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Bashmaster

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Bashmaster
Artwork of Bashmaster, the Unbreakable, from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
Artwork from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Full name Bashmaster, the Unbreakable
Species Polar bear
First appearance Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2014)
Latest appearance Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch) (2018)
Member of Snowmads

Bashmaster is the fifth and penultimate boss in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and its Nintendo Switch port of the same name. He is the boss of Juicy Jungle and is fought in Punch Bowl. He is first seen relaxing on a large ice floe floating in a frozen over lake of fruit juice, enjoying a popsicle that has a banana inside it. When the Kongs crash onto the floe, the popsicle is accidentally knocked into the lake, where it is eaten by a school of piranhas. Now furious over the loss of his popsicle, Bashmaster challenges the Kongs to a fight.

General information

Physical description

Bashmaster is a large polar bear. He wears a large belt displaying the Snowmads' insignia on the front and small light blue crystalline studs across its strap. He has a pair of wristbands with golden studs across the surfaces on each arm, around each of his biceps and wrists. Unlike actual polar bears, he is bipedal, using his hind legs to walk rather than all four. His head is small in proportion to the rest of his body and the lower part of his torso is larger than the upper half.

Bashmaster uses a large, wooden mallet as his weapon of choice. The handle of the mallet is long and thin, and the head has both a flat end and a more rounded one. The round end is spiked and the flat end is metallic.

Attacks

Bashmaster attacks mainly with his hammer. His most basic attack is a powerful hammer swing when the Kongs draw near. The force of the blow leaves the hammer stuck in the ice floe's surface, giving the Kongs a chance to use it as a platform from which to jump onto Bashmaster's head. He may also leap to drop on the Kongs, which will result in them being sent sliding into the lake of fruit juice the ice floe is floating in if they are on the ground and will then by damaged by the piranhas infesting it. A different attack summons ice blocks Bashmaster pushes toward the Kongs. The blocks can be shattered with Ground Pounds or Hand Slaps and some of them contain items such as bananas, Banana Coins, Watermelon Fuse Bombs and Hearts. Throwing a Watermelon Fuse Bomb at Bashmaster damages him.

After taking three hits, Bashmaster's fur color becomes a light shade of purple (due to the lake's juice staining it), beginning the second phase of the fight. During the second phase, Bashmaster implements a new attack involving dropping a certain number of ice blocks to form several pillars on the ice floe. Bashmaster subsequently charges toward the Kongs, breaking through the ice blocks. The Kongs must jump atop a pillar to avoid the charge. During his charge, Bashmaster may sit down and spin, which makes him dizzy and vulnerable to a stomp on the head. Notably, the jump attacks that Bashmaster performs in the first phase now create icy shock waves, which can damage the Kongs if not jumped over.

After taking three more hits, Bashmaster's fur becomes an even darker shade of purple and the fight transitions to its third and final phase. Bashmaster reverts to the attacks he uses in the first phase, but the ice blocks he pushes now appear in larger stacks, often forcing the Kongs to have to use the smaller stacks to jump over the larger ones, such as the last stack, which is always a four-block pillar. Additionally, the larger ice stacks make it more difficult for the Kongs to throw a Watermelon Fuse Bomb at Bashmaster. Bashmaster also utilizes a brand new attack for the third phase, where he summons a single ice block, and hits it with his mallet, creating a spiky projectile that must be jumped over. Bashmaster may perform this attack up to five times in a row, but for at least one of the ice blocks, Bashmaster will fake a powerful swing, then strike the ice block with less force to create a slow-moving projectile, usually to be followed by a faster one. Finally, Bashmaster's hammer attacks now creates a lone shock wave, similar to the ones in the second phase. Once Bashmaster is damaged three more times, he is defeated.

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Naming

Bashmaster's name is likely a portmanteau of "bash" and "bushmaster".

Names in other languages

LanguageNameMeaningNote(s)Ref.
Japaneseバッシュマスター
Basshumasutā
Bashmaster[?]
FrenchBanquisator, le BrutalBanquisator, the Brutal; portmanteau of banquise ("ice floe") and Terminator[?]
GermanHaulukas, der UnkaputtbareHaulukas the Indestructible; "Haulukas" is a pun on hau den lukas, a German colloquialism meaning "high striker", as well as the given name "Lukas"[?]
ItalianMartilio, il martellatoreMartilio, the hammerer; from the given name "Mirtilio" (also means "blueberry") and martello ("hammer")[?]
Spanish (Latin America)Osovaldo, el MalosoPortmanteau of oso ("bear") and the given name "Osvaldo" + portmanteau of maloso ("malicious") and oso again[?]
Spanish (Europe)Osovaldo el MalauvaPortmanteau of oso ("bear") and the given name "Osvaldo" + portmanteau of mala uva ("bad mood"; lit. "bad grapes", referring to Juicy Jungle)[?]

