Zinger

Zinger
Zinger's artwork from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.
Abilities	Stinging
Species	Wasp
Affiliation(s)	Kremling Krew
Sub-species	Mecha-Zinger
Notable Members	King Zing Queen B.
Game(s)	Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Land Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Donkey Kong Land 2 Donkey Kong 64 Diddy Kong Pilot (2003 build)
First appearance	Donkey Kong Country (1994)
Latest appearance	Diddy Kong Pilot (2011)

Zinger is a wasp-like enemy who is a common foe to the Kongs along with the Kremling Krew. Their homeland is possibly Crocodile Isle.

History

Donkey Kong Country/Land

Zingers first appear in Donkey Kong Country as commonly found enemies first found in Ropey Rampage. They are one of the most common enemies found in the game along with Gnawties, Neckies and Slippas. These enemies have spikes on their back to prevent the monkeys from injuring them front, back and top. They rather must use Rambi or any type of Barrel to take them out. In this game, they come in multiple kinds of colors. Zingers may fly around in various types of patterns or remain stationary. They also have a leader (Queen B.) in the game.

In the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country, Zingers appear in the credits, but strangely have odd colorations of themselves not existing in-game. They also lack their red colorations in the game.

Zingers reappear in Donkey Kong Land acting the same as in Donkey Kong Country and have the same ways of being defeated and still have their attacks. They only don't have Queen B. as their leader in this game. Expresso the Ostrich can now jump on them.

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest/Land 2

Zingers reappear in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Land 2 remaining the same attacks and ways of being defeated. They now have a new leader (King Zing) and can now be defeated with more Animal Buddies including Rattly which can use its jumping ability, Squitter which can use its web projectiles and Squawks which can spew its eggs at them. Their main location is at Krazy Kremland. They first appear in Gangplank Galley and make their final appearance in Animal Antics.

In the game, they also have a red coloration which are invincible to everything except for TNT Barrels. Besides that, they are the same as the regular Zingers.

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!/Land III

Zingers do not reappear in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Donkey Kong Land III and are replaced by mechanical wasps named Buzz.

Donkey Kong 64

Zingers reappear as enemies in Donkey Kong 64. In this game, they are more uncommon and gain a new sub-species called Mecha-Zinger which may have been inspired from Buzzes. When the player comes in contact with these foes, they swoop down and try to attack the player and are somewhat harder to avoid. The player once again becomes injured with touching these foes and can only be defeated via using weapons.

Donkey Kong Racing

Zingers were going to appear in the cancelled Donkey Kong Racing game as Donkey and Taj were seen riding Zingers in the forest and Taj can be seen riding one at the end of the trailer when the words "LET'S RIDE" are shown.

Diddy Kong Pilot

Zingers appear as items in the 2003 build of Diddy Kong Pilot released for the ROM. They can be used as projectiles to be left behind to defend the player from Buzzes or to allow players to knock into them.

Gallery

Artwork

Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

Sprites

Diddy Kong Pilot

Characters in Diddy Kong Pilot
Starter Characters
Donkey Kong · Diddy Kong · Dixie Kong · Cranky Kong · Candy Kong · Krunch · Kamikaze K. Rool
Unlockable Characters
Unimplemented as of the September 7, 2001 build