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12	[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise Order: [[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]], [[Franchise/DragonBall Oozaru/Great Ape]], Franchise/DonkeyKong and [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Gorizilla]].]]
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14	Franchise/KingKong is one of the most famous and enduring movie monsters ever to be put to screen. "The 8th Wonder of the World" he was called since his [[Film/KingKong1933 1933 debut]]. He has appeared in things from sequels to remakes, spin-offs, animated spin-offs, comic books and video-games. Thus, copyright-dodging spoofs trying to [[{{Pun}} ape]] him are just as likely to exist. (Notably, while Godzilla is more difficult to knock off due to his unorthodox and outdated Tyrannosaurus-inspired design combining features of several other dinosaurs, King Kong, aside from his size, mostly resembles a typical gorilla or ape and thus is more difficult to copyright as a trademarked character.)
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16	In most cases, a King Kong Copy takes the form of [[KillerGorilla an ape]], [[{{Kaiju}} a giant creature]], or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a giant ape]]. They often live on an IsleOfGiantHorrors, where they are [[GiantAnimalWorship worshipped or at least appeased]] by [[HollywoodNatives primitive peoples]]. As any visitors find out sooner rather than later, worship takes the form of [[HumanSacrifice offering]] [[BeastAndBeauty a nubile young woman]] to the King Kong Copy. A KingKongClimb towards the end of the story is inevitable, followed by a [[DisneyVillainDeath long drop to their death]] after being shot at by fighter-pilots. PrimalChestPound may also be used. A BehemothBattle with another giant monster (usually [[PrimateVersusReptile a giant reptile]]) is optional.
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18	Many King Kong Copies have names that sound vaguely like "Kong", including variants of "Congo", "Conga", "Ping Pong", etc.
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20	Compare with the other {{Captain Ersatz}}[=/=]{{Expy}} StockParodies like {{Notzilla}} and MonkeyKingLite.
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27	* [[https://youtu.be/8SsSIsKgL_M This]] 1995 and for Coca Cola has a woman getting offended because the giant gorilla that kidnapped her is more interested in a giant bottle of Coke than her.
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31	* The Oozaru (the Great Ape in some English Dubs) from ''Franchise/DragonBall'' seem to be inspired by King Kong, but are different from other examples in many respect. They are Saiyans, a savage HumanAlien race that conquered planets, who can transform into giant primates (resembling a cross between a gorilla and a baboon) [[{{Lunacy}} under the light of a full moon]] in a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf-like manner]]. The transformation stops and they come back to normal when the moon hides or disappears (temporarily), or if the monkey tail of a Saiyan is cut (meant to be permanent, but there's been instances of the tail growing back under the light of a subsequent full moon). A Saiyan who doesn't know how to control the form (as was the case for Goku in the original ''Dragon Ball'' and Gohan in ''Dragon Ball Z'') is likely to do the stereotypical gorilla [[PrimalChestPound chest-pounding]] (despite the Oozaru technically being a monkey) while firing [[KamehameHadouken energy blasts]] from their mouth at everything in the general vicinity.
32	* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'': Raimu Kouno, aka "Rairi," is a [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] example. Underneath her makeup, she has an apelike face, and she has a tendency to ''act'' a bit apelike when her real face is exposed. She also did a KingKongClimb in middle school during her outburst against the classmates bullying her for her appearance. However, she's a normal human girl otherwise. In a bit of {{Irony}}, she also becomes close friends with Kuroe Akaishi, who can secretly turn into a {{Notzilla}}.
33	* In Captain Celebrity's commercial for Narufest in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes'', he is seen beating a villain who's "a giant gorilla with, let's say, an air of royalty about him" climbing the Tokyo Tower.
34	* The ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire'' episode "[[Recap/PokemonS9E34SlakingKong Slaking Kong]]" features a gigantic Slaking (a pokémon resembling a cross between a sloth and a gorilla) living behind a massive wooden wall. [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed to be a HumongousMecha built by Team Rocket.]]
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38	* As well as painting official ''King Kong'' posters and the cover for the novelization to the 1976 movie, Creator/FrankFrazetta painted ''[[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YDGHg8pt-EE/Xtvh75oknQI/AAAAAAACVmM/tUPxXgh0qckrSkpwSToUP2XlGhzVRuk4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Queen%2BKong.jpg Queen Kong]]''. A naked GiantWoman standing on a skyscraper holding a regular sized gorilla.
