History Characters / MonsterVerseKingKong

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TerryNotary (motion capture)

-->''"Kong's a pretty good king. Keeps to himself, mostly. This is his home, we're just guests. But you don't go into someone's house and start dropping bombs, unless you're picking a fight."''
--->-- '''Hank Marlow'''

Kong is a (once thought) mythical giant ape worshiped by the natives of Skull Island like a king. He is ''the'' big ape. Like a ''really, really, '''really''' big ape.''

-->'''Marlow''': Kong's a pretty good king. Keeps to himself, mostly. ''This is his home. We're just guests here. But you don't go into someone's house and start dropping bombs'' unless you're picking a fight.

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[[header:"King" Kong]]

* GiantEqualsInvincible: What differentiates him from past incarnations aside the [[Fim/KingKongVsGodzilla Toho]] [[Film/KingKongEscapes Kongs]] is that he is nearly as tall as [[Film/Godzilla2014 Godzilla]]. Case and point: automachine guns don't hurt him anywhere near enough to be an inconvenience.

* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: After Kong destroys every single helicopter sent out by MONARCH to investigate the island, [[BloodKnight Packard]] tries to persuade everyone to join him in a counterattack. Conrad and Marlow both state that this is a ''terrible'' idea, because Kong is the only thing on the island capable enough to hold back the Skullcrawlers.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In a loose sense of the word, "nice." Kong is not by nature malicious, but he takes his role as guardian of Skull Island's inhabitants very seriously. If you threaten his home in any way, he's a force to be reckoned with.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Terry Notary (motion capture)

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Unlike past incarnations of King Kong, this version of Kong has almost no interest in keeping the main human female character as his companion/pet. While Kong may share a few tender moments with Weaver in the movie, he does little more than make sure she's safe but otherwise leaves her be and doesn't take it any further.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: During the events of ''Skull Island'', he's only a teenager in spite of appearing as old as any previous iteration of King Kong (who are said to be much older). As such, he isn't fully-grown in spite of being the biggest incarnation of the character to date.

A (once thought) mythical giant ape worshiped by the natives of Skull Island as a king. He is ''the'' big ape. Like a ''really, really, '''really''' big ape.''

A (once thought) mythical giant ape worshiped by the natives of Skull Island as a king. He is ''the'' big ape. Like ''really, really, '''really''' big ape.''

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* LastOfHisKind: The Skullcrawlers had killed all the giant apes on the island, including Kong's parents, leaving Kong the only survivor.

For the other version of King Kong, see [[Characters/KingKong here]].

* YoungerThanTheyLook: During the events of ''Skull Island'', he's only a teenager in spite of appearing as old as any previous iteration of King Kong (who are said to be much older). As such, he isn't fully-grown in spite of being the biggest incarnation of the character to date.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: In previous movies, Kong was just big enough to hold an entire human in his hand. This movie makes him 104 feet (31 meters) tall, now big enough to hold an entire human in his ''palm'' and [[UpToEleven big enough to potentially face off against Godzilla]] [[JustifiedTrope (which is exactly what Legendary Pictures plans on doing)]]. According to viral marketing, he's only a ''teenager''.
** Plus they say in the movie that Kong is still growing.

* AdaptationalBadass: Kong's always been a badass, but in both the original movie and the Peter Jackson remake, he was taken out by biplanes. In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', he easily takes on a squadron of attack helicopters, largely because this one's gotten a lot bigger than any other previous version. And he's hasn't even reached his adult size by this time.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Kong is rarely portrayed as an outright hero, and even in ''Kong Skull Island'' he kills human beings without hesitation. However, he's rightfully considered by the natives to be a protector. Though it should be noted, the humans he does kill did something to warrant it. So long as humans don't do anything to warrant his anger, Kong tends to help or protect them from the island's more dangerous or actively malicious denizens, even if it's entirely by accident [[spoiler: such as with the Mire Squid.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: Kong's always been a badass, but in both the original movie and the Peter Jackson remake, he was taken out by biplanes. In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', he easily takes on a squadron of attack helicopters, largely because he's gotten a lot bigger.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Kong is rarely portrayed as an outright hero, and even in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' he kills human beings without hesitation. However, he's rightfully considered by the natives to be a protector. Though it should be noted, the humans he does kill did something to warrant it. So long as humans don't do anything to warrant his anger, Kong tends to help or protect them from the island's more dangerous or actively malicious denizens, even if it's entirely by accident [[spoiler: such as with the Mire Squid.]]

!!King Kong

->''"Kong's a pretty good king. Keeps to himself, mostly. This is his home, we're just guests. But you don't go into someone's house and start dropping bombs, unless you're picking a fight."''
-->--'''Hank Marlow'''

!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' | ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''

!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' | ''Film/{{Godzilla King of the Monsters|2019}}'' | ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''

->'''Portrayed By:''' Terry Notary
->'''Species:''' Giant Ape

* AdaptationalHeroism: Kong is rarely portrayed as an outright hero, and even in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' he kills human beings without hesitation. However, he's rightfully considered by the natives to be a protector and even takes care of the Sker Buffalo on the island. Though it should be noted, the humans he does kill did something to warrant it. So long as humans don't do anything to warrant his anger, Kong tends to help or protect them from the Island's more dangerous or actively malicious denizens, even if it's entirely by accident [[spoiler: such as with the Mire Squid.]]

* AgeAppropriateAngst: Considering this Kong is technically a teenager by his species's standards, his reactions are pretty much justified. Also, [[spoiler: as the tie in comic ''Skull Island: Birth of Kong'' he lost his parents as well as any other relatives to the Skullcrawlers, in fact his parents were killed the day he was born as he watched it happen so anger and solemn angst are obviously present.]]

* BeastAndBeauty: In ''Film/KingKong'' tradition, he takes an immediate interest in Weaver, [[spoiler:nearly losing an arm protecting her from Ramarak.]] Keeping with his role as Skull Island's protector, it's not looks that draw him to her, but the kindness she shows to the island's animals when trying to push a fallen helicopter off a trapped sker buffalo.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Although Kong and Godzilla are similar in the fact that they're giant, destructive beasts that none-the-less possess a modicum of both intelligence and act as counter-balances to far worse threats, they are still quite different. Whilst Godzilla, although not actively destructive, didn't really care about the well-being of humans, Kong is explicitly stated to be a defender of the inhabitants of Skull Island. Conversely, whilst Godzilla never intentionally killed or destroyed any humans, Kong was very vicious with his destruction of the military envoy. Although both Godzilla and Kong are described as being the last of their respective kind, Godzilla was a millions-of-years-old sea-beast reawakened by nuclear testing, meanwhile Kong is a teenager by his species standards and has presumably been active ever since he was born. Also [[CaptainObvious Godzilla is a reptile and Kong is a mammal]].

* HeroAntagonist: Kong in the first act- he attacks the helicopters and kills many of the soldiers in retaliation for their bombings. Averted for the rest of the movie, after Packard goes into full villain territory and the Skullcrawlers emerge.

* ItCanThink: He makes use of several [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weapons]], seems to feel lonely as a result of being [[LastOfHisKind the last of his kind]], and appears to harbor protective instincts toward humans.

* YouKilledMyFather: Kong, still a teenager by his species standards, fights the Skullcrawlers in part because they killed his parents.