Line #58 Characters/MonsterVerseHumans


1	'''[[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerse Main Character Index]]-]]]'''
2	'''[[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerseKaiju Kaiju]]-]]]'''
3	'''[[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla Godzilla]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingKong King Kong]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseMothra Mothra]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseMUTO MUTO]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseRodan Rodan]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandKaijuAndOtherCreatures Skull Island Kaiju & Other Creatures]]-]]]'''
4	\
5	'''[[center:[-Humans-]]]'''
6	''' [[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies Families]] ([[Characters/MonsterVerseRussellFamily Russell Family]]) \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Monarch]] ([[Characters/MonsterVerseIshiroSerizawa Dr. Ishirō Serizawa]]) \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseUSGovernmentAndMilitary U.S. Government & Military]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Skull Island Expeditions]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseEcoTerrorists Eco-Terrorists]] \| [[Characters/MonsterVerseApexCybernetics Apex Cybernetics]]-]]]'''
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9	[[foldercontrol]]
10
11	!!Skull Island
12
13	[[folder:Gunpei Ikari]]
14	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gunpeiikari.jpg]]
15	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Music/{{Miyavi}}
16	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland''
17
18	A World War II Japanese pilot who got stranded on Skull Island with Lieutenant Hank Marlow.
19	----
20	* 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}}''.
21	%%* DramaticDrop
22	* DueToTheDead: Aside from getting a {{weapon tombstone}} within the Iwi's village, Marlow kneels and places a hand on Gunpei's grave, explaining his history with the man to Conrad and Marlow as well as their vow that they would never leave each-other behind, before he takes Gunpei's shin-guntō so that he can fulfil that vow spiritually when he escapes the island.
23	%%* FatalFamilyPhoto: InvertedTrope.
24	* FireForgedFriends: Upon crashing on Skull Island, Marlow and Gunpei's first reaction upon seeing each is to fight to the death. 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.
25	* HeroesPreferSwords: {{Inverted\|Trope}} and then PlayedStraight. In the {{distant prologue}}, he (wielding a katana), and Marlow are both trying to kill each-other, and Marlow in fact fires at Gunpei first, but Gunpei is decidedly the more vicious of the two by the {{slasher smile}} that he wears when trying to run Marlow through. Offscreen, they became FireForgedFriends and befriended the Iwi over their years marooned on the island, and Marlow wields Gunpei's katana as a way to keep the latter with him.
26	* KatanasAreJustBetter: He wields a katana that was more than effective at slicing up monsters without rusting, breaking, or losing its edge without proper care for 28 years, seemingly doing more damage to a Skullcrawler than bullets.
27	* KilledOffscreen: He was killed by Skullcrawlers at some point during the 28-year time skip.
28	%%* PosthumousCharacter
29	%%* The Promise: "We swore we'd never leave each-other behind."
30	%%* SlasherSmile
31	* WeaponTombstone: His ''shin-guntō'' sword serves as a grave marker until Marlow reclaims it as a memento of their friendship.
32	[[/folder]]
33
34	[[folder:The Iwi]]
35	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/14592181_368920800122194_2741418135444783104_n.jpg]]
36	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' \| ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong'' \| ''Kingdom Kong'' \| ''[[WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023 Skull Island]]''
37
38	The human natives of Skull Island. They worship 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.
39	----
40	* AdaptationalHeroism: Unlike the hostile natives in previous Kong movies, who ranged from being violently xenophobic to savage brutes, the Iwi are civilised and friendly to visitors once they realise they aren't a threat.
41	* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In most ''Franchise/KingKong'' films, the natives of Skull Island are equal parts revering and terrified of Kong to the point they make sacrifices to hopefully sate him. Here the Iwi and Kong are outwardly friendly to each other, the former seeing the big ape as a benevolent guardian deity and the latter actively protecting the natives from dangerous predators.
42	* ActionSurvivor: While not shown in the film, it can be assumed they are this since they live on the island.
43	** 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 Iwi badass for actively hunting them.
44	* AdmiringTheAbomination: The Skull Island Iwi revere Kong while the Hollow Earth Iwa worshipped [[spoiler:Mothra]] as a deity, and after the original was killed by Godzilla they continued to worship her egg and unborn offspring.
45	* BodyPaint: They paint their bodies with distinct hieroglyphic patterns. Most of the Iwi use yellow paint, but in ''Kong: Skull Island'', the elders in their village are distinguished by instead using blue paint.
