King Kong

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> That's Kong. He's king around here. He's god to these people.
>
> **Hank Marlow describing Kong's origins to Conrad and Weaver.**

**King Kong**, or simply known as **Kong**, is the greatest Kaiju alongside Godzilla. He is the last of a race of huge ape-like Titans who reigned over Skull Island, Kong was born in the midst of a battle between his parents and a horde of vicious Skullcrawlers. Kong's mother sealed him safely within a cave before the Skullcrawlers slaughtered her along with Kong's father.

## Appearance

### Earlier Years

Kong had orange-brown fur, a small crown, a huge brow, an exaggerated muzzle, and a wide-eyed roar. He was 104 feet tall so that "a human will look like a speck in the shadow of this colossus." Kong's upright posture is an intentional departure from the hunched-over posture of the silverback gorilla. Kong's arms are disproportionately longer than his legs, which gives him a distinctive silhouette. Kong's appearance instilled divisiveness in people, who may view Kong as a threat, a savior, or a god.

Kong has a rounded head and several scars (three of them running diagonally from his left pectoral to the right side of his torso, and several more on the palm of his right hand after attempting to grab the rotating blades of a helicopter). Kong has a muscular physique, with defined abs and large biceps.

### Current Days

Kong's height has more than tripled to 337 feet by the time of *Godzilla vs. Kong* and though he is still growing, he is nearing his full growth. Sections of Kong's fur are a darker shade of brown, or even black along with a few gray hairs. He has also grown beard-like facial hair. By this time, Kong's head is 50 feet wide.

#### His Roar

Kong's roar had similarities to a tiger and lion. However, mixed with gorilla and monkey sounds. Later on, Kong's roar had similarities to lions, tigers, leopards, gorillas, bears, boars and elephants. It sounded louder and more aggressive. During his battle against Godzilla in Hong Kong when Kong lifted his axe to strike Godzilla on the head, he made a sound that was similar to an elephant roaring in pain while undergoing medical treatment, and he occasionally emits a shrill scream, which sounded like a gorilla charging.

## Personality

> Kong's a pretty good king. Keeps to himself, mostly.
>
> **Hank Marlow.**

Kong is naturally gentle and peaceful, but he is fierce and brutal when provoked. As the guardian of Skull Island, he protects its wildlife, and even befriends some of the invading humans. He is very protective of his allies, endangering himself to save Mason Weaver when she falls into the river during his battle with the Skull Devil. Kong also demonstrates remarkable intelligence, utilizing melee weapons and eventually learning sign language.

Kong is at least partly carnivorous, as he's shown feeding on animals he killed, such as the Mire Squid and the Warbat, but also at one point eating a whole handful of fish.

Kong is the last of his species, as his family was killed by Skullcrawlers at a young age. Kong is a lonely and emotional creature. His eyes well up with tears when Weaver gently touches him, and one of the cave paintings depicts him crouching and mourning over his deceased parents' remains.

Kong is portrayed as the guardian of Skull Island's native population. However, he won't hesitate to kill people who threaten him or the island.

Kong displays even more noble traits as he notably protects Jia and the others from numerous threats whether they be fellow Titans or humans. However, it is also shown that Kong can have a vengeful side, as shown when he engaged Godzilla in Hong Kong after the latter destroyed his ancestral home. But after being nearly killed by Godzilla, Kong still went to his rival's aid after Jia convinced him that Mechagodzilla was the true enemy.

