King kong size
He’s also fast and agile, and able to leap and run. A punch or even a slap from his hand would deliver a force measurable in millions of Newtons, and the fact that each of his arms is over 70 metres long make him extremely dangerous up close. We see him lift objects that are at least as heavy as he is, and throw massive punches too. With that in mind, we can still say that Kong is phenomenally strong. A caveat, though, is that reliable data on the strength of real-world apes is notoriously hard to obtain and many familiar statements – for example, that gorillas are 10 times stronger than people – are guesses based on anecdote rather than the result of careful study. The fact that Kong is built like a giant gorilla allows us to make some estimates about his abilities. Kong is an enormous gorilla standing at 103 metres tall © Warner Brothers Pictures
Rigorous bite force tests haven’t been done on Godzilla, but he could generate forces tens or hundreds of times greater than those calculated for T. Godzilla’s size, conical teeth and chunky jaws imply a phenomenal bite. Attacks from above, or efforts to get him in a headlock, wouldn’t work without the opponent getting ripped to shreds. Godzilla is also defended by spiky-edged dorsal plates, tough enough to slice through metal. Ankylosaur plates possessed a Kevlar-like structure of criss-crossing fibres that would have prevented penetration by teeth. For starters, he’s armour-plated, his exterior recalling that of lizards like the Komodo dragon and dinosaurs like ankylosaurs, both of which have bony plates embedded in the skin. They don’t call him King of the Monsters for nothing. Godzilla’s spiky-edged dorsal plates can slice through metal © Alamy