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The Orca, sometimes stylized ORCA, is a fictional device created by Dr. Emma Russell which appeared in the 2019 Legendary Godzilla film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Name
The Orca is named after Sam Quint's ship the Orca from the 1975 film, Jaws.[1] It is itself named after the marine creatures of the same name, also commonly called killer whales, who use vocalizations of varying frequencies to echolocate. While the Orca's name is commonly referred to using regular casing, including by the film's director Michael Dougherty,[2] the novelization Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization spells it fully capitalized, as ORCA.
History
MonsterVerse
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Orca was originally built by Mark Russell and Emma Russell with the purpose of steering whales away from the shorelines. Five years after the events of 2014, Emma completed the Orca while stationed at Monarch Outpost 61 in Yunnan, China. She soon found an opportunity to test the device when Mothra hatched from an egg deep within the temple the site was built around. Although initially sending her into a rage with an incorrect set of signals, Emma finally locked on to the proper "alpha frequency", resulting in Mothra becoming docile. Shortly afterward, Outpost 61 was raided by Alan Jonah and his band of mercenaries, who took Emma and her daughter Madison, along with the Orca itself.
While Mark was recruited by Monarch to decipher the alpha frequency, Jonah took the Russells and the Orca to Outpost 32 in Antarctica, which was the containment site of Monster Zero, where Emma began analyzing his bioacoustics for the device.
Capabilities
Alpha Frequency
The Orca's primary function was to emit a signal that all of the known Titans would respond to, allowing the user to pacify or manipulate them as they saw fit. When connected to a larger speaker system, such as those in Boston's Fenway Park, the signal could be broadcast on a global scale. The signals could be selected and adjusted via a touch-screen control panel in the center of the device. The baseline alpha frequency was composed of the vocalizations from both Godzilla and a human.
Filmography
Books
Godzilla: Aftershock
Emma Russell used a crude prototype of the Orca to trick MUTO Prime into believing that she had already deposited her eggs into Godzilla during their final battle. This early version was composed of a car battery and Madison's "Happy Magic™" keyboard.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization
The role of the Orca in the novel is mostly the same as its role in the film proper. During the flight from Antarctica to Isla Del Mara, Mark Russell tells Sam Coleman of his and Emma's earliest attempts to use the prototype to herd a pod of five whales, which resulted in disaster when they were inadvertently driven to beach themselves, killing three of them.
Gallery
The Orca prototype seen in Godzilla: Aftershock
References
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