The Super Mario Bros. movie ends years of debate by solving one of Nintendo’s biggest mysteries: that of the Kong family.
The big week is coming for all nintenderos. Super Mario Bros. The Movie It opens in a matter of days and details about the film keep coming out. We already know the Spanish voice cast and even if there is a post-credits scene, but there is a detail that has powerfully caught the attention of the community, and that is that the super mario bros movie has solved one of Nintendo’s greatest mysteries.
Which? He relationship between Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong and the relationship of both with Donkey Kong Jr. In ResetERA, a user has shared one of the promotional images of the film taken from the official Japanese website, in which you can see a brief description of Donkey Kong. What’s so special? That it indicates that it is “he successor and son of Cranky Kongleader of the Jungle Kingdom and the Kong Army”.
If this is the canonical version of the Super Mario and Donkey Kong universe, the Mario Bros. movie would have put an end to one of Nintendo’s biggest debates and mysteries. And it is that, for years, the company has not made anything clear if Cranky Kong was the grandfather or father of Donkey Kongespecially due to the presence of Jr.
The Riddle of Cranky, Jr and Donkey Kong
The most sustained theory was that Cranky Kong, the protagonist of the very first gorilla games, is the father of Donkey Kong Jr. and this, in turn, the father of the Donkey Kong that we all know today. This is how the country trilogy from Super Nintendo, though Donkey Kong 64 established a father-son bond between Cranky and Donkeyjust like the movie.
Where is the problem? In Smash Bros. both Super Smash Bros. Brawl as Ultimate they affirm that the Current Donkey Kong is the grandson of Cranky Kongwhile the first Smash and Melee They claimed that no both were the same character.
And what about Donkey Kong Jr.? According to the book Playing With Super Power: Nintendo Super NES Classics by Prima Games, he would go another way. In fact, in said publication it is emphasized that DK Jr has nothing to do with either Cranky or Donkey.
A whole chaos more convoluted than a jungle of lianas, although it seems that the official position has finally been made clear with Super Mario Bros. The Movie. Will this be delved into in the feature film? What if in reality the key to everything is in Donkey Kong and Mario is just something satellite, a spinoff of the adventures of the Kong?