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Hero Overview

That's Kong. He's king around here. He's god to these people.
~ Hank Marlow describing Kong's origins to Conrad and Weaver.
Home.
~ Kong's only seen word, via sign language, in Godzilla vs. Kong.
Cloaked in mist, far out at sea, lies an island of mystery.
Here between the cliffs and sand, a mighty Titan rules the land.
Fists like boulders, roar like thunder.
All who see him gasp in wonder.
He horrifies the bravest men.
His name is Kong... he is my friend.
~ Jia in the book Kong & Me about Kong.

King Kong, also simply known as Kong and dubbed Titanus Kong, is the deuteragonist of the MonsterVerse franchise. He is a species of intelligent and sentient primate-like Titan known as Titanus Kong, one of the few alpha Titans and alongside Godzilla, one of the most powerful creatures on Earth.

Kong is the sole survivor of his species that have been almost wiped out completely by the war between Godzilla's race the Titanus Gojiras and his kind, then later on by his archenemies, the Skullcrawlers. He also served as the protector and guardian of Skull Island and later the Hollow Earth, defending them from creatures that attempted to conquer them.

In Kong: Skull Island, he is portrayed by Terry Notary (who also played Rocket in the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise and Buck in The Call of the Wild) and Toby Kebbell (who also played Durotan in Warcraft) in motion-capture. In Godzilla vs. Kong, he is portrayed by Eric Petey also in motion-capture.

Personality[]

Kong is the guardian of Skull Island and is responsible for maintaining the natural order and defending the island's wildlife from threats. While Kong appears to be highly territorial, he does demonstrate some degree of altruism, such as rescuing a trapped Sker Buffalo and saving Mason Weaver from drowning. Kong is not normally aggressive towards humans, and only attacks them when he is provoked. The native Iwi tribe reveres Kong and views him as their savior, as he and his family allegedly defended them from the Skullcrawlers in the past. Kong demonstrates an interest in Mason Weaver, as he at one point allows her to touch his face, and later admires her in his hand after he rescues her from the Skull Devil.

In 1995, it fully reveals Kong's driving motivations for keeping the order of the island. After witnessing his parents' deaths as a mere infant, Kong chose to avenge them and honor their memory by keeping the island's Skullcrawler population under control and actively defending the island's least malicious and most vulnerable life, including the Iwi people. He actively rescues members of Monarch's second off-the-books expedition to the island from Death Jackals and a Sirenjaw, and immediately comes to the aid of the Iwi village once it is besieged by Mother Longlegs allowed into the village by the deranged Walter R. Riccio.

Kong recognizes humans and understands that they share his level of intelligence and is shown to distinguish between those he judges as friendly, and those, who are not. As such, he defends or genially regards most humans, but kills Preston Packard, Riccio and even Maia Simmons. In Godzilla vs. Kong, Kong took the orphaned Iwi girl Jia under his wing after a storm around Skull Island reached the island interior, becoming her adoptive father. This is further explored, which shows that Kong saved Jia after her family was killed by a Sirenjaw. When Maia ordered her guards to aim their weapons at the girl, Kong bellowed angrily at them to protect Jia. After some convincing from Jia, Kong realized that Godzilla is in fact an ally the whole time and helps him fight against Mechagodzilla. Kong puts the defense of Skull Island as his first priority, and his will is so strong which he is willing to stand up to Titans of equal status to his own if necessary. Kong's willpower renders him resistant to the alpha call of King Ghidorah, which awakens most other Titans around the globe and bends them to his will, including the Leafwings and Skullcrawlers on the island.

Kong actively chooses to remain on his island and ignore Ghidorah's call to "hunt together" with him, and his attention is immediately grabbed by the Skullcrawlers responding to Ghidorah. Only Godzilla and Mothra also dared to oppose Ghidorah's call. Despite his tough, violent and aggressive behavior, he is also a benevolent, kind-hearted, fearless, honorable, wise and tragic guardian who loves humanity and protecting them from other evil Titans for good.