### Powers

* **Ape Titan Physiology:** Being the sole surviving member of the ape-like Titans, Kong possesses attributes not unlike regular apes albeit in massive scale, thus making him a formidable Titan as well as among few who nearly equals Godzilla in terms of overall combat parameters.
	+ **Advanced Strength:** Kong's primary power is his immense physical strength because of his humongous size and has enormously powerful arms. This makes him far greater than that of his kind, thus he is the strongest Titan even surpassing Godzilla. However, Titans of similar strength like Godzilla and Mechagodzilla can harm Kong and, potentially, kill him. As an adolescent, Kong's tremendous 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.
		- **Advanced Leaping:** Kong's incredible 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.
	+ **Advanced Durability:** Kong appears to be 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 and bites from the Skullcrawlers, though he was still injured by these attacks.
	+ **Advanced 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.
	+ **Advanced Speed:** Regardless of his size, Kong's strong legs allow him to run incredibly fast. At one point, he is also shown to walk and run-on fours in an almost ape-like fashion when entering the Hollow Earth.
	+ **Advanced Agility:** Kong is able to quickly dodge bullets from military helicopters and the Skullcrawlers that attack him from behind. He also has a body built for flexibility and 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.
	+ **Advanced 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 him to fight longer durations against his formidable opponents such as Skullcrawlers, Mire Squids, Skull Devil, Camazotz, Warbats, Godzilla, and Mechagodzilla lasting several minutes.
	+ **Advanced Endurance:** Kong's endurance is shown to be high as he is capable of enduring powerful attacks from Skullcrawlers, Mire Squids, Skull Devil, Camazotz, Warbats, Godzilla, and Mechagodzilla, able to fight with all his might while ignoring the pain from injuries sustained from combating both opponents.
	+ **Advanced Healing Factor:** Kong was able to heal from his injuries sometime after his match with Mechagodzilla with assistance from Godzilla.
	+ **Advanced Senses:** Kong is granted with powerful acute 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.
		- **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.
	+ **Longevity:** Kong has an incredibly long lifespan as he is capable of living for long periods of time. Because he ages slower as he grows older, he still has the physical appearance of a giant ape in his prime.
	+ **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 s shown to be an intelligent beast, for he can differentiate his allies from his enemies. 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.
* **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 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.
	+ **Improvisation:** Among his skills, Kong has learned and apparently inspired by the Iwi to create something useful out from any object he can find, such as crafting a spear by shearing off a tree's leaves and branches.
	+ **Tool Usage:** Like all apes and his species, Kong is a tool user as he is capable of wielding any kind of object as a weapon for combat and self-defense, from trees and boulders to his ancestral axe. When combating Skull Devil, he uses a stripped tree trunk as a baseball bat 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.
* **Advanced 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, Camazotz, Warbats, Godzilla and Mechagodzilla. His combat skills extend to the usage of objects or weapons, most notably his battle axe which he uses 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 canine teeth that grant him a lethal bite. This was seen when he bites and tears off the tentacles of a Mire Squid after killing it. In *Godzilla vs. Kong*, Kong is briefly shown piercing Godzilla's neck very hard during their underwater fight, showing that his bite did hurt Godzilla quite a bit.

### Weapons

* **Battle Axe:** Kong's main weapon of choice is an ancient battle axe which he used to absorb energy from the Hollow Earth as well as Godzilla's atomic breath. In their final battle, the fully-charged weapon is powerful enough to knock both Kong and Godzilla back, and even before it is charged, it is shown to be able to slash into Godzilla's thick hide. Godzilla voluntarily charges 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. In *PUBG Mobile*, he was capable of using his axe to absorb Mechagodzilla's proton scream.

## Weaknesses

* **Limited Durability:** Although Kong's bodily tissues are resistant to damage, he does have his limits; for example, he can get wounded very easily, 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:** Despite his limitless stamina, Kong 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 than Godzilla's despite providing him longevity as much as the latter as he needs greater amounts of time to fully recover from injuries and therefore 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 because 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.

### Former Weaknesses

* **Limitations:** Because Kong was still an adolescent (at the time), he had yet to fully develop the the physical attributes of adult Titan, as he had difficulty defeating much larger opponent(s). However, since reaching adulthood in 2025, this is no longer a weakness for Kong.

## Trivia

* The MonsterVerse Kong is currently the largest incarnation of the ape kaiju to date.
* The outpost Kong lives on, Monarch Outpost 33, homages 1933, the year *King Kong* was released.
* Kong is similar to Godzilla in several ways; both are the last of their kind, both have a vendetta against their natural enemies (the Skullcrawlers and the M.U.T.O.s) who have killed the rest of their species, and both are portrayed as morally-neutral apex predators who maintain order and have no personal quarrel with humans.