46	* BusCrash: In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', and more explicitly in its novelization, it's stated that all of them except Jia have been wiped out as far as Monarch can tell due to the PerpetualStorm surrounding Skull Island closing in over the island. ''Kingdom Kong'' elaborates on this, revealing that the storm collapsed after getting exposed to a remnant of the storms King Ghidorah created, and that said storm also drew Camazotz out of Hollow Earth, with his rampage speeding up the demise of Skull Island. However, ''Kingdom Kong'' and the ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' sourcebook both contradict the movie and novelization accounts, claiming that most of the Iwi were evacuated and resettled by Monarch instead of perishing.
47	* CarvedMark: Although their body paint makes it hard to see at a distance, many of the Iwi also have numerous tribal symbols and hieroglyphs carved into their very skin.
48	* ColorCodedCastes: The younger tribe members who hunt and gather food have yellow tribal body paint while the elders have blue.
49	* ConflictKiller: {{Implied}} in the sourcebook for the tabletop game ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'': the Iwi have to survive together in a DeathWorld where humans are quite low on the food chain, and the sourcebook states that they were never witnessed having any violent altercations with each-other.
50	* TheDreaded: They dread the Skullcrawlers (known to them as [[spoiler:Halakrah]], though they scarely speak that name) and they regard Godzilla's species as a malevolent DraconicAbomination.
51	* {{Expy}}: The Iwi in the Hollow Earth civilization take after the [[Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters Houtua]], in their {{Telepathy}} and [[spoiler:worshipping Mothra]].
52	* FuturePrimitive: In the novelization, it's stated explicitly that they were the last survivors of the ancient Hollow Earth civilization which existed more than ten-thousand years ago. But after arriving on Skull Island they regressed to a largely tribal scavenging lifestyle. Retconned in ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire'' when it's revealed the Hollow Earth civilization Iwi still strive.
53	* HeWhoMustNotBeNamed: Their name for the Skullcrawlers.
54	* 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.
55	* HonorBeforeReason: In the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization, it's indicated they could've survived had they listened to Monarch's pleas to relocate as the PerpetualStorm swallowed up their homes, but they refused to move from their village until it was buried by a mudslide and all but a handful were dead.
56	* LostTribe: To be expected since their home was thought to be a myth until it was found.
57	* MalevolentMaskedMen: In ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'', the Iwi we see are all wearing red-and-yellow full-face masks and hoods over their heads, which creates a bad InUniverse first impression of them whenever Charlie encounters them: first when an Iwi herds Charlie into the Hawk's clutches [[spoiler:to be taken to Kong's home]], then when several Iwi catch Charlie in a snare [[spoiler:and intend to see him punished for offending and endangering Kong]].
58	* PerpetualFrowner: The natives of Skull Island are constantly stone-faced in ''Kong: Skull Island'', and Marlow half-jokingly quips that they "never smile". Seemingly {{subverted}}, as Jia and especially Ato smile aplenty in the Iwi's subsequent appearances.
59	* {{Retcon}}: ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire'' reveals the Iwi on Skull Island are a branch of another tribe that resides in Hollow Earth.
60	* SpikesOfDoom: They built walls of spikes around their village to keep out Skullcrawlers. Fresh blood can be seen on most of the walls.
61	* TheStoic: When their decades-long guest Marlow departs to fight his way back to the outside world, and he solemnly says farewell, the Iwi don't say or facially emote anything, but they're gathered to see him off, and their elders bow their heads to Marlow in goodbye.
62	* SuddenlySpeaking: The Iwi almost never speak when they're onscreen, being TheVoiceless in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', although Marlow indicates that they ''do'' speak offscreen. In later appearances...
63	** Aaron Brooks' expedition in ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong'' are surprised to encounter an Iwi boy named Ato who speaks English, having learned it from the previous visitors to Skull Island.
64	** In ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'', the Iwi who herds Charlie towards the Hawk is dead silent throughout the task. Later, [[spoiler:when an angry group of Iwi string Charlie up,]] Charlie is stunned to hear an Iwi woman speaking for the first time, in English[[spoiler:, as she tells him he'll suffer for his transgressions against Kong]].
65	* TheVoiceless: Marlow points out they rarely speak. Given where they live, this is probably to avoid unwanted attention from the island's super predators. The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization indicates it's probably also because Kong literally can't form human words and [[spoiler:communicates with the Iwi via sign language instead]].
66	* WallpaperCamouflage: A variation. As shown in their introductory scene, the Iwi use yellow and brown body paint to camouflage themselves seamlessly against the similarly-colored and hieroglyph-decorated ruins that lie on the outskirts of their village.
67	[[/folder]]
68
69	[[folder:Ato]]
70	[[quoteright:127:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2017_06_26_at_73105_am.png]]
71	->''"Greetings, searchers. You have come at last."''
72	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong''
73
74	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.
75	----
76	* 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.
