History Characters / MonsterVerseKingKong

'''[[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla Godzilla]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] | King Kong | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMothra Mothra]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMUTO MUTO]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseRodan Rodan]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseShimo Shimo]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandKaijuAndOtherCreatures Skull Island Kaiju & Other Creatures]]-]]]'''

'''[[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla Godzilla]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] | King Kong | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMothra Mothra]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMUTO MUTO]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseRodan Rodan]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandKaijuAndOtherCreatures Skull Island Kaiju & Other Creatures]]-]]]'''

* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler: Throughout much of ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', Kong only reacts to Godzilla's first attack on him purely out of self defense, but when Godzilla blows a hole into the Hollow Earth and destroys his ancestral home in the process, Kong finally has enough, grabs his new axe and confronts the King Of The Monsters head-on, intent on settling their score once and for all.]]

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Unlike his past incarnations (but like that of the film ''King Kong Lives''), this version of Kong has virtually 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. Word of God describes Kong's desire not solely about ''female'' companionship, but rather companionship akin to that of a family. We see this on display in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' when he's convinced to enter the Hollow Earth when Jia says he might find his family, and in the ''Skull Island'' animated series where he shares a very personal friendship with the Island Girl [[spoiler:and is ''crushed'' by hers and her village's murders at the Kraken's tentacles]]. [[spoiler:Ultimately, Kong does achieve his desire again after his FamilyOfChoice in Jia, Ilene, and Nathan decide to move with him to Hollow Earth at the end of ''Godzilla vs. Kong''.]]
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In most media, Kong is equal parts feared and revered by the natives of Skull Island, who attempt to placate him with ritual sacrifices. Here, his species are worshiped by the Iwi as benevolent guardian deities and their stalwart protectors; Kong likewise is fully aware of the Iwi and goes out of his way to protect them if they are threatened, but leads a solitary life and never enters their village. [[spoiler:In the ''Skull Island'' series, Kong had an even more personable and amicable relationship with an unrelated group of Skull Island natives that were under his protection, before they were tragically murdered by the Kraken]].

* CloseToHome: After Skar King cruelly murders Suko's caretaker as the young ape watches on in horror, Kong, already in a state of TranquilFury over the vile tyrant's [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil practices]], finally snaps and attacks him with intent to kill, his own experiences with being an orphan [[PapaWolf heavily implied to be feeding his own fury towards his deranged simian foe]].

* AdaptationalHeroism: Kong is rarely portrayed as an outright hero, and even in this incarnation he outright kills or attempts to kill human beings with little to no restraint once they've attacked him or have otherwise grossly crossed him. However, this version of Kong is rightfully considered by the natives to be a protector, and it should be noted that the humans he does kill have always committed some direct affront against him 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, going far out of his way to protect the likes of Weaver, Jia, and the Island Girl, [[spoiler:Dog and Annie]].

* {{Tyrannicide}}: [[spoiler: After countless millennia of The Skar King torturing and oppressing his people (and Shimo) into enacting his wars of conquest, Kong, [[TheDogBitesBack with the help of a liberated Shimo]], is the one who finally ends the mad ape's timeless reign once and for all.]]

* TerseTalker: [[spoiler:Of a sign language variant. While Kong does learn to communicate with sign language, he "says" very little, even to Jia, and Jia notes he would have preferred no one else even knew he could sign at all (as he did not trust the Monarch researchers actually had his best interest at heart).]]

** EmpoweredBadassNormal: After journeying to the Hollow Earth, Kong recovers an axe made by one of his ancestors from the bone and dorsal spine of one of Godzilla's. The axe has the ability to absorb energy such as Godzilla's atomic breath and then release it in a burst of destructive force.

* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: [[spoiler: After spending much of the ''Skull Island'' series bearing witness to the Kraken's [[AxCrazy psychotic depravity]] and being unable to do anything about it, Kong finally battles and eventually kills the beast by beating it to a pulp, then ripping it in two when it (barely) survives that.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Godzilla and Kong do end up double-teaming against Mechagodzilla, as while Mechagodzilla ends up having an upper hand over Godzilla, it's Kong who turns the tides.]]

* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:While trying to escape from the wrecked ship Ramarak knocked him into, Kong notices the ship propeller and the chain it's gotten tangled in. He promptly uses it to gain the upper-hand on Ramarak and weaken him enough to finish him off.]]

* FunWithAcronyms: The mechanized gauntlet that covers his left forearm in ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire'' is referred to as the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, which stands for '''B'''io '''E'''enhanced '''A'''natomech '''S'''eismic '''T'''hunder.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: An Alpha Titan who can fight on even footing with the King of the Monsters is temporarily given the power of a [[PowerRing Green Lantern ring]].

* ParentalSubstitute: While he and Suko initially get off to a ''very'' rocky start, Kong ends up becoming a father figure to the younger ape after consistently showing him kindness.

Half a century later, Kong has matured into a full-grown adult, and forces beyond his control saw him challenging the King of the Monsters himself, Godzilla.

* HeroicBuild: He's one of the most conventionally heroic kaiju in the world, and is built like the gorilla equivalent of a bodybuilder, with broad shoulders, heavy, visible muscle, and a (relatively) narrow waist.

* WouldHurtAChild: ''Godzilla x Kong'' has an example that's played completely for laughs. [[spoiler:When Suko and a bunch of other apes try to attack him in an ambush, Kong grabs hold Suko and starts [[ImprovisedWeapon using him as a club]] to smack the other apes away from him, before tossing him aside. With that much having been said, while Kong is perfectly willing to fight Suko off to defend himself, he's not going to hurt the younger ape if he doesn't have to, and he won't stand for other people abusing him either, since he steps in to save Suko from being killed by the Skar King later in the movie.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Downplayed - he only attacks Suko when the young ape attacks him first.

* BornWinner: It's implied (much like Godzilla is for his species) that Kong is abnormally strong and powerful for his kind. This is best shown by his parents' skeletons compared to him: when nowhere close to fully grown, he's already as large as his parents were when they died and come ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', he ''dwarfs'' them, being about three times their size.

* TheGoodKing: He is benevolent to all who live on skull island.

* PapaWolf: To the natives and the creatures of Skull Island, so long as the latter aren't threatening him or the island's ecosystem (in which case, he will mercilessly use deadly force on them to restore balance). [[BeastAndBeauty Oh, and Weaver]]. In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', he's formed a protective relationship with Jia, an orphaned Iwi girl, and the [[LastOfHisKind last one left]].

* AdaptationAmalgamation: He's a composite of his former incarnations. The bipedal stance and shape of the 1976 version, scars of the 2005 version, facial build and coloration resembling the 1933 original version, and the kaiju-sized scaling of the Toho versions[[note]]Also like the Toho Kong, this version exists within the same universe as Godzilla[[/note]].

* MechVsBeast: In ''''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted'', Kong battles a mech known as Titan Hunter handled by a man named Raymond Martin.

* TranquilFury: Kong's default state of mind as he holds a permanent DeathGlare that shows how terrifyingly angry he is when he's not fighting.