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6	[[caption-width-right:350:''If you think [[Film/KingKong2005 Kong fighting the V-Rex]] is awesome already...'']]
7	* The marketing for the movie is similar to that of ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', barely showing the titular monster. What little we do see foreshadows the awesomeness of Kong, such as his hand swiping a helicopter, the distant shots from the perspective of the copters, or the shot of him rising up in front of a soldier.
8	** Look closely. He's not just rising up over a soldier, he's rising up over ''two men who were having a knife fight''. His head alone is large enough to highlight how insignificant their fight is.
9	* This line, courtesy of Creator/SamuelLJackson's character, definitely counts as a BadassBoast. Doubles as NightmareFuel in context, as he's saying it at the tail end of his SanitySlippage and RevengeMyopia.
10	-->''It's time to show Kong that MAN is king.''
11	* The breathtaking shots of Skull Island in the trailers, especially the ones that are homages to classic Vietnam War movie imagery, are just astonishing to look at and make the island seem incredibly vibrant.
12	* A shot in the second trailer shows Kong with patches of his fur ''on fire'', and he barely even seems to notice it.
13	* In one trailer, Weaver casually shoots a Skullcrawler in the face with a flare gun.
14	* In the first scene, young Marlow faces off with Gunpei, who's armed with a shin-guntō sword, barehanded and managing to disarm him.
15	* The bar fight in which we're introduced to Conrad -- first, he demolishes a guy coming at him from behind with a knife with his pool cue, with no prior indication that he was even aware of the guy. Then, when the man's accomplice starts throwing pool balls at him, he dodges one at very close range, then smacks the second one back by using his broken pool cue like a baseball bat, knocking him clean out.
16	* Nieves wants to abort the mission due to how dangerous the storm surrounding the island looks while Randa thinks this is their best and only shot. Eventually, they decide to let Packard break the tie. Packard decides to go for it and leads everyone into the fray with an unflinching demeanor.
17	** The moment they enter, the helicopters are rattled by the wind and thunder, alarms start blaring left and right, and it doesn't seem like any of them will make it. Yet the entire time, [[NervesOfSteel Packard calmly recounts the myth of Icarus,]] even using it as a jump-off point for one of his many {{Badass Boast}}s, and before they know it, the team clears the storm. Goes to show Packard's numerous medals were not for decoration.
18	-->'''Packard:''' And remember the story of Icarus, whose father gave him wings made of wax and warned him not to fly too close to the sun. But the exhilaration was too great, so he flew higher and higher, until the sun melted his wings and he fell into the sea. But the United States Army is not an irresponsible father. So they gave us wings of white-hot, cold-rolled Pennsylvania steel, guaranteed not to melt.
19	* Despite having PTSD and being a bit of a CloudCuckooLander, Cole realizes it's ineffective to keep shooting at the Mother Longlegs--as well as potentially risky to Mills' safety--and has the brilliant idea to start slashing at the giant spider's legs when he realizes it's its weak point, causing it to go on the defensive and even pulls Mills to safety when the latter is too dazed after falling to the ground.
20	** Reles gets one as well. The man almost gets his balls skewered by the Mother Longlegs, yet he simply rolls to the side and still has enough presence of mind to hack off one of its legs.
21	** Once the giant spider is seriously injured, Packard finishes it off with a gooey BoomHeadshot.
22	* Conrad slicing through carnivorous birds with Marlow's shin-guntō, wading through deadly toxic gas, just to get to an unconscious Slivko. He succeeds and they both live.
23	* Kong versus the Mire Squid. Kong doesn't just win, he starts eating it alive!!
24	** Additionally, he accidentally saves Chapman's life just by appearing. Seeing as Chapman is scared to death of Kong, he immediately vacates the lake and hides. Not five minutes later, it's revealed that there was at least one Mire Squid lying in wait below the surface, close to the spot where Chapman had just been refilling his canteen. Had Kong appeared a second too late, Chapman would've very probably been the creature's afternoon snack.
25	* Weaver blowing apart and ''killing'' the Skullcrawler that was terrorizing the gang in the Bone Graveyard after it easily shrugs off stuff like an M2 machine gun and flamethrower attack. And just with a disposable lighter, too.
26	* Packard actually injures Kong with less equipment than when he started. With just a few bombs and napalm.