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42	* Klyde from ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}'' is a genetically engineered 15-foot-tall gorilla who regularly wrestles with dinosaurs.
43	* Obscure [=DC=] hero, Congo Bill had a magic ring that let him swap bodies with his giant golden ape, Congorilla.
44	* The defunct ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' had a comic called ''ComicBook/GorillaGorilla'', about a gorilla called Gorilla Gorilla who would turn giant and fight a NotZilla who he didn't realize was actually his roommate, Lizard Lizard.
45	* Space Ape is basically is a giant gorilla who joined the ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' Corps.
46	* Notably ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' Magazine's first movie parody comic was ''Ping Pong''. They later did ''Son of Mighty Joe Kong'' combining it with ''Film/SonOfKong'' and ''Film/MightyJoeYoung''. They then went on to do two ''King Korn'' strips parodying the 1976 and 2005 ''King Kong'' remakes when they came out.
47	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' Issue # 17 had a giant robot gorilla called King Gong.
48	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' fought a few;
49	** Titano the Super-Ape is a recurring foe. In the Pre-Crisis version, is an ape of gigantic size with kryptonite EyeBeams which forces Superman to deal with him carefully. His species (i.e. gorilla or chimpanzee) and origin story varies from comic to comic. On one comic book cover, he's [[KingKongClimb climbing the Daily Planet tower]].
50	** He once fought a giant superpowered gorilla called King Krypton. Before dying [=KK=] turned humanoid and revealed he was a Kryptonian scientist who was turned into a gorilla and launched into space hoping cosmic radiation would cure him.
51	** ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' once fought a giant gorilla called Chandu who could use XRayVision, heat vision and Kryptonite EyeBeams after drinking water that had been polluted by Kryptonite. Supes defeats him by using a giant battery to drain the thunderclouds of their excess energy.
52	** Superboy once had to rescue Lana Lang's parents after they were kidnapped by an African tribe and going to be fed to a giant ape called Kingorilla.
53	* ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' had a parody of Titano called Stupendo the Simian Supreme. Supreme ended up taking him to live on Conqueror Island, a LostWorld similar to Skull Island that Kong came from.
54	* A giant ape named King Colosso appeared three times in ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}''. All three tales are obviously inspired by elements in ''Film/KingKong1933''. King Colosso was an antagonist for two issues but a member of the Rangers for the last.
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58	* One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' strip has a bunch of insects lining a wooden palisade and a single butterfly chained between posts outside, screaming with horror at the approaching giant butterfly collector.
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62	* ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'': During the Breach, the Grimm horde attacking Vale are led by a gigantic [[KillerGorilla Beringel]] referred to as a King Beringel. Like Kong, it has the title king and is introduced attacking a city.
63	* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanfic series ''Fanfic/APinkPlanet'', an experimental gem-organic hybrid (or "geminal") attacks the Treetop Palace in India right around the time when Steven is visiting there. While safely held-up in the guardhouse, Steven amusingly names it "Queen Kang", the geminal itself being monkey-like and reaching massive proportions uncommon in geminal experiments.
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67	* In ''Animation/BoBoiBoyMovie2'', the heroes are tasked to pluck the hair off a giant space ape called King Kang Kong.
68	* ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'': The film's BigBad is a {{Kaiju}}-sized ape ([[MixAndMatchCritters part mandrill, part gorilla, part echidna]]) called the Spiny Mandrilla. The Betterman family hide behind a wooden wall from him, just like the Skull Island natives do from Kong. The local tribe of Punch-Monkeys appease him with sacrifices (primarily [[StockAnimalDiet bananas]]), but when Grug eats the bananas intended as sacrifice, the Punch-Monkeys kidnap him along with Phil and Guy and give them to the Mandrilla as HumanSacrifice. Finally, [[spoiler:the Mandrilla also suffers a DisneyVillainDeath, falling into a chasm to his doom]].
69	* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterFamily2'': One of the monsters Mila Starr is send to capture for her parents' experiments is a giant gorilla named King Konga.
70	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' has Mojo Jojo ripping off King Kong [[spoiler:after loading himself with Chemical X. Not only does he mutate into an enormous ape, but he also gains several abilities fitting that of a {{Kaiju}}, like fire breathing]].
