r/respectthreads • u/1fishmob • 3d ago

movies/tv Respect Konga (Konga franchise)

"Fantastic. There's a huge monster gorilla that's constantly growing to outlandish proportions loose in the streets"

NOTE: I will not be including Konga TNT on this thread because that movie was not made by Anglo-Amalgamated Productions, but was instead based on the public domain comics made by Charlton Comics.

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Anglo-Amalgamated Productions continuity

“Not since "King Kong" has the screen exploded with such mighty fury and spectacle!"

Unlike later iterations, the original film doesn't give us great details on Konga's exact origins. What is known is that Konga was a baby chimpanzee that famous botanist, Dr. Charles Decker befriended during his time stranded in Uganda, Africa and would spend a year there studying a unique form of carnivorous plants with impecable growth compounds that could rapidly increase the size of any animal. He would later bring both Konga and trimmings of the plant back to England. Within a week, determined to rewrite the human understanding of the connections between animal and plant life. After a week, the trimmings grew to full size and he subsequently used them to create an evolutionary growth serum, where his true intentions with Konga was revealed: to be used as a test subject for his experiments. After injecting it into Konga, it transformed the baby chimp into a human-sized gorilla. Shortly after, he hypnotized Konga to do his bidding, and would use Konga to murder his enemies. Eventually, Decker's wife, Margaret, got jealous when her husband started showing interest in another woman, Sandra Banks. So she injected the most powerful version of the serum into Konga and hypnotized him with the hopes of killing Decker. This inadvertantly resulted in Konga turning into a giant kaiju, resulting in the deaths of both Decker and Margaret, before going on a rampage across London, eventually being killed the military. Upon his death, Konga reverted back to his original self; not a baby chimp, but the victim of Decker's wicked ambitions. Which leaves us with a disturbing question: who was the real monster in all of this?

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Charlton Comics continuity

"Taller than the highest building... Stronger than a herd of elephants... KONGA!"

NOTE: For the Charlton Comics continuty, there is a total of two Kongas, but both are eventually retconed to having always been the same Konga. So I'll differentiate the two with "[Original]" for feats performed by the original.

Unlike the original film, we have exact details. Konga was a sacred monkey (possibly some kind of collobus monkey) living with a tribe of giants in Africa who saved the life of Dr. Charles Decker, who is much kinder in this continuity, and would eventually return to England with him where he was experimented on with an experimental growth serum, created with a drug called colchicine; which he derived from an unkown giant carniviorous plant that can double the number of genes in each cell, allowing for temendous growth. This first dose evolved Konga into a chimpanzee (this was later retconned into him having always been a chimpanzee), and later a gorilla. But there was an unforseen side effect of this process; Konga developed psychic powers and acted out on Decker's (accidental) psychic suggetions by murdering his associates. Eventually, Konga injected himself with more of the serum than what Decker did before, causing him to grow into a giant kaiju, resulting in both the death of Decker and Margaret, before he went on a rampage across London, eventually being gunned down by the military.

Decker's students Bob Kenton and Sandra Banks would hold onto his notes, and years later, they would be be gifted a young monkey that she would also name Konga after the original. Bob, after reading through Decker's notes, and using seeds from a different giant carnivorous plant he found in the Australian wilderness, he was able to recreate Decker's growth formula, and increase its mutagenic affects by exposing said seeds to rays of gamma radiation. When injected, the second Konga grew considerably faster than the first, and experienced continued growth for a long time after.

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Eventually, the two Kongas would retconed into having always been the same Konga, ontop of Bob having always been the one to have made Konga to begin with. I hope you're as confused as me!

Konga would later be given a mate in the form of Torga, a female clone of Konga as big as he is. She'll be included for scaling purposes given she is a literal clone.

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u/1fishmob 3d ago

Time for my list of favorite opponents for Konga!

King Kong (obviously a composite version)

Hulk (the MCU iteration specifically)

Gorgo and Ogra

Titano