King K. Rool

King K. Rool is the original main antagonist in the Donkey King Country franchise. He is the malevolent leader of a crocodile-like species known as the Kremlings. In his debut appearance, he would have his minions steal the Kongs' entire banana hoard.

Overall

 * 1) He was the original main antagonist in the Donkey Kong Country series before being replaced by Tiki Goons and Arctic Pirates in later installments.
 * 2) His right bloodshot eye really fits with his arrogant, psychotic, and sometimes feral personality.
 * 3) He made his Super Mario debut in Mario Super Sluggers and helps Mario defeat Bowser in the game, which is a first for any villain.
 * 4) After a lost opportunity being a newcomer in past Smash games, he's officially a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
 * 5) His utilized move set in Ultimate is really faithful to his boss battles, for instance, his Neutral B being based on Kaptain K. Rool, his Side B being based on that of Donkey Kong Country, and his up special being based on Baron K. Roolsenstein.
 * 6) Throughout the series, he has countless personalities throughout the franchise that makes him unpredictable and his personality is often interpreted in a different way.
 * 7) * His Kaptain K. Rool persona is just hilarious, counteracting with his more royal attitude. The same with his Baron K. Roolsenstein and King Krusha K. Rool personas.
 * 8) His name is a clever pun on the word "cruel," which kind of describes his actions and his personality.
 * 9) The boss fights against him in the DKC series are fun, most notably his first fight in the original Donkey Kong Country.
 * 10) He used to have no voice lines beforehand, once he was given voices, they were often done amazingly. These include Chris Sutherland and Toshihide Tsuchiya for example, give K. Rool a level of villainous charisma to his voice.

TV Series

 * 1) Just like Dr. Ivo Robotnik from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, his comedically evil incarnation in the Donkey Kong Country TV series made him even more hilarious and entertaining as a persistent but extremely comedic and goofy main antagonist than ever before.
 * 2) Despite having tons of hammy and humorous moments, this characterization gives him plenty of personality compared to the first two games. Where he's depicted as a generally ineffectual and fallible but nevertheless cunning, underhanded, malicious, sarcastic, and tyrannical villain who seeks to have the Crystal Coconut while General Klump and Krusha often screw things up.
 * 3) It's always entertaining and hilarious to see K. Rool lashing his anger onto his reptillian henchmen for being complete idiots who can't do anything right.
 * 4) Benedict Campbell and Len Carlson both did a great job voicing him in this light. Benedict Campbell also did a very nice job at replicating the voicework Len Carlson did that makes K. Rool much the hammiest and most expressive villain in the show.
 * 5) He also provided tons of enjoyable one-liners and dialogue, these include:
 * 6) * “Donkey Kong, Diddy uhm, it was good match, you won and I lost, good sportsmanship and all that (chuckles) I'm just an underprivileged reptile. It's been under my jeans and uh (screams)”
 * 7) * “But what if we cast a spell, a curse”
 * 8) * “That's it! Cut Donkey Kong's hair, before it grows back, and I'll have the coconut!”
 * 9) * “You wouldn't know a good plan if it'd hit you on the head!”
 * 10) * “We bad guys, never get a break.”
 * 11) * “Surrender Cranky! Hand over the coconut you sssspineless ssimian!”
 * 12) * “This is our strategy: We are here, and the Crystal Coconut is there. Here, there, here, there. Get it?”
 * 13) * “A stray? A marauder? A vigliante? Or just a dumb ape”
 * 14) * “At lasst, I'm all-powerful, the supreme leader! The grand poo-baaah, of evil!!”
 * 15) * “Open it at once! Or I'll roast you for lunch!!”
 * 16) * “Donkey Kong (laughs), good match, once again you win, I lose, no harm, no foul, lets call it a day, what do say?”
 * 17) * “Yes! Oh ssplendid, oh the power, you little beauty, you will be all mine!!”
 * 18) * “Because it wouldn't be a surprise you numbssskull!”
 * 19) * “Of course it's bad, WE are bad you lunkhead!”
 * 20) * “You're so right. I don't know what came over me, now get the board smarty-pants!”
 * 21) * “Is this the fiendishly brilliant plan for master strategist? Or is he simply the stupidest ape on two feet?”
 * 22) * “My army, my precious critters... time to slither one root”
 * 23) * “One minute you're up, the next minute you're down.”
 * 24) * “Lunkhead! Ninny! Nute!! You just tossed the coconut!”

Overall

 * 1) In the games he does not speak at times, so he does not have that much of a clear personality compared to his other appearances.
 * 2) His blood-shot right eye, when zoomed in, can come across as disgusting to look at for some people.

TV Series

 * 1) His failures tend to happen due to overthinking or procrastinating.
 * 2) * While some of his schemes can be conventionally underhanded and have the possibility to succeed as of Season 1. In Season 2, however, his schemes have become a lot more harebrained and ridiculous. In the episode "The Big Switch-A-Roo", he thought books had the knowledge that could be transferred into his own brain with a brain-switching machine instead of just simply reading the book, meaning that he thought books had brains.
 * 3) Speaking of Season 2, he has certainly gotten a little dumber in comparison to the first season.
 * 4) His music numbers can be even more awkward than the regular ones, depending on the episode.
 * 5) Just like how every character in the show has hilariously weird and awkward movements, he can either be more or less, laughable.

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Trivia

 * King K. Rool is the first non-Japanese character in Super Smash Bros, as his first appearance in Donkey Kong Country, made and developed by British company Rare.