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* AsianCleaverFeaver: Charlie has a big butcher knife on hand during the scenes on the island.
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* AsianCleaverFeaver: AsianCleaverFever: Charlie has a big butcher knife on hand during the scenes on the island.island. He doesn't do anything particularly fancy with it, though, so this may be more because he's a cook than because he's Chinese.
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** Hilda is never actually called by her name in the entire film. She performs her cabaret act as "La Belle Helene", so you'd be forgiven for thinking that's her name.
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* AscendedExtra: In the first movie, Denham mentions getting the map to Kong's island from the skipper of a Norwegian barque. This time around, that skipper - Helstrom - is a major character. Denham, Englehorn, and Charlie are also given more central roles than they had in the first film.
* BackForTheDead: The brontosaurus from the first movie is seen during the CataclysmClimax, trying not to drown.
* BackForTheDead: The brontosaurus from the first movie is seen during the CataclysmClimax, trying not to drown.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Little Kong helps out the humans because they rescue him from quicksand and later help bandage him up after a bad fight, Carl apologizing for taking his father away as he does so.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: BecauseYouWereNiceToMe / AndroclesLion: Little Kong helps out the humans because they rescue him from quicksand and later help bandage him up after a bad fight, Carl apologizing for taking his father away as he does so.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating the Dragon, Little Kong looks right at the camera and shrugs while making a sheepish expression.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating the Dragon, Little Kong looks right at the camera and shrugs while making [[AsideGlance a sheepish expression.expression]].
* CurbStompBattle: Despite the battle with the Nothosaurus (or whatever it's supposed to be) being one of the movie's most iconic visuals, the creature doesn't stand a chance, and Kiko wins handily.
* EthnicMenialLabor: Charlie (credited simply as "Chinese Cook") returns from the first movie. Despite his [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish comedically weak grasp of the English language]] and the stereotypical RegionalRiff that accompanies him, he's shown once again to be a fairly smart, brave guy, and is unwaveringly loyal to Denham during the mutiny. He's also played by actual Chinese-American actor Victor Wong (not the Victor Wong who was in ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''), rather than a white actor in {{yellowface}}. So while his portrayal is definitely pretty dated, [[FairForItsDay it could have been]] ''a lot'' worse in 1933.
* ExitPursuedByABear: During the CataclysmClimax, Helstrom is the first to get to the boat, and is [[DirtyCoward about to paddle off in it, leaving the rest to certain death]]... when an ''[[StockNessMonster Elasmosaurus]]'' surfaces from the water and eats him.
* ExitPursuedByABear: During the CataclysmClimax, Helstrom is the first to get to the boat, and is [[DirtyCoward about to paddle off in it, leaving the rest to certain death]]... when an ''[[StockNessMonster Elasmosaurus]]'' surfaces from the water and eats him.
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* LighterAndSofter: The film's tone is far more lighthearted and comedic compared to the original film's, it helps that Kiko is a benevolent ape that helps Denham and Hilda get through the horrors of Skull Island more easily.
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* LighterAndSofter: The film's tone is far more lighthearted and comedic compared to the original film's, it helps that Kiko is a benevolent ape that helps Denham and Hilda get through the horrors of Skull Island more easily. Screenwriter Ruth Rose figured that, with the time and budget they had, it would be impossible to one-up the original, so she decided they could at least try to make it funnier.
* TheMagicGoesAway: The entire island, and every amazing creature on it, is drowned during the CataclysmClimax.
* PrehistoricMonster: Aside from Kiko, just about every big animal on the island wants nothing more than to snack on our heroes.
* TheMagicGoesAway: The entire island, and every amazing creature on it, is drowned during the CataclysmClimax.
* PrehistoricMonster: Aside from Kiko, just about every big animal on the island wants nothing more than to snack on our heroes.
* RuinsForRuinsSake: The ruined temple where Denham finds the treasure. There's a big scary idol in the centre that looks vaguely Aztec, but no real clues as to who built it.
