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| |caption =A view of Monarch Outpost 75 in Godzilla: King of the Monsters
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| |name =Mokele-Mbembe
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| |nicknames =M&M, Mokele<ref name="Keyes 177">{{harvnb|Keyes|2019|p=177}}</ref>
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| |classification =Titanus Mokele-Mbembe{{R|Keyes 177}}
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| |species =Elephantine [[Titan]]
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| |enemies =[[Monarch]], Egyptian military
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| |originplace =Jebel Barkal, Sudan{{R|Keyes 177}}
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| |controlled =[[King Ghidorah (Monsterverse)|King Ghidorah]]
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| '''Mokele-Mbembe''' is a [[Titan]] alluded to in the [[2019]] [[Monsterverse]] [[:Category:Films|film]] ''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'', and featured more prominently in the film's [[Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization|novelization]] by [[Greg Keyes]].
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| ==Name==
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| Mokele-Mbembe is named after a [[wikipedia:Mokele-Mbembe|cryptid]] allegedly dwelling in the Congo River Basin, reputed to resemble or be a sauropod; however, the cryptid's name is not capitalized. Its name is Lingala for "the one who stops the flow of the river." Monarch gave Mokele-Mbembe the [[Titan]] classification Titanus Mokele-Mbembe. In ''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization]]'', agents working in Outpost 75 also call him "Mokele" and "M&M,"{{R|Keyes 177}} the latter presumably a reference to the [[wikipedia:M&M's|candy]].
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| ==Design==
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| Mokele-Mbembe is never clearly seen in ''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''. In the film's [[Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization|novelization]], he is described as having a "massive, snake-like tail"<ref name="Keyes 38">{{harvnb|Keyes|2019|p=38}}</ref> two-thirds of his total body length,<ref name="Keyes 179">{{harvnb|Keyes|2019|p=179}}</ref> "four thick legs" with five claws each,{{R|Keyes 179}} a curved horn on his head "pulsing with a very faint green light,"{{R|Keyes 38}} a head that looks "something like an earless elephant, except that its tusks turned down, rather than up,"{{R|Keyes 179}} a mouth that "open[s] like a crocodile's, revealing thousands of teeth,"{{R|Keyes 179}} and a gray and pebbled back.{{R|Keyes 179}}
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| ==History==
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| *''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' (2019) [name]
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| ===''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''===
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| Residing at [[Monarch]] Outpost 75 in Jebel Barkal, Sudan, Mokele-Mbembe was one of the many [[Titan]]s who began to attack humanity under the direction of the alien alpha Titan [[King Ghidorah (Monsterverse)|King Ghidorah]], sending Monarch agents scattering as he broke out of the outpost. He was later pacified when [[Madison Russell]] activated the sonic device [[Orca]] at Fenway Park.
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| ==Books==
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| *''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization]]'' (2019)
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| ===''[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization]]''===
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| Shortly after [[Alan Jonah]]'s ecoterrorist group attacked [[Monarch]] Outpost 61 in [[China]], Master Sergeant Margaret Nez reported to Outpost 75 in Jebel Barkal, Sudan, driven there by the zoologist Esmail. He noted that the cylindrical pit and cavern within the site are believed to be 15,000 to 20,000 years old, more ancient than any recorded civilization, and took her to see Mokele-Mbembe inside the cavern's containment rigging. The next day, Nez met with Colonel Freer, who informed her the Titan was to be terminated if he made any unexpected moves, an order to be kept secret from the civilians in Monarch. Following the release of [[King Ghidorah (Monsterverse)|King Ghidorah]] by Jonah's group and Dr. [[Emma Russell]] voicing to Monarch her intentions to help them release more, Nez advised Dr. Kearns, head of the outpost, to kill the Titan. He refused, even after learning the group had also unleashed [[Rodan (Monsterverse)|Rodan]], believing that the U.S. government was just looking for an excuse to dispatch the creatures. King Ghidorah's alpha call awakened dormant Titans around the world, including Mokele-Mbembe, and drove them into a frenzy. He pushed against his containment field, quickly overloading it and upending the nearby control room before Nez could press the kill switch, killing Kearns and many other agents. Nez, Esmail, Keller, and Freer watched Mokele-Mbembe surface beneath a pyramid. He grabbed several agents with his trunk and ate them, starting with Keller, as two [[Osprey]]s engaged him, their weapons having little effect. He used his tail to cut one of the planes in half. Nez rallied the remaining soldiers at the outpost, joined up with the Egyptian army as the Titan traveled north along the Nile River, and laid a trap for him in a canyon with high-tension lines and explosive charges. Neither fazed him, and he overran their defenses easily, stepping on tanks, slashing through high-tension lines with his tail, and throwing a [[HMMWV|Humvee]] at a fighter jet. Nez fired on Mokele-Mbembe with her sidearm as he approached, but he paused just before delivering a fatal blow, having been calmed by the distant activation of the [[Orca]] by [[Madison Russell]].
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| ==Abilities==
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| ===Physical abilities===
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| Mokele-Mbembe possessed enough strength to overload the containment field in [[Monarch]] Outpost 75 before the agents in the control room could decide on a course of action. Upon reaching the surface, he swiftly grabbed Monarch agents with his prehensile trunk to eat them, and sliced through a pyramid and an Osprey with his tail. He displayed startling aim, knocking a fighter jet out of the sky by throwing a [[HMMWV|Humvee]] at it.
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| ===Durability===
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| Mokele-Mbembe proved impervious to the weapons deployed by [[Monarch]] and the Egyptian military, including [[Osprey]]s, tanks, a fighter jet, explosive charges, and high-tension lines.
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| ==Trivia==
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| *In the [[Dark Horse]] comic "Godzilla: The Origins of a Species," published in [[A Decade of Dark Horse issue 4|''A Decade of Dark Horse'' #4]], Dr. Kazushi Kagaku briefly references the cryptid mokele-mbembe in the context of a debate on how Godzilla came to be.
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| {{Reflist}}
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| ===Bibliography===
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| *{{Cite book|title=[[Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization]]|first=Greg|last=Keyes|author-link=Greg Keyes|date=29 May 2019|publisher=[[Titan Books]]|isbn=978-1789090925}}
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