History Characters / MonsterVerseFamilies

!!Other Families

[[folder:Serizawa]]
* [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Eiji Serizawa]]
* [[Characters/MonsterVerseIshiroSerizawa Dr. Ishiro Serizawa]]
* [[Characters/MonsterVerseApexCybernetics Ren Serizawa]]

[[folder:Russell Family]]
-->See [[Characters/MonsterVerseRussellFamily here]].

[[folder:Simmons Family]]

''' [[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah Alan Jonah]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseRenSerizawa Ren Serizawa]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseWalterSimmons Walter Simmons]] | Families ([[Characters/MonsterVerseRussellFamily Russell Family]]) | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Monarch]] ([[Characters/MonsterVerseIshiroSerizawa Dr. Ishirō Serizawa]]) | [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Skull Island Expeditions]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseUSGovernmentAndMilitary U.S. Government & Military]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseApexCybernetics Apex Cybernetics]]-]]]'''

-->See [[Characters/MonsterVerseRussell Family here]].

''' [[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah Alan Jonah]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseRenSerizawa Ren Serizawa]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseWalterSimmons Walter Simmons]] | Families ([[Characters/MonsterVerseEmmaRussell Dr. Emma Russell]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell Dr. Mark Russell]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMadisonRussell Madison Russell]]) | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Monarch]] ([[Characters/MonsterVerseIshiroSerizawa Dr. Ishirō Serizawa]]) | [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Skull Island Expeditions]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseUSGovernmentAndMilitary U.S. Government & Military]]-]]]'''

!!Russell Family

[[folder:Dr. Emma Russell]]
--> See [[Characters/MonsterVerseEmmaRussell here]].

[[folder:Dr. Mark Russell]]
--> See [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell here]].

[[folder:Madison Russell]]
--> See [[Characters/MonsterVerseMadisonRussell here]].

[[folder:Andrew Russell]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TylerCrumley
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''

Mark and Emma's son, and Madison's older brother. He died amidst Godzilla and the [=MUTOs'=] San Francisco battle in 2014.
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* CensoredChildDeath: When he dies amidst the destruction of San Francisco, we never see his death nor his body, we just see Mark desperately searching the rubble and yelling out his name; although the novelization explicitly confirms that Mark found Andrew's body offscreen.
* DeathByOriginStory: His death five years before the events of ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' is the source of both his parents' angst in the movie. Because of his death, Mark became an embittered [[TragicBigot Titan-hater]] with a grudge against Godzilla in particular, whilst Emma [[spoiler:made a FaceHeelTurn and blamed humanity for causing the Titans' rising which led to Andrew's death in the first place, becoming an EcoTerrorist who betrayed all of Monarch]].
* NeverFoundTheBody: {{Implied}} in the movie and a deleted scene, where it's never shown nor mentioned if the Russells found Andrew's body even in flashback. The novelization however confirms that Mark did eventually find Andrew's body crushed under rubble.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His death basically sets up the events of the entire movie by causing [[spoiler:his mother's FaceHeelTurn, which leads to her releasing Ghidorah; the true BigBad of the movie]].
* PosthumousCharacter: He died before the start of ''King of the Monsters'' in [[Film/Godzilla2014 the Battle of San Francisco]], but he has a major effect on the plot and on both his parents. He only appears in photos and a family video.
* PreciousPhoto: Photos of him with his family are seen at different points in the movie, a reminder of his lingering influence on the choices they make coming to terms with his absence. [[spoiler: It takes Madison shattering the photo on her tablet to make Emma realize how much she's destroyed her family]].
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!!Serizawa Family

[[folder:Eiji Serizawa]]
--> ''See Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch''
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[[folder:Dr. Ishirō Serizawa]]
--> ''See Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch''
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[[folder:Ren Serizawa]]
-->See [[Characters/MonsterVerseRenSerizawa here]].
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!!Simmons Family
[[folder:Walter Simmons]]
-->See [[Characters/MonsterVerseWalterSimmons here]].
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[[folder:Maia Simmons]]
-->''See Characters/MonsterVerseHumans''
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!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' | ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire''

* NiceGirl: She's a kind and compassionate soul to a T. The day that she finds out about her missing husband's [[SecretOtherFamily secret other child from America]] in a surprising way, she, though quietly furious at Hiroshi, doesn't hold it against Cate, and she comforts her husband's secret daughter when the latter has a [[TraumaButton PTSD-induced panic attack]]. [[spoiler:When Emiko was working as a Monarch nurse while Lee was under quarantine, she snuck a cookie in for Lee (who was [[ImNotHungry refusing food]]), and even when Lee used that opportunity to take her hostage, she didn't hold it against him afterwards and expressed understanding of why a hurt and bewildered person in Lee's position would lash out and resort to such an extreme]].

** In "[[MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E10BeyondLogic Axis Mundi]]", she delivers a speech which reminds Shaw of her grandmother:

* SharedFamilyQuirks: 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.

* ReturningTheWeddingRing: When Hiroshi returns to the apartment for his things, she takes off her wedding ring and puts it in the box he's carrying.