In Skull Island, Kong is shown to have befriended a young Skull Island girl and seems to be able to understand her speech. He has a playful but reckless side to him that eventually leads to him nearly getting himself, the girl, and a giant red hawk, whom Kong bonds with, killed in a fight with a trio of monstrous chameleons. When confronted and berated by the Skull Islander afterwards, Kong becomes enraged after she calls him a "foolish boy" and a "giant idiot", hurting his feelings. That night, he came to regret losing his composure, whining as he sat on the mountain on which the pair would stargaze every night. The next morning, he tried to make amends by offering a fruit tree to the Skull Islander’s village, though he ended up recklessly causing a bit of destruction and irritating his friend in the process, frustrating him further. He mourned her and her fellow islanders after the Kraken slaughtered them, burying her and keeping her necklace in his temple as a memento, while developing a hatred of the aquatic Titan.

His attachment to his friend's necklace was such that Annie, Charlie, and Dog were able to lure him into the Kraken's territory, which he had previously avoided. Kong valued his late friend's necklace to the point that he nearly pummeled Annie and Dog when he had them cornered at the edge of the ocean. However, after Annie attempted to give it back, he seemed to forgive her and Dog afterwards, saving their lives during his battle against the Kraken. It's also shown that Kong has formed a strong bond with the Hawk, whom he orders to do whatever he desires and having the animal obey, such as commanding the bird to fetch food for him and have them brought to his temple for him to eat to satisfy his hunger.

Physical Appearance[]

In contrast to his previous incarnations, this version of King Kong is significantly altered as he is instead a new type of primate who falls more in line with a quasi-human line and perhaps has some distant lineage to cryptid apes, such as a Yeti or Bigfoot.

Standing 104 feet tall, Kong, like humans, walks upright in a bipedal manner and has incredibly long muscular arms that are longer than his legs, giving him a distinctive silhouette. His fur is a light orange-brown color and covers the majority of his body except for his face, chest, hands and feet while his skin is a dark gray color. He displays a muscular physique with defined abs and large biceps as well as many ape-like features based on gorillas and chimpanzees, such as a rounded head with small ears on the sides, a huge brow, an exaggerated muzzle, a flat nose with rounded nostrils, razor-sharp fangs and a total of 32 teeth. Kong is shown with three large scars on his chest that ran diagonally from his left pectoral to the right side of his torso, implying that he got these scars from a fight with one of the Skullcrawlers or other creatures that he fought during his time on Skull Island. He is even shown to have several more scars on the palm of his right hand after grazing it when he attempted to grab the rotating blades of a helicopter.

In Godzilla vs. Kong, Kong now stands 337 feet tall, making him almost the same size as Godzilla. Although he is still growing, he is nearing his full growth. His fur now has a darker shade of brown or even black along with a few gray hairs while his head is 50 feet wide. Kong is shown to have grown beard-like facial hair which covers the lower part of his head and chin that represents his age while the scars on his chest are properly healed, but are still faintly visible. He also displays two scars on his nose as well as one on the right side of his belly. However, following his fight against Godzilla in Hong Kong after he ferociously slashed at Kong's chest four times, Kong now displays a diagonal grid line of scars based on the right pectoral area in addition to his original three scars. Additionally, he often stands in a hunched-over posture commonly seen in gorillas, chimpanzees and other apes. In Kingdom Kong, his legs have lengthened which gives him more human-like body proportions and has broader shoulders with much larger amounts of fur than before.

In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Kong's fur is slightly grayer and his beard is slightly longer that it was in Godzilla vs. Kong. He is also shown wearing a yellow mechanical glove-like gauntlet on his right arm called the B.E.A.S.T. (Bio-Enhanced Anatomech Seismic Thunder) Glove.

In the animated television series Skull Island, Kong appears to be slightly taller than his initial design in Kong: Skull Island, but under his height in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong. His forearms are much larger while his fur is dark gray instead of brown, displays a smaller beard similar to the one that he had in Godzilla vs. Kong, has slightly longer legs, causing his overall silhouette to appear more human-based, lacks the small burns on his face and the three scars have shrunk in size as they have now positioned across the center of his chest.