* SillySimian: The title character is a lot more comedically-portrayed than his dad was. There's also a very long scene early on of a group of monkeys who have been trained to play in a band as a piece of cabaret entertainment in the port town of Dakang.
* SillySimian: The title character is a lot more comedically-portrayed than his dad was. There's also a very long scene early on of a group of monkeys who have been trained to play in a band as a piece of cabaret entertainment in the port town of Dakang.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Or rather "He killed my father", as Hilda says of Helstrom. Carl inverts it on himself when apologizing to Kiko for his role in Kong senior's demise.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Or rather "He killed my father", as Hilda says of Helstrom. Carl inverts it on himself when apologizing to Kiko for his role in Kong senior's Senior's demise.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: That film opens with Carl having to flee New York ahead of a series of lawsuits and a grand jury indictment stemming from Kong's damage to the city.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: That film opens with Carl having to flee New York ahead of a series of lawsuits and a grand jury indictment stemming from Kong's damage to rampage through the city.
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* FriendOnTheForce: In a way. Mickey the process server is so happy with all the business Deham's gotten him that he helps him avoid other servers and tips him off about a future Grand Jury indictment in plenty of time for Denham to make tracks.
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* FriendOnTheForce: In a way. Mickey the process server is so happy with all the business Deham's Denham's gotten him in the wake of Kong's rampage that he helps him avoid other servers and tips him off about a future Grand Jury indictment in plenty of time for Denham to make tracks.
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!!Tropes in ''The Son of Kong''
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* FriendOnTheForce: In a way. Mickey the process server is so happy with all the business Deham's gotten him that he helps him avoid other servers and tips him off about a future Grand Jury indictment in plenty of time for Denham to make tracks.
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* TakeThat: The troublemaker crewman who then leads the mutiny is called "Red" and he spouts off Marxist reasons for the mutiny.
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* TakeThat: The Denham once quips about the gathered crew as "the Central Committee", and the troublemaker crewman who then named "Red" soon leads the mutiny is called "Red" and he spouts off Marxist reasons for the mutiny.Marxist-style taunts and hostilities.
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* TakeThat: The troublemaker crewman who then leads the mutiny is called "Red" and he spouts off Marxist reasons for the mutiny.
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* BigBad: Captain Helstrom, who endangers the group and tries to steal the treasure for himself and try to leave them all to die in Skull Island to save himself.
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* BigBad: Captain Helstrom, who endangers the group by tricking them into returning to Skull Island and then tries to steal the treasure for himself and try to leave them all to die in Skull Island to save himself.
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* CallBack: After defeating the Dragon, Kiko forces open its jaws (though without killing it) before dropping its barely conscious head.
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* CallBack: After defeating While battling the Dragon, it tries to strangle Kiko with its tail. And after defeating it, Kiko forces open its jaws (though without killing it) before dropping its barely conscious head.
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* CataclismClimax: The film's climax involves Skull Island sinking into the seas, taking all of its lifeforms (Little Kong included) down with it. Denham and Hilda just barely make it out with the treasure.
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* CataclismClimax: CataclysmClimax: The film's climax involves Skull Island sinking into the seas, taking all of its lifeforms (Little Kong included) down with it. Denham and Hilda just barely make it out with the treasure.
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* CataclismClymax: The film's climax involves Skull Island sinking into the seas, taking all of its lifeforms (Little Kong included) down with it. Denham and Hilda just barely make it out with the treasure.
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* CataclismClymax: CataclismClimax: The film's climax involves Skull Island sinking into the seas, taking all of its lifeforms (Little Kong included) down with it. Denham and Hilda just barely make it out with the treasure.
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* CataclismClymax: The film's climax involves Skull Island sinking into the seas, taking all of its lifeforms (Little Kong included) down with it. Denham and Hilda just barely make it out with the treasure.
