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Dixie Kong is one of the playable characters in many of the Donkey Kong games. She was created by Rareware to be the second controllable character in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. Identifiable by her pink beret and long ponytail, Dixie was one of the few female heroes in video games when conceived, and instantly became a popular addition to the franchise. Her most famous attribute is the ability to slow her descent and glide farther by whirling her ponytail like helicopter blades. She also uses this ponytail to lift barrels and other objects over her head. She has a younger sister named Tiny Kong, her boyfriend is Diddy Kong, and her cousins are Chunky Kong and Kiddy Kong.

Origins: 1995 - 1997

As the girlfriend of Diddy Kong, she was just as enthusiastic of an adventurer as her boyfriend was. In Donkey Kong Country 2, Dixie and Diddy Kong had to journey to Crocodile Isle to rescue Donkey Kong from the clutches of Kaptain K. Rool. While this was seen more as Diddy's hero quest than a validation of Dixie's worthiness, the female Kong proved herself to be just as capable as her more established partner. At the conclusion of the game, K. Rool was inadvertenly blasted into the sacred Kremling energy source, clogging the flow until it built up in a massive explosion. Crocodile Isle was destroyed and it looked like the Kremlings were finished, but they returned in Donkey Kong Land 2, as did Crocodile Isle, to kidnap Donkey Kong yet again. Dixie set off with Diddy once again, and the end of the adventure yielded the same results as the first time, save for the fact that K. Rool's fate was more ambiguous.

As opposed to the first and third Donkey Kong Countries, Dixie is the first sidekick character to not have a reasonable introduction in game. In Donkey Kong Country, it was explained in the manual (and the game itself on the GBA version) that Diddy was imprisoned in a DK barrel, and Donkey had to go out and release him. In Donkey Kong Country 3, Kiddy joins Dixie as soon as she enters Funky's Rentals. However, in Donkey Kong Country 2, Dixie is mentioned in the beginning story of the game, but strangely appears in a DK barrel at the beginning of the game without any explanation as to why.

It was in this game that Dixie Kong's beret was embedded with a pin with the RareWare logo, a symbolistic compliment to Diddy Kong with the "Nintendo" Hat. With RareWare now developing for Microsoft, however, the pin is nowhere to be found.

In Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Dixie Kong took on the starring role. The storyline of the game revolved around vacationers Donkey and Diddy Kong going missing in the Northern Kremisphere. With no word from the duo for days, as well as Kremlings suddenly appearing in the area, Dixie decided to investigate their disappearance. Upon arrival, Funky Kong advised her to take her hulking toddler cousin, Kiddy Kong, with her for assistance. As it turns out, DK and Diddy were being used as the brains for KAOS, the giant cyborg that was believed to be the new Kremling ruler. In fact, K. Rool, still alive after the events of Donkey Kong Land 2, was secretly controlling KAOS from behind the scenes and had kidnapped the two Kongs in their sleep to use their cerebral energies to power the robot. Dixie and Kiddy defeated KAOS and K. Rool — now appearing in the new mad scientist persona of Baron K. Roolenstein — and liberated DK and Diddy from their mechanical prison. Dixie was now every bit the hero that Diddy was. She again partnered up with Kiddy in Donkey Kong Land III. When Donkey and Diddy took off to find the Lost World in a prize-packed contest without asking her to tag along, Dixie decided to try and one-up them by joining with Kiddy once again and beating them to the punch. Unfortunately, the Kremlings were also trying to find it, as was K. Rool himself. Eventually, after a final showdown with K. Rool in the Lost World, Dixie and Kiddy claimed victory in the contest.

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