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|firstappearance = ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' (1999)
 
|firstappearance = ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' (1999)
 
|latestappearance = ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' (2018)
 
|latestappearance = ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' (2018)
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'''Tiny Kong''' is an ironically named tall female chimpanzee character from the ''Donkey Kong'' series. She is [[Dixie Kong]]’s [http://web.archive.org/web/20020819225350/www.rareware.com/the_site/rare_games/new_games_digest/dk64_digest/dk64_cl_copy.html younger sister] and as such, she has [http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/02/month_of_kong_meet_donkey_kongs_extended_family two younger cousins], baby [[Kiddy Kong]] and his older brother [[Chunky Kong]]. Like [[Lanky Kong|Lanky]], she first appeared in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''. Tiny Kong is known for being groovy, rebellious, a loud and bombastic saxophone player, individualistic, nimble, fast, and using her two ponytails to accomplish different tasks, she's best known for her magical shrinking ability which she was named after. She is currently voiced by Kaoru Sasashima, but was voiced by Eveline Fischer in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''.
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'''Tiny Kong''' is an ironically named really tall female [https://webdotarchivedotorg/web/20010421055021/http://www.rare.co.uk/recent/games/dkc/castlist/cast_dixie.html chimpanzee] [[Kong]] from the ''Donkey Kong'' series. She is [[Dixie Kong]]’s [http://web.archive.org/web/20020819225350/www.rareware.com/the_site/rare_games/new_games_digest/dk64_digest/dk64_cl_copy.html younger sister] and as such, she has [http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/02/month_of_kong_meet_donkey_kongs_extended_family two younger cousins], baby [[Kiddy Kong]] and his older brother [[Chunky Kong]].
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Like [[Lanky Kong|Lanky]], she first appeared in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''. Tiny Kong is known for being sarcastic, groovy, rebellious, a loud feisty and bombastic saxophone player, free-spirited, individualistic, having a somewhat similar machismo/boisterousness/snarkiness to [[Diddy Kong]], fast, quick, nimble, and using her two ponytails to accomplish different tasks, she's best known for her gymnastics and magical shrinking ability which she was named after. She is currently voiced by Kaoru Sasashima, but was previously voiced by Eveline Fischer in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''.
   
Like her role-model [[Candy Kong]], Tiny's dream is to be a supermodel. Before that career bore fruit she was known to be a genius at juggling numbers/managing banana coins savings, a prodigy at handling DK Island's financial ecosystem, and have a job/business/hobbie of fashion designing.
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Like her role-model [[Candy Kong]], Tiny's dream is to be a supermodel. Before that she was known to be a genius at juggling numbers/managing banana coin savings, being a Tax Officer prodigy at handling DK Island's financial ecosystem, and have a job/business/hobby in fashion designing.
   
Prior to her first appearance she hasn't had any other important roles in any other platform game. Since ''[[Diddy Kong Racing DS]]'', Tiny now appears almost in every Donkey Kong spin-off games as she appears to have aged and is all grown up, becoming an adult or at least a very late teenager however, and has even appeared in a Mario spin-off game. With only a few exceptions, she is playable in every game in which she appears.
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After her first appearance she hasn't had any other important roles in any other platform game. Since ''[[Diddy Kong Racing DS]]'', Tiny now appears in almost every ''Donkey Kong'' spin-off game, however she appears to have aged and is all grown up, becoming a fully developed adult or at least a very late teenager. She has even appeared in a ''Mario'' spin-off game. With only a few exceptions, she is playable in every game in which she appears.
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
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===Call for Racing===
 
===Call for Racing===
 
[[File:TinyKongDKDS.png|thumbnail|Tiny Kong in ''[[Diddy Kong Racing DS]]''.]]
 
[[File:TinyKongDKDS.png|thumbnail|Tiny Kong in ''[[Diddy Kong Racing DS]]''.]]
After a 7 year hiatus, Tiny makes a fully returning appearance in ''[[Diddy Kong Racing DS]]'' to replace [[Banjo]] (since her bigger redesign makes them now have similar height), a Rare character from the original ''[[Diddy Kong Racing]]'', coincidentally Tiny does have some resemblance to Banjo's sister Tooty. This game is her spin-off debut. Her acceleration and handling are both medium but has a slightly low top speed.
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After a 8 year hiatus, Tiny makes a fully returning appearance in ''[[Diddy Kong Racing DS]]'' to replace [[Banjo]] (since her bigger redesign makes them now have similar height and Tiny's inspiration was based off of Tooty; Banjo's sister), a Rare character from the original ''[[Diddy Kong Racing]]'', furthermore Tiny does have some resemblance to Banjo's sister Tooty. This game is Tiny's spin-off debut. Her acceleration and handling are both medium but she has a slightly low top speed.
   
 
Stats:
 
Stats:
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*'''Acceleration''': ☆☆☆
 
*'''Acceleration''': ☆☆☆
 
*'''Handling''': ☆☆☆
 
*'''Handling''': ☆☆☆
Tiny, along her sister, was first called by Diddy Kong; he explained that [[Timber]] from [[Timber Island]] asked him to help him defeat [[Wizpig]], and also help to find out what happened to [[Drumstick]], which was converted into a frog by Wizpig.
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Tiny and her sister were first called by [[Diddy Kong]]; he explained that [[Timber]] from [[Timber Island]] asked him to help him defeat [[Wizpig]], and also help to find out what happened to [[Drumstick]], which was converted into a frog by Wizpig.
   
 
During the quest they arrived to [[Dino Domain]], and after beating all the challenges in the area Tiny (or one of the other racers) had the option to race the brainwashed dinosaur [[Tricky the Triceratops|Tricky]] through the valley, if she beat him he will open the [[Silver Coin]] challenges. Once all the challenges were completed they could have another race against Tricky, if Tiny and the others manage to defeat him the spell on him would break, and Tricky will thank them by giving the piece of Wizpig's amulet he was guarding.
 
During the quest they arrived to [[Dino Domain]], and after beating all the challenges in the area Tiny (or one of the other racers) had the option to race the brainwashed dinosaur [[Tricky the Triceratops|Tricky]] through the valley, if she beat him he will open the [[Silver Coin]] challenges. Once all the challenges were completed they could have another race against Tricky, if Tiny and the others manage to defeat him the spell on him would break, and Tricky will thank them by giving the piece of Wizpig's amulet he was guarding.
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Their next location was [[Dragon Forest]], were after beating all the challenges Tiny and the others could race the fire spitting [[Smokey the Dragon|Smokey]]. Like the previous bosses he opened the Silver Coin challenges after being defeated. After he was defeated and taken out permanently of Wizpig's control he gave Tiny and the racers the last piece of the amulet, thus they completed the amulet.
 
