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<tab name="Female | <tab name="Female">[[File:Psychovulture Infobox.jpg|330px|A female Psychovulture from Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]</tab> | ||
<tab name="Alpha | <tab name="Alpha male">[[File:Alpha Male Psychovulture.png|330px|An alpha male Psychovulture from Kingdom Kong]]</tab> | ||
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|caption =Psychovultures in ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong'' #3 | |caption =Psychovultures in ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong'' #3 | ||
| | |classification ={{bl|''Vultura Insanus'' (cryptoozological classification)|Ctenochasmatoidea (classification)<ref name="Psychovulture Profile">[[File:KSI MYTHOLOGY PSYCHOVULTURE V2.jpg|150px]]</ref>}} | ||
|species =Avian reptile | |||
|wingspan =5-9 feet{{R|Psychovulture Profile}} | |wingspan =5-9 feet{{R|Psychovulture Profile}} | ||
|relationships =[[Leafwing]] (subspecies)<ref>[[File:KSI MYTHOLOGY ICARUS WING V2.jpg | |relationships =[[Leafwing]] (subspecies)<ref>[[File:KSI MYTHOLOGY ICARUS WING V2.jpg|150px]]</ref> | ||
|enemies =[[Human]]s, [[King Kong ( | |enemies =[[Human]]s, [[King Kong (Monsterverse)|King Kong]] | ||
|debut =''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong|Skull Island: The<br>Birth of Kong]]'' [[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong issue 1|#1]] | |debut =''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong|Skull Island: The<br>Birth of Kong]]'' [[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong issue 1|#1]] | ||
|last =''[[ | |last =''[[Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted|Godzilla x Kong:<br>The Hunted]]'' | ||
}} | }} | ||
''' | The '''Psychovulture''' is an avian reptile [[superspecies]] which inhabits [[Skull Island]] in the [[Monsterverse]]. Psychovultures appear in [[Legendary Comics]]' [[2017]] miniseries ''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'' and [[2021]] graphic novel ''[[Kingdom Kong]]''. | ||
{{TOC}} | {{TOC}} | ||
==Name == | ==Name == | ||
The Psychovultures' | The Psychovultures' cryptozoological classification, ''Vultura Insanus'', comes from the English word "vulture" and the Latin word ''insanus'', meaning "crazy" or "insane." | ||
==Design== | ==Design== | ||
Psychovultures resemble hairless bats, though they lack prominent ears or noses. They also display sexual dimorphism. Males have hair on their back in the shape of a mohawk, and females have hoods resembling that of a cobra's.<ref name="Male/Female">{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/whoiszid/status/1421681367838982146|title=I don't have authority over the species' canonical behaviour, but the inclusion of alphas were necessary for me to allow believability to how the PV could cut a grown Kong. The same PV from SI:TBOK would be nothing but a swarm of miniature minions 😆 Mohawk = ♂ Cobra hood = ♀|author=@whoiszid|date=31 July 2021|work=Twitter}}</ref> An alpha Psychovulture appeared in ''[[Kingdom Kong]]'', significantly larger than the others.<ref name="Alpha">{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/whoiszid/status/1421647183766376449|title=That's correct. It's an alpha in the flock, significantly bigger than the rest although it's tricky to tell with everything in motion and at different distance. I also made the design slightly different to set it apart, both male and female 🤓|author=@whoiszid|date=31 July 2021|work=Twitter}}</ref> | Psychovultures resemble hairless bats, though they lack prominent ears or noses and have stronger legs.<ref name="KSICA">{{harvnb|Trent et al.|2023|p=90}}</ref> They also display sexual dimorphism. Males have hair on their back in the shape of a mohawk, and females have hoods resembling that of a cobra's.<ref name="Male/Female">{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/whoiszid/status/1421681367838982146|title=I don't have authority over the species' canonical behaviour, but the inclusion of alphas were necessary for me to allow believability to how the PV could cut a grown Kong. The same PV from SI:TBOK would be nothing but a swarm of miniature minions 😆 Mohawk = ♂ Cobra hood = ♀|author=@whoiszid|date=31 July 2021|work=Twitter}}</ref> An alpha Psychovulture appeared in ''[[Kingdom Kong]]'', significantly larger than the others.<ref name="Alpha">{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/whoiszid/status/1421647183766376449|title=That's correct. It's an alpha in the flock, significantly bigger than the rest although it's tricky to tell with everything in motion and at different distance. I also made the design slightly different to set it apart, both male and female 🤓|author=@whoiszid|date=31 July 2021|work=Twitter}}</ref> | ||