77	* HarmfulToMinors: Since he was born and grew up on [[IsleOfGiantHorrors Skull Island]], this is a given. He's no stranger to the mutilated remains of Skull Island's predators that his people's savior Kong slays. The same probably can't be said for him witnessing ''people'' murdering other people [[spoiler:when Riccio murders two of his compatriots, including shooting Evelyn Matemavi in front of them and a screaming Aaron cradling her corpse]]. At the graphic novel's climax, Ato witnesses the Mother Longlegs swarming into his village and slaughtering his people in incredibly gruesome ways.
78	* KilledOffscreen: Since Jia is the SoleSurvivor of her people by the time of ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', it can be assumed that this fate befell him.
79	* 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.
80	* TheVoiceless: Subverted. His father learned English from Marlow, who in turn taught Ato English.
81	* YoungAndInCharge: He's like eight-years-old, at max.
82	[[/folder]]
83
84	[[folder:Jia]]
85	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtropes_jia.jpg]]
86	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kaylee Hottle
87	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Kingdom Kong'' \| ''Kong & Me'' \| ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' \| ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire''
88
89	A young Iwi girl who forms a close bond with Kong, communicating with him via sign language.
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91	* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Jia wears modern clothes in combination with her Iwi maiden shawl and a necklace of Leafwing fangs.
92	* BadassAndChildDuo: Kong has taken her in under his personal guard since the rest of her tribe apparently perished amid Skull Island's destruction. Jia is a young girl who trusts and believes in Kong unconditionally, and accompanies him wherever he goes throughout the film, [[spoiler:and she's able to secretly and mutually communicate with him via sign language]]. A well-meaning Nathan thinks Jia can manipulate Kong to Team Kong's agenda once the extent of her bond with the primate is revealed.
93	* BrainyBrunette: Like the majority of the Iwi, she has dark hair, and what she lacks in a scholary intellect, she makes up for with a tentative awareness and understanding of Kong's feelings and mental state which the rest of Team Kong lacks.
94	* BrutalHonesty: She's described in the novelization as being "blunt and literal" when she says something.
95	* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: She fills the same role among the core three members of Team Kong in her debut movie as Madison filled among the core three members of the Russell family in hers. Madison and Jia are both children in a three-person family unit (surrogate at most for Jia instead of her literal family as with Madison), primarily living with a mother figure at the start. Both have a profound connection to a benevolent Alpha Titan (Mothra and then Godzilla for Madison, Kong for Jia), and both end up being pawns of their debuts' main human antagonists via their mother figures respectively. They've both lost loved ones as collateral of a Titan incident before their first movie's start, but whereas Madison only lost her brother and became estranged from her father, Jia lost her entire family and her home due to Camazotz' actions. Madison is the daughter of elite Monarch scientists and has inherited some of their scientific acumen; whereas Jia is of a tribal background among the Iwi but was taken in by a Monarch scientist, and she's primarily spiritual. Madison has travelled the world, whereas the world outside of Skull Island is still very new to Jia, as shown by her thoughts in the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization. Madison spends most of ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' separated from one or both of her family unit's parent figures, whereas Jia spends most of ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' in near-consistent close contact with hers.
96	* DisabilitySuperpower: Being deaf gives her an enhanced sense of touch, being able to feel the vibrations of Godzilla's roar through a ship bulkhead before the ship's hi-tech instruments detect him, and later [[spoiler:feeling Kong's weakening heartbeat through the earth when he lies dying after Godzilla has defeated him]].
97	* DislikesTheNewGuy: She's at first wary of Nathan and judges him to be a coward, but she warms up to him over the course of the story. And he still has no idea what the sign Dr. Andrews told him means "brave" really means.
98	* ForeverWar: {{Discussed}} by her in the {{novelization}}. She sees the blood feud between Kong's kind and Godzilla as this.
99	* FreudianSlip: {{Inverted}} in the novelization, where she seemingly almost tells Dr. Andrews during a WhatTheHellHero that the latter isn't her mother but stops herself.
100	* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Has a doll of Kong that she made by hand and takes with her everywhere, even to the Hollow Earth.
101	* HappilyAdopted: Ilene loves Jia as her own daughter, and respects her status as the last living member of the Skull Island Iwi tribe. She even gave Jia her blessing to remain with the Iwi tribe of Hollow Earth, but Jia reaffirmed that Ilene is her home.
