Kac-Moody groups generalize Lie groups but are typically infinite dimensional. This defense will quickly introduce discrete and topological Kac-Moody groups and outline a direct comparison between complex topological Kac-Moody groups and discrete Kac-Moody groups over the algebraic closure of the field with p elements. This result uses newly constructed homotopy decompositions for the "unipotent" factors of parabolic subgroups of a discrete Kac-Moody group in terms of unipotent algebraic groups. Additional applications will be given and the topics of infinite Coxeter groups, BN-pairs, and root group data systems will be visited.