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The Godzilla x. Kong

MonsterVerse: Every Major
Monster
Godzilla, Kong, Mothra, and more. Here's a look at Legendary's
MonsterVerse.

BY ADAM BANKHURST, MATT FOWLER UPDATED6 APR 2, 2024 3604 PM

POSTED6 MAR 29, 2024 12629 PM

Warning: Minor spoilers follow for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

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The MonsterVerse is Legendary's shared universe which positions the secret

government agency Monarch at the center of an eco-system of monsters, or
"Titans" as they call them, both new and classic. The latest chapter in this saga,
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, sees our favorite Titans working together to
stop a new, terrifying threat from Hollow Earth.

Click through the slideshow, or read on, for all the monsters we know of so far in
the MonsterVerse movies and TV shows, from Godzilla to Kong: Skull Island and
Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and all the way through Godzilla vs. Kong,
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Skull Island, and the trailers of Godzilla x Kong: The
New Empire!

And don't worry, we'll be updating this soon with the new monsters from the latest
film now that it's out!

MonsterVerse: Every Major Monster

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Godzilla

Rogue One's Gareth Edwards directed the somber and grim opening chapter to
the MonsterVerse, 2014's Godzilla, which of course reintroduced the titular
monster to the world. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Bryan Cranston, Godzilla
features the titan emerging from a long slumber to stop two rampaging parasitic
monsters from mating. In 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla battled a
prehistoric alien Titan, "Monster Zero," known as King Ghidorah. In 2021, he fought
against both Kong and Mechagodzilla, but only the two titular titans walked out
victorious after they chose to work together in epic fashion. While Godzilla may
have won the big battle between the two, the film ends with them respecting each
other and leaving it at that.

Now a new empire rises from the Hollow Earth that threatens everything...

King Kong

Kong: Skull Island, from The Kings of Summer's Jordan Vogt-Roberts, features a
more adventurous tone than Godzilla ground zero, and starred Tom Hiddleston,
Samuel L Jackson, John Goodman, and Brie Larson as members of an expedition
filled with soldiers and scientists who travel to a mysterious island in the Pacific...
where they of course find King Kong himself. This stands as the MonsterVerse's
Kong reboot/restart, 12 years after Peter Jackson remade King Kong (a film that
also featured Skull Island). In 2021, Kong was being held captive by Monarch
following the natural super-storm decimation of Skull Island and being forced to
lead an expedition to Hollow Earth. In Godzilla vs. Kong, the pair initially fought
each other but joined forces to take down Mechagodzilla with an atomic beathified
Axe. While Kong may have lost the big battle against Godzilla, they ended the film
with great respect for each other.

In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, these two titans must once again work
together to stop a new threat that originates in the Hollow Earth...

M.U.T.O.s

Okay, so Godzilla's M.U.T.O.s _Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms)

probably won't marquee their own movie, but these prehistoric parasites wreak
havoc on human civilization as they're drawn to man-made radiation. They seem to
love trampling anyone and everything in their path. Two unnamed M.U.T.O.s (a
male and a female pair) appear in 2014's Godzilla, while a second female debuted
in the third film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, heeding the clarion call of King
Ghidorah. King of the Monsters also phased out the M.U.T.O. name, instead
referring to any of the massive beasts in the MonsterVerse as Titans.

Skullcrawlers

Scavenging Skull Island are pesky pack-hunting predators called Skullcrawlers (a

term coined by John C. Reilly's stranded islander Marlow) who generally make life
miserable for both man and beast as an intelligent, burrowing, bullet-proof species
of crawling carnivore lizard creatures. They come in both frightful airplane-size
and also towering Alpha-size - like Skull Devil, who killed Kong's parents. These
critters also play a role in Godzilla vs. Kong and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

Mother Longlegs

One of the more memorable scenes from Kong: Skull Island involved the
perpetually in-peril platoon getting skewered by the sinister stems of a mammoth
Mother Longlegs - a gargantuan spider with lethal limbs that our heroes didn't
know they'd walked under.

We catch a glimpse of the Mother Longlegs in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

chasing Bill Randa during the 1973 Monarch expedition to Skull Island. Sadly for
that monster, that chase leads to a battle with the Mantleclaw and, although
Mother Longlegs emerges victorious, it appears to be brought into the water to its
death with it.