102	* HarmfulToMinors: Since she was born and grew up on Skull Island, this is a given. She watched the now-desperate man-eating predators and the natural disasters caused by the PerpetualStorm closing in claim all of her loved ones sans Kong, she and her surrogate mother both almost drown together in the Tasman Sea during Godzilla and Kong's first fight, she has a couple life-threatening close calls with Warbats and Hellhawks where they slaughter the adults around her (graphically in the case of the Hellhawks), [[spoiler:and she has an aerial view of Godzilla beating her beloved Kong to near-death before she personally confirms from ground zero of the aftermath that Kong is dying]].
103	* HeldGaze: Kong and Jia have a tendency to personally lock eyes with each-other when Kong leans down to look at her. The novelization notes that this is Kong's way of telling her that he, as gigantic as he is, can see her and is glad of her presence.
104	* HeroOfAnotherStory: Or at least protagonist. While she is a prominent supporting character in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', the children's book ''Kong & Me'' is from her perspective, showing them exploring Skull Island with Kong looking out for her.
105	* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Uses this to call Lind a coward directly to his face.
106	* KidWithTheLeash: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] after it's revealed that Kong understands sign language and listens to her. [[MamaBear Ilene]] immediately shoots that idea down, but eventually Jia does end up giving Kong nudges in the right direction.
107	* LastOfHerKind: It's mentioned that the Iwi tribe has been wiped out prior the events of ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', leaving Jia as the last member of her tribe. ''Kingdom Kong'' and the sourcebook for ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' appear to directly contradict this, stating that Jia's kin were evacuated when Skull Island was doomed.
108	* LikeADaughterToMe: Dr. Andrews is her guardian after the rest of the Iwi were apparently wiped out, and it's implied (particularly in the novelization) that she views Jia as a daughter.
109	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the novelization; when the bio-dome, and with it the last piece of Skull Island's ecosystem, is destroyed, Jia cries for the very first time since Andrews met her, and afterwards she rejects Andrews' attempts to comfort her for a few days. She's also tearing up when she senses [[spoiler:Kong's heartbeat fading, and when urging him after he's revived to be careful when fighting Mechagodzilla]].
110	* ParentalAbandonment: Dr. Andrews mentions that both Jia's parents died when the PerpetualStorm overtook Skull Island, leading to Andrews becoming Jia's guardian and Kong in his own way doing likewise.
111	* {{Protectorate}}: The trailers for ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' note that both Dr. Ilene Andrews and Kong himself form a protective bond with Jia, to the extent it's emphasized that she's the only human Kong trusts.
112	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: PlayedWith. She can mutually communicate with Kong via Iwi sign language, [[spoiler:including complex communication such as telling Kong that Godzilla is not the enemy and Mechagodzilla is the real enemy]].
113	* SympathyForTheDevil: The novelization of ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' reveals that Iwi culture views Godzilla's species as a malevolent DraconicAbomination. But upon learning that Godzilla is the last known individual of his kind -- just like Kong -- Jia reacts with sadness.
114	* WhatTheHellHero: In the novelization, she chews [[ParentalSubstitute Dr. Andrews]] out for repeatedly drugging and chaining up Kong, pointing out that it's only justifying Kong's distrust of Monarch instead of making him think he can open up to Andrews' efforts to communicate, and also for acting like she and Monarch know what's best for the King of Primates better than the King himself does.
115	[[/folder]]
116
117	[[folder:Annie]]
118	[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/annie_79.jpg]]
119	[[caption-width-right:1000:"Are all boys as useless as you?"]]
120	!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MaeWhitman, Creator/CharlieTownsend (young)
121	!!!'''Appears In:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Skull Island\|2023}}''
122
123	A teenaged feral girl who's been stranded on a similarly monster-populated island near Skull Island for ten years, before mercenaries kidnap her from her home, setting off a chain of events that leaves her stranded on Skull Island itself. She has a close bond with Dog.
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125	%%* ActionGirl
126	%%* BadassInDistress
127	* TheBeastmaster: She's managed to tame and form a profound bond with a giant, dog-like creature that she named [[GiverOfLameNames Dog]], on account of them banding together in their youths for survival after both were orphaned. However, she makes it clear that she can't outright force Dog to do something if he decides he doesn't want to do it or is too scared, in which case she often has to trick him into it via such methods as feigning urgent distress.
128	* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: DownplayedTrope, but her limited interaction with other people before the start of the show has led to her not having a firm grasp of their nuances.
