![](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh9FNt2yM6ZjRh-haPorClqznXNQ8ywzrjyiMHf1gGJaX16n-GcH4JQgb1rwylTixq7Fhdo5rQWOIdOqRaW_l16BJTPE2o-l-9XTzqOpTpvV0D_3sabg_ELzlaQDJ7B2my8r5AQqUjZ0A_I3VluFKwGnmo2r4aHmGLBJyuPBss4oCgM1F99nrH3N2AO-sDc\/w640-h228\/821a%20kong%20thrilling%20003%201940.jpg\" "\\"kong\\"")
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\nI can’t really devote a lot of energy to Kong because he just kind of makes me tired, conceptually. He’s a Yellow Peril dictator who has devoted a fair amount of time and resources to stealing both military secrets and entire scientists from the US as a part of his bid for world domination, opposed only by Doc Strange and his companion Virginia Thompson. All very exciting stuff in theory, but it all resolves into a kind of mush – it’s not even as racist<\/i> as it could be, which is good but not remarkable.<\/p>\n
In the spirit of writing something interesting, here are the good parts of Kong’s story: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n1. Location<\/b>: Kong is the dictator of the Asian kingdom of Kachukuo, which was pretty fun to recognize as a stand-in for Manchukuo<\/a>, the Chinese puppet-state established by the Japanese in 1932. I’m always chuffed to see Manchukuo come up both because it doesn’t really do so very often and because I managed to get pretty far into adulthood before I learned about this entire country, and the joy of learning about it is still fresh in my mind. Not that the history of Manchukuo itself is particularly joy-inspiring, but learning is learning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. Rays<\/b>. I like Kong’s big chunky ray technology. He’s got a red ray that brings the scientists out of the suspended animation he put them in for transport, a blue mind control ray (blue and red seem to come from the same machine) and a green death ray. What can I say, I like a ray, and I like colours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n