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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TylerCrumley
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Mark and Emma's son, and Madison's older brother.
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* PosthumousSibling: He died before the start of the movie, in [[Film/Godzilla2014 the battle of San Francisco]].
* 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 to make Emma realize how much she's destroyed her family]].
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* 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 to make Emma realize how much she's destroyed her family]].
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[[folder:Joe Brody]]
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-->''"You keep telling everybody that this place is a death zone, but it's not. You're'' lying, ''because what's really happening is that you're hiding something out there. I'm right, aren't I? My wife'' died ''here! Something'' killed ''my wife, and I have a right to know! I deserve answers!"''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BryanCranston
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
The American head of the Janjira nuclear plant that melted down in 1999. Obsessed with discovering exactly what happened during the plant's meltdown.
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* ABirthdayNotABreak: The Janjira incident that resulted in the death of his wife occurred on Joe's birthday.
* ActionSurvivor: He survives the first incident in the nuclear plant. [[spoiler:But he's KilledOffForReal when the male [=MUTO=] awakens.]]
* AdvertisedExtra: Trailers for the film heavily featured him. His character is important in the beginning of the film, but [[spoiler:is killed off pretty quickly]].
* BilingualBonus: When Joe was working at the Janjira base, he sometimes communicated with his co-workers in Japanese.
* ConspiracyTheorist: After his wife Sandra was among the deaths at the Janjira nuclear power plant when it was abruptly destroyed, he is convinced that whatever caused the disaster was a bit less "natural" than an earthquake. He spends the next 15 years trying to piece together the truth behind the tragedy. So he's unsurprisingly miffed to find out that a group called Monarch is, indeed, covering up what actually happened.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: His obsession with his wife's death has left him more than a little nutty, but he was still right about the cover up.
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of his wife, which he is partially responsible for.
* DeadStarWalking: Played by Creator/BryanCranston, the biggest name actor in the film, he [[spoiler:doesn't make it past the first third]].
* DecoyProtagonist: Though he is given a lot of development early on in the film, his son is TheHero of the story as far as human characters go.
* {{Determinator}}: Even 15 years after the incident, he hasn't given up on finding the truth.
* DisappearedDad: He becomes one in the emotionally absent but physically present sense after the Janjira disaster. He then becomes one in the literal sense right after he and his son Ford have finally reconciled upon the latter realizing Joe wasn't an obsessed crazyhead.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The film sets him up as a major protagonist with an integral role in the story. Minutes after [[spoiler:the male [=MUTO=]]] gets released, he ''literally'' gets a bridge dropped on him and dies without warning.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: He dies roughly 20 minutes after finding an intact photo of his family in their old house.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Back in 1999, he had his wife Sandra go down to investigate the Janjira NPP's reactor in the wake of mysterious tremors. Not only did this put her in harm's way when there was a breach, he ends up having to close the blast doors on her and her team in order to keep radioactive gas from leaking into the rest of the city. His obsession with figuring out the cause of the breach that killed his wife leads to him discovering that [[{{Kaiju}} some large, strange entity]] is now active in the ruins of the facility.
* IronicBirthday: Reversed. Joe is told of his birthday by his wife before they go off to the power plant where they work. Hell breaks loose when the plant is breached and his wife dies.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The look on his face after his wife's death says it all. His obsession is also most likely fueled by guilt.
* PapaWolf: After getting arrested again, before he even demands answers, the first thing he demands is to see his son Ford, who they also captured. Just by the tone of his voice, he was both scared and mad at the thought of losing him too.
* ParentalAbandonment: It's implied that he was less than a stellar parent after his wife's death. He's still in relatively good terms with his son despite this.
* ParentalNeglect: Even before the incident at the power plant turned him into an obsessive conspiracy theorist, Joe was already unintentionally dismissive of his family, forgetting to greet his son in the morning and even that it's ''his own birthday'' today.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Joe knew there was a cover-up going on surrounding the Janjira site, but initially thought it was either a design flaw or a mistake by the military. He got an idea of what was really going on later, and figured out what was happening with the help of a local cargo skipper and some buoys.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: He has a room covered with newspaper clippings and other documents relating to his search for the truth behind the collapse of the Janjira plant that led to his wife's death. His son is understandably taken aback at all this; his father simply replies: "I don't get too many visitors".
* SacrificialLion: Gets the most development early on, [[spoiler:but is killed when the first [=MUTO=] awakens]].
* SadisticChoice: When he sees the radioactive steam advancing towards him in the prelude, he is faced with the option of closing the blast doors, which would spell doom for those down there, or waiting for his wife, which would put millions at risk of deadly exposure. [[spoiler:He opts to close the blast doors and sacrifice those behind it.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He dies roughly 40 minutes into the film after sustaining injuries from the male M.U.T.O. awakening in Janjira.]]
* WellDoneDadGuy: As a result of the death of his wife Sandra at Janjira and his subsequent development into a ProperlyParanoid ConspiracyTheorist investigating what really caused the plant to collapse, he has become estranged from his son Ford, who thinks all his dad's crazy-sounding theories are just a pathetic attempt keep from moving on from that grief like he has. The fact that the first time in years Ford meets up with Joe is to retrieve him after he got arrested trying to sneak into the Janjira quarantine zone didn't help either.
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[[folder:Sandra Brody]]
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!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
Joe's wife, and one of the engineers at the nuclear plant where he works.
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* DeathByOriginStory: She's shown with Joe and a young Ford Brody at the beginning of the film, and dies shortly afterwards. The film then jumps 15 years later, and we're shown that Joe hasn't gotten over her death, while their son Ford has moved on, married, and has a kid of his own.
* DisposableWoman: She promises young son Ford that they'll work out a way to surprise dad Joe after work. She helps him hang the HAPPY BIRTHDAY sign for Joe before coming out to kiss Joe and wish him happy birthday (he'd forgotten in his concern over the tremors). She then dutifully follows Joe's request that her team go check the reactor. She wisely commands her team out when the tremors begin again, stops to pick up a fallen comrade, and then pulls off her mask when it no longer matters because she won't get out -- just to tearfully say goodbye to the grieving and guilt-wracked husband who sent her down there in the firs place, setting him up for 15 years of obsessive guilt-fueled angst.
* GoOutWithASmile: A tearstained and strained smile.
* HeroicSacrifice: She told her husband to shut the blast doors, thus dooming her and her team, in order to prevent radiation from leaking out.
* TheLostLenore: Joe dedicates nearly all of his attention to uncovering why she died.
* MissingMom: By the Janjira reactor breach.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:She dies in the first 15 minutes of the film due to severe radiation poisoning.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She and the scientists stuck on the wrong side of the breach doors are the first characters to die in the movie.
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-->''"Look, this is what I do. This is my job."''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson & [=CJ=] Adams (Young)
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
Joe and Sandra's only child. The primary human protagonist of the film, he is a Navy [[BombDisposal bomb tech]] on leave when the events of the movie began.
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* ActionSurvivor: With the [=MUTOs=] and Godzilla, the best you can do is stay out of their way and hope for the best.
* AndroclesLion: [[DownPlayedTrope Downplayed]] but still present as Ford distracts the [=MUTOs=] long enough for Godzilla to gather himself and take them down. Godzilla even stops the female [=MUTO=] from killing Ford in a BigDamnHeroes moment. This may have just been good timing but given how Godzilla's intelligence is revealed and by the end he's clearly aware if not fully sentient, this could have been intentional.
* BigDamnHeroes: To Godzilla, ironically enough. When both [=MUTOs=] were pummeling Godzilla within an inch of his life, [[spoiler:the explosion that Ford causes to destroy all the [=MUTO=] eggs]] draws their attention, saving Godzilla.
* BornLucky: You can count how many times he survives with his encounters with the [=MUTO=], the same one he keeps encountering. [[spoiler:5 times, the last 2 due to Godzilla's BigDamnHeroes moments]].
* ChekhovsSkill: Subverted. Despite repeatedly establishing his EOD tech abilities, [[spoiler:the bomb is too damaged to be defused and goes off, though out of range.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: While trying his best do deal with the bomb, the MamaBear mode female [=MUTO=] corners him on the ship. His response; to cooly take out his side-arm and get ready to shoot her, despite the sheer disadvantage.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He plays the other role of protagonist while Godzilla is the lead. This is alluded to when Ford faints at the same time Godzilla collapses after defeating the [=MUTOs=].
* DullSurprise: A common criticism leveled at Aaron Taylor-Johnson's performance, but justified in-universe (see below) thanks to Ford's EOD background. He keeps his cool at all times when the stakes are high.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Subverted. He brings out a photo of his wife and son and has a close call soon after, but ultimately lives to the end.
* InterspeciesFriendship: Downplayed. With Godzilla, to a minor extent.
* TheJinx: Everytime he is with a group of people, he tends to be one of the few if not the sole survivor.
* NervesOfSteel: It takes brass balls to stay calm when the [=MUTOs=] starts their rampage. [[JustifiedTrope Fully justified, considering his job is disarming bombs in war zones.]] Of course he would develop such a front.
* NiceGuy: He's a loving father and spouse and is very patient with his more-than-a-little crazy dad. The moment he hears Joe has been arrested in Japan he rushes to his side and tries to convince him to come home with him.
* NotSoStoic: When he sees [[spoiler:his father's dead body]], Ford tears up.
* PlotArmor: Our hero survives no less than ''four'' catastrophes, two of which he is the ''only survivor.''
