The KB Games (film)

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***The KB Games*** is a KB All-Stars film parody of *The Hunger Games* and its parody *The Starving Games*. It is the fourth KB All-Stars film (after *The Epic KB Film Megamix* (2011), *KB New Year Special* (2012) and *KB Disaster Movie* (2012)) which references the Japanese game show *Takeshi's Castle*, and involves The Kaijuvengers and other KB films competing in a Japanese game show (using the same setting as the Great Monster Run of 2011). KB Fan Fiction’s 93rd feature film is released on October 31, 2013.

## Plot

Asuka Langley arrives in Tokyo, Japan from Germany and applies for an audition for the KB Games from a poster. She follows a crowd of monsters, aliens and robots heading to Mount Midoriyama, Japan, for the opening ceremony of the 75th Annual KB Games.

At the Gathering for the 75th Annual KB Games in Mt. Midoriyama, Japan, the president (who is the Alien Emperor in disguise) explains he divided Japan into nine districts to keep "stupid stuff" from happening again, such as Hirohito being emperor; due to this, the rich now dress in bright and odd clothing. During the drawing for District 9 (Kanto)'s contestants in the games, a bit of trouble occurs as kaiju names get drawn first. Godzilla was chosen as the Kaiju champion. Asuka is chosen as the humans’ champion, which causes her to dance excitedly. During a talk show before the games, each contestant is introduced; Asuka's hair catches fire and she runs around, trying to put it out, while the audience laughs.

Before the first challenge, the contestants must watch a 3D screening of the film *King Kong vs. Godzilla*. The film is indeed acted by King Kong and Godzilla. In one scene, King Kong stuffs a tree into Godzilla’s mouth.

After the show, Asuka is teamed up with Godzilla by the game officials before going into the first challenge. The contestants are at the Salad Bar for dinner at the night before the first challenge, and a group of thirteen aliens began to sing *Blunt the Knives*, which annoys the Salad Bar’s staff.

### Challenge 1: KB Marathon

The first challenge is dubbed the **KB Marathon**. All the contestants begin at the start line in front of the opening gate. The contestants first have to dash out of the 'car park' and down onto the road outside. Here the first obstacle is to jump over five small hurdles. Next is a long net on the ground that needs to be crawled under.  After the net, lots of tires are laid out along the road. The contestants have to pick their way through these to reach three sets of mats, which are spaced out along the next section of road. On each of these mats the contestants have to do a forward roll. After these it's a long run around the connecting roads.  The roads loop back on their self, so the contestants end up back at the three mats again. Just as before, they have to do a forward roll on each. Then it's back through the tires, and then another crawl under the net.

Then, the contestants reach a row of ten walls; each wall has eight doors in it. Behind the tenth wall is a long bath of powder.  All the contestants, at the same time, run full-speed at the doors. If they run into a paper door they'll burst through and continue onto the next wall; but if they choose a wrong door they'll bounce off again. By choosing a wrong door the contestant's aren't out - they can continue trying doors until they make it though, or just go through a door that has already been opened.  Behind some of the paper doors are nets. If the contestants run through these they'll get trapped and will have to go back out and use another.

Also behind some of the correct doors are pools of water. After breaking through, the contestants will end up falling in and getting slowed down.  The Space Bugs are waiting behind the ninth wall to slow the contestants down and attack them.  After making it through all ten walls the contestants will reach the bath of powder. Buried in the powder are lots of balls. The contestants have to grab a ball for themselves. There aren't enough for everyone though, so the contestants need to make their way to the end as quickly as they can to make sure they get a ball. Contestants who have their own ball move onto the final obstacle in the course, but everyone without one goes out.

At the end of the course, the contestants have to try and climb over a tall wall (dubbed the Great Wall) to make it into the castle grounds. Once up, they have to slide down a slope on the other side. The Great Wall is destroyed by the increasing number of contestants climbing it.

### Challenge 2: Floaters and Sinkers

The second challenge is named the **Floaters and Sinkers**. The contestant has to cross a lake by using stepping-stones. All the stones look identical, but only some of them are solid. The other stones aren't supported, so will sink when trodden on. Eleking tried to go through the stones but was eliminated.

### Challenge 3: Dry Balls

The third challenge is **Dry Balls**. A football is fired into the air from a cannon which is located behind a giant pit with big mattresses.  As soon as the ball is shot, the contestant has to run out into the pit and try to catch it. All contestants are crammed into the giant pit where they must catch the footballs which are launched into the air. However, in the 75th Games, all the contestants are crammed into the pit.

