Kong

In 1973, a Monarch expedition drops seismic charges on Skull Island. Kong, still young and growing, swats the helicopters down one by one. Hank Marlow, a pilot stranded there since 1944, explains that Kong protects the island: his parents were killed by the Skullcrawlers, and he's the last one left.

Lt. Col. Packard wants revenge and sets a napalm trap. Kong goes down, but gets back up when the biggest Skullcrawler shows up. In the fight he saves photographer Mason Weaver, kills the creature and lets the survivors leave.

Years before 1993, Kong looked after a girl who lived on the island with other castaways. After one fight, his blood in the water woke the Kraken, a tentacled monster that wiped out the village. Kong carried the wounded girl to his temple, where she died, and kept her necklace on an altar.

In 1993, a group of castaways steals that necklace to lure Kong to the beach. There he takes on the Kraken, wounds it with the hull of a sunken boat and tears it in half.

In 2017, Kong attacks the base Apex has set up on Skull Island. Soon after, Titan X, a tentacled monster, rises from underground on the island, and Kong chases it into the sea.

Months later the Titan returns, sedated and controlled by Apex implants. Kong fights it until Monarch gives the creature its egg back, which ends the fight.

In 2024, Kong lives under a Monarch dome because storms have taken over Skull Island. He talks in sign language with Jia, an orphan of the Iwi people. Apex ships him to Antarctica to find the entrance to Hollow Earth, and Godzilla attacks on the way.

In Hollow Earth, Kong finds his ancestors' throne and an axe made from the plate of a Titan of Godzilla's species. He loses to Godzilla in Hong Kong, his heart stops and is shocked back to life. Kong then helps Godzilla destroy Mechagodzilla and moves to Hollow Earth.

Alone in Hollow Earth, Kong gets a new tooth from Titan vet Trapper. Exploring, he finds other great apes and a youngster, Suko. They're enslaved by the Skar King, who controls the ice Titan Shimo. Kong loses the first fight and gets his arm frozen.

Trapper fits him with a mechanical glove built by Monarch. Kong goes up to the surface to ask Godzilla for help, and the two take on the Skar King in Rio de Janeiro and back in Hollow Earth. Kong kills the tyrant, frees Shimo and becomes the apes' leader.

Kong debuted in the 1933 film King Kong, created by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace. In the MonsterVerse he's about 104 feet tall in 1973 and much bigger by 2024. Terry Notary and Toby Kebbell did his motion capture in Kong: Skull Island.