71	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'' has one of the most bizarre examples: Genghis Kong, who is a mash-up between a giant orangutan and UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
72	* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'': Behind one of the doors in the house of Music/TheBeatles, there's a woman's bedroom where a giant gorilla (not identified explicitly as Kong) peeks in through the window, breaks it and kidnaps the screaming woman.
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76	* The 1976 South Korean film ''Film/{{Ape}}'' features a giant gorilla that is best remembered for FlippingTheBird at the helicopters trying to shoot it.
77	* King Louie from ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' evokes this with being a giant ape who rules over his own little kingdom of monkeys. He does Kong one better as he's a real type of extinct giant ape, ''Gigantopithecus'' but modeled after an orangutan.
78	* The 1961 British-American movie, ''Film/{{Konga}}'', involves a MadScientist who uses a growth serum that eventually turns an ordinary chimpanzee into a gargantuan gorilla-like monster that rampages through London in the climax. The film proudly wears its status as a knockoff right in the title, and the director even paid Creator/RKOPictures twenty-five thousand dollars for the right to use the name.
79	* The infamously schlocky ''Film/TheMightyGorga'' features the eponymous giant ape living in an African valley.
80	* ''Film/MightyJoeYoung'' is a giant gorilla [[GentleGiant much friendlier than Kong]] who is tamed by a woman named Jill Young. Similarly to Kong, Joe is taken to the city and exhibited to the public, where he escapes and goes on a rampage. The same effects man who worked on Kong, Willis O'Brien, also worked on this film (alongside his protege, Creator/RayHarryhausen). The film got a remake by Creator/{{Disney}} in 1998.
81	* The 1977 Hong Kong film[[note]]yes, it's a [[TongueTwister Hong Kong King Kong]] Copy[[/note]] ''Film/TheMightyPekingMan'' features a giant [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]] named Utam, who raised a FurBikini-clad blonde woman named Samantha.
82	* The 1976 British parody, ''Film/QueenKong'', has a [[GenderFlip ]] gender flipped cast, including the eponymous female ape.
83	* ''Film/Rampage2018'', adapted from [[VideoGame/{{Rampage}} the video game of the same name]], stars a giant gorilla named George along with two other {{Kaiju}}. In this version, George gets some AdaptationalHeroism, is a friendly zoo animal that is turned gigantic and aggressive by a serum, and has white fur to look distinct from King Kong.
84	* ''Film/SpaceMonsterWangmagwi'', the oldest Korean monster movie released in 1967, have it's titular monster being a kaiju simian not unlike Kong, albeit one who's hostile and serving a group of aliens intending to conquer Earth. It even develops affection towards the movie's female lead and snatches her away in it's paws late into the movie.
85	* The 1977 Italian film ''Film/YetiGiantOfThe20thCentury'' has a giant prehistoric apeman discovered in a block of ice in Canada.
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89	* Johnny from ''Literature/GoMutants'' had a human mother and a giant gorilla father. Here ''Film/KingKong1933'' is ATrueStoryInMyUniverse being based on Johnny's dad.
90	* There was a parody novel called ''King Dong'' written by Edgar Rider Ragged.
91	* Inverted in ''Literature/MovingPicturesDiscworld''; the climax involves a GiantWoman [[KingKongClimb climbing a tower]] while holding a screaming ape in her hand.
92	* ''Literature/WildCards'' has a rather literal example in Mr. Nobody, a shapeshifting ace who transformed into King Kong, got stuck in that form and forgot who he was, and spent decades escaping from a zoo and reenacting Kong's climb up the Empire State Building.
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96	* Bulgario from ''Series/GenseishinJustiriser'' is a robotic example, being a giant gorilla-like [[{{Robeast}} Deathborg]] directly based on Mechani-Kong from ''Film/KingKongEscapes''.
97	* ''Series/JourneyToTheWest1996'' (the TVB adaptation of the novel with the same name) has its first story arc being the Six Eared Macaque, a behemoth-sized monkey monster born from a rock (not unlike Sun Wukong himself) who is initially content with living in the countryside, until the Emperor Taizong, seeing the monkey monster as an "omen of fortune", decide to launch a campaign to have the Macaque transported into Chang 'an, the Capital City, despite his courtiers' protests. The Macaque is successfully put to sleep and captured thanks to the help of three bumbling demons hired by the Emperor, but much like King Kong, it regains consciousness and starts wrecking the entire city, nearly killing Emperor Taizong's friend Tang Sanzang (via GiantFootOfStomping) until Sun Wukong pulled a BigDamnHeroes and stops the macaque from causing further damage.
