King Kong (キングコング Kingu Kongu) is a giant ape kaiju who appeared in the 1962 Toho Godzilla film, King Kong vs. Godzilla. He is the first incarnation of Kong to appear in a film produced by Toho, followed by the Kong from King Kong Escapes. A colossal ape worshiped as a giant demon god by natives of Faro Island in the Solomon Islands, Kong was encountered by members of an expedition to Faro financed by the Japanese company Pacific Pharmaceuticals. While the expedition members were quick to dismiss Kong as the natives' interpretation of thunder and lightning, they discovered that the creature was very real when he broke through a wall separating the native village from the jungle in order to fend off the attacking Giant Octopus. Kong proceeded to drink from huge jars of Farolacton juice manufactured by the islanders, which accompanied by their rhythmic prayer caused him to fall asleep. Pacific Pharmaceuticals attempted to transport Kong to Japan as a publicity to stunt to overshadow the recent return of Godzilla. However, Kong awakened during the transport and escaped from the raft holding him, then came ashore on the Japanese mainland himself. When he encountered Godzilla, Kong attempted to challenge the other monster to battle but was held off when Godzilla set the surrounding forest ablaze with his atomic breath. Kong wandered off on his own and appeared in Tokyo after Godzilla had been repelled from breaching the metropolis with a barrier of high tension wires carrying a million volts of electricity. Kong merely bit down on the power lines and drew strength from the electricity, then stormed into Tokyo where he kidnapped a woman named Fumiko Sakurai from a train and scaled the National Diet Building. The JSDF were able to incapcaitate Kong without harming Fumiko using rockets containing active ingredients from the Farolacton while the Faro Islanders' prayer was played over loudspeakers. Kong collapsed and fell off the building and Fumiko was rescued, but the JSDF determined that the best way to proceed was to force Kong and Godzilla to fight and hopefully kill each other. Kong was airlifted by balloons to Godzilla's current location at Mount Fuji and dropped onto him, and the two titans engaged in a second, much more vicious struggle. While Godzilla held the upper hand at first, lightning from a passing storm reinvigorated Kong and allowed him to turn the tide. The fight ended when both kaiju tackled each other into the ocean, with only Kong surfacing afterward. Rather than pursue, the JSDF allowed Kong to swim peacefully back to his island home.