Due to an intense competition for space, the contestants’ numbers dwindle in the challenge, due to being killed when trying to catch the ball. Zamusha bisects Zetton in the challenge. The football finally lands on Asuka's head after she ran out of the pit. The night after the event, Asuka performs the song, “Eyes Open”.

### Challenge 4: Giant Maze

The fourth challenge is the **Giant Maze**, which takes place in a giant concrete maze in Kyoto. The contestants all go in at the same time and have to find their way to the exit.  Hiding inside are Space Bugs to try and put the contestants off, and to board up the exit when the time is up.  All the contestants that manage to make their way out of the exit before the final whistle engage in a game of live-action *Fruit Ninja* before moving to the next challenge. Everyone still stuck inside has lost and are disqualified.

Godzilla and Asuka flee when the latter knocks down a beehive. Asuka is stung, and the venom causes her to hallucinate. However, unfazed by the effects, Asuka manages to get to the exit and amazingly obtains a high score in the *Fruit Ninja* (including a 75-fruit combo)

Meanwhile, the Four Heavenly Kings (Yapool, Glozam, Deathrem and Alien Mephilas) scream “WAZZUP!” to each other through their cellphones, but disengage when the Emperor calls them.

### Challenge 5: Intestinal Fortitude

Challenge number five is named **Intestinal Fortitude**. The contestant starts on a platform raised several stories in the air. Connected to this is a long fabric tube that leads down to the ground.  The contestant has to get into the tube and slide down it. Near the bottom is an opening in the material. Under this is a platform floating on a lake. When they reach the opening, the contestants have to drop out of it and try to land on the platform. If they time it right, they'll land safely on the platform and win the game; but if they're too fast, or slow, the contestants will end up in the water and will be eliminated.

Alien Baltan and the T-600 were eliminated in the challenge.

### Challenge 6: Karaoke

The next challenge and the simplest in the Games is the **Karaoke** challenge. The contestant has to go into a karaoke bar which resembles a Got Talent stage and step up onto the stage. Before the event, the contestants are given one song to sing along, and they must practice singing the song. If the contestant entertains the audience, and more importantly the three judges (who are, in fact, three of the Four Heavenly Kings), they win the game and are qualified to the next challenge. But, if the judges are unhappy and didn't enjoy the performance they throw the contestant out and the contestant is disqualified from the Games.

Asuka, Godzilla and a group of other contestants sing *The Periodic Table of Elements Song*. It was given to them because list songs are usually hard to sing as there are names that the contestants must remember and the lyrics must be in order.

### Challenge 7: Quake

The seventh challenge is dubbed the **Quake**. Five contestants, wearing wigs, enter a room in a “flat” and have to stand on a pile of cushions each in recommended (and unstable) poses. When they're all ready, the room begins to shake. The contestants have to try and stay balanced on their cushions in their poses until the 'earthquake' ends. If they or their wigs fall off at any time, or if they do not get the correct pose at the end, they are eliminated.  Any contestant who has stayed balanced with his/her wig intact and on top of their cushion pile in the required pose when the game ends has won.

Black King survived the round after Gabora fell.

### Challenge 8: Boulder Dash

Challenge number eight is the **Boulder Dash**. Three contestants at a time have to try and get to the top of a ramp without getting knocked down by giant boulders being rolled towards them. Whoever manages to get to the top of the hill is qualified for the next game.

### Challenge 9: Final Fall

The second-to-last challenge, **Final Fall**, is used to further whittle down the remaining contestants before the Ultimate Showdown. One at a time, the contestants run through a tunnel, avoiding the Hyper Bug who is waiting at the exit, to reach nine holes in the ground. They need to choose a hole and jump down it. Five of the holes are safe and will take the contestant through to the final challenge, but hiding down the other four are four Space Bugs. If a contestant chooses one of these four wrong holes, the Space Bug down it will devour them and they'll be eliminated.

Asuka became the only contestant to reach the final challenge.

### Challenge 10: Ultimate Showdown

The final challenge of the 75th Annual KB Games is the **Ultimate Showdown**. It is more like a Kung-Fu challenge.

Asuka must fight her way up a five-level pagoda, encountering a different challenge on each floor. At the base of the pagoda Asuka battles the thirteen aliens which appeared earlier at the Salad Bar scene, all black belts in Karate. While inside the pagoda, she encounters a different opponent on each floor, each more challenging than the last. So, Asuka must face each of the martial artists in one-on-one combat, who are revealed to be the Four Heavenly Kings themselves.