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

  • Titanus Kong Physiology: As a Titanus Kong, Kong is incredibly powerful as he possesses several physical attributes that surpasses that of his kind and most other Titans. He is also the second most powerful Titan in existence, second only to Godzilla and the late Ghidorah.
    • Superhuman Strength: Kong's primary power is his unlimited immense physical strength due to his humongous size and has enormously powerful arms, making him far greater than that of his kind, thus he is the second strongest Titan in existence, second only to Godzilla. As an adolescent, Kong's strength allows him to throw a boulder around half his own size, uproot large trees and throw them a great distance at flying targets with accuracy, fight off a Mire Squid and kill it using his own muscles and also able to rip off Skull Devil's powerful tongue when it latched onto him, killing the alpha Skullcrawler. His punches can smash helicopters as well as incapacitate Skullcrawlers and can wrestle and pin the alpha to the ground by using sheer force. He was also capable of casually lifting a crashed helicopter off of a trapped Sker Buffalo with just one hand. Kong was even strong enough to break free from the anchor chains of a wrecked ship. After reaching adulthood in 2024, Kong possesses the strength to almost overpower Godzilla. He was able to grab hold both of the alpha Titan's arms and keep him still before unleashing a devastating headbutt that knocks Godzilla back, despite Godzilla's attempts to claw and bite his face. Kong's punches were shown to make Godzilla stagger and even fall to the ground, but while his strength can stun and make Godzilla stagger, it did little to slow him down at all. Kong was also able to subdue Godzilla several times, even managing to use his momentum to toss Godzilla away and have distance from one another. Kong even made Godzilla roar in pain after he punched the latter's wounded thigh. Kong could also throw a Warbat with ease before smashing it against another and ripping it's head clean off, without its spine intact. Furthermore, Kong was also able to pull and drag a damaged aircraft carrier with his chains as well as crush a Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicle containing Maia Simmons and her guards inside with just one hand. During the final fight with Mechagodzilla, after Godzilla charged Kong's axe, Kong pushed back Mechagodzilla's tail before cutting it off, then stopped the mecha's punch using his left arm with ease, when beforehand he was struggling to hold Mechagodzilla's tail back. Later, he was able to rip the robot's head off, pulling the spinal cord out with it. In Skull Island, Kong effortlessly forced a handmade spear through a Skullcrawler's head and was easily capable of throwing around a trio of giant, monstrous chameleons during his fight against them. At one point, he slammed one into a canyon wall with enough force to cause the wall to crumble and collapse. He was even able to rip off four of the Kraken's tentacles when it was constricting him, pummel it relentlessly with his fists after forcing it on land, tear it in half with his bare hands and throw both halves of its corpse a considerable distance away.
      • Superhuman Leaping: Kong's immeasurable strength extends to his legs, allowing him to leap great heights and distances. He was able to leap from a cargo ship onto a nearby destroyer and then an aircraft carrier in only two bounds in his first fight with Godzilla and can even leap from building to building during their second battle in Hong Kong.
    • Superhuman Durability: Kong has extremely thick and durable skin which makes him incredibly tough and resilient as he is capable of withstanding great physical damage, partly because of his titanic size. However, Titans of similar strength like Godzilla can harm him and, potentially, kill him. As an adolescent, he is capable of withstanding bullets from military helicopters, bites from the Skullcrawlers and even survive getting set ablaze in a lake filled with napalm caused by Packard, despite being temporarily knocked out from oxygen depletion. During his battle with Godzilla in Hong Kong, despite being bitten, clawed, and tail whipped by the latter, Kong was able to withstand the majority of these attacks and the only things that actually affected him were his dislocated left arm and his heart slowing down from Godzilla stomping on his chest very hard which unluckily caused commotio cordis. Kong has also survived Godzilla's atomic breath, though he was visibly hurt by it. Kong can also survive Gravitational Inversion, a planet's owrth of gravity reversed in a split second.
    • Superhuman Dexterity: Like all apes, Kong has five fully opposable digits on each of his hands and feet, allowing him to grab objects and opponents firmly with ease.