Their next location was [[Dragon Forest]], were after beating all the challenges Tiny and the others could race the fire spitting [[Smokey the Dragon|Smokey]]. Like the previous bosses he opened the Silver Coin challenges after being defeated. After he was defeated and taken out permanently of Wizpig's control he gave Tiny and the racers the last piece of the amulet, thus they completed the amulet.
   
With all the pieces of the amulet, Tiny and the others find Wizpig and raced him, whom after being defeated teleports away in panic. Tiny, along all the other racers, held a celebration. During the celebration Wizpig arrives and asks for revenge, but this time in his home planet [[Future Fun Land]]. After a long race with many obstacles Tiny and the others defeated him and again held the final celebration this time without problems.
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With all the pieces of the amulet, Tiny and the others find Wizpig and raced him, whom after being defeated teleports away in panic. Tiny, along with all the other racers, held a celebration. During the celebration Wizpig arrives and asks for revenge, but this time in his home planet [[Future Fun Land]]. After a long race with many obstacles Tiny and the others defeated him and again held the final celebration this time without problems.
   
 
This is the first game she appears as playable along with her elder sister and also this is her second playable appearance after seven years. Although this was the first racing game in which she appeared, she had previously raced two times against a car in ''Donkey Kong 64'', in the levels Frantic Factory and Creepy Castle.
 
This is the first game she appears as playable along with her elder sister and also this is her second playable appearance after seven years. Although this was the first racing game in which she appeared, she had previously raced two times against a car in ''Donkey Kong 64'', in the levels Frantic Factory and Creepy Castle.
   
Tiny looks like she grew up and became a young adult; appearing much taller, feisty, hip, sassy, sarcastic, boisterous and more cutesy in this game, and (taking a bit of inspiration from [[Candy Kong]]) was given a Girly-Girl appearance to make her visually look distinct from her older sister, [[Dixie Kong|Dixie]] who remained the same, creating controversy and leading some to believe that their relation was either changed or forgotten, but this is false (their [http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/02/month_of_kong_meet_donkey_kongs_extended_familytheir relation is indeed still the same] since it's common for younger siblings to have growth spurts that make them outgrow and look older and different than their actual older siblings, just like Mario being the older twin brother and Luigi being the younger twin yet physically taller brother). She was the only character to appear in this game that made a debut in ''Donkey Kong 64'', and was one of the three female racers and also one of the three playable Kongs.
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Tiny looks like she grew up and became a young adult; appearing much taller, feisty, hip, sassy, sarcastic, boisterous and more cutesy in this game, and (taking a bit of inspiration from [[Candy Kong]]) was given a Girly-Girl appearance to make her visually look distinct from her older sister, [[Dixie Kong|Dixie]] who remained the same, creating controversy and leading some to believe that their relation was either changed or forgotten, but this is false (their [http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/02/month_of_kong_meet_donkey_kongs_extended_familytheir relation is indeed still the same] since it's common for younger siblings to have growth spurts that make them outgrow and look older and different than their actual older siblings, just like [[Mario]] being the older twin brother and Luigi being the younger yet physically taller twin brother). She was the only character to appear in this game that made a debut in ''Donkey Kong 64'', and was one of the three female racers and also one of the three playable Kongs.
   
 
===Barrel Blasting===
 
===Barrel Blasting===
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*'''Agility''': ☆☆
 
*'''Agility''': ☆☆
   
In the Single Racing cut-scene Tiny can be seen, along Lanky, Dixie and Donkey, in front of their rivals, Kalypso, Klump, Kass and Kritter. In the Records cut-scene she can be seen in the middle of all characters looking at the records. In the Cranky's Flight School cut-scene she is one of the Kongs that appears practicing. She also appears in the start screen. She also appears in [[Candy's Challenges|Candy Challenge]] # 14: '''Help Tiny Kong!''', Donkey has to help her beat Kalypso, this challenge is level 2 in difficulty.
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In the Single Racing cut-scene Tiny can be seen, along with Lanky, Dixie and Donkey, in front of their rivals, Kalypso, Klump, Kass and Kritter. In the Records cut-scene she can be seen in the middle of all characters looking at the records. In the Cranky's Flight School cut-scene she is one of the Kongs that appears practicing. She also appears on the start screen. She also appears in [[Candy's Challenges|Candy Challenge]] # 14: '''Help Tiny Kong!''', Donkey has to help her beat Kalypso, this challenge is level 2 in difficulty.
   
 
Her winning celebrations include her spinning around, throwing punches, or putting her hands on her waist and pouting. When she loses she cries and looks at the ground, disappointed.
 
Her winning celebrations include her spinning around, throwing punches, or putting her hands on her waist and pouting. When she loses she cries and looks at the ground, disappointed.
   
Her drums are green and purple in the middle, matching her beanie hat, and have a white flower in them, which match with her clothing. This was the second racing game in which she appeared and was also her first appearance on the Wii console.
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Her drums are green and purple in the middle, matching her beanie hat, and have a white flower in them, which matches with her clothing. This was the second racing game in which she appeared and was also her first appearance on the Wii console.
 
== Other Appearances ==
 
== Other Appearances ==
   
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Although Tiny has never appeared playable in any ''Super Smash Bros.'' game, there are various references to her. She is mentioned in the DK Rap which appeared in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' and eventually ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''.
 
Although Tiny has never appeared playable in any ''Super Smash Bros.'' game, there are various references to her. She is mentioned in the DK Rap which appeared in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' and eventually ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''.
   
In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U]]'' she has a trophy and a sticker.
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In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U]]'' she has a sticker and a trophy.
 
Her trophies shows her walking happily. Her trophies doesn't mention that she was Dixie's sister, but instead mentions her high speed in ''Donkey Kong Barrel Blast'' and her ''Ponytail Whirl'' from ''Donkey Kong 64''. She also has a sticker which uses her artwork from ''Donkey Kong 64''.
 
Her trophies shows her walking happily. Her trophies doesn't mention that she was Dixie's sister, but instead mentions her high speed in ''Donkey Kong Barrel Blast'' and her ''Ponytail Whirl'' from ''Donkey Kong 64''. She also has a sticker which uses her artwork from ''Donkey Kong 64''.
   
In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', she appears as a spirit.
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In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', she appears as a Spirit.
   
