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* GenreShift: The first two films were essentially horror films (and the first film being a literal metaphor for the nuclear holocaust and the events of the nuclear bombings and the ''Daigo Fukuryū Maru'' incident). This film becomes LighterAndSofter with satirical elements for both Godzilla and King Kong films.
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* ShownTheirWork: The first Godzilla movie in color, it makes perfect sense on why Godzilla's Atomic Breath is blue rather than red or green. Cherenkov Radiation is blue when radiation is ionizing the air, which gives its visible light the color blue.
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* AdultFear: You can't find your kid on an island with giant octopus and King Kong on it, of course you're going to quickly freak out when you can't find him.
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Also, in this film, Godzilla is not immune to electricity. In later films such as Ebirah: Horror of the Deep and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Godzilla actually draws strength from electricity.
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** Also, in this film, Godzilla is not immune to electricity. In later films such as Ebirah: Horror of the Deep and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Godzilla actually draws strength from electricity.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The advertising men go to a lot of trouble to capture King Kong and bring him to Japan...only for the government to declare Kong a threat as well as an illegally smuggled good.
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** At their first meeting, after Godzilla lets off a few blasts of AtomicBreath at King Kong and the ground in front of him, Kong realizes he's outmatched and executes a strategic withdrawal.
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** At their first meeting, after Godzilla lets off a few blasts of AtomicBreath at King Kong and the ground in front of him, Kong realizes he's outmatched and executes a strategic withdrawal.
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* MrExposition: Dr. Shigezawa, played by Akihiko Hirata. Eric Carter, Yutaka Omura and Dr. Arnold Johnson in the U.S. version also count.
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* MrExposition: Dr. Shigezawa, played by Akihiko Hirata. Eric Carter, Yutaka Omura and Dr. Arnold Johnson in the U.S. version also count.
* NoPronunciationGuide: Every dub actor repeatedly pronounces Hokkaido as "Hokkai-yaddo". The only individual to pronounce it properly is James Yagi during the added U.N. scenes.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: Every dub actor repeatedly pronounces Hokkaido as "Hokkai-yaddo". The only individual to pronounce it properly is James Yagi during the added U.N. scenes.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Kong and Godzilla both have one. Godzilla trashes a nuclear submarine and attacks a military base, where he melts tanks and sets the entire complex ablaze with his heat-ray. Kong battles a giant octopus that is terrorizing a native village, which sets him up as the [[NominalHero "hero"]] but also shows that he is indeed powerful, but clearly outmatched by Godzilla.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Kong and Godzilla both have one. Godzilla trashes a nuclear submarine and attacks a military base, where he melts tanks and sets the entire complex ablaze with his heat-ray. Kong battles a giant octopus that is terrorizing a native village, which sets him up as the [[NominalHero "hero"]] but and also shows that he is indeed powerful, but clearly outmatched by Godzilla.
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* AbortedArc: From this film to ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'' (or chronologically, ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters''), the events of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1954}}'' are never brought up again (The Heisei series did it as well, except in certain cases). In Honda-specific entries, he always reminds us that Godzilla's a radioactive dinosaur.
* AchillesHeel: Showa Godzilla's aversion to high-voltage/lightning-based attacks started with this film.
* AchillesHeel: Showa Godzilla's aversion to high-voltage/lightning-based attacks started with this film.
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* AbortedArc: From this film to ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'' (or chronologically, ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters''), the events of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1954}}'' are never brought up again (The Heisei series did it as well, except in certain cases). In Honda-specific entries, he always reminds us that Godzilla's a radioactive dinosaur.
* AchillesHeel: Showa Godzilla's aversion to high-voltage/lightning-based attacks started with this film.
* AchillesHeel: Showa Godzilla's aversion to high-voltage/lightning-based attacks started with this film.
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* ClimateChange: The reason the Seahawk was sent to investigate the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas and the initial focus of the Pacific Pharmaceuticals sponsored Wonderful World Series. Everyone at the beginning of the film is in a tizzy from the bizarre temperature changes occurring there.
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* GlobalWarming: The reason the Seahawk was sent to investigate the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas and the initial focus of the Pacific Pharmaceuticals sponsored Wonderful World Series. Everyone at the beginning of the film is in a tizzy from the bizarre temperature changes occurring there.
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!!Tropes exclusive to the U.S. version:
* ContinuityReboot: Despite a helicopter pilot clearly identifying the monster, the U.S. version ignores the previous two films completely (also note that ''Gigantis'' wasn't really considered a Godzilla film in those days for obvious reasons), presenting Godzilla as a generic frozen dinosaur with no connections to the H-Bomb.
