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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'': Penelope is taken captive by the Hooded Claw's giant mechanical ape in "The Treacherous Movie Lot Plot." As the ape scales a skyscraper with Penelope, the Ant Hill Mob flies to the rescue in miniature airplanes.

[[caption-width-right:300: Worst part is, it took him ''three hours'' just to get up there!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'',
** The evil monkey is carried to the top of a building by Music/MileyCyrus (here a RobotGirl) before being rescued by Peter and Quagmire in a biplane. The whole scene is a ShoutOut to the 2005 film.

* In the soft-porn parody ''Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders'', King Dong climbs the Empire State building just to take a leak off the top. Flesh Gordon is flying his rocketship past at the time and has to turn on the windscreen wipers.

* Reversed and invoked in the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Attack of the 50-Foot Sister", where a giant Candace carries a carnival barker dressed in a gorilla suit to the top of a building as part of his attempt to promote his freak show.

A StockParody or StockShoutOut, sometimes both, where circumstances somehow conspire to [[{{Homage}} re-create]] the SignatureScene ending of ''Film/KingKong1933''.

So thanks to ''King Kong'', [[KingKongCopy giant apes in fiction have a tendency to grab screaming women and start climbing tall buildings while being attacked by airplanes]]. Of course, there are lots of other ways to riff on it. Some common variations: You could have normal-sized monkey climb a scale model of a tall building. You could flip things around and have a GiantWoman [[InvertedTrope carry an ape]] up a tall building. And it works with any {{Kaiju}}-sized creature too, not just giant apes.

* In one early issue of ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', Dr. Robotnik's giant ape robot King Gong falls in love with Sally and scales the Trans-Mobius Trade Center with her in hand. After Tails saves Sally, Sonic knocks Gong down by squirting with with a tank full of banana oil. Yeah.

* Reversed and invoked in the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Attack of the 50-Foot Sister", where the titular 50ft sister carries a Circus Ringleader dressed in a monkey suit to the top of the building as part of his attempt to promote the circus.

* Literature/{{Discworld}}: In ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', a giant monster in the form of a girl climbs the tower of art carrying the librarian (an orangutan). Wizards on broomsticks fly by and shoot it with the archchancellor's hunting crossbow. Dibbler, watching the scene, thinks it would make a good click, but feels that something is wrong...

* ''Disney/ChickenLittle'': Fish out of Water re-creates the scene with paper planes and a house of cards.

* In ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', [[spoiler: the giant Ralph virus does this by carrying Vanellope and climbing the Google tower.]]

* An Energizer battery commercial has King Kong climbing the Empire State Building in pursuit of the Energizer Bunny. Just as he's about to grab the Bunny, a Fay Wray Expy slams a window on his foot, causing him to fall.

So thanks to ''King Kong'', giant apes in fiction have a tendency to grab screaming women and start climbing tall buildings while being attacked by airplanes. Of course, there are lots of other ways to riff on it. Some common variations: You could have normal-sized monkey climb a scale model of a tall building. You could flip things around and have a GiantWoman [[InvertedTrope carry an ape]] up a tall building. And it works with any {{Kaiju}}-sized creature too, not just giant apes.

So thanks to ''King Kong'', giant apes in fiction have a tendency to grab screaming women and start climbing tall buildings while being attacked by airplanes. Of course, there are lots of other ways to riff on it. Some common variations: You could have normal-sized monkey climb a scale model of a tall building. You could flip things around and have a [[InvertedTrope giant woman carry an ape]] up a tall building. And it works with any {{Kaiju}}-sized creature too, not just giant apes.

* In''DarthWiki/TheGingerverse'' spin-off Aurora Borealis, during the song Soviet Hell, Younghee kidnaps a Bulgarian man and carries him up a building in Sofia.

* The video game ''Qbasic Gorillas'' is about two giant gorillas standing on top of skyscrapers throwing stuff at each other. There are no planes nor woman, though.

* Probably the very first instance is the MickeyMouse cartoon "The Pet Store", released the same year as ''Film/KingKong1933''. A tamed ape, specifically imitating Kong, carries Minnie to the top of a pile of birdseed boxes while being attacked by birds.

** "The Ducky Horror Picture Show" has monsters hold a convention in Duckburg. The group includes one giant ape, and it is traditional for it to climb the highest building available--which, of course, is Scrooge's treasure vault.
** The inverted version is done in the episode "Attack of the 50-Foot Webby".

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'':

[[caption-width-right:300: ...And it took him ''three hours'' just to get up there.]]