Banjo & Kazooie (SSBU)

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Banjo & Kazooie in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Universe	Banjo-Kazooie
Availability	Downloadable
Final Smash	The Mighty Jinjonator

“	Banjo-Kazooie are Raring to Go!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Banjo & Kazooie (バンジョー&カズーイ, Banjo & Kazooie), formatted in their reveal trailer as Banjo-Kazooie, are playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. They were announced alongside the Hero during the E3 Nintendo Direct on June 11th, 2019 as the fourth DLC character and are the third downloadable character for the Fighters Pass. Banjo & Kazooie will be released in Fall 2019. Banjo & Kazooie are classified as Fighter #73.

Both characters are voiced by Chris Sutherland, using voice clips directly taken from Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie.

Attributes

• Their design is based on their original, more rounded appearance from Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, but now with detailed fur and feathers.
• They use various abilities from their home series, namely the two aforementioned games:
  • Talon Trot, which appears as part of their dash.
  • A double or multi-jump, resembling the Feathery Flap.
  • A neutral attack consisting of two paw swipes followed by an uppercut, resembling the Claw Swipe.
  • A sideways peck resembling the Beak Bayonet, possibly a forward tilt.
  • Beak Barge, a low peck attack which appears to be their down tilt and a pseudo-crawl.
  • Breegull Bash, a move where Banjo uses Kazooie as a club to hit foes in front, which appears to be their forward smash.
  • Three consecutive pecks for their back aerial, resembling a reversed Rat-a-tat Rap.
  • Egg Shot, where Kazooie fires a Blue Egg forward. The move can flow into the Breegull Blaster, where Banjo moves around holding Kazooie as an egg-firing gun in a similar manner to Mega Man’s Mega Buster shots.
  • Wonderwing, an invincible sideways dash (presumably a side special) limited by a stock of five Golden Feathers.
  • Shock Spring Jump, presumably as their up special, which briefly has them spawn a Shock Spring Pad below them. Does not appear to make them helpless.
  • Grenade Egg, which spawns an explosive item behind the duo.
  • Their Final Smash is The Mighty Jinjonator, from the final boss fight in Banjo-Kazooie, where the duo use eggs to activate large statues of Jinjos to attack a shielded Gruntilda.
• A taunt where they look at each other jovially while Banjo gives a thumbs up.
• A taunt where Banjo bows twice while laughing, based on the animation that plays after collecting all ten Jiggies in a world or opening a note door in Banjo-Kazooie.

Gallery

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  Banjo & Kazooie's splash art.

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  Celebratory pose at the end of their character trailer.

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  Kazooie sprinting on Yoshi's Island.

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  A pink alternate costume Banjo jumping on Summit.

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  Kazooie shooting eggs on Garden of Hope.

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  Banjo using Kazooie to attack Falco on Great Bay.

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  Banjo, Kazooie, King K. Rool, Mario, and Duck Hunt on Spiral Mountain.

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  Gruntilda's Lair with Gruntilda flying and Mumbo standing at the entrance.

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  Banjo & Kazooie about to be grabbed by Villager.

Trivia

• Their reveal trailer is almost exactly like King K. Rool's trailer, where King Dedede uses a costume to fake out the Kongs, only to be attacked by the real King K. Rool. In this case, while King K. Rool was asleep at the Kong residence, Duck Hunt used a costume to fake them out, only for them to get attacked by the real Banjo & Kazooie.
  • Duck Hunt dressing up as Banjo and Kazooie may reference the perceived similarities between them, as they are both pairs consisting of a mammal and a bird.
  • Their reveal trailer also references the ending of their original game; the duo summon the Jinjonator to send King K. Rool crashing into the ground to be buried by a large boulder, the same fate met by Gruntilda.
  • The opening part is nearly identical, with the only difference being the addition of the Kongs and King K. Rool to the hand-drawn section.
• Their introduction tagline is a reference to Rare Ltd., the company from which their video game series originated. Rare also rebooted the Donkey Kong series with Donkey Kong Country, the setting of their reveal trailer.
  • Despite this, only Microsoft is credited for their inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's copyright information under "Original Characters", as they are now fully owned by Microsoft.
• At the end of Banjo & Kazooie's reveal trailer, they are seen slowly walking up to Food next to an asleep giant Ivysaur, then consuming it and running away. This is a reference to an event in Banjo-Tooie, where in Mayahem Temple, they have to steal a Jiggy from the character Ssslumber by slowly walking up to it, in order to prevent him from waking up and protecting it.
• Not counting Triple Finish, they are the only characters fighting as a team to have a member interchange in and out of visibility while another stays static, as Kazooie is sometimes inside Banjo's backpack.
  • They are also the only third-party characters who fight as a team.
• Not counting ports and cameos, this marks the first physical appearance of Banjo & Kazooie in almost a decade, since the Xbox 360 version of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, released in 2010.
  • This is the second time that Banjo-Kazooie and Sonic are in the same game.
  • Their inclusion in Ultimate marks their first physical appearance on a Nintendo console since Banjo-Pilot, released in 2005.
• Banjo & Kazooie have the unique distinction of being the only third-party character in the game to have formerly been a second-party Nintendo character, as well as the only third-party character to be created by the same company as a first-party character (Diddy Kong and King K. Rool). Banjo, in fact, debuted within the Donkey Kong franchise in Diddy Kong Racing; Kazooie was not playable, but she was mentioned in the instruction manual.
• Banjo & Kazooie are the first playable third-party characters to originate outside of Japan.
  • They are also the first playable third-party characters to be owned by Microsoft, one of the direct video game hardware competitors to Nintendo.
• Banjo & Kazooie's stock icon bears a resemblance to their health icon in Banjo-Kazooie.
• Kazooie is the second female character voiced by a male actor, the first being Inkling.
• Banjo & Kazooie are the second DLC character to not have their character page readily available on the Smash Bros. website upon their announcement after Joker.
  • Cloud's page was available in Smash 4, albeit incomplete before his release.
  • They are the first characters to come from a western franchise
• Although Diddy Kong and King K. Rool were created by a British company, and Dark Samus by an American company, they still originate/come from Japanese-created franchises