Let's see...
King Kong:
Produced Son of Kong...
And as if that weren't enough...
Here's Hairy Gorilla and his Hairy Son, from the Phoenix Suns basketball team:
And who could ever forget Video game legend Donkey Kong:
And his son Donkey Kong Jr.:
It is this last "father-son" duo that has had me scratching my head tonight, because it just doesn't make sense to me. I mean, who exactly is Donkey Kong Jr.'s mother?
There are others who have also wondered like me, about Donkey Kong Jr's history and origins. One good blog post is The Identity Crisis of Donkey Kong Jr. by Ashley Davis.
In it, she speculates greatly on just where this minor character fits in in the Nintendo Universe, but she doesn't ask the questions that have been plaguing me since finishing my third cup of coffee about an hour ago.
Didn't Donkey Kong have a thing for blond human females that were about a third his size?
He was totally obsessed with stealing Mario's girl, so much so in fact, that I highly doubt that he ever had time to cavort with female gorillas who quite frankly, were never his type to begin with.
And why are the sons of the more dominant and successful gorillas always nebbish and dorky anyway? They all look like sons of Urkell, I think...
Perhaps none of these so called sons (King Kong, Hairy Gorilla, Donkey Kong) are actually biological sons at all. Maybe the dominant fatherly gorillas were active in the community and adopted troubled youths in a program similar to Big Brothers/Big Sisters.
Or maybe they all just met Amy from the movie Congo.
It is this last "father-son" duo that has had me scratching my head tonight, because it just doesn't make sense to me. I mean, who exactly is Donkey Kong Jr.'s mother?
There are others who have also wondered like me, about Donkey Kong Jr's history and origins. One good blog post is The Identity Crisis of Donkey Kong Jr. by Ashley Davis.
In it, she speculates greatly on just where this minor character fits in in the Nintendo Universe, but she doesn't ask the questions that have been plaguing me since finishing my third cup of coffee about an hour ago.
Didn't Donkey Kong have a thing for blond human females that were about a third his size?
He was totally obsessed with stealing Mario's girl, so much so in fact, that I highly doubt that he ever had time to cavort with female gorillas who quite frankly, were never his type to begin with.
And why are the sons of the more dominant and successful gorillas always nebbish and dorky anyway? They all look like sons of Urkell, I think...
Perhaps none of these so called sons (King Kong, Hairy Gorilla, Donkey Kong) are actually biological sons at all. Maybe the dominant fatherly gorillas were active in the community and adopted troubled youths in a program similar to Big Brothers/Big Sisters.
Or maybe they all just met Amy from the movie Congo.
Amy, by the way is the one who DOESN"T look like like David Hasselhoff.
I guess I'm stressing out about this issue way too much. After all Donkey Kong seems to be a pretty good dad, no matter who the mother might be. Maybe he likes human women AND female gorillas. Who am I to judge?
And since Papa and Jr. like playing tennis together so much maybe I should look elsewhere for inspiration...
Okay, now I'm just going to hell for sure.
Goodnight everybody!
I guess I'm stressing out about this issue way too much. After all Donkey Kong seems to be a pretty good dad, no matter who the mother might be. Maybe he likes human women AND female gorillas. Who am I to judge?
And since Papa and Jr. like playing tennis together so much maybe I should look elsewhere for inspiration...
Okay, now I'm just going to hell for sure.
Goodnight everybody!
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