History Characters / MonsterVerseFamilies

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:[[CallingTheOldManOut Kentaro spells it out for him]] that he found out Cate is his stepsister, and that she died when the Kazakhstan nuclear power plant collapsed. Hiroshi collapses on his knees when he realizes that his cheating destroyed his family]]. He even shouts "Oh God!" in English when he doesn't take the news well.

* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:He rightfully calls out on his father for having a secret family, then finding out Cate is his half-sister, and tells him that she didn't survive. Hiroshi falls to his knees when he realizes how much he destroyed his family]].

* ParentalAbandonment: He was a small child when his mother died, and he would've been in his twenties at the most when his father -- who he had a very fractured relationship with by this time -- died on Skull Island.

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[[folder:Sandra Brody]]

* DisappearedDad: He's missing and presumed to be dead after his plane vanished in a storm over Alaska, leaving behind two children who seldom saw much of him. [[spoiler:His own father isn't in the picture, with Keiko having to raise him on her own until Bill came to their life. Sadly, Bill would become this by the time of [[Film/KongSkullIsland]]]].

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Joe's wife, Ford's mother, and one of the engineers at the nuclear plant where he works. She's also the sister of Michelle Duvall, implying that Duvall is her maiden name.

Joe's wife, and one of the engineers at the nuclear plant where he works.

* DeathByOriginStory: She's shown with Joe and a young Ford Brody in the DistantPrologue, and she dies shortly afterward. Fifteen years later, discovering the truth about what killed her is what has motivated Joe as a ConspiracyTheorist to find out the truth about the male MUTO for the last several years, and it's implied that stopping her death from happening to anyone else is what motivated the grown-up Ford to become an Explosive Ordinance Disposal specialist.

* HeroicLineage: Not only do Ford and his father both contribute in some meaningful way to saving lives and stopping the [=MUTOs=], but in the novelization, it's confirmed that Joe used to be in the Navy just like Ford.

!!Randa Family

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: To Ford Brody from ''Film/Godzilla2014''. Both characters have suffered the apparent loss of a parent before the start of their native story's main time frame, both learn shocking truths about their fathers in relation to the Titans, and both characters' driving goals are seeking out the family members they've been separated from (wife and child for Ford, father for Cate). They were also both caught up in the Titan-caused destruction of the city where they lived in their respective backstories (Janjira for Ford, San Francisco for Cate). But whereas Ford was an overall well-adjusted, veteran male soldier, Cate is a female civilian grappling with PTSD from San Fran's destruction which causes panic attacks. Although both are primarily motivated by their families, Ford is overall idealistic and is happy to serve his country and the whole of civilization in the process of getting back to his family, whereas Cate is cynical and [[HeroicNeutral just wants Monarch and the Titans to leave her alone]]. Whereas Ford is forced apart from his beloved wife and child at the start of his story, Cate at the start of hers is forced towards [[SecretOtherFamily relatives she never knew she had]]. Ford has healthy relationships with all of his family except for his father, whereas Cate has strained or terse relationships with ''all'' of her known relatives; even if her father is the one who (on justifiable grounds) gets it the worst.

%%* LikeASonToMe

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* ButNotTooForeign: She is a quarter Japanese and three quarters American, since her father is half-Japanese by his American father Bill and Japanese mother Keiko Miura.

* GratuitousEnglish: Averted. He's a Japanese native, but he speaks a good amount of English in the show while his mother spoke exclusively in Japanese. It has to do with his own father, who is half-Japanese half-American by birth and knew both languages.

* DisappearedDad: He's missing and presumed to be dead after his plane vanished in a storm over Alaska, leaving behind two children who seldom saw much of him.

