Im gonna say what no-one else is willing to say: the Jungle Kingdom has a fxxxing banana peel crisis. Oo-oo-ooUoOou....(pours banana juice on Swanky's grave.)
I look at the fur and call him super kong; he does a level for you if you die a certain number of times in DKC Returns (it makes sense here because he's taking them to the temple instead of them going there themselves)
Didn't realize how much that store merchant looked like Cranky Kong until now. Looks like they copy and pasted Cranky and just made his beard shorter lol
You can even see his signature white spats (shoe protectors). I imagine he probably left his signature hat behind because it'd blow off driving around.
You can see swanky kong in the audience during the battle between mario and dk i believe, you at least could see him there during the trailer but due to him not even being in the explosion I think it's safe to say he's fine
If he died then RIP Swanky Kong. You were a part of a... interesting and complicated family and wore a yellow vest (like a banana). This truly was the saddest death in the history of animation. Step aside, Disney and Pixar. Illumination's in town.
He is still alive because the movie takes place the first time donkey kong and mario ever met meaning the first donkey kong game with the barrels comes after this
They should charge him with gross negligence. (possibly manslaughter if swanky died). It's gross negligence because he didn't give a thought about it and tossed the peel on the ground. Causing the life changing injuries to swanky.
Considering Mario survived, blunt trauma in a pipe, peach's obstacles course, and a LITERAL GORILLA ATTACK without so much as a scratch on him. And the one death we did see was bowser roasting a Koopa into a drybones, I am inclined to think that he's ok.
He got up dusted himself off, and then went home, swanky is an absolute chad, so obviously he just got up and went home, that hit was only a percentage of his power.
I can't believe they didn't have Funky Kong come in the motorcycle (a Flame Runner maybe) to pick up Mario and the rest of them when they got to the Kongs' city. That would have been the best thing ever