Madison Russell

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Madison Russell
Madison Russell in Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Species Human
Nationality American
Age 12[1]
Related to Mark Russell (father),
Emma Russell (mother),
Andrew Russell (brother),
George Russell (grandfather),
Gene Williams (grandfather),
Josephine Williams (grandmother)[1]
First appearance Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Played by Millie Bobby Brown,
Mana Ashida (voice, Japanese dub)
You're a monster.
„ 

— Madison to her mother (Godzilla: King of the Monsters)

Madison "Maddie" Russell is a character who appears in the 2019 Legendary Pictures Godzilla film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and is set to return in its 2020 follow-up, Godzilla vs. Kong.

The daughter of Monarch scientists Mark and Emma Russell, Madison has grown up traveling the world with her mother on field assignments following the death of her older brother Andrew during Godzilla's battle with the MUTOs in 2014. At the start of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, she is living in Monarch Outpost 61 in China's Yunnan Province, where her mother is studying the Titan known as Titanus Mosura. She maintains a distant relationship with Mark, who resigned from Monarch and separated from Emma in 2014, though she contacts him several times a week. In 2019, she witnesses Mothra's emergence from her egg up-close, only to be abducted by the eco-terrorist Alan Jonah along with Emma. After learning that Emma and Jonah are working together to use her sonar device, the ORCA, to awaken Titans around the world, she steals it and travels to Fenway Park in Boston. Using the stadium's speakers, she manages to halt most of the Titans' rampages, while summoning King Ghidorah and Rodan to the city for a final confrontation with Godzilla and Mothra.

History

MonsterVerse

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Madison receives an email from her estranged father, Mark, asking to catch up. Upon reading it, Madison initially hesitates before beginning to type a response stating that she is worried about her mother. However, the smoke detector begins to go off as Madison realizes the bacon she was cooking is burning. Emma enters the kitchen and tries to turn the alarm off and asks her daughter what is going on. Madison responds that she was trying to make breakfast, but accidentally overcooked the bacon. Madison closes her laptop before Emma can see it, and says that her father has been contacting her. Emma asks if she has responded, and she replies that she hasn't yet. Emma then informs Madison that she has finally finished her sonar device: the ORCA. Suddenly, their apartment is shaken by a deafening screeching noise. Emma is contacted and told that she needs to go to the containment area immediately, prompting her to grab the ORCA and leave the apartment with Madison. Their apartment is actually in the middle of China's Yunnan rainforest, just outside of Monarch Outpost 61: the Temple of the Moth. As Emma and Madison enter the temple, adorned with ornate carvings of a huge moth, they are greeted by Monarch entomologist Dr. Tim Mancini, who informs them that the Titan housed there has suddenly become incredibly active after sleeping peacefully previously. As they enter an observation room overlooking a large chamber, they gaze upon a giant glowing blue egg. As the egg begins pulsating and glowing brighter, it becomes clear that the Titan inside is about to hatch. Soon, a gigantic mass breaks through the egg. As the hatchling sheds the amniotic fluid covering it, it reveals itself as a giant larva. Dr. Mancini introduces it as Titanus Mosura, better known as Mothra. A containment field is activated around the colossal larva, but inexplicably deactivates shortly afterward. Dr. Mancini informs Emma that it seems some outside party is interfering with their systems. As Mothra sees the armed men standing around her, she becomes agitated and lashes out. The men try to stun her with electrical rifles but she proceeds to spit silk at them and thrash about the chamber. Mancini prepares to activate a protocol to kill Mothra, but Emma begs him not to. She runs into the chamber holding the ORCA and gently sets it down in front of Mothra. As Emma tries to set the ORCA to the correct frequency, she only enrages Mothra further. Madison rushes to her mother's side, and just as Mothra bears down upon them both, Emma activates the ORCA and successfully pacifies Mothra. Mothra's red bioluminescent glow is replaced with the soft blue color she emitted when she hatched, and she backs down. Madison reaches out her hand and touches Mothra's face, with the creature releasing a strong blast of air through her nostrils. The peaceful moment is interrupted by a bomb explosion that strikes the observation room. Armed assailants enter the room and promptly gun down most of the Monarch personnel. Dr. Mancini gets to his feet and surrenders to the attackers, but is promptly shot in the head by their leader.

