Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.17.37.94-20130113160010/@comment-7371650-20130416230803

I looked at one of the old replies to this thread, and I must say: Monkey Kahn is probably my least favorite character in all of the Archie Series. I'm not much of a fan anymore, but Monkey Kahn was one of the few characters, that I can honestly speak of, when I say I consistantly get bored with every form of media he's in. His concept always bugged me too. If he's supposed to make fun of Donkey Kong, then I have three complaints all ready:

1.) Why did you have to bring him back post-200th issue.  You're not enemies with Nintendo anymore.  Just let it go.

2.) Why make a parody of a character inspired by another character.  I know Donkey Kong has his own style now, but--and I know this might not be ONE HUNDRED percent accurate, so bare with me--wasn't he originally intended as a parody of King Kong?!  Seriously.

3.) When you do a parody like this, you're supposed to make fun of him, not praise him like he's going to be the next "Rotor Walrus," or whoever was popular in those days of Archie.  Seriously, they never made fun of him.  They just used his character to make what could have been character development, but probably wound up as filler.

Also, he sounds like a bad fan character. I seem to recall that he was imprisoned by Robotnik and was taken away from his family, only to find out over a hundred issues later, that he was created by Robotnik. Even his design is "meh." He just looks so generic. Background characters have more personality than him.

Finally, if I made any mistakes, keep in mind I don't want to do hours of research just for a forum post, so sorry for any mistakes.