* CutAndPasteTranslation: Where to begin... The infamous "corns" exchange only serves to coverup the fact that the scene has been shifted. In the Japanese version, Furue is talking about Godzilla's sudden return, which took place ''after'' the expedition party reached Faro Island.
* DubInducedPlothole: In a cut subplot, Fujita is running experiments on his tensile strength wire aboard a ship, departing at Nemuro shortly before Godzilla destroys the same ship off screen. A plane crash is what motivates Fumiko to look for him in Hokkaido in the English script, even though the newspaper she's reading clearly shows a ship.
* HollywoodDarkness: Some scenes that originally took place during the day were tinted to match surrounding shots, but for some reason, in foreign prints no color grading was applied.
* InconsistentDub: General Shinzo (who is unnamed in the Japanese script) is called Kenzo during one loop.
* NukeEm: This standard B-movie plan is considered by the authorities, but is dropped in favor of the film's title. This is also touched upon in the Japanese cut, albeit more briefly. It should be noted that during the first scene with Shigezawa (which was shifted ''before'' Godzilla attacks the army base), he is talking about how no one should really be surprised about Godzilla's return, and the references to the 3000 year old lotus seed and the ancient frog are put in Johnson's mouth instead in the U.S. cut.
* NoPronunciationGuide: Every dub actor repeatedly pronounces Hokkaido as "Hokkai-yaddo". The only individual to pronounce it properly is James Yagi during the added U.N. scenes.
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: The script never really makes it clear what Prof. Shigesawa's profession is (in the Japanese script he seems to be just a civilian scientific adviser). In one scene, he's the Minister of Defense, and in another he's given the vague title of premier.
* RecycledSoundtrack: With Ifukube's score almost entirely out of the picture, [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon the Gillman's]] three note leitmotif now serves as both monsters' theme. Some cues go back as far as 1941's ''Man-Made Monster''.
* SameLanguageDub: The original voices of the Seahawk's crew were not retained and Harold S. Conway was given a foreign accent for whatever reason, [[Film/TheMysterians again]]. A bit of dialogue changes occur too: In the Japanese version, the captain utters "Oh my god" after the engine fails, while in the dub he says [[{{Bowdlerise}} "Oh, great"]] instead. The helicopter pilots' dialogue was changed as well.
* StockFootage: In addition to the U.S. produced scenes, footage lifted from ''Film/TheMysterians'' is thrown in for good measure. The invaders' otherworldly orbiting mothership stands in for the U.N.'s International Communications Satellite, scenes of panicking civilians obviously not tinted to match the rest of the scene pad out Kong's rampage through the suburbs, and by far the most notable usage occurs during the ending, where scenes of entire villages sinking into the ground and tidal waves flooding valleys were used to make Godzilla and King Kong's fall into the water and the following tremor seem more climactic.
%%* UncreditedRole: Much like the rest of the films in the franchise, the English dub cast is completely uncredited. Unlike many of the other films however, the dub cast for this one has not been identified even after all this time.
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* {{Retool}}: Ishiro Honda originally did not want the monsters in a LighterAndSofter approach, as most of his kaiju films are serious in nature. From this film onwards, he chose to not direct anymore films after ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla''.
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* ContinuityReboot: On Kong's side. He lives on a place called Faro Island instead of Skull Island, and the events of the original ''Film/KingKong1933'' are never brought up; other than the tribe, humanity seems to be encountering him for the very first time. Averted on Godzilla's side, as he is introduced escaping from the iceberg that he was trapped in at the end of ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain''.
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** On Kong's side. He lives on a place called Faro Island instead of Skull Island, and the events of the original ''Film/KingKong1933'' are never brought up; other than the tribe, humanity seems to be encountering him for the very first time. Averted on Godzilla's side, as he is introduced escaping from the iceberg that he was trapped in at the end of''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain''.''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain''.
** Despite a helicopter pilot clearly identifying the monster, the U.S. version ignores the previous two films completely (also note that ''Gigantis'' wasn't really considered a Godzilla film in those days for obvious reasons), presenting Godzilla as a generic frozen dinosaur with no connections to the H-Bomb.