* ReturningWarVet: As the main narrative begins, he is on leave from his job of disarming bombs for the U.S. military.
* SoleSurvivor: Becomes this several times to the units he joins along the way to save his family.
* TheStoic: Fully justified. [[FridgeBrilliance Soldiers are trained to keep their cool during intense moments. Furthermore, his specfic role job is disarming bombs in military zones, meaning he is expected to have an even higher tolerance of stress than the average military man.]] He does openly show emotion like joy and affection when he is off the clock with his family. TheStoic front only breaks once [[spoiler: and that's when he realizes his dad has died.]]
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[[folder:Elle Brody]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ellebrody.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You know you're only gonna be gone for a few days, right? And then you are gonna come back to me. It's not the end of the world."'']]
-->''"It's not the end of the world."''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ElizabethOlsen
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
Ford's wife. She works as a nurse in San Francisco.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Before Ford leaves for Japan to bail out his father, Elle is trying to tell him that Joe is a good man who just needs some help after he lost everything the day Janjira turned into a nuclear hotspot. Ford responds he lost everything too but got over it leading Elle to respond, "Well I can see ''that''."
* DistressedDamsel: Her role is basically to be in danger from the Kaiju and motivate Ford to risk his life to save her.
* TheMedic: She works as a nurse.
* MortonsFork: She ends up trapped on a road with a group of people with Godzilla on one side and the winged [=MUTO=] on the other.
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[[folder:Sam Brody]]
-->''"Mommy, look! Dinosaurs!"''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Carson Bolde
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
Ford and Ellie’s son.
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!!The Russell Family
[[folder:Dr. Emma Russell]]
-->''"Our world is changing. The mass extinction we feared... has already begun... and we are the cause. We are the infection. But like all living organisms, the earth unleashed a fever to fight this infection. Its original and rightful rulers... the Titans. For thousands of years... these creatures have remained in hiding around the world. And unless all the Titans are found... our planet will perish, and so will we. They are the only guarantee that life will carry on."''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/VeraFarmiga
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''
Mark's ex-wife, and Andrew and Madison's mother. Monarch's chief paleobiologist and director of Bioacoustic Studies, the discoverer of Mothra, and the co-inventor of the ORCA.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: She believes [[HumansAreBastards the human race acts like an "infection" destroying the planet]], and that in response the Earth is having its rightful rulers, the Titans like Godzilla, rise again to fight the infection of humanity. However, the Titans are the only guarantee humanity has for survival when the planet is threatened by an extinction-level event. Emma also believes there is a way for the Titans and humans to co-exist peacefully.
* {{Backstory}}: Before she met and married Mark, Emma was an environmental activist and sometimes got arrested for participating in protests. In 2009, five years prior to the events of [[Film/Godzilla2014 the original film]], Emma and her team followed a bioacoustic signature to the mountains in Yunnan, China, and found the hidden Temple of the Moth, with a cocooned Mothra inside.
* BaitTheDog: At first she seems to be an innocent scientist and mother caught up in Alan Jonah's crazy scheme. [[spoiler:Except it's actually ''her'' crazy scheme, she joined forces with Jonah before the start of the movie and on top of that, she's the one who releases Ghidorah and awakens him with the ORCA.]]
* TheBeastmaster: She and Mark developed the ORCA, a device to communicate with and possibly control monsters through their bioacoustics on a sonar level.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:[[BigBadDuumvirate Alongside Alan Jonah]], she is the one responsible for unsealing King Ghidorah and kickstarting the plot of the film. However, once King Ghidorah is freed, he quickly overshadows Russell and Jonah as the primary threat and, rather than restore balance like she had intended, instead opts to terraform Earth to suit his liking.]]
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Realizing she made a terrible mistake freeing Ghidorah, she decides to redeem herself and help Godzilla by distracting Ghidorah once more using the ORCA. She dies in the process as Ghidorah struck her with lightning rays, but her distraction did work to help Godzilla]].
* DecoyProtagonist: She's introduced as a main protagonist being forced into villainy by Alan Jonah, but [[spoiler:she turns out to have been willingly working with him from the beginning and spends the first half or so of the movie as part of a BigBadDuumvirate with him]].
* DidntSeeThatComing: She really had no clue to King Ghidorah's true nature. [[spoiler:Her original plan called to wake the Titans up gradually, to give humanity time to prepare so that some people would survive while they bring balance to the planet. She's thus confused and horrified when King Ghidorah starts waking them all at once, so that it's more likely humanity will be totally exterminated, and begins terraforming the planet more to his alien sensibilities.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Emma truly believes all the Titans to be benevolent saviors of the world and that HumansAreBastards. However, her only known exposure to the Titans are to Godzilla, who stopped the MUTO & Jinshin-Mushi, and Mothra, an extremely pacifistic and benevolent Titan. She honestly thought the MUTO line was the chaotic exception and didn't think King Ghidorah was going to cause Rodan and the others to go nuts. Jonah ends up calling her out on this later.
* TheExtremistWasRight: In a sense--her plan goes extremely off the rails once the [[spoiler: extraterrestrial]] Ghidorah is involved, but her initial idea, [[spoiler: that the Titans were capable of peacefully living alongside humanity, and that their presence would heal the planet rather than harm it]], is eventually proven true at the end. [[spoiler: Once Godzilla takes the reigns, as the ending credits show the Titan attacks go down and their presence on the planet revives dying ecosystems, provides new sources of energy, and overall makes the world a better place to live.]]
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler:When King Ghidorah is about to kill her, she says "Long live the King!"]]
* {{Foil}}: To Dr. Serizawa. Like her boss, she believes in the fundamental goodness and ecological importance of the Titans. [[spoiler:Unlike him, she's crazy enough to think that just turning them loose to ravage human civilization is a good thing. Dr. Sereizawa is visibly horrified when she explains her reasoning.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She believed that all Titans are benign forces of balance when it comes to the Earth, and merely ambivalent at worse when it comes to humanity. King Ghidorah's active malevolence proves her wrong. [[spoiler:Also to Jonah, as she thought they both didn't want humanity totally exterminated by their scheme, but he admits to being perfectly fine with such a possibility.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: She states that one of her motivations is having her son's death matter. [[spoiler:She then callously wakes Rodan before people can possibly evacuate in complete disregard for their lives, to say nothing of how her plan fundamentally calls to create billions of deaths like her son's.]]
** At one point, she demands Jonah leave Madison "out of this", but he's quick to retort ''Emma'' brought Madison into their terrorist organization, filled her head with Pro-Titan thoughts, and kept her in the dark about the possibility the plan could go horribly wrong in the first place.
* InsaneTrollLogic: She paints her plan as the only way to ensure life will continue on Earth, and that otherwise everything will end within her lifetime. This ignores how even the most extreme of predictions regarding current human effects on the planet would lead to humans becoming extinct long before life in general is in trouble (humans could indeed cause a massive loss in biodiversity, but nothing worse than what life has handled in the past). Justified, as it's heavily implied her sanity took a major hit from her son's death, so she's not exactly thinking rationally.
* KidnappedScientist: Emma, along with Madison, is kidnapped by Alan Jonah and his eco-terrorist organization who want to use the ORCA to control the Titans. [[spoiler:Except it turns out that she actually arranged the whole thing with Jonah and faked her kidnapping.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:She firmly believes that she is working for a noble cause and doing what is necessary for the preservation of life on Earth, that she is fighting the dangerous plague that she perceives the existence of human civilization to be, and that the billions of people her actions would condemn to death is a necessary sacrifice to be made for the greater good.]]
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:After the heroes realize she is willingly working with Jonah, she contacts them to explain her motives.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:When King Ghidorah seems set on forcibly terraforming Earth to its own alien liking and completely exterminating humanity, she's horrified. Deconstructed when Alan Jonah mocks her, pointing out that she was basically committing genocide in the first place and that her apocalyptic "salvation" was never going to be clean and pretty.]]
* NatureLover: She used to be an environmental activist after all. [[spoiler:Turns out to also be her major motivation for turning to evil.]]
* NeverMyFault: Emma ''refuses'' to believe she's done anything wrong. It takes her daughter and partner in crime to make her even think that the slaughtering of millions if not the very possible ''extinction'' of the human race, might be due to her recent actions.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Emma gives out one but takes a ''lot'' more throughout the film
** Emma calls out Serizawa and all of Monarch for not awakening the Titans earlier citing he knows just as well as her the benefits the Titans have for the planet.
** Alan Jonah calls her out for ever believing waking up ''Giant Monsters'' was ever going to be the easy, clean job she thought it was going to be and for even bringing her daughter into a terrorist organization in the first place.
** Serizawa and Monarch berate her stupidity in forcibly releasing the Titans without verifying their temperament or letting them awaken on their own. As even a somewhat benevolent ones (Godzilla & Kong) can cause a great deal of unintended death and destruction in their wake.
** Barnes states that if he had a mother like Emma, he'd run away like Madison.
** Madison delivers this bombshell: Calling her mother out for saying her genocidal actions are for her dead son, Andrew, when she's clearly doing it for her own delusional misguided reasons.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:To try and redeem herself, [[HeroicSacrifice she makes a suicidal effort to lure Ghidorah away from both Godzilla and her husband and daughter with the ORCA]]. This gives the humans a chance to escape and Godzilla a chance to power up and kill Ghidorah, but she is killed in the process.]]
