Banjo & Kazooie (SSBU)

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Banjo & Kazooie in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Banjo & Kazooie
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 as Banjo-Kazooie in their reveal trailer, are playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. They were announced 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 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 their Nintendo 64 titles, but now with detailed fur, feathers, and larger eyes.
• They use various abilities from their original games:
  • Talon Trot, which appears to be their dash.
  • Egg Shot
  • Egg Lay, including normal eggs and grenade eggs. The grenades can be picked up as items.
  • Wonderwing
  • Breegull Bash, which appears to be their forward smash.
• Summons a Flight Pad for their up special. Does not appear to put them in helpless.
• A neutral attack consisting of two paw swipes followed by an uppercut.
• A lunging peck down tilt. Appears to be a pseudo-crawl.
• Three consecutive pecks for their back aerial. Similar to the Rat-a-tat Rap.
• Their Final Smash is the Jinjonator.

Gallery

• SSBUWebsiteBanjo-Kazooie1.jpg

  Kazooie shooting eggs on Garden of Hope.

• SSBUWebsiteBanjo-Kazooie2.jpg

  Banjo using Kazooie to attack Falco on Great Bay.

• SSBUWebsiteBanjo-Kazooie3.jpg

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

Trivia

• Their reveal trailer is similar to 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 K. Rool was with the Kongs, Duck Hunt use a costume to fake them out, only for them to get attacked by the real Banjo and Kazooie.
  • 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.
• Not counting ports and cameos, such as a costume in Minecraft, this marks the first physical appearance of Banjo & Kazooie in over a decade, since Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts was released in 2008.
  • Their inclusion in Ultimate marks their first physical appearance on a Nintendo console since Banjo-Pilot, released in 2005.
• Due to the fact that Rare was once owned by Nintendo, 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.
• Banjo and Kazooie are the first playable third-party characters to originate outside of Japan.