Donkey Kong Bananza's earliest demo featured a Goomba as a playable character, but in a sick experiment, Nintendo gave it giant hands that could destroy the world.
The newest Donkey Kong game was designed with destruction in mind, to the extent that the developers moved it off of Nintendo Switch back in 2021 to transition it for a Switch 2 release. But the earliest experiments the team behind the game didn't feature Donkey Kong at all; in fact, it was actually built from some fun Super Mario Odyssey asset reuse. But in the process, the developers at Nintendo EPD 8 made a truly horrifying creation that ranks with the likes of Frankenstein's monster or Resident Evil's Nemesis… a Goomba that can throw hands.
