List of Monsterverse monsters

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This page is a list of all monsters (Titans), Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms (MUTOs), and other fictional creatures featured in MonsterVerse-related media. Each character is placed under the section of the media where it has been most prominently featured.

Lists

Films

Name Image Appearance(s) Description
Godzilla
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Godzilla (2014)
Godzilla: Awakening
Kong: Skull Island
[cave painting]

Godzilla: Aftershock
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
GvK: Godzilla Dominion
Godzilla vs. Kong
Main article: Godzilla/Legendary.
MUTO (male)
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Godzilla (2014)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters [stock footage]
Main article: MUTO.
MUTO (female)
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Godzilla (2014)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters [severed head & stock footage]
Main article: MUTO.
King Kong
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Kong: Skull Island
Skull Island: The Birth of Kong
Godzilla: King of the Monsters [stock footage]
GvK: Kingdom Kong
Godzilla vs. Kong
Main article: King Kong/Legendary.
Skullcrawler
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Kong: Skull Island
Main article: Skullcrawler.

Cranium Reptant are a species of enormous reptiles that lived in subterranean hollows beneath Skull Island, and drove their rival species of giant apes to near extinction.

Skull Devil
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Main article: Skullcrawler.
Mother Longlegs
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Kong: Skull Island
Skull Island: The Birth of Kong
Main article: Mother Longlegs.
Mother Longlegs are a species of gargantuan spider with legs resembling bamboo shoots that lived and hunted in the bamboo forests of Skull Island.
Leafwing
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Kong: Skull Island
Skull Island: The Birth of Kong
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Main article: Leafwing.
Icarus Folium are a subspecies of Psychovulture evolved to have plant-like wing membranes. They traveled in flocks. They appeared very briefly at the end of Godzilla: King of the Monsters as well.
Sker Buffalo
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Kong: Skull Island
Main article: Sker Buffalo.
A species of giant bovine creatures known as Sker Buffalo call Skull Island home. They are one of the few Skull Island creatures that are not inherently hostile to the humans.
Mire Squid
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Main article: Mire Squid.
A species of Cephalopod inhabited the waterways of Skull Island, and were big enough to challenge Kong himself.
Spore Mantis
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Main article: Spore Mantis.
The Spore Mantis is a species of giant insect that evolved to resemble logs on the forest floor.
Triceratops
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Main article: Triceratops.
A Triceratops skull rested in the Valley of the Fallen Gods on Skull Island. It is unknown if living Triceratops dwell elsewhere on the island.
Giant ants
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Hank Marlow pointed out to Houston Brooks and Lin San that the bird-like calls coming from the jungle were actually produced by gigantic ants that lived in the trees, though the creatures were not seen.
Mothra
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Kong: Skull Island [cave painting]
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Main article: Mothra/Legendary.
Rodan
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Main article: Rodan/Legendary.
King Ghidorah
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Main article: King Ghidorah/Legendary.
Scylla
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
GvK: Godzilla Dominion
Main article: Scylla.
Methuselah
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Main article: Methuselah.
Behemoth

Mapinguary

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Main article: Behemoth.
Queen MUTO

Barb

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Main article: MUTO.
History

An older female MUTO was awakened by King Ghidorah's call and began to rampage along with the other newly-awakened Titans. Having arrived in Boston after Godzilla killed Ghidorah, the Queen MUTO and a handful of other Titans submitted to the King of the Monsters.

Leviathan
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Leviathan is named after a sea serpent from the Hebrew Bible.
History

Residing at Outpost 49 in Loch Ness, Scotland, Leviathan was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. It was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Gallery
Trivia
  • Footage from the Castle Bravo set shows that Leviathan was originally located in the Indian Ocean. While this screen appears in the finished film, the Titan's name is impossible to read.
Amhuluk
Amhuluk is named after a horned water monster from Oregonian folklore.
History

Residing at Outpost 66, beneath the Manpupuner rock formations in Russia, Amhuluk was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. It was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Baphomet
Baphomet is named after a god that King Philip IV of France accused the Knights Templar of worshiping in 1307.
History

Residing at Outpost 68 in Volubilis, Morocco, Baphomet was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. It was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Gallery
Trivia
  • During production of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Baphomet was located in Arizona, only moving to Morocco in post-production. However, a monitor in the scene where Monarch discusses Alan Jonah's plans for Mothra still shows its original location.
Sekhmet
Sekhmet is named after a goddess of war and healing from Egyptian mythology. Director Michael Dougherty described her as resembling "a sphinx or lioness."[1]
History

Residing at Outpost 65 in Cairo, Egypt, Sekhmet was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. She was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Gallery
Trivia
  • A shot on a monitor of a trampled train with many bodies strewn about, attributed to Sekhmet, was repurposed from the 2012 Comic-Con teaser trailer and the official teaser trailer for Legendary Pictures' Godzilla.
Mokele-Mbembe
Mokele-Mbembe is named after a sauropod-like cryptid said to live in the Congo. Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization describes him as having a "massive, snake-like tail," "four thick legs," a curved horn on his head "pulsing with a very faint green light," a head that looks "something like an earless elephant, except that its tusks turned down, rather than up," and a mouth that "open[s] like a crocodile's, revealing thousands of teeth."
History

Residing at Outpost 75 in Jebel Barkal, Sudan, Mokele-Mbembe was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. He was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Abilities

In the novelization, he used his trunk and tail as weapons when battling Monarch and the Egyptian army, while unfazed by tanks, fighter jets, and high-tension lines.