** Lee says that Hiroshi took after Keiko in that he "went after whatever he wanted, and he never let anything get in his way." On the other side, Hiroshi apparently shares Bill's tendency to wear his pencils down to nubs.
** When Kentaro protests to Lee driving a rental car that isn't his as being against the rules while they're running to escape the Monarch retirement home, Lee snarks, "God, you ''are'' your father's son."
** He picks up Bill's tendency to shave down his pencils with a knife to sharpen them, which ends up being a ChekhovsGun as his children see the shavings in a tent in Alaska and realize he survived the plane crash.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Giving Kentaro Lee's photo ends up the catalyst that involved the entire trip from Alaska to the sahara because the siblings were looking for their father, and Lee Shaw's personal mission to help Godzilla by sealing Hollow Earth portals. Godzilla, who was minding his own business, and the Ion Dragon in the Axis Mundi had nothing to do with her.

** [[spoiler:He calls out his father for real, 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]].

* SurvivorGuilt: In [[MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E9AxisMundi Episode 9]], he's distraught that he survived with non-fatal injuries while people he cared about died in the Vile Vortex collapse [[spoiler:in Kazakhstan; blaming himself for not saving Cate, May and Lee when he thinks they all died, and wishing he was with them in death]].

* NiceGirl: She's a very kind and compassionate soul. The day that she finds out about her missing husband's [[SecretOtherFamily secret other child from America]] in a surprising way,
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: When she's working as a nurse [[spoiler:at Monarch]] in 1982, she sneaks a cookie in for the [[ImNotHungry hunger-striking]] Lee out of simple kindness, and Lee seizes the opportunity to sneak-attack her and take her hostage so that he can force answers out of his host. Lee himself is briefly [[ApologeticAttacker apologetic to her about it]]. [[spoiler:Then again, not only is Emiko completely understanding of what drove Lee to such desperate measures after the incident and holds no hard feelings, but this incident is the catalyst for her and Hiroshi catching each-other's eye, leading to their marriage and her son's eventual birth. On the other hand, since this was [[SecretOtherFamily Hiroshi]], it might have been more of a [[DoubleSubverted double subversion]] for her in the long run barring her son's birth...]]

* TranquilFury: It's clear that 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. [[spoiler:When they finally reunite in "Axis Mundi", Emiko, at the end of it, acknowledges that their son deserves a relationship with his father whatever the latter's faults... before she instructs him to tell Kentaro, and ''only'' Kentaro, where he's staying once he finds a new residence, {{returning the wedding ring}} while she says it; making it clear with complete calmness that she herself wants nothing to do with Hiroshi anymore]].

[[folder:Emiko Randa]]

%%* NiceGirl
* ReturningTheWeddingRing: When Hiroshi returns to the apartment for his things she takes off her wedding ring and puts it in the box he's carrying.
* TranquilFury: It's clear that 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.

* TheAtoner: In the finale he tells Kentaro that he's been trying to open a rift and find the Hollow Earth to prove his parents were right and that G-Day would never have happened if Monarch hadn't dismissed them as lunatics. Given that his conversation with a time-displaced Lee the prior episode shows he was firmly in this camp, it gives his quest strong shades of this trope.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:[[CallingTheOldManOut Kentaro spells it out for him]] that he found out Cate is his half sister, 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.
* NeverFoundTheBody: His plane is presumed to have gone down after it vanished in a storm, but the wreckage was never found, much less a body.

* 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]]''.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: It's implied that his relationship with Bill collapsed because Bill's obsession with proving his theories about monsters and the Hollow Earth led to him becoming obsessive and distant. Fast forward to the present, and Hiroshi's obsession with preventing another G-Day has led him down the same route with both his children, leading to Cate's discovery of his two families.

* TheAtoner: In the finale he tells Kentaro that he's been trying to open a rift and find the Hollow Earth to prove his parents were right G-Day would never have happened if Monarch hadn't dismissed them as lunatics. Given that his conversation with a time-displaced Lee the prior episode shows he was firmly in this camp, it gives his quest strong shades of this trope.

* TheAtoner: In the finale he tells Kentaro that he's been trying to open a rift and find the Hollow Earth to prove his parents were right G-Day would never have happened if Monarch hadn't dismissed them as lunatics. Given that his conversation with a time-displaced Lee the prior episode shows he was firmly in this camp, it got ves his quest strong shades of this trope.

* {{Determinator}}: She and her half-sister refuse to give up their search for Hiroshi even when they run afoul of Monarch and the Frost Vark, which is enough to convince Monarch to "put them on a long leash".

* ExcessiveMourning: Before the series' main time frame kicks off, Cate's grief over losing all but a couple of her schoolkids on the Golden Gate Bridge was so bad that she shut down, locking herself in her room in her and Caroline's new residence for a year, and refusing to reach out to any support groups.

* PsychologicalProjection: Episode 5 reveals this is part of the reason why she's as bitter as she is at her father once she finds out about his {{secret other family}} on top of the other, justifiable reasons. [[spoiler:Similarly to how Hiroshi was cheating on Caroline for decades, Cate herself before G-Day was cheating on her loving girlfriend, and she projects her own self-loathing onto Hiroshi upon learning he was doing the same on a level]].

