Kickenklober Appreciation Blog
Well, I’m finally getting around to changing my introductory pinned post (the other one said I was new to Tumblr, and that was at the beginning of 2023).
And you read the title correctly: this is a Kickenklober appreciation blog!
Yes, I appreciate Klaus Kickenklober. The worst character from Sing 2. In fact, I have been hyperfixated on him since March of 2022 (it is now June of 2026). It was entirely unintentional. It was a thing that my brain did by itself, against my wishes. And it was my first (and so far only) hyperfixation, so it kind of actually scared me! It’s kind of a scary experience to have your brain thinking very strong and very crazy thoughts by itself for an extended period of time, while you watch helplessly.
I saw the movie by accident. Because I’m a pretty overscheduled person, and I don’t really watch movies. For whatever reason, my brain latched on to him--a character with less than 5 minutes of screen time--and on to the other primates in the movie.
So this is a blog dedicated to my primary Kickenklober hyperfixation, and to my secondary monkey hyperfixation that Kickenklober ushered in.
Listen: I didn’t choose monkeys. Monkeys chose me. I tried to resist, but monkeys don’t take “No” for an answer. Seriously, just go and Google videos of them. Watch what happens when people try to tell them “No.”
With this said, I feel like I should have a few disclaimers on this post:
Kickenklober is basically an abusive character. I do not support what he did to Johnny or anyone else in the movie.
However, I feel like he is a misunderstood character, and you will see why I think so in the pages of my blog. This is not an excuse for his behavior. It’s an explanation for it.
I think that, underneath Klaus’ abrasive exterior personality, there is a very sweet monkey who simply loves dance and wants others to experience the joy of dance. And for some bizarre reason that to this day I am still not able to understand fully, it is very healing to me to see his real personality come out. And this has had a very big impact on my life.
We only see a glimpse of this “real” personality at the end of the movie, when he accepts his defeat in the dance fight against Johnny. My brain, however, wants MORE: MORE insight into Kickenklober’s personality, MORE details about his childhood and backstory, MORE information about what it’s like to be a top dance professional in a ruthless entertainment industry, and what he had to do to get there.
But since MORE doesn’t exist in the movie, my brain has to create it. And that’s what my blog is about.
Other stuff you should know:
My OCs are:
Odalys (capuchin monkey): crushes on Klaus, goes to extreme and stupid measures just to impress him.
Breck (gorilla) and Mortimer (chimpanzee): Odalys’ bluntly honest friends who make fun of her crush, but who try to help her anyway, and only make things worse.
Eloïse (proboscis monkey): Klaus’ cousin who irritates the crap out of him. Because he’s so cute when he’s mad. Which is all of the time. Grumpe monke 😡
Also, I wrote a fic about this on AO3. (I’m girlmonkey_odalys there). It is the most ridiculous fic in the entire Sing fandom, but you are welcome to read it!
Spoiler: the whole point of the fic was for Kickenklober to be healed and to find true love and friendship. With random monkey shenanigans mixed in. I haven’t finished it, so this hasn’t happened yet.
