@Tasuki Definitely not. The Kremlings were going to be used for a Battletoads game that was in the works at the same time as DKC, but Rare decided to use them as the villains in DKC instead because they found them a good fit for the game.
All characters in the DKC games belong to Nintendo.
Not at all. Nintendo owns all rights to K. Rool AND the Kremlings, which is why they appeared in DK: King of Swing, DK Jungle Climber, Barrel Blast on the Wii and Super Mario Sluggers. Any DKC characters created by Rare are now Nintendo property and have been forever.
As a side note, people; K. Rool and krew are in all of the DKC, Donkey Kong Land games and DK64 all of which are now (or will be soon in the US, for DK64) on the Wii U or 3DS virtual console. Kids who grew up in the buyout era get to actually see K. Rool aside from him being a trophy in Brawl or Sm4sh.
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@Tasuki Definitely not. The Kremlings were going to be used for a Battletoads game that was in the works at the same time as DKC, but Rare decided to use them as the villains in DKC instead because they found them a good fit for the game.
All characters in the DKC games belong to Nintendo.
Re: Former Rare Devs Playtonic Want Donkey Kong Country Villain K. Rool In Super Smash Bros.
@Tasuki
Not at all. Nintendo owns all rights to K. Rool AND the Kremlings, which is why they appeared in DK: King of Swing, DK Jungle Climber, Barrel Blast on the Wii and Super Mario Sluggers. Any DKC characters created by Rare are now Nintendo property and have been forever.
As a side note, people; K. Rool and krew are in all of the DKC, Donkey Kong Land games and DK64 all of which are now (or will be soon in the US, for DK64) on the Wii U or 3DS virtual console. Kids who grew up in the buyout era get to actually see K. Rool aside from him being a trophy in Brawl or Sm4sh.