Editing Plus and Minus Barrels

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|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]'' ([[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]]) ([[List of games by date#1995|1995]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country 2]]'' ([[Game Boy Advance|GBA]]) ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
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{{quote|Plus and Minus Barrels are found on the different roller coaster levels. The Plus Barrels will add time to the timer, the Minus Barrels will send you into the [[Minus World]]!|''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]'' manual}}
{{multiframe|[[File:Plus Barrel.png]][[File:Minus Barrel.png]]|Sprites of Plus and Minus Barrels|align=left|size=70}}
'''Plus and Minus Barrels'''<ref>''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' instruction booklet, [[Media:DKC2 Manual 18-19.jpg|page 18]].</ref> (shortened to '''+ and − Barrels''' in an issue of ''[[Nintendo Power]]'')<ref>''Nintendo Power'' Volume 79, [[Media:Nintendo Power79 17.jpg|page 17]].</ref> are types of [[barrel]]s that appear in ''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]''. A Plus Barrel has a green plus sign on it, while a Minus Barrel has a red minus sign on it. Plus and Minus Barrels are similar to [[Stop & Go Barrel]]s from ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' mainly because they are both used to temporarily prevent an invincible enemy from attacking the [[Kong]]s. Plus and Minus Barrels are featured in the level [[Haunted Hall]], where they appear in midair and on the track rails throughout it. [[Diddy Kong]] and [[Dixie Kong]] must hit the Plus Barrels to increment the onscreen timer, but they must avoid Minus Barrels, which decrease the onscreen timer. If the timer reaches zero, the Kongs are attacked by the [[Kackle]] pursuing them. Minus Barrels are more frequent in later ports of the level.

In an earlier level, [[Rickety Race (Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest)|Rickety Race]], a Plus Barrel appears at the start, hidden beneath a wooden platform. This Plus Barrel has a different functionality; when the Kongs [[jump]] into the first [[Roller Coaster]], if the player holds Left on {{button|snes|Pad}} as the race's start is signaled (thus going against the flow of play), it rides backwards into the Plus Barrel, which speeds up the Roller Coaster to ride on the remaining track segment. Similarly, another Plus Barrel appears in Haunted Hall's first [[bonus room|Bonus Area]], and it causes the Roller Coaster to travel backwards at a high speed.
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==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=プラスバレル＆マイナスバレル<ref>''Super Donkey Kong 2: Dixie & Diddy'' instruction booklet, page 23.</ref>
|JapR=Purasu Bareru & Mainasu Bareru
|JapM=Plus Barrel & Minus Barrel
|Ita=Barili più e meno<ref>''[[Donkey Kong Country 2 (Game Boy Advance)|Donkey Kong Country 2]]'' European manual; pag. 114</ref>
|ItaM=Plus and minus barrel
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==Trivia==
[[File:Minus Barrel DKL2 unused.png|frame|The unused Minus Barrel]]
*The Plus and Minus Barrels do not reappear in ''[[Donkey Kong Land 2]]'', but an [[list of Donkey Kong Land 2 pre-release and unused content|unused]] sprite of a Minus Barrel is hidden within the game data. There is not one Plus Barrel.<ref>TCRF. [[tcrf:Donkey Kong Land 2#Minus Barrel|Donkey Kong Land 2#Minus Barrel]]. ''The Cutting Room Floor''. Retrieved May 10, 2018.</ref>
*The ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' instruction booklet has [[Cranky Kong]] jokingly state that the Minus Barrel can send the Kongs to the [[Minus World]], then he realizes he was talking about the [[Super Mario Bros.|wrong game]].

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