>>8507828He was. I reckon he might have been some sort of allusion to King Kong during the 2005 story's development, given his vaguely similar sounding name and the scene where he climbs a tower and gets shot down. Except he survives because he can take that kind of beating.
In fact the scene in the movie where he fucking towers over Sidorak and crushes him still only works if Keetongu's a giant. He's much smaller in every other scene.