* TraumaButton: She's juggling clear PTSD from her experiences on G-Day, and she's shown several triggers which can at best trigger a traumatic flashback or at worst cause a full-blown panic attack. Triggers include gas masks, Monarch, ''any'' reminder of Godzilla, darkness, and seeing the derelict ruins of San Francisco a year on.

[[folder:Emiko Randa]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/QyokoKuro

The mother of Kentaro, who lives with her son in Tokyo. Her presumed dead husband was leading a double life with another wife and child, as she discovers when Cate Randa turns up in her apartment one day.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Stalls Duvall and Tim to give Kentaro time to escape...by setting up Kentaro with Duvall.
-->Emiko (to Duvall): I wish he would meet someone. You are very pretty. Are you single?
* EtTuBrute: She doesn't show as much anger or resentment as her husband's children do about it, but she still hints when tearing up Hiroshi's photos to make Kentaro feel a little better that just because she doesn't show it doesn't mean her husband's lies don't affect her.
* 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 come to their apartment.
* GoodStepmother: She has nothing against Cate once she gets to know her, and even comforts her during her panic episode.
%%* HeroicNeutral
%%* NiceGirl
* ReturningTheWeddingRing: When Hiroshi returns to the apartment for his things she takes off her wedding ring and puts it in the box he's carrying.
* TranquilFury: It's clear that 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.

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[[folder:Hiroshi Randa]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TakehiroHira
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''

The distant, estranged father of half-siblings Cate and Kentaro Randa, and the husband of Emiko and another unnamed woman as a result of him leading a double life in the U.S. and Japan. He's the son of early Monarch operatives Bill and Dr. Keiko Randa, both of whom died when he was younger. Hiroshi is believed by his families to be dead, having departed on work immediately after G-Day, with his plane later disappearing in a storm over Alaska.

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[[folder:Caroline Randa]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TamlynTomita

The mother of Cate who lives in the United States, and the husband of Hiroshi. She has a strained relationship with her daughter since Hiroshi disappeared in the wake of G-Day.

* DisasterScavengers: PlayedWith. She and James legally work in scavenging people's lost personal items from the San Francisco ruins.
* MisdirectedOutburst: After she finds out who Kentaro is and what it means about her husband, she tries to be gracious, but loses her grip on a box when he tries to help her and then can't stop herself from shouting at him when he moves to help her pick up the mess.
* ParentsAsPeople: Although she loves her daughter, she struggled for a year to comfort her and to get an inconsolable Cate to stand back on her feet after G-Day. She herself is clearly shown to be a frazzled {{stepford smiler}} who is struggling with her own trauma at the same time, and Cate can see it. Caroline also apologetically admits that before G-Day, Cate didn't deserve to have a distant father just because Caroline felt comfortable enough having a part-time father to not verify her suspicions that he was seeing someone else.
* SecondLove: By the time Cate shows up in California, she notices Caroline is dating another guy, since she thinks she's widowed, unaware that Hiroshi is very much alive.
* StepfordSmiler: She smiles a ''lot'' when she shows up in the flesh for the first time, and it's clear that she's putting it on to try and cope in contrast to her daughter's depression. When she's introduced to Kentaro and finds out the truth about her husband's SecretOtherFamily, she initially tries to distract herself with small talk and by being a gracious host instead of dealing with the emotional turmoil immediately.
* StunnedSilence: She's rendered speechless when her daughter informs her who Kentaro is and she realizes [[SecretOtherFamily what it means]].

* ButNotTooForeign: She is half-Japanese and half-American, since her father is full-blood Japanese by his mother Keiko Miura.

* TraumaButton: She's juggling clear PTSD from her experiences on G-Day, and she's shown several triggers which can at best trigger a traumatic flashback or at worst cause a full-blown panic attack. Triggers include gas masks, Monarch, ''any'' reminder of Godzilla, and darkness.

* GoodStepmother: Like Emiko, she doesn't hate Kentaro when she first meets him.
* SecondLove: By the time Cate shows up in California, she notices she's dating another guy, since she thinks she's widowed. Unaware that Hiroshi was very much alive.

Emiko (to Duvall): I wish he would meet someone. You are very pretty. Are you single?

* 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.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Like with his half-sister Cate, he starts to resent his father. Which is sadly hereditary when Hiroshi himself does not have the best relationship with his own father, and the latter is regrettably aware of this.

* SharedFamilyQuirks: When he protests to Lee driving a rental car that isn't his as being against the rules while they're running to escape the Monarch retirement home, Lee snarks, "God, you ''are'' your father's son."

The son of Hiroshi and Emiko, Cate's paternal half-brother, and the paternal grandson of deceased Monarch operatives Bill and Keiko Randa. He lives in Tokyo with his mother, and is an acquaintance and implied ex-boyfriend of May Olowe-Hewitt. He joins the half-sister that he didn't know he had in investigating their father's secrets and disappearance, which puts them under Monarch's scrutiny.

%%* AsianAndNerdy
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:He 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]].

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Stalls Duvall and Tim to give Kentaro time to escape...by setting up Kentaro <i>with</i>Duvall.