Template:Multiple issues Template:Infobox character Template:Nihongo, also known as Titanus Kong, is a giant monster, or kaiju, based on character of the same name created by Edgar Wallace amd Merian C. Cooper, and one of the protagonists in Legendary Pictures' Monsterverse franchise.
Kong is a species of the Great Ape who is one of the few alpha Titans, and one of the most powerful creatures on Earth. He is one of the only survivors of his Great Ape species, the Kong species, that have been almost wiped out completely by the war between the Godzilla species and his kind and later on by the Skullcrawlers.
Kong is also the protector and guardian of both Skull Island and later, the Hollow Earth, defending them from Titans that attempted to conquer them. He is also Suko's adoptive father, Godzilla's former rival, ally and partner and the leader of the Hollow Earth Great Ape tribe after Kong, Godzilla and Shimo destroyed Skar King, the Hollow Earth Great Ape tribe's tyrannical leader.
Overview
Name
Throughout the MonsterVerse timeline, this Kong specimen is named Template:Nihongo onscreen and in the promotional materials of the films he starred in. In 2019, during the events of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Monarch refers to Kong as Titanus Kong, but the cryptozoological classification for his species in the MonsterVerse is dubbed as "Apus Giganticus".[1]
Design
During the making of Kong: Skull Island, the director Jordan Vogt-Roberts stated that he wanted Kong to feel like a "lonely god, he was a morose figure, lumbering around this island," and took the design back to the 1933 incarnation, which presented Kong as a "bipedal creature that walks in an upright position."[2]
Vogt-Roberts had also stated:
Appearances
Movies
- Kong: Skull Island (2017)[3][4]
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019; cave painting depiction)[3][4]
- Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)[3][4]
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
TV shows
- Skull Island (2023)
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023-2024)
Comics
- Skull Island: Birth of Kong (2017)
- Godzilla Dominion (2019) [name on a monitor]
- Kingdom Kong (2021)
- Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong (2023-2024)
- Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted (2024)
- Which is Stronger!? Godzilla x Kong (2024)
- Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong 2 (2025)
Video games
- Kong: Survivor Instinct (2024)[5]