 
===Trophy Information from ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===
 
===Trophy Information from ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===
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==Character Description==
 
==Character Description==
 
===Current Adult/Late Teenager appearance===
 
===Current Adult/Late Teenager appearance===
[[File:Tiny_Kong_Young_and_Older_appearances.jpeg|thumb|Tiny Kong in her original kid design and her bigger/newer appearance.]]
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[[File:Tiny_Kong_Young_and_Older_appearances.jpeg|thumb|Tiny Kong in her original kid design and her bigger/newer/fully matured appearance.]]
Tiny, as her name ironically belies, is a tall chimpanzee (unless counting her shrinking ability), being taller than her big sister, [[Donkey Kong]], and [[Princess Peach]] but she is not as tall as [[Candy Kong]]. She has blond hair that is tied up in two ponytails and has blue eyes, unlike her sister who has green eyes. She also wears makeup being her thick eyelashes and wears magenta eyeshadow. Her fur is brown, although in ''Diddy Kong Racing DS'', it was slightly darker. Her current accessories consist of jumbo earrings and white fur wristbands. Her clothing consists of a sky blue sweat pants with a sky blue midriff exposing spaghetti-strap top with a flower on it (like Dixie's flower shirt in the ''DKC cartoon''). Her top also has purple borders, she wears orchid sandals and wears a beanie hat that is green on the bottom, purple in the middle, pink on the top and has pink borders around the colors green and purple. She has pink nails.
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Tiny, as her name ironically belies, is a tall chimpanzee type Kong (unless counting her shrinking ability), being taller than her big sister, [[Donkey Kong]], and [[Princess Peach]] but she is not as tall as [[Candy Kong]]. She has blond hair that is tied up in two ponytails and has blue eyes, unlike her sister who has green eyes. She also wears makeup being her thick eyelashes and wears magenta eyeshadow. Her fur is brown, although in ''Diddy Kong Racing DS'', it was slightly darker. Her current accessories consist of jumbo earrings and white fur wristbands. Her clothing consists of a sky blue sweat pants with a sky blue midriff exposing spaghetti-strap top with a flower on it (like Dixie's flower shirt in the ''DKC cartoon''). Her top also has purple borders, she wears orchid sandals and wears a beanie hat that is green on the bottom, purple in the middle, pink on the top and has pink borders around the colors green and purple. She has pink nails.
   
This redesign appears to take a few inspirations from Candy Kong making her more of a Girly-Girl becoming more groovy, hip, feisty, sassy, sarcastic, boisterous, cutesy, and was used in ''Diddy Kong Racing DS'' as she replaced [[Banjo]] (since they are now of similar height), a [[Rare]] character, and all games that came out afterward since her original design didn't look different enough from [[Dixie Kong|Dixie]], additionally it was used in ''Donkey Kong Barrel Blast'' and ''Mario Super Sluggers''. An exception is her sticker from ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' where she uses her original look while her trophies in ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U]]''.
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This redesign appears to take a few inspirations from Candy Kong making her more of a Girly-Girl. Tiny became more groovy, hip, feisty, sassy, sarcastic, boisterous, cutesy, and the new look was used in ''Diddy Kong Racing DS'' as she replaced [[Banjo]] (since they are now of similar height and Tiny resembles Banjo's sister Tooty), a [[Rare]] character, and all games that came out afterward since her original child design didn't look different enough from [[Dixie Kong|Dixie]], additionally it was used in ''Donkey Kong Barrel Blast'' and ''Mario Super Sluggers''. An exception is her sticker from ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' where she uses her original look while her trophies in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U]]'' depict her adult self.
   
This look also created some controversy. Tiny actually looks like a young adult; appearing bigger than Dixie; the true older sister. This made some fans believe the fact that they were sisters was forgotten. They had never been referred to sisters again since ''Diddy Kong Racing DS''. Some believed the fact they were sisters never made it to Japan, but this theory isn't true. Later on, it was confirmed in Rare's Scribes, that Nintendo was the one that requested to change her look, though her current look does bare a resemblance to PAON's character designs.<ref>[http://rareware.com/extras/scribes/20dec07/index.html]</ref> It is more likely that they are indeed still [http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/02/month_of_kong_meet_donkey_kongs_extended_family sisters] since it is common for younger siblings to have growth spurts that make them outgrow and look older and different than their actual older siblings (just like Mario being the older twin brother and Luigi being the younger twin yet physically taller brother).
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This look also created some controversy. Tiny actually looks like a young adult; appearing bigger than Dixie; the true older sister. This made some fans believe the fact that they were sisters was forgotten. They had never been referred to sisters again since ''Diddy Kong Racing DS''. Some believed the fact they were sisters never made it to Japan, but this theory isn't true. Later on, it was confirmed in Rare's Scribes, that Nintendo was the one that requested to change her look, though her current look does bare a resemblance to PAON's character designs.<ref>[http://rareware.com/extras/scribes/20dec07/index.html]</ref> It is more likely that they are indeed still [http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/02/month_of_kong_meet_donkey_kongs_extended_family sisters] since it is common for younger siblings to have growth spurts that make them outgrow and look older and different than their actual older siblings (just like Mario being the older twin brother and Luigi being the younger yet physically taller twin brother).
   
 
===Past/Old self===
 
===Past/Old self===
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During her debut in ''Donkey Kong 64'', her fur was a lighter brown as opposed to her darker fur which she had in Diddy Kong Racing onwards. Her eyes were bigger, but they were also blue. Her clothes consisted of the same multicolored beanie hat as her current appearance, blue overalls with a flower on them (''like Dixie's flower shirt in the DKC cartoon''), a white T-shirt and white shoes. She also had bangs in this design. She was much smaller at this time, but despite that she was still bigger than Diddy Kong, making her also bigger than Dixie Kong since Diddy and Dixie are the same size.
 
During her debut in ''Donkey Kong 64'', her fur was a lighter brown as opposed to her darker fur which she had in Diddy Kong Racing onwards. Her eyes were bigger, but they were also blue. Her clothes consisted of the same multicolored beanie hat as her current appearance, blue overalls with a flower on them (''like Dixie's flower shirt in the DKC cartoon''), a white T-shirt and white shoes. She also had bangs in this design. She was much smaller at this time, but despite that she was still bigger than Diddy Kong, making her also bigger than Dixie Kong since Diddy and Dixie are the same size.
   
This look was used in few games; it was first used in ''Donkey Kong 64''.It was later used in the remakes of ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' and ''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!''. It was also going to be used in Donkey Kong Racing, until it was canceled. It was also used for some comics. Its next use was for one of Tiny Kong's stickers in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and was later used for her Spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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This look was used in few games; it was first used in ''Donkey Kong 64''. It was later used in the remakes of ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' and ''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!''. It was also going to be used in Donkey Kong Racing, until it was canceled. It was also used for some comics. It's next use was for Tiny Kong's sticker in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', and was later used for her Spirit in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''.
   
From ''Diddy Kong Racing DS'' onwards (until Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) Nintendo decided to change her appearance and gave Tiny her current look.
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From ''Diddy Kong Racing DS'' onwards Nintendo decided to change her appearance and gave Tiny her current all grown up look.
   
