Klampon

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Klampon
Klampon
Artwork from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
First appearance Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995)
Latest appearance Donkey Konga 2 (cameo) (2004)
Variant of Klaptrap
Comparable

Klampons are enemies introduced in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. These blue-skinned, red-spotted, quadrupedal Kremlings with a big head, large jaws, and bulging eyes. Klampons are described in the game's manual as being the bigger brothers of Klaptraps. Similar enemies named Krimps replace Klampons in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!

History[edit]

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest / Donkey Kong Land 2[edit]

Klampons are enemies in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Land 2, behaving identically in both games. Klampons attack by repeatedly chomping their jaws while moving back and forth. Diddy and Dixie cannot roll into a Klampon from the side because this injures them, but a Klampon can be defeated from a jump attack, having a barrel or crate thrown at it, from an Animal Friend, or from being rolled into from above. Klampons have a functional opposite, Spinies, which are protected from jumping attacks but are vulnerable to frontal attacks, and the enemies are encountered together in Castle Crush. In the cast roll, Klampons are classified as part of the "Kremling Kuthroats" enemy class.

Klampons have the same defeated voice clips as Klomps and several other Kremlings in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest only, but are mute in the game's remake.

Super Mario-kun[edit]

Klampon
Klampon in Super Mario-kun

A Klampon makes a brief cameo in Volume 14 of Super Mario-kun. The last part of the book has a series of comics based on Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, including a 'find the differences' activity between several enemies, including Klampon.

Donkey Konga 2[edit]

Artwork of a Klampon sometimes appears onscreen in "Freestyle Zone" in response to the player hitting the DK Bongos, in Donkey Konga 2.

Profiles[edit]

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest[edit]

Donkey Kong Country 2 (Game Boy Advance) enemy
Klampon
Klampon in Donkey Kong Country 2 for Game Boy Advance.
Worlds Crocodile Cauldron
Krem Quay
Krazy Kremland
Gloomy Gulch
K. Rool's Keep
Lost World
Levels
Scrapbook page 2 Photograph location In Black Ice Battle, near the letter N
  • Instruction booklet description:
    • English:
      He's Klaptrap's bigger brother, and he has a monstrous appetite for monkeys.[1]

Donkey Kong Land 2[edit]

Gallery[edit]

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Klampon.

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese クランポン[?]
Kuranpon
Klampon
Italian Kaiman[?] Caiman, with the "C" replaced with a "K"
Spanish Klampon[?] -

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1995. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 29.