Trivia
  • Mokele-Mbembe is referred to as Mokele for short, and also by the nickname M&M, in the Godzilla: King of the Monsters novelization.
Yamata no Orochi
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Yamata no Orochi is named after the eight-headed dragon from Japanese mythology.
History

Residing at Outpost 91 at Mount Fuji in Japan, Yamata no Orochi was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. It was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Typhon
Typhon is named after the "father of monsters" from Greek mythology. The mythical Typhon's children include Scylla, also the namesake of a Titan.
History

Residing at Outpost 92 in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Typhon was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. It was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Gallery
Bunyip
Bunyip is named after a swamp monster from Australian Aboriginal mythology.
History

Residing at Outpost 99, beneath Ayers Rock in Australia, Bunyip was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. It was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Gallery
Abaddon
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Abaddon is named after an "angel of the bottomless pit" who leads an army of locusts in the Christian Bible's Book of Revelations.
History

Residing at Outpost 77, beneath Devils Tower in the U.S. state of Wyoming, Abaddon was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. It was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Gallery
Tiamat
Tiamat is named after a Babylonian salt sea goddess.
History

Residing at Outpost 53, beneath Stone Mountain in the U.S. state of Georgia, Tiamat was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. It was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl is named after a Mesoamerican feathered serpent god.
History

Residing at Outpost 57 in Machu Picchu, Peru, Quetzalcoatl was one of the many Titans who began to attack humanity under the direction of King Ghidorah. It was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Giant spider
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History

While fending off attacking Monarch soldiers in the Temple of the Moth in China, an enraged Mothra picked one of the men up with her mandibles and tossed it into a web. There, a giant spider could be glimpsed awaiting its next meal.

Anguirus-like skeleton

"A creature that might or might not be Anguirus"[2]

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History

Just outside of Godzilla's underwater lair laid the skeletal remains of a giant, spined quadruped monster. It was destroyed along with the rest of the submerged temple following the detonation of the nuclear device which revitalized Godzilla.

Gallery
Trivia

Mike Dougherty tweeted about the easter egg a little over a week after the movie came out in theaters, saying: "The skeleton of a creature that might or might not be Anguirus is briefly visible in one shot, just outside Godzilla’s underwater lair."[2]

Comics

Name Image Appearance(s) Description
Shinomura
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Godzilla: Awakening
Main article: Shinomura.
Monarch museum creatures
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Many creatures or their remains were on display in the museum inside Monarch Unit's headquarters in the 1940's:
  • A gigantic ape resembling a black gorilla.
  • A giant carnivorous plant.
  • A giant shrimp. In a flashback to the Permian age, Shinomura was seen feeding from what looked like the shell of the same kind of giant shrimp before being attacked by Godzilla.
  • A giant trunked creature with red eyes.
  • The skeleton of a giant flying reptile.
  • An enormous creature with multiple legs or tentacles and a brain-like body.
Kong's parents
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Skull Island: The Birth of Kong
Main articles: Kong's father, Kong's mother.
Psychovulture
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Main article: Psychovulture.
Vultura Insanus are psychopathic flying reptiles with the uncanny ability to shoot lightning from their mouths.
Sirenjaw
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Main article: Sirenjaw.
Gigantus Crocodiliad are large reptilian monsters somewhat resembling a crocodile. They camouflage themselves to look like an island in order to ambush and catch prey.
Magma Turtle
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Main article: Magma Turtle.
Tortisa Vuklana are a species of gargantuan turtles that lay their eggs in volcanoes. When they hatch, the magma hardens into their shells.
Death Jackal
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Main article: Death Jackal.
Spinae Mortem are a species of large and vicious carnivorous canines that hunt in packs on Skull Island.
Swamp Locust
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Main article: Swamp Locust.
The Swamp Locust is a species of enormous aquatic insect that hunts by submerging its body before entrapping prey with its long legs.
MUTO Prime
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Godzilla: Aftershock
Main article: MUTO Prime.
Camazotz
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GvK: Kingdom Kong
Main article: Camazotz.
Icarus Tigris
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Main article: Icarus Tigris.
Icarus Tigris is a large tiger creature cut from Kong: Skull Island. However, it is alluded to in the the novelization of the film, however, and concept art of it appears in the bonus feature Skull Island: Archives. GvK: Kingdom Kong will mark its debut in a MonsterVerse story.