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* PrimateVsReptile: Kiko fights a Dragon in the treasure cave that attempts to attack Denham and Hilda, ultimately defeating it.
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* PrimateVsReptile: PrimateVersusReptile: Kiko fights a Dragon in the treasure cave that attempts to attack Denham and Hilda, ultimately defeating it.
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* BittersweetEnding: Skull Island sinks beneath the sea, taking the friendly Little Kong with it, but Denham, Englehorn, Charlie, and Hilda are able to escape and have a huge gemstone that will make them rich.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating the Dragon/''Nothosaurus'', Little Kong looks right at the camera and shrugs while making a sheepish expression.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating the Dragon/''Nothosaurus'', Little Kong looks right at the camera and shrugs while making a sheepish expression.
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* BittersweetEnding: Skull Island sinks beneath the sea, taking the friendly Little Kong with it, but Denham, Englehorn, Charlie, and Hilda are able to escape and have a huge gemstone that will make them rich.
rich while remembering the brave sacrifice of their friend.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating theDragon/''Nothosaurus'', Dragon, Little Kong looks right at the camera and shrugs while making a sheepish expression.expression.
* CallBack: After defeating the Dragon, Kiko forces open its jaws (though without killing it) before dropping its barely conscious head.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating the
* CallBack: After defeating the Dragon, Kiko forces open its jaws (though without killing it) before dropping its barely conscious head.
* GentleGiant: In a stark contrast to all the other lifeforms on Skull Island including King Kong himself, Kiko is a gentle, calm and helpful ape who deliberately saves Denham and Hilda from various dangers after they saved him from quicksand.
* LighterAndSofter: The film's tone is far more lighthearted and comedic compared to the original film's, it helps that Kiko is a benevolent ape that helps Denham and Hilda get through the horrors of Skull Island more easily.
* PrimateVsReptile: Kiko fights a Dragon in the treasure cave that attempts to attack Denham and Hilda, ultimately defeating it.
* PrimateVsReptile: Kiko fights a Dragon in the treasure cave that attempts to attack Denham and Hilda, ultimately defeating it.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After Kong's rampage through the city, rather then having HeroInsurance, Carl is shown to be dead-broke with many lawsuits still on his hands. And since his actions also caused Kong to rampage on the natives, they're now hostile to Denham's group.
* TemperCeratops: Continuing the tradition of a herbivorous dinosaur being a human-hating monster, the crew are menaced by a rampaging ''Styracosaurus'' (which was originally intended for the first film).
* TemperCeratops: Continuing the tradition of a herbivorous dinosaur being a human-hating monster, the crew are menaced by a rampaging ''Styracosaurus'' (which was originally intended for the first film).
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After Kong's rampage through the city, rather then having HeroInsurance, Carl is shown to be dead-broke with many lawsuits still on his hands. And since his actions also caused Kong to rampage on the natives, they're now hostile to Denham's group.
group with the chief himself coming forward to Denham about it.
* TemperCeratops: Continuing the tradition of a herbivorous dinosaur being a human-hating monster, the crew are menaced by a rampaging''Styracosaurus'' (which was originally intended for the first film).''Styracosaurus''.
* TemperCeratops: Continuing the tradition of a herbivorous dinosaur being a human-hating monster, the crew are menaced by a rampaging
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* BehemothBattle: Just like the original film, Kong's son battles some of Skull Island's vicious beasts, in this case a ''Nothosaurus'' and a cave bear.
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* BehemothBattle: Just like the original film, Kong's son battles some of Skull Island's vicious beasts, in this case a ''Nothosaurus'' "Dragon" (that looks like a ''Nothosaurus'') and a cave bear.Cave Bear.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating the ''Nothosaurus'', Little Kong looks right at the camera and shrugs while making a sheepish expression.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating the ''Nothosaurus'', Dragon/''Nothosaurus'', Little Kong looks right at the camera and shrugs while making a sheepish expression.