Jonah's terrorist mercenaries commandeer a stolen Monarch Osprey and fly it to the off-the-books Outpost 32 in Antarctica. Upon landing, Jonah and his men exit calmly before opening fire and killing all of the Monarch guards, while Emma and Madison listen in horror from inside the Osprey. Jonah comes aboard and tells them both to disembark, and they all enter the Outpost. Inside, they are faced with a wall of ice containing what look like frozen serpents. Madison immediately recognizes this Titan as "Monster Zero." Jonah's men begin using machines to drill into the ice while Emma calibrates the ORCA to Monster Zero's frequency. Godzilla begins to swim towards Antarctica, pursued by Monarch's flying flagship, the USS Argo. Mark is among those aboard, due to his extensive knowledge of the ORCA and obvious investment in rescuing his family. Once the Argo reaches Antarctica, it deploys two Ospreys to Outpost 32. G-Team disembarks and finds the fatalities Jonah's men have left behind. The team enters the Outpost and searches through the long passageway inside, but can find nothing until the terrorists ambush them and open fire. G-Team engages in a firefight with the terrorists as Emma and Madison are escorted out by Jonah and some of his men. Upon seeing a video feed of Emma and Madison inside the outpost, Mark exits his Osprey and grabs a gun from one of the bodies before charging in himself. He fights his way to a catwalk where he comes face to face with Emma and Madison, aiming his gun at Jonah. Col. Diane Foster manages to shoot one of the terrorists, Asher, who was carrying a detonator. To Mark's shock, rather than run to him, Emma and Madison stay with Jonah. Emma grabs the detonator and apologizes to Mark before telling him to run. She presses the detonator, setting off charges planted in the ice and causing it to crack open. Jonah flees with Emma and Madison and gets back into his Osprey, while Mark pauses to help G-Team escape. Aboard Jonah's Osprey, Madison exclaims that they need to go back for her father, but is held back. Jonah tells Emma to wake Monster Zero, and she obliges. Emma activates the ORCA and emits a sonar that awakens the long-frozen creature. As Monster Zero begins to massacre G-Team, Madison briefly wrests control of the ORCA from Emma, using it to distract him, but she is quickly overpowered. Godzilla soon arrives to drive off Monster Zero while the Osprey withdraws as well.

As the Argo flies to Outpost 56 on Isla de Mara, Mexico, which they believe is Jonah's next target, it receives a transmission from Emma, who shows Madison to Mark to prove she hasn't been harmed before explaining her actions. Human activity has damaged the environment to the point a mass extinction is inevitable, she says. She believes the Titans are essential to saving the world from the apocalypse mankind has created, but the U.S. government is intent on exterminating them all instead. So, she took matters into her own hands and is awakening them herself before this can happen. In the bunker where they are holed up with Jonah and his men, Madison begs her mother to stop proceeding with this plan. Jonah is infuriated, stating that Emma knew exactly what was going to happen because she approached him and orders her to activate the ORCA. Emma tries to ask Jonah to give civilians more time to evacuate, but she is informed that they need to act immediately. Emma apologizes to Madison and activates the ORCA, with the sonar being broadcast through speakers at Outpost 56. The terrified civilians in the village below witness the volcano begin to erupt, after which a huge flaming creature emerges from the crater: Rodan/Legendary. The Fire Demon soon challenges Monster Zero, but is easily subdued. Godzilla attacks the three-headed dragon next. As they battle, the U.S. military launches an Oxygen Destroyer at them both, seemingly killing Godzilla but leaving Monster Zero unharmed. Climbing atop Isla de Mara, he shrieks out to the heavens, his call serving as a mass awakening for all of Earth's Titans, who begin to destroy cities around the globe. Aboard the Argo, Dr. Chen determines from further mythological research that Monster Zero may not be part of the natural order at all. She says that ancient legends called him "Ghidorah, the One Who is Many." A dragon that fell from the stars, Ghidorah seemingly fought Godzilla in the ancient past as evidenced by cave paintings of the two locked in battle. Monarch concludes that Ghidorah must be an alien creature, and as such has no inclination to return the world to a more natural state.

