King Kong (キングコング Kingu Kongu) One of the most well-known monsters in all of cinema, Kong made his debut in the 1933 film bearing his name. Though he has been reimagined many times in many different films, Kong is usually portrayed as a gigantic gorilla-like ape residing on Skull Island. Typically, Kong is worshiped as a god. In the original film and its two remakes, Kong is taken away from his island by an expedition team from the United States and brought back to New York, where he escapes and goes on a violent rampage before climbing a skyscraper, then being gunned down by military aircraft and falling to his death. Toho acquired the rights to use Kong for their 1962 film King Kong vs. Godzilla, where he was drastically scaled up and pitted against Toho’s flagship monster Godzilla. Kong became part of Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.’ Monsterverse after appearing in the film Kong: Skull Island. In this continuity, Kong witnessed the brutal death of his parents at the hands of the Skullcrawlers shortly after his birth, leading him to become the self-appointed guardian of Skull Island. He reappears in the film’s 2021 sequel Godzilla vs. Kong, in which he initially enters into conflict with Godzilla but eventually sides with him to destroy the Apex Cybernetics-constructed anti-Titan weapon Mechagodzilla, and in the 2024 film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, where he and Godzilla team up again to stop the Skar King’s attempt to conquer the surface world.