Forum - Son of Kong/Mighty Joe Young in the MonsterVerse

Well, you've got to consider what a kid would add to Kong's story going forward. When Godzilla adopted Minya/Baby Godzilla, it was to show a softer, more protective side of a character whose interactions with other beings were almost always hostile. Legendary's Kong has already been established as a protector -- and as the last of his kind.

Here's my take: if Kiko joins the MonsterVerse, make him a child clone of Kong. Monarch creates him as a replacement for the aging ape so the Skullcrawler population will continue to remain in check. They bring him to the island so Kong can raise him (and teach him to fight), and of course start conducting all sorts of intrusive experiments on the Iwi and the other monsters while they're there. Kong is conflicted. He knows he won't be able to defend Skull Island forever, and never imagined he'd meet another member of his species again. On the other hand, Kiko arrived with Monarch, and something about the child feels off. Artificial. Kiko, for his part, doesn't understand the bad blood between Kong and Monarch. He's used to humans; they're all he's known until now. Kong, on the other hand, is a little bit scary. If Kong goes to war against Monarch again, whose side does Kiko take? And if he takes Monarch's side, refusing to stay on the island, what good is he to them?

Those kinds of conflicts might be difficult to convey when the characters having them are two monsters who can't talk, but I hope you see what I'm trying to do with my scenario. You can engage with this stuff on a deeper level than "Kiko punches a tiger." Kong: Skull Island was dismissed even by most of the critics who liked it as a dumb action flick, but that movie has seven monsters and each of them does something to further the narrative and/or theme.

Challenging ideas there m8. That's a good thing.

Joe's had two movies, both very good and they stand on their own just fine. There's no need for him to be part of an expanded cinematic universe.

If adapted into DeVito's Kong universe, I'd imagined him as a ghost. Basically a hallucination that guides Denham to where he is found by the shamans. It would represent a sort of apologetic bond between Kong and Denham, who would assume, as he does in the film, that Kiko is Kong's son. His white coloring is an interesting parallel to K'vanni from Kong of Skull Island, whose hair turns white after a run-in with the Deathrunners. Furthermore, as far as Vincent Denham is concerned, his father is dead. This could play nicely with Carl having to assume a type of father role to Kiko, making him realize that in destroying Kong's family, he also destroyed his own. Does that make any sense? Although, in a world with a Kong, a Joe isn't too far off. Joe is a native African gorilla who is either a mutant or a remnant of the genes that the Kong species were bred to possess when they were brought to Skull Island from Africa. Joe is much smaller than Kong, but I like the idea of them meeting. Joe is the guardian of his mountain, protecting nature from humans, while Kong, in the MV particularly, exists to protect humans from nature. Could be a neat dichotomy.

@ABB I've also had musings of a much clusterfuck-ery version of that in which there is a Kiko, a cloned Kong raised by the military, and a cyborg resurrected original Kong, presenting several similar quandaries from the apes.