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Lee Shaw
Lee Shaw in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Young Lee Shaw in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Species Human
Nationality American
Age 90-91; 70-71 (physically)[a]
Aliases Leland Lafayette Shaw III
Affiliation Monarch
Occupation Retired army colonel
Related to Keiko Randa (ex-lover)
Unnamed Mother
First appearance Latest appearance
Played by Kurt Russell; Wyatt Russell (young)
"The smartest people on the planet" have had 60 years to prepare for G-Day. "Let 'em fight." That's the best they could come up with? What if Godzilla had lost?
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— Lee Shaw ("The Way Out")

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Colonel Leland Lafayette "Lee" Shaw III is a character who first appeared in the 2014 Legendary Comics graphic novel Godzilla: Awakening and later starred in the 2023 television series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. And will appear in the upcoming 2025 crossover Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong 2.

Name

In Godzilla: Awakening, Shaw is only ever referred to by his surname. He introduces himself as Leland Lafayette Shaw III in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which he shortens to Lee Shaw.

History

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Founding Monarch

In 1952,

In 1959, Lee Shaw was riding in a beat up car with fellow Monarch agents Bill and Keiko Randa, following a radiation spike towards an abandoned power plant. Arriving at a forest surrounding the plant, they don gas masks and discuss how this could prove their theory on "the network. While moving theough the restricted area, they are confronted by a young hunter who points his rifle at them, causing Shaw to draw his own pistol. Keiko defused the situation by telling the boy they were scientists wanting to study the radiation, and that the game the boy would make him sick. The boy retorts that the radiation was a fairy tale, and that his elders believed it was a conspiracy the government created to hide a hole they had burned into hell. Upon reaching the ruins of the power plant, Keiko found her Geiger counter detected no radiation, and the three removed their gas masks for the remainder of the journey. Upon reaching the plant, Keiko found that small radiation spikes were emitted but quickly faded away, as if it was absorbed by something. Lee suggested it was being eaten like other Titans had done. They then set off a series of charges, and are delighted to find chambers within the bedrock. As they're celebrating, a minor earthquacke hits the reactor, further confirming their find.

Forced Retirement

Escaping Monarch

"Parallels and Interiors"

As the Frost Vark turned its attenion towards the survivors, Kentaro noticed a flare gun and dove for it inspite of Lee's protests. Kentaro fired it at the titan and missed, distracting it long enough for everyone to reach a nearby cave. Lee and May reprimanded Kentaro for his reckless actions and Kentaro attempted to defend himself, but all three were silenced by the tremors created by the Frost Vark approaching the cave. The tremors caused the ice underneath May's feet to break, forcing Lee and Cate to help her up but leaving her lying on the ground and barely holding back her screams from the freezing water. After the tremors subsided Lee determined the Frost Vark had moved on, but immediately grabbed May's mouth when she used the opportunity to yell in pain to keep her from attracting thbe monster. Lee declared they had to move quick to keep her from dying of hypothermia. As they moved on, Kentaro requested that May slow down, which Lee agreed with so she could save energy to fight the hypothermia. Kentaro further pushed that May should dry her legs, but Lee told him that they don't have the materials to build a fire and that the Frost Vark could still be in the area. Hearing this and realizing Lee had no knowledge that could help them with the titan, she angrily threw her bag into his hands and told him that maybe the documents could help them before yanking it out of his hands. Lee told her to be careful with the documents before Cate defused the situation by questioning Lee where they were heading with no supplies and night approaching. Lee told her they were heading northwest towards the coast as they were more likely to encounter people there. Jearing this, Kentaro remembered that he had seen a spherical building from the plane, but no one else had seen it.

The group climbed a hill, but were unable to see any buildings. Cate spotted some lights in the distance, but Kentaro asserted that the building must be behind some other nearby hills and that the lights might be further away than said building. Seeing he wouldn't budge, Lee agreed to split up and let Kentaro go on his own. After a snow storm blew in, Cate lamented that they shouldn't have let Kentaro leave them, but Lee reassured her that he just needed to live until they made it to their destination. However, the group quickly found themselves in the valley the Frost Vark had attacked them in with the light just behind a hill within it, which Lee blamed on the Frost Vark. Cate realized May wasn't going to make it if she wasn't warmed up, and refused to go on without doing so despite Lee's protests about the nearby titan. The two started a fire and used Hiroshi's research tent as shelter. Lee left for supplies, returning with snacks from Du-Ho's supplies and Hiroshi's research papers. Lee asked Cate if she wanted to burn the papers to stoke the fire or keep them to learn as much as they could about her father, but Cate immediately told him to burn them. Lee obliged, only for the Frost Vark to appear. Lee and Cate helped May out of the tent as the Frost Vark burst out from underneath their fire and consumed it. Lee realized that the Frost Vark fed on heat and used this information to concoct a plan. Lee would create a bonfire with aviation fuel and Du-Ho's corpse, which would distract the monster long enough for them to run away.

Comics

Godzilla: Awakening

To be added.

Trivia

  • According to his army enlistment form seen in the third episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Shaw was born on August 3, 1924, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As of enlisting, he was 5 feet 11 inches tall, 145 pounds, single, self-employed, and resided with his mother in Tulsa.
  • Shaw's debut in Godzilla: Awakening and appearance in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters marks the longest gap between two appearances of a Monsterverse character, with 9 years. He is also the first character in the Monsterverse to initially appear in a graphic novel before making a live action appearance.

Notes

  1. Shaw entered Axis Mundi in 1962 (between the ages of 37 and 38) and stayed there a week,[1] but due to time dilation, emerged in 1982. By 2015, his body had therefore only aged 70-71 years despite him having lived 90-91 years in surface time.

References

This is a list of references for Lee Shaw. 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]

  1. nerdist; godzillamovie (5 January 2024). "Monarch Legacy of Monsters went full Interstellar #Monarch #Monsterverse #Godzilla #AppleTV". Instagram.

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