** On Kong's side. He lives on a place called Faro Island instead of Skull Island, and the events of the original ''Film/KingKong1933'' are never brought up; other than the tribe, humanity seems to be encountering him for the very first time. Averted on Godzilla's side, as he is introduced escaping from the iceberg that he was trapped in at the end of
** Despite a helicopter pilot clearly identifying the monster, the U.S. version ignores the previous two films completely (also note that ''Gigantis'' wasn't really considered a Godzilla film in those days for obvious reasons), presenting Godzilla as a generic frozen dinosaur with no connections to the H-Bomb.
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* InconsistentDub: General Shinzo (who is unnamed in the Japanese script) is called Kenzo during one loop.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: Every dub actor repeatedly pronounces Hokkaido as "Hokkai-yaddo". The only individual to pronounce it properly is James Yagi during the added U.N. scenes.
* NukeEm: This standard B-movie plan is considered by the authorities, but is dropped in favor of the film's title. This is also touched upon in the Japanese cut, albeit more briefly. It should be noted that during the first scene with Shigezawa (which was shifted ''before'' Godzilla attacks the army base), he is talking about how no one should really be surprised about Godzilla's return, and the references to the 3000 year old lotus seed and the ancient frog are put in Johnson's mouth instead in the U.S. cut.
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: The script never really makes it clear what Prof. Shigesawa's profession is (in the Japanese script he seems to be just a civilian scientific adviser). In one scene, he's the Minister of Defense, and in another he's given the vague title of premier.
* NukeEm: This standard B-movie plan is considered by the authorities, but is dropped in favor of the film's title. This is also touched upon in the Japanese cut, albeit more briefly. It should be noted that during the first scene with Shigezawa (which was shifted ''before'' Godzilla attacks the army base), he is talking about how no one should really be surprised about Godzilla's return, and the references to the 3000 year old lotus seed and the ancient frog are put in Johnson's mouth instead in the U.S. cut.
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: The script never really makes it clear what Prof. Shigesawa's profession is (in the Japanese script he seems to be just a civilian scientific adviser). In one scene, he's the Minister of Defense, and in another he's given the vague title of premier.
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* DumbDinos: Dr. Johnson claims that Godzilla's brain is the size of a small marble (as in the marble that he's literally holding in his hand) while Kong's brain is about 10 times the size of a real gorilla's. This is playing into the stereotype that the [[PrimateVersusReptile dinosaur is a dumb brute while the primate is a thinking animal]], never mind the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology astonishing claim]] that a marble-sized brain can properly handle a 50-meter tall radioactive {{Kaiju}}.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Dr. Arnold Johnson, curator of the New York Museum of Natural History, classifies Godzilla as a dinosaur "possibly crossed between the tyrannosaurus and the stegosaurus". A carnivore and a herbivore separated by millions of years of evolution can interbreed? What!? Made worse when the doctor holds up a children's dinosaur book to support his theories. It seems he couldn't even afford a copy of ''[[Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain Anguillosaurus, Killer of the Living.]]''
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Godzilla melts a tank with his heat ray, the rest of the tanks head back the way they came.
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* TheBrigadier: General Masami Shinzo.
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* CantHoldHisLiquor: Kong spends the majority of the film literally passed out drunk or feeling the aftereffects of a severe hangover.
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* CowardlySidekick: Furue initially is more confident in going to Faro Island than Sakurai, but immediately loses all courage upon arrival.
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* CutAndPasteTranslation: As mentioned above, Akira Ifukube's score was almost completely removed from the American version and replaced with stock music. It severely downplays any thematic leitmotifs for the two monsters and the excision of Godzilla's first real theme is unfortunate.
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* CutAndPasteTranslation: As mentioned above, Akira Ifukube's score was almost completely removed from the American version and replaced with stock music. It severely downplays any thematic leitmotifs for the two monsters and the excision of Godzilla's first real theme is unfortunate.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Fumiko and Osamu Sakurai, somewhat.
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* HollywoodNatives: The Faro Islanders.
* HongKongDub: The ADR for the helicopter pilots is not particularly well done. The U.S. version appears to be more close to what was said on set.
* IndecisiveParody: The film contains numerous, humorous homages to the original ''Godzilla'' and ''King Kong'', but at the same time tries to plays itself as its own thing.
** An example of this is the scene where Kong ascends the Diet Building, Fumiko in tow, which is an obvious reference to the climax of ''King Kong'', but Kong's performance is more in the vein of a confused animal instead of a jungle king asserting its dominance.
* HongKongDub: The ADR for the helicopter pilots is not particularly well done. The U.S. version appears to be more close to what was said on set.