    • Superhuman Speed: Regardless of his size, Kong's strong legs allow him to run incredibly fast, reaching speeds of up to 78 miles per hour (or approximately 126 kilometers per hour). At one point, he is also shown to knuckle-walk and run on fours in an almost ape-like fashion which increases to 104 mph (or ~167 kph) when entering the Hollow Earth.
    • Superhuman Agility: Despite his massive size, Kong is extremely agile and athletic as his muscles and skeleton are extraordinarily flexible, allowing him to quickly dodge bullets from military helicopters and Skullcrawlers that attack him from behind. He also can swing his long arms to make effective combat strikes. After the fleet was decimated by Godzilla and Kong was transported to Antarctica, he swung on the pipes inside of the entrance to the Hollow Earth with considerable speed. In their second fight in Hong Kong, Kong showcased his agility by climbing and swinging around buildings with ease despite his large size. With his agility, he was able to avoid Godzilla's atomic breath for a time, only being hit once in both of their fights. In Skull Island, Kong performs incredible feats of speed and agility when traversing Skull Island, covering distances within moments via leaping or running on all fours. He was even able to keep up with Dog, eventually cornering him and Annie at the edge of the ocean.
    • Superhuman Reflexes: Kong has incredible reflexes that are sharp enough to block Godzilla’s atomic breath, and catch Mechagodzilla’s spinning drill tail in mid air just seconds before it could hit him.
    • Superhuman Stamina: Kong's musculature is considerably efficient. His virtually inexhaustible stamina enables him to exert himself at peak capacity for an undefined period of time without tiring at all, allowing Kong to fight his enemies without getting exhausted or wearing out. This is proven in his fights against the Skullcrawlers, Mire Squids, Skull Devil, giant chameleons, the Kraken, Camazotz, Warbats, Godzilla and Mechagodzilla.
    • Superhuman Endurance: Kong's pain tolerance level is incredibly high. Even if he is injured from the fights he gets into, he'll barely feel a thing. This is proven in his fights against the Skullcrawlers, Mire Squids, Skull Devil, giant chameleons, the Kraken, Camazotz, Warbats, Godzilla, and Mechagodzilla.
    • Accelerated Healing Factor: Despite his body's resistance, Kong can sustain physical injury. If he is injured, his metabolism enables him to rapidly regenerate damaged bodily tissue much faster, depending on how serious his wounds are.
    • Superhuman Senses: Kong is granted with powerful senses, especially his sense of smell and hearing. He is able to sense a Mire Squid lurking near him while drinking from a lake and can also hear the cries of a trapped Sker Buffalo struggling to break free from the wreckage of a helicopter. In Godzilla vs. Kong, Kong was able to sense that he is trapped inside a dome-shaped facility that Monarch had constructed to contain him while out on the ocean, he was able to sense Godzilla approaching before the radar systems could detect him.
      • Superhuman Vision: Kong is shown to possess amazing vision, aiding him in fighting off against his enemies and allowing him to locate things from far distances easily.
        • Night Vision: Kong's vision is powerfully acute to the point of allowing him to fully see clearly in darkness, enabling him to notice people standing on a cliff through the dead of night.
    • Symbiosis: In Skull Island, Kong is revealed to have a symbiotic relationship with a giant red hawk as the animal is loyal only to him due to their strong bond. Kong will likely order the Hawk to do whatever he desires and having the bird immediately obey, such as commanding the beast to fetch food for him and have them brought back to his temple for Kong to eat. They are even able to work together in battle when they team up to fight against a group of chameleon-like Titans.
    • Communication/Sign Language: By the time of Godzilla vs. Kong, Kong was taught sign language in order to communicate as Jia is currently the only person he trusts with this form of communication to the point he avoided using it when anyone else was around to see him do so. Kong is even able to speak a single word, simply by saying "Home". Given that Jia can communicate with him fluently and explain to him what is happening, it is very clear that Kong can understand sign language quite well.
    • Self-Sustenance: As a Titan, Kong does not need to eat or sleep, but nevertheless must perform either to quickly replenish his strength and boost his natural healing factor from battles and other extreme activities. He is also shown to sleep each night out of habit shared by other living beings.