 
==Personality==
 
==Personality==
As she has only had one major role there's little known about her personality. Tiny's voice and demeanor is hinted at being groovy, somewhat sassy and tomboyish, with a confident demeanor all which are akin to her elder sister Dixie Kong, albeit more boisterous. She is also very brave, attacking even if her opponent is way bigger than her as shown during the [[DK Rap]] where she attacks a [[Klaptrap]] after she has used her [[Mini Monkey]] ability. She is very gymnastic and flexible in her movements, able to perform the splits with ease.
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As she has only had one major role there's only so many details known about her personality. Tiny's voice and demeanor is hinted at being groovy, sarcastic, somewhat sassy and Tomboyish, with a confident demeanor all of which are akin to her elder sister Dixie Kong, albeit expressed differently, as Tiny is more openly boisterous (whereas Dixie is comparatively more reserved/subdued) and she has a somewhat similar machismo/boisterousness to [[Diddy Kong]].
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She is also very brave, attacking even if her opponent is way bigger than her as shown during the [[DK Rap]] where she attacks a [[Klaptrap]] after she has used her [[Mini Monkey]] ability, although this has back-fired once as after Tiny witnessed Diddy Kong fight off the Kremlings, she overestimated her own abilities and was kidnapped, similar to how Diddy was captured. She is very gymnastic and flexible in her movements, able to perform the splits with ease.
   
In more recent games she is depicted in a somewhat cocky and arrogant yet matured fashion, but shows less of a tomboyish streak and more of a focus on dance-like movements similar to [[Candy Kong]]'s dancing. In ''[[Mario Super Sluggers]]'' she regularly sways her hips when walking, after successfully making a nice play and when scoring an RBI or a home run. She breaks out into a brief dance and smiles when she successfully clears a mission, minigame or wins MVP. She is still shown to be very acrobatic as seen in ''Mario Super Sluggers'' when she successfully wins a close play. She jumps up high into the air and does a backflip before landing on the baseman.
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In more recent games she is depicted more like a Girly-Girl in a somewhat cocky and arrogant yet matured fashion, but shows less of a tomboyish streak and more of a focus on dance-like movements similar to [[Candy Kong]]'s dancing. In ''[[Mario Super Sluggers]]'' she regularly sways her hips when walking, after successfully making a nice play and when scoring an RBI or a home run. She breaks out into a brief dance and smiles when she successfully clears a mission, minigame or wins MVP. She is still shown to be very acrobatic as seen in ''Mario Super Sluggers'' when she successfully wins a close play. She jumps up high into the air and does a backflip before landing on the baseman.
   
 
==Abilities==
 
==Abilities==
Much like her sister she uses her ponytails for attacking enemies, slowing and controlling her descent to the ground and can also extend her jump by rotating her ponytails. In ''Donkey Kong 64'' she was the fastest Kong, she had a very high jump, she could also attack enemies by jumping on them and she is good at swimming and could breathe underwater. In ''Donkey Kong Barrel Blast'' she once again used her ponytails to attack and break things open. She, like all the other racers, could also perform [[Wild Move]]s in this game. In ''Mario Super Sluggers'' she had the ability ''Clamber''.
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Much like her sister she uses her ponytails for attacking enemies, slowing and controlling her descent to the ground and can also extend her jump by rotating her ponytails. In ''Donkey Kong 64'' she was one of the fastest Kongs, she had a very high jump, she could also attack enemies by jumping on them and she is good at swimming and could breathe underwater. In ''Donkey Kong Barrel Blast'' she once again used her ponytails to attack and break things open. She, like all the other racers, could also perform [[Wild Move]]s in this game. In ''Mario Super Sluggers'' she had the ability ''Clamber''.
   
 
In ''Donkey Kong 64'' her abilities were:
 
In ''Donkey Kong 64'' her abilities were:
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*Tiny's physical aging from child to teenager to young adult hasn't ever been given an in-game explanation and remains unconfirmed, though it could likely just be a growth spurt during puberty.
 
*Tiny's physical aging from child to teenager to young adult hasn't ever been given an in-game explanation and remains unconfirmed, though it could likely just be a growth spurt during puberty.
 
**Some speculate it could be related to her Mini-Monkey ability to change her size to suit her mood, which explains her name pun.
 
**Some speculate it could be related to her Mini-Monkey ability to change her size to suit her mood, which explains her name pun.
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***It's possible it could be because of the genetics Tiny and Dixie inherited from at least one of their parents, Tiny inherited the "tall gene" whereas Dixie did not inherit it but she is still older and already fully grown, similar to the height difference between Luigi and Mario.
***Another theory is based on the German manual of ''DK64'' stating that she wanted to become a supermodel. Speculation says that she asked [[Cranky Kong]] to create her a potion to make her taller and older so that she can fulfill that dream.
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****Another theory is based on the German manual of ''DK64'' stating that she wanted to become a supermodel. Speculation says that she asked [[Cranky Kong]] to create her a potion to make her taller and older so that she can fulfill that dream.
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*Tiny's [https://mobile.twitter.com/playtonicalMark/status/1116401493899448321 beta design in concept art] appears to be inspired by Abu from Disney's ''Aladdin'', particularly the fez and the vest, the beanie hat in her final design may be a reference to this.
 
*Tiny Kong in video games and other media has showcased many [https://toongamer619.deviantart.com/art/Tiny-Kong-is-quick-and-nimble-in-Death-Battle-640294609 feats].
 
*Tiny Kong in video games and other media has showcased many [https://toongamer619.deviantart.com/art/Tiny-Kong-is-quick-and-nimble-in-Death-Battle-640294609 feats].
 
*Like many other Kongs Tiny has large thumb toes, with toe-nail polish on as well.
 
*Like many other Kongs Tiny has large thumb toes, with toe-nail polish on as well.
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Tiny Kong
File:Tiny Kong MSS art.png

Tiny's artwork from her most recent physical appearance in Mario Super Sluggers.



Residence(s) Donkey Kong Island
Family Dixie Kong (older sister),
Chunky Kong (younger cousin),
Kiddy Kong (younger cousin),
Kong Family
Species Kong
Sub-Species Chimpanzee
Gender Female
Affiliation(s) Good
Powers/Abilities Superb swiftness,
High jumping skill,
Can shrink to small sizes,
Can glide and fly through the air using her ponytails
Feather Archer
Saxophone Player
Enemies King K. Rool
Kremling Krew
Wizpig
Kalypso
Birdo (Mario series)
Game(s) Donkey Kong 64
Donkey Kong Racing (canceled)
Donkey Kong Country 2 (GBA)
Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA)
Diddy Kong Racing DS
Donkey Kong Barrel Blast
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Super Sluggers
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
First Appearance Donkey Kong 64 (1999)
Latest Appearance Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)

Tiny Kong is an ironically named really tall female chimpanzee Kong from the Donkey Kong series. She is Dixie Kong’s younger sister and as such, she has two younger cousins, baby Kiddy Kong and his older brother Chunky Kong.