* IndecisiveParody: The film contains numerous, humorous homages to the original ''Godzilla'' and ''King Kong'', but at the same time tries to plays itself as its own thing.
** An example of this is the scene where Kong ascends the Diet Building, Fumiko in tow, which is an obvious reference to the climax of ''King Kong'', but Kong's performance is more in the vein of a confused animal instead of a jungle king asserting its dominance.
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* [[HumanPopsicle Kaiju Popsicle]]: Godzilla.
* LargeHam: Mr. Tako. Godzilla's goofy theatrics can qualify him as one too.
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* MonumentalDamage: Godzilla and Kong do their best to smash the Atami Castle to rubble.
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** Godzilla and Kong do their best to smash the Atami Castle to rubble.
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted, one of the four octopuses that played Oodako became the special effects director's dinner.
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* OffModel: The stop-motion model used for Godzilla's infamous dropkick only resembles the suit very slightly. Kong's puppet used for closeups also qualifies, being largely different from the costume. Occasionally the length of Kong's arms also noticeably changes from human-length to longer ape-length from scene to scene.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Kazuo and Fumiko.
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* UnbuiltTrope: While not the [[Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain first]] it popularized movies with giant monsters fighting each other and one of the earliest examples of [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny two popular icons duking it out.]] but the movie feels like a parody of these two tropes. The entire joke of the movie's crossover is a greedy businessman by the name of Mr. Tako brings King Kong to Japan to fight Godzilla for ratings but when Kong and Godzilla first meet Godzilla just shoots Atomic breath at King Kong, and the ape leaves seeing no point in fighting another strong monster for no reason, like most animals would. The only reason they do fight is that humanity slides King Kong down a hill into Godzilla. Also unlike most crossovers fights, there's an actually winner, [[spoiler: King Kong]]
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* UnbuiltTrope: While not the [[Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain first]] it popularized movies with giant monsters fighting each other and one of the earliest examples of [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny two popular icons duking it out.]] but the movie feels like a parody of these two tropes. The entire joke of the movie's crossover is a greedy businessman by the name of Mr. Tako brings King Kong to Japan to fight Godzilla for ratings but when Kong and Godzilla first meet Godzilla just shoots Atomic breath at King Kong, and the ape leaves seeing no point in fighting another strong monster for no reason, like most animals would. The only reason they do fight is that humanity slides King Kong down a hill into Godzilla. Also unlike most crossovers fights, there's an actually winner, actual winner: [[spoiler: King Kong]]
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[[Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain Seven years after Godzilla's defeat]], Mr. Tako, a television executive bored of a science program show with very low ratings, decides he wants to raise his ratings when he discovers a creature known as King Kong living on a charted island known as Faro Island, and so enlists TTV to find, find and capture the creature in order to do so. However, outside of the former Kamiko Island, a nuclear submarine is set to investigate an iceberg with high radiation. To the horror to many, the iceberg contains the radioactive creature Godzilla. With two monsters on the loose, Japan decides King Kong should be the one to defeat Godzilla, but which of these monsters will emerge victorious?
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* AbortedArc: From this film to ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'' (or chronologically, ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters''), the events of ''Film/{{Go|jira}}dzilla'' are never brought up again (The Heisei series did it as well, except in certain cases). In Honda-specific entries, he always reminds us that Godzilla's a radioactive dinosaur.
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* AbortedArc: From this film to ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'' (or chronologically, ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters''), the events of ''Film/{{Go|jira}}dzilla'' ''Film/{{Godzilla|1954}}'' are never brought up again (The Heisei series did it as well, except in certain cases). In Honda-specific entries, he always reminds us that Godzilla's a radioactive dinosaur.
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* AnthropomorphicShift: This film started the trend of making the kaiju more human-like than bestial, a trend which would continue for the rest of the Showa Era, with Godzilla and Kong having somewhat humorous body language (such as Godzilla's gleeful "clapping" and Kong scratching his head in confusion), and fighting more than wrestlers than animals.
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* DeusExMachina: Just as Kong is being finished off by Godzilla in the FinalBattle, a random bolt of lightning strikes Kong, giving him the strength he needs to fight Godzilla evenly now.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mr. Tako orders his subordinates to capture Kong and bring him back to Japan as a publicity stunt to boost their company's ratings. As they're shipping the unconscious Kong to Japan, the [=JDSF=] stops them midway because, unsurprisingly, they don't want Tako bringing a giant monster to Tokyo.