* ReluctantMadScientist: [[spoiler:She becomes more and more reluctant as the film goes on.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Let's face it; it takes a ''special'' kind of madness to lose one's son in the carnage unleashed by battling giant monsters and then decide "the world will be saved if I unleash '''all''' the giant monsters to ravage the world as they see fit!"]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:First she is thrown by her car by a bolt of Ghidorah's lightning, then she is at ground zero of Burning Godzilla's flame powers, and finally she is vaporized by Burning Godzilla's flame pulse.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Emma's role in the movie after about a quarter of the film is a huge spoiler.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:She believes it is possible for humans and Titans to co-exist, and that their presence will heal the planet from everything that humanity has done to it. As such, she wants to awaken all of them, albeit gradually, to jump start the process of their rebirth, feeling she has no choice but to do it by force as the military is preparing to kill them. To this end, she betrays Monarch and helps Alan Jonah and his eco-terrorists make strikes against Monarch facilities, murdering many of her own co-workers, and is ultimately willing to cause billions of deaths by reviving all of the Titans, including the highly malevolent Ghidorah.]]
* WesternTerrorists: [[spoiler:She turns out to be a fanatical eco-terrorist of the sort that believes that humanity in and of itself is a problem that needs fixing, with all the damage that they've inflicted on the planet with overpopulation, pollution, and war. To that end, she unleashes the Titans to forcibly "heal" the Earth no matter the scope of the destruction that this causes for innocent people.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Mark Russell]]
-->''"You are out of your goddamn mind!"''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KyleChandler
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''
Emma’s ex-husband, Andrew and Madison’s father, Monarch's former senior anthrozoologist, and co-inventor of the ORCA device.
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* DeadpanSnarker: When Stanton queries what he's asking to see Godzilla's normal movement patterns for, he snarks that it's because he wants to open a boat tour.
* {{Determinator}}: Mark only joins Monarch in their rescue mission because Madison's safety is his main priority.
* FantasticRacism: Not an uncommon attitude towards the Titans in the film, but he's notable for being more reasonable about it than most. He hates the Titans for the part they inadvertently played in the death of his son and the breaking up of his family, and flat out tells Monarch the best solution to the ORCA problem is to just kill all the Titans. However, he's also well aware of [[PunyEarthlings the power discrepancy between man and Titan]], and actually becomes the voice of reason during Monarch's standoff with Godzilla.
-->'''Mark:''' Look, I want him dead more than anyone, but unless this is a fight that you KNOW that you can win, for God's sakes stand down!
* GottaKillThemAll: He believes the Titans are nothing but destructive monsters that should be destroyed since they have caused his family nothing but grief like getting his son killed and his ex-wife and daughter kidnapped by terrorists. Mark has a good deal of hatred towards Godzilla, holding him responsible for his family being fractured in the first place. [[spoiler:He does dial this attitude down after Godzilla turns out to be the planet's only hope against Ghidorah, and finding archaeological evidence showing that humanity once lived in harmony with the Titans.]]
* IWillFindYou: Mark sets out to save his kidnapped ex-wife and daughter.
* JerkassHasAPoint: His attitude towards the Titans, while clashing with the film's message of cohabitation, is conceded as being well-founded. And while he's not exactly pleasant about it, he is shown as entirely correct to point out that the ORCA being made only risked a severely dangerous technology falling into the wrong hands [[spoiler:when it is used to awaken King Ghidorah]].
* MyGreatestFailure: He [[DrowningMySorrows fell into drinking]] to cope with the loss of his son; he says he hates himself for letting his daughter see him that way.
* NatureLover: Since he was a child, Mark has had a strong love of nature. He also prefers field work and being close to animals instead of being in an office.
* PapaWolf: The moment he sees his ex-wife and daughter are being held hostage during a gun battle he leaves the other scientists behind, grabs a pistol and attempts to rescue them himself.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Averted. He's initially hellbent on killing every monster on the planet, but he's at least sane enough to realize a situation where taking Godzilla head-on is tantamount to suicide and orders everyone to lower their weapons down to show Godzilla that they're not a threat. He also comes to accept that while Godzilla is responsible for his son's death, he's also the best chance at saving the planet from King Ghidorah and tells the military to support him however they can in the final battle.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: When he was a kid, Mark swore he could talk with his pet German Shepherd and understand what everything it was saying. Being a respected expert in many fields focused on animals, Mark understands how they live and communicate.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: After his family's loss in the midst of Godzilla's fight against the [=MUTO=]s in San Francisco, Mark quit Monarch for personal reasons.
* TragicBigot: The battle between Godzilla and the [=MUTO=]s caused his family unit to collapse in the face of his son's death, and he has been unable to let go of that pain ever since.
-->'''Barnes:''' Dude hates Titans.\\
'''Sam Coleman:''' Yeah, well you would too if you were him.
* YoureInsane: Says as much to [[spoiler:his wife]] when he hears the full extent of [[spoiler:her]] plans.
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[[folder:Andrew Russell]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TylerCrumley
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''
Mark and Emma's son, and Madison's older brother.
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* PosthumousSibling: He died before the start of the movie, in [[Film/Godzilla2014 the battle of San Francisco]].
* 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 to make Emma realize how much she's destroyed her family]].
* SacrificialLamb: His death fueled his mother's efforts to continue working on the ORCA and find a way for humans and Titans to coexist, as well as his father's abject hatred of Titans.
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[[folder:Madison Russell]]
-->''"You said we were doing this to help people!"''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MillieBobbyBrown & Creator/AlexandraRabe (young)
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''
Emma and Mark’s daughter, and Andrew's younger sister.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:After witnessing the destruction Emma and Jonah's plans have caused, Madison steals the ORCA and uses it to disrupt Ghidorah's communication with the other Titans, meaning she pretty much singlehandedly saves the world.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:She raves at her mother for freeing Ghidorah and Rodan, leaving Ghidorah free to mass-awaken and command the Titans of Earth to kill millions of people and turn the world into a wasteland because she overestimated Monster Zero's benevolence.]]
* ChildProdigy: Her official profile lists her as one. Not entirely surprising, given she's the daughter of two brilliant scientists, though she would rather learn through hands-on experience outside of a classroom much like her outdoors-man father.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Narrowly averted, but her response to Ghidorah cornering her and preparing to blast her with all three heads at once? She just roars right back at him. Fortunately, Godzilla shows up just in time to save her.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Crosses this towards the end of the movie. [[spoiler:As Godzilla and Mothra fight Ghidorah and Rodan, Madison tries to flee the battle to avoid being unwittingly stepped on, only to realize that no matter how far she runs the Titans can cover that same distance in a heartbeat. Panicking, she runs to the one place she thinks is still safe -- the home where she grew up -- and then breaks down upon realizing that it's no safer than anywhere else in the city.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Madison is very Pro-Titan, but admittedly, this is because her mom has purposely kept her in the dark about the very possible and obvious death & destruction they can cause.
** Also luring [[spoiler:''King Ghidorah'']] to her location wasn't the smartest idea, as she hadn't realized ItCanThink and quickly began hunting her.
* HeelRealization: Emma had admittedly sugarcoated the temperament of the Titans to Madison, and only being exposed to the benevolent Mothra made her think the release of all the Titans was not a problem. However, [[spoiler:just ''seeing'' King Ghidorah and the damage he quickly causes, is enough to make her realize that some of the Titans may not be as nice as she was led to believe]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Despite her natural scientific prowess and curiosity, Madison wants to be a normal teenager and live a normal life.
* InterspeciesFriendship: She forms a fledgling bond with the giant insect Mothra. In the novelization, [[spoiler:Mothra somehow resuscitates her after she is buried by her house collapsing]].
* LittleMissBadass: When a teenage girl [[spoiler:steals a high-tech gadget from a ruthless terrorist group right under their noses because it's the right thing to do, and then uses it to lure a host of gigantic monsters to her position to save the rest of the world and all of mankind from certain annihilation]], you know she's got balls the size of Ghidorah's heads. Best of all, ''she succeeds'' where all the militaries on Earth would've failed miserably.
* MissingChild: She's kidnapped by Alan Jonah and his mercenaries alongside her mother. [[spoiler:In actuality she's a somewhat willing participant; but she's kept in the dark about the grimmer details]]
* MouthyKid: She nonchalantly flips Jonah -- a murderous terrorist who kidnapped her and her mother -- the bird, and isn't afraid to stand up to her mother. [[spoiler:She flat out asks her if Andrew, whose name she dedicated her work to, would be pleased knowing what his mother has done, which sends Emma into tearful introspection.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers an absolutely ''brutal'' one to her mother; calling her out for killing millions if not nearly causing the ''extinction of humanity'', all in the name of her deceased brother when she knew fully well 1)Andrew wouldn't have wanted that and 2)Emma was doing all this for her own delusional misguided reasons.
* TheRunaway: Madison runs away with the ORCA from the location that Alan Jonah is keeping her prisoner in by sneaking through the air ducts so that not even Emma can hear it.
* TagalongKid: Is kidnapped by Jonah along with her mother, and gets dragged along as they go. [[spoiler:It's later revealed, though, that Madison was somewhat aware of Emma and Jonah's plot and went along willingly, though she had been sold on the idea that the plan would be more carefully managed and result in much less loss of life than it turned out to. Once she realizes just how bad things have actually gotten and how Emma had deceived her, she steals the ORCA in a bid to limit further casualties.]]
* YouMonster: She openly calls her mother a monster after [[spoiler:witnessing the Titans go rogue on Ghidorah's orders and her mother still believing that her actions were justified]].
