Bluster Kong

Bluster Kong is one of the characters exclusive to the Donkey Kong Country animated series except for a small appearance in Super Mario-Kun. Here, he appears in a chapter at the end of volume 23.

Bluster runs Kongo Bongo Island's resident barrel factory, which is actually owned by his mother (an unseen character). Occasionally, he speaks with his mother on a Mobile phone. He is the stereotypical rich, spoiled coward. He is constantly hitting on Candy Kong, his lone employee, despite the fact that she's dating Donkey Kong. Bluster is often considered a "spineless worm".

History
Often, Bluster's attempts to impress Candy or help one of the other Kongs leads to more harm than good. Some episodes actually focused around this character insight, such as "From Zero to Hero", in which Bluster, thinking that he was going to die within a week after hearing Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Cranky Kong seemingly talking about his x-ray pictures (they were actually talking about Cranky's x-ray machine). Another example of this is "Get a Life, Don't Save One", where Donkey Kong saves Bluster during an accident, and Bluster, indebted to DK, starts saving him from practically everything, even anything that's not really threatening.

In one of his attempts to impress Candy Kong, Bluster wound up transforming into a heartthrob named Leo Luster as a result of mixing all his hair tonics together (he thought it was unnatural for his hair to fall out). After Bluster transforms himself into Leo Luster, he stops in front of King K. Rool and his baddies, who have just made off with the Crystal Coconut, and introduces himself. Donkey, Diddy, and Candy Kong witness him as he sings to introduce himself, causing Candy to fall in love with him. During the song, Leo hypnotizes the Kremlings using his abilities from his new looks to make them hand over the Crystal Coconut and leave. Then, he gives the Coconut back to Donkey Kong, who becomes jealous of Candy's attraction towards him. Diddy forces Donkey to leave, and afterwards, Leo invites Candy to come to Funky Kong's new snack shack with him. As he talks, he notices that his voice is changing back to his original Bluster Kong voice; he quickly heads back to Bluster Barrelworks to get more serum, just as he turns back into his old self.

On their way, they are captured by the crocodiles and Leo Luster turns back into Bluster. The Kongs need Leo's hypnotizing powers to escape, but they have no serum. Donkey Kong encourages to find the Leo Luster within himself, as he believes that the serum only brought the Leo Luster part of him out. Bluster turns himself back into Leo with Donkey Kong's reasoning, and he hypnotizes the Kremlings so that they can free the primates and get back the Crystal Coconut. Afterward, Leo Luster turns back into Bluster once and for all.

Super Mario-Kun
Bluster Kong has made one appearance outside the television series, in volume 23 of Super Mario-Kun.

Personality
Bluster is portrayed as a rich stereotype; arrogant, rude, snooty, and selfish. He often rubs his wealth in Donkey Kong's face, who really couldn't care less. He has a crush on Candy, and often hits on her in order to get on a date with her, which fails. Bluster though has a soft side, as there were times where he'd tried to help others out, but did more harm than good. Most of the time he's selfish and cowardly, but despite that he does seem to care about his friends, especially Candy.

Interactions
As seen in Vote of Kong-Fidence, Bluster is disliked or ignored by most of the island of Kongo Bongo when no one else, including his own mother, votes for him when he runs for the position of 'ruler of Kongo Bongo.'

Donkey Kong
DK and Bluster are often seen as rivals; as they both have a crush on the same girl, Candy. However Candy chooses DK over Bluster, and there are many episodes where Bluster tries to prove that he's better than DK. Bluster at times seems like he hates DK, seeing him as an idiot and a fool as portrayed in the first episode, even admitting he can't stand him. Though in episodes such as Get a Life, Don't Save One indicates Bluster does in deed care about DK, even if he won't admit it. Although DK can get annoyed with Bluster, and is disgusted by his selfish side, he does in fact care about him.

Diddy Kong
Diddy and Bluster don't really see eye to eye. Diddy thinks of Bluster as a selfish jerk who's nothing more than a mama's boy who messes up and makes him and DK look bad. Bluster and Diddy don't have much interaction except when he's with DK. There were times where Bluster has taken advantage of Diddy and DK as seen in The Big Chill Out making them do all the work and taking the credit. Bluster however does seem to care about Diddy as seen in Speak No Evil Dude where he was concerned when Diddy contracted Kongo Bongo Gone Wrongo Disease. Diddy also at times seems to care about Bluster as he helped DK go save him a few times.

Candy Kong
Bluster has an enormous crush on Candy; always finding ways to try and woo her into being his girlfriend, which she always refuses. Because she works at the Barrel factory owned by his mom, Bluster also has treated her like an employee, always getting mad at her for being late, and not giving her raises. Bluster has once threatened to fire Candy at times, but despite that, he often hits on her. Candy doesn't necessarily hate Bluster, but she does get disgusted with him, especially for his rude side and the fact he hits on her. In It's a Wonderful Life when DK wishes he was never born, Bluster and Candy are married.