Notes

  • Bashmaster has some similarities with Kudgel from Donkey Kong Country 2. Both wield some form of a melee weapon, have a pattern that shakes the ground and take damage from explosives.
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U) / Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)
Characters Playable Donkey Kong • Diddy Kong • Dixie Kong • Cranky Kong • Funky Kong*
Supporting Don Zunāna • Funky Kong • Professor Chops • Rambi • Squawks • Tawks*
Bosses Pompy • Skowl • Ba-Boom • Fugu • Bashmaster • Lord Fredrik
Other Big Squeekly • Blubbo • Fish • Goats • Mugly • Skittler • Snippys
Enemies Snowmad Tucks (Archy · Archy (fire) · Big Sphen · Boom Bird · Painguin Tucks · Papa Painguin · Pengatcha 1-gō · Pointy Tucks · Soary · Speedy Tucks · Speedy Tuff Tucks · Trench Tucks · Tuff Tucks) • Fluff (Harey · Harold · Tuff Fluff) • Hootz (Blue Hootz · Hot Hootz · Puffton · Tuffton) • Ice dragon • Lemmington • Waldough (Chum Chucker Charlie · Fish Poker Pops · Walbrick · Walnut)
Other Bouncelisk • Bucky • Buffaloafer • Buzzy • Carnivorous Plantlife (Venus Trap Platform · Chompette) • Cheesy Chester • Chompasaurus • Dozy • Electrified Anemone • Finley (Blue Finley · Green Finley · Red Finley) • Flaming Falling Totem Pole • Fritz • Gordo • Green fish • Hermit crab • Horror Gills • Jellyfish • Large Mimic • Mama Saw • Mimic • Monocle Monica • Piranha • Porcupal • Pufftup • Punchy Paddy • Schnautzel • Sea Urchin • Snaggles • Sour Dodo • Squiddicus • Swooper Dooper • Thug Slug • Toucan't • Wild Wendell • Yellow Snaggles
Objects Items Banana • Banana Bunch • Banana Coin • Banana Juice • Blue Balloon • Capsule Toy Machine • Crash Guard • Flying banana • Gold Heart • Green Balloon • Heart • Heart Boost • KONG Letters • Mysterious relic • Puzzle Piece • Red Balloon
Projectiles Barrel • Kong Barrel • Water Sack • Watermelon Fuse Bomb
Miscellaneous Barrel Cannon • Blast Barrel • Bell • Burlap Hanging Sack • Climbing grass • Collapsible Underwater Grass • Cracked Block • Current • Item container • Item Handle • Pile of leaves • Purple Flower Platform • Rambi Crate • Rolling leaf • Slot Machine Barrel • Snowflake Shield • Spinning Platform • Spring Platform • Swinging vine • Vine-Triggered Platform • Zip-Line Vine
Vehicles Log Canoe • Mine Cart • Rocket Barrel
Obstacles Avalanche • Chunk of ice • Electroid • Falling debris • Fire • Fireball • Fire Floor • Giant Spiked Nut • Hanging TNT • Icicle • Mine • Shokushu • Snowball • Snowflake • Spiked ball • Tornado
Moves Cane Bounce • Cartwheel Attack • Charge • Cling • Corkscrew • Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) • Helicopter Spin • Kong POW • Ranged attack • Roll Attack • Water Skip
Levels Lost Mangroves 1-1: Mangrove Cove • 1-2: Shipwreck Shore • 1-3: Canopy Chaos • 1-4: Trunk Twister • 1-A: Zip-Line Shrine • 1-B: Busted Bayou • 1-K: Swinger Flinger • 1-BOSS: Big Top Bop
Autumn Heights 2-1: Windmill Hills • 2-2: Mountain Mania • 2-3: Horn Top Hop • 2-4: Sawmill Thrill • 2-5: Alpine Incline • 2-6: Wing Ding • 2-A: Crumble Cavern • 2-B: Rodent Ruckus • 2-K: Bopopolis • 2-BOSS: Mountaintop Tussle
Bright Savannah 3-1: Grassland Groove • 3-2: Baobab Bonanza • 3-3: Frantic Fields • 3-4: Scorch 'n' Torch • 3-5: Twilight Terror • 3-6: Cannon Canyon • 3-A: Rickety Rafters • 3-B: Bramble Scramble • 3-K: Precarious Pendulums • 3-BOSS: Triple Trouble
Sea Breeze Cove 4-1: Deep Keep • 4-2: High Tide Ride • 4-3: Amiss Abyss • 4-4: Irate Eight • 4-5: Sea Stack Attack • 4-6: Current Capers • 4-A: Rockin' Relics • 4-B: Shoal Atoll • 4-K: Spinning Spines • 4-BOSS: Fugu Face-Off
Juicy Jungle 5-1: Harvest Hazards • 5-2: Reckless Ride • 5-3: Fruity Factory • 5-4: Panicky Paddles • 5-5: Jelly Jamboree • 5-6: Frosty Fruits • 5-A: Beehive Brawl • 5-B: Jammin' Jams • 5-K: Platform Problems • 5-BOSS: Punch Bowl
Donkey Kong Island 6-1: Homecoming Hijinxs • 6-2: Seashore War • 6-3: Aqueduct Assault • 6-4: Blurry Flurry • 6-5: Forest Folly • 6-6: Cliffside Slide • 6-7: Frozen Frenzy • 6-8: Meltdown Mayhem • 6-A: Dynamite Dash • 6-B: Icicle Arsenal • 6-K: Slippy Spikes • 6-BOSS: Volcano Dome
Secret Seclusion 7-1: Levitation Station • 7-2: Rocket Rails • 7-3: Crazy Clouds
Miscellaneous Extras • Funky Kong's surfboard* • Lord Fredrik's horn
Further info "Canada's Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Banana Mania Contest" • "Canada's Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Banana Mania Contest - Behind the Scenes" • Gallery • Meet the Characters! (Ep. 9) • Multimedia • Nintendo Switch Family Showdown • "Nintendo - Winter Wonderland Levels" • Staff (Switch)
Related Play Nintendo activities A matching game to flip over • Can’t-miss games • The multiplayer way • Which Kong could fit your style? • Who’s that toy?
* Exclusive to Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Nintendo Switch
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