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Scott McCrae

Mario Kart World could be due a Donkey Kong-themed expansion, fans theorize, with the bizarre lack of DK love in the Switch 2 racer leaving players suspicious

Donkey Kong Bananza screenshot of Donkey Kong punching through the landscape with pieces of banana flying through the air.

Mario Kart World released last week alongside the Nintendo Switch 2, and while people are loving it (we gave it a 4.5/5 in the GamesRadar+Mario Kart World review), if you're like me you're no doubt outraged that Donkey Kong only has one of Mario Kart World's Outfits. Despite his own game coming next month with Donkey Kong Bananza, and his big redesign the big ape only gets one new fit. To put that into context, three of the babies have five each. Even Lakitu has more than Donkey Kong, and that dude sucks!

However, Mario Kart fans think there's a reason for this, and that it could signal a potential Donkey Kong expansion coming to Mario Kart World. In a post on the Mario Kart subreddit a user has run down the strange omissions in the game. For example, Diddy Kong (who also got a redesign, despite not being in World or Bananza) is absent, as are all the other members of the DK crew.

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