Farolacton
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Farolacton (ファロラクトン Farorakuton), referred to as Soma in the American version of the film, is a fictional species of berry that is distilled into a beverage offered to King Kong by the people of Faro Island in King Kong vs. Godzilla. It is described as a relative of Actinidia polygama, or the silver vine.
Origins
Farolacton is a berry that grows naturally on Faro Island, where it is collected and distilled into a beverage before being offered to the island's giant god King Kong. The U.S. dub of the film in which they appear supposes that their natural medicinal qualities may play a part in combatting cancer, and that including them in their diet allowed Kong and Faro Island's other creatures to attain their great size.
History
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Farolacton, when purified into a juice, is highly valued for its medicinal advantages, but it comes with a difficult limitation - the berries only grow on the tropical South Pacific Faro Island. This is one of the reasons that Pacific Pharmaceutical mounted an expedition to the island, to seek out the berries to obtain a large enough amount to bring back to Japan for study, as well as obtain the island's giant kaiju to use as the company's mascot. However, the island's tribe were unwilling to show them the location of the juice, as it was used to satisfy their god, King Kong. After an expedition into the island yielded almost no sightings of the plant, and an encounter with a Giant Lizard, the expedition force chose to remain with the tribe, where they witnessed an attack from a Giant Octopus, who tried to steal the Farolacton juice from a hut in the village. As the expedition team and the islanders tried to fight the creature off, Kong emerged from the jungle and defeated the Giant Octopus, forcing it to retreat. Afterward, Kong drank several jars of the Farolacton juice before falling unconscious, allowing him to be tied to a raft and transported back to Japan.
Later, when Kong had escaped captivity and climbed to the top of the National Diet Building, the JSDF loaded Farolacton juice into several rockets and fired them into the air above Kong, causing him to fall asleep once again and allow his human captive, Fumiko Sakurai, to be rescued.
Gallery
Eric Carter holding a jar of the fruit
Faro Islanders juicing the Farolacton fruit
Enormous reservoirs of Farolacton juice
King Kong drinking Farolacton juice after defeating the Giant Octopus
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