Crash Guard

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Crash Guard
Artwork of a Crash Guard from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
Description
"Makes your mine cart or rocket barrel temporarily invincible!"
First appearanceDonkey Kong Country Returns 3D (2013)
Latest appearanceDonkey Kong Country Returns HD (2025)
Variant ofBanana Juice
“Crash into too many things, and even this stuff can't save you.”
—Cranky Kong,Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D

TheCrash Guard is an item that appears in the New Mode ofDonkey Kong Country Returns 3D and later reappears inDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. It helps the player in levels based on ridingMine Carts andRocket Barrels by negating the damage the vehicle would take from enemies and obstacles. This similar to theBanana Juice in that it only works a certain number of times. In the former game, the Crash Guard is a potion similar to the Banana Juice except that the potion liquid is a light blue color. In the latter game, the Crash Guard was redesigned to a blue shield, lined with silver and with three small, metal circles positioned near the top.

History[edit]

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D /Donkey Kong Country Returns HD[edit]

InDonkey Kong Country Returns 3D andDonkey Kong Country Returns HD, the Crash Guard can be purchased fromCranky Kong's Shop for tenBanana Coins. Crash Guards are exclusive to New Mode in the 3DS version and Modern Mode in the Switch version. Crash Guards can only be used in levels that feature either Minecarts or Rocket Barrels. When equipped, the Crash Guard protectsDonkey Kong andDiddy Kong from up to two hits if they crash into an enemy or obstacle while they ride in the vehicle, with standard mercy invincibility. Vehicles with mercy invincibility can go through walls, which they normally cannot do since they would break in one hit. The item in the top right corner of the screen turns into a blue heart with a number for the hits remaining for the Crash Guard. Unlike normal damage, and unlike damage blocked with Banana Juice, damage blocked with a Crash Guard does not stun Donkey Kong. The Crash Guard's effect extends to standing on top of a Minecart, and while doing so the effect extends to Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. Even though they would normally lose aheart when they take damage rather than the Minecart breaking and instantly defeating them, the Crash Guard blocks the damage. This excludes a Minecart the Kongs are standing on crashing into a stopper on the track, which remains an instant KO. If the player has more than one Crash Guard, each one activates after the prior one has been used up. Thus, together they block more instances of damage. Crash Guards can be used inThe Mole Train, even though that level's minecarts are not vehicles and do not benefit from the item.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze[edit]

InDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, the Crash Guard can be purchased atFunky's Fly 'n' Buy, still retaining its price of tenBanana Coins. UnlikeDonkey Kong Country Returns 3D, the Crash Guard only protects the Kongs from taking damage once, partly because the Mine Cart and Rocket Barrel can withstand two hits before the Kongs lose a life.

In theNintendo Switchport, the Crash Guard is colored green instead of blue. In Funky Mode, Crash Guards block three hits before being used up.

Profiles[edit]

  • Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D North American digital instruction manual:"Protects your mine cart or Rocket Barrel from taking damage twice."

Gallery[edit]

  • The Crash Guard, in Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D.

    The Crash Guard, inDonkey Kong Country Returns 3D.

  • The green Crash Guard from the Nintendo Switch version of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

    The green Crash Guard from the Nintendo Switch version ofDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

Names in other languages[edit]

LanguageNameMeaningNotes
Japaneseクラッシュガード[?]
Kurasshu Gādo		Crash Guard
ItalianAntischianto[?]Anti-crash
SpanishParachoques[?]Bumper

Notes[edit]

