Shimo
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Shimo is a reptilian Titan[4][3] who will appear in the upcoming 2024 Legendary Pictures film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Text on the packaging of the monster's Playmates figure indicates that she[6] will be one of the film's antagonists alongside the Skar King, describing her as a "legendary ice Titan with unstoppable, world-ending powers" who will oppose Godzilla and Kong.[4] Her existence was first alluded to in the 2022 Call of Duty collaboration with Godzilla vs. Kong, depicted in a cave painting engaged in battle with Godzilla.[7]
Name
Shimo (霜) is a Japanese word meaning "frost" or "gray hair." Shimo also means "hole" or "abyss" in Swahili. Her name was first revealed on a Jada Toys Metalfigs figure at the 2023 Singapore Comic Con.[8]
Development
Shimo was designed by Jared Krichevsky.[5] According to him, Shimo was originally intended to be male.[9]
Design
Shimo is depicted as a reptilian monster with some similarities to Godzilla's evolved form. A quadrupedal creature with white scales, she possesses Stegosaurus-like thagomizers on the tip of her tail and crystalline spines down her back, both of which are a blue color. The spines cover her entire back and thin into a line of spines going down the length of her tail. Shimo is also adorned with many crystals arranged in a crown-like formation protruding at a horizontal angle from the back of her head. A continous row of sharp scutes located on her sides run from where the back of her head connects to her neck to the thagomizers on her tail. Despite her large size, Shimo's abdomen and legs are very slim. Her eyes appear to be blue with black pupils, though her pupils are obscured when she glows bright blue. While Shimo assumes a bear-like stance when quadrupedal, merchandise reveals a silhouette of the creature taking on a fully upright posture.[10]
History
Monsterverse
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Shimo will appear under the command of the Skar King, who appears to have her chained up within his lair. She will attack Kong with her Frost Bite Breath, and later fight Godzilla in his new form.
Abilities
Frost Bite Blast/Breath
Shimo is capable of releasing one or more ice beam attacks; the packaging for her individual Playmates figure describes her as possessing a Frost Bite Blast which can freeze opponents, while packaging for the company's Godzilla vs. Shimo figure set refers to this or a similar attack as Frost Bite Breath.[4][11] In the second trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Shimo is shown using the beam(s) to freeze over Kong's axe, and to cause a massive ice storm by firing it into the sky. During the former, the beam creates large ice chunks upon contact. When using the attacks, Shimo's eyes, back spikes, and thagomizers glow a bright blue.
Kong attempting to block Shimo's ice breath
Shimo, atop a self-created iceberg, firing her beam into the sky, resulting in a massive ice storm
Physical capabilities
Shimo was shown to be able to utilize her tail when she smacked Kong with it, sending him hurtling through the air and into a building.
Video games
- Call of Duty: Warzone (2020; added in 2022) - Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S [cave painting]
- Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021; added in 2022) - Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S [cave painting]
- Lords Mobile (2016; added in 2024) - Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, iPadOS, Fire OS [photo]
Cave painting of Godzilla battling Shimo in Call of Duty
Cave painting of Shimo in Call of Duty
"Shimo's Rise" photo in Lords Mobile
Photo of Shimo from Lords Mobile
Books
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization
To be added.
Comics
- Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted (2024) [cave painting]
Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted
As Kong investigated a bone-filled cave in the Hollow Earth, he uncovered several massive cave paintings depicting different monsters. The last displayed a battle between Godzilla and Shimo.
Gallery
- Main article: Shimo/Gallery.
In other languages
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Mandarin Chinese
Trivia
- The cave painting of Shimo seen in Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted first appeared in the Godzilla vs. Kong/Call of Duty crossover event close to two years prior.
- At 162.45 meters tall, Shimo is currently the largest monster to appear in a Monsterverse film, surpassing King Ghidorah in height by 3.65 meters.
- Shimo is the second confirmed-female monster to be a primary antagonist in a Monsterverse film, after the female MUTO in Godzilla. (The gender of the Skull Devil from Kong: Skull Island is unclear.)
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