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[[File:Donkey Kong vs Super Wario.jpg|thumb|''Donkey Kong vs. Super Wario'']] | [[File:Donkey Kong vs Super Wario.jpg|thumb|''Donkey Kong vs. Super Wario'']] | ||
*During September 2015, ''Donkey Kong Country'' designer [[Gregg Mayles]] posted many pieces of concept art and early pitches for the game, including a binder named '''''Donkey Kong vs. Super [[Wario]]'''''.<ref name=Ghouly>https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/644266725375148033</ref> No other media of the pitch was posted and when asked about its content, Mayles responded "''Didn't get much beyond Wario and some kind of time machine as I recall.''"<ref name=Ghouly/> Eventually, he posted an actual storyboard of it to Twitter, showing Wario stealing a time machine [[Mario]] invented and turning him to stone using a "futuristic beam gun" in order to "rule Nintendo Land," with a parrot seeing this and going to Donkey Kong for help.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/1177306565109518336 ''Donkey Kong vs. Super Wario'' storyboards]</ref> According to Gregg Mayles, this pitch was not pursued because [[Nintendo]] wanted the villains to be new characters.<ref>"It's an early pitch we made to Nintendo that eventually became DKC. They wanted all new bad guys, so we used our reptile Kremlings instead. I still have the book somewhere, but I'm sure I tweeted a some images from inside a few years ago", [https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/1176830620137377792 Gregg Mayles in a September 25, 2019 twitter post]</ref> | *During September 2015, ''Donkey Kong Country'' designer [[Gregg Mayles]] posted many pieces of concept art and early pitches for the game, including a binder named '''''Donkey Kong vs. Super [[Wario]]'''''.<ref name=Ghouly>https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/644266725375148033</ref> No other media of the pitch was posted and when asked about its content, Mayles responded "''Didn't get much beyond Wario and some kind of time machine as I recall.''"<ref name=Ghouly/> Eventually, he posted an actual storyboard of it to Twitter, showing Wario stealing a time machine [[Mario]] invented and turning him to stone using a "futuristic beam gun" in order to "rule Nintendo Land," with a parrot seeing this and going to Donkey Kong for help.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/1177306565109518336 ''Donkey Kong vs. Super Wario'' storyboards]</ref>. According to Gregg Mayles, this pitch was not pursued because [[Nintendo]] wanted the villains to be new characters.<ref>"It's an early pitch we made to Nintendo that eventually became DKC. They wanted all new bad guys, so we used our reptile Kremlings instead. I still have the book somewhere, but I'm sure I tweeted a some images from inside a few years ago", [https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/1176830620137377792 Gregg Mayles in a September 25, 2019 twitter post]</ref> | ||
*Mayles posted another pitch titled '''''Donkey Kong and the Golden Bananas''''', which is more similar to the final game. From the four pages posted on his Twitter, the storyline in the pitch shows Donkey Kong guarding the [[Golden Banana]] while relaxing. A lanky blue Kremling named Korporal Krizzle defeats DK and steals the Golden Banana. Grandpa Kong (an early version of [[Cranky Kong]] resembling a white-furred DK) finds Donkey Kong and urges him to get back the artifact. Donkey then calls [[Donkey Kong Jr.|Donkey Kong Junior]], whose design is nearly identical to [[Diddy Kong]], albeit without a tail.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/639518568581869568 Cover of Golden Bananas] and [https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/639541214774206466 Golden Bananas concepts] from Gregg Mayles on Twitter</ref> | *Mayles posted another pitch titled '''''Donkey Kong and the Golden Bananas''''', which is more similar to the final game. From the four pages posted on his Twitter, the storyline in the pitch shows Donkey Kong guarding the [[Golden Banana]] while relaxing. A lanky blue Kremling named Korporal Krizzle defeats DK and steals the Golden Banana. Grandpa Kong (an early version of [[Cranky Kong]] resembling a white-furred DK) finds Donkey Kong and urges him to get back the artifact. Donkey then calls [[Donkey Kong Jr.|Donkey Kong Junior]], whose design is nearly identical to [[Diddy Kong]], albeit without a tail.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/639518568581869568 Cover of Golden Bananas] and [https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/639541214774206466 Golden Bananas concepts] from Gregg Mayles on Twitter</ref> |