98	* In one ''Series/SesameStreet'' skit, a large primate is invading a city and the skit talks about various physical sensations (hunger, thirst, being too hot, and having to pee) and shows how the primate deals with them ([[ThisBillboardNeedsSomeSalt eating]] a store that's ShapedLikeWhatItSells, namely burgers, drinking from the fire hydrant, using a plane's propeller to cool down, and using a [[ToiletHumour giant toilet]] respectively).
99	* The ''Series/UltramanNeos'' episode "King of the Biosphere" practically rehashes the plot of the original King Kong film, with a monster named King Bamos as a Kong {{Expy}}, although this one had a bit designs lifted from a pug and a lion thrown in. There's even a group of T-Rex-looking monsters called the Rock Eaters who serves as Bamos' sworn enemy.
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103	* In ''TabletopGame/IsleOfTheApe'', the island is lorded over by Oonga, the prized pet of a mad god. Killing Oonga is impossible as a practical matter even for high-level characters, and he can slaughter a party very quickly. Sneaking past him to get to the exit is the only realistic way to deal with him.
104	* This is the entire point of the Empire of the Apes in TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}. Their ground troops are twenty-foot gorillas using howitzers for battle rifles, while one of their kaiju is an ape general so large he uses a mobile SCUD missile launcher as his personal {{BFG}}. Another kaiju, King Kondo, is a much straighter example.
105	* ''TabletopGame/KingOfTokyo'' has "The King", a giant simian-cyborg creature, though an expansion pack later added Kong himself.
106	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
107	** The game features a monster called a Megaprimatus, that is pretty clearly meant to be the [[Film/KingKong2005 2005 version]] of Kong. The name even comes from the [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material]] from that movie.
108	** Angazhan, the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Demonic Prince]] of savagery, who resembles a mix of this trope and a BigRedDevil. He rules over his own layer of [[{{Hell}} The Abyss]], a HungryJungle called Ahvoth-Kor riddled with [[KillerGorilla apelike demons]] and [[PrehistoricMonster fiendish dinosaurs]], [[PrimateVersusReptile usually fighting each other]], as well as BigCreepyCrawlies and [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous plants]].
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112	* The closest ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' got to this was Keetongu. A [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious reclusive cryptid]] and LastOfHisKind who's not on the level of sapience as the dominant species but is pretty close. He is a legendary figure that only few believe in. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]] he was meant to be a giant compared to the other characters and sold as part of the "Tower of Toa" playset. Toys/{{LEGO}} though changed their minds and removed him from the set, releasing another Keetongu toy that, while large, didn't tower over the others. However, some of his King Kong-like traits survived in the story where he is portrayed as a giant [[YourSizeMayVary depending on the scene]], and even climbs and is shot down from a tower in the climax. Unlike Kong, Keetongu is tough enough to survive and kill one of the villains. The reference is made more clear in the [[{{Woolseyism}} Polish dub]] of the animated movie ''Web of Shadows'' where Onewa mishears Keetongu's name as "King Kongu".
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116	* One of the three original bosses in ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved'' is this, referred to as the Megapithecus, specifically resembling the incarnation from ''Film/KingKong2005'' but with white fur.
117	* The first boss in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' was a ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' expy called Conga. A giant gorilla who threw oranges at the duo from the top of a tree.
118	* Famous Nintendo character ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'' is said to be directly based off of King Kong, possessing the last name "Kong" (a word that applies to every other ape present in the franchise) and first name "Donkey" meant to be associated with "stubborn" to American audiences. This famously led Universal Studios to sue Nintendo for copyright violation [[DidntThinkThisThrough despite having established themselves in an earlier lawsuit that King Kong falls under public domain]]. In his [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong debut game]], DK kidnaps a woman and [[KingKongClimb carries her up to the top of a building]]. In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'', one of the Event Matches has a giant Bowser and a giant Donkey Kong face off on skyscrapers, a clear ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' matchup.
119	* ''VIdeoGame/DustyRevenge'', set in a world of andromorphic animals, has a giant Kong Kong-esque gorilla named Tongada as it's boss. It's also the largest boss in the game, and introduces itself attacking a train Dusty is on before flipping the carriage aside with his bare hands, similar to the train scene from the 1930s film.
