Kazooie

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Kazooie
Kazooie the Red Crested Breegull, Banjo's friend and adventuring partner, image from Banjo-Tooie.
Game series	Banjo-Kazooie series
First game	Banjo-Kazooie- 1998
Creator(s)	Rare

Kazooie the Red Crested Breegull, a fictional animal, is one of the two title characters in the Nintendo 64 game created by Rare, Banjo-Kazooie. At the beginning of the first game, she resides in Banjo's backpack, in his home in Spiral Mountain. Most of the time, she remains inside his backpack, except in the second game, Banjo-Tooie, where she can split with Banjo and go adventuring on her own, and also in Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge for the Game Boy Advance, at the start of which she is kidnapped, leaving Banjo to complete the game's first level unaided.

Unlike Banjo, who is calm and mild-mannered, Kazooie is much more impulsive. She tends to argue frequently with Bottles the mole and other side characters, and gives sarcastic commentary about the events of the game. Indeed, it tends to be Kazooie's sharp tongue that gets the duo into a lot of fights and overall sticky situations, much to Banjo's dismay.

Kazooie's attacks consist mainly of a wide variety of eggs she can launch at enemies, though she can also use her strong beak to attack on occasion. One of the more useful abilities she's granted in Banjo Tooie is the ability to transform into a dragon, granting her increased strength in her attacks, as well as fire breath to replace her peck attack and an unlimited supply of Fire Eggs.

[edit] Names and Quotes

Kazooie often has sarcastic names and comments directed toward other characters. One of the names she called Bottles in Banjo-Kazooie were used as the name for a character in Banjo-Tooie.

to Bottles: "Bottle Boy, Goggles, Jamjars, Bottle Head."
to Mumbo: "Hut Boy, Skullhead, Skull Boy, Bimbo, Bone Brain, Skirt Boy, Masked Midget, Shorty, Short Stuff."
to Old King Coal: "But you're supposed to be a merry old soul!"
to Terry the Pterodactyl: "Or else what? You're due to become extinct soon anyways!"
To Trunker the tree: "How's your nuts, Bark Breath?"
to anyone in trouble: "Serves you right!"
to Jamjars: "Soldier Boy, Jammers, Dumbjars!"