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* ChekhovsSkill: During the making of a commercial at the beginning of the movie, Sakurai is playing the drums. This comes in handy later on when rescuing Fumiko fom Kong's clutches.
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* ChekhovsSkill: During the making of a commercial at the beginning of the movie, Sakurai is playing the drums. This comes in handy later on when rescuing Fumiko fom from Kong's clutches.
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* FantasticDrug: What prompts the expedition to Faro Island is a type of medicinal berry known as Farolacton (or Soma), which acts as a potent oneirogenic narcotic that knocks out Kong. This allows the humans to capture Kong relatively easily, to take him to Japan and then to fight Godzilla.
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* PopularityPower: At the time, King Kong was definitely the more popular of the two monsters, so of course he ends up winning the climactic duel, despite being much weaker (necessitating bulking him and giving him electricity powers, and giving Godzilla more of a weakness to electricity, to make it more of a match, but even then Kong's clearly the underdog).
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* ClimateChange: The reason the Seahawk was sent to investigate the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas and the initial focus of the Pacific Pharmaceuticals sponsored Wonderful World Series. Everyone at the beginning of the film is in a tizzy from the bizarre temperature changes occurring there.
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* GlobalWarming: The reason the Seahawk was sent to investigate the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas and the initial focus of the Pacific Pharmaceuticals sponsored Wonderful World Series. Everyone at the beginning of the film is in a tizzy from the bizarre temperature changes occurring there.
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* WaistDeepOcean: Captured by bumbling corporate executive Mr. Tako, King Kong is en route to Japan from the Solomon Islands when the dynamite on the raft he's secured to is blown up. The 45-meter-tall Kong stands upright waist-deep in the Pacific Ocean — a fair distance outside of Japanese maritime boundaries — and wades the rest of the way to Japan.
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The third entry of the Showa ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series. After going on to helm numerous science fiction and [[Main/{{Kaiju}} kaiju]] films in the intervening years after the [[Film/Godzilla1954 original movie]], ''King Kong vs. Godzilla'' is the second film to be directed by Creator/IshiroHonda. Known in Japan as [[NamesTheSame ''Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira'']].
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The third entry of the Showa ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' series. After going on to helm numerous science fiction and [[Main/{{Kaiju}} kaiju]] films in the intervening years after the [[Film/Godzilla1954 original movie]], ''King Kong vs. Godzilla'' is the second film to be directed by Creator/IshiroHonda. Known in Japan as [[NamesTheSame ''Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira'']].
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** Film/KingKongVsGodzilla while not the [[Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain first]] it popularized movies with giant monsters fighting each other and one of the earliest examples of [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny two popular icons duking it out.]] but the movie feels like a parody of these two tropes. The entire joke of the movie's crossover is a greedy businessman by the name of Mr. Tako brings King Kong to Japan to fight Godzilla for ratings but when Kong and Godzilla first meet Godzilla just shoots Atomic breath at King Kong, and the ape leaves seeing no point in fighting another strong monster for no reason, like most animals would. The only reason they do fight is that humanity slides King Kong down a hill into Godzilla. Also unlike most crossovers fights, there's an actually winner, [[spoiler: King Kong]]
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* UnbuiltTrope: This film while not the [[GodzillaRaidsAgain first]] it popularized movies with giant monsters fighting each other and one of the earliest examples of [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny two popular icons duking it out.]] but the movie feels like a parody of these two tropes. The entire joke of the movie's crossover is the greedy businessman, Mr. Tako bring King Kong to Japan to fight Godzilla for rating but when Kong and Godzilla first meet Godzilla just shoots Atomic breath at King Kong, and the ape leaves seeing no point in fighting another strong monster for no reason, like most animals would. The only reason they do fight is that humanity slides King Kong down a hill into Godzilla. Also unlike most crossovers fights, there's an actually winner, [[spoiler: King Kong]]
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* UnbuiltTrope: This film while not the [[GodzillaRaidsAgain first]] it popularized movies with giant monsters fighting each other and one of the earliest examples of [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny two popular icons duking it out.]] but the movie feels like a parody of these two tropes. The entire joke of the movie's crossover is the greedy businessman, Mr. Tako bring King Kong to Japan to fight Godzilla for rating but when Kong and Godzilla first meet Godzilla just shoots Atomic breath at King Kong, and the ape leaves seeing no point in fighting another strong monster for no reason, like most animals would. The only reason they do fight is that humanity slides King Kong down a hill into Godzilla. Also unlike most crossovers fights, there's an actually winner, [[spoiler: King Kong]]
