We have chosen Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong is a fictional character; Shigeru Miyamoto created it for the Nintendo Company. Donkey Kong is a gorilla that appears in different videogames, such as Mario or Donkey Kong Country. When it first started to be commercialize, in 1981, was in the Super Mario Games, there he was Mario’s enemy, after his own games had started to be created the first one called Donkey Kong Country in 1994, but although having his own game it stills appears in some Mario games where he still acts as his enemy like in Mario Kart.

Donkey Kong is a big, corpulent and smart gorilla. He represents de strength because is what he most uses in every videogame, the strength used in a good way but also in a bad way, he also represents goodness because although he usually is the bad character he also is very loved by everyone. His big body, the hair over all his body and his nice and funny face makes people fell confortable with him and want to play with him. 

In some videogames he acts as the villain, for example in the Super Mario games he tries to stop Mario from rescuing his lover Pauline. Donkey Kong has Pauline kidnapped and he wants her for him. Mario is always the one that has to pass through different episodes to win Donkey Kong, while he is always save waiting for Mario to come. In the other hand in his own videogames is Donkey Kong who is in danger and is his son who has to rescue him. Nowadays Donkey Kong has become a ancient gorilla now known as Cranky Kong and is his son who has new videogames with the same strength his father used.

He is so popular because when he was commercialized he broke with all the rules. With his creation the jump-and-run platform was born. Nowadays, thirty years after his birth, he still is one of the most recognized and loved fictional characters. His strength, his roll of villain and his desire to annoy and win Mario are the characteristics that make this character enjoyable.

Sheila Ribot Escribano & Marta Prat Alesanco