King Kong (76/86) vs. Heisei Godzilla

[Darth Reaper]

I'm pretty sure I did this fight once before but I couldn't find it, so I'm doing it again (see what happens when you lose things mods ).

In this corner, we have King Kong as he was portrayed in the 1976 KING KONG remake and its 1986 sequel KING KONG LIVES.

For this fight, I'm scaling Kong up to a wopping 90 meters tall, I'm giving him regenerative powers comparable to Heisei Godzilla's, and I'm givng him the ticker that he was born with rather than the mechanical one he got in KKL.

In the other corner we have Heisei Godzilla. Because I know that my younger brother (who's not a member of this board but don't hold that against him) would love it, for this fight Godzilla's going to look the way he did in GODZILLA 1985. But, he's still 100 meters tall and he has all of the powers and abilities that Heisei Godzilla demonstrated during his run.

Can the Supreme Simian win the day, or will The Lizard King tap dance on the grave that he buries him in.

FIGHT!!!!

[yargh]

Closer fight because of the regenerative powers, but I'm not feeling that Kong's durability will be enough (even with regen) to stop Godzilla from blasting him into submission (and this Godzilla loves his beam).

But Kong COULD win HTH possibly early on.

Yet if the fight goes on long enough, Godzilla busts out the spiral beam, and it's game over. So Kong CAN win, but it's rather unlikely (this Godzilla is ridiculously strong as well).

[Zardac the Great]

Basically, I have to agree with vargh. Kong could win, but Godzilla will win.

Not that I'm a Godzilla partisan, or anything.

And if Kong reacts to burnt fur like he did in the first fight in KKvG, the fight won't be over with a quick Kong victory.

[Darth Reaper]

I think you guys are missing a couple of things that Kong has in his favor.

One of those things is intelligence. Kong demonstrates some impressive cunning in his movies. In particular is a scene in KING KONG LIVES where Kong creates a cloud of dust to blind his enemies and allow him to move past them largely unseen. Kong could use tactics like that against Godzilla. He could tear a building in half and throw it at Godzilla. It wouldn't stop him but it could distract him for a couple seconds while Kong moves in closer. He could also duck behind buildings and try to get at Godzilla from a different angle. Even if Godzilla blows the buildings to bits with his fire, that will still obstruct his view of Kong.

And, of course, Kong has the option of picking things up and hitting Godzilla with them. Bashing a big rock against Godzilla's head a few times might just cross his eyes for awhile.

Another thing is Kong's pain threshold. He takes some serious punishment in his movies and keeps on fighting. He gets cut to pieces by machine gun fire in KONG '76 and remains standing long enough to bring down two of the helecopters that were sent after him. And, in KING KONG LIVES I believe he even takes tank shots and keeps fighting. He dies at the end, but not before he decimates his enemies.

Add regeneration that's comparable to Godzilla's to Kong's fortitude and Godzilla's going to be hard-pressed to make him stay down. He just might be able to endure Godzilla's fire long enough to get close and start throwing punches.

[Zigra]

I'll grant you a lot of that, DR. Kong is a vastly superior hth fighter in terms of his skill. But, it may not matter that much, because Heisei Goji's raw power is just ungodly. I keep having to remind the Heisei anti-fanboys that Heisei Goji was able to pick up and throw MechaG, who is suppose to be twice Godzilla's weight, like it was nothing. And the fact that he did that without much effort shows that he could do a whole lot more if he really wanted to.

Kong, OTOH, never displayed as much raw strength as far as I can remember. In fact, he had to put up a significant struggle against a giant snake (which is quite lengthy if you've seen the director's cut), and I doubt that snake had even a fraction of Heisei Goji's strength.

So, while I think Kong has superior fighting skills, Goji is going to give him a lot of problems if Goji decides to use anything close to his full strength. And that's just a hth fight. Goji also has his Nuclear Pulse (which I remind you threw aside Ghidorah and Mothra when he used it on them) if Kong really manages to get a good grip on him. And, regenerative powers or no regenerative powers, this fight will be over the moment Goji uses his Spiral Beam, if the fight even lasts that long.

[Darth Reaper]

To be fair, Pythons are powerful animals. If you look at the size of the snake compared to the size of Kong, I'm not sure how many animals would be capable of overpowering a snake that comparatively large. It's not as insanely powerful as Godzilla, but it's nothing to be sneezed at either.

And, it has been pointed out that Godzilla only seems to use the Spiral Beam after he's gotten a power-up. There's nothing for him to get a power-up from here so it may not be an issue. Then again, his regular beam is a significant issue anyway.

And, the nuclear pulse will toss Kong around if he gets hit by it, but I think he'll recover and keep going. And, if he's as smart as he appears to be he might learn from that and change tactics, such as using objects as weapons to hit Godzilla with, rather than using his fists, which bring him that much closer to his enemy.

[yargh]

Basically, I agree with a lot of what Zigra said.

Only thing is that Kong is almost certainly much faster than Godzilla in combat.

So while HTH may take some time, Kong HAS to win fast...otherwise Godzilla just goes berserker and starts frying stuff with the spiral ray, which will certainly put Kong out of the fight (I don't think Kong would die necessarily, but that's not necessary for the win).