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Post by TV Eye on Aug 27, 2009 17:35:49 GMT -5
I can, for example, say to Dasher "Wassup, bro?" And that doesn't make him my bro. It would make you about 10 years out of date though  Aw, tits. You sizzaying I'm not hip, brah? |
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Post by kirbychu on Aug 27, 2009 17:59:52 GMT -5
The family thing is not to be taken totally seriously unless Diddy and Dixie are promoting incest. Wrinkly calls Dixie her granddaughter so it's like some sort of common last name and the whole group of Kongs are soul relatives, not related by blood beyond several exceptions. I didn't mean that every Kong is directly related. But every Kong is blood-related to at least one other Kong. Unless you remove the connection between DK and Diddy. Then Diddy becomes the only one not related in any way to any of the others. Which makes him feel completely out of place in the series to me. |
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Post by Manspeed on Aug 27, 2009 19:44:17 GMT -5
You have a weird way of thinking about things , Kirb. And last I checked Candy, Funky and Swanky aren't blood-related to any other Kong either, so Diddy's about as "out of place" as a fly on a turd.  |
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Post by kirbychu on Aug 28, 2009 4:28:49 GMT -5
I thought Funky and Swanky were DK's cousins? They're peripheral Kongs, anyway. And have you looked at Candy? She's a furry human supermodel with a monkey mask on. She's already completely out of place. |
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Post by Manspeed on Aug 28, 2009 11:19:25 GMT -5
It's never been stated anywhere that Funky and Swanky were related to any of the other Kongs. Show's how much you been payin' attention, boah. |
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Post by Shrikeswind on Aug 28, 2009 12:10:20 GMT -5
Maybe using the name "Family" was used to imply that they're a clan without actually using the word clan (since the series is so "K" oriented, that would be a dangerous move on Rare's part.)
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Post by TV Eye on Aug 28, 2009 12:37:18 GMT -5
Why are you guys thinking too much? Look at King Kong. Kong wasn't his name (besides in the original movie), it was what the natives called monkeys. King Kong was the King of the monkeys.
Donkey Kong - stubborn monkey
Diddy Kong - tiny monkey
Funky Kong - funky monkey
Think about this, then come back to me.
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Post by kirbychu on Aug 28, 2009 12:40:46 GMT -5
Show's how much you been payin' attention, boah. Touché. Bottom line is, both Rare and Nintendo spent long enough calling him his nephew that I don't see any reason that shouldn't be the case. Unless Nintendo come out and say they changed their mind. Which I don't see happening. |
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Post by Shrikeswind on Aug 28, 2009 14:06:06 GMT -5
Why are you guys thinking too much? That's always been a stance I take. The more you think about the details, the bigger the problem gets. There are many acceptable ways to treat the Kongs as a family By what fashion is unknown but it could be through adoption into the blood family, actual blood relation, or simple treatment of all primates as family, this last one being my thought due to the generally hippie attitude the Kongs adopt. |
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Post by Manspeed on Aug 28, 2009 19:44:44 GMT -5
I thought it was made pretty evident that they're a clan when they said Manky Kong was pissed about not being accepted.
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Post by kirbychu on Aug 29, 2009 4:21:02 GMT -5
It didn't say Manky wasn't accepted into the family, it said he was rejected from it. Which suggests that he is part of it, but isn't recognised as such by the others.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Aug 29, 2009 19:46:37 GMT -5
Err... aren't accepted and rejected antonyms? If you're not accepted then you're rejected and if you're accepted then you're not rejected. It merely suggests that the others didn't let him join their "clan", and now he's grumpy and throws barrels. BTW. Just to show how different resources cause different problems, I have stumbled across a number of Japanese sites debating whether Manky Kong is one character or an entire sub-species of Kong. I don't even know where to start with that one... BTBTW. I side with the opinion that the Kongs are not a family in the genetic bloodline sense, as there would be too much assumed interbreeding as well as bestiality (if it's another species, it's bestiality, even if it's a gorilla doing a chimp). Also, Cranky is DK's grandfather as he has been in every game except DK64. |
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Post by kirbychu on Aug 30, 2009 3:58:33 GMT -5
There's interspecies weirdness going on anyway. Dixie and Diddy are clearly not the same species... and Candy doesn't have any gorilla-like features. I can only assume she's the result of a chimp/human coupling.
I'm going to repeat myself now. I didn't mean that every Kong is blood-related to every other Kong. But every major Kong so far was given a blood-relation to another major Kong. Diddy as DK's nephew, Kiddy as Dixie's cousin, Tiny as Dixie's sister, Chunky as Kiddy's brother, Lanky as a distant cousin... it's a running theme of the series, and removing it from Diddy breaks that.
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on Aug 30, 2009 8:14:38 GMT -5
Not wanting to weigh in on a debate about fucking video game monkeys, but... Diddy and Dixie are cousins? Since when?
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Post by kirbychu on Aug 30, 2009 9:20:41 GMT -5
...who said anything about Diddy and Dixie being cousins?
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