August 22 - 25, 2024

Metro Toronto Convention Centre

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Team Picks: Godzilla vs. King Kong

Here at the FAN EXPO HQ, our team is always nerding out over the world of fandom. On Team Picks, we share some of our favorite things we’ve been watching, reading and playing. This month, we’re taking sides on the most anticipated monster match-up of the year: Godzilla vs. King Kong.

In this corner: the sea lizard you never see coming, the reptile with the nuclear tummy, the creature you better not litter in front of … it’s Godzilla, King of Monsters!

In this corner: the angry ape, the perfect punching machine, the creature who time and geography forgot … it’s King Kong!

Two enter, one survives. We place bets in this month’s picks:  

King Kong

King Kong with a sunset backdrop fighting off a variety of helicopters flying around him

Jay
Senior Operations Manager

I’m going with the big monkey on this one. He seems way more agile, so I think he could get a lot more opportunities to re-position and knock Godzilla out.

Godzilla

Godzilla with his head to the sky as he blasts a beam of fire out of his mouth and meteors rain down from the sky

Quinn
Social Media Coordinator

My money’s on Godzilla. He just seems way more versatile to me, and the consequences of getting hit by one of his attacks is way worse. Get hit by King Kong? It’s a punch, we generally know what kind of damage that can do. Get hit by a giant tail whip or by atomic breath? It’s difficult to imagine getting hit by one of those and not being out of commission for a while.

Godzilla

Old school Godzilla and King Kong facing off on a TV studio set

Jabbari
Copywriter

Godzilla. I'd love to drop a controversial opinion but, l mean, the argument for King Kong winning is all null and void. King Kong got taken out by helicopters and if you don't subscribe to that, he's not even the biggest deal on Skull Island. Meanwhile, Godzilla is a walking nuclear plant and battles countless monsters on top of his greatest feat: leaving behind a sustainable level of collateral damage that somehow never bankrupts Japan. We love a mindful King of the Monsters.

Mothra

A giant bug with glowing wings flies through the clouds with 'GODZILLA' written on the side

Marcus
Social Media Coordinator

At the end of the day, we all know that both Godzilla and King Kong are going to die in their own petty war. But Mothra, Queen of the Monsters and my heart, is an eternal being that can never die (as long as it avoids bright lamps).