129	%%* BloodKnight
130	%%* BrutalHonesty
131	%%* CallingTheOldWomanOut
132	* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: A Contrasting ''Prequel'' Main Character to Jia from ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''. Both are island girls unfamiliar with the modern world who have spent most of their lives so far on an IsleOfGiantHorrors, and both of them have a fierce and mutual protective friendship with an intelligent, benevolent monster. But Jia is a pre-teenaged, tribal born native of Skull Island who grew up among the Iwi, bonded with Kong, and understands Kong more intimately than the rest of her debut movie's cast; whereas Annie is a teenaged, lost {{wild child}} originally from the civilized world who's been living on ''another'' monster island for most of her life, meaning she's just as unfamiliar with Kong as the rest of the castaways [[spoiler:(and she in fact antagonizes Kong to violence against her in the season finale)]], and she's instead bonded intimately with Dog and had no-one else throughout her life on Annie's Island. Jia is almost completely non-combative, only supporting and communicating with Kong rather than getting herself involved in any actual fighting of any kind (which would be impractical for her anyway given her younger age), whereas Annie is a vicious fighter who works in tandem with Dog when he's around, holds her own well without him. [[spoiler:Whereas Jia starts and spends the movie under the guardianship of an unrelated woman from the civilized world who took her in after both her parents died, Annie is ([[LukeIAmYourFather unbeknownst to her]]) pursued by her actual MissingMom from the civilized world who wants to take her back, which Annie actively resists]].
133	%%* DisappearedDad
134	* FamilyEyeResemblance: She has the same amber eyes as one of her parents: [[spoiler:her mother, Irene]].
135	* FeudingFamilies: {{Inverted}}. Annie's father and Dog's were trying to kill each-other, leading to a MutualKill. Amid the fallout, the two opponents' newly-orphaned offspring bonded with each-other and became inseparable.
136	* GardenGarment: DownplayedTrope. She's a WildChild who's scavenged clothing mostly consists of garments that were clearly made in the civilized world, except for a semi "mini-cape" she wears around her waist that's made of ferns.
137	* AGirlAndHerX: Though she's quick to point out that he's not a pet, she does have a monster dog; named Dog, as a companion.
138	* GiverOfLameNames: Dubbed the Island she spent most of her life stranded on, the very original name of "Annie's Island."
139	* HypocriticalHumour: When Charlie takes a harpoon head from her and throws it to Mike she reprimands him for "stealing", completely ignoring the fact that said harpoon head was from their ship and she had seems to have no problem taking anything else she thinks she needs from people. This is PlayedForLaughs.
140	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Being a {{wild child}} with {{no social skills}}, she's ''[[BrutalHonesty very]]'' [[BrutalHonesty blunt]], and she isn't always considerate about how it affects the people around her, [[spoiler:such as dropping the bombshell that Mike's "dying" on Charlie without elaborating, or bluntly commenting in front of Cap that Charlie is likely dead due to Mike leaving him]].
141	* JunglePrincess: Of Annie's Island.
142	* LiteralMinded: Having been isolated on an IsleOfGiantHorrors without any human contact since she was six years old, Annie doesn't understand many euphemisms or metaphors, and what ones she ''does'' understand are often warped, like her idea of a "magic trick".
143	-->'''Irene:''' You're a cavegirl!\
144	'''Annie:''' ''[stunned]'' I have ''never'' lived in a cave!
145	%%* MissingChild
146	* NoSocialSkills: Having been without human contact for about a decade she never gained any real social skills.
147	%%* PlatonicLifePartners: With Dog.
148	%%* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated
149	%%* SharedFamilyQuirks
150	* TimeShiftedActor: She's mainly voiced by Creator/MaeWhitman, but her much younger self in Episode 5 is voiced by Creator/CharlieTownsend.
151	* TrackingDevice: Unbeknownst to her, the handcuffs which the mercenaries slapped on her, and which remain stuck on her wrists despite the chain being broken, have a tracker in them which the mercs are using to track her whereabouts across Skull Island and anticipate her movements during a direct confrontation.
152	%%* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior
153	* WildChild: Annie has been shipwrecked on an island close to Skull Island for more than a decade with nobody but Dog for companionship. Thus, at age 16, she has a tendency to act somewhat immature and socially inept.
154	%%* WildHair
155	[[/folder]]
156
157	[[folder:Island Girl]]
158	[[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skull_island_still_8.jpg]]
159	[[caption-width-right:1000:"My king."]]
160	!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/FrydaWolff
161	!!!'''Appears In:''' ''WesternAnimation/{{Skull Island\|2023}}''
162
163	A girl of apparently Spanish origins [[note]]she speaks Spanish and does not resemble the Iwi[[/note]] who lived on Skull Island with her people[[note]]who like her do not appear to be members of the Iwi[[/note]]. She developed a close friendship with Kong some time before Annie, Irene's group, and the crew of the ''Once Upon a Maritime'' arrived on the island.
164	----
165	%%* ActionGirl
166	* AffectionateGestureToTheNose: She places her palm against Kong's nose [[spoiler:with her dying breaths, acknowledging her close Titan friend as her king]].
