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{{character infobox
|image=[[File:Cranky Kong.png|200px]]<br>''Donkey Kong Country'' artwork
|full_name=Donkey Kong Sr.
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'' (1981) 
|species=[[Kong]]
|latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]'' (2014)
|latest_portrayal=[[Takashi Nagasako]] (2007-2014)
}}
{{quote|I didn't! Whisking off maidens and chucking barrels, seven days a week I was!|Cranky Kong|Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest}}
'''Cranky Kong''' (also named '''Donkey Kong Sr.''')<ref>''Playing with Super Power: Nintendo Super NES Classics'' Prima Games, p. 112 - "'''''THE DK LINEAGE:''' Super Mario Kart is the only Mario Kart game to feature Donkey Kong Jr. Due to the success of Donkey Kong Country, all future Mario Kart entries featured Donkey Kong, who is actually Donkey Kong Jr.'s son, with Cranky Kong, aka Donkey Kong Sr., canonically being the character featured in the original Donkey Kong game. Make sense, right?''"</ref> is an elderly [[Kong]] and the paternal figure of the [[Donkey Kong (franchise)|''Donkey Kong'' franchise]]. He made his debut appearance in the ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'' arcade game as '''Donkey Kong''', which was his name during his youth, and he has a son named [[Donkey Kong Jr.]]. As Cranky Kong, he debuted in ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'', developed by [[Rare Ltd.|Rare]], who created his grandson, [[Donkey Kong]], as the main Kong bearing the "Donkey Kong" title ever since.

Cranky when he was Donkey Kong, was [[Mario]]'s main foe in the games until he gave up on villainy.<ref>"''Donkey Kong Country'' Instruction Booklet, Nintendo, 1994, p. 6 - "'''''IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NITE...:''' In his heyday, Cranky was the original Donkey Kong who battled Mario in several of his own games.''"</ref><ref>"''Donkey Kong Country'' Instruction Booklet, Nintendo, 1994, p. 27 - "'''''CRANKY KONG:''' Donkey Kong's grouchy pappy is actually the original Donkey Kong who starred in the many Donkey Kong arcade classic of the eighties.''"</ref> Because of his experiences as Donkey Kong original, Cranky has a huge knowledge that other [[Kong]]s never knew before.<ref>"'''Cranky Kong:''' ''Surely K. Rool can come up with better than that, maybe a bucket or perhaps a really nasty fridge!''" - ''Donkey Kong Country'' (GBA)</ref><ref>"'''Wrinkly Kong:''' ''Have you been to see my husband Cranky? He complains a little, but he does know everything about this island.''" -''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest''"</ref><ref>"'''Cranky Kong:''' ''I reckon I'd found all the Kremkoins and completed the so called 'Lost World'. Oh well, can't expect everything from our first game, can we?''" - ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest''</ref><ref>''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble'' Player's Guide, Nintendo, 1996, p. 4 - "'''''NORTHERN KREMISPHERE:''' Rumor has it — and it might just be simian senility — that Cranky Kong covered all the levels and found everything in five hours and fifteen minutes!''"</ref><ref>"'''Cranky Kong:''' ''Tell those Tikis to keep it down! I'm an old ape, and I need my rest.''" - ''Donkey Kong Country Returns''</ref>