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Nintendo has confirmed the age of Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a> sidekick Pauline, sparking questions regarding the young character’s timeline and how Bananza’s story will tally with previous titles \u2014 such as Mario’s original arcade game, where DK was famously portrayed as the villain and Pauline was his abductee.<\/p>\n

In a character profile found on Donkey Kong Bananza’s Japanese website, Nintendo states that Pauline is a “13-year-old girl who loves to sing. She used to live above ground, but for some reason she was brought to the underground world and transformed into a rock.”<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s reveal of this younger Pauline, during the Donkey Kong Bananza Nintendo Direct<\/a>, strongly suggested she was the same music-loving version of the character seen in Nintendo Switch platformer Super Mario Odyssey, where a grown-up Pauline serves as both the mayor of New Donk City and the lead singer of a popular band.<\/p>\n

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Nintendo fans have been quick to highlight what this might mean for Pauline’s overall timeline \u2014 and the fact that DK and Pauline’s friendly team-up in Bananza is a very different vibe to the pair’s usual relationship of kidnapper and victim. Does something happen to DK, turning him evil? Or have we been getting Pauline and DK’s friendship wrong all these years?<\/p>\n

Donkey Kong Bananza sees the two characters working together to help the teenage Pauline get back to the surface, in order to pursue her dream of becoming a world famous singer. Pauline’s appearance as a singer in Odyssey suggests that she does indeed make it.<\/p>\n

But while Bananza looks story-wise to be an Odyssey prequel, the exact timeline here is somewhat unclear. Nintendo has never stated Pauline’s age in Odyssey, or in any of her other appearances, so it’s unknown how long before those events it is that Bananza takes place. <\/p>\n

But by linking the character across these games through Pauline’s musical ambitions, it also highlights the fact that Odyssey’s Pauline does address her kidnapping by DK \u2014 something she describes as “traumatic.”<\/p>\n