167	%%* BadassInDistress
168	%%* BeautyIsNeverTarnished
169	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:She dies while Kong's holding her in his hand due to the injuries she gained from the Kraken's attack.]]
170	%%* JavelinThrower
171	%%* JunglePrincess
172	%%* PosthumousCharacter
173	* SayMyName: When things are dire in the fight against the Killer Chameleons:
174	-->"Kong!"
175	* ShoutOut: Seeing as how this isn't the first SignificantGreenEyedRedhead to have a close relationship with Kong this could mean that the Island Girl is a reference to [[WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries Lua]].
176	* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Has bright green eyes and red hair and is major part of Kong's backstory in ''WesternAnimation/{{Skull Island\|2023}}''.
177	%%* WalkingSpoiler
178	%%* WHatTheHellHero
179	[[/folder]]
180
181	!!Other Characters
182	[[folder:Akio]]
183	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/monsterverseakio.jpg]]
184	[[caption-width-right:350:]]
185	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jake Cunanan
186	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla\|2014}}''
187	A young Japanese boy who's separated from his parents on a monorail in Honolulu just before Godzilla and the male MUTO surface.
188	----
189	* AdaptationalDumbass: In the film he's quite keenly aware of his surroundings, whereas in the novelization he doesn't seem to notice that he's been separated from his parents.
190	* KidAmidTheChaos: He gets separated from his parents due to a mundane incident with a train's automated doors shutting on him, prompting Ford to watch out for him until they can get him back to his parents. Then Hokmuto shows up, [[spoiler:and Ford ends up saving this boy from a potentially grievous death]].
191	* {{Protectorate}}: He's one for Ford in the brief time he's in Ford's custody during the kaiju incident.
192	[[/folder]]
193
194	[[folder:Bus Driver]]
195	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/godzilla2014busdriver.jpg]]
196	[[caption-width-right:350:]]
197	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DeeJayJackson
198	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla\|2014}}''
199	A bus driver transporting children across the Golden Gate Bridge amidst the San Francisco evacuations, when Godzilla arrives.
200	----
201	* BadassDriver: When Godzilla arrives at the Golden Gate Bridge just after the driver has been told to turn around, he manages to drive his vehicle full of kids through police and military barricades in the middle of an explosive skirmish between Godzilla and the Navy. He gets off the Golden Gate Bridge just before the massive {{Kaiju}} barges through it.
202	* HeroicBystander: He's clearly just a civilian, yet the moment him and the bus full of kids he's transporting are caught between Godzilla and military gung-ho, he puts the pedal to the metal and gets them all to safety like a champ, despite the many obstacles in his vehicle's path.
203	[[/folder]]
204
205	[[folder:Josh Valentine]]
206	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvtropes_joshvalentine.png]]
207	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JulianDennison
208	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''
209
210	A young boy who allies with Madison and Bernie in their investigation of what is causing Godzilla's rampage.
211	----
212	* BrainyBrunette: He has dark hair, and although he's [[CowardlyLion a little bit timid]] and isn't on the same intellectual level as Bernie and Madison, he makes up for these things by possessing people skills which the other two both lack; coming in handy when Madison is trying to track down Bernie. Josh apparently pirates media during his spare time, [[spoiler:and although his efforts to perform HollywoodHacking on Mechagodzilla's satellite uplink are useless, he ''does'' resourcefully find a way to [[CuttingTheKnot cut the knot]] with seconds to spare before Mechagodzilla would have killed Kong]].
213	* CowardlyLion: He's definitely the timidest member of Team Godzilla, and if the other two decide to approach something that looks ominous, he will be the one to complain about it and be the last one to step through. But that doesn't stop him sticking by his allies and making himself useful where he can. Notably, Madison gives him the choice to accompany her or back out before she heads off to find Bernie Hayes, and he goes along.
214	* CuttingTheKnot: Josh and Bernie are unable to hack into [[spoiler: Mechagodzilla's control board, and Bernie [[DrowningMySorrows gets ready to chug the flask of whisky he keeps for his darkest hour]], giving Josh the idea to just dump the alcohol into the control panel to short-circuit it.]]
215	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When we first meet him showing up to Madison's house with his brother's stolen van, he's expressing nervousness about being caught for the act (despite his brother being immediately implied to be someone who wouldn't even notice), and he questions why he and Madison have to get involved in the current Titan crisis. When Maddie looks him in the eye and asks whether he's coming or staying, Josh replies with a brave face and nil hesitation that he's most certainly coming with her -- then he goofs up his attempt to look like a toughie while opening the van door.
216	* HollywoodHacking: {{Subverted}}. He tries doing this to Apex's computers, but [[spoiler:randomly typing in pass codes just gets him locked out of the system]].
