Kong Did Win

[O.Supreme]

[canofhumdingers]

[jellydonut25]

I guess Toho's official press release is also erroneous.

[The Giant Pacific Octopus]

I was talking to O.Supreme's teacher at his school and she was showing me some of his schoolwork.


Just kidding.

[jellydonut25]

I mean, you can mentally justify it however you want, obviously.

For me, I had ALWAYS considered it a tie. From the time I first saw the movie until I first heard any theory about alternate endings or anything like that (which was like a good...ten years? maybe more) I watched the movie from the time I was like, 4 until I was 14 thinking "they tumbled into the ocean and it was a tie." I grew up also watching Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, and Godzilla's Revenge and remember Minya saying Godzilla is strong underwater...so like, I personally always just considered it a tie.

To this day, I kinda still do.


But that doesn't change the facts. And the FACT is Toho and Honda intended it as Godzilla having lost. I'm fine with that. My enjoyment of a character and sense of his worth aren't tied to the outcomes of fictional fights.

[O.Supreme]

[The Giant Pacific Octopus]

That book (Toho Films Vol 8, where Toho stated that King Kong won) went up for auction recently



That Auction site had a whole bunch of those catalogue books on auction.

Here's Toho Films Vol 9



It seems Toho would usually give away the endings when they wrote up the synopsis for thier films.

Here's Rodan


and the Kurasawa film Sanjuro


Here's Invasion of the Astro Monster


Although they don't reveal the outcome of the monster battle. Just that the X aliens are defeated.