Nintendo fans believe Mario Kart World has finally cleared up decades-long confusion about the Donkey Kong family tree
And you thought Elden Ring had the deepest lore.

Yesterday's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mario Kart World Direct didn't exactly have any mind-blowing revelations for the upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 game. It did, however, potentially uncover a piece of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Super Mario lore that could answer a decades-long mystery about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Donkey Kong that will have massive i❀mplications for the Mushroom Kingdom.
Okay, so the one fact we do know is that Donkey Kong from the original 1981 arcade game i༺sn't the same Donkey Kong from Donkey Kong Country, and that the original one is now Cranky Kong in the new era. However, over the years there have been conflicting reports on whether the new-ag💃e Kong is Cranky's son (Donkey Kong Jr.) or his grandson (Donkey Kong Jr. Jr.?). While the Donkey Kong Country games and Rare's version of events have always been that Cranky is his grandfather, the Super Mario Bros. Movie has DK calling him 'dad'.
In the new 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Direct, while showing off the online play, there is a shot of the original Super Mario Kart cast on a billboard with their Mario Kart World variants posing in front of it. Except, Donkey Kong is posing in front of the Donkey Kong Jr. sign, which led fan🐻s on Reddit to speculate that this is direct confirmation of the Kong family tree and that the modern DK is, in fact, Donkey Kong Jr.
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Personally I'm still team grandson, but – just like with elements of the wild Zelda timeline – I don't even think Nintendo knows♐ at this point. There are cases like Yoshi's Island DS, which has baby Mario and the baby version of modern DK appearing alongside each other, which would make the plumber way too young to have scrapped with Cranky and Jr. back in the original arcꦜade games. Mario Tennis N64, on the other hand, has a young Donkey Kong Jr. appearing alongside regular modern DK, making him older than his own dad
Of course, , it could simply b𒁏e that Donkey Kong Jr. i🃏sn't in the game and they are using his son as a stand-in. I mean, I'm sure that's probably not the same Koopa Troopa, given the amount Mario has stomped over the years.
Regardless, it's adding more fuel to the fire of one of the most important debates in human history – what exactly is the Kong family tree?
If this isn't a proper confirmation, hopefully we'll find out the answer to this massive mystery in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Donkey Kong Bananza.
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