==Behavior== | |||
== | Psychovultures are omnivores, favoring fruit, squirrels, seafaring birds, and fish, and are the more aggressive cousins of the Leafwings.{{R|Psychovulture Profile}}{{R|KSICA}} They hunt at night utilizing echolocation and thermal vision, and while they are generally solitary predators, they will call other Psychovultures for help if they are attacked themselves.{{R|KSICA}} Their behavior in both ''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'' and ''[[Kingdom Kong]]'', in which they swarmed their targets before dark, is therefore anomalous. Feeding on a species of poisonous pufferfish that lives off the coast of Skull Island drives them into a frenzied state, attempting to kill anything in sight, including members of their own species.{{R|Psychovulture Profile}} Psychovultures that survive this berserk period appear to search for more pufferfish to experience it again.{{R|KSICA}} They are also scavengers, as they descended to feed on the fresh carcass of a [[Sirenjaw]] that [[King Kong (Monsterverse)|Kong]] killed in ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''. | ||
Psychovultures are omnivores and the more aggressive cousins of the Leafwings.{{R|Psychovulture Profile}} | |||
==Comics== | ==Comics== | ||
*''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'' (2017) | *''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'' #1, 3 (2017) | ||
*''[[Kingdom Kong]]'' (2021) | *''[[Kingdom Kong]]'' (2021) | ||
*''[[Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted]]'' (2024) [taxidermy] | |||
===''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]''=== | ===''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]''=== | ||
===="[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong issue 1|The People | ===="[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong issue 1|The People Who Came from the Sky]]"==== | ||
A swarm of Psychovultures attacked the V-22 Osprey transporting a [[Monarch]] team led by [[Aaron Brooks]] to [[Skull Island]] | A swarm of Psychovultures attacked the V-22 Osprey transporting a [[Monarch]] team led by [[Aaron Brooks]] to [[Skull Island]]. One struck the side of the aircraft with a bolt of electricity, causing it to crash on the island. They circled the Monarch agents who parachuted from the plane as they fell, but allowed them to land. | ||
===="[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong issue 3|Valley of the Fallen Gods]]"==== | ===="[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong issue 3|Valley of the Fallen Gods]]"==== | ||
After [[King Kong]] fought and killed a [[Sirenjaw]], several Psychovultures and [[Death Jackal]]s descended to feed on the carcass. | After [[King Kong]] fought and killed a [[Sirenjaw]], several Psychovultures and [[Death Jackal]]s descended to feed on the carcass. | ||
===''[[Kingdom Kong]]''=== | ===''[[Kingdom Kong]]''=== | ||
A group of Psychovultures attacked Kong while he rescued a [[Sker Buffalo]] pinned beneath a fallen tree. One also targeted a nearby [[Monarch]] helicopter, but its electrical blast was negated by its exterior shock grid. From this safe vantage point, seismologist [[Houston Brooks]] watched Kong open the fight by swinging the tree as a club, felling several of the creatures. An alpha Psychovulture dove at his left eye and tried to gouge it out, while another set the tree aflame with electricity. The helicopter pilot, Delgado, asked Brooks if they should intervene, but he was confident in Kong's abilities. Swinging the burning tree, the ape killed four more of the Psychovultures, and the rest retreated. He turned his eyes sadly to the Sker Buffalo, who had perished in the battle. | A group of Psychovultures attacked Kong while he rescued a [[Sker Buffalo]] pinned beneath a fallen tree. One also targeted a nearby [[Monarch]] helicopter, but its electrical blast was negated by its exterior shock grid. From this safe vantage point, seismologist [[Houston Brooks]] watched Kong open the fight by swinging the tree as a club, felling several of the creatures. An alpha Psychovulture dove at his left eye and tried to gouge it out, while another set the tree aflame with electricity. The helicopter pilot, Delgado, asked Brooks if they should intervene, but he was confident in Kong's abilities. Swinging the burning tree, the ape killed four more of the Psychovultures, and the rest retreated. He turned his eyes sadly to the Sker Buffalo, who had perished in the battle. | ||