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* BigBad: Captain Helstrom, who endangers the group and tries to steal the treasure for himself and try to leave them all to die in Skull Island to save himself.
* CharacterDevelopment: As he's now the front-and-center protagonist, Carl Denham gets a lot of it, as he faces the consequences of his actions of bringing Kong to the mainland as well as the guilt of getting him killed once he finds Little Kong.
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Well, doomed is overstating it, but when a movie is only 69 minutes long and spends 43 of them actually getting to [[JustHereForGodzilla the big monkey]], you've launched headlong into this trope.
* DiabolusExMachina: In the last five minutes, Skull Island suddenly and unexpectedly starts to sink shortly after Denham and the others land on it, killing Kiko.
* HateSink: Helstrom kills Hilda's father and tries to get the group killed to save his own skin, acting as the human antagonist of the film since Kiko is much friendlier than his father and wouldn't work as an antagonist.
* DiabolusExMachina: In the last five minutes, Skull Island suddenly and unexpectedly starts to sink shortly after Denham and the others land on it, killing Kiko.
* HateSink: Helstrom kills Hilda's father and tries to get the group killed to save his own skin, acting as the human antagonist of the film since Kiko is much friendlier than his father and wouldn't work as an antagonist.
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Well, doomed is overstating it, but when a movie is only 69 Little Kong gets about 13 minutes long of screentime and spends 43 of them actually getting ultimately dies sacrificing himself to [[JustHereForGodzilla save Denham in the big monkey]], you've launched headlong into this trope.
climax.
* DiabolusExMachina: In the last five minutes, Skull Island suddenly and unexpectedly starts to sink shortly after Denham and the others land on it, killingKiko.
all lifeforms on the island, with Kiko being the last to die as he sacrifices himself to save Denham from drowning.
* HateSink: Captain Helstrom proves himself as this. He kills Hilda's father and tries to get the group killed to save his own skin, acting as the human antagonist of the film since Kiko is much friendlier than hisfather and wouldn't work father, befriending the heroic group right off the bat leaving Helstrom as an antagonist.the sole main antagonist/threat.
* DiabolusExMachina: In the last five minutes, Skull Island suddenly and unexpectedly starts to sink shortly after Denham and the others land on it, killing
* HateSink: Captain Helstrom proves himself as this. He kills Hilda's father and tries to get the group killed to save his own skin, acting as the human antagonist of the film since Kiko is much friendlier than his
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* RealityEnsues: After Kong's rampage through the city, rather then having HeroInsurance, Carl is shown to be dead-broke with many lawsuits still on his hands. And since his actions also caused Kong to rampage on the natives, they're now hostile to Denham's group.
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* RealityEnsues: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After Kong's rampage through the city, rather then having HeroInsurance, Carl is shown to be dead-broke with many lawsuits still on his hands. And since his actions also caused Kong to rampage on the natives, they're now hostile to Denham's group.
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* RealityEnsues: After Kong's rampage through the city, rather then having HeroInsurance, Carl is shown to be dead-broke with many lawsuits still on his hands.
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* RealityEnsues: After Kong's rampage through the city, rather then having HeroInsurance, Carl is shown to be dead-broke with many lawsuits still on his hands. And since his actions also caused Kong to rampage on the natives, they're now hostile to Denham's group.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Little Kong and Carl make their way to the top of the mountain. As the water rises, Kong holds him up out of the water until he can be rescued, but the rowboat is far too small to take Little Kong with them, and he drowns instead.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Little Kong and Carl make their way to the top of the mountain. As the water rises, Kong holds him up out of the water until he can be rescued, but the rowboat is far too small to take Little Kong with them, them and he his foot is caught in a crevice preventing him from even trying to swim, so he's pulled under and drowns instead.
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* ChewToy: Everything had gone downhill on Helstrom in the time since Denham last encountered him, and his own actions continually makes everything worse for him until he gets literally chewed up and eaten.