217	* LogicalLatecomer: He protests and tries to warn the other characters, including Madison Russell from [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the previous film]], when they're heading toward instead of away from something that any practical-minded or common-sensed person would consider ominous and dangerous.
218	* MatureYoungerSibling: His brother, who owns the van he steals for Madison, is apparently an oblivious DisappointingOlderSibling, whereas Josh is a sharp and weary kid.
219	* TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless: {{Subverted}}. Although him, Bernie and Madison infiltrate Apex Cybernetics' secret facilities to investigate their role in Godzilla's rampage, for most of the movie they're only [[FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator a kind of P.O.V. character]] for the audience to watch the mystery gradually unveil through, and they fail to make any meaningful impact on the plot. [[spoiler:That is, until Mechagodzilla, possessed by Ghidorah's subconsciousness, [[NearVillainVictory is about to kill Kong]] after Godzilla has been heavily weakened, and Josh is in ''just'' the right place at just the right time to sabotage the computer controlling the Mecha's satellite link once Bernie gives Josh an idea]].
220	* MundaneSolution: In the novelization, Team Godzilla at one point comes to a locked door in the Apex HQ with a keypad, and when Bernie asks Josh if he can hack it, Josh proposes they just take a nearby staircase instead.
221	* NerdGlasses: He has browline/chunky-black glasses, has stereotypical-nerd levels of timidness, and is a hacker (his main specialty is movie piracy).
222	* OnlyFriend: Sort of. It's hinted in the movie, and confirmed by the novelization, that Josh is the only friend or acquaintance Madison has managed to make who is in her age group, since Mark enrolled her in a high school where all the other kids [[AllTheOtherReindeer ostracize or pick on her]]. However, it should be noted that Madison feels she has ''adult'' friends and peers within Monarch.
223	* OnlySaneByComparison: PlayedWith. Compared to Madison and Bernie who head toward unknown possible danger without much second thought if they think it'll get them closer to the answers they're after, Josh as the token CowardlyLion is keenly aware and willing to point out when heading this way or that way isn't a safe idea.
224	* PluckyComicRelief: {{Inverted}}. He's a source of quirks and humor like Bernie, although he's not quite as wacky as the latter, leaving Madison as the only serious member of Team Godzilla.
225	%%* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl
226	* SpannerInTheWorks: Team Godzilla's only role up until the FinalBattle [[spoiler:against Mechagodzilla]] is discovering the conspiracy behind Apex, but when [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla is reprogrammed by Ghidorah's consciousness, Josh narrowly prevents Mechagodzilla from successfully killing Kong by pouring Bernie's flask of alcohol on Mechagodzilla's controls. Had it not been for that, Mechagodzilla would've likely beaten both Kong and Godzilla and gone on to threaten the whole world]].
227	* StreetSmart: Funnily enough, he, [[NerdGlasses of all people]], stands out amongst Team Godzilla for showing shades of this. Despite his nerdy and timid appearance, Josh is person-savvy enough to know precisely how to get Bernie's whereabouts from a store clerk when Madison was struggling to get what they were after, he's good at {{cutting the knot}} on the fly [[spoiler:(this trait of his narrowly derails a Ghidorah-possessed Mechagodzilla's near-certain victory at a time when Madison was helpless and Bernie was about to give up)]], and he exhibits a practical spatial awareness and cautiousness of danger when he's accompanying Madison and Bernie through Apex.
228	* YouTalkTooMuch: Bernie tells him this word-for-word in the novelization.
229	[[/folder]]
230
231	[[folder:May Olowe-Hewitt]]
232	!!'''Coral Mateo'''
233	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/monarch_photo_010804.jpg]]
234	[[caption-width-right:350:]]
235	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KierseyClemons
236	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''
237	A roguish American ex-patriate and a talented techy, who accompanies Kentaro and Cate Randa on their investigation into their father's disappearance.
238	----
239	* AmbiguouslyBi: She's ''heavily'' implied to be bisexual, but it's not been explicitly confirmed. She sleeps with Kentaro Randa the day she first meets him, and dates him for a while until their relationship eventually falls apart due to lack of communication. After Cate Randa helps save her when she falls into ice-water, May begins to warm towards her, and their interactions become increasingly affectionate and protective throughout the series--something that annoys Kentaro when he notices it--though it's not confirmed whether May is attracted to Cate or not. She also went on a dinner date with Brenda Holland before discovering the latter's true colors, and the pair act like mutually-betrayed ex-lovers in the present.
