Candy Kong

Candy Kong is a character from the Donkey Kong series. She is a member of the Kong Family and Donkey Kong's rumored girlfriend. Her first appearance was in the game Donkey Kong Country. She was the first female Kong character to appear in the Donkey Kong Series, and even up to this day has never been playable in a game.

She appears in almost all Donkey Kong games to date, she usually hosts mini-games or helps the Kongs by selling things to them. She has also appeared in comics and in the official Donkey Kong Country cartoon.

Debut and Remakes
The first appearance of Candy Kong was in the game Donkey Kong Country. Here, she managed Candy's Save Point where Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong can save their progress. She appeared in all levels and also appeared in the ending. She didn't appear in another game until Donkey Kong 64.

In the Game Boy Color remake of Donkey Kong Country, she manages the game's various mini-games. In the Game Boy Advance remake, Candy's occupation is once again changed. She now runs Candy's Dance Studio, where the Kongs can play a dancing mini-game.

Aside from Donkey Kong Country, Candy did not appear in any other games in the Donkey Kong Country series, though she does appear in the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. In this game, Candy cameos as Swanky Kong's assistant in on his quiz show, one of her two appearances in all the game, along with the ending.

She also appeared in the remake of Donkey Kong Country 3. Candy briefly appears in one of Funky Kong's mini-games. In the mini-game she appears in the water, along some other Kongs, and Dixie and Kiddy with help of their boat, had to save her from being taken away by Kremlings.

Music Shop
Candy's second appearance was in Donkey Kong 64 Candy reappears running Candy's Music Shop, which is found in every area after Jungle Japes except Fungi Forest and Hideout Helm. Here, Candy sells the Kongs powerful musical instruments which can defeat foes and cause certain events to occur if used on a Music Pad. Candy will also give the Kongs an extra watermelon on occasion, increasing the amount of damage the Kongs can sustain.

In the end after Chunky fights King K. Rool Candy appears and distracts King K. Rool, while Funky appears from behind and shoots him a big shoe, which sends him to were K. Lumsy is located. She also appears in the two endings were she is seen riding K. Lumsy, along all the Kongs, and in the second one she is seen seating outside of Donkey kong's house. In the secret ending she appears various times, and every time she appears she laughs.

Vacations
Candy returns in the game DK: King of Swing, despite having official artwork for the game, Candy only briefly appears in the game itself, she can also be seen cheering the player. She and Cranky Kong were the only Kongs not playable in this game.

Her next appearance was in the DS game DK Jungle Climber. In this game she went with all the Kongs to vacations in Sun Sun Island. She appears in the opening cutscene where she is seen sitting with an umbrella, for protection against the sun rays of the island, while enjoying the sighting.

Candy's Challenges
Her first appearance in the Wii console was in the game Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, she is the only Kong that appears in this game who is not playable. In this game she has her own mode, Candy's Challenges, in this mode she gives Donkey different challenges he must complete in order to unlock certain characters. She appears in the cutscene seen when the cursor is passed over the Candy Challenges options, she seems to be choosing who is going to participate in her challenges, although only Donkey can participate, she may be as well choosing rivals for Donkey.

Candy as a Trophy
She had her own trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, however, the trophy mentioned that she was only rumored to be Donkey Kong's girlfriend. Her trophy mentions Candy's last appearance as being Donkey Kong 64 instead of Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, it also mentions Candy's music shop from Donkey Kong 64 and Candy's Challenges form Donkey Kong Barrel Blast.

Cartoons
On the Donkey Kong Country cartoon, Candy was drastically changed, more so than any other character. On the show, Candy had a completely different personality.

On the show, Candy had somewhat of a temper, she was also apparently, the sole employee at Kongo Bongo Island's (as Donkey Kong Island was called on the show) barrel factory. Like in the games, Candy was Donkey Kong's girlfriend, much to the annoyance of her boss, Bluster Kong, who wanted Candy all to himself.

She appeared since the first episode, in the episode Bad Hair Day is her birthday and both Bluster and Donkey try to go out with her, Bluster gave her a cake, and Donkey gave her Banana flowers, but she rejected both. Later a robot of her is constructed to cut Donkey's hair in order to make Donkey weak. After, Candy is blamed for that and she explains she was at the barrel factory all day, and then they realized it was an impostor and not Candy. Cranky gives Candy a potion to undo the curse, but Bluster drops it, and a giant banana tree grows, they realized that Donkey could undo the curse by eating bananas. Then at the end Candy gives Donkey a present, at the same time as the robot. Candy gets mad as Donkey choose the robot as the real Candy and leaves.

In the episode Ape Foo Young she goes to dinner at Donkey's house (while Donkey is transformed into a baby), Diddy lies her telling her that the baby is Donkey's nephew and asks Candy if she can stay with the baby while he goes and look for Donkey, Diddy really went looking for Cranky to get help and transform Donkey to his original self. As Diddy didn't return she had to take the baby to her work at the barrel factory, were she was punished by Bluster for being late three minutes and 46 seconds. Later the baby snakes and gets himself inside a barrel, Candy gets him out and afterwards Bluster punishes Candy again by putting the baby in a barrel, so Candy don't gets distracted while working. Then Baby Kong gets out and starts pushing all buttons in Candy's work, which messes all the barrel production, and then the baby hides in one of the barrels. Meanwhile Diddy arrives and asks Candy were Baby Kong is and she explains what happened. Lastly Donkey returns to his normal state.

