Pipsy

Pipsy is a lightweight, yellow mouse and a playable character in Diddy Kong Racing and its Nintendo DS remake, Diddy Kong Racing DS. She wears a red hairbow with white polka-dots on it, a blue and white sailor suit and a pair of red gloves. Pipsy is the only female character in the original game (as Dixie and Tiny replace Conker and Banjo in the remake respectively), and is one of the characters to assist Timber in preventing Wizpig from taking over his island. In the ending, Pipsy is seen riding on a pink triceratops.

She drives in pink vehicles, and in Diddy Kong Racing DS, she and all other characters have yellow as their default vehicle color. Pipsy's statistics are tied with Tiptup for best acceleration and handling (and Drumstick on the acceleration part in Diddy Kong Racing DS). Her top speed without bananas is 53.5 mph, and her theme instrument is steel drums.

Trivia

 * Pipsy's design was born out of a canceled game project called Astro Mouse. After the plans to make Astro Mouse a full game fell through, its main character was redesigned by Rare Ltd. artist Kevin Bayliss and included in Diddy Kong Racing as Pipsy.
 * A "Dark" version of Pipsy would have appeared in Diddy Kong Racing Adventure, which was a rejected video game pitch idea. Her special move would have been throwing triangular cheese wedges that damage the player.