Asuka defeats Yapool, Glozam, Deathrem, Alien Mephilas and finally the Emperor himself. Because the Emperor's character has great size and strength in addition to a fighting style as potent as Asuka's, he can only be defeated once Asuka recognises that an unusually high sensitivity to light is his greatest weakness. Using a hidden smoke machine and image projector, Godzilla projects a giant holographic image of his face as his "true" form, and uses a fireworks display to intimidate the Emperor. The Emperor is weakened by the light show, and Asuka leg-scissors the Emperor and breaks his neck, killing him.

Immediately after defeating the Emperor, Asuka turns around and descends the staircase, heading out of the pagoda. Asuka found out that she has won the prize money of 5 million yen, an old ham (expired in August 1979) and free tickets to Tokyo Disneyland.

Afterwards, Reimon and the Kaijuvengers (Gomora, Litra Anne, Geronimon, Kanegon, Jirass and Skydon) show up, with Reimon saying he wants Asuka to join the Kaijuvengers team as a companion for Kanegon. In the last scene, Godzilla was revealed to have joined the Kaijuvengers.

## Cast

* Asuka Langley
* Godzilla
* Alien Emperor
* Four Heavenly Kings
	+ Yapool
	+ Deathrem
	+ Glozam
	+ Alien Mephilas
* Velociraptor
* Sovietballs
* T-600
* Kaijuvengers
	+ Gomora

## Trivia/References

The film mainly parodies Takeshi's Castle but also references many companies and characters (including KB films) such as:

* McDonald's – a McDonald’s advertisement is seen in the Salad Bar
* Nike – Asuka wears Nike shoes in the Games.
* Starbucks – a Starbucks Coffee advertisement is seen in the Salad Bar
* H&M – a H&M store is seen in the airport when Asuka arrived in Tokyo
* *Angry Birds* – the noise of an angry bird is heard before the football hits Asuka’s head
* Fruit Ninja – at the end of Challenge 4, the contestants play live-action Fruit Ninja
* Malaysia Airlines – Asuka boards a Malaysia Airlines plane to Tokyo
* *King Kong vs. Godzilla* – the movie the contestants must watch in 3D before the Games. A scene of King Kong stuffing a tree into Godzilla’s mouth is parodied.
* The Four Heavenly Kings - Whassup! – the scene before Challenge 5
* *Oz the Great and Powerful* – Godzilla’s technique of intimidating the Emperor follows Oscar Diggs’ technique from the film’s climactic scene.
* *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire* – A band plays the Colonel Bogey March before the contestants run into the Final Fall challenge.
* Taylor Swift – singer of "Eyes Open", which is sung by Asuka in the film.
* PSY – singer of "Gangnam Style", the song is parodied into “Velociraptor Style”
* LMFAO – singer of "Party Rock Anthem", the song is played by the Sovietball gang before Challenge 3.
* *Kaijuvengers*/*Avengers* – Reimon and the Kaijuvengers appear.
* *The Terminator* – the T-600 from *Terminator: Salvation* appeared as a contestant in the film. It was eliminated at the Pipe Down challenge.
* Sherlock Holmes – *The Boscombe Valley Mystery* is seen as a manga comic in Asuka’s shelf.
* *Survivor* – Asuka reads a magazine with a *Survivor: China* advertisement.
* The Periodic Table of Elements Song – the song that the contestants must sing in Challenge 6.
* Apple Inc. – Asuka has a MacBook, which is a product of Apple. She also uses the programs iMovie and iStopmotion.
* *The Last Airbender* – Asuka hallucinates that she can manipulate wind.
* *Pulp Fiction* – all the clocks throughout the film are set to 4:20 PM.
* Facebook – Arcee’s Facebook account is seen again after *KB Disaster Movie*.
* Subway – a Subway advertisement is seen in the Salad Bar.
* Lady Gaga – a Japanese "*Poker Face*" poster is seen outside the theater.
* Nicki Minaj – a Japanese "*Starships*" poster is seen outside the theater.
* *The Matrix* – the battle between Asuka and the Emperor follows a scene from *The Matrix Revolutions*’ final battle, with the same soundtrack.
* *Starship Troopers* – the Space Bugs resemble the insect-like creatures from the film.