Like Lanky, she first appeared in Donkey Kong 64. Tiny Kong is known for being sarcastic, groovy, rebellious, a loud feisty and bombastic saxophone player, free-spirited, individualistic, having a somewhat similar machismo/boisterousness/snarkiness to Diddy Kong, fast, quick, nimble, and using her two ponytails to accomplish different tasks, she's best known for her gymnastics and magical shrinking ability which she was named after. She is currently voiced by Kaoru Sasashima, but was previously voiced by Eveline Fischer in Donkey Kong 64.

Like her role-model Candy Kong, Tiny's dream is to be a supermodel. Before that she was known to be a genius at juggling numbers/managing banana coin savings, being a Tax Officer prodigy at handling DK Island's financial ecosystem, and have a job/business/hobby in fashion designing.

After her first appearance she hasn't had any other important roles in any other platform game. Since Diddy Kong Racing DS, Tiny now appears in almost every Donkey Kong spin-off game, however she appears to have aged and is all grown up, becoming a fully developed adult or at least a very late teenager. She has even appeared in a Mario spin-off game. With only a few exceptions, she is playable in every game in which she appears.

Biography

Quest for the Golden Bananas

In Donkey Kong 64 Tiny is one of the many Kongs imprisoned by the Kremling Krew at the start of the game. She is found in the area Angry Aztec, and can only be released by Diddy Kong.

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Tiny and Diddy in Diddy Kong Racing DS

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Tiny as she appeared in her debut.

Once Tiny was released, she could collect purple Bananas, coins and Blueprints. She could also activate feather switches, pop purple balloons to get bananas, and slam switches with her face on them. Also, when she gained the ability Mini Monkey she could go with the Banana Fairy Queen to get the banana cam. Here are her statistics.

  • Potions:
  • Weapon: Feather Bow
  • Instrument Ability: Saxophone Slam
  • Color: Purple
  • Boss:
  • Bio: "Dixie's little sister brings a big dose of flower power to the Kong's campaign. You'll find her pigtails perfect for pugilism and not too bad for a helicopter ride from the treetops. Tiny never shrinks from her responsibilities - even when she shrinks herself physically for a mouse's eye view of the action."

After being freed, Tiny began her adventure on DK Isles, where she visited the Banana Fairy queen and found a total of six Bananas. In Jungle Japes, Rambi made it possible for Tiny to get into a cave after she found a few golden Bananas and finished familiarizing herself with her surroundings. Tiny used her Mini Monkey ability to get inside difficult places to reach and get Golden Bananas.

In Angry Aztec, she had the chance to get her Saxophone, Feather Bow, and her Mini Monkey ability. With help of the Squawks and her Mini Monkey ability, she was able to enter many different temples. Inside the many temples she found many Golden Bananas and even a Banana Fairy. The temples were often booby-trapped.

Tiny played a large part in the Frantic Factory. After looking for Golden Bananas in the testing room, Tiny found a sentient race car, who told her he had a Golden Banana for the first place winner. After beating the car and winning the race, Tiny searched for more Golden Bananas and came across a Donkey Kong arcade game and a Golden Banana which was only obtainable by using her Mini Monkey ability. After searching the factory high and low for Bananas she gave the needed amount of bananas to Scoff who opened the door leading to the boss. The door revealed Tiny's face, meaning she would be the only one able to fight the boss; Mad Jack. After beating it, Tiny won the third Boss Key to K. Lumsy cage.

Tiny met a mermaid in Gloomy Galleon, who told her about her stolen pearls. Tiny eventually found the pearls in a giant chest and brought them back to the mermaid, who gave her a Golden Banana in return. She later opened an underwater door in a large sunken ship. After thoroughly searching the ship she found another Golden Banana. Tiny found her last Golden Banana in the area in another sunken ship.

Tiny's quest for the Bananas took her to Fungi Forest. Tiny found her first Golden Banana in the forest in a mountain infested with purple Klaptraps. After beating them she got a Golden Banana and a strange seed. After finding a good place to plant it, Tiny planted the seed in a loamy patch of soil. The seed grew into a giant plant and gave her a Golden Banana, which she could get with help of Squawks. Tiny later found a house, and by entering at night she could fight a giant Spider Queen. Tiny had to hit a certain amount of small spiders to make the Spider Queen open Her eyes, which she could shoot feathers at. After being sufficiently damaged, the Spider Queen shrunk. Tiny eventually beat the small Spider Queen, revealing a Golden Banana.

In Crystal Caves Tiny visited Cranky, who sold her a potion which would give her the power MonkeyPort. Tiny used her new power on a teleport pad deep in the caves which took her to an igloo-like crystal were a Golden Banana was. Tiny found another teleport pad which took her to were the Giant Kosha was. Tiny beat it and stopped the raining rocks.

After entering Creepy Castle, Tiny found the car she raced in Frantic Factory, who wanted revenge. Tiny beat him again and obtained another Golden Banana. Outside was a trail of purple bananas and a trash can. With help of her barrel and a mushroom she entered to the trash can, where she was attacked by flies. She, along all the Kongs, fought the boss of the level, King Kut Out. She would fight the boss after Lanky Kong was defeated.

When the Kongs took the Creepy Castle key to K. Lumsy he opened the last level, Hideout Helm. The Kongs quickly realized that they had a limited amount of time to deactivate the Blast-O-Matic. But with help of Snide they extended the time. After deactivating the machine the Kongs found out that King K. Rool escaped in a plane, but left behind the last key. His plane was soon struck down by K. Lumsy and crashed on DK Isle.

In the final battle against King K. Rool she was the fourth to fight him. She had to become small and enter through a hole in King K. Rool's shoe and use her Feather Bow on his toes.

During the game she gains different abilities. Her first individual ability is Mini Monkey, while the second is Ponytail Whirl, and the last one is Monkey-Port. Her instrument is the saxophone; with this she can use the ability Saxophone Slam. Her weapon is the Feather Crossbow. Aside from this she can gain Simian Slam, Super Simian Slam, and Super Duper Simian Slam, which all Kongs have.

She is the only Kong that can enter where the Banana Fairy Queen is found, and using Tiny's Monkeyport is the only way of getting to Hideout Helm. She was also playable in the Multiplayer mode.

She appears in the three endings of the game. In the first ending she appears playing with Chunky, until he throws her very high and gets mad at him once she lands. In the second ending she appears riding K Lumsy, along with all the other Kongs. In the third ending she uses her Ponytail Whirl to fly, but ends up crashing.

Mini-Game Kong

Tiny as a child

Tiny and her Feather Bow

Her next appearance was in the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. Tiny appears in several of Funky Kong's mini-games, Diddy and Dixie would often have to save her. She appears in the mini-game Kongnapped, where Diddy or Dixie had to save her from Zingers. In this game she has a high pitched squeaky voice.