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!!Other Characters
[[folder:Gunpei Ikari]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Music/{{Miyavi}}
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland''
A World War II Japanese pilot who's stranded on the island with Marlow.
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* ActorAllusion: Miyavi was cast as the BigBad (who was also an Imperial Japanese military member during World War II) of the 2014 film ''Film/{{Unbroken}}''.
* FireForgedFriends: Upon crashing on Skull Island, Marlow and Gunpei's first reaction upon seeing each is to fight to the death. [[spoiler: But after their encounter with Kong, the two set aside their differences to survive on Skull Island together, with Gunpei teaching Marlow some Japanese and how to fight with a sword. Before Marlow departs the village, he pays a tearful tribute to his deceased friend]].
* KatanasAreJustBetter: He wielded a Type 98 ''shin-guntō'' that, despite being a cheap, mass-produced sword, was more-than effective at slicing up monsters without rusting, breaking, or losing its edge for 28 years.
* KilledOffscreen: He was killed by Skullcrawlers at some point during the 28-year time skip.
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[[folder:Iwi]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/14592181_368920800122194_2741418135444783104_n.jpg]]
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' | ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''
The natives of Skull Island. They worship King Kong as a guardian god and fear the Skullcralwers. They took in Marlow and Gunpei and later provided shelter to half of the Monarch expedition.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: They're far friendlier than the natives in the previous Kong films.
* ActionSurvivor: While not shown in the film, it can be assumed they are this since they live on the island.
** The Monarch Files on the Leafwing say they hunt Leafwings and ground up the wings to use as a drug. Considering how dangerous they are this makes the Iwis badass for actively hunting them.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The younger tribe members who hunt and gather food have yellow tribal body paint while the elders have blue.
* TheDreaded: They have a name for the Skullcrawlers but dare not speak it.
* HeWhoMustNotBeNamed: See above.
* HiddenInPlainSight: They managed to get the drop on the expedition team by having a few members in mud or clay stand among the ruins like statues.
* LostTribe: To be expected since their home was thought to be a myth until it was found.
* SpikesOfDoom: They built walls of spikes around their village to keep out Skullcrawlers. Fresh blood can be seen on most of the wall.
* TheVoiceless: Marlow points out they rarely speak. Given where they live this is probably to avoid unwanted attention from the island's super predators.
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[[folder:Ato]]
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-->''"Greetings, searchers. You have come at last."''
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''
The leader of the Iwi during Aaron's 1995 expedition to Skull Island. He takes them in after Kong saves them from their violent run-in with Death Jackals.
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* AccidentalPervert: When Riccio suggests the team get body painted for the Iwi rituals, Ato enthusiastically agrees and tells the rest of Aaron's team to take their clothes off. They are not amused. Justified in a rare realistic example, the Iwi are an isolated tribe.
* PistolWhipping: In issue 4, when Riccio says the wall protecting the Iwi village must come down, Ato pleads against it and gets pistol-whipped across the face by Riccio.
* TheVoiceless: Subverted. His father learned English from Marlow, who in turn taught Ato English.
* YoungAndInCharge: He's like eight-years-old, at max.
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[[folder:Alan Jonah]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mv5bodexotgxnjy1ov5bml5banbnxkftztgwmje5mzeznzm_v1_sx1777_cr001777845_al.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Long live the King."'']]
-->''"I've seen human nature. It just gets worse. The world always belonged to them. It is time we gave it back."''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CharlesDance
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''
A former British Army colonel and [[SecretIntelligenceService MI-6]] agent turned fanatic anarchist who leads a terrorist paramilitary group dealing in trafficking Titan DNA, seeking to "level the global playing field" through stolen weapons technology.
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* ActorAllusion: Wistfully remarks, "Long live the king..." after seeing [[spoiler:Ghidorah dominate the Titans of the world]]. [[Series/GameOfThrones Cute.]]
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: [[spoiler:He points out to Emma that he is fine with a world-destroying apocalypse, and pretty much [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized expected it]], while she was deluded to think the Earth could manage kaiju running rampant]].
* {{Backstory}}: Jonah used to be a colonel in the British Army colonel and an MI6 secret agent. He soon became disillusioned by governments and humanity in general because of [[HumansKillWantonly all the wars, death, and destruction people bring about]] so he defected and went rogue. Since then, Jonah has been connected to armed mercenary groups engaged in sociopolitical intrigue as he sought to "level the global playing field" with stolen weapons technology. In 2005, Jonah came to Monarch's attention when he and several mercenary accomplices were caught trying to breach the walls of a subterranean [=MUTO=] dig site, and Jonah was locked up in a Pakistani prison.
* BaitTheDog: Inverted. At first he seems to be the driving force of the first quarter of the movie, killing Monarch scientists and agents, abducting Dr. Russell and her daughter and planning to use the Orca for some insidious means. [[spoiler:But then it turns out ''Emma'' is the real mastermind behind the plan to release Ghidorah, that she came to him before the start of the movie, and the parts where the plan goes OffTheRails because [[EvilIsNotAToy Ghidorah doesn't act according to her design]] were things he had no part in.]]
* BigBad: Along with Ghidorah, being the leader of the ecoterrorists aiming to let the Kaiju overthrow humanity.
* ColonelBadass: A former Special Forces colonel. Jonah has managed to recruit an entire organization to help him to achieve his goals.
* DeadpanSnarker: Considering he's played by the guy who played [[Series/GameOfThrones Tywin Lannister]], it's not exactly a shocker.
-->'''Soldier:''' ''[Upon seeing Ghidorah trapped in the ice.]'' Mother of God...\\
'''Jonah:''' She had nothing to do with this.
* EcoTerrorist: Labeled a Class-1 level threat, Alan Jonah is under the impression that reawakening the Titans will potentially set things right in the world since humans have mistreated and damaged the planet.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The film implies that he has a soft spot for his NumberTwo, Asher, which is confirmed by the novelization; the novel further adds that after Asher is killed, Emma notes that the last fragment of Jonah's humanity died with him.
* EvilBrit: Former British military/spy turned omnicidal EcoTerrorist.
* {{Foil}}: From what we know of him, he is one to Dr. Ishirō Serizawa. Both characters are de facto leaders of their respective groups associated with finding the Titans. Both characters also view the Titans as much more than just simply giant monsters. But while Serizawa believes that both humans and Titan can co-exist together, Alan doesn’t and he believes that the Titans must wipe out humanity to save the planet. While Serizawa champions Godzilla as the king/alpha, Alan champions King Ghidorah.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Again, former British military/spy turned omnicidal EcoTerrorist.
* HumansAreBastards: After years in the service of his country, seeing humanity at its worst, and believing that human nature is only getting progressively worse, he feels he has seen the monster humanity can become through their destructive tendencies.
* IHaveYourWife: He takes Emma, the ex-wife of Dr. Mark Russell hostage to gain control of her invention "the Orca" and potentially control the Titans. [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed he didn't kidnap her at all; she came to him and they agreed to work together.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, he's still at large and has gotten his hands on one of King Ghidorah's severed heads.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: The guy does not have any second thought about letting billions of people die as a consequence of releasing the Titans in order to "save the Earth". Even when it is clear that King Ghidorah has no intention of saving the Earth but rather wants to terraform it to its liking, he just shrugs it off and says that maybe it's time for the Titans to take the Earth for their own. Aside from the soldiers under his command, he doesn't give a crap about the rest of humanity at all.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Lost his faith in humanity altogether after decades of witnessing [[WarIsHell the horror and desolation of war]].
* MisanthropeSupreme: Seeing the worst parts of humanity again and again drove him to become an extreme misanthrope. He's fully willing to let Ghidorah destroy everyone because of this.
* NervesOfSteel: Isn't fazed at all when Emma [[spoiler:pulls a gun on him]].
* PetTheDog:
** Despite having little reason to do so, when in an elevator next to a frightened Madison he attempts to calm her down by passing a hand over his face and making a friendly smile. She [[FlippingTheBird flips him the bird]] in response. He seems more amused by this than anything.
** [[spoiler:Near the end he lets Emma go to rescue her daughter, believing he and his men will do fine without her.]]
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Does not hesitate to divulge the true extent of destruction releasing the Titans worldwide would have caused to Madison, berating her for believing that the world will turn out to be a paradise after the Titans are done with it as what her mother led her to believe.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Before kidnapping Emma and her daughter Madison, Jonah previously followed Emma around the world to labs she has in Cairo and Tokyo and attempted to raid them.
* TheStoic: Jonah is always shown to be calm and collected despite whatever chaos happens around him.
* TwoFirstNames: Alan and Jonah.
* VillainHasAPoint: He correctly critiques Emma's behaviour throughout the film, such as pointing out her irresponsibility as a parent. Later in the film, shortly after Rodan's awakening, Jonah mockingly, but correctly, jabs at Emma's obscene naivety in letting the Titans ravage humanity to restore balance, then being horrified when she witnesses Ghidorah's path of destruction.
-->'''Emma:''' Leave [Madison] out of this!\\
'''Jonah:''' Why? ''You're'' the one who brought her ''into'' it!
* WarIsHell: He wholeheartedly agrees, as that was what made him go rogue and start seeking a way to bring back the Titans.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Alan wants to free the Kaiju so that they can overthrow humanity as the dominant species, as he believes they'll take better care of planet Earth than humans.
