Curse of the Double Doubloon
Bluster Kong looking at one of the cursed letters
Appears in	Donkey Kong Country – "The Curse of Kongo Bongo" (1996)

“The Curse of the Bluebeard Baboon? SQUAWK! We be doomed!”

—Polly Roger, "The Curse of Kongo Bongo"

TheCurse of the Double Doubloon is a curse that appears in theDonkey Kong Country television series, where it is the primary focus of the episode "The Curse of Kongo Bongo."

Description[edit]

The curse is the work of the pirateBluebeard Baboon, who rises from the depths of the ocean every hundred years to deliver cursed letters to every ape onKongo Bongo Island. The letter is a description of the curse itself, which, if read twice, will drain theCrystal Coconut of its power and cause Kongo Bongo Island to sink into the ocean's depths just as Bluebeard himself did one thousand years prior.

WhenDonkey Kong read his letter and unwittingly activated the curse, he andDiddy immediately rushed to retrieve the letters given toCandy,Funky,Bluster, andDixie before they could read them, butCranky's letter was stolen byPolly Roger alongside his spell book and delivered toKing K. Rool, who read it and completed the curse in a poorly thought out attempt to force theKongs to hand the Crystal Coconut over.

In the resulting scuffle, however, DK and Diddy were able to retrieve Cranky's spell book and find the counter-curse, saving Kongo Bongo and everyone on it.

Effects[edit]

The curse will be activated by anyone who reads the following words twice:

The double curse of Bluebeard Baboon lies in these words you see.
Read them once, then read them twice, and your island is history.

Once activated, the curse will depower the Crystal Coconut and sink Kongo Bongo Island to the bottom of the ocean. It can only be cancelled by a counter-curse found in one of Cranky's spell-books:

The curse of the Double Doubloon can easily be reversed.
Read these words, and you will see your island is no longer cursed.

Names in other languages[edit]

Notes[edit]

• During "Bluebeard's Curse of the Double Doubloon,"Donkey Kong mispronounces the curse's name as the "Dreading Dabbar Blabboo Cursed Double Dabble of Doobie-Doo" and the "Dreddle Double Birboo Cursing Double Woppu of Blue Suede Shoe."

References[edit]

• Donkey Kong objects
• Donkey Kong items
• Donkey Kong Country (television series)