Kazooie

Kazooie
Information
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Species	Breegull
Gender	Female
Location(s)	Spiral Mountain
Game(s)	Banjo-Kazooie (XBLA) Banjo-Tooie (XBLA) Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge Banjo-Pilot Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing with Banjo-Kazooie Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

“Wake up, I want to go on an adventure too...”
—Kazooie, Banjo-Kazooie

Kazooie is the deuteragonist of the Banjo-Kazooie series. She is a red-crested breegull who lives in her pal Banjo's backpack most of the time, poking her head out only to berate various other characters with insults and jabbering. She is known to leave the backpack on occasion, but her friendship with Banjo always leads her back eventually.

Name origin

Kazooie's name, like Banjo's, is based on a musical instrument: the kazoo. Incidentally, Kazooie herself is known to be an experienced kazoo player, although the only time Kazooie was ever seen playing her kazoo was during the introduction theme in Banjo-Kazooie. Oddly enough, Kazooie's kazoo barely resembles an actual kazoo and looks more like a bugle. Interestingly, whether coincidence or not, the term bugle is phonetically similar to breegull.

Personality

In contrast to Banjo's personality, Kazooie is a wisecracking, obnoxious, sassy, cheeky, hot-tempered, slightly egotistic, tell-it-like-it-is loudmouth and "teen" bird, with Banjo sometimes having to scold her for being rude and tactless. This could be because almost everyone that she has met had insulted her in some way. Bottles, for example, called her a 'strange friend' and asked Banjo if she could talk and Mumbo Jumbo called her the 'filthy feathered one'. This could also be why Banjo and Kazooie are such great friends since Banjo hardly ever insults anyone (and if he does he usually apologizes). In some cases, she also can express sarcasm, such as her interactions with Salty Joe, where she claimed she and Banjo had to "fight their way" through a crowd of customers when there weren't any customers besides themselves present in response to his claim that he was a busy guy.

Kazooie likes adventuring (something which Banjo doesn’t normally do) and saving the world while she hates boredom, Banjo's lack of an attitude and facing backwards. During screensaver mode in Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, Kazooie will suddenly poke her head out the backpack and peck at Banjo's head for the fun of it. In both Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo Tooie, half the time Banjo might get irritated by this and wring her by the neck, choking her momentarily without doing any damage. Obviously, this may resolve that Kazooie is a bit of a prankster.

Despite Kazooie's foulmouthed rudeness, she never insults Banjo at all. Being best friends and both with different personalities, it's obvious that she respects him greatly and will stop insulting upon Banjo's words, proving her loyalty to him, however she insults everyone and always make trouble. She also seems to have a soft spot for children, such as calling Terry heartless after he told her she can kill fourth terrydactyl baby after Kazooie hatched it, or when she says "Cool, a little alien baby" when she meets Gamette on icy side of Hailfire Peaks. Despite all her flaws, Kazooie still has a good heart, always willing to help those in need (Provided that it has something to do with the adventure) and she has a strong sense of justice. She hates evil, like Gruntilda, and takes pleasure in defeating enemies.

Abilities

Aside from fitting into a backpack with no apparent discomfort, Kazooie can fly, climb steep slopes that Banjo cannot, shoot eggs out of her mouth and rump, become invulnerable for a limited time, attack enemies with her wings and hatch large eggs when alone. In Banjo-Tooie, if the Mega Glowbo is given to Humba Wumba, Kazooie is able to transform into the ferocious Dragon Kazooie.

When paired with Banjo, Kazooie has even more skills at her disposal. The duo can perform a Forward Roll while running to attack enemies. Kazooie can use Banjo as leverage to perform a fast Peck attack. She can also enjoy Banjo's excellent swimming abilities and his ability to climb and grasp ledges, among other useful skills. Shes also really strong she can carry banjo.

Career

According to Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge, Kazooie was originally discovered by Banjo on Breegull Beach inside the blue backpack one day. For whatever reason, the two became friends at some point after that and Kazooie lived an annoyingly-quiet life with Banjo and his sister Tooty for an unknown period of time.

In 1998, Kazooie finally convinced Banjo to go out on an adventure somewhere, although Banjo insisted on taking Tooty along as well. Kazooie got her wish when Gruntilda captured Tooty, forcing a rescue operation. Kazooie thoroughly enjoyed learning cool moves and witch-bashing, although having to deal with Bottles, Mumbo Jumbo and Banjo's constant desire to help everyone was a constant pain in the butt to her. Eventually, Grunty was buried and Tooty saved.

A few months afterward, Klungo devised a plan for Grunty to escape her rock prison and go back in time, preventing Banjo and Kazooie from ever meeting. Kazooie was taken back in time by Mecha-Grunty in order to prevent her past self from meeting up with Banjo. Luckily, Banjo followed Grunty and, with help from Mumbo and Bottles' ancestor, rescued Kazooie. The two of them proceeded to beat Grunty and restore the timeline.

Convinced that they had not seen the last of Gruntilda, Kazooie insisted that she and Banjo continue practicing their moves and refining their abilities. In 2000, her instincts proved correct when Gruntilda's sisters Mingella and Blobbelda rescued her and destroyed Banjo's House in the process, killing Bottles. Kazooie was instantly pumped to get off on another adventure and, while Bottles' brother Jamjars was every bit as annoying to her as Bottles himself was, she learned to separate from Banjo and lay the hurt on the witch's minions herself. After defeating Grunty a second time and reviving everyone who died, the duo went into "rest mode" once more.

Kazooie became available in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on September 4th 2019 as the fourth DLC playable character (third in the Fighter Pass), alongside Banjo.

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	カズーイ	-Kazui
Spanish	Kazooie	-Kazooie
French	Kazooie	-Kazooie
German	Kazooie	-Kazooie

Gallery

See also: Kazooie/Gallery

Quotes

See also: Kazooie/Quotes

Trivia

• In Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, Kazooie's Artwork has talons.
• In addition to Banjo's cameos in Conker's Bad Fur Day and Conker: Live and Reloaded, Kazooie's head appears in both games on an umbrella.
• In Viva Piñata, there are multiple references to Kazooie. A accessory called the "Breegull Carrier" that is modeled after Banjo's backpack he usually wears, is named after Kazooie's species, the Breegull. Also, there is an accessory modeled after Kazooie's feet.
• In Minecraft, Kazooie is a skin the player can use which is included in one of the Birthday skin packs.
• According to the development documents shown off by Gregg Mayles, early candidates for Kazooie's name included "Tweeter" and "Kazoo". Coincidentally, this information was revealed via a tweet!
• In 2018, Gregg Mayles made two tweets stating Banjo was adopted by Kazooie, and that Banjo found an empty backpack that didn't have a bird in it. Putting into question if Grunty's Revenge was canon or not.

References

Characters from Banjo-Kazooie

Characters from Banjo-Tooie

Characters from Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge

Characters from Banjo-Pilot

Characters from Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts