King Kong (franchise)

# Kaiju

* King Kong
* Meat-eater
* Cave serpent
* Scavenger raven
* Muhuru
* Kongamato
* Mokele-mbembe

Son of Kong (1933)

* Kiko
* Dragon
* Triclonius
* Cave bear
* Loch-Ness monster

* Godzilla

* Gorosaurus
* Mechani-Kong

* Petrox Island python

* Baby Kong
* Lady Kong

* Vastatosaurus rex
* Venatosaurus saevidicus
* Brontosaurus baxteri
* Ferrucutus cerastes
* Ligocristus innocens
* Foetodon ferreus
* Piranhadon titanus
* Moonspider
* Scorpiopede
* Carnictis
* Deplector
* Decarnocimex
* Wetarex
* Abyscidis
* Arachno-claw
* Terapusmordax obscenus

* Sker buffalo
* Mire squid
* Mother longlegs
* Spore mantis
* Leafwing
* Skullcrawler
* Eotriceratops xerinsularis

* Stone warrior
* Stone scout
* Stone swordsman
* Stone general
* Giant stone warrior
* Gigatyrannus servum
* Karablosaurus gigantis
* Chaetonychus brutalis

# Films

## Showa

* King Kong (1933)
* Son of Kong (1933)
* King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
* King Kong Escapes (1967)

## Heisei

* King Kong (1976)
* King Kong Lives (1986)

## GoAnimate

* The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island (2019)

# Islands

## Showa

### Skull Mountain

In *King Kong*, the island is never mentioned by name and is located at approximately 12°S 78°E – somewhere off the coast of Periuk, Indonesia. There is a distinctive rocky knoll in the center of the island that is shaped like a human skull, which is referred to as "Skull Mountain".

According to the first film, the captain of a Norwegian barque discovered a canoe blown off course with only one native left alive. Before the native died, the captain of the barque was able to get a rough location of the island and some details on it, including its most distinctive feature - a huge wall built by the ancestors of the natives back when they had high civilization. When the protagonists of the picture arrive at the island and examine it they find, in addition to the expected superstitious natives, prehistoric creatures of all sorts and one extremely large ape, known by those on the island as "Kong".

Other than being the descendants of a high civilization, the ancestry of the natives is never explained.

In the sequel film *The Son of Kong*, Carl Denham returns to Skull Island when there was a mention of some treasure that was hidden there. He also encounters a large white gorilla who is the son of King Kong. Skull Island sinks into the sea during a powerful earthquake. Kong's son drowns while holding Carl Denham above the water. Denham survives unscathed, while the treasure is claimed by him and the other three survivors.

The term "Skull Island" is never used in the original films. In *King Kong*, only "Skull Mountain" is named, while in the sequel *Son of Kong*, its simply referred to as "Kong's island". In the novelization of *King Kong* by Delos Lovelace, it is called "Skull Mountain Island", but RKO referred to it as "Skull Island" in some of their publicity materials.

### Farou Island and Mondo Island

An expedition by Pacific Pharmaceuticals arrives on the island with the intention of finding the special Soma berries which only grow in the island's jungle. At first, they are not welcomed by the island's tribe, but relations improve after the expedition's members exchange modern goods with the natives, and they are allowed to head further into the island after hearing King Kong's roar. After an encounter with the Giant Lizard, the expedition returns to the native village, and Sanda and Gaira appears, trying to steal the Soma juice from a hut. After the Gargantuas is repelled, Kong appears from the mountains, drinks several vases of Soma juice, and then falls asleep during the midst of a special chant carried out by the natives. The expedition force then sneaks Kong off the island, and onto a raft attached to a ship headed to Japan.

Mondo Island is the home of King Kong in *King Kong Escapes*. In the latter film, it was also the home of Gorosaurus.

## Heisei

### Petrox Island

After hearing of a potentially massive hidden oil well located underneath a gigantic fog blanket in the Pacific Ocean west of Indonesia, Petrox Oil Company executive Fred Wilson prepared to lead a surveying expedition to find it. After the expedition's ship, the *Petrox Explorer* left New York, a stowaway primatologist named Jack Prescott was discovered on board. Wilson was convinced that Prescott was a spy from a rival oil company, but Prescott explained he had stowed away on the ship to see the hidden island that presumably contained the oil well himself. Prescott revealed that throughout history, there had been accounts of ships traveling into that fog blanket and discovering "the beach of the skull," where they reported seeing a gigantic ape-like creature. Prescott explained that he wanted to see just what exactly those explorers had seen. After some convincing, Wilson decided to allow Prescott to stay on the expedition as its official photographer. Along the way, the ship picked up a castaway named Dawn, an aspiring young actress who had been on board a yacht that suddenly exploded. When the ship reached the fog bank, it passed through and found a large island. Believing he had found the "big one," Wilson ordered a landing party to come ashore. Prescott and Dawn accompanied the party and landed on the beach. After traveling inland, the party discovered a gigantic wall. Wilson said the island was uninhabited and the wall must be ancient, but Prescott noted that the wall looked to be constantly maintained, meaning natives must live on the island. The party passed through the wall and found a village filled with natives, who were performing a religious ritual. The natives were upset at being disturbed, claiming they were preparing to offer a human sacrifice to their god, "Kong." However, the witch doctor saw Dawn and believed she would make a superior offering to Kong and offered to buy her from the crew. When they refused, the natives prepared to take her by force, but were scared off by the party's guns. The team returned to the *Petrox Explorer*, but a group of natives followed them and kidnapped Dawn.

Dawn was taken back to the village and adorned with native jewelry and tied to a pedestal outside the wall. The jungle shook as a giant ape, Kong himself, emerged from the jungle and grabbed Dawn before carrying her away. Kong brought Dawn to a clearing and set her down. Believing Kong was going to kill her, Dawn begged for her life, only to eventually realize Kong meant her no harm and was actually infatuated with her. Meanwhile, Prescott and several members of the expedition followed Kong into the interior of the island in an attempt to rescue Dawn. When they reached a fallen log spanning a chasm, they attempted to cross it, only for Kong to appear and throw the log into the chasm below. Only Prescott and another crew member named Boan survived. Prescott told Boan to return to the village, where Wilson had set up a base camp, while he continued his pursuit of Kong. Kong brought Dawn to his lair and prepared to undress her, only to be attacked by a giant boa constrictor. While Kong battled the boa, Prescott rescued Dawn and the two ran back to the village. Kong noticed and quickly tore the snake's jaws, then proceeded to chase after his bride. Once Prescott and Dawn reached the village, Wilson and his men set up a trap behind the wall: a pit filled with chloroform. When Kong reached the wall, he smashed the gate down and entered the village, only to fall into the pit and be knocked unconscious. The natives surrounded their fallen god and bowed. Since the oil deposits found on the island were of such low quality they were essentially worthless, Wilson decided to bring Kong back to New York and use him as an advertising gimmick for Petrox. Kong was loaded into the *Petrox Explorer*'s cargo hold, and the ship set sail for New York.

## Millennium

### Skull Island

Failing film director Carl Denham, in order to escape prosecution for fraud, assembled a crew to travel to the uncharted Skull Island and film his newest picture. After Denham found his leading lady, Ann Darrow, and tricked playwright Jack Driscoll into boarding the *Venture*, Denham set sail for the island. After months at sea, the *Venture* reached Skull Island, an ominous rocky island blanketed in fog and bearing a gigantic mountain in its center in the shape of a human skull. Denham and his crew set foot on the island, only to discover a hostile tribe of natives. The natives, attempted to kidnap Ann so they could sacrifice her to their god, "Kong," attacked Denham's party, killing one of them with a spear. Denham and his crew escaped back to the Venture, but were followed by the natives, who kidnapped Ann and brought her into their village to sacrifice her to Kong. Kong, a giant ape, arrived and grabbed Ann, carrying her off to his mountainous lair. Ann was worried Kong would kill her, but he seemed to be romantically interested in her. Ann used her dancing skills to try and entertain Kong, but when she fell he began to laugh. Kong then repeatedly knocked Ann over with his hand whenever she tried to dance until Ann became angry and yelled at him, causing Kong to storm off. While the *Venture* crew tried to find Ann, braving a Brontosaurus stampede and other dangers, Ann escaped from Kong's lair and wandered the island, only to come face-to-face with a Foetodon, a giant crocodile. Ann ran from the creature, only for it to be killed by a Vastatosaurus rex. The V-Rex saw Ann and chased after her, eventually leading her to a second V-Rex. Kong arrived in time to save Ann from the V-Rexes, only to be attacked by them both along with a third V-Rex. Kong defeated one, but he and the remaining two fell off a cliff and became entangled in vines. As Ann fell from the vines, Kong grabbed her and the two of them fell to the ground. One V-Rex was trapped, while the other jumped down and resumed its battle with Kong. Without any backup, the V-Rex was overwhelmed and killed when Kong broke its jaws. After being saved by Kong, Ann, out of gratitude for the beast, willingly allowed Kong to take her back to his lair.

