Re: 20 Day Video Game Challenge - Day 9: Favorite villain
Today's pick will be one that I've always had a soft spot for since my childhood, but I grew to like him even more as I got older.
I think King K. Rool is my favorite villain because of his simple, yet very great design, his personality and his difficult but awesome boss fights.
The gold belly armor combined with his wristbands, crown and cape gives him quite a royal look, but his alter ego outfits from DKC2 and 3 as well as DK64 are also great. Of course, his bulging eye combined with his mouthful of sharp teeth also gives him a pretty unsettling evil grin on his face even when he's not trying to make one.
His name of K. Rool is not only a pun of his cruel personality towards the Kongs, but also towards his own Kremling army. During the events of DK64, he sends Klaptraps to keep an eye on his already overworked Kritters attempting to fix his Blast-o-Matic, and later on during the game, he also executes a Kasplat that tried to escape and insulted him (though he did not know that K. Rool was listening through the walls) by releasing a giant Klaptrap. Even Klubba states in DKC2 to the Kongs that "Kap'n K. Rool treats us rotten. I hope yer scupper his plans!". And even considering his cruelty, he still can be quite comical, as seen in one cutscene in DK64, he claims that he's surrounded by fools, complete with a facepalm or in DKC2, when he has an "Oh crap!" look on his face when you throw a Kannonball into his blunderbuss.
Although he might look unintelligent, his plans to defeat the Kongs in the original DKC trilogy and DK64 escalated more and more with each game, showing that he is quite intelligent and learns from his mistakes.
DKC: Stealing the Kongs banana hoard in hopes of starving them to death.
DKC2: Captures DK and holds him hostage in exchange for their banana hoard.
DKC3: Captures DK and Diddy and uses them to power his KAOS robot that will lead his new army of Kremlings.
DK64: Builds a giant laser cannon inside his naval fortress that is capable of destroying DK Island. Oh, your ship crashed because of the incompetence of your crew and the Blast-o-Matic is now damaged? Kidnap as many Kongs as you can and steal DK's banana hoard in order to buy yourself as much time as possible.
As a small side note, I'd also like to point out that in his SSBU reveal trailer, he simply ignores elaborate setups and confronts the Kongs at their home turf.
Outside of his roles as a boss in the DK games, he's also incredibly fun to play as in games were he is playable, such as Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, Mario Super Sluggers and of course, Super Smash Bros Ultimate. One neat touch that I like is his apparent dislike of Bowser, as they share bad chemistry in Mario Super Sluggers, and if I were to judge this, its because K. Rool likes to see himself as the supreme ruler of all evil.
I suppose that's all I can say about King K. Rool atm, and I sincerely hope that he'll return in a future DKC game and/or appears in another Mario spin-off like Mario Kart following his long-awaited inclusion in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