'''[[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla Godzilla]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingKong King Kong]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMothra Mothra]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMUTO MUTO]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandKaijuAndOtherCreatures Skull Island Kaiju & Other Creatures]]-]]]'''

* BrainyBrunette: He has brown hair (although he's visibly graying in the present after the DistantPrologue). ''Before'' the loss of his wife, he was a certified nuclear power plant chief engineer, and ''afterwards'', he's smart enough to slowly but surely work out on his own that Monarch are hiding a biological creature and to work out long before Monarch do that the MUTO has an {{EMP}} ability.

* FlatEarthAtheist: A flashback in the episode 5 shows she used to believe that the battle of Honolulu was a hoax, much like the taxi driver from episode one. Than the battle of San Francisco happened.

* GratuitousEnglish: Averted. He's a Japanese native, but he speaks a good amount of English in the show while his mother spoke exclusively in Japanese. It has to do with his own father who is half-Japanese at birth, and knew both languages.

* GoodParents: Despite finding out her own husband had a wife on the other side of the Pacific, she doesn't hold it against Cate, and even comforts her while she was having an episode of her [=PTSD=]. She even secretly hands Kentaro a photo of his grandfather and tells him to run when Duvall and Tim comes to their apartment.

* TranquilFury: It's clear while she doesn't show it, she begins to resent her husband for having a secret family in the States. As such, she begins tearing photos of him to show how well she was taking it: Not well.

* LikeFatherLikeDaughter: Episode 5 reveals that in 2014, she cheated on her then lover with another woman, much like her father and his two secret families. And she wasn't even aware of her father cheating nature back then. she even lampshades this by saying she is someone who lets everyone down, just her father did to everyone around him.

* CoolTeacher: Until 2014, she led a fairly normal life as a school teacher, and from the little it was shown, she was someone respected by her students and she was fiercely protective of them in return. Her SurvivorGuilt in present comes from watching them die on the Golden Bridge and being completely powerless to save them.

* CynicismCatalyst: A lifetime of neglect by her secretive father including when she needed him most, and witnessing Godzilla's destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge up close [[spoiler:and the deaths of most of her young charges in front of her eyes]], have understandably done a lot to leave her jaded and bitter and make her think the worst of her DisappearedDad. Finding out about the SecretOtherFamily certainly didn't ''anything'' to rebuild her opinion of him.

* LipstickLesbian: Is revealed to be gay, and her partner was also a school teacher they worked at.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: He's a Japanese native, but he speaks a good amount of English in the show while his mother spoke exclusively in Japanese. It has to do with his own father who is half-Japanese at birth, and knew both languages.

* CoolTeacher: Until 2014, he led a fairly normal life as a school teacher, and from the little it was shown, she was someone respected by her students and she was fiercely protective of them in return. Her SurvivorGuilt in present comes from watching them die on the Golden Bridge and being completely powerless to save them.

%%* IWillFindYou

%%* IWillFindYou

%%* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife

* GoodStepmother: She has nothing against Cate once she gets to know her, and even comforts her during her episode.

* DistressedDamsel: Her role is basically to be in danger from the Kaiju and motivate Ford to risk his life to save her.

%%* GoodParents

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: To Ford Brody from ''Film/Godzilla2014''. Both characters have suffered the apparent loss of a parent before the start of their native story's main time frame, both learn shocking truths about their fathers in relation to the Titans, and both characters' driving goals are seeking out the family members they've been separated from (wife and child for Ford, father for Cate). But whereas Ford was an overall well-adjusted, veteran male soldier, Cate is a female civilian grappling with PTSD which causes panic attacks. Although both are primarily motivated by their families, Ford is overall idealistic and is happy to serve his country and the whole of civilization in the process of getting back to his family, whereas Cate is cynical and [[HeroicNeutral just wants Monarch and the Titans to leave her alone]]. Whereas Ford is forced apart from his beloved wife and child at the start of his story, Cate at the start of hers is forced towards [[SecretOtherFamily relatives she never knew she had]]. Ford has healthy relationships with all of his family except for his father, whereas Cate has strained or terse relationships with ''all'' of her known relatives; even if her father is the one who (justifiably) gets it the worst.