Donkey Kong Country Was Originally Called “Monkey Mayhem”, & King K. Rool’s Original Name Was “Kommander K. Rool”

King K. Rool’s inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate surprised a lot of people, including the people that helped create the character so many years ago. Since then, these same people have been giving some interesting tidbits about the character. The biggest one of all showed up a few days ago. An early name sheet for the game revealed that Donkey Kong Country was originally called “Monkey Mayhem”, and King K. Rool was called “Kommander K. Rool” at this stage of development. Sqwawks was originally an owl called Hooter. Here’s the tweet that gave the name sheet:

Never expected this tweet https://t.co/3IpVWMAcDU about #KingKRool in #SmashBros to be so popular. As a moderately interesting bonus follow up, an early naming sheet shows K. Rool was going to be 'Kommander' and #DKC was going to be called 'Monkey Mayhem' pic.twitter.com/SvwnOxXN2S

— Gregg Mayles (@Ghoulyboy) August 10, 2018