120	* ''VideoGame/{{Gigabash}}'': One of the playable Monsters in Gigabash is called Gorogong, despite being a Lava Monster with Horns of a Bull, and a Shell like a Turtle, his overall appearance is mainly a Gorilla like Kong, plus, has unlockable costumes called Jungle Warrior: Brown Fur like Toho and Monsterverse Kong, The Abominable: White Fur like a Yeti and George from Rampage 2018, and Gorokong: Black Fur like the Classic and Peter Jackson’s Kong.
121	* [[DirtyCommunists Kommie Kong]] (renamed Gorillazilla in the UpdatedRerelease) from ''VideoGame/HeavyWeapon'' is a giant gorilla [[{{Cyborg}} with cybernetic attachments]] that your tank has to fight as one of the bosses.
122	* ''VideoGame/KaijuWars'': Megalodonkus (or Big Donk, as Major Danger [[InUniverseNickname nicknames it]]) is a tank-stomping, plane-swatting, city-smashing behemoth of a gorilla. As the nickname implies, it bears more than a passing resemblance to Donkey Kong, having the latter's famous cowlick.
123	* The boss of the amusement park stage of ''VideoGame/MonsterEye'' is a giant rampaging gorilla taller than most buildings, who attacks you as you're stuck on top of a [[FerrisWheelOfDoom Ferris Wheel]] (possibly a nod to ''Film/MightyJoeYoung''). The gorilla boss itself seems to be based on Peter Jackson's Kong from the 2005 film, with a scar around his right eye (visible when it tries chomping on you) and a similar fur colour.
124	* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': The [[ApesInSpace super-intelligent gorilla from the Moon]], Winston, is directly compared to Donkey Kong (himself a Kong Expy) in interaction with D.Va
125	--> '''D.Va''': A giant gorilla! Just like in those old video games.
126	--> '''Winston:''' [''chuckles''] I get that a lot.
127	* ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' features '''two''' King Kong Copies, both of which are deities with the form of gigantic apes (though with a few [[ManiacMonkeys baboon elements]] as well): Blizzard, the GodOfGood and [[BigGood leader of the Virtuous Beasts]] who wields [[AnIcePerson cryokinetic powers]]; and Chaos, the God of Decay and [[ThePigPen most foul and disgusting]] of the Destructive Beasts, who fights with [[SuperSpit flying]] [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomit]], [[{{Fartillery}} noxious flatulence]] and [[AcidAttack acidic]] [[DungFu urine]].
128	* ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'': This game lets you play as an {{Expy}} of either King Kong (named George), Franchise/{{Godzilla}} (named Lizzie), or a giant wolf (named Ralph). The object of the game is to...well...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin rampage]] across the world and destroy as much as possible. A GameOver implies that all three monsters are actually mutated humans, as they [[BroughtDownToNormal revert back to human form]] after taking too much damage.
129	* ''VideoGame/TecmoKnight'' has a giant gorilla kaiju as a RecurringBoss, who will pop out in-between random levels as a BackgroundBoss as you're atop buildings and structures, with the gorilla climbing up in the background and trying to smash you with its fists. You don't get to kill it despite fighting it multiple times, however -- you slash and stab his arms, both with it's own life meter, and once each arm is defeated the gorilla monster retreats only to come back later.
130	* ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'': One of the principal monsters (to the point he's featured on the game's cover) that you can play as is a gigantic ape called Congar, who's special attack is his devastating roar. He even scales a skyscraper during his introduction animation in story mode. His origin is revealed that he was a [[ApesInSpace chimpanzee launched in a rocket]] that collided with a crashing flying saucer.
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134	* An episode of Nelvana's ''WesternAnimation/{{Babar}}'' animated series is about the elephant king and his friends getting shipwrecked on an IsleOfGiantHorrors explicitly called Skull Island, inhabited by a giant gorilla named Conga the Terrible.
135	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Beauty and the Beetle" featured Thing Thong, a giant Neitherworld ape (so named because he wears thongs--the footwear like sandals) who takes Lydia captive because he thinks she's beautiful, and he's self-conscious about his own appearance. Lydia helps Thing Thong overcome his neurosis.
136	* Honky Kong from the ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'' episode "[[Recap/BlackDynamiteS1E8HonkyKongOrWhiteApesCantHump "Honky Kong!" or "White Apes Can't Hump"]]" is a giant albino gorilla that winds up in the possession of drug-dealers Rallo and Rallo and used as an act in the circus. He takes one look at Honey Bee and winds up falling for her, kidnapping her and taking her back to the island he was captured from.