Leafwings

A flock of these bad boys, the Leafwings, could mean a world of hurt for any team
of heroes. On Skull Island, they seemed harmless enough from far away. Close up,
however, these heinous beasts attack in groups while also carrying off their prey.
They're also seen briefly in Godzilla vs. Kong, down in Hollow Earth.

Mothra

First heralded by a fun Kong: Skull Island Easter egg, the iconic Mothra is a
creature that dates back to 1961 when she starred in her own solo movie before
becoming a recurring monster in the Godzilla films. A massive psychic Moth, who
comes with her own tiny translating priestesses/fairies in the original films, Mothra
is one of the most powerful beasts in the MonsterVerse. She plays a major role in
King of the Monsters, helping Godzilla battle his rivals and ultimately sacrificing
her life to give her partner the energy boost he needs.

This doesn't appear to be the end of Mothra's story, however, as Godzilla x Kong:
The New Empire's second trailer teases her return.

King Ghidorah

Also seen in the Skull Island post-credit scene, and making a sinister showing in
Godzilla: King of the Monsters, is King Ghidorah - the three-headed cinematic
arch-nemesis of both Godzilla and Mothra who dates back to 1964. King Ghidorah
is the main baddie of King of the Monsters, where he's revealed to be the main
rival to Godzilla at the top of the monster food chain. Ghidorah is also capable of
attracting other Titans and bending them to his will. Though Ghidorah is ultimately
defeated by a charged-up Godzilla in King of the Monsters, a post-credits
sequence shows Charles Dance's Col. Jonah purchasing one of the beast's
severed heads for a nefarious purpose - one that eventually helps create
Mechagodzilla!

Rodan

Dating back to 1956, and the third monster entering the fray in King of the
Monsters, is Rodan - the famous flying Kaiju based on the prehistoric Pteranodon.
Faster than supersonic jets and able to produce destructive winds and
shockwaves with his wings, Rodan definitely has the air and speed advantage in
Godzilla: King of the Monsters, though Mothra eventually gains the upper hand.

Other Titans

Godzilla: King of the Monsters introduces a number of minor new Titans, all of
which are original creations rather than adaptations of existing Toho monsters.
These new Titans include Scylla, the crab-like Titan who emerges from
underneath a Texan oil field, Methuselah, a massive, armored creature, and
Behemoth, a huge, mammalian Titan who's basically a combination of a woolly
mammoth and a sloth.

Several other new Titans also have cameo appearances in King of the Monsters,
where they appear on computer screens rising from their collective slumber to join
King Ghidorah. These monsters include Abaddon, Baphomet, Bunyip, Leviathan,
Mokele-Mbembe, Sargon, Tiamat and Typhoon. These Titans play a bigger role in
the film's novelization.

Scylla

The crab-like Titan known as Scylla looks to play a somewhat bigger role in
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire as it was revealed in the film's prequel comic
Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted that the battle between Godzilla and Scylla in Rome,
Italy, will be continued in the movie.

Warbats

Not long after Kong and the Apex expedition led by Dr. Lind discovered Hollow
Earth in Godzilla vs. Kong, Kong was attacked by a duo of Warbats - ferocious
flying serpents that, apparently, attack on sight.

Hellhawks

These nasty winged creatures hung out on the ceiling of the Kong throne room in
Hollow Earth, and then went berserk and killed a bunch of fleeing folks when
Godzilla blasted a hole through the Earth, and into the subterranean temple, with
his atomic breath.

Hollow Earth Spiders and Lizard DTitanus

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We caught glimpses of a few species skittering around on the ground of Hollow

Earth. A few crab-like arachnids burst up through the dirt and then a bus-size
lizard gobbled one of them up. The lizard is now known as the fan-favorite Titanus
Doug, and he'll be returning for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

The film's director Adam Wingard spoke to us about Titanus Doug's return, saying,
"It's a character I think people have ownership of just because they kind of made
him viral in a MonsterVerse sort of way."

Mechagodzilla

The infamous robotic version of Godzilla known as Mechagodzilla is the true villain
in Godzilla vs. Kong. Originally the creation of aliens, when it debuted in 1974's
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, the crazed colossal mech is brought about this time by
Apex Industries' Walter Simmons, using the functioning neural pathways from
Monster Zero's skull. Intended to be a mechanized monster with a human operator
at the telepathic helm, Mechagodzilla becomes so powerful that it breaks free of
the human pilot and goes on a self-aware rampage, attacking Hong Kong. It is
defeated by the joint efforts of Kong and Godzilla.

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