Giant Punch, Donkey Kong’s neutral special move in the Super Smash Bros. series, is not explicitly…

Giant Punch, Donkey Kong’s neutral special move in the Super Smash Bros. series, is not explicitly based on any move he has ever performed in a game prior to its introduction in Super Smash Bros. in 1999.The closest thing to that move that Donkey Kong has ever performed was a wind-up punch in the “Bad Hair Day” episode of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon, which aired in 1996. As such, it is possible that this move is actually based on the cartoon; though it is not particularly likely since the...