137	* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': The WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse cartoon "The Pet Shop", released about seven months after ''Kong'', features Beppo, the Movie Monk[[note]]spelled like this, rather than "movie monkey", on his cage[[/note]], a movie-loving gorilla who breaks out of his cage, kidnaps Minnie and [[KingKongClimb takes her to the top of a bird seed display]] in order to imitate his favorite screen idol.
138	* The ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "Film Flam" has an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe movie]] called "Son of Kongo" (a clear reference to ''Film/TheSonOfKong''), starring a giant gorilla, which is brought into the real world by the supervillain Tuskernini.
139	* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "The Ducky Horror Picture Show" featured a MonsterMash including a giant gorilla named Ping Pong who [[VisualPun carries a giant paddleball]]. The ape [[KingKongClimb climbs Scrooge's Money Bin]] with Mrs. Beakley in his hand.
140	* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker", the Stone of What Was is an artifact on a tropical island that [[FusionDance fuses]] regular creatures, turning the island into an IsleOfGiantHorrors. One of them is a [[MixAndMatchCritters combination]] of a [[KillerGorilla gorilla]] and a [[RhinoRampage rhinoceros]] (essentially, a more monstrous, King Kong-like version of [[WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles Rhinokey]]) that aggressively charges at Kit and the Ducks.
141	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatGrapeApe'' is a [[GentleGiant friendly]], [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife purple]] giant gorilla. People are terrified of him anyway.
142	* ''WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch'' enters Bananas, the zoo gorilla, in a wrestling contest offering a $500 prize. His ring name is King Klong.
143	* ''WesternAnimation/HenrysCat'': In the episode "The Lost World", Henry's Cat imagines himself as a Franchise/{{Tarzan}}-esque NatureHero defending the eponymous LostWorld's denizens, the largest and fiercest of which is a gigantic blue gorilla that the narrator calls "King Kongo" (though when the name appears on screen, it's spelled as "King Konga" instead). [[DastardlyWhiplash Rum Baa Baa]] plays a Carl Denham-esque role in the episode, trying to capture King Kongo to exhibit him in a theatre. In the climax of the episode, King Kongo [[KingKongClimb climbs a giant inflatable skyscraper]] while Rum Baa Baa fights him in a plane.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The MonsterOfTheWeek in the episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E11Gorizilla Gorizilla]]". Adrien's bodyguard the Gorilla[[note]][[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]] slang for bodyguard[[/note]] is turned into a giant blue gorilla with super smell who is determined to find Adrien.
145	* The [[UrExample very first example]] is the Creator/WalterLantz cartoon "King Klunk", released only ''six'' months after the original ''King Kong''. In this cartoon, WesternAnimation/{{Pooch the Pup}} and his girlfriend Coonhound go on an expedition to film the giant KillerGorilla King Klunk. From that point, the short follows all the most important beats of the original film: a HumanSacrifice by a tribe of HollywoodNatives, a BehemothBattle against a dinosaur, Klunk getting captured and taken to the USA, and a dogfight climax on top of a skyscraper -- all of them peppered with [[ZanyCartoon over-the-top cartoon gags]].
146	* In the ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' episode "[[Recap/Primal2019E5RageOfTheApeMen Rage of the Ape-Men]]", the eponymous ape-men hold a tournament where large KillerGorilla warriors fight each other to death. Their champion becomes an example of this trope [[spoiler:after earning the right to drink from a potion that increases his size, strength and bloodlust, and engaging in a battle with the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' Fang]].
147	* A few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' feature Thorg, a giant purple ape that acts as King Kong {{Expy}} counterpart to their mainstay {{Notzilla}} Reptar.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The middle segment of "Treehouse of Horror III" is "King Homer," a parody of the original 1933 film with the giant ape possessing Homer's head shape and lazy personality.
149	* ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian'' encounters Simius and his fellow man-apes as they unearth various pieces of a GiantMecha termed "the Mighty One." Despite efforts by Thundarr and his party to allay them, the man-apes succeed in reassembling a giant robot primate and use it as a weapon against the dwarf villagers. The locale is suggestive of old Hollywood, including derelict soundstages, meaning the man-apes have rebuilt an actual movie prop King Kong.
150	* King Klong was also a giant gorilla Dick Dastardly employs to use against the other racers in the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' episode "Real Gone Ape."
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