Verticine
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The Verticine is a species of avian monster that first appeared in the 2024 Legendary Pictures film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
Name
Though "VERTICINE" appears in the redacted text in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire's opening credits, the spelling "Vertacine" was used in the film's theater program and in the mobile game Lords Mobile, while "vertacine" (no capitalization) was used throughout AMC Theatres' closed captioning and the film's novelization.
Design
Verticines have gray-blue skin with striped yellow highlights. Their heads resemble flamingos, but wider, with skin under their chin that resemble the skin folds of whales. Verticines also have dorsal fins and pectoral fins that act as secondary wings. Fur spreads across their backs.
Behavior
Verticines are not dangerous to humans unless provoked. Their bio-electricity is an effective deterrent to predators. They are social animals, only shown traveling in flocks.
History
Monsterverse
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Upon arriving in the Hollow Earth, a Monarch team aboard a Bio-Mimic HEAV soon encountered a flock of Verticines. Titan veterinarian Trapper Beasley explained that the bio-electric creatures would not harm them unless they were agitated. He deployed the aircraft's camouflage to mimic the patterns on their skin, blending in with the creatures for the first stretch of their journey.
When the Skar King, Shimo, and a group of Great Apes threatened the Iwi city in the Hollow Earth, Beasley used the HEAV's camouflage to lure a flock of Verticines into conflict with them, noting that it was their mating season. Shimo immediately deployed her ice breath, but missed most of the Verticines, who assailed the larger monsters with electricity. Though they overpowered the simians, Shimo persevered and shot down most of them with a second ice breath. The survivors retreated.
Abilities
Flight
Verticines are quick and nimble flyers.
Bio-electricity
When provoked, the Verticine can produce bio-electricity equivalent to a lightning strike. The Skar King and Great Apes were attacked by a flock of the monsters and found their electricity extremely painful, and were unable to mount an effective counterattack until Shimo intervened.
Weaknesses
Shimo quickly froze most of the Verticine flock by strafing her ice breath.
Video games
- Lords Mobile (2016; added in 2024) - Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, iPadOS, Fire OS
Verticine in the Discover a New Empire event in Lords Mobile
In other languages
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Brazilian Portuguese
Gallery
- Main article: Verticine/Gallery.
Trivia
- The Verticines are quite similar to the Psychovultures, as they both are avian and have electrical abilities. Psychovultures, however, will attack humans without provocation.
See also
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