaming Pillar (big) • Tiki Boing • Tiki Bomber • Tiki Buzz • Tiki Doom • Tiki Goon • Tiki Pilot • Tiki Pop • Tiki Seeker • Tiki Tank • Tiki Tong Tower • Tiki Torch • Tiki Tork • Tiki Zing • Tiki Zing (big) • Tiki Zing (Foggy Fumes)
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Other
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Ack • AckStack • Ape-Eating Plant • Awk • Big Squeekly • Bonehead Jed • Bopapodamus • Bowling bird • BuckBomb • BuckBot • Buzzbite • Cageberry • Char-Char • Chomp • Chū Komorin • Electrasquid • Electroid • Fireball • Firebite • Frogoon • Giant Chomp • Giga Rangwi • Green Chomp • Hopgoon • Hothead Jed • Humzee • Jellybob • Kowalee • Leaping flame • Mimic • Mole Guard • Mole Miner • Muncher • Pinchly • Rawk • Ready-Bots (Pogobot · Pyrobot) • Rentamaguma • Robobee • Shooting Chomp • Skellirex • Skittler • Skittler Pillar • Skullyrex • Snaggles • Snippys • Squeekly • Squiddicus • Squidly • Stilts • Toothberry • Wiggle • Yellow Snaggles
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Objects
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Items
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Banana • Banana Bunch • Banana Coin • Banana Juice • Crash Guard2 • Green Balloon2 • Hanging vine • Heart • Heart Boost • K-O-N-G Letters • Map Key • Puzzle Piece • Rare Orb • Red Balloon
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Barrels
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Barrel Cannon • Blast Barrel • DK Barrel • Regular Barrel • Slot Machine Barrel
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Miscellaneous
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Bag • Container • Green surface • Rambi Crate • Red and blue blocks • Tire • Train • Trapdoor
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Vehicles
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Mine Cart • Rocket Barrel
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Moves
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Barrel Roll (Cartwheel Attack) • Blow • Cling • Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) • Ranged attack
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Levels
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Jungle
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1-1: Jungle Hijinxs • 1-2: King of Cling • 1-3: Tree Top Bop • 1-4: Sunset Shore • 1-5: Canopy Cannons • 1-6: Crazy Cart • 1-K: Platform Panic • 1-B: Mugly's Mound
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Beach
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2-1: Poppin' Planks • 2-2: Sloppy Sands • 2-3: Peaceful Pier • 2-4: Cannon Cluster • 2-5: Stormy Shore • 2-6: Blowhole Bound • 2-7: Tidal Terror • 2-K: Tumblin' Temple • 2-B: Pinchin' Pirates
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Ruins
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3-1: Wonky Waterway • 3-2: Button Bash • 3-3: Mast Blast • 3-4: Damp Dungeon • 3-5: Itty Bitty Biters • 3-6: Temple Topple • 3-K: Shifty Smashers • 3-B: Ruined Roost
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Cave
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4-1: Rickety Rails • 4-2: Grip 'n' Trip • 4-3: Bombs Away • 4-4: Mole Patrol • 4-5: Crowded Cavern • 4-K: Jagged Jewels • 4-B: The Mole Train
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Forest
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5-1: Vine Valley • 5-2: Clingy Swingy • 5-3: Flutter Flyaway • 5-4: Tippin' Totems • 5-5: Longshot Launch • 5-6: Springy Spores • 5-7: Wigglevine Wonders • 5-8: Muncher Marathon • 5-K: Blast & Bounce • 5-B: Mangoruby Run
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Cliff
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6-1: Sticky Situation • 6-2: Prehistoric Path • 6-3: Weighty Way • 6-4: Boulder Roller • 6-5: Precarious Plateau • 6-6: Crumble Canyon • 6-7: Tippy Shippy • 6-8: Clifftop Climb • 6-K: Perilous Passage • 6-B: Thugly's Highrise
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Factory
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7-1: Foggy Fumes • 7-2: Slammin' Steel • 7-3: Handy Hazards • 7-4: Gear Getaway • 7-5: Cog Jog • 7-6: Switcheroo • 7-7: Music Madness • 7-R: Lift-off Launch • 7-K: Treacherous Track • 7-B: Feather Fiend
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Volcano
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8-1: Furious Fire • 8-2: Hot Rocket • 8-3: Roasting Rails • 8-4: Smokey Peak • 8-5: Bobbing Basalt • 8-6: Moving Melters • 8-7: Red Red Rising • 8-K: Five Monkey Trial • 8-B: Tiki Tong Terror
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Cloud2,3
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9-1: Crushin' Columns2,3 • 9-2: Gushin' Geysers2,3 • 9-3: Spiky Surprise2,3 • 9-4: Mischievous Moles2,3 • 9-5: Topsy Turvy2,3 • 9-6: Tar Ball Fall2,3 • 9-7: Robo Factory2,3 • 9-8: Lavawheel Volcano2,3 • 9-11/9-9 2,3: Golden Temple
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Further info
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Donkey Kong Returns Original Sound Track • Extras (image names in other languages) • Gallery • Mine Menace • Staff (3D2)
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Related Play Nintendo activities: Can’t-miss games • Who are these jerks of the jungle?
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