  • When highlighting the Crash Guard inDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Funky Kong will say "Vehicle troubles? It's dangerous to go alone--take one of these!", referencing the quote "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this!" from the firstThe Legend of Zelda game.
Donkey Kong Country Returns /Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D /Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
CharactersPlayableDonkey Kong •Diddy Kong •Dixie Kongc
SupportingCranky Kong •Rambi •Squawks •Super Kong •Tutorial Pig •Whale •Wigglevine
BossesMugly (Krazy Kalimba) •Scurvy Crew (The Maraca Gang) •Stu (Gong Oh) •Mole Miner Max/Mole Train (Banjo Bottom) •Mangoruby (Wacky Pipes) •Thugly (Xylobone) •Colonel Pluck (Cordian) •Tiki Tong
OtherElephant •Giraffe •Zebra
Enemies and obstaclesTiki Tak TribeFireball •Flaming Tiki Buzz •Giga Goro Ball •Screaming Pillar •Screaming Pillar (big) •Tiki Boing •Tiki Bomber •Tiki Buzz •Tiki Doom •Tiki Goon •Tiki Pilot •Tiki Pop •Tiki Seeker •Tiki Tank •Tiki Tong Tower •Tiki Torch •Tiki Tork •Tiki Zing •Tiki Zing (big) •Tiki Zing (Foggy Fumes)
OtherAck •AckStack •Ape-Eating Plant •Awk •Big Squeekly •Bonehead Jed •Bopapodamus •Bowling bird •BuckBomb •BuckBot •Buzzbite •Cageberry •Char-Char •Chomp •Chū Komorin •Electrasquid •Electroid •Fireball •Firebite •Frogoon •Giant Chomp •Giga Rangwi •Green Chomp •Hopgoon •Hothead Jed •Humzee •Jellybob •Kowalee •Leaping flame •Mimic •Mole Guard •Mole Miner •Muncher •Pinchly •Rawk •Ready-Bots (Pogobot ·Pyrobot) •Rentamaguma •Robobee •Shooting Chomp •Skellirex •Skittler •Skittler Pillar •Skullyrex •Snaggles •Snippys •Squeekly •Squiddicus •Squidly •Stilts •Toothberry •Wiggle •Yellow Snaggles
ObjectsItemsBanana •Banana Bunch •Banana Coin •Banana Juice •Banana Mirror •Crash Guardb •Green Balloonb •Hanging vine •Heart •Heart Boost •K-O-N-G Letters •Map Key •Puzzle Piece •Rare Orb •Red Balloon
BarrelsBarrel Cannon •Blast Barrel •DK Barrel •Regular Barrel •Slot Machine Barrel
MiscellaneousBag •Container •Green surface •Rambi Crate •Red and blue blocks •Tire •Mole Train •Spiked shaft (Jagged Jewels)b •Spiked shaft (Tiki Tong Terror) •Trapdoor •Tar pit
VehiclesMine Cart •Rocket Barrel
MovesBarrel Jet •Barrel Roll (Cartwheel Attack) •Blow •Charge •Cling •Crouch •Grab •Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) •Jump •Kong Roll •Peanut Popgun •Run •Helicopter Spinc
LevelsJungle1-1:Jungle Hijinxs • 1-2:King of Cling • 1-3:Tree Top Bop • 1-4:Sunset Shore • 1-5:Canopy Cannons • 1-6:Crazy Cart • 1-K:Platform Panic • 1-B:Mugly's Mound
Beach2-1:Poppin' Planks • 2-2:Sloppy Sands • 2-3:Peaceful Pier • 2-4:Cannon Cluster • 2-5:Stormy Shore • 2-6:Blowhole Bound • 2-7:Tidal Terror • 2-K:Tumblin' Temple • 2-B:Pinchin' Pirates