Madison has come to grasp the horror of what her mother unleashed, and takes it upon herself to set things right. After overhearing her mother discuss with Jonah the potential to use the ORCA to control the Titans, she steals it and escapes the bunker where they are hiding in Boston. She makes her way to Fenway Park, where civilians are being evacuated, and attaches the ORCA to the stadium's sound system. Upon activating it, the Titans around the world suddenly cease their rampage. Ghidorah, however, is alerted to the disturbance and makes his way from Washington D.C. to Boston. He is accompanied by a massive storm that sweeps through the city before he lands at the ballpark and searches for the source of the signal. Ghidorah bites down on the loudspeakers and destroys them, then peers into the pressbox to see Madison inside. He charges his gravity beams and fires them, with Madison barely being able to evade the blasts. Madison flees into the center of the stadium but is knocked down by a nearby blast from Ghidorah. She defiantly throws the ORCA at Ghidorah, who looks down at Madison and prepares to finish her with his gravity beams before being knocked off his feet by a blast of atomic breath. Smiling, Madison turns to see Godzilla triumphantly march into the city, revived by Monarch with a nuclear warhead. A fully-grown Mothra arrives to back him up, but ends up tangling with Rodan instead. As the monsters raze the city, Madison returns to her childhood home to seek refuge. Mark and Emma reunite in Fenway Park while trying to find her, and G-Team member Jackson Barnes inadvertently points them in the right direction. The house is in ruins by the time they reach, but Madison is still alive, having crawled into the bathtub.

As Ghidorah kills Mothra and begins to gain the upper hand over Godzilla, Emma and Mark race to repair the ORCA. Mark, G-Team, and Madison board the Osprey as Emma stays behind to finish calibrating the ORCA. Once it is activated, Ghidorah releases Godzilla and begins making his way in the humans' direction. As Ghidorah draws near the Osprey, Emma realizes that it won't be able to escape him with the ORCA aboard. She takes the ORCA and enters the Humvee she commandeered from Jonah's forces, causing Ghidorah to chase after her while the Osprey escapes. Ghidorah pursues Emma furiously before destroying the jeep with a gravity beam. Emma is thrown from the vehicle and lands on the ground mortally wounded as a distraught Madison can only watch. Supercharged by the nuclear warhead and Mothra's sacrifice, Godzilla destroys Ghidorah and Emma in the process, taking his place as the King of the Monsters.

Comics

Godzilla: Aftershock

To be added

Gallery

Trivia

  • The previsualization team for Godzilla: King of the Monsters based Madison Russell's face on Millie Bobby Brown's before she was cast. According to director Michael Dougherty, "We got so used to seeing her face that we just kind of said, 'Well... why don't we make her the offer?'"[2]
  • Madison's Family Dependent Clearance File on monarchsciences.com notes that she is "is remarkably academically gifted," eager to study Mothra up-close, and has "several security violations and residential infractions" on her record since moving to Outpost 61.[1]
  • In Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization, one of Jonah's men catches Madison stealing the ORCA, only for her to knock him out with a stun gun. Embarrassed that a little girl bested him, he tries to find her on his own, giving her more time to make her escape. Earlier, she unsuccessfully tries to contact Monarch using a radio inside the bunker, a scene included in trailers for the film but ultimately cut.
  • In a moment filmed for Godzilla: King of the Monsters but ultimately cut from both the film and the novelization, Madison accidentally backs into one of Ghidorah's teeth while trying to escape from him in Fenway Park.[3]
  • Mana Ashida, who voiced Madison in the Japanese dub of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, also played a young Mako Mori in Pacific Rim.

References

This is a list of references for Madison Russell. 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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Monarch Sciences Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Monarch" defined multiple times with different content
  2. Fiduccia, Christopher (25 May 2019). "How Millie Bobby Brown Was Cast Before Actually Being Cast in Godzilla 2". ScreenRant.
  3. Bernstein, Abby (4 June 2019). The Art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Titan Books. p. 38. ISBN 1789090687.

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