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* QuicksandSucks: Denham finds Kiko sinking into quicksand and chooses the rescue the ape by pushing a log in to let him climb out with. Kiko take a shine to him after that.
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* QuicksandSucks: Denham finds Kiko sinking into quicksand and chooses the to rescue the ape by pushing a log in to let him climb out with. Kiko take takes a shine to him after that.
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A month after Kong's rampage through New York, Carl Denham is now bankrupt following the countless lawsuits to pay for the collateral damage. To avoid being indicted, Denham flees with Englehorn to the East Indies to make a living hauling cargo. During a stop at the island of Dakang he meets a struggling entertainer named Hilda Petersen, and also find there Captain Nihls Helstrom, the man who sold him the original map to Skull Island. Helstrom convinces Denham to return to the island by claiming it contains a great treasure, but this is all a ploy to leave Dakang before he's arrested for the murder of Hilda's father. After a mutiny that strands all parties involved on the island, Denham and Hilda run into an albino member of Kong's species, which Denham believes might be Kong's surviving son.
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A month after Kong's rampage through New York, Carl Denham is now bankrupt following the countless lawsuits to pay for the collateral damage. To avoid being indicted, Denham flees with Englehorn to the East Indies to make a living hauling cargo. During a stop at the island of Dakang he meets a struggling entertainer named Hilda Petersen, and also find finds there Captain Nihls Helstrom, the man who sold him the original map to Skull Island. Helstrom convinces Denham to return to the island by claiming it contains a great treasure, but this is all a ploy to leave Dakang before he's arrested for the murder of Hilda's father. After a mutiny that strands all parties involved on the island, Denham and Hilda run into an albino member of Kong's species, which Denham believes might be Kong's surviving son.
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A month after Kong's rampage through New York, Carl Denham is now bankrupt following the countless lawsuits to pay for the collateral damage. To avoid being indicted, Denham flees with Englehorn to the island of Dakang where he meets a struggling entertainer named Hilda Petersen. Carl also meets up with Captain Nihls Helstrom, the man who sold him the original map to Skull Island. Helstrom convinces Denham to return to the island by claiming it contains a great treasure, but this is all a ploy to leave Dakang before he's arrested for the murder of Hilda's father. After a mutiny that strands all parties involved on the island, Denham and Hilda run into an albino member of Kong's species, which Denham believes might be Kong's surviving son.
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A month after Kong's rampage through New York, Carl Denham is now bankrupt following the countless lawsuits to pay for the collateral damage. To avoid being indicted, Denham flees with Englehorn to the East Indies to make a living hauling cargo. During a stop at the island of Dakang where he meets a struggling entertainer named Hilda Petersen. Carl Petersen, and also meets up with find there Captain Nihls Helstrom, the man who sold him the original map to Skull Island. Helstrom convinces Denham to return to the island by claiming it contains a great treasure, but this is all a ploy to leave Dakang before he's arrested for the murder of Hilda's father. After a mutiny that strands all parties involved on the island, Denham and Hilda run into an albino member of Kong's species, which Denham believes might be Kong's surviving son.
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* BearsAreBadNews: One of the new threats on Skull Island is an enormous and aggressive cave bear which is even bigger than Little Kong.
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* BehemothBattle: Just like the original film, Kong's son battles some of Skull Island's vicious beasts, in this case a ''Nothosaurus'' and a cave bear.
* BittersweetEnding: Skull Island sinks beneath the sea, taking the friendly Little Kong with it, but Denham, Englehorn, Charlie, and Hilda are able to escape and have a huge gemstone that will make them rich.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating the ''Nothosaurus'', Little Kong looks right at the camera and shrugs while making a sheepish expression.
* BittersweetEnding: Skull Island sinks beneath the sea, taking the friendly Little Kong with it, but Denham, Englehorn, Charlie, and Hilda are able to escape and have a huge gemstone that will make them rich.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After defeating the ''Nothosaurus'', Little Kong looks right at the camera and shrugs while making a sheepish expression.
