Editing Banana Peel (move)

Bananas have been associated with primates for many years - the origin of this association is dubious, as monkeys do not encounter domesticated bananas (like those portayed in the {{uv|Donkey Kong}} series) without inedible seeds in the wild,<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/wild-monkeys-do-not-eat-bananas-2016-6</ref> but regardless, this association has received a ubiquitous status, to where it's wildly uncommon to find a fictional depiction of monkeys without some kind of reference to bananas, which is reflected greatly in the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise. Bananas first appeared in the ''Donkey Kong'' series in ''Donkey Kong Jr.'', in which they were one of many fruit Junior could drop on enemies, though they were not given a particular significance, being omitted from the {{uv|Game & Watch}} adaptation of the game in favor of apples. The most major role bananas were given in the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise prior to Rare's tenure of the franchise was in the Donkey Kong Junior cereal, as one of two flavored shapes alongside apples. Bananas would first be associated directly with ''Donkey Kong'' characters in ''Super Mario Kart'', and then promptly become a signature piece of series imagery as collectibles from the ''{{s|mariowiki|Donkey Kong Country}}'' games. They functioned exactly the same as {{s|mariowiki|coin}}s from the [[Mario (universe)|''Mario'' series]], in that when a player collects 100, they will gain an extra life. Bananas can appear in bunches, which depending on the game can come in groups of five, ten, or twenty-five. ''{{s|mariowiki|Donkey Kong 64}}'' instead contains 500 bananas in each world, with each character needing to collect the matching 100 of them to access boss battles, in addition to {{s|mariowiki|Golden Banana}}s needed to unlock worlds.

While bananas themselves are common within the ''Donkey Kong'' games, the concept of slipping on peels is not, though in [[Lanky Kong]]'s phase in the final boss fight of ''Donkey Kong 64'', he must lay giant banana peels on the floor and lure [[King K. Rool]] to slip and fall on them. Slipping on banana peels also appears as an Easter egg in DK's treehouse in that game. Both [[Donkey Kong]] and Diddy Kong are, however, capable of utilizing {{s|mariowiki|Banana Peel}}s in the [[mariowiki:Mario Kart (series)|''Mario Kart'' games]] in which they appear; in ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Kart: Double Dash!!}}'', the two also utilized {{s|mariowiki|Giant Banana}} peels as their special items, and in ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Kart}}'', banana peels were featured as an item exclusively used by CPUs when controlling Diddy's predecessor, Donkey Kong Jr.

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