Ruins3-1:Wonky Waterway • 3-2:Button Bash • 3-3:Mast Blast • 3-4:Damp Dungeon • 3-5:Itty Bitty Biters • 3-6:Temple Topple • 3-K:Shifty Smashers • 3-B:Ruined Roost
Cave4-1:Rickety Rails • 4-2:Grip 'n' Trip • 4-3:Bombs Away • 4-4:Mole Patrol • 4-5:Crowded Cavern • 4-K:Jagged Jewels • 4-B:The Mole Train
Forest5-1:Vine Valley • 5-2:Clingy Swingy • 5-3:Flutter Flyaway • 5-4:Tippin' Totems • 5-5:Longshot Launch • 5-6:Springy Spores • 5-7:Wigglevine Wonders • 5-8:Muncher Marathon • 5-K:Blast & Bounce • 5-B:Mangoruby Run
Cliff6-1:Sticky Situation • 6-2:Prehistoric Path • 6-3:Weighty Way • 6-4:Boulder Roller • 6-5:Precarious Plateau • 6-6:Crumble Canyon • 6-7:Tippy Shippy • 6-8:Clifftop Climb • 6-K:Perilous Passage • 6-B:Thugly's Highrise
Factory7-1:Foggy Fumes • 7-2:Slammin' Steel • 7-3:Handy Hazards • 7-4:Gear Getaway • 7-5:Cog Jog • 7-6:Switcheroo • 7-7:Music Madness • 7-R:Lift-off Launch • 7-K:Treacherous Track • 7-B:Feather Fiend
Volcano8-1:Furious Fire • 8-2:Hot Rocket • 8-3:Roasting Rails • 8-4:Smokey Peak • 8-5:Bobbing Basalt • 8-6:Moving Melters • 8-7:Red Red Rising • 8-K:Five Monkey Trial • 8-B:Tiki Tong Terror
Cloudb9-1:Crushin' Columnsb • 9-2:Gushin' Geysersb • 9-3:Spiky Surpriseb • 9-4:Mischievous Molesb • 9-5:Topsy Turvyb • 9-6:Tar Ball Fallb • 9-7:Robo Factoryb • 9-8:Lavawheel Volcanob • 9-1a/9-9b:Golden Temple
Further infoDonkey Kong Returns Original Sound Track •Extras (image names in other languages) •Gallery (3D ·HD) •Iwata Asks • "Mine Menace" •Staff (3D ·HD)
RelatedPlay Nintendo activities
Can’t-miss games •Who are these jerks of the jungle? •Who's Your Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Banana Bud?
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U) /Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)
CharactersPlayableDonkey Kong •Diddy Kong •Dixie Kong •Cranky Kong •Funky Kong*
SupportingDon Zunāna •Funky Kong •Professor Chops •Rambi •Squawks •Tawks*
BossesPompy •Skowl •Ba-Boom •Fugu •Bashmaster •Lord Fredrik
OtherBig Squeekly •Fish • Goats •Mugly •Skittler •Snippys
EnemiesSnowmadTucks (Archy ·Archy (fire) ·Big Sphen ·Boom Bird ·Painguin Tucks ·Papa Painguin ·Pengatcha 1-gō ·Pointy Tucks ·Soary ·Speedy Tucks ·Speedy Tuff Tucks ·Trench Tucks ·Tuff Tucks) •Fluff (Harey ·Harold ·Tuff Fluff) •Hootz (Blue Hootz ·Hot Hootz ·Puffton ·Tuffton) •Ice dragon •Lemmington •Waldough (Chum Chucker Charlie ·Fish Poker Pops ·Walbrick ·Walnut)
OtherBouncelisk •Bucky •Buffaloafer •Buzzy •Carnivorous Plantlife (Venus Trap Platform ·Chompette) •Cheesy Chester •Chompasaurus •Dozy •Electrified Anemone •Finley (Blue Finley ·Green Finley ·Red Finley) •Flaming Falling Totem Pole •Fritz •Gordo •Green fish •Hermit crab •Horror Gills •Jellyfish •Large Mimic •Mama Saw •Mimic •Monocle Monica •Piranha •Porcupal •Pufftup •Punchy Paddy •Schnautzel •Sea Urchin •Snaggles •Sour Dodo •Squiddicus •Swooper Dooper •Thug Slug •Toucan't •Wild Wendell •Yellow Snaggles
