Verticine
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Vertacines are a species of avian monsters that first appeared in the 2024 Legendary Pictures film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
Design
Vertacines 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. Vertacines also have dorsal fins and pectoral fins that act as secondary wings. Fur spreads across their backs.
Behavior
Vertacines 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 Vertacines. 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 Vertacines into conflict with them, noting that it was their mating season. Shimo immediately deployed her ice breath, but missed most of the Vertacines, 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
Vertacines can fly.
Bio-electricity
When provoked, the Vertacine can produce bio-electricity equivalent to a lightning strike. The Skar King and Great Apes attacked by a flock of the monsters found their electricity extremely painful, and were unable to mount an effective counterattack until Shimo intervened.
Durability
Shimo quickly froze most of the Vertacine flock by strafing her ice breath.
Video games
- Lords Mobile (2016; added in 2024) - Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, iPadOS, Fire OS
Gallery
- Main article: Vertacine/Gallery.
Trivia
- The Vertacines are quite similar to the Psychovultures, as they both are avian and have electrical abilities. In stark contrast to each other, however, Vertacines only attack when provoked while Psychovultures attack whenever.
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