She also appears in the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, she appears in Funky's mini-games, where she appears in the water, and Dixie and Kiddy have to prevent her from being taken away by Kremlings using their boat. These also also the few games where she used her debut design.

These two games are the only games in which she appears and is not playable. These were also her only appearances on the Game Boy Advance.

Spin-Off Appearances

Call for Racing

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Tiny Kong in Diddy Kong Racing DS.

After a 8 year hiatus, Tiny makes a fully returning appearance in Diddy Kong Racing DS to replace Banjo (since her bigger redesign makes them now have similar height and Tiny's inspiration was based off of Tooty; Banjo's sister), a Rare character from the original Diddy Kong Racing, furthermore Tiny does have some resemblance to Banjo's sister Tooty. This game is Tiny's spin-off debut. Her acceleration and handling are both medium but she has a slightly low top speed.

Stats:

  • Speed: ☆☆
  • Acceleration: ☆☆☆
  • Handling: ☆☆☆

Tiny and her sister were first called by Diddy Kong; he explained that Timber from Timber Island asked him to help him defeat Wizpig, and also help to find out what happened to Drumstick, which was converted into a frog by Wizpig.

During the quest they arrived to Dino Domain, and after beating all the challenges in the area Tiny (or one of the other racers) had the option to race the brainwashed dinosaur Tricky through the valley, if she beat him he will open the Silver Coin challenges. Once all the challenges were completed they could have another race against Tricky, if Tiny and the others manage to defeat him the spell on him would break, and Tricky will thank them by giving the piece of Wizpig's amulet he was guarding.

Their next location was the cold Snowflake Mountain, if Tiny and the others managed to beat all the trials they had the option to race against the Bluey in a downhill mountain. After defeating him, he opened the Silver Coin challenges form that area. After the challenges were completed, the racers had the option to challenge him again. After his defeat the spell on him would break and he gave Tiny and the others the second piece of Wizpig's amulet.

Their next location was Sherbet Island, and like in the previous locations after beating the challenges they could race the aquatic brainwashed Bubbler. After he was defeated he opened the Silver Coin Challenges. Once the Silver Coin challenges were completed Tiny and the other racers had the option to race him again. Finally after he was defeated and taken permanently out of Wizpig's spell he gave Tiny and the other racers the third piece of the amulet.

Their next location was Dragon Forest, were after beating all the challenges Tiny and the others could race the fire spitting Smokey. Like the previous bosses he opened the Silver Coin challenges after being defeated. After he was defeated and taken out permanently of Wizpig's control he gave Tiny and the racers the last piece of the amulet, thus they completed the amulet.

With all the pieces of the amulet, Tiny and the others find Wizpig and raced him, whom after being defeated teleports away in panic. Tiny, along with all the other racers, held a celebration. During the celebration Wizpig arrives and asks for revenge, but this time in his home planet Future Fun Land. After a long race with many obstacles Tiny and the others defeated him and again held the final celebration this time without problems.

This is the first game she appears as playable along with her elder sister and also this is her second playable appearance after seven years. Although this was the first racing game in which she appeared, she had previously raced two times against a car in Donkey Kong 64, in the levels Frantic Factory and Creepy Castle.

Tiny looks like she grew up and became a young adult; appearing much taller, feisty, hip, sassy, sarcastic, boisterous and more cutesy in this game, and (taking a bit of inspiration from Candy Kong) was given a Girly-Girl appearance to make her visually look distinct from her older sister, Dixie who remained the same, creating controversy and leading some to believe that their relation was either changed or forgotten, but this is false (their relation is indeed still the same since it's common for younger siblings to have growth spurts that make them outgrow and look older and different than their actual older siblings, just like Mario being the older twin brother and Luigi being the younger yet physically taller twin brother). She was the only character to appear in this game that made a debut in Donkey Kong 64, and was one of the three female racers and also one of the three playable Kongs.

Barrel Blasting

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Tiny in Donkey Kong Barrel Blast.

Tiny Kong's next appearance was in the Wii game Donkey Kong Barrel Blast. She is an unlockable character, unlocked by completing the Sapphire Cup on a Rookie Setting with a Kong Character. She is very fast and her rival is Kalypso, a Kremling with similar stats. She has excellent boost, good speed, and medium agility. In this game she attacks her opponents by swinging her ponytails like an helicopter, possibly using the Ponytail Whirl. Like all the playable characters she has the ability to perform Wild Moves.

Stats:

  • Boost: ☆☆☆☆☆
  • Speed: ☆☆☆☆
  • Agility: ☆☆

In the Single Racing cut-scene Tiny can be seen, along with Lanky, Dixie and Donkey, in front of their rivals, Kalypso, Klump, Kass and Kritter. In the Records cut-scene she can be seen in the middle of all characters looking at the records. In the Cranky's Flight School cut-scene she is one of the Kongs that appears practicing. She also appears on the start screen. She also appears in Candy Challenge # 14: Help Tiny Kong!, Donkey has to help her beat Kalypso, this challenge is level 2 in difficulty.

Her winning celebrations include her spinning around, throwing punches, or putting her hands on her waist and pouting. When she loses she cries and looks at the ground, disappointed.

Her drums are green and purple in the middle, matching her beanie hat, and have a white flower in them, which matches with her clothing. This was the second racing game in which she appeared and was also her first appearance on the Wii console.

Other Appearances

Smash Kong

Although Tiny has never appeared playable in any Super Smash Bros. game, there are various references to her. She is mentioned in the DK Rap which appeared in Super Smash Bros. Melee and eventually Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U she has a sticker and a trophy. Her trophies shows her walking happily. Her trophies doesn't mention that she was Dixie's sister, but instead mentions her high speed in Donkey Kong Barrel Blast and her Ponytail Whirl from Donkey Kong 64. She also has a sticker which uses her artwork from Donkey Kong 64.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, she appears as a Spirit.

Trophy Information from Super Smash Bros. Brawl

A cute, young Kong in pigtails, a knit cap, and jumbo earrings. In Donkey Kong 64, she could extend her airtime after jumps and fly through the air with helicopter hair. Also a participant in Barrel Blast, her high speed is on full display.

Tiny Up at Bat

She appears as playable in Mario Super Sluggers.[1] She is a sub-character and is an unlockable character. This is her first appearance in a sports game and also her first appearance in the Mario series. In this game she can play baseball matches against many other characters. In challenge mode she has to help Mario and the others beat Bowser and his son Bowser Jr., by playing baseball matches. Tiny joins the cause after being rescued from Bowser Jr.

Her bat is sky blue with a white flower, similar to the one on her top. She is the only Kong character to have a normal bat. Her pitching entrance includes her spinning. When she pitches the ball and the character batting misses three times she celebrates by turning back and putting her right arm up, while her left arm down. Her batting entrance includes her waving her hand and then preparing to bat. As other team players she can use Star skills while pitching that make the ball go faster or slower. She has good chemistry with her sister, Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Donkey Kong and even Baby DK. She has bad chemistry with King K Rool, Kritter and Birdo. When the team she is in wins, she celebrates by waving her hands from one side to another. Her only ability is Clamber, meaning she can climb walls to catch the ball.