==Video games== | |||
*''[[Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers]]'' (2024) - Android, iOS, and PC | |||
==Abilities== | ==Abilities== | ||
===Flight=== | ===Flight=== | ||
Psychovultures are capable of flight. | Psychovultures are capable of flight. | ||
===Thermal vision=== | ===Thermal vision and echolocation=== | ||
Psychovultures have thermal vision which allows them to find warm-blooded prey at night. | Psychovultures have thermal vision which allows them to find warm-blooded prey at night, even up to two feet underwater.{{R|KSICA}} They also possess echolocation. | ||
=== | ===Lightning Blast=== | ||
Psychovultures can fire electrical blasts from their mouths | Psychovultures can fire electrical blasts from their mouths, called '''Lightning Blast''' in ''[[Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers]]''. These blasts are powerful enough to take down a V-22 Osprey with one shot. | ||
===Physical abilities=== | |||
Psychovultures prefer to use their claws in close-quarters combat, with one alpha drawing blood from [[King Kong (Monsterverse)|Kong]] when he tried to scratch out his eye in ''[[Kingdom Kong]]''. Like Leafwings, they will work in tandem to carry off larger prey.{{R|KSICA}} | |||
===Screech=== | |||
Psychovultures can scream loudly enough to temporarily deafen humans.{{R|KSICA}} | |||
===Durability=== | |||
In ''Kingdom Kong'', Kong killed several Psychovultures by clubbing them with a branch, which he continued swinging after one set it on fire with an electrical blast. He also crushed one in his jaws and grabbed another out of the air. | |||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery widths= | <gallery widths="120" position="center" captionalign="center" spacing="small"> | ||
KSI MYTHOLOGY PSYCHOVULTURE V2.jpg|[[Monarch]] | KSI MYTHOLOGY PSYCHOVULTURE V2.jpg|[[Monarch]] [[superspecies]] profile | ||
Titan Chasers Psychovulture.png|Psychovulture Alpha [[Siren Isles]] record | |||
Fullscreen capture 3112017 91315 AM.bmp.jpg|Psychovultures in ''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'' #1 | Fullscreen capture 3112017 91315 AM.bmp.jpg|Psychovultures in ''[[Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'' #1 | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
* | *The Psychovultures' general classification, [[wikipedia:Ctenochasmatoidea|Ctenochasmatoidea]], is a group of pterosaurs. | ||
*The [[2023]] tabletop game ''[[Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure]]'' downplays the connection between Leafwings and Psychovultures, describing the latter as simply the "nocturnal counterparts" to the former.{{R|KSICA}} However, the Leafwing is still described as a Psychovulture subspecies in its profile from ''[[Legends of the Monsterverse: The Omnibus]]'', which was published later in 2023.<ref name="Omnibus">{{cite book|title=[[Legends of the Monsterverse: The Omnibus]]|last=Napton|first=Robert|date=2023|publisher=Legendary Comics|page=437|isbn=978-1681161174}}</ref> | |||
*The Psychovultures are quite similar to the [[Verticine|Verticines]], as they both are avian and have electrical abilities. Psychovultures, however, will attack humans without provocation. | |||
==Video== | |||
{{Videos| | |||
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">https://youtu.be/AHUKGRlYu9c?si=lXkZ3E9mANu0SuQq</youtube>|Psychovulture profile posted on ''[[Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers]]'' social media accounts}} | |||
{{vid|<youtube width="300" height="169">https://youtu.be/dqMYX03mKPc?si=S7R4OP3r9CaOUHil</youtube>|Psychovulture Alpha profile posted on ''Titan Chasers'' social media accounts}} | |||
}} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Leafwing]] | *[[Leafwing]] | ||
*[[Hellhawk]] | |||
*[[Verticine|Verticines]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
{{Kong: Skull Island}} | ===Bibliography=== | ||
*{{cite book|title=[[Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure]]|last1=Trent|first1=Sigfried|last2=Bramnik|first2=Michael|last3=Flanagan|first3=Ivis|date=2023|publisher=Evil Genius Games|isbn=979-8-9865552-8-7|ref={{harvid|Trent et al.|2023}}}} | |||
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The Psychovulture is an avian reptile superspecies which inhabits Skull Island in the Monsterverse. Psychovultures appear in Legendary Comics' 2017 miniseries Skull Island: The Birth of Kong and 2021 graphic novel Kingdom Kong.
Name
The Psychovultures' cryptozoological classification, Vultura Insanus, comes from the English word "vulture" and the Latin word insanus, meaning "crazy" or "insane."