Cranky Kong
Cranky, out of all the Kongs, seems to despise Bluster the most for obvious reasons. He sees him as nothing more than a spoiled mama's boy. He even has an extra large needle for Bluster when it comes to vaccinations. Bluster in turn doesn't really care much for Cranky, though there were times where they seemed to care about each other. Bluster has admitted that he and Cranky are friends, even showing concern when Cranky, in Best of Enemies, was falling off Funky's plane and in Get A Life Don't Save One, Cranky alerted DK that Bluster was kidnapped by K. Rool, indicating that the two do care for one another. In To the Moon Baboon, Cranky did trust Bluster in managing the setup of a time-capsule for the moon, though this is mainly because Bluster is the only Kong who owns a rocket. The two were also in the same soccer team along with Eddie the Mean Old Yeti (Follow That Coconut).

Funky Kong
Bluster and Funky don't really seem to interact much, but Funky, like the others, gets annoyed with Bluster, and Bluster sees Funky as weird. The only episodes where they truly interacted were Hooray for Holly-Kongo Bongo. where Bluster gets on Funky's nerves when he takes credit for the movie he wrote, and Buried Treasure where the two are paired up in getting the little barrel that was thought to be a doomsday device. In the end of the episode, Funky was willing to get to know Bluster while they were trapped under a mine cart. However Bluster panicked at the fact that he was trapped with Funky, not willing to put up with his annoyance (even risking to expose himself to nuclear fallout, as the two thought that the doomsday device destroyed the island).

Dixie Kong
Bluster and Dixie don't really interact with each other, but like the others, Dixie is disgusted with Bluster's attitude. Bluster seems to treat her a little kinder though out of all the Kongs. Dixie has shown concerned for him when Bluster, in From Zero to Hero when she thought he was dying, when to get the Crystal Coconut back from King K.Rool and warned the others.

Quotes

 * "I'm just one sneaky, peeping, two-bit step away from becoming an even richer richest ape on Kongo Bongo Island - and that's rich."
 * "Marry me, Candy, and everything that's mine is yours, except for what's in this prenuptial agreement."
 * "Wait a minute, not so fast! I want to go over that 'richer-poorer' part again with my lawyer!"
 * "Can't we get this show on the road? I'm losing a fortune standing around here!"
 * "There, how could Candy possibly resist me now? (looks at his comb) What's this? Hair? My hair?? AAH! My hair's falling out!!"
 * "I can't use this. So what if I've lost a bit of hair? ...AAH! MORE HAIR!! I'm shedding!"
 * "That unimaginative Donkey Kong would be more than happy to trade whatever treasure he finds for a... station wagon to cargo his bananas around." ~Bluster
 * "Writing? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that involve knowing something like, say, the alphabet?"
 * Bluster: Hey, Candy. Surprise! Candy: A birthday cake. How original, Bluster. Bluster: Yes, I am a thoughtful son-of-a-gun. Happy birthday! Banana cream, your favorite! Candy: Rejected; I'm watching my figure. Bluster: Don't bother, I'm watching it for you.
 * Bluster: Do I get any last requests? K. Rool: OK, but it can't be too expensive! Bluster: Nonono! I simply wish to sing a song! (starts singing "100 Banana Bunches on the Wall" with Krusha and some Kritters)
 * Funky: Whoa! Maybe the kids have doom-swooped the island! Bluster: What will we do? Funky: Only thing we can do. Chill here and wait for the others to give us the 'All Clear' sign. Bluster: But that could take a long time! Funky: So, we get to know each other. I'll tell you my middle name if you, like, tell me yours. Bluster: LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!
 * Bluster: I'm tired, my feet are sore, I have sand in my shoes and I'm thirsty! Give me that bottle! Candy: No, this will save Donkey Kong! Bluster: So what if K. Rool wins? Who cares? Donkey Kong will be out of my hair; I can't stand that guy! Now gimme that stuff!
 * DK: Maybe we could fool K. Rool into thinking you could still hypnotize them! Bluster: I could do that. Or I could just use the last of the serum and really hypnotize them! DK: That would work too! (pats Bluster, causing him to drop the beaker) Oop! Bluster: At least it would have, if you weren't such a clumsy clutz!
 * Bluster: (after voting for himself) May I have another? Cranky: Sorry, Bluster, one vote each! That's how it works. Bluster: You mean, I get the same number of votes as him!? (points to Eddie the Yeti) And you call this a democracy!
 * Bluster: (when he gets vaccinated by Cranky) Owwweee!!! Sometimes I think that you have an extra long needle just for me Cranky. Cranky: (puts away the long needle next to the short needle) Don't be silly Bluster.

Trivia

 * In a manner similar to that of King K. Rool, Bluster's left eye will enlarge itself (this applies only to Season 1).
 * Both Bluster Kong and Swanky Kong are implied to be wealthy. It's unknown if Bluster's concept was inspired by Swanky or not.