Most of the *Venture* crew were sent to their deaths when Kong tossed the log bridge they were crossing into a chasm. There, they were attacked by various gigantic insects, who killed most of the men until Bruce Baxter arrived and rescued them. Jack decided to continue pursuing Kong while Denham and the others returned to the village. Jack reached Kong's lair and managed to grab Ann while Kong was distracted by a flock of Terapusmordax. The two of them jumped off the cliff of Kong's lair and into the water below before returning to the village. Kong pursued them and broke through the village wall, destroying the natives' village in search of Ann. Denham and his crew threw bottles of chloroform at Kong until he fell unconscious. Denham decided to bring Kong back to New York and put him on display, believing it would make him a fortune despite his inability to make a film on the island. Kong was loaded onto the *Venture* and brought back to New York, where he would be exhibited on Broadway.

## Legendary

### Isla De Craneo

Isla De Craneo, also known as Skull Island is once again the home of King Kong in this reboot to the franchise, which is set in the year 1973 and in the same universe as Legendary Pictures' *Godzilla*. Scenes featuring Skull Island were filmed in Hawaii and Vietnam. The island itself seems to be larger and more open and mountainous than in past versions, and the skeletons of various prehistoric species, including Kong's, litter its terrain. The island is also protected and surrounded by a perpetual storm system. Unlike the other depictions of Skull Islands, this island has an ecosystem similar to that of Africa or California. There are giant Sker Buffaloes, deer, a type of gigantic arachnid called the Mother Longlegs, and others. This island has a less exaggerated and fantasy-like ecosystem, with many species described as a fusion of plant and animal (known as "florafauna"). Under the island, there is an underground space connected to the island surface and inhabited by gigantic reptiles known as Skullcrawlers. The native human inhabitants are the Iwi, who worship Kong as their god and protector.

By the year 2024, Skull Island's ecosystem destabilized due to a massive storm that wiped out the forests and rendered it a frozen wasteland. The Iwi were wiped out in this natural disaster, save for the orphaned girl Jia. As a result, Kong had to be relocated to his ancestral homeland; the Hollow Earth, where he would establish himself as its new ruler.

## GoAnimate

### Kong Island

In the World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island, the island was named Kong Island. Unlike previous incarnations, Kong Island was situated in the infamous Bermuda Triangle, not the Indian Ocean. Although various prehistoric creatures are seen living there, Kong Island also contains some ruins where one of them serves as the prison of the demon, giant stone warrior.

# Locations

## New York

* New York City
* World Trade Center
* Empire State Building
* 42 Second Street

## Islands

* Skull mountain
* Faro island
* Mondo island
* Petrox island
* Skull island
* Isla de Craneo
* Kong island

# Species

## Alternative evolution

This is a category for all alternative evolution works and projects. Alternative evolution is when a project takes place in an alternate timeline from our own, the most common types are if a certain family of animals (I.e dinosaurs) never went extinct.

## Speculative evolution

Speculative biology, or speculative evolution, is a term that refers to a very hypothetical field of science that makes predictions and hypotheses on the evolution of life in a wide variety of scenarios and is also a form of fiction to an extent. It uses scientific principles and laws and applies them to a "what if" question (for instance: "What if *Homo sapiens* never evolved?"). Since one cannot make a definite prediction of what would happen as a result of any "what if" questions, this topic uses a great amount of fiction and creativity to create a speculative world. As in alternative history, there is generally a point of divergence. The point of divergence is the key change between our history and that of the alternative history. For example, a point of divergence for the "what if" question mentioned earlier would be 195 thousand years ago when humans first appeared, but in the alternative world our species would not evolve. In "future worlds", the point of divergence would actually be the present. In the case of the natural history of an extraterrestrial planet, a point of divergence would not essentially exist. The main fields within speculative biology as well as those related to the topic can be found to the right.

## Stone army

The Stone Army appears as black-skinned soldiers with black and red armor and glowing green eyes. Their faces are covered in white or red markings and their teeth are sharp fangs, adding to their inhuman appearance. They wear red and gray armor with a green spiral displayed on the abdominal plating. All ranks (save the Scouts) wear jagged red shoulder pads. In addition, Warriors and Generals wear elaborate helmets vaguely resembling the one worn by General of Stone Army, but with fang-like details around the mouth guard and small, wing-like protrusions on the sides.

## Kaiju

Kaiju is a Japanese genre of films and television featuring giant monsters. The term kaiju can refer to the giant monsters themselves, which are usually depicted attacking major cities and engaging the military, or other kaiju, in battle. The kaiju genre is a subgenre of tokusatsu entertainment.