User blog:EvilLamp/King Kong

you know every now and then the topic of "Moby Dick syndrome" keeps cropping up on this wiki, which is when people make largely non-sapient animals into "villains" despite the fact the animal is incapable of basic morality.. with some examples it may work due to being demonized so greatly they start to verge on being a "monster" (against nature) such as Jaws.

Yet one "villain" has continually vexed me now.. King Kong.

if I remember the original story King Kong was not really a villain, he was a great ape who was abused by humanity and became a tragic example of a "man-made monster" : he went on a rampage much as an angry animal would, his love for a human female was odd but not really malicious as he knew no better and in more recent versions I'm pretty sure King Kong is secondary to the humans that defiled Skull Island to capture him in the first place.

King Kong seems like the  classic example of reality mirroring fiction, everyone in the film saw Kong as a monstrous villain yet in the end it was acknowledged it was really humanity's fault.. now in the real world it seems people are making the same mistake and blaming the animal over its human tormentors.