Choy
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Choy, alternatively known as Charlie and credited as Chinese Cook was a jovial sailor aboard the Venture and is a supporting character in the 1933 film of Son of Kong, who returned in the 2005 King Kong remake. In Son of Kong he is implied to have been present for the events of the original King Kong.
While he was originally little more than an ethnic caricature, he was revived in the 2005 continuity as a full character, whose bubbly optimism was a by product of his escaping the harsh environment of constant civil wars in his native Northern China.
History
Son of Kong
Charlie was the ship's cook aboard the Venture during the aftermath of the King Kong disaster. When Carl Denham was smuggled aboard to avoid his court settlements, Charlie heard of his predicament and suggests that "next time you leave big monkey alone". He is promptly laughed at for his impression that there was more than one Kong. Denham then signed on as a sailor, and traveled the world with Charlie and Captain Englehorn. While stopped at the port city of Dakang, Charlie and the crew watched a small circus performance by a travelling show featuring Hilda Petersen: La Belle Helene. Unfortunately, the tent burned down in the night, and Petersen stowed away on board where she was discovered by Charlie, who showed her to the Captain. She was allowed to stay, but shortly after her discovery, Nils Helstrom, a bum skipper they picked up in Dakang promising to lead them to the treasure of Skull Island staged a mutiny that lead in Englehorn, Denham, and Petersen being cast adrift. Charlie opted to join them out of loyalty. However, a Communist crewman by the name of Red then staged a revolution and tossed Helstrom out with them. They rowed to shore where the native Chief shooed them away from the village, and they instead made ground at a rocky incropping. They quickly discovered an ancient temple, which Charlie was scared of due to his belief that "big devil live in there". Charlie, Englehorn, and Helstrom went to look for food when they were charged by a Styracosaurus. It cornered them in a cave, but they were eventually able to escape and made their way back to the temple to meet with Denham and Petersen as an earthquake began to shake the island. Helstrom ran in fear, trying to leave the others to die. However he was eaten by a Sea serpent, and the group was able to escape as Denham went back to get the rest of the treasure. King Kong's son saved Denham's life, and Charlie and the others took him into the boat as the island sank under the water. They were all adrift at sea for an unknown amount of time before they were rescued by a military vessel.
King Kong (2005)
Kong began to shake the log, and all the sailors fell to the bottom of the pit. Choy was killed in the impact, and Lumpy held his dead hand for a moment before getting up and being eaten alive while fighting off attacking Carnictis.
Books
King Kong (2005)
Choy grew up in the middle of the constant uprisings and civil wars of Northern China. The hardships he endured completely changed his life, because comparatively even the most mundane things were marvelous compared to the world he had left behind. Eventually he came to sail aboard the Venture, and idolized fellow sailor Lumpy for his alleged wisdom of the sea. When Carl Denham commissioned the Venture for a voyage to what the crew was supposed to believe was Singapore, Choy was first tasked with finding a cabin in the cargo hold for the writer Jack Driscoll, who was calmed by Choy's endlessly happy demeanor. Choy tried to make Jack comfortable, and assured him that while life at sea made men tough, it made blankets "baby soft", a phrase which Jack suspected he had picked up from a magazine ad. After advising the writer to watch his step around an unremovable stain where a camel had had a "bad accident". Jack chose a cage, which Choy remarked had made its previous occupant, a warthog, had been very happy there just before he decided to find a new enclosure. Englehorn then came down to help Jack settle in, and a bottle of chloroform rolled out from a cage. Englehorn yelled at Choy, who was supposed to lock the bottles away, but Choy had left on Lumpy's advice. Choy then went to lock them up. As the voyage with the film crew continued, Choy and the other sailors would observe the artistic process. One day, while watching with Lumpy, Choy defended his use of the "Charles Atlas method" books to make him a "real man" in two weeks.
Comics
King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World
Gallery
Choy behind Jimmy and Lumpy in King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World
Trivia
- While he is clearly referred to as Charlie in Son of Kong, he is only credited as "Chinese Cook".
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