She is great at pitching, batting and running, she is great at fielding. She is the only balanced character from the Donkey Kong series. In this game her speed is not as notable as in other games; in the Donkey Kong series, Tiny is one of the fastest Kongs. But this time, Dixie Kong, and even Diddy Kong, are slower than her.

Appearances in Other Media

Comics

Donkey Kong in When the Banana Splits

She appeared in the comic Donkey Kong in When the Banana Splits, were the golden bananas are stolen, again by the Kremlings. Unfortunately for King K. Rool, the kremlings he sent stole the golden bananas in bad time, as Tiny Kong and the other Kongs were home. Tiny Kong, along all the playable Kongs from Donkey Kong 64, track King K. Rool easily through the jungle and after passing all Kremling's traps and beating all the enemies, they have a final showdown against King K. Rool and the Kremling in which the Kongs win and get their golden bananas back.

Through the quest Tiny Kong showed some of her abilities she got in Donkey Kong 64 from Cranky Kong's potions, such as Ponytail Whirl. Her Ponytail Whirl worked slightly different, her ponytails rotate vertically instead of horizontally, but still have the same use. Also, like in the games, she attacked with her ponytails.

N-Gang

She also appeared in the N-Gang comic series, but only had minor roles. She is seen in a group screenshot next to Banjo and Kazooie; Diddy, Donkey and King K. Rool are also seen.

These were her only appearances in comics and were also her only appearances out of games. In these comics she appeared with her old look.

Online

Tiny Kong is available in the Mario Super Sluggers online card collection. She was from the first characters to be released. In Double Play she can be combined with Funky Kong to get the Great Clambering Kongs video, in which she appears.

Card Description: Tiny Kong is the smallest of the Kongs and doesn't boast the power of her bigger friends. But she is by no means the weakest player in the game. Great team chemistry with the Kongs make her a valuable pick.

Canceled Appearance

Old Tiny Kong

She was one of the few characters confirmed to appear in the canceled GameCube game Donkey Kong Racing. The game was canceled because Rare was sold to Microsoft, but a trailer and few screenshot were released prior to this. In one of the images, she is seen riding Enguarde.[2] In this game she was going to appear with her old look.

Character Description

Current Adult/Late Teenager appearance

Tiny Kong Young and Older appearances

Tiny Kong in her original kid design and her bigger/newer/fully matured appearance.

Tiny, as her name ironically belies, is a tall chimpanzee type Kong (unless counting her shrinking ability), being taller than her big sister, Donkey Kong, and Princess Peach but she is not as tall as Candy Kong. She has blond hair that is tied up in two ponytails and has blue eyes, unlike her sister who has green eyes. She also wears makeup being her thick eyelashes and wears magenta eyeshadow. Her fur is brown, although in Diddy Kong Racing DS, it was slightly darker. Her current accessories consist of jumbo earrings and white fur wristbands. Her clothing consists of a sky blue sweat pants with a sky blue midriff exposing spaghetti-strap top with a flower on it (like Dixie's flower shirt in the DKC cartoon). Her top also has purple borders, she wears orchid sandals and wears a beanie hat that is green on the bottom, purple in the middle, pink on the top and has pink borders around the colors green and purple. She has pink nails.

This redesign appears to take a few inspirations from Candy Kong making her more of a Girly-Girl. Tiny became more groovy, hip, feisty, sassy, sarcastic, boisterous, cutesy, and the new look was used in Diddy Kong Racing DS as she replaced Banjo (since they are now of similar height and Tiny resembles Banjo's sister Tooty), a Rare character, and all games that came out afterward since her original child design didn't look different enough from Dixie, additionally it was used in Donkey Kong Barrel Blast and Mario Super Sluggers. An exception is her sticker from Super Smash Bros. Brawl where she uses her original look while her trophies in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U depict her adult self.

This look also created some controversy. Tiny actually looks like a young adult; appearing bigger than Dixie; the true older sister. This made some fans believe the fact that they were sisters was forgotten. They had never been referred to sisters again since Diddy Kong Racing DS. Some believed the fact they were sisters never made it to Japan, but this theory isn't true. Later on, it was confirmed in Rare's Scribes, that Nintendo was the one that requested to change her look, though her current look does bare a resemblance to PAON's character designs.[3] It is more likely that they are indeed still sisters since it is common for younger siblings to have growth spurts that make them outgrow and look older and different than their actual older siblings (just like Mario being the older twin brother and Luigi being the younger yet physically taller twin brother).

Past/Old self

Tiny Kong Old Appearance

During her debut in Donkey Kong 64, her fur was a lighter brown as opposed to her darker fur which she had in Diddy Kong Racing onwards. Her eyes were bigger, but they were also blue. Her clothes consisted of the same multicolored beanie hat as her current appearance, blue overalls with a flower on them (like Dixie's flower shirt in the DKC cartoon), a white T-shirt and white shoes. She also had bangs in this design. She was much smaller at this time, but despite that she was still bigger than Diddy Kong, making her also bigger than Dixie Kong since Diddy and Dixie are the same size.

This look was used in few games; it was first used in Donkey Kong 64. It was later used in the remakes of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!. It was also going to be used in Donkey Kong Racing, until it was canceled. It was also used for some comics. It's next use was for Tiny Kong's sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and was later used for her Spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

From Diddy Kong Racing DS onwards Nintendo decided to change her appearance and gave Tiny her current all grown up look.

Personality

As she has only had one major role there's only so many details known about her personality. Tiny's voice and demeanor is hinted at being groovy, sarcastic, somewhat sassy and Tomboyish, with a confident demeanor all of which are akin to her elder sister Dixie Kong, albeit expressed differently, as Tiny is more openly boisterous (whereas Dixie is comparatively more reserved/subdued) and she has a somewhat similar machismo/boisterousness to Diddy Kong.

She is also very brave, attacking even if her opponent is way bigger than her as shown during the DK Rap where she attacks a Klaptrap after she has used her Mini Monkey ability, although this has back-fired once as after Tiny witnessed Diddy Kong fight off the Kremlings, she overestimated her own abilities and was kidnapped, similar to how Diddy was captured. She is very gymnastic and flexible in her movements, able to perform the splits with ease.

In more recent games she is depicted more like a Girly-Girl in a somewhat cocky and arrogant yet matured fashion, but shows less of a tomboyish streak and more of a focus on dance-like movements similar to Candy Kong's dancing. In Mario Super Sluggers she regularly sways her hips when walking, after successfully making a nice play and when scoring an RBI or a home run. She breaks out into a brief dance and smiles when she successfully clears a mission, minigame or wins MVP. She is still shown to be very acrobatic as seen in Mario Super Sluggers when she successfully wins a close play. She jumps up high into the air and does a backflip before landing on the baseman.

