Croctopus

"You're in my waters, punk! I'll finish you!"

- Croctopus, DKC comic

Croctopus are a species of octopus-like fish dwelling in the underwater levels of Donkey Kong Country. Their main attack pattern is to swim in set paths while spinning rapidly, poisonous tentacles extended. Croctopus are loosely based off the real-life Blue ringed octopus.

Donkey Kong Country


Unlike most underwater enemies, the Croctopus is completely invincible, even Enguarde is unable to defeat them. There are two types of Croctopus; purple ones who usually just swim in circles repeatedly, while blue Croctopus usually are dormant until passed. They will then give chase. As such, they are feared, and the real only way to escape defeat is to run, or swim, rather, out of their way. They appear mainly in the last part of Coral Capers and a majority of Croctopus Chase.

Donkey Kong Country comic
Croctopus make an appearance as enemies to Donkey and Diddy Kong in the German Club Nintendo comic adaptation of DKC. It attacks with it's usual spinning tentacles however Enguarde easily manages to defeat it, as opposed to being hurt in-game.

Donkey Kong Country

 * Coral Capers (purple)
 * Clam City (purple)
 * Croctopus Chase (blue)

Trivia

 * In the GBA remake of Donkey Kong Country 3, a similarly named boss by the name of Kroctopus appear as the boss of Razor Ridge. Despite the similar name, they are extremely different in terms of attacking and appearance.
 * Unused sprites found in Donkey Kong Country's coding reveal that Croctopus, in the beta, was once able to be hurt, having a defeated sprite.

Gallery
File:Croctopus.png File:Croctopus-manual.jpg File:Croctopus-comic.jpg|As seen in the comic 