I have never fucking understood "Meme characters". Ridley and K. Rool are characters that have always deserved to be in the game, being.
You know.
The primary fucking antagonists of their respective series
Maybe now they'll let K. Rool be in a Donkey Kong Country game again.
"They" being Microsoft, the same company that bought out Rare purely to drain Nintendo of a couple of million trying to buy back a controlling share, only for their plan to fail and have the one of the most talented and beloved game studios languish and end up just making Kinect games?