Orca

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Orca
The Orca in Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Targets Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Scylla, Behemoth, Methuselah, Queen MUTO, various other Titans, MUTO PrimeGA
Piloted by Emma Russell, Madison Russell
First appearance Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Using the Orca, we will return to a natural order. A forgotten order where we coexisted in balance with the Titans. The first gods.
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— Emma Russell (Godzilla: King of the Monsters)

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. Despite 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. Later, after Monarch had arrived and Emma had released Ghidorah from the ice, she used the Orca to wake him up. When he began attacking the Osprey that Mark and the other Monarch personnel were hiding in, Madison snatched the Orca from her mother, altering the frequency to one that sent Ghidorah into a rage. He almost destroyed their Osprey, but Emma shut it down, and he resumed his attack on the Monarch Osprey.

Later, Emma called Monarch to explain her plans to awaken the Titans to curtail the damage humanity had wreaked upon the Earth. Afterwards, and despite protests from Madison, she used the Orca to awaken Rodan at Isla De Mara. Unfortunately for Emma, and the world at large, King Ghidorah took position as the Alpha Titan after Godzilla was apparently killed by the U.S. military's Oxygen Destroyer, and rallied the remaining Titans (sans Mothra) to his reign.

With the world beleaguered by both Titan attack and the disasters they caused, Emma devised a plan to use Boston's Fenway Park stadium speakers to broadcast an Orca signal around the world, lulling the Titans into submission. Despite Alan Jonah's refusal to aid her, Madison took the initiative and stole the Orca, taking it to the stadium and enacting her mother's plan. It worked, and the Titans were calmed down and ceased their attacks.

Unfortunately, Ghidorah seemed to pick up on the transmissions and attacked the stadium, tearing down the speakers before targeting Madison herself, leading to the Orca being damaged. While Godzilla and Mothra, now in her imago form, arrived to battle Ghidorah and Rodan, Mark and a group of G-Team soldiers located the wrecked remains of the Orca in the stadium before being rescued by Emma, who'd arrived in search of Madison.

When Ghidorah gained the advantage against Godzilla, Mark and Emma hastily restored the device to operational status, broadcasting a signal that enraged Ghidorah and distracting him from Godzilla. While a Monarch Osprey arrived to retrieve the group, Emma drove off in a humvee, leading Ghidorah away from the group to buy them time to escape. The Orca was damaged again for the last time when Ghidorah overturned the vehicle with a gravity beam blast, and its remains were presumably destroyed when Godzilla entered burning mode, killing Ghidorah and leveling whatever remained of Boston.

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

References

This is a list of references for Orca. 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. Weiss, Josh (26 August 2019). "Starship Troopers to Star Trek: Godzilla Blu-ray reveals King of the Monster's cinematic influences". Syfy Wire.
  2. Dougherty, Michael (29 August 2019). "Script to Screen: Mothra attacks moments after she hatches. Moral of the story, don't mess with Mothra...unless you have an Orca. Own it now: http://bit.ly/2KJs8EX". Twitter.

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