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!!Organizations and Groups
!!The Brody Family
[[folder:Joe Brody]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"This is what caused everything to happen in the first place! Can't you see that?! And it's gonna send us back to the Stone Age! You have'' no ''idea what's coming."'']]
-->''"You keep telling everybody that this place is a death zone, but it's not. You're'' lying, ''because what's really happening is that you're hiding something out there. I'm right, aren't I? My wife'' died ''here! Something'' killed ''my wife, and I have a right to know! I deserve answers!"''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BryanCranston
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
The American head of the Janjira nuclear plant that melted down in 1999. Obsessed with discovering exactly what happened during the plant's meltdown.
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* ABirthdayNotABreak: The Janjira incident that resulted in the death of his wife occurred on Joe's birthday.
* ActionSurvivor: He survives the first incident in the nuclear plant. [[spoiler:But he's KilledOffForReal when the male [=MUTO=] awakens.]]
* AdvertisedExtra: Trailers for the film heavily featured him. His character is important in the beginning of the film, but [[spoiler:is killed off pretty quickly]].
* BilingualBonus: When Joe was working at the Janjira base, he sometimes communicated with his co-workers in Japanese.
* ConspiracyTheorist: After his wife Sandra was among the deaths at the Janjira nuclear power plant when it was abruptly destroyed, he is convinced that whatever caused the disaster was a bit less "natural" than an earthquake. He spends the next 15 years trying to piece together the truth behind the tragedy. So he's unsurprisingly miffed to find out that a group called Monarch is, indeed, covering up what actually happened.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: His obsession with his wife's death has left him more than a little nutty, but he was still right about the cover up.
* CynicismCatalyst: The death of his wife, which he is partially responsible for.
* DeadStarWalking: Played by Creator/BryanCranston, the biggest name actor in the film, he [[spoiler:doesn't make it past the first third]].
* DecoyProtagonist: Though he is given a lot of development early on in the film, his son is TheHero of the story as far as human characters go.
* {{Determinator}}: Even 15 years after the incident, he hasn't given up on finding the truth.
* DisappearedDad: He becomes one in the emotionally absent but physically present sense after the Janjira disaster. He then becomes one in the literal sense right after he and his son Ford have finally reconciled upon the latter realizing Joe wasn't an obsessed crazyhead.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The film sets him up as a major protagonist with an integral role in the story. Minutes after [[spoiler:the male [=MUTO=]]] gets released, he ''literally'' gets a bridge dropped on him and dies without warning.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: He dies roughly 20 minutes after finding an intact photo of his family in their old house.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Back in 1999, he had his wife Sandra go down to investigate the Janjira NPP's reactor in the wake of mysterious tremors. Not only did this put her in harm's way when there was a breach, he ends up having to close the blast doors on her and her team in order to keep radioactive gas from leaking into the rest of the city. His obsession with figuring out the cause of the breach that killed his wife leads to him discovering that [[{{Kaiju}} some large, strange entity]] is now active in the ruins of the facility.
* IronicBirthday: Reversed. Joe is told of his birthday by his wife before they go off to the power plant where they work. Hell breaks loose when the plant is breached and his wife dies.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The look on his face after his wife's death says it all. His obsession is also most likely fueled by guilt.
* PapaWolf: After getting arrested again, before he even demands answers, the first thing he demands is to see his son Ford, who they also captured. Just by the tone of his voice, he was both scared and mad at the thought of losing him too.
* ParentalAbandonment: It's implied that he was less than a stellar parent after his wife's death. He's still in relatively good terms with his son despite this.
* ParentalNeglect: Even before the incident at the power plant turned him into an obsessive conspiracy theorist, Joe was already unintentionally dismissive of his family, forgetting to greet his son in the morning and even that it's ''his own birthday'' today.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Joe knew there was a cover-up going on surrounding the Janjira site, but initially thought it was either a design flaw or a mistake by the military. He got an idea of what was really going on later, and figured out what was happening with the help of a local cargo skipper and some buoys.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: He has a room covered with newspaper clippings and other documents relating to his search for the truth behind the collapse of the Janjira plant that led to his wife's death. His son is understandably taken aback at all this; his father simply replies: "I don't get too many visitors".
* SacrificialLion: Gets the most development early on, [[spoiler:but is killed when the first [=MUTO=] awakens]].
* SadisticChoice: When he sees the radioactive steam advancing towards him in the prelude, he is faced with the option of closing the blast doors, which would spell doom for those down there, or waiting for his wife, which would put millions at risk of deadly exposure. [[spoiler:He opts to close the blast doors and sacrifice those behind it.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He dies roughly 40 minutes into the film after sustaining injuries from the male M.U.T.O. awakening in Janjira.]]
* WellDoneDadGuy: As a result of the death of his wife Sandra at Janjira and his subsequent development into a ProperlyParanoid ConspiracyTheorist investigating what really caused the plant to collapse, he has become estranged from his son Ford, who thinks all his dad's crazy-sounding theories are just a pathetic attempt keep from moving on from that grief like he has. The fact that the first time in years Ford meets up with Joe is to retrieve him after he got arrested trying to sneak into the Janjira quarantine zone didn't help either.
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[[folder:Sandra Brody]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/godzillabinoche.jpg]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JulietteBinoche
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
Joe's wife, and one of the engineers at the nuclear plant where he works.
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* DeathByOriginStory: She's shown with Joe and a young Ford Brody at the beginning of the film, and dies shortly afterwards. The film then jumps 15 years later, and we're shown that Joe hasn't gotten over her death, while their son Ford has moved on, married, and has a kid of his own.
* DisposableWoman: She promises young son Ford that they'll work out a way to surprise dad Joe after work. She helps him hang the HAPPY BIRTHDAY sign for Joe before coming out to kiss Joe and wish him happy birthday (he'd forgotten in his concern over the tremors). She then dutifully follows Joe's request that her team go check the reactor. She wisely commands her team out when the tremors begin again, stops to pick up a fallen comrade, and then pulls off her mask when it no longer matters because she won't get out -- just to tearfully say goodbye to the grieving and guilt-wracked husband who sent her down there in the firs place, setting him up for 15 years of obsessive guilt-fueled angst.
* GoOutWithASmile: A tearstained and strained smile.
* HeroicSacrifice: She told her husband to shut the blast doors, thus dooming her and her team, in order to prevent radiation from leaking out.
* TheLostLenore: Joe dedicates nearly all of his attention to uncovering why she died.
* MissingMom: By the Janjira reactor breach.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:She dies in the first 15 minutes of the film due to severe radiation poisoning.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She and the scientists stuck on the wrong side of the breach doors are the first characters to die in the movie.
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[[folder:Ford Brody]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0506_8.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Let me take you home. Come home with me. I got a little boy who's desperate to see his grandpa."'']]
-->''"Look, this is what I do. This is my job."''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AaronTaylorJohnson & [=CJ=] Adams (Young)
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
Joe and Sandra's only child. The primary human protagonist of the film, he is a Navy [[BombDisposal bomb tech]] on leave when the events of the movie began.
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* ActionSurvivor: With the [=MUTOs=] and Godzilla, the best you can do is stay out of their way and hope for the best.
* AndroclesLion: [[DownPlayedTrope Downplayed]] but still present as Ford distracts the [=MUTOs=] long enough for Godzilla to gather himself and take them down. Godzilla even stops the female [=MUTO=] from killing Ford in a BigDamnHeroes moment. This may have just been good timing but given how Godzilla's intelligence is revealed and by the end he's clearly aware if not fully sentient, this could have been intentional.
* BigDamnHeroes: To Godzilla, ironically enough. When both [=MUTOs=] were pummeling Godzilla within an inch of his life, [[spoiler:the explosion that Ford causes to destroy all the [=MUTO=] eggs]] draws their attention, saving Godzilla.
* BornLucky: You can count how many times he survives with his encounters with the [=MUTO=], the same one he keeps encountering. [[spoiler:5 times, the last 2 due to Godzilla's BigDamnHeroes moments]].
* ChekhovsSkill: Subverted. Despite repeatedly establishing his EOD tech abilities, [[spoiler:the bomb is too damaged to be defused and goes off, though out of range.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: While trying his best do deal with the bomb, the MamaBear mode female [=MUTO=] corners him on the ship. His response; to cooly take out his side-arm and get ready to shoot her, despite the sheer disadvantage.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He plays the other role of protagonist while Godzilla is the lead. This is alluded to when Ford faints at the same time Godzilla collapses after defeating the [=MUTOs=].
* DullSurprise: A common criticism leveled at Aaron Taylor-Johnson's performance, but justified in-universe (see below) thanks to Ford's EOD background. He keeps his cool at all times when the stakes are high.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Subverted. He brings out a photo of his wife and son and has a close call soon after, but ultimately lives to the end.
* InterspeciesFriendship: Downplayed. With Godzilla, to a minor extent.
* TheJinx: Everytime he is with a group of people, he tends to be one of the few if not the sole survivor.
* NervesOfSteel: It takes brass balls to stay calm when the [=MUTOs=] starts their rampage. [[JustifiedTrope Fully justified, considering his job is disarming bombs in war zones.]] Of course he would develop such a front.
* NiceGuy: He's a loving father and spouse and is very patient with his more-than-a-little crazy dad. The moment he hears Joe has been arrested in Japan he rushes to his side and tries to convince him to come home with him.
* NotSoStoic: When he sees [[spoiler:his father's dead body]], Ford tears up.
