While Diddy Kong is guarding the Banana
Hoard one night, a group of Kremlings led by a Klump (or a Krusha in the Game Boy Advance remake) appear and
steal all of the
bananas to menace the Kong Family.
They and their ruler, the comically obese and cantankerous King K. Rool, constantly try to
steal the Kong Family's enormous
hoard of
bananas for unspecified reasons, and to this end they have allies of different species such as vultures and giant spiked wasps; Donkey Kong, his nephew Diddy Kong, and certain other Kong Family members embark on quests to defeat the Kremling Krew and safeguard their
bananas, and the Kongs sometimes call on animal allies of their own.