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The USS Scorpion (USSスコーピオン USS Scorpion) is a fictional Monarch-operated nuclear submarine featured in the 2019 Legendary Pictures Godzilla film Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Design
The USS Scorpion resembles a modern nuclear submarine with a short conning tower and no sail fins, but a railing on the surface deck and external lights on the bow and underneath the port and starboard.
History
Monsterverse
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, Mark Russell, Ilene Chen, and Rick Stanton followed Mothra aboard the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion, intending to use the sub's nuclear torpedoes to revive Godzilla so he could defeat Ghidorah. The sub was pulled underwater by a whirlpool,and found itself inside the Hollow Earth. The sub deployed drones to search the surrounding area and discovered an ancient sunken city. Adorning its walls were carvings and paintings depicting Godzilla, indicating that the ancients who built this city once lived alongside and even worshiped Godzilla. The drones soon detected an air pocket, which emitted intense radiation. Just before the radiation caused them to shut down, the drones showed that the air pocket was a highly radioactive chamber filled with molten lava which served as Godzilla's lair. That was where Godzilla went to recover by feeding on the planet's natural radiation. However, at the current rate Godzilla could take years to recover from the Oxygen Destroyer, time they didn't have. While they could speed up the process with a nuclear blast, Commander Crane explained that the sub's firing system had been damaged and could not be repaired. Chen suggested that someone manually place and arm a nuclear torpedo in the chamber next to Godzilla, but Stanton explained that the heat and radiation would kill them before they could make it back. Serizawa then volunteered to place the warhead. Chen insisted there must be another way, but Serizawa resolutely stated that this was the only way. He donned a diving suit with an oxygen tank which would keep him alive long enough to reach Godzilla and arm the torpedo. Serizawa shook Stanton's hand and embraced Dr. Chen before leaving. As he prepared to board a miniature submarine with the warhead, he handed Mark his notebook. Mark asked if Serizawa was sure about this, and Serizawa replied that Godzilla fought and died for them. Godzilla was not only proof that coexistence was possible between man and Titans, Serizawa said, he was the key to it. Serizawa entered the submarine and departed for Godzilla's lair. The warhead was detonated, annihilating the sunken city and propelling the Scorpion back to the surface. Mark and Chen went to the sub's surface deck and looked to see if Serizawa was successful. They witnessed a whirlpool open in front of the sub, from which Godzilla emerged fully rejuvenated and pulsing with nuclear energy. Godzilla triumphantly fired his atomic breath into the sky, before he leaned forward and observed the humans. He briefly locked eyes with Mark before turning and making his way to the East Coast of the U.S. for a final confrontation with Ghidorah.
Capabilities
Drones
The USS Scorpion could launch multiple underwater drones to search the ancient underwater city. However, the drones shut down when coming in contact with radiation.
Pressure resistance
The USS Scorpion was able to dive hundreds of meters beneath the ocean and survive being sucked into a underwater vortex into the Hollow Earth, discovering an ancient underwater city. The submarine was also able to withstand the underwater blast of the nuclear warhead.
Books
Gallery
Screenshots
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
USS Scorpion cruising next to a mural of Godzilla
Godzilla stares down the people on the surface deck of the submarine
Godzilla fires his atomic breath into the sky in front of USS Scorpion
Trivia
- Two submarines have been assigned the name "USS Scorpion" in real life: the Gato-class submarine USS Scorpion (SS-278) and the Skipjack-class submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589). The USS Scorpion (SSN-589) infamously sank in 1968 for unknown reasons.
- In the end credits of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, a report tells that footage from the USS Scorpion was revealed. The report is ambiguous as to whether it's referring to the fictional USS Scorpion in the film or the real USS Scorpion (SSN-589) that sank mysteriously.
References
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