Abilities

Much like her sister she uses her ponytails for attacking enemies, slowing and controlling her descent to the ground and can also extend her jump by rotating her ponytails. In Donkey Kong 64 she was one of the fastest Kongs, she had a very high jump, she could also attack enemies by jumping on them and she is good at swimming and could breathe underwater. In Donkey Kong Barrel Blast she once again used her ponytails to attack and break things open. She, like all the other racers, could also perform Wild Moves in this game. In Mario Super Sluggers she had the ability Clamber.

In Donkey Kong 64 her abilities were:

  • From Cranky's potions:
    • Simian Slam: she can press green buttons that are marked with her face.
    • Super Simian Slam: she can press blue buttons that are marked with her face.
    • Super Duper Simian Slam: she can press red buttons that are marked with her face.
    • Mini-Monkey: with the help of her special barrel she can shrink and enter small places.
    • Ponytail Whirl: uses her ponytails as helicopter and can expand her jump, she can also make her fall slower.
    • Monkey-Port: with the help of her Kong Pad she can teleport.
  • From other Kongs:
    • Saxophone Slam: she uses a saxophone to defeat enemies and can make secrets appear. She got this from Candy's music shop.
    • Feather Crossbow: she uses a feather bow to defeat enemies or to activate switches. She bought this from Funky.

Interactions With Other Characters

Dixie Kong

See also: Dixie Kong

Her most notable relation is with her older sister, Dixie Kong. They have appeared in only a few games together, but Tiny has still never shown any kind of affection to her sister. In the remake of Donkey Kong Country 2 and Donkey Kong Country 3 Dixie had to save her in a mini-game. An interesting fact is that her trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl didn't mention that the two were sisters. The two share Girly-Girl and Tomboyish traits, and also good chemistry in Mario Super Sluggers.

Diddy Kong

See also: Diddy Kong

Diddy is her sister's boyfriend. In Donkey Kong 64 Diddy was the only one that could free her. In Diddy Kong Racing DS, Diddy chose her and Dixie as some of the characters that were going to help Timber, and were also the only two Kongs chosen. In the remake of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Diddy had to save her in a mini-game. Diddy may treat Tiny as his little sister. They also share good chemistry in Mario Super Sluggers.

Chunky Kong

See also: Chunky Kong

Chunky is Tiny's cousin. At the end of Donkey Kong 64 they are shown playing, signifying that they have a good relationship with each other. When Chunky is about to be chosen in the Tag Barrel, he gets scared and suggests the player instead chooses Tiny.

The Kremlings

See also: Kremlings

Tiny is presumed to have a bad relation with King K. Rool and the Kremlings as all the other Kongs do. King K. Rool kidnapped her in Donkey Kong 64. She is believed to have an especially bad relationship with Kalypso, as the two were designed to be rivals in Donkey Kong Barrel Blast. She also seem to dislike specially Klaptraps, as she is shown in the DK Rap hitting one. In Mario Super Sluggers she has bad chemistry with Kritter and King K. Rool.

Other

Tiny shares chemistry with Funky Kong and Donkey Kong in Mario Super Sluggers, hinting that they might have a good relationship. She is also Kiddy Kong's cousin, but she has never interacted with him. She is believed to have a good relation with other Kongs like Candy, Cranky and Wrinkly Kong.

She is presumed to still be enemies with Mad Jack and Wizpig, who she fought in past appearances. She has also befriended such characters as the Banana Fairy Queen, Timber, and the mermaid from Donkey Kong 64. Recently, she may have gained two new enemies; Bowser and Bowser Jr., because she helped Mario and the gang beat them in Mario Super Sluggers. In this game she has bad chemistry with Birdo.

German Donkey Kong 64 website

Name: Tiny Kong

Occupation: Tax Official

Hobbies: Tooting the saxophone, Fashion

Favorite dish: Watches her weight, only extra-light meals!

Favorite movie: Bananic

Greatest hero: Kongia Schiffer "Tiny Kong has long been known as a multi-talent and wonder child. Her greatest wish is a career as a super-model, but unfortunately Tiny is much too short for this occupation. Besides, she would have to leave the island, and that is out of question for Tiny. Instead she prefers to juggle numbers and manages the banana coins savings and the financial system of the island.

While doing this she never loses sight of her dream, though, and often presents her own fashion collections to the islanders. Despite her multifarious talents Tiny is always trying to follow the footsteps of Dixie Kong, who together with Diddy has made a name for herself as an adventurer. One day, when she observes how Diddy is attacked by cunning Kremlings, she sees her big chance. Unfortunately she has overstimated her abilities and is now in captivity, just like Diddy."

Voice Acting

  • In Donkey Kong 64 she was voiced by Eveline Fischer.
  • In all later games she is voiced by Kaoru Sasashima, who also does the voice of Dixie Kong and Candy Kong.

Quotes

  • "Nice work, Diddy! Right then, I’ll grab all the purple bananas I see."Donkey Kong 64
  • "I’m off to the tag barrel – Ready to kick reptile Butt!"Donkey Kong 64

Trivia

  • Tiny's physical aging from child to teenager to young adult hasn't ever been given an in-game explanation and remains unconfirmed, though it could likely just be a growth spurt during puberty.
    • Some speculate it could be related to her Mini-Monkey ability to change her size to suit her mood, which explains her name pun.
      • It's possible it could be because of the genetics Tiny and Dixie inherited from at least one of their parents, Tiny inherited the "tall gene" whereas Dixie did not inherit it but she is still older and already fully grown, similar to the height difference between Luigi and Mario.
        • Another theory is based on the German manual of DK64 stating that she wanted to become a supermodel. Speculation says that she asked Cranky Kong to create her a potion to make her taller and older so that she can fulfill that dream.
  • Tiny's beta design in concept art appears to be inspired by Abu from Disney's Aladdin, particularly the fez and the vest, the beanie hat in her final design may be a reference to this.
  • Tiny Kong in video games and other media has showcased many feats.
  • Like many other Kongs Tiny has large thumb toes, with toe-nail polish on as well.

External Links

References

Diddy Kong Racing (DS) Characters
Playable Characters
Diddy KongKrunch the KremlingDrumstick the RoosterBumper the BadgerBanjo (N64 only) • Conker the Squirrel (N64 only) • Tiptup the TurtleT.T.Pipsy the MouseTimber the TigerTiny Kong (DS only) • Dixie Kong (DS only) • Taj the Genie (DS only) • Wizpig (DS only)
Bosses
Tricky the TriceratopsBluey the WalrusBubbler the OctopusSmokey the DragonWizpig