I don't like Tiny much either, but saying she's an expy of Dixie is an insult to Dixie. Tiny had the Monkey Port and the power that makes her, you know, TINY. a magical alpine horn that can summon a dragon). Lord Fredrik actually has cool features that set him apart from King K. I don't find it insufferable the way some people do, but I still don't think there's anything endearing about him banging on the ground and bawling when he gets hurt. Kiddy may have his unique gameplay quirks, but design-and-narrative-wise he's got little about his identity that distinguishes him from Donkey Kong, and that identity he does have is generally obnoxious. Instead, they cycled out the remaining links to the original game'a protagonist, and put in a character who, unlike Diddy and Dixie, never felt like he warranted his own existence. I had hoped, if not exactly anticipated, that the third game would have Donkey, Diddy and Dixie together. Similarly, maybe they felt having a female protagonist was a bold move, but I think Dixie already made her statement in the second game. Diddy getting his own game might have been a neat novelty in telling stories about how underdogs can become heroes, but a neat novelty ceases to be such if it, too, is treated as something to set trends and derive from. Kiddy's debut was the moment it really hit home how destructive Rare's course of cycling out characters could be. I don't hate Kiddy, but I can't say I really want him ever again at least not in that form.
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