Mechagodzilla is the more famous and more successful of the two robots, so it's not a surprise that it's Godzilla vs. Kong's Mechagodzilla goes on a rampage due to the influence of King Ghidorah's bones.) (It goes berserk at one point, not unlike how Godzilla vs. This robot was also a human invention, though it was a cyborg built around the skeleton of the original Godzilla from the '50s. The third Mechagodzilla also called "Kiryu," starred in 2002's Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. Mechagodzilla II, Mechagodzilla was a human invention, created to defeat Godzilla because in this era of movies, Godzilla was a bad guy again. The next time he appeared, in 1993's Godzilla vs. In both instances, Mechagodzilla was an alien invention that was created to defeat Godzilla and invade the planet. Mechagodzilla and then again the following year in 1975's Terror of Mechagodzilla. Mechagodzilla, which was clearly inspired by Mechani-Kong, appeared in Godzilla vs. Luckily, Toho did make a robotic version of a monster that was totally theirs.
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Mechani-Kong movie in the early '90s, but Toho bailed on the idea when they realized they would still have to pay for the rights to Mechani-Kong, even though the monster had made its live-action debut in a Toho movie and the real Kong would be MIA. There was talk about making a Godzilla vs. Gorosaurus, a dinosaur-like kaiju the real Kong fights in Escape appears in the Godzilla movie Destroy All Monsters, but Toho didn't ever play with either Kong again.
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It's not a proper Godzilla movie, and while some other non-Godzilla movies have had kaiju emigrate to the main series (Rodan and Mothra first appeared in self-titled standalones, for instance), Mechani-Kong was not so lucky. King Kong Escapes is something of an oddity in Toho's catalog of Monster movies. However, Kong is able to avoid getting hypnotized and the two fight near Tokyo Tower before the organic Kong is able to best the synthetic one. Who has the idea to use Mechani-Kong to hypnotize the real Kong and have the ape do the mining instead. Who returns as the villain, and he's created a Mechani-Kong to mine the radioactive Element X in his Arctic lair. Godzilla instead, it's a new canon and a loose adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon. Godzilla in 1962 and made a second movie starring the Eighth Wonder of the World, King Kong Escapes, in 1967. Mechani-Kong would make the jump to live-action when Toho, the studio behind Godzilla, took up the ape's legacy. Who ( no relation) and he fought with the heroic Kong on two occasions. In the series, Mechani-Kong was a creation of the villainous Dr. The series was produced by Rankin/Bass (the folks behind all those Christmas specials) but the animation was done by Toei, a Japanese anime company. Mechani-Kong actually made his first appearance on the small screen, popping up in two episodes of The King Kong Show, which ran from 1966 to 1969. King Kong had a robot version of himself well before Godzilla's more famous mecha doppelganger. six years after the film debut of Mechani-Kong. His first appearance was in 1974's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla has appeared in five previous live-action Godzilla movies and, briefly, in an anime movie, too. It takes the combined might of Godzilla and Kong (but mostly Kong, to be honest) to defeat Mechagodzilla. Kong - a "twist" that was teased in international trailers - and it's revealed that the King of the Monsters was going on a rampage in the first place because Apex Cybernetics was building a monstrous machine that would rival his power. It's Mechagodzilla! Godzilla's robotic counterpart appears in Godzilla vs. This story fully spoils the end of Godzilla vs. However, although this kaiju is one of the Godzilla series' most famous faces, King Kong actually did it first.
There's a surprise appearance by another famous kaiju from Godzilla's past, arguably the most iconic monster from the Japanese franchise who hasn't already made an appearance in Legendary's Monsterverse. Kong, out today in theaters and on HBO Max.
Godzilla and King Kong aren't the only monsters in Godzilla vs.