* PlotArmor: Our hero survives no less than ''four'' catastrophes, two of which he is the ''only survivor.''
* ReturningWarVet: As the main narrative begins, he is on leave from his job of disarming bombs for the U.S. military.
* SoleSurvivor: Becomes this several times to the units he joins along the way to save his family.
* TheStoic: Fully justified. [[FridgeBrilliance Soldiers are trained to keep their cool during intense moments. Furthermore, his specfic role job is disarming bombs in military zones, meaning he is expected to have an even higher tolerance of stress than the average military man.]] He does openly show emotion like joy and affection when he is off the clock with his family. TheStoic front only breaks once [[spoiler: and that's when he realizes his dad has died.]]
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[[folder:Elle Brody]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ellebrody.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You know you're only gonna be gone for a few days, right? And then you are gonna come back to me. It's not the end of the world."'']]
-->''"It's not the end of the world."''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ElizabethOlsen
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
Ford's wife. She works as a nurse in San Francisco.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Before Ford leaves for Japan to bail out his father, Elle is trying to tell him that Joe is a good man who just needs some help after he lost everything the day Janjira turned into a nuclear hotspot. Ford responds he lost everything too but got over it leading Elle to respond, "Well I can see ''that''."
* DistressedDamsel: Her role is basically to be in danger from the Kaiju and motivate Ford to risk his life to save her.
* TheMedic: She works as a nurse.
* MortonsFork: She ends up trapped on a road with a group of people with Godzilla on one side and the winged [=MUTO=] on the other.
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[[folder:Sam Brody]]
-->''"Mommy, look! Dinosaurs!"''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Carson Bolde
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
Ford and Ellie’s son.
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[[/folder]]
!!The Russell Family
[[folder:Dr. Emma Russell]]
-->''"Our world is changing. The mass extinction we feared... has already begun... and we are the cause. We are the infection. But like all living organisms, the earth unleashed a fever to fight this infection. Its original and rightful rulers... the Titans. For thousands of years... these creatures have remained in hiding around the world. And unless all the Titans are found... our planet will perish, and so will we. They are the only guarantee that life will carry on."''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/VeraFarmiga
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''
Mark's ex-wife, and Andrew and Madison's mother. Monarch's chief paleobiologist and director of Bioacoustic Studies, the discoverer of Mothra, and the co-inventor of the ORCA.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: She believes [[HumansAreBastards the human race acts like an "infection" destroying the planet]], and that in response the Earth is having its rightful rulers, the Titans like Godzilla, rise again to fight the infection of humanity. However, the Titans are the only guarantee humanity has for survival when the planet is threatened by an extinction-level event. Emma also believes there is a way for the Titans and humans to co-exist peacefully.
* {{Backstory}}: Before she met and married Mark, Emma was an environmental activist and sometimes got arrested for participating in protests. In 2009, five years prior to the events of [[Film/Godzilla2014 the original film]], Emma and her team followed a bioacoustic signature to the mountains in Yunnan, China, and found the hidden Temple of the Moth, with a cocooned Mothra inside.
* BaitTheDog: At first she seems to be an innocent scientist and mother caught up in Alan Jonah's crazy scheme. [[spoiler:Except it's actually ''her'' crazy scheme, she joined forces with Jonah before the start of the movie and on top of that, she's the one who releases Ghidorah and awakens him with the ORCA.]]
* TheBeastmaster: She and Mark developed the ORCA, a device to communicate with and possibly control monsters through their bioacoustics on a sonar level.
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:[[BigBadDuumvirate Alongside Alan Jonah]], she is the one responsible for unsealing King Ghidorah and kickstarting the plot of the film. However, once King Ghidorah is freed, he quickly overshadows Russell and Jonah as the primary threat and, rather than restore balance like she had intended, instead opts to terraform Earth to suit his liking.]]
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:Realizing she made a terrible mistake freeing Ghidorah, she decides to redeem herself and help Godzilla by distracting Ghidorah once more using the ORCA. She dies in the process as Ghidorah struck her with lightning rays, but her distraction did work to help Godzilla]].
* DecoyProtagonist: She's introduced as a main protagonist being forced into villainy by Alan Jonah, but [[spoiler:she turns out to have been willingly working with him from the beginning and spends the first half or so of the movie as part of a BigBadDuumvirate with him]].
* DidntSeeThatComing: She really had no clue to King Ghidorah's true nature. [[spoiler:Her original plan called to wake the Titans up gradually, to give humanity time to prepare so that some people would survive while they bring balance to the planet. She's thus confused and horrified when King Ghidorah starts waking them all at once, so that it's more likely humanity will be totally exterminated, and begins terraforming the planet more to his alien sensibilities.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Emma truly believes all the Titans to be benevolent saviors of the world and that HumansAreBastards. However, her only known exposure to the Titans are to Godzilla, who stopped the MUTO & Jinshin-Mushi, and Mothra, an extremely pacifistic and benevolent Titan. She honestly thought the MUTO line was the chaotic exception and didn't think King Ghidorah was going to cause Rodan and the others to go nuts. Jonah ends up calling her out on this later.
* TheExtremistWasRight: In a sense--her plan goes extremely off the rails once the [[spoiler: extraterrestrial]] Ghidorah is involved, but her initial idea, [[spoiler: that the Titans were capable of peacefully living alongside humanity, and that their presence would heal the planet rather than harm it]], is eventually proven true at the end. [[spoiler: Once Godzilla takes the reigns, as the ending credits show the Titan attacks go down and their presence on the planet revives dying ecosystems, provides new sources of energy, and overall makes the world a better place to live.]]
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler:When King Ghidorah is about to kill her, she says "Long live the King!"]]
* {{Foil}}: To Dr. Serizawa. Like her boss, she believes in the fundamental goodness and ecological importance of the Titans. [[spoiler:Unlike him, she's crazy enough to think that just turning them loose to ravage human civilization is a good thing. Dr. Sereizawa is visibly horrified when she explains her reasoning.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She believed that all Titans are benign forces of balance when it comes to the Earth, and merely ambivalent at worse when it comes to humanity. King Ghidorah's active malevolence proves her wrong. [[spoiler:Also to Jonah, as she thought they both didn't want humanity totally exterminated by their scheme, but he admits to being perfectly fine with such a possibility.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: She states that one of her motivations is having her son's death matter. [[spoiler:She then callously wakes Rodan before people can possibly evacuate in complete disregard for their lives, to say nothing of how her plan fundamentally calls to create billions of deaths like her son's.]]
** At one point, she demands Jonah leave Madison "out of this", but he's quick to retort ''Emma'' brought Madison into their terrorist organization, filled her head with Pro-Titan thoughts, and kept her in the dark about the possibility the plan could go horribly wrong in the first place.
* InsaneTrollLogic: She paints her plan as the only way to ensure life will continue on Earth, and that otherwise everything will end within her lifetime. This ignores how even the most extreme of predictions regarding current human effects on the planet would lead to humans becoming extinct long before life in general is in trouble (humans could indeed cause a massive loss in biodiversity, but nothing worse than what life has handled in the past). Justified, as it's heavily implied her sanity took a major hit from her son's death, so she's not exactly thinking rationally.
* KidnappedScientist: Emma, along with Madison, is kidnapped by Alan Jonah and his eco-terrorist organization who want to use the ORCA to control the Titans. [[spoiler:Except it turns out that she actually arranged the whole thing with Jonah and faked her kidnapping.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:She firmly believes that she is working for a noble cause and doing what is necessary for the preservation of life on Earth, that she is fighting the dangerous plague that she perceives the existence of human civilization to be, and that the billions of people her actions would condemn to death is a necessary sacrifice to be made for the greater good.]]
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:After the heroes realize she is willingly working with Jonah, she contacts them to explain her motives.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:When King Ghidorah seems set on forcibly terraforming Earth to its own alien liking and completely exterminating humanity, she's horrified. Deconstructed when Alan Jonah mocks her, pointing out that she was basically committing genocide in the first place and that her apocalyptic "salvation" was never going to be clean and pretty.]]
* NatureLover: She used to be an environmental activist after all. [[spoiler:Turns out to also be her major motivation for turning to evil.]]
* NeverMyFault: Emma ''refuses'' to believe she's done anything wrong. It takes her daughter and partner in crime to make her even think that the slaughtering of millions if not the very possible ''extinction'' of the human race, might be due to her recent actions.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Emma gives out one but takes a ''lot'' more throughout the film
** Emma calls out Serizawa and all of Monarch for not awakening the Titans earlier citing he knows just as well as her the benefits the Titans have for the planet.
** Alan Jonah calls her out for ever believing waking up ''Giant Monsters'' was ever going to be the easy, clean job she thought it was going to be and for even bringing her daughter into a terrorist organization in the first place.
** Serizawa and Monarch berate her stupidity in forcibly releasing the Titans without verifying their temperament or letting them awaken on their own. As even a somewhat benevolent ones (Godzilla & Kong) can cause a great deal of unintended death and destruction in their wake.
** Barnes states that if he had a mother like Emma, he'd run away like Madison.
** Madison delivers this bombshell: Calling her mother out for saying her genocidal actions are for her dead son, Andrew, when she's clearly doing it for her own delusional misguided reasons.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:To try and redeem herself, [[HeroicSacrifice she makes a suicidal effort to lure Ghidorah away from both Godzilla and her husband and daughter with the ORCA]]. This gives the humans a chance to escape and Godzilla a chance to power up and kill Ghidorah, but she is killed in the process.]]