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* DiabolusExMachina: In the last five minutes, Skull Island suddenly and unexpectedly starts to sink shortly after Denham and the others land on it, killing Kiko.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Helstrom is abruptly killed off at the end when he tries to leave the rest to die by escaping on the boat by himself, only to run afoul of a vicious plesiosaur.
* QuicksandSucks: Denham finds Kiko sinking into quicksand and chooses the rescue the ape by pushing a log in to let him climb out with. Kiko take a shine to him after that.
* QuicksandSucks: Denham finds Kiko sinking into quicksand and chooses the rescue the ape by pushing a log in to let him climb out with. Kiko take a shine to him after that.
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* TemperCeratops: Continuing the tradition of a herbivorous dinosaur being a human-hating monster, the crew are menaced by a rampaging ''Styracosaurus'' (which was originally intended for the first film).
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Well, doomed is overstating it, but when a movie is only 69 minutes long and spends 43 of them actually getting to [[JustHereForGodzilla the big monkey]], you've launched headlong into this trope.
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'''Denham:''' Did I ever..? ''(laughs)'' Lady, you'd be surprised.\\
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* YouKilledMyFather: Or rather "He killed my father", as Hilda says of Helstrom.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Little Kong helps out the humans because they help bandage him up after a bad fight. Carl apologizes for taking his father away as he does so.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Little Kong helps out the humans because they rescue him from quicksand and later help bandage him up after a bad fight. fight, Carl apologizes apologizing for taking his father away as he does so.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Twelve Foot Ape Befriended them On the Island of King Kong!]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Twelve Foot Ape Befriended them On the Island of King Kong!]]
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A month after Kong's rampage through New York, Carl Denham is now bankrupt following the countless lawsuits to pay for the collateral damage. To avoid being indicted, Denham flees with Englehorn to the island of Dakang where he meets a struggling entertainer named Hilda Petersen. Carl also meets up with Captain Nihls Helstrom, the man who sold him the original map to Skull Island. Helstrom convinces Denham to return to the island by claiming it contains a great treasure, but this is all a ploy to leave Dakang before he's arrested for the murder of Hilda's father. After a mutiny that strands all parties involved on the island, Denham and Hilda run into an albino member of Kong's species, which Denham believes might be Kong's surviving son.
Special effects pioneer Willis O'Brien returned to provide the stop-motion visual for Little Kong and the creature of Skull Island, recycling assets from the first film to save on time and money.
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!!Tropes in ''The Son of Kong'' include:
* AccidentalTruth: Helstrom lies about there being a treasure on Skull Island, but when the group returns to the island, they find that there actually is a treasure.
* AffectionateNickname: Carl almost immediately starts referring to Kong's son as Little Kong.
* AllThereInTheManual: Little Kong is named 'Kiko' in the script, being a portmanteau of his father's name '''Ki'''ng '''Ko'''ng, despite never actually being called this in the movie.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Little Kong helps out the humans because they help bandage him up after a bad fight. Carl apologizes for taking his father away as he does so.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Carl tells Englehorn that there's a Little Kong. When asked how little, he glibly replies he's ''only'' about twelve feet tall.
* HateSink: Helstrom kills Hilda's father and tries to get the group killed to save his own skin, acting as the human antagonist of the film since Kiko is much friendlier than his father and wouldn't work as an antagonist.
* HeroicSacrifice: Little Kong and Carl make their way to the top of the mountain. As the water rises, Kong holds him up out of the water until he can be rescued, but the rowboat is far too small to take Little Kong with them, and he drowns instead.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: That film opens with Carl having to flee New York ahead of a series of lawsuits and a grand jury indictment stemming from Kong's damage to the city.
* RealityEnsues: After Kong's rampage through the city, rather then having HeroInsurance, Carl is shown to be dead-broke with many lawsuits still on his hands.
* YouKilledMyFather: Or rather "He killed my father", as Hilda says of Helstrom.
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