Kong (Monsterverse)

Kong
Monsterverse character
First appearanceKong: Skull Island (2017)
Last appearanceKong: Survivor Instinct (2024)
Based on
King Kong
by
Motion capture
Facial captureToby Kebbell (Kong: Skull Island)
In-universe information
Alias
  • Kong
  • Titanus Kong
  • Legendary Kong
  • Monsterverse Kong
  • King Kong
SpeciesGiant ape-like Titan
GenderMale
Family
  • Deceased parents
  • Suko (adoptive son)
OriginHollow Earth
StatusAlive

Kong (コング, Kongu), also known as Titanus Kong, is a fictional 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.