Abilities[]

  • High-level Intellect/Master Tactician: Kong is incredibly intelligent compared to the other creatures on Skull Island as he can differentiate his allies from his enemies while displaying the ability to learn and strategize to solve problems at hand. Most notably, he clearly recognizes Preston Packard and his men as threats but does not attempt to harm any other humans he comes across, even going out of his way to save Mason Weaver from drowning. He also takes advantage of his surroundings while fighting and can use tools as many primates do, which he shows by using boulders, trees, and other objects he can grasp as weapons. Kong's intelligence also allows him to anticipate enemy attacks and formulate strategies to deal them accordingly, which explains how he easily defeated a pair of Warbats and quick to analyze Godzilla's fighting style and power in order to maintain his ground against the veteran Titan. In his fight against the latter, Kong not only keeps preventing him from using it effectively by closing the distance and re-directing his head away from him, but also moves from one building to another so as not to become a sitting duck all while exploiting his battle axe's ability to absorb the latter's atomic breath to either defend himself or turn the alpha Titan's atomic breath against him. This, coupled with quick mastery of his axe that turned out crucial in defeating Mechagodzilla arguably among aspects in Kong that Godzilla admires since they both know brute force alone at times not enough in combating formidable adversaries. In Skull Island, Kong has a long-running standoff with the Kraken due to his unwillingness to engage it underwater, where it would have gained the upper hand, even when it sadistically taunts him by throwing a whale into his temple. Annie, Charlie, and Dog force the two Titans together by stealing a necklace from Kong that he kept in his temple after the death of a young Spanish tribeswoman that he had befriended and leading him to the shore to confront the Kraken. At the conclusion of the battle, Kong was able to throw the beast onto land, where he would take advantage of the terrain and kill it instantly.
  • Climbing Skills: Kong is an excellent master of climbing as he is able to scale sheer cliffs and mountain faces with relative ease, mainly due to his size. He is also shown to climb buildings to avoid Godzilla's atomic breath during their battle in Hong Kong, all while carefully placing his own weight over them so as not to topple them by mistake.
  • Swimming Skills: Kong is known to be a decent swimmer as he is able to swim quite well, although he cannot hold his breath underwater for long periods of time.
  • Survival/Hunting Skills: Kong is a master survivor thanks to spending majorities of his life taming the wilderness in Skull Island, learning where to find food or water as well as overcoming dangerous situations. He is also shown to be brilliant at hunting as he is skilled in tracking and determining what sort of prey he is following such as Mire Squids, Grass Hedgehogs and Croc Monsters and how best to take it down.
  • Improvisation: Kong is able to make something useful out from any object he can find such as crafting a spear by shearing off a tree's leaves and branches.
  • Weapon Mastery: Like all apes and his species, Kong is capable of wielding objects that he can use as weapons for combat or self-defense, from trees and boulders to his ancestral axe. When fighting Skull Devil, he used a stripped tree trunk as a club to swing it against Skull Devil's face, used a ship's propeller attached to a chain as a flail to wound and pull the creature back toward him and even used the propeller as a saw blade to slice Skull Devil's throat open. In Godzilla vs Kong, Kong used a stripped tree as a spear to destroy a biodome Monarch had built to contain him, used a fighter jet as a dart to throw at Godzilla and later used a radio dish as a shield to block the latter's atomic breath during their battle in Hong Kong. In Skull Island, he used a sharpened tree stump as a spear to impale a Skullcrawler through the head in order to save a Skull Island girl that he befriended and was able to use two bones as knives during his fight with a trio of giant chameleons.
  • Master Combatant: Kong is a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant, being able to perform a variety of punches, kicks and grapples during his fights with Skullcrawlers, Skull Devil, Mire Squids, the Kraken, three giant chameleons, Camazotz, Warbats, Godzilla and Mechagodzilla. His combat skills extends to the usage of objects or weapons, most notably his battle axe which he uses to fight against Godzilla and Mechagodzilla.
    • Battle Axe Mastery: Kong can offensively and defensively use his battle axe in his fights, as shown when he battled Godzilla and later Mechagodzilla.
  • Stealth: Kong is shown to be stealthy, as he was able to sneak away from Godzilla and hide on the top of a building during their second battle in Hong Kong.
  • Sharp Teeth: Like all apes and his species, Kong has sharp teeth that grant him a lethal bite, capable of tearing off the tentacles of a Mire Squid after killing it. In Godzilla vs. Kong, he is briefly shown piercing Godzilla's neck very hard during their underwater fight, showing that his bite did hurt Godzilla quite a bit.

