YMMV / Donkey Kong Island

• Adorkable: Chunky is supposed to be The Big Guy, but having him be a Lovable Coward endeared him to many.
• Base-Breaking Character: DK and Diddy's parents are either funny because of their tendency to embarrass their kids and how open they are about the more... private aspects of their relationship, or are irritating because of those very same reasons. Them clearly favouring DK over Diddy (although it seems to be unintentional on their part) does not help much.
• Jerkass Woobie: K. Rool is cynic and bitter because of the horrible treatment he received, and still gets, from his family. His father constantly favours his older brother Kennedy over him, and Kennedy would always find ways to make K. Rool look bad, and his cousin and sister often take him for granted.
• The Woobie:
  • Diddy Kong has it awful. He's always the butt of all of the jokes, his friends pick on him for having a crush on Dixie, and he is subjected to abuse from Krusha as a result of liking Dixie (never mind the fact that Dixie and Krusha only dated briefly), which used to be much more severe than it is now. Not to mention, his parents clearly favour DK over him. Of course, that's not to say that they don't love Diddy, but he's always in his brother's shadow. Fortunately, things change for the better for Diddy.
  • Chunky is scared of everything and he is often subjected to some sort of misfortune, although to a lesser extent than Diddy. The poor guy can't catch a break.
  • K. Rool is so cynic of the world around him because his father always favoured his brother Kennedy over him. No matter how hard he tried, no matter how many things he achieved, his brother would always try to make his life miserable by doing better than him and gaining their father's approval. Not only that, but ever since he moved to Kongo Island, he has to deal with whatever shenanigans the Kongs have organized, as well as Krusha harrasing them and Klump... being Klump.
  • DK being so gullible and always trying to look for the positive side of things even when there isn't one lead to him becoming stuck in a toxic relationship with Candy, who psychologically abused him, took advantage of him at every opportunity, tried to leech off his hard work whenever she could, almost made him lose his job and friends, and even cheated on him with Krusha of all people. Even after Candy was exposed for who she really is, DK felt like her actions were all his fault for not being there for her. The worst part is that it is actually an accurate depiction of a toxic relationship.
  • While things eventually got better for Diddy, they got worse for Dixie. Turns out she too had feelings for Diddy because he was one of the few boys to not treat her like a trophy, but she was afraid of ruining their friendship and kept quiet about it and rejected his advances. She came to regret her decision when Diddy started dating Kitty, as it hurts her emotionally every time she sees them together, but she does not want to selfishly reck their relationship.

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