Preston Packard

"It's time to show Kong that man is king!"

- Preston Packard

Preston Packard is an American lieutenant colonel who fought in Vietnam. During the war, though awarded with medals and even gaining a chance to shake hands with President Johnson, Packard found the war meaningless and desired to go home.

However, in the evening before his scheduled departure from Vietnam, he received a mysterious order that instructed him and his men to escort a group of scientist on a so called "scientific expedition" to explore a mysterious island located in South Pacific name Skull Island.

At first, he didn't take much notice of the task. After bursting through storms that surrounded the island, scientists ordered Packard and his men to bomb the island in order to examine the rocks, which led to Packard's encounter with the local god and protector of the island, a giant ape named Kong.

Apparently regarding Packard's troops as invaders, Kong smashed all of Packard's helicopters and left Packard and his men trapped in the center of the jungle. As Packard led his men through the jungles, they were attacked by several other giant, pre-historic creatures. Though they managed to survive the jungle and rejoined the fellow scientists through battling with bugs and creatures, Packard had ultimately developed a strong hatred towards everything pre-historic and gigantic on the island, which were all regarded as threats to mankind by Packard.

In this way, Packard collected all of the weapons left on the island and set a bomb trap for Kong, which led to his final showdown against the ape, in which Packard was killed.