Weaknesses[]

  • Limited Strength: Although Kong is incredibly strong, he is unable to match Godzilla in terms of "physical strength".
  • Limited Durability: Although Kong is incredibly durable, objects, weapons or other Titans with enough force can injure him, which was seen when the blades of a helicopter he fought grazed his hand very badly and when artillery rounds severely wounded his arm. Kong also has a poor resistance to fire, due to his thick fur, collapsing unconscious from the napalm and fire he was hit with after a few minutes. As an adult, Kong was nearly drowned by Godzilla when the latter pulled him into the depths of the ocean, taking advantage of his own water-breathing capabilities. While he holds his own in their Hong Kong battle, Kong is badly burned when he is hit by a blast of Godzilla's atomic breath, creating a burn mark on his back, though it quickly fizzled out and didn't seem to affect Kong shortly afterward. Kong is also rendered helpless and nearly killed once Godzilla unleashes his full fury against him in the Hong Kong battle, dislocating Kong's left arm, slashing him with his claws and even stomping on his chest.
  • Limited Stamina: Although Kong's stamina is incredibly high, he can still be worn out from extreme activities, such as recurring fights against Godzilla and Mechagodzilla. After Godzilla stomped on his chest very hard which caused Kong to suffer commotio cordis, he eventually lost consciousness and collapsed passed out before regaining consciousness after Nathan Lind revived him by using a Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicle as a defibrillator. After defeating Mechagodzilla, Kong slumped down to rest and catch his breath, only to be interrupted by the roar of Godzilla.
  • Limited Healing Factor: Kong's healing factor is inferior to Godzilla's, despite providing him longevity as much as the latter as he needs greater amounts of time to fully recover from injuries, thus, said injuries must be treated so as not to impair him. This was seen when he washed his arm to heal his wounds from a skirmish with several helicopters. Kong's wounds on his chest have also not healed yet.
  • Oxygen: Unlike Godzilla, Kong cannot breathe underwater, due to the fact that his physical structure was that of a terrestrial creature since he was not entirely suited for water. If Kong remains underwater for too long, he will lose consciousness and eventually drown if not able to surface for air in time.

Former weaknesses[]

  • Limitations: Because Kong was still an adolescent (at the time), he had yet to fully develop the physical attributes of adult ape Titans as he had difficulty overpowering opponent(s), who are much larger Kong himself. But after reaching adulthood in 2024, this is no longer a weakness for Kong.

Equipment[]

Weapons[]

  • GvK - Kong with his Axe

    Kong wielding his battle axe.

    Battle Axe: Kong's main weapon of choice is an ancient battle axe made with a Titan bone as the handle and a dorsal fin from a member of Godzilla's species as the blade. He first found this weapon embedded in the skull of an unidentified Titan inside his ancestors' stronghold while exploring the Hollow Earth.
    • Energy Absorption and Redirection: Kong can use his battle axe to absorb and even store energy radiating from the Earth's core as well as Godzilla's atomic breath to augment its strength. In their final battle, the axe is able to release its stored energy when striking a target with sufficient force as the fully-charged weapon was shown to be powerful enough to produce a tremendous blast that knocks both Kong and Godzilla back. Even before it is charged, it is shown to be able to slash into Godzilla's armored scales. Godzilla voluntarily charges up the axe again when he and Kong battle Mechagodzilla, allowing the ape Titan to quickly dismantle the machine. Kong can also swing the axe at a top speed of 62 miles per hour. The weapon can even be thrown to inflict damage and its side can shield against focused attacks.
  • B.E.A.S.T. Glove: In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Kong wields a yellow mechanized gauntlet built by Monarch named the B.E.A.S.T. (Bio Enhanced Anatomech Seismic Thunder) Glove which is placed on his right arm while he can even use it in battle.
    • Force Enhancement: Kong is capable of using the B.E.A.S.T. Glove to enhance his punches which allows him to become strong enough to shatter a meteor.

Relationships[]

Kaiju[]

Skullcrawlers[]

Kong has a deep hatred for Skullcrawlers as not only they are responsible for the deaths of his brethren, his parents included, but also for their presence there would be disruptive to the island's ecosystems. After avenging his parents' deaths, he dedicated himself to ensure those creatures won't cause further damage and understandably angry upon noticing a survey expedition between Monarch and Packard dangerously attracting surviving Skullcrawlers. Despite this, he remains persistent in his mission in protecting his home from the invading Skullcrawlers culminating in him defeating their alpha, Skull Devil, and keep the latter's pack from reaching Ghidorah.

Skull Devil[]

Skull Devil was the alpha of the Skullcrawlers on Skull Island and Kong's primary adversary who was said to be responsible for slaughtering the giant apes on the island, leaving Kong as the sole survivor. Skull Devil established herself as Kong's personal enemy as she revealed herself as soon as Kong was left weakened by the conflict against the vengeful Packard's forces and later attempted to exploit the ape Titan's soft spot with humanity against him during their final battle. But in the end, Kong eventually defeated Skull Devil in combat, avenging his parents and left the remaining Skullcrawlers helpless without their alpha.

