Nintendo Tried to ERASE Them from History

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One character that i still think is weird to be missing is Toadsworth, as he hasn't appeared since Partners in Time, and there is no real reason for why (maybe because of Toadette or the "no unique toad law"?)

According to Rare, Junior was the father of the main protagonist (Kranky admits in the dialogues that HE is the original Donkey Kong). So having him as the "sidekick" to his own son just wouldn't fly.

I really miss the Koopa Kids. They had such fun designs, and it’d be really cool to see them come back. At least have one of them stick around.

I don't feel like Wart was QUITE forgotten by Nintendo, even if he doesn't appear in games anymore. Nintendo had made a recruitment booklet forJapanese employees that featured brand new, completely unique hand-drawn artwork of various Mario characters working at Nintendo (such as Bowser Jr testing his Junior Clown Car on Spinies and Buzzy Beetles; a music session with Pauline singing, Luigi on a double bass, Spike on a bongo and Wiggler on Note Blocks; Peach and some Toads painting concept art; Thwomps smashing on Switch systems to test durability, overseen by a Boo; etc). One of these artworks is Daisy and Donkey Kong communicating via telephones at an office... and Daisy just so happens to be calling Wart, of all people! Wart is even surrounded by a bunch of Shy Guys! It's a neat little nod to a character that we haven't really seen all too often beyond remakes.

My theory for DK JR not being in anymore games is because it wouldn’t make sense for him to look or be younger than Dk since he’s technically his dad because cranky kong was the original one and also they probably can’t find a good design for him to look older

I’m fine with Nintendo having set cast members, but I wish they would try more variations like in the original paper Mario games while still establishing the regular versions as definitive.

Just to share some stuff about K. Rool, the reason K. Rool exists in the form that he does is actually because him as well as the rest of the Kremlings were going to be villains in another Rare game that was being made, it was a space themed text adventure game inspired by Monkey Island, but their designs in that game were very radically different from what we got in DKC, so in order to make them fit the DKC setting better, they made the designs more cartoony and so from there is how we got the designs we see Rool and the Kremlings with today and that text adventure game ended up getting scrapped at some point, don’t remember if that was before or after this decision though. As far as we know, the biggest connection to anything related to Mario early in DKC’s development is that at one point it was going to be a game where DK and Mario teamed up with Wario being the main antagonist.

I'm happy Daisy avoided this fate. Azalea stole Daisy's intended face because her earlier designs looked like a simple recolor of Peach. That was what caused Daisy to obfuscate and suffer an identity crisis for one decade. I'm glad Nintendo realized that making Azalea was a big mistake because she stole everything what Daisy wanted in the latter's earlier appearances. It's not going to matter if Daisy is a reskin of Peach, Daisy was a tomboyish doppelganger of Peach anyway, so it's all good. These characters Nintendo wanted to erase happened for good reason. Diddy Kong was a much better looking character than Donkey Kong Jr. anyway. And also, Bowser Jr. was the real Koopa Kid even if he is a simple reskin of Baby Bowser.

Instead of rehashing Mario Galaxy 1’s plot, Galaxy 2 should’ve had Tatanga as the main villain. I mean, he’s an alien, it would’ve made so much sense!

My theory/headcanon is that the Koopa Kids were imperfect clones of Bowser and that Bowser Jr. was the successful experiment. That's why he has no mother.

I really like Nintendo keeping their cast consistent but I feel like Donkey Kong Jr. and Wart could still be part of their own series. Koopa Kid should just be seen as Bowser Jr. and his variants as the character using Double Cherries in my opinion, it just makes no sense for them to be seen as different characters anymore.

The doing away with Paper Mario's "good individuals of normally enemy species" is a tremendous loss imo. Not only did it make the cast of those games more interesting, but it reflects how irl, there's both kind people and assholes alike in every population. Nintendo taking this uniform stance on the enemy character designs after getting that before just feels wrong in more ways than one.

I wish Wart and Tatanga appeared in more games to add more villains than just bowser. Maybe Wart could be Bowser’s echo fighter in smash (just replace the fire with bubbles) and Tatanga could be Bowser Jr’s echo fighter.

How cool would it be if in a future DK game, DK meets with his father, a grown up Junior, aged somewhere between DK and Cranky?

So Nintendo being completely simple compared to the ambitious GameCube era, is like Sega being afraid of making an ambitious game BC of a repeat of Sonic 06.

in a series like Mario, forgotten characters are bound to happen lol

DK Jr would be a cool character to add to Smash, as like a Pichu or Young Link for Donkey Kong: 1) It’d be another Donkey Kong series character. And 2) Maybe they could change DK’s moveset and use DK Jr as a way to preserve his current moveset.

Im actually kinda surprised that you never brought up the entire Super Mario RPG cast. I know its a one off game but Boshi, The Smithy Gang, Mallow and Geno, All great characters that really did broaden the Mario universe. I feel Nintendo has fallen in to the same issues that the western entertainment industry had fallen in to No innovation with new characters, stories, and IP's. I miss the expanded world of Mario. If anything those random new characters made the Mario world deeper than just Mario, Peach and Bowser when you look at it even now Main stays such as Yoshi and Wario are being pushed off to the side for the main 3.

Bruh. This guy forgot that Bowser was originally CALLED King Koopa before Mario World, just as Peach was called Princess Toadstool before Mario 64.