* ReluctantMadScientist: [[spoiler:She becomes more and more reluctant as the film goes on.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Let's face it; it takes a ''special'' kind of madness to lose one's son in the carnage unleashed by battling giant monsters and then decide "the world will be saved if I unleash '''all''' the giant monsters to ravage the world as they see fit!"]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:First she is thrown by her car by a bolt of Ghidorah's lightning, then she is at ground zero of Burning Godzilla's flame powers, and finally she is vaporized by Burning Godzilla's flame pulse.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Emma's role in the movie after about a quarter of the film is a huge spoiler.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:She believes it is possible for humans and Titans to co-exist, and that their presence will heal the planet from everything that humanity has done to it. As such, she wants to awaken all of them, albeit gradually, to jump start the process of their rebirth, feeling she has no choice but to do it by force as the military is preparing to kill them. To this end, she betrays Monarch and helps Alan Jonah and his eco-terrorists make strikes against Monarch facilities, murdering many of her own co-workers, and is ultimately willing to cause billions of deaths by reviving all of the Titans, including the highly malevolent Ghidorah.]]
* WesternTerrorists: [[spoiler:She turns out to be a fanatical eco-terrorist of the sort that believes that humanity in and of itself is a problem that needs fixing, with all the damage that they've inflicted on the planet with overpopulation, pollution, and war. To that end, she unleashes the Titans to forcibly "heal" the Earth no matter the scope of the destruction that this causes for innocent people.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Mark Russell]]
-->''"You are out of your goddamn mind!"''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KyleChandler
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''
Emma’s ex-husband, Andrew and Madison’s father, Monarch's former senior anthrozoologist, and co-inventor of the ORCA device.
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* DeadpanSnarker: When Stanton queries what he's asking to see Godzilla's normal movement patterns for, he snarks that it's because he wants to open a boat tour.
* {{Determinator}}: Mark only joins Monarch in their rescue mission because Madison's safety is his main priority.
* FantasticRacism: Not an uncommon attitude towards the Titans in the film, but he's notable for being more reasonable about it than most. He hates the Titans for the part they inadvertently played in the death of his son and the breaking up of his family, and flat out tells Monarch the best solution to the ORCA problem is to just kill all the Titans. However, he's also well aware of [[PunyEarthlings the power discrepancy between man and Titan]], and actually becomes the voice of reason during Monarch's standoff with Godzilla.
-->'''Mark:''' Look, I want him dead more than anyone, but unless this is a fight that you KNOW that you can win, for God's sakes stand down!
* GottaKillThemAll: He believes the Titans are nothing but destructive monsters that should be destroyed since they have caused his family nothing but grief like getting his son killed and his ex-wife and daughter kidnapped by terrorists. Mark has a good deal of hatred towards Godzilla, holding him responsible for his family being fractured in the first place. [[spoiler:He does dial this attitude down after Godzilla turns out to be the planet's only hope against Ghidorah, and finding archaeological evidence showing that humanity once lived in harmony with the Titans.]]
* IWillFindYou: Mark sets out to save his kidnapped ex-wife and daughter.
* JerkassHasAPoint: His attitude towards the Titans, while clashing with the film's message of cohabitation, is conceded as being well-founded. And while he's not exactly pleasant about it, he is shown as entirely correct to point out that the ORCA being made only risked a severely dangerous technology falling into the wrong hands [[spoiler:when it is used to awaken King Ghidorah]].
* MyGreatestFailure: He [[DrowningMySorrows fell into drinking]] to cope with the loss of his son; he says he hates himself for letting his daughter see him that way.
* NatureLover: Since he was a child, Mark has had a strong love of nature. He also prefers field work and being close to animals instead of being in an office.
* PapaWolf: The moment he sees his ex-wife and daughter are being held hostage during a gun battle he leaves the other scientists behind, grabs a pistol and attempts to rescue them himself.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Averted. He's initially hellbent on killing every monster on the planet, but he's at least sane enough to realize a situation where taking Godzilla head-on is tantamount to suicide and orders everyone to lower their weapons down to show Godzilla that they're not a threat. He also comes to accept that while Godzilla is responsible for his son's death, he's also the best chance at saving the planet from King Ghidorah and tells the military to support him however they can in the final battle.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: When he was a kid, Mark swore he could talk with his pet German Shepherd and understand what everything it was saying. Being a respected expert in many fields focused on animals, Mark understands how they live and communicate.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: After his family's loss in the midst of Godzilla's fight against the [=MUTO=]s in San Francisco, Mark quit Monarch for personal reasons.
* TragicBigot: The battle between Godzilla and the [=MUTO=]s caused his family unit to collapse in the face of his son's death, and he has been unable to let go of that pain ever since.
-->'''Barnes:''' Dude hates Titans.\\
'''Sam Coleman:''' Yeah, well you would too if you were him.
* YoureInsane: Says as much to [[spoiler:his wife]] when he hears the full extent of [[spoiler:her]] plans.
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[[folder:Andrew Russell]]
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/TylerCrumley
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''
Mark and Emma's son, and Madison's older brother.
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* PosthumousSibling: He died before the start of the movie, in [[Film/Godzilla2014 the battle of San Francisco]].
* 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 to make Emma realize how much she's destroyed her family]].
* SacrificialLamb: His death fueled his mother's efforts to continue working on the ORCA and find a way for humans and Titans to coexist, as well as his father's abject hatred of Titans.
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[[folder:Madison Russell]]
-->''"You said we were doing this to help people!"''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MillieBobbyBrown & Creator/AlexandraRabe (young)
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''
Emma and Mark’s daughter, and Andrew's younger sister.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:After witnessing the destruction Emma and Jonah's plans have caused, Madison steals the ORCA and uses it to disrupt Ghidorah's communication with the other Titans, meaning she pretty much singlehandedly saves the world.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:She raves at her mother for freeing Ghidorah and Rodan, leaving Ghidorah free to mass-awaken and command the Titans of Earth to kill millions of people and turn the world into a wasteland because she overestimated Monster Zero's benevolence.]]
* ChildProdigy: Her official profile lists her as one. Not entirely surprising, given she's the daughter of two brilliant scientists, though she would rather learn through hands-on experience outside of a classroom much like her outdoors-man father.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Narrowly averted, but her response to Ghidorah cornering her and preparing to blast her with all three heads at once? She just roars right back at him. Fortunately, Godzilla shows up just in time to save her.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Crosses this towards the end of the movie. [[spoiler:As Godzilla and Mothra fight Ghidorah and Rodan, Madison tries to flee the battle to avoid being unwittingly stepped on, only to realize that no matter how far she runs the Titans can cover that same distance in a heartbeat. Panicking, she runs to the one place she thinks is still safe -- the home where she grew up -- and then breaks down upon realizing that it's no safer than anywhere else in the city.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Madison is very Pro-Titan, but admittedly, this is because her mom has purposely kept her in the dark about the very possible and obvious death & destruction they can cause.
** Also luring [[spoiler:''King Ghidorah'']] to her location wasn't the smartest idea, as she hadn't realized ItCanThink and quickly began hunting her.
* HeelRealization: Emma had admittedly sugarcoated the temperament of the Titans to Madison, and only being exposed to the benevolent Mothra made her think the release of all the Titans was not a problem. However, [[spoiler:just ''seeing'' King Ghidorah and the damage he quickly causes, is enough to make her realize that some of the Titans may not be as nice as she was led to believe]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Despite her natural scientific prowess and curiosity, Madison wants to be a normal teenager and live a normal life.
* InterspeciesFriendship: She forms a fledgling bond with the giant insect Mothra. In the novelization, [[spoiler:Mothra somehow resuscitates her after she is buried by her house collapsing]].
* LittleMissBadass: When a teenage girl [[spoiler:steals a high-tech gadget from a ruthless terrorist group right under their noses because it's the right thing to do, and then uses it to lure a host of gigantic monsters to her position to save the rest of the world and all of mankind from certain annihilation]], you know she's got balls the size of Ghidorah's heads. Best of all, ''she succeeds'' where all the militaries on Earth would've failed miserably.
* MissingChild: She's kidnapped by Alan Jonah and his mercenaries alongside her mother. [[spoiler:In actuality she's a somewhat willing participant; but she's kept in the dark about the grimmer details]]
* MouthyKid: She nonchalantly flips Jonah -- a murderous terrorist who kidnapped her and her mother -- the bird, and isn't afraid to stand up to her mother. [[spoiler:She flat out asks her if Andrew, whose name she dedicated her work to, would be pleased knowing what his mother has done, which sends Emma into tearful introspection.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers an absolutely ''brutal'' one to her mother; calling her out for killing millions if not nearly causing the ''extinction of humanity'', all in the name of her deceased brother when she knew fully well 1)Andrew wouldn't have wanted that and 2)Emma was doing all this for her own delusional misguided reasons.
* TheRunaway: Madison runs away with the ORCA from the location that Alan Jonah is keeping her prisoner in by sneaking through the air ducts so that not even Emma can hear it.
* TagalongKid: Is kidnapped by Jonah along with her mother, and gets dragged along as they go. [[spoiler:It's later revealed, though, that Madison was somewhat aware of Emma and Jonah's plot and went along willingly, though she had been sold on the idea that the plan would be more carefully managed and result in much less loss of life than it turned out to. Once she realizes just how bad things have actually gotten and how Emma had deceived her, she steals the ORCA in a bid to limit further casualties.]]
