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King Kong 1986 Vs Godzilla 1985


Hey if they made a movie have King Kong from King Kong Lives vs Godzilla from Godzilla 1985 who would win?

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King Kong.

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Godzilla

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Godzilla. Nothing beats Godzilla.

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yeah i was watching both and in both movies the monsters were evil but godzilla man come on 1985 had better plot and it was more than godzilla u had the russians involed with there non sense about nuclear weapons it was a really good movie better than soem stupid king kong 2 movie lol i was laughing hardcaore

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they made a king kong vs. godzilla movie and king kong won!

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King Kong and Mothra have defeated Godzilla.

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actually in Godzilla Vs Mothra. Mothra dies in the movie from Godzilla.
in King Kong Vs Godzilla, Godzilla wasn't defeated oh wow they falls in the Ocean Kong gets up and swims away that makes him the winner, doesn't ever accure to you Kong was running away from Godzilla. Godzilla lives in the ocean kong doesn't.
Godzilla wins
kong loses


Godzilla will always be The King Of The Monsters Champion

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Interestingly enough, you've stumbled upon a classic debate that ties into some amusing Godzilla movie history.

Technically, since King Kong vs. Godzilla was made in Japan by the TOHO studio, it is more a Godzilla feature than a Kong film. Thus, in the original Japanese version, TOHO wanted to preserve national pride and have Godzilla win outright. RKO, the studio that made King Kong, said that if they did they would pull the rights and not show the film in America. Consequently, TOHO agreed and the film's ending was made to seem like a tie. This still wasn't enough for RKO, so they insisted that from off-screen, Godzilla would roar in pain and that Kong would follow with a victorious bellow. TOHO put it in, and that's the version American audiences saw. However, TOHO had the last laugh: in the Japanese print of the film (which was made after the American print), Godzilla has one more triumphant growl AFTER Kong's sound, thus slighting RKO and at least giving the impression that Godzilla was the winner.

To this day, hardcore Godzilla fans still tout this final roar as the DEFINATIVE PROOF that The King Of All Monsters reins supreme.
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Okay, okay, my mistake. I was going from a (very) old memory, and I should have checked my facts before I posted.

You're of course quite correct, and I feel a little embarassed to have been called wrong so quickly! Thanks for setting the record straight.
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Godzilla, how the hell would the Laurentiis Kong beat Godzilla?

If I can mix Code Lyoko, Marvel and DC together.

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i thought the japanese release had godzilla swimming away at the end, and th US version had kong swim away.

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That's a myth, King Kong wins in every version of KK vs G. When the movie was made Godzilla was still very much a bad guy, he was the equivilant of the atom bomb (remember this was only the third Godzilla movie). Godzilla only began to transform into a protector of Japan later. Also I think King Kong was very popular in Japan, Kong was sort of universal for the missunderstood and abused tragic figure, who doesn't associate with that? But Godzilla represented wanton mindless destruction.

They tumble into the sea, there's an earthquake and Kong swims away. I have the Japanese language version. Just to add, I think this myth started sometime around the release of King Kong '76 when the Godzilla movies were very popular with kids on TV.

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Regardless of what happens in the movie, Godzilla would simply be able to step on Kong in a "realistic" fight.

King Kong = 25 feet tall in '33, 50 feet tall in '76 and KKLives.

Godzilla = 300-400 feet tall. Nuclear blast that can destroy cities.

Game over.


But anyway, the two were never meant to mix or be comparable.

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Yup that points everything out lol

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Kong is like 30 feet Godzilla is 200 feet lmao

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Godzilla is a straight up ganster

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You're starting to piss me off THEMIGHTYPEKINGMAN. Leave Godzilla alone. Are you a godzilla fan or a fan of king *beep* kong.

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It's been a long time since I last saw Godzilla 1985, but I guess I'd go with KING KONG LIVES. I enjoyed both, but the KONG remake and KONG LIVES are childhood favorites.

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Actually TOHO said that Kong was victorious in King Kong vs Godzilla. Kong was more popular in Japan at the time when they made King Kong vs Godzilla.

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As far as the films go, Godzilla 1985 was far more enjoyable than King Kong Lives. As far as a fight between the two, Godzilla is nearly triple Kong's height in this film. Godzilla is approximately 130 ft tall, whereas Kong is said to be 50 ft tall. Were the size comparison more similar to that of the film King Kong versus Godzilla, I think this film's Kong, with his Superman-like strength, would win. However, with the two left at the same size in which they appear in their respective films, I'm going with Godzilla all the way.

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Godzilla could sneeze and fry Kong to a crisp.

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is this thread a flippin' JOKE! Godzilla '90s (as he has become known since most of the sequals to Godzilla '84 were in the 90s) would INCINERATE that ape! It'd be shorter then the Godzilla vs. GINO (Godzilla In Name Only from Roland Emmerich's '98 abomination) fight in Godzilla Final Wars!

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You can't have much of a fight between a 50 ft ape and a 300 ft atomic dinosaur, but in movie vs movie, King Kong wins and this is how:

1. King Kong 1933 the original, a better film than Godzilla 1955 the original, and much more influential in the film fantasy world.

2. King Kong vs Godzilla, 1963, all prints including the Japanese version have Kong swimming away and Godzilla nowhere in sight, although he's basically doing a deep dive. It's not a real win for either, but remember this is the South Seas Island King Kong who stands only a couple dozen feet shorter than Godzilla and is an electric dynamo. And even though Kong walked away after a blast from Godzilla's atomic breath, he delivered the punches when he got the shot of lightning that revived him. Great scene when Kong chews on the high voltage wires. For pure camopy fun, this one beats them all.

3. King Kong 1976 vs Godzilla 1985, remake vs remake, again a better film for Kong than Godzilla, but not by much.

4. Godzilla 1998 vs King Kong 2005, more remake vs remake, and again Kong wins out. Now, I did like this Godzilla, it was purely enjoyable popcorn entertainment, and Peter Jackson's Kong was the same kind of stuff, just much more and better.

Now how about this battle - King Kong vs Frankenstein, meaning the Willis O'Brien treatment that got made as King Kong vs Godzilla. That would have been one for the ages.



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Well considering Godzilla from 1984/85 is 262 feet tall while 1986 King Kong is about 50 feet, and that Godzilla has atomic breath, destroyed half of Tokyo, and brought down an advanced super warship while Kong got killed by the military, I'd say Godzilla would win pretty easily.

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