Sker Buffaloes[]

Kong appears to care for the Sker Buffaloes living within his territory, as seen when he saved one trapped under a fallen helicopter, as well as fending off the Skullcrawlers that killed one of them.

Unnamed Father and Mother[]

As a newborn, Kong witnessed their deaths and still missed them greatly since he occasionally looked on their wall paintings sadly. Shortly after his birth, his mother hid him in a cave while his father tried hold off the Skullcrawlers. Nevertheless, their deaths motivated Kong in preventing more Skullcrawlers from causing more death, toppling Skull Island's ecosystem due to their hunger.

Unidentified Titanus Kong individual[]

This unidentified individual was Kong's presumed ancestor and a member of his species that once battled Godzilla centuries ago before he was killed when Tiamat fought him to take his lair.

Camazotz[]

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Godzilla[]

Despite Kong and Godzilla being protectors of the Earth, they are also ancient rivals, due to their ancestors battling in an ancient war.

Unlike Godzilla, Kong seems to be unaware with the extent of such rivalry, due to spending much of his life in Skull Island as its guardian, let alone the fact of Apex Cybernetics manipulated him and his allies to go, into the Hollow Earth to seek for something to defeat Godzilla before he does more harm, in reality, Godzilla was only attacking Apex because he senses the presence of Ghidorah, who remains they desecrated for their shady project. As such, during their first confrontation at the sea, Kong mistakenly believed that, Godzilla attacked him for no reason at all.

After Kong and Godzilla's first fight, and subsequent betrayal of Apex Cybernetics' team once they found what they arelooking for, Kong discovered a ruined throne room along, with an ancient axe with a dorsal fin of Godzilla's ancestor as the blade, thus he fully understood about the ancient rivalry between his kind and Godzilla's, wasting no time to answer the latter's challenge upon being challenged by the alpha Titan for another rematch in Hong Kong.

Although Kong briefly gained the upper hand, due to his battle axe, Godzilla defeats Kong by matching the weapon with his own animal instincts (shown by walking on all fours in a crocodilian-like fashion), culminating to the alpha Titan angrily roaring in Kong's face to submit and the ape Titan responded with a roar of his own, showing he won't submit to Godzilla, thus earning his respect.

When Godzilla is battered and outmatched by Apex Cybernetics' masterpiece Mechagodzilla and Jia persuaded him to help his former rival, Kong decides to help the alpha Titan, where in the said epic battle, he realized they have one thing in common all along: they both want to stop Apex from wiping out the Titans. After they team up, Godzilla used his atomic breath to supercharge the axe and allowed Kong to defeat Mechagodzilla.

After that, Kong lets his axe fall to the ground as a sign of peace despite his initial distrust, ending the feud between him and Godzilla, who roars at Kong in acknowledgment and returns to the sea, while Kong returns to the Hollow Earth to make it his new home.

Ghidorah[]

Kong's own alpha status renders him resistant to the alpha call of Ghidorah, who awakens most other Titans around the globe and bends them to his will, including the Skullcrawlers on Skull Island. Kong actively chooses to remain on his island and ignore Ghidorah's call to "hunt together" with him, and his attention is immediately grabbed by the Skullcrawlers responding to Ghidorah. Only Godzilla and Mothra also dared to oppose Ghidorah's call. Despite this, Kong hasn't fought Ghidorah until he was reincarnated into Mechagodzilla with help of Apex (who had tricked Kong into leading them into the Hollow Earth) later after a fight of three kings between himself, Mechagodzilla/Ghidorah and Godzilla (who later helped Kong defeat his reborn archenemy).

Mechagodzilla[]

Despite Kong was unaware what Apex's true priorities were, his mistake was leading them into the Hollow Earth to extract samples in order to create Mechagodzilla. After his battle with Godzilla, he realized that Godzilla is not the reason why he is creating chaos as it turned out he was trying to stop Apex from reincarnating Ghidorah. Soon, Kong decided to undo his mistake by aiding Godzilla to face Mechagodzilla, after a painful and yet struggling fight. In the end, Kong managed to destroy Mechagodzilla with a little help of Godzilla powering up his battle axe with his atomic breath.

