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▲** Don Simpson's 1993 comic, adapted from the Delos W. Lovelace novelization, originally had a scene it where Kong destroys the [[Hindenburg]]. It got cut after Simpson decided it was in poor taste and too bizarre.
* [[It Was His Sled]]: There aren't too many people who don't know how this story turns out.
** One of those people was Tycho from [[Penny Arcade]]. When about to argue that it's a spoiler to discuss Kong getting shot down, Gabe retorts that it's a 75-year-old movie and everyone knows Kong climbs the Empire State Building and should be able to guess what comes next. Tycho sadly stammers out that he assumed that maybe Kong ''climbs back down''.
*** Gabe's reply: ''"Have you seen [[The Passion of the Christ]] yet? Here's a spoiler for you:
* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: [[Averted]] with ''Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie'', generally thought to be one of the better licensed games out there.
* [[Sequelitis]]: ''[http://jabootu.net/?p=546 King Kong Lives]'' has not been viewed kindly. And for good reason.
** ''Son of Kong'', while inferior to the first film by far, still manages to entertain. It helps that the cast has three major returns in it (Mr. Denham, the Skipper and [[Ethnic Scrappy]] Charlie the Cook) and Willis O'Brian returns for the special effects.
** Toho too did a followup King Kong film after ''King Kong vs. Godzilla'' entitled ''[[King Kong Escapes]]'' which retreads a bit of the original film but throws in a [[Mad Scientist]] with a [[Humongous Mecha|Robot Kong]] named Mechani-Kong who needs the real King Kong to ''Mine Radioactive Ore'' (as the Radiation was [[Did Not Do the Research|to much for his robot]]). Kong is captured but then the [[Title Drop]] happens and, of course, [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe|he has a huge fight against Mechani-Kong as they climb the Tokyo Tower]].
* [[Special Effect Failure]]:
** Even the version of the Kong arm which was used in the (now retired) Universal theme park attraction was notoriously fake-looking.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The primitive natives. And the relationship between Kong and his girl--especially with regard to her somewhat forceful adoption by him--has been compared to a relationship between a [[Where Da White Women At?|black man and a Nordic woman]]. And it's not a favorable comparison. Of course, the connection is purely apocryphal, as it was believed at the time that [http://www.wfu.edu/~woodaljn/ant260/gorilla.jpg gorillas would actually rape women], so it's probably not meant as a metaphor.
** Merian Cooper, the director of the 1933 version, strenuously argued against a sexual interpretation of Kong's fascination with Ann Darrow; he saw it as Kong simply playing with a toy.
** The 2005 version goes for less of a sexual relationship and more of a Koko and kittens one.
** The infamous "Beauty killed the Beast" line at the end of both films. Apparently only a white, Western woman is beautiful enough to have an effect on Kong even though he spent his life surrounded by dark-skinned people native to his island and, if anything, should have adopted ''their'' standards of beauty.
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