Books

Name Image Appearance(s) Description
Giant snake
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Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization After Kong attacked the helicopters escorting the 1973 Landsat expedition to Skull Island and downed the entire group, ex-Special Air Service tracker James Conrad attempted to get to high ground in order to get a better look at the surrounding topography. While climbing, he touched what looked like a vine, but turned out to be a 60-foot-long snake which tried to eat him. The giant serpent possessed a head as large as that of a full-grown human's, and fangs the length of a man's finger. Though it nearly constricted him to death, Conrad was able to kill it by stabbing it in the head with a knife.
Giant wasp
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During their expedition through the island, Conrad's party encountered a carnivorous plant with several dead animals inside its maw, including a wasp the size of Weaver's hand.
Carnivorous plant
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After Kong downed all of the choppers carrying the members of the Landsat and Monarch expedition to Skull Island, James Conrad's party encountered a carnivorous plant with several dead animals inside, including "a wasp the size of Weaver’s hand." The Carnivorous plant's digestive juices were said to be extremely acidic.
Iwi painting creatures
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The creatures Kong defends Skull Island from are more diverse than just the Skullcrawlers. The Iwi paintings depict "giant reptilian beasts, one with three heads. A crocodile fifty feet long. Snake-like monsters, slinking from holes in the ground and snapping towards the sun. Web-footed creatures, spikes along their backs spearing bloodied human shapes, diving into the ocean surrounding the island."
Margygr
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization Margygr is named after a type of mermaid described in the Norwegian educational text The King's Mirror, written around 1250.
History

Monarch discovered Margygr dead in the Arctic, killed by another Titan. They transported her corpse to their underwater base, Castle Bravo, for further study.

Trivia
  • Unused concept art matching Margygr's description in the novelization is included in The Art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, indicating that she was cut from the movie. She thus joins Megalon and Bagan as one of the only monsters to be rejected for a Godzilla film, then turn up in other official media.
Kraken
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Kraken is an octopus-like Titan with "a dense, curving cone of shell" protecting his head. He is named after a sea monster from Norse mythology said to resemble a cephalopod.
History

Monarch discovered Kraken dormant in the Indian Ocean, wrapped around a long-missing nuclear submarine, and built a containment facility around him. Studying him, they learned that he had multiple brains and hearts, could change his color and pattern at will, and could likely regenerate any part of his body. By 2019, neither he nor the outpost had been given an official name. Kraken was one of the many Titans who awakened after hearing King Ghidorah's call. He tricked Monarch's containment field into thinking he was dead before launching a surprise attack, sinking the outpost. He was later pacified when Madison Russell activated the ORCA at Fenway Park.

Unused

Name Image Appearance(s) Description
Rokmutul
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Godzilla (2014)
Main article: Rokmutul.

Rokmutul is an armored six-legged kaiju with a streamlined crocodilian body, and spikes on its tail most closely resembling those of a Stegosaurus. Based on this concept art found in Godzilla: The Art of Destruction, the beast would've fought Godzilla in San Francisco, with one encounter showing them fighting in the heart of the city and the other atop Alcatraz. Its relation to the other unused monster designed by Josh Nizzi, Pterodactyl, is unknown. Rokmutul would end up being replaced with the female MUTO as one of Godzilla's opponents in the finished film.

Pterodactyl
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Main article: Pterodactyl.

Pterodactyl is a four-winged pterosaur-like kaiju featured in only one piece of concept art found in Godzilla: The Art of Destruction. While it is known that it would've also fought Godzilla alongside Rokmutul in early development, its relation with the other monster was not explained. In the finished film, the male MUTO would replace the monster, who has wings as well.

A strange, dead monster
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Main article: A strange, dead monster.

A strange, dead monster[3] appears in the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con teaser trailer for the film. The creature possesses six visible legs, with a long, apparently segmented body with ridges on its back, somewhat resembling a tardigrade; its feet have four long fingers each. Its identity is unknown, but it was solely shown to confirm that Godzilla would be fighting another kaiju.

Vinestrangler
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Kong: Skull Island
Main article: Vinestrangler.

The Vinestrangler is a slender insect that uses dozens of tentacles to drag prey into its massive maw. A profile on it can be found in the Kong: Skull Island bonus feature Skull Island: Archives.

Camouflage birds
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Concept art by Stephanie Levallois features a species of large flightless bird that has evolved plant-like plumage to hide among the Skull Island flora.
Big fish
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Concept art by Stephanie Levallois features the shadow of a gigantic fish with six pectoral fins passing beneath Marlow's boat.
Heaps of roots
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Concept art by Stephanie Levallois features "huge heaps of roots" moving past some soldiers in low water.

Video

Wikizilla: YouTube Kaiju Profile: The Other Titans
of Godzilla: King of the Monsters

References

This is a list of references for List of Monsterverse monsters. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. Dougherty, Michael (24 April 2020). "@titanus_nozuki She's more of a sphinx or lioness". Instagram comment.
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  2. 2.0 2.1 @Mike_Dougherty on Twitter: "The skeleton of a creature that might or might not be Anguirus is briefly visible in one shot, just outside Godzilla’s underwater lair."
  3. Vaz, Mark Cotta (13 May 2014). Godzilla: The Art of Destruction. Insight Editions. p. 29. ISBN 1608873447.

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