Punchy Paddy

Punchy Paddies are grouchy grasshopper enemies showing up in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, whose habitat is the Lost Mangroves. They are rather chubby, and display stretched heads ending with underbite chins. Two short antennae stand aloft their heads and above their minuscule and malicious eyes, topped by frowned eyebrows. Punchy Paddies wear characteristic collars around their necks, and also display small wings that are surprisingly capable of holding their disproportionate bodies' weight.

Punchy Paddies make continuous swift leaps on stable surfaces. They fly up and descend slowly on the ground, in possible attempts to land on the Kongs and hurt them. The heroes are supposed to either stomp or roll into the Punchy Paddies in order to defeat them. In one level called Shipwreck Shore, a group of three Punchy Paddies hop on wooden crates that buoy on a pool of water; if these crates get destroyed with a Corkscrew move performed from underneath the surface of the water, the grasshopper-like creatures will have no choice but to fall in the pool. Before disappearing at its surface, they congest their faces into horrified figures, while repeatedly writhing their legs in the air.

While descending, Punchy Paddies usually instigate the Kongs in a conflict by beckoning at them and looking angry. This gesture marks their "punchy" behavior.

Punchy Paddies act very similar to Frogoons from Donkey Kong Country Returns - frog foes that jump up and down. Some of the Punchy Paddies not only do hop in one spot, but open paths, as seen in Busted Bayou - these are acting more like Hopgoons that have appeared in the said game. Nonetheless, they can be combated the same way described above.

Just as with any other easy-to-combat enemy, shooting a Punchy Paddy with a popgun or ground pounding next to one makes it dizzy, and therefore stuns it for a while.