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* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: It's very difficult to see during the 2005 film's fight with the final ''Vastatosaurus rex'', but Kong actually '''bites the rex's tongue off''', then spits it out and resumes fighting. The film covers it up by cutting from a close-up view to a mid-range shot from an obscured angle so fast it's nigh on impossible to spot. Look closely in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-f5iMDXvcA&feature=mh_lolz&list=HL1313702947 this clip], though, about 48 seconds in.
** From the same clip: The scene also switches briefly to Anne's shocked face as Kong '''crushes the vastatosaur's head like a peanut'''.
* [[Hollywood Evolution]]: Evolutionary biology and ecosystems don't work that way. Creatures trapped on an island tend to select for smaller size, not larger<ref> [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism:Island gigantism|island gigantism]] is a thing that only happens on larger islands, not tiny ones like Skull Island</ref> – and yet if you read the natural history of Skull Island or watch the relevant documentary on the DVD, that's exactly the opposite of how the film makers designed the animals. Also, with that many apex predators in such a tiny area (the vastatosaurs, the raptors, not to mention the various giant arthropods), the island would've been devoid of life in no time as the ecosystem fell apart. It is implied in the film (and explicitly said in the "Natural History" tie-in book) that the island used to be much larger and was sinking into the sea/breaking apart. Still, for animals that large, the break-up would have to have been of a very large land mass and would have had to only been happening for a very short period of time, geologically speaking, which makes it something of a [[Voodoo Shark]].
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Right after the [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]] scene, the men are attacked by massive, oversized insects. As one man is covered in giant bugs, another fires a Thompson submachine gun ''full-auto'' at him from only a few feet away and manages to hit nothing but bugs.
* [[Last of His Kind]]: It is implied that Kong is the last giant ape on Skull Island: the most telling evidence is a shot of him entering his cave and walking past multiple skeletons of giant gorillas. This loneliness, along with the hostility of Skull Island's environment, accounts for both his ferocity and his need for company, which Ann Darrow supplies.<br /><br />Furthermore, as stated in the background materials, Skull Island's entire ecosystem is dying because the island is submerging due to geological activity. Those ''V. rex'' that Kong killed, for instance, may just have been the last three members of their entire species.
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