History Film / KingCobra1999

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: This is brought up when Hashimoto starts unpacking various snake-catching tools, and is asked why they don't simply shoot the giant cobra instead. He responds by giving the main character a shotgun and demonstrating how hard it is to actually hit ''and'' kill a fast-moving, camouflaged target in a wooded area under pressure before it kills you.

* TooDumbToLive: The reason why Seth (the giant snake of the title) is able to escape in the first place is because a scientist abruptly decides that "Progress requires taking risks!" and starts mixing together chemicals behind his boss's back. [[ExplosiveResults He blows up the entire lab within the minute]].

* TheGreatSerpent: Downplayed. Seth was created from the genes of a king cobra and a diamondback rattlesnake, both of which are medium-sized snakes. After traveling the countryside and feeding on woodland animals for a few years, it's grown enormously and appears to be as large as a reticulated python.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Scientists combine the genes of an African king cobra and an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, creating an ''extremely'' venomous snake with a cobra's hood and a rattlesnake's tail.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Scientists combine the genes of an African king cobra and an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, creating an ''extremely'' venomous giant cobra with a rattlesnake's tail.

* JawsFirstPersonPerspective: After it escapes from its prison, the King Cobra's perspective is later seen through a POV shot as it's slithering through the woods looking for something to eat. It becomes apparent just how *big* it is when it does the cobra "stand up" pose to tower over a young boy.

* SuitWithVestedInterests: When the main characters go to the mayor with claims of a giant cobra hunting people throughout the town, he refuses to cancel an upcoming town carnaval because of the bad publicity. It takes the death of one of his closest friends for him to call in back-up.

* JawsFirstPersonPerspective: After it escapes from its prison, the King Cobra's perspective is later seen through a POV shot as it's slithering through the woods looking for something to eat. It becomes apparent just ''how'' big it is when it does the cobra "stand up" pose to tower over a young boy.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: This is brought up when Hashimoto starts unpacking various snake-catching tools, and is asked why they don't simply shoot the giant cobra instead. He responds by giving the main character a shotgun and demonstrating how hard it is to actually hit ''and'' kill a fast-moving, camouflaged target in a wooded area under pressure.

* ItCanThink: Seth isn't entirely a mindless animal. He thinks to pop the tires on a police cruiser so the people inside can't escape and [[spoiler:realizes that he's being lured into a trap at the end.]]

* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: Hashimoto, a herpetologist brought in to capture the giant cobra, confronts it in the knowledge that his habit of [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity injecting himself with snake venom will make him at least partially immune]] to any bites. This works with the first bite, but the snake just continues biting him, resulting in his death.

* SnakesAreSinister: Seth is a stealthy predator whose venom is far more potent than any regular cobra. Of course, the scientist who designed him deliberately made him super-aggressive for whatever reason.

* KnockoutGas: [[spoiler:The film ends on a WhamShot as it's revealed that the giant cobra was merely inoculated, as the gas cannister used against him was the wrong one, and only contained sleeping gas.]]

''King Cobra'' is a 1999 monster movie.

* SuspiciouslyStealthyPredator: After Seth escapes from his confinement, it takes two years for him to get on anyone's radar. He was actually much smaller initially, and grew bigger after feeding on woodland animals.

!!Examples:

* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The giant cobra is trapped inside a snake cage and apparently gassed to death, but the film ends with a close-up shot on one of the two barrels, which is actually ''sleeping gas''. The snake wakes up and snarls in fury before the credits roll.]]

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: A young boy comes face to face with the 30-feet snake, but it doesn't eat him, only gives him the biggest scare of his life.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Scientists combine the genes of an African king cobra and an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, creating a giant cobra with a rattlesnake's tail.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: This is brought up when Hashimoto starts unpacking various snake-catching tools, and is asked why they don't simply shoot the giant cobra instead. He responds by giving the main character a shotgun and demonstrating how hard it is to actually hit ''and'' kill a fast-moving, camouflaged target in a wooded area.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Pat Morita's character is a snake handler who regularly injects himself with doses of snake venom to develop immunity. He's able to shrug off getting bitten by the giant snake once, but after getting bitten a few more times, he weakens and dies.

* GonnaNeedMoreX: After coming across Seth's shedded snake skin:

* SuitWithVestedInterests: When the main characters go to the mayor with claims of a giant cobra hunting people throughout the town, he refuses to cancel an upcoming town carnaval because of the bad publicity.

* SuitWithVestedInterests: When the main characters go to the mayor with claims of a giant cobra hunting people throughout the town, he refuses to cancel an upcoming town carnaval because of the bad publicity. [[spoiler:He's later attacked and eaten by the cobra.]]