The Hawk[]

The Hawk is a giant red avian-like Titan and a companion of Kong who formed a strong bond with him as it is only loyal to the Titan since he orders it to do whatever he desires and having the Hawk immediately obey. At some point, Kong likely commands the Hawk to fetch food for him and bring them back to his temple for him to eat. It even helps Kong in battle, coming to his assistance when he is fighting off a group of chameleon monsters.

The Kraken[]

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Skar King[]

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Humans[]

Mason Weaver[]

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James Conrad[]

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Hank Marlow[]

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Preston Packard[]

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Jia[]

Jia is one of very few humans Kong trusts. When the storm that hit Skull Island nearly wiped out the entire Iwi's, Kong saved Jia from nearly dying. From then on Kong would trust Jia with his life, even getting angry when an Apex Cybernetics soldier pointed a gun at Jia. Jia is the only reason Mechagodzilla does not exist, due to her convincing Kong that Godzilla is not his enemy.

Ilene Andrews[]

Ilene Andrews is a scientist who studied Kong for 10 years on Skull Island. She knows everything he does and how he does it.

Nathan Lind[]

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Maia Simmons[]

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Island Girl[]

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Trivia[]

  • This is the largest version of King Kong to date, surpassing his Showa incarnation by roughly 190 feet, or 58 meters.
  • Unlike most other previous incarnations, this version of King Kong reached adulthood while most of his other previous incarnations died before reaching adulthood.
  • Kong is shown to be carnivorous in the MonsterVerse as he was seen eating a Mire Squid and even a Warbat, although gorillas in real-life are actually vegetarians, since their usual diet is likely consisted of fruits and plants.
  • Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts wanted Kong's design to have a closer resemblance to his 1933 incarnation designed, by Marcel Delgado. Thus, Kong combines features of early hominids, such as the mythical Bigfoot and perhaps some aspects of the Gargantuas, instead of being a more "realistic" gorilla.
  • Kong is the third monster that Monarch discovered, the first 2 being Godzilla and Shinomura.
  • Kong killing Packard by crushing him with his fist references Lt. Col. Archie Nevitt's death from King Kong Lives.
  • In Kong: Skull Island, the sound effects of Kong were made from the vocalizations of lions, tigers, monkeys and gorillas whilst in Godzilla vs. Kong, the sounds were made from the vocalizations of lions, leopards, monkeys, gorillas, grizzly bears, wild boars and African elephants.
  • Kong has similarities to Godzilla in several ways,
    • Both are the last of their species.
    • Both have a vendetta against their natural enemies, Skullcrawlers, M.U.T.O.s and Ghidorah, who have wiped out their species.
    • Both are portrayed as morally-neutral apex predators, who maintain order and have no personal quarrel, with humans.
    • Both had directly confronted humans in a bid to stop them from bringing back the great threat they vanquished. Whereas Kong attacked Preston Packard and his crew, to prevent them from using seismic bomb charges as it will attract Skullcrawlers back, to Skull Island, Godzilla laid waste upon Apex Cybernetics' facilities because the company defiled Ghidorah's surviving remains for a shady purpose.
  • Like Kong's 2005 incarnation, he has numerous scars on his body, giving him a somewhat "battle-hardened" look.
  • Like the backstories for Kong's previous incarnations, he is the last of his kind.
    • However, Kong's backstory is somewhat similar to Batman as both are loners who had tragic backstories and became orphans when they were children after their parents got killed.
    • Kong's fate and circumstances surrounding relocation from Skull Island contrasted to those of his original 1933 incarnation and 2005 remake. Here, he was moved by Monarch to the Hollow Earth at his own volition due to the fact that his home was already doomed, saving a human city instead of ravaging it, his fight against Godzilla and subsequent team up, with the latter against Mechagodzilla did caused notable property damage, and survived the events of the film instead of dying.
  • Unlike other Titans in the MonsterVerse, Kong does not absorb or feed on radiation.
  • At first, it was believed that Kong was thought to be the last surviving individual of his kind in the MonsterVerse, though it was somehow proved wrong when other members of his species are shown making their appearance in the trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
  • Kong's symbiotic relationship with the Hawk in Skull Island is similar to Godzilla's symbiotic relationship with Mothra.

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