Kong even withstands being lit on fire after swimming through a lake filled with napalm, although it weakens him and causes him to pass out. In Kong: Skull Island, Kong is even more resilient, and shows complete resistance to any and all gunfire. In the 1976 film, Kong survives getting shredded by machine gun fire and falling from the top of the South Tower of the World Trade Center before falling into a coma.
Kong's parents were both subsequently slaughtered by the Skullcrawlers in front of him, and died lying next to each other. Kong's father fought the beasts off while his mate delivered their son, and hid the infant away inside a nearby cave. Kong's parents were the last two members of their kind on Skull Island, and when his mother went into labor with him, they were attacked by a pack of giant Skullcrawlers. Kong's birth is shown in detail in the official tie-in comic Skull Island: The Birth of Kong. A painting inside the Iwis' temple to Kong depicts what appears to be Kong kneeling in front of the carcasses of his parents, suggesting that he witnessed their deaths. Kong's family was wiped out fending off malevolent creatures called Skullcrawlers that threatened all other life on the island. In Kong: Skull Island, Kong is established as the last living member of his species, and still a growing adolescent. In King Kong Escapes, Kong is a legendary giant ape that resides on Mondo Island. Godzilla, Kong instead comes from an island called Faro Island, where he is worshiped by the local natives as their mighty god.
Gorillas do mourn their dead, and this was where Kong mourned the loss of the only thing that he had social interaction with - it could be his father or mother." The Making of King Kong: The Official Guide to the Motion Picture states that the skull seen among the gorilla remains was Kong's father. In Cinefex #104, Richard Taylor of Weta Workshop explained of the giant gorilla bones in Kong's lair by stating "We decided to give Kong a graveyard of his ancestors. In an interview with the BBC, director Peter Jackson states that Kong never knew his parents because they were "probably killed by dinosaurs" when he was still young and that he had siblings which were also deceased. The backstory for the 2005 Kong has been given off-screen by people involved in the making of the film. Eventually, Kong took his revenge by killing Gaw, establishing himself as the undisputed king of Skull Island and the god worshiped by the natives. Kong's mother and father were both brutally killed in the attack, but Kong survived and grew up with an intense hatred for Gaw and all the meat-eating dinosaurs on the island. While he was still an adolescent, Kong and his parents were attacked by a pack of dinosaurs called Deathrunners and their huge matriarch Gaw. According to this novel, Kong is the last surviving member of a species of huge apes known as kongs that once were numerous on Skull Island. The 1933 Kong's backstory is elaborated upon in the 2005 prequel novel Kong: King of Skull Island. Supplementary materials for the 2005 film reveal that incarnation of Kong to be the last surviving member of a species called Megaprimatus kong, and that his kind are likely descended from Gigantopithecus, the largest known primate to have ever lived and a close relative of modern orangutans, rather than gorillas. In the original 1933 film, the 1976 remake, King Kong Lives, and the 2005 remake, Kong is among the last living members of a giant species of ape that lives on the mysterious Skull Island, which is inhabited by other giant creatures as well as a tribe of natives that worship him as a god.