In the episode Booty and the Beast, Bluster asks her who is the handsome Kong of the island and she responds Donkey. Suddenly King K. Rool arrives, Candy confronts him asking what does he want; King K. Rool takes out the Crystal Coconut saying that he is now the ruler of the island. This frightens Bluster who says he will obey his orders, this gets Candy mad, King K. Rool explains he wants to manufacture explosive barrels so no one can stand him. Later, Donkey arrives to regain the Crystal Coconut and to save Candy, who is in charge of two Kremlings, afterwords King K. Rool escapes in a mine cart.

In the episode Barrel, Barrel, Who’s Got the Barrel, she had a formal lunch with Donkey, all was going well until Bluster arrived to say that lunch time is over unless she wants to go playing hockey with him, she refuses and says she prefers finishing the lunch with Donkey. Bluster asks her what she likes about the big hairy ape (Donkey), Candy responds that she likes that he is a big hairy ape, finally Bluster goes away and leaves Candy and Donkey finish their lunch. Candy goes back to work and suddenly Bluster arrives with a new look saying he is now a hairy ape, and asks her if she is going out with him, but she refuses again. The next day at work, Bluster starts bothering again and says he is the future ruler of the island and takes out the Crystal Coconut. Candy doesn't believe him and thinks it’s fake so she hits him, resulting in the Crystal Coconut getting inside a barrel and getting launch to a far place.

In the episode Kong for a Day, King K. Rool throws a banana so Candy slips on it, in order for her to get mad with him. As Candy enters the room she slips and blames Donkey telling him not to ever see her again. Then Bluster takes advantage of this and invites her to go out, but she refuses. After, Klump enters and starts shooting to everything, so she and Bluster hide behind the conveyor belt. Finally Donkey saves them all and all returns to normal.

In the episode Raiders of the Lost Banana, Donkey gives the curse golden banana to Candy, as a gift for their anniversary. In her work she showed the cursed banana to Bluster and suddenly barrels start to fall, she and Bluster ran away, in the way out Bluster steps in her head which makes her mad. Candy asks Bluster if he can take her back to her home, he aggrieves, but in the way home the cursed banana makes the helicopter stop working and they fall. They fall in Cranky's house and when he sees the cursed banana, Candy explains him it’s her anniversary gift, and Cranky explains her it’s a cursed banana. In her way out she finds Donkey and he explains her that the banana is cursed, but she says she is keeping it unless Donkey wants to stop going out with her. In her way home Klump finds her and takes her, along the cursed golden banana, to King K. Rool. King K. Rool tries to negotiate with her for the banana, but she refuses, this makes him mad and orders Klump to punish her, Donkey arrives just in time to save her. Donkey decides to take her home, and they go home in a mine cart.

In the episode From Zero to Hero, she is one of the characters reunited to see Cranky's new experiment and explains Doneky that even the kremlings can test the x-ray machine. When it was her turn to test the machine, Bluster arrives and says he is next, because he is rich. When it finally was her turn she had to go back to work, leaving Dixie next to enter. In her free time she starts doing aerobics, Funky starts to see a program where a woman screams, Bluster thinks Candy is calling for help and he almost crashes with her in his helicopter, he then proposes to her but she thought he has turned crazy.

In the episode Buried Treasure Bluster invites her to a treasure hunt, at first Candy didn't want to go, but Dixie finally convinces her, then the three of them go to the mountain mines. In the road to mountain mines Bluster and Candy start fighting about who will have the treasure. After Candy and the others arrive, she and Dixie quickly follow Donkey, Diddy and Funky to get the treasure, leaving Bluster behind. After, the Kongs and King K. Rool start fighting in minecarts for the treasure. At the end Candy and the others discover the treasure was actually rotten bananas.

In the episode Get a Life, Don’t Save One in the beginning Donkey sings a song for her. She really liked the song. While enjoying the song Bluster comes and ruins all. After, Candy tells him that she liked the song and they are about to kiss until Bluster ruins it. Bluster said to Donkey that Candy had germs.

Comics
She also made a brief appearance in the Club Nintendo comic "Donkey Kong Country". Like in the game of the same name, she was found at her Save Point. Donkey and Diddy decided to tell her about their journey. Candy, instead of letting Donkey and Diddy Kong "save" their progress; she provided them with Squawks the Parrot in order to make their journey easier. She is also briefly seen at the end of the comic "Donkey Kong in: Banana Day 24" from the same magazine, celebrating together with the other Kongs.

Character Description
Candy has blue eyes, her hair is blond that on length goes slightly below her shoulders. She is the only female kong that uses makeup, she uses a pink lipstick and has blue eye shadows, she also has pink nails. Her clothing consists of pink bikini top, with her name in it, and pink mini-shorts with a belt on them. Her fur has shades of pink.

In her first appearance her clothing was a pink swimming suit and wore a pink bow with white dots. Her eye shadows were pink. Her hair was shoulder-length and had a short bang with curly hair at the sides (similar to Dixie's current appearance). Her fur was brown.

In Donkey Kong 64 she had the same makeup as her current appearance. She wore a pink mini-short with a black belt and a pink short-sleeve top. She also wore headphones, and for the first and only time wore pink and white shoes. Her fur was brown.

In the remake of Donkey Kong Country 2 she wore a purple dress.

In the cartoons she had orange short hair. Her clothing consisted of a white t-shirt, blue mini-shorts and a black belt. She also wore a light blue band and had light brown fur. She wore earrings and golden bracelets.