240	* AnimalLover: In her TroubledBackstoryFlashback, she looks physically sick when she discovers the videos of [[EvilInc AET]]'s cruel experiments on primates, [[spoiler:which her research was being used towards without her awareness. She's so horrified, in fact, that she wipes [=AET's=] database to make up for it, flushing her old life down the toilet in the process. She admits in the present that despite everything that her actions cost her, she still doesn't and won't regret it]].
241	* BecomingTheMask: She admits in episode 7 that this has happened to her over the course of the series. At first, she was lying and was just trying to save her own skin when she started accompanying the Randas on their cross-global trek based on Bill Randa's files, but she grew closer to them and doesn't want to be that kind of person anymore.
242	%%* BlackAndNerdy
243	* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Curiosity played a major part in her present day circumstances in her backstory, as revealed in her TroubledBackstoryFlashback in "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E7WillTheRealMayPleaseStandUp Will the Real May Please Stand Up?]]". [[spoiler:While working for AET, Corah wanted to know what the secret project her tech work was being fed into was all about. After Brenda wouldn't answer her questions and told her that it was above her pay grade, Corah did some unauthorized digging of her own into AET's database at night, and she was horrified to discover that the Cybernetic Neuro-Interface Unit that AET was feeding her research into was [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals inhumanely torturing monkeys with experimental brain implants]]. This led Corah to conscientiously wipe AET's database at the price of her earning the company's wrath and being forced to go on the run from them for three years; although she admits that she doesn't regret it, knowing that she did the right thing once she learned what her work was really being used for]].
244	* DefectorFromDecadence: She used to work for a Seattle-based tech innovation company called Applied Experimental Technologies, [[spoiler:the direct precursor to Apex Cybernetics,]] until she discovered their secret project that her research was being fed into, where they were conducting extremely horrific neural implant-based experiments on chimpanzees with cybernetics. She promptly wiped the company's database on moral principle [[spoiler:at the cost of her being forced to go on the run. After getting caught by AET and confronted by Holland in the present, May admits that despite the grief it's caused her, she'll never regret what she did]].
245	* DefrostingIceQueen: When the Randas first approach her with Bill Randa's files, May is initially very cold, aloof and reluctant to help out beyond scientific curiosity. She later [[NotSoStoic gets angry]] and blames Kentaro for getting her involved and putting her on the run from the life she made in Tokyo. After nearly dying during the encounter with the Frost Vark and being nursed by Cate and Lee, she warms up a lot more to Cate and Kentaro. [[spoiler:The latter initially isn't enough to stop May from agreeing to become Duvall's mole amongst the Randas in exchange for getting her life back, but she later comes clean to them out of guilt. From the seventh episode onwards, she's a lot more [[ShipTease openly protective and affectionate]] towards Cate]].
246	* DoNotCallMePaul: After the Randa half-siblings learn of May/Corah's past with AET and they reconcile with her, they ask her whether or not they should start calling her by her real name and she makes it clear she'd prefer they call her by the pseudonym they've always known her by up until now.
247	* DreadlockRasta: She's a freespirited, independent black woman who styles her hair in dreadlocks.
248	%%* DullSurprise
249	* FireForgedFriends: She at first wants little to nothing to do with Kentaro and Cate, already being bitter at Kentaro for ghosting her and considering his family drama with Cate to be his own problem, [[spoiler:and she even agrees to being Duvall's mole at first]]. But by the end of the series' first season, May has grown a lot more loyal to the group, especially [[ShipTease Cate]], after traveling the world and enduring close brushes with death alongside them and after making some peace with her past with AET.
250	* {{Greed}}: In her backstory, she was enticed by money [[spoiler:to join [[ResearchInc AET]] before she learned of their [[EvilInc true colors]]]]. In the present, she's quite ashamed of it.
251	%%* GuileHero
252	* HatesRichPeople: She apparently doesn't think much of very well-off people in general, and she derides the title of Kentaro's official art show as pretentious when she first meets him. Her past with [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Brenda Holland]] might have a lot to do with this.
253	* HoldingHands: Cate and May hold hands at the end of Episode 4, relieved that they both made it out alive, and May thanks Cate for not leaving her behind. Cate and May also pointedly hold each-other's hands quite a lot throughout the final episode, by which time they've grown close to ShipTease levels. [[spoiler:In the latter episode's climax, Cate makes a point of grasping both Keiko and May's hands on either side of her in comfort as they're hurtling inside the pod towards the rift out of the Axis Mundi]].
254	* HeroicNeutral: She just wants to go back to the life she's made for herself in Tokyo. [[spoiler:By the end of "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E7WillTheRealMayPleaseStandUp Will the Real May Please Stand Up?]]", she's grown a lot more loyal to the Randas, and in the following episode, they agree to help Monarch stop Shaw from potentially triggering a