In most countries it would be illegal to donkey punch a donkey. Because being sexually involved with an animal is considered bestiality and donkey punching a donkey is animal cruelty. But to answer...
The games changed because people, places, and things in time have been progressing, obviously. The world was becoming much more civilized so like many other things it was time for an more modern...
Shigeru Miyamoto, the character's creator, used the English word "donkey" to evoke the animal's stereotypical stubbornness. (There was no translation error; the game has the same name, "Donkii...