Editing King Kong

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'''King Kong''' is a giant ape, and star of a self-titled movie. He may be associated with [[Godzilla]]. In the future, [[Maximal]]s will view him as a great leader. 

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
[[Image:Devastatorkingkong.jpg|left|150px|thumb|"Quick! Get a bunch of [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransacks!"]]]]
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] saw ''King Kong'' when he patched his databank into a television broadcast of the movie. He was reminded of the ape when [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] scaled the [[Empire State Building]] during a Transformer battle in [[New York City]], and took a leaf out of the movie's book by remote-controlling some drone helicopters and sending them to attack him. When Devastator easily swatted the craft out of the air, [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] consoled Wheeljack by suggesting that maybe Devastator had seen the movie too. {{storylink|City of Steel}}
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===Marvel Generation 1 comics===
When the [[Gary Acton|Actons]] arrived in [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Noah Acton]] was unimpressed with the [[Washington Monument]], calling it a "toothpick for King Kong". {{storylink|Decepticon Graffiti!}}

====Earthforce====
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The reporter [[Irwin Spoon (G1)|Irwin Spoon]] considered [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]'s destructive behaviour in upper [[New York (state)|New York State]] similar to that depicted in a Japanese monster movie. When [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] didn't get the reference, he went on to cite ''King Kong'' as an example.  {{storylink|Inside Story!}}

===''Beast Machines'' cartoon===
An angry [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] asked [[Optimus Primal]] "Who died and made you King Kong?". {{storylink|A Wolf in the Fold}}

===''Beast Machines'' commercial===
[[Commercial#2000|A YTV ad]] has Optimus Primal hanging on the side of a building, trying to explain a case of "mistaken identity" to an attacking [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]: "I'm not King Kong, I told you I'm Optimus".

===Live-action film series===
The group that would become [[Sector Seven]] had, among other strange artifacts, a map of [[Skull Island]] in its possession. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2}} Whether this means that the ''King Kong'' movie is based on real locations and characters remains to be determined. It wouldn't be the first time Sector Seven created a movie to pass off [[Transformers (film)|real world events]] as [[Hungry Dragon|fiction]].

==Notes==
* In real life, the reason [[Optimus Primal]] and [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] from ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' were given the alternate forms of a gorilla and ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', respectively, was to make a direct homage to the scene from ''King Kong'' where the title ape fights a ''Tyrannosaurus''.<ref>[http://obscuretf.com/hhk/BC04interviews.html Botcon 2004 Interview with Vinnie D'Alleva], p2</ref>
* There were two versions of the ''King Kong'' film available at the time "City of Steel" was made, the original black and white from [[1933]] and the color remake from [[1976]]; since we don't actually see the television while Wheeljack is watching the movie, we can't be sure which one he was watching.
* In the 1976 remake of ''King Kong'', the great ape was voiced by an uncredited [[Peter Cullen]].<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110615040859/http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=17378 Peter Cullen, Transformers Interview]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[[Wikipedia:King Kong|King Kong]] at Wikipedia

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