27	** What's more, he actually ''wins''. He's pretty much a finger flick away from killing an ancient kaiju before he's stopped by the protagonists.
28	* Just Kong in general. He looks like he's more than capable of taking on Godzilla when ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' comes.
29	** Kong takes on two Skullcrawlers at the same time in hand-to-hand combat and ''utterly'' curb-stomps them.
30	** Like Godzilla, Kong is also shown to be a surprisingly intelligent opponent -- even when he has the element of surprise, rather than charge into a fight empty-handed, he leaps down at Ramarak with a huge boulder in his hands and cracks it against its head like he's dunking a basketball.
31	*** He uses a tree like a baseball bat against the alpha Skullcrawler. And just before that, he chafes off the branches in a manner not unlike unsheathing a sword without a single flinch.
32	*** He swings about a chain with a large boat propeller wrapped up in the business end, very much like a flail. He also uses the same boat propeller as an improvised knuckle-duster later on.
33	* Kong ''rams his entire fist down a Skullcrawler's throat and rips out its guts''.
34	** To emphasize all these awesome moments: aside from the two small ones? All of these were against Ramarak, ''THE'' ALPHA SKULLCRAWLER. The thing that is heavily implied to have murdered ''his own parents''. This is not only him killing a Skullcrawler; this is him killing THE Skullcrawler... and WINNING as well as avenging the deaths of his parents and race.
35	** Even more awesome when one remembers again that Kong is a ''teenager'' by his species definition and still manages to come out of the fight without any major injuries.
36	** In addition, Kong has an unconscious Weaver in his hand for the whole last part of the fight, and manages enough control to not injure her at all, even when that same hand is ''pulled down Ramarak's throat.''
37	* ''The post credit scene''. Conrad and Weaver are shown images of an ancient mural MONARCH found showing [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 a pterosaur, a moth, a three headed dragon; and a dinosaur with large dorsal spines]]. Brooks mutters, "Kong is not the only king..." as the music reaches a crescendo, focusing on a mural of the dinosaur and dragon facing off, before the screen smash cuts to black. And not too long after, we hear one very, VERY last thing: '''[[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound GODZILLA'S]] [[Film/Godzilla2014 ICONIC ROAR.]]'''
38	** Just trying to think of how ancient man saw these great beasts at war makes one feel small. It brings to light that all those Titans, Beasts, and Gods in old legends are in fact real, and now they are returning to reclaim lost thrones...
39	* The fact that this is one of the few films in the entire Kong franchise where he survives at the end.
40	* The [[https://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/xychuwr.jpg official]] Japanese poster for the film.
41	** Translation: "On this island, man is the weakest of them all."
42	* Right after Marlow draws his sword, he mutters "Death before dishonor" in Japanese. While it's a little cheesy, here it sounds ''absolutely epic''. He then proceeds to dodge the Skullcrawler with surprising grace and speed, and slashes at its leg with the sword (in slow motion), making him one of only two people throughout the film who ever landed a successful hit on one of the ugly things.
43	** It's doubly epic when you realize that he probably learned Japanese from Gunpei... who was killed by a Skullcrawler. In a way, Marlow is honoring his best friend in the best possible way, and while avenging his death at that!
44	* One for Randa, when Packard confronts him. Despite the fact that Packard is dangerously unstable and has his sidearm pointed straight at his face, Randa's voice drops to a menacing tone, he starts delivering a powerful DeathGlare as he tells Packard about how the warship he served on was destroyed by a Kaiju, and how it led him to search for more. By the time he's done, Packard is visibly nervous, quickly holstering his gun, and seems to actually be intimidated by the old sailor's glare.
45	* While it was in vain, Cole's HeroicSacrifice for the team is this.
46	* The alpha Skullcrawler has Kong dead to rights and is about to finish him. Cue the two surviving non-action guys unloading a mounted machine gun on it and shooting it in the eye with a flare, respectively.
47	* Samuel L. Jackson's performance as Packard is terrifyingly awesome, giving off a presence with such hatred and menace that, despite him being a puny human looking up at a skyscraper-sized ape, you don't doubt for a second he can take on Kong. Which he does. And wins. The Packard-Kong rivalry is more powerful than the Skullcrawler-Kong feud due to the actual emotions and hatred running through the rivalry.
48	* In the novelization, during the standoff over Kong, Weaver defiantly tells Packard that he’ll have to kill her if he kills Kong.

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