* YouMonster: She openly calls her mother a monster after [[spoiler:witnessing the Titans go rogue on Ghidorah's orders and her mother still believing that her actions were justified]].
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!!Other Characters
[[folder:Gunpei Ikari]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Music/{{Miyavi}}
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland''
A World War II Japanese pilot who's stranded on the island with Marlow.
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* ActorAllusion: Miyavi was cast as the BigBad (who was also an Imperial Japanese military member during World War II) of the 2014 film ''Film/{{Unbroken}}''.
* FireForgedFriends: Upon crashing on Skull Island, Marlow and Gunpei's first reaction upon seeing each is to fight to the death. [[spoiler: But after their encounter with Kong, the two set aside their differences to survive on Skull Island together, with Gunpei teaching Marlow some Japanese and how to fight with a sword. Before Marlow departs the village, he pays a tearful tribute to his deceased friend]].
* KatanasAreJustBetter: He wielded a Type 98 ''shin-guntō'' that, despite being a cheap, mass-produced sword, was more-than effective at slicing up monsters without rusting, breaking, or losing its edge for 28 years.
* KilledOffscreen: He was killed by Skullcrawlers at some point during the 28-year time skip.
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[[folder:Iwi]]
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!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' | ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''
The natives of Skull Island. They worship King Kong as a guardian god and fear the Skullcralwers. They took in Marlow and Gunpei and later provided shelter to half of the Monarch expedition.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: They're far friendlier than the natives in the previous Kong films.
* ActionSurvivor: While not shown in the film, it can be assumed they are this since they live on the island.
** The Monarch Files on the Leafwing say they hunt Leafwings and ground up the wings to use as a drug. Considering how dangerous they are this makes the Iwis badass for actively hunting them.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The younger tribe members who hunt and gather food have yellow tribal body paint while the elders have blue.
* TheDreaded: They have a name for the Skullcrawlers but dare not speak it.
* HeWhoMustNotBeNamed: See above.
* HiddenInPlainSight: They managed to get the drop on the expedition team by having a few members in mud or clay stand among the ruins like statues.
* LostTribe: To be expected since their home was thought to be a myth until it was found.
* SpikesOfDoom: They built walls of spikes around their village to keep out Skullcrawlers. Fresh blood can be seen on most of the wall.
* TheVoiceless: Marlow points out they rarely speak. Given where they live this is probably to avoid unwanted attention from the island's super predators.
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[[folder:Ato]]
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-->''"Greetings, searchers. You have come at last."''
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''
The leader of the Iwi during Aaron's 1995 expedition to Skull Island. He takes them in after Kong saves them from their violent run-in with Death Jackals.
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* AccidentalPervert: When Riccio suggests the team get body painted for the Iwi rituals, Ato enthusiastically agrees and tells the rest of Aaron's team to take their clothes off. They are not amused. Justified in a rare realistic example, the Iwi are an isolated tribe.
* PistolWhipping: In issue 4, when Riccio says the wall protecting the Iwi village must come down, Ato pleads against it and gets pistol-whipped across the face by Riccio.
* TheVoiceless: Subverted. His father learned English from Marlow, who in turn taught Ato English.
* YoungAndInCharge: He's like eight-years-old, at max.
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[[folder:Alan Jonah]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mv5bodexotgxnjy1ov5bml5banbnxkftztgwmje5mzeznzm_v1_sx1777_cr001777845_al.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Long live the King."'']]
-->''"I've seen human nature. It just gets worse. The world always belonged to them. It is time we gave it back."''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CharlesDance
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''
A former British Army colonel and [[SecretIntelligenceService MI-6]] agent turned fanatic anarchist who leads a terrorist paramilitary group dealing in trafficking Titan DNA, seeking to "level the global playing field" through stolen weapons technology.
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* ActorAllusion: Wistfully remarks, "Long live the king..." after seeing [[spoiler:Ghidorah dominate the Titans of the world]]. [[Series/GameOfThrones Cute.]]
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: [[spoiler:He points out to Emma that he is fine with a world-destroying apocalypse, and pretty much [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized expected it]], while she was deluded to think the Earth could manage kaiju running rampant]].
* {{Backstory}}: Jonah used to be a colonel in the British Army colonel and an MI6 secret agent. He soon became disillusioned by governments and humanity in general because of [[HumansKillWantonly all the wars, death, and destruction people bring about]] so he defected and went rogue. Since then, Jonah has been connected to armed mercenary groups engaged in sociopolitical intrigue as he sought to "level the global playing field" with stolen weapons technology. In 2005, Jonah came to Monarch's attention when he and several mercenary accomplices were caught trying to breach the walls of a subterranean [=MUTO=] dig site, and Jonah was locked up in a Pakistani prison.
* BaitTheDog: Inverted. At first he seems to be the driving force of the first quarter of the movie, killing Monarch scientists and agents, abducting Dr. Russell and her daughter and planning to use the Orca for some insidious means. [[spoiler:But then it turns out ''Emma'' is the real mastermind behind the plan to release Ghidorah, that she came to him before the start of the movie, and the parts where the plan goes OffTheRails because [[EvilIsNotAToy Ghidorah doesn't act according to her design]] were things he had no part in.]]
* BigBad: Along with Ghidorah, being the leader of the ecoterrorists aiming to let the Kaiju overthrow humanity.
* ColonelBadass: A former Special Forces colonel. Jonah has managed to recruit an entire organization to help him to achieve his goals.
* DeadpanSnarker: Considering he's played by the guy who played [[Series/GameOfThrones Tywin Lannister]], it's not exactly a shocker.
-->'''Soldier:''' ''[Upon seeing Ghidorah trapped in the ice.]'' Mother of God...\\
'''Jonah:''' She had nothing to do with this.
* EcoTerrorist: Labeled a Class-1 level threat, Alan Jonah is under the impression that reawakening the Titans will potentially set things right in the world since humans have mistreated and damaged the planet.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The film implies that he has a soft spot for his NumberTwo, Asher, which is confirmed by the novelization; the novel further adds that after Asher is killed, Emma notes that the last fragment of Jonah's humanity died with him.
* EvilBrit: Former British military/spy turned omnicidal EcoTerrorist.
* {{Foil}}: From what we know of him, he is one to Dr. Ishirō Serizawa. Both characters are de facto leaders of their respective groups associated with finding the Titans. Both characters also view the Titans as much more than just simply giant monsters. But while Serizawa believes that both humans and Titan can co-exist together, Alan doesn’t and he believes that the Titans must wipe out humanity to save the planet. While Serizawa champions Godzilla as the king/alpha, Alan champions King Ghidorah.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Again, former British military/spy turned omnicidal EcoTerrorist.
* HumansAreBastards: After years in the service of his country, seeing humanity at its worst, and believing that human nature is only getting progressively worse, he feels he has seen the monster humanity can become through their destructive tendencies.
* IHaveYourWife: He takes Emma, the ex-wife of Dr. Mark Russell hostage to gain control of her invention "the Orca" and potentially control the Titans. [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed he didn't kidnap her at all; she came to him and they agreed to work together.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, he's still at large and has gotten his hands on one of King Ghidorah's severed heads.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: The guy does not have any second thought about letting billions of people die as a consequence of releasing the Titans in order to "save the Earth". Even when it is clear that King Ghidorah has no intention of saving the Earth but rather wants to terraform it to its liking, he just shrugs it off and says that maybe it's time for the Titans to take the Earth for their own. Aside from the soldiers under his command, he doesn't give a crap about the rest of humanity at all.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Lost his faith in humanity altogether after decades of witnessing [[WarIsHell the horror and desolation of war]].
* MisanthropeSupreme: Seeing the worst parts of humanity again and again drove him to become an extreme misanthrope. He's fully willing to let Ghidorah destroy everyone because of this.
* NervesOfSteel: Isn't fazed at all when Emma [[spoiler:pulls a gun on him]].
* PetTheDog:
** Despite having little reason to do so, when in an elevator next to a frightened Madison he attempts to calm her down by passing a hand over his face and making a friendly smile. She [[FlippingTheBird flips him the bird]] in response. He seems more amused by this than anything.
** [[spoiler:Near the end he lets Emma go to rescue her daughter, believing he and his men will do fine without her.]]
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Does not hesitate to divulge the true extent of destruction releasing the Titans worldwide would have caused to Madison, berating her for believing that the world will turn out to be a paradise after the Titans are done with it as what her mother led her to believe.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Before kidnapping Emma and her daughter Madison, Jonah previously followed Emma around the world to labs she has in Cairo and Tokyo and attempted to raid them.
* TheStoic: Jonah is always shown to be calm and collected despite whatever chaos happens around him.
* TwoFirstNames: Alan and Jonah.
* VillainHasAPoint: He correctly critiques Emma's behaviour throughout the film, such as pointing out her irresponsibility as a parent. Later in the film, shortly after Rodan's awakening, Jonah mockingly, but correctly, jabs at Emma's obscene naivety in letting the Titans ravage humanity to restore balance, then being horrified when she witnesses Ghidorah's path of destruction.
-->'''Emma:''' Leave [Madison] out of this!\\
'''Jonah:''' Why? ''You're'' the one who brought her ''into'' it!
* WarIsHell: He wholeheartedly agrees, as that was what made him go rogue and start seeking a way to bring back the Titans.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Alan wants to free the Kaiju so that they can overthrow humanity as the dominant species, as he believes they'll take better care of planet Earth than humans.
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