Vinestrangler
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The Vinestrangler is a predatory insect monster profiled in "Skull Island: Archives," a featurette included on home video releases of the 2017 Legendary Pictures film Kong: Skull Island. Like the Death Jackal, Psychovulture, Sirenjaw, Magma Turtle, Swamp Locust, and Icarus Tigris, the Vinestrangler was conceptualized for the film but did not make it in. While it was among the creatures Legendary Comics would have allowed Skull Island: The Birth of Kong writer Arvid Nelson to use, he declined.[1]
Name
The Vinestrangler is named after its resemblance to vines and its preferred mode of attack.
Design
The Vinestrangler is a slender insect which uses dozens of tentacles to drag prey into its massive maw.
Behavior
The Vinestrangler is most active during dawn and dusk.
Abilities
Camouflage
The Vinestrangler blends into the trees where it dwells, to the point that its Monarch profile noted that "initial findings have been inconclusive as to where the Vinestrangler ends and the tree begins."
Tentacles
Inside the Vinestrangler's stomach is a mesh of tentacles. When potential prey walks under a tree branch that a Vinestrangler is residing in, the vibrations of their footsteps travel up the trees roots and reach the creatures nervous system. The Vinestrangler's stomach will open, ensnaring it's prey with it's tentacles to pull them up into it's open stomach, where it will be slowly digested over a period of 72 hours.
Gallery
Monarch's profile on the Vinestrangler
Alternate version of the Vinestrangler's Monarch profile, shown briefly during the Secrets of the MonsterVerse panel at Los Angeles Comic Con 2018
Trivia
- While having no profile or indeed any appearance at all in the individual issues of the Skull Island: The Birth of Kong comics, the Vinestrangler is oddly given a profile in the complete paperback collection of the comic.
- Another oddity is the profile in the paperback version is complete, showing the threat analysis while the the "Monarch Files 2.0" bonus feature on home video releases for Kong: Skull Island have the threat analysis covered by a sketch of the creatures attacking soldiers.
References
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