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Donkey Kong weighs 363 kg (800 lb). The number comes from Donkey Kong 64 (1999), where the ring announcer gives it before the final boxing match against King K. Rool. It is the only weight a game has given him, and it nods to the old “800-pound gorilla” joke. No real gorilla gets close.
The final battle of Donkey Kong 64 is a boxing match against King K. Rool, and a talking microphone in a tuxedo acts as ring announcer, introducing each of the five Kongs before their round. Donkey Kong goes first: “Weighing in at a solid 800 lbs”. That is 363 kg.
The same announcer brings in Chunky Kong at a mighty 2,000 lb (907 kg), two and a half times Donkey Kong. The other three Kongs get nicknames and boasts instead of a weight.
The number is a play on the American saying about an 800-pound gorilla, one so powerful it sits anywhere it wants. Nintendo of America used the line too: at the New York Toy Fair in February 1999, months before the game came out, executive Peter Main promised “an 800-pound gorilla who looks, in fact, a lot like an 800-pound gorilla.” Some fan sites list other weights, such as 450 lb, but none of them cite a Nintendo source.
Wild adult male gorillas weigh 136 to 227 kg (300 to 500 lb) and stand 1.4 to 1.8 m tall when upright. The heaviest one recorded in the wild weighed 267 kg, and males in zoos have reached about 310 kg.
At 363 kg, Donkey Kong is about 1.6 to 2.7 times a wild silverback and heavier than any gorilla ever weighed. He is also about five times Mario, if Mario weighs the 70 kg given on a 1986 film chart.
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Donkey Kong’s weight is 127. That is not kilograms or pounds but a value that sets how far attacks knock a fighter back. It ties him with King Dedede for third place, behind Bowser (135) and King K. Rool (133). He was the heaviest fighter in the original Super Smash Bros. and second to Bowser in Melee, Brawl and the Wii U and 3DS games.
Mario Kart has always put him in the heavy class. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe his hidden weight stat is 8 on a scale of 0 to 10, the same as Waluigi and Roy. Funky Kong (9) and Bowser (10) are heavier; Mario is a 6.
800 lb, as the ring announcer says in Donkey Kong 64. That is about 363 kg.
It is said in a Nintendo game, so it is the closest thing to an official figure. None of his character profiles or manuals collected on the Super Mario Wiki give a weight.
Chunky Kong. Donkey Kong 64 introduces him at 2,000 lb (907 kg), two and a half times Donkey Kong’s 800 lb.
Nobody can say for sure, because Nintendo has never given Bowser a weight. In the games that rank them, Bowser comes out heavier: 135 to 127 in Smash Bros. Ultimate and 10 to 8 in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Nintendo has never given an official height. The fan site The Mushroom Kingdom lists 4 ft 5 in (about 135 cm) hunched over, without a source.
Last checked October 2, 2026.