ObjectsItemsBanana •Banana Bunch •Banana Coin •Banana Juice •Blue Balloon •Capsule Toy Machine •Crash Guard •Flying banana •Gold Heart •Green Balloon •Heart •Heart Boost •KONG Letters •Mysterious relic •Puzzle Piece •Red Balloon
ProjectilesBarrel •Kong Barrel •Water Sack •Watermelon Fuse Bomb
MiscellaneousBarrel Cannon •Blast Barrel •Bell •Burlap Hanging Sack •Climbing grass •Collapsible Underwater Grass •Cracked Block •Current •Item container •Item Handle •Pile of leaves •Purple Flower Platform •Rambi Crate •Rolling leaf •Slot Machine Barrel •Snowflake Shield •Spinning Platform •Spring Platform •Swinging vine •Vine-Triggered Platform •Zip-Line Vine
VehiclesLog Canoe •Mine Cart •Rocket Barrel
ObstaclesAvalanche •Chunk of ice •Electroid •Fire •Fireball •Fire Floor •Giant Spiked Nut •Hanging TNT •Icicle •Proximity mine •Snowball •Snowflake •Sting Tentacle •Tornado •Volcanic debris
MovesCane Bounce •Cartwheel Attack •Charge •Cling •Corkscrew •Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) •Helicopter Spin •Kong POW •Ranged attack •Roll Attack •Water Skip
LevelsLost Mangroves1-1:Mangrove Cove • 1-2:Shipwreck Shore • 1-3:Canopy Chaos • 1-4:Trunk Twister • 1-A:Zip-Line Shrine • 1-B:Busted Bayou • 1-K:Swinger Flinger • 1-BOSS:Big Top Bop
Autumn Heights2-1:Windmill Hills • 2-2:Mountain Mania • 2-3:Horn Top Hop • 2-4:Sawmill Thrill • 2-5:Alpine Incline • 2-6:Wing Ding • 2-A:Crumble Cavern • 2-B:Rodent Ruckus • 2-K:Bopopolis • 2-BOSS:Mountaintop Tussle
Bright Savannah3-1:Grassland Groove • 3-2:Baobab Bonanza • 3-3:Frantic Fields • 3-4:Scorch 'n' Torch • 3-5:Twilight Terror • 3-6:Cannon Canyon • 3-A:Rickety Rafters • 3-B:Bramble Scramble • 3-K:Precarious Pendulums • 3-BOSS:Triple Trouble
Sea Breeze Cove4-1:Deep Keep • 4-2:High Tide Ride • 4-3:Amiss Abyss • 4-4:Irate Eight • 4-5:Sea Stack Attack • 4-6:Current Capers • 4-A:Rockin' Relics • 4-B:Shoal Atoll • 4-K:Spinning Spines • 4-BOSS:Fugu Face-Off
Juicy Jungle5-1:Harvest Hazards • 5-2:Reckless Ride • 5-3:Fruity Factory • 5-4:Panicky Paddles • 5-5:Jelly Jamboree • 5-6:Frosty Fruits • 5-A:Beehive Brawl • 5-B:Jammin' Jams • 5-K:Platform Problems • 5-BOSS:Punch Bowl
Donkey Kong Island6-1:Homecoming Hijinxs • 6-2:Seashore War • 6-3:Aqueduct Assault • 6-4:Blurry Flurry • 6-5:Forest Folly • 6-6:Cliffside Slide • 6-7:Frozen Frenzy • 6-8:Meltdown Mayhem • 6-A:Dynamite Dash • 6-B:Icicle Arsenal • 6-K:Slippy Spikes • 6-BOSS:Volcano Dome
Secret Seclusion7-1:Levitation Station • 7-2:Rocket Rails • 7-3:Crazy Clouds
MiscellaneousExtras •Funky Kong's surfboard* •Lord Fredrik's horn
Further infoGallery •Multimedia •Staff (Switch)
RelatedPlay Nintendo activitiesA matching game to flip over •Can’t-miss games •The multiplayer way •Which Kong could fit your style? •Who’s that toy?
* Exclusive toDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for theNintendo Switch