Design
Psychovultures resemble hairless bats, though they lack prominent ears or noses and have stronger legs.[3] They also display sexual dimorphism. Males have hair on their back in the shape of a mohawk, and females have hoods resembling that of a cobra's.[4] An alpha Psychovulture appeared in Kingdom Kong, significantly larger than the others.[5]
Behavior
Psychovultures are omnivores, favoring fruit, squirrels, seafaring birds, and fish, and are the more aggressive cousins of the Leafwings.[1][3] They hunt at night utilizing echolocation and thermal vision, and while they are generally solitary predators, they will call other Psychovultures for help if they are attacked themselves.[3] Their behavior in both Skull Island: The Birth of Kong and Kingdom Kong, in which they swarmed their targets before dark, is therefore anomalous. Feeding on a species of poisonous pufferfish that lives off the coast of Skull Island drives them into a frenzied state, attempting to kill anything in sight, including members of their own species.[1] Psychovultures that survive this berserk period appear to search for more pufferfish to experience it again.[3] They are also scavengers, as they descended to feed on the fresh carcass of a Sirenjaw that Kong killed in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong.
Comics
- Skull Island: The Birth of Kong #1, 3 (2017)
- Kingdom Kong (2021)
- Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted (2024) [taxidermy]
Skull Island: The Birth of Kong
"The People Who Came from the Sky"
A swarm of Psychovultures attacked the V-22 Osprey transporting a Monarch team led by Aaron Brooks to Skull Island. One struck the side of the aircraft with a bolt of electricity, causing it to crash on the island. They circled the Monarch agents who parachuted from the plane as they fell, but allowed them to land.
"Valley of the Fallen Gods"
After King Kong fought and killed a Sirenjaw, several Psychovultures and Death Jackals descended to feed on the carcass.
Kingdom Kong
A group of Psychovultures attacked Kong while he rescued a Sker Buffalo pinned beneath a fallen tree. One also targeted a nearby Monarch helicopter, but its electrical blast was negated by its exterior shock grid. From this safe vantage point, seismologist Houston Brooks watched Kong open the fight by swinging the tree as a club, felling several of the creatures. An alpha Psychovulture dove at his left eye and tried to gouge it out, while another set the tree aflame with electricity. The helicopter pilot, Delgado, asked Brooks if they should intervene, but he was confident in Kong's abilities. Swinging the burning tree, the ape killed four more of the Psychovultures, and the rest retreated. He turned his eyes sadly to the Sker Buffalo, who had perished in the battle.
Video games
- Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers (2024) - Android, iOS, and PC
Abilities
Flight
Psychovultures are capable of flight.
Thermal vision and echolocation
Psychovultures have thermal vision which allows them to find warm-blooded prey at night, even up to two feet underwater.[3] They also possess echolocation.
Lightning Blast
Psychovultures can fire electrical blasts from their mouths, called Lightning Blast in Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers. These blasts are powerful enough to take down a V-22 Osprey with one shot.
Physical abilities
Psychovultures prefer to use their claws in close-quarters combat, with one alpha drawing blood from Kong when he tried to scratch out his eye in Kingdom Kong. Like Leafwings, they will work in tandem to carry off larger prey.[3]
Screech
Psychovultures can scream loudly enough to temporarily deafen humans.[3]
Durability
In Kingdom Kong, Kong killed several Psychovultures by clubbing them with a branch, which he continued swinging after one set it on fire with an electrical blast. He also crushed one in his jaws and grabbed another out of the air.
Gallery
Monarch superspecies profile
Psychovulture Alpha Siren Isles record
Psychovultures in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong #1
Trivia
- The Psychovultures' general classification, Ctenochasmatoidea, is a group of pterosaurs.
- The 2023 tabletop game Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure downplays the connection between Leafwings and Psychovultures, describing the latter as simply the "nocturnal counterparts" to the former.[3] However, the Leafwing is still described as a Psychovulture subspecies in its profile from Legends of the Monsterverse: The Omnibus, which was published later in 2023.[6]
- The Psychovultures are quite similar to the Verticines, as they both are avian and have electrical abilities. Psychovultures, however, will attack humans without provocation.
Video
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See also
References
This is a list of references for Psychovulture. 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]
Bibliography
- Trent, Sigfried; Bramnik, Michael; Flanagan, Ivis (2023). Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure. Evil Genius Games. ISBN 979-8-9865552-8-7.
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