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Eel Family
Loading screen artwork of Eelevator and some of her children
Group artwork of the Eels
Appears in Donkey Kong Bananza (2025)
Notable members
“There is something strange about the ground here… We looked closer and made a surprising discovery. Small scraps of debris seem to have settled into the layer here creating an unusual sediment. Strange, wiggly creatures spend their days swimming through these odds and ends. They have long, undulating bodies. When we asked, they told us that they are underground eels. There was no sinkhole, so we didn't know where to go from here. But the eels dug a hole for us, opening a way forward. Thanks to them, our quest to find the origin of Us continues!”
Saga of Exploritone, Verse 18

The Eel Family are a family of eel-like creatures known as Underground Eels, also referred to as subterranean eels or simply just eels, who appear as allies to Donkey Kong and Pauline in Donkey Kong Bananza. The most seen members of the family, Li'l Eelevators, can eat Donkey Kong to "Teeleport" him between sublayers within the same Layer via the map. The Eelevator is the mother of the Li'l Eelevators and can transport Donkey Kong and Pauline between layers by hitting her Warp Gong. The eelings are also implied to be young Eelevators.[1] During the game's story, the father of Li'l Eelevators, the Great Harmoneel, was mind-controlled to serve Void Kong when it was forced to wear the Mind-Bender Mask, managing to swallow Pauline after she and Donkey Kong beat Grumpy Kong in the Radiance Layer. Fortunately, his mind was set free in the Groove Layer when Donkey Kong played the eel's favorite song.

The Underground Eels appear to have originated in the Landfill Layer of the Underground World. Statues of the Li'l Eelevators and the Great Harmoneel made out of debris can be found in the layer.

Underground Eel

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References

  1. ^ "Do you think all EelingEelings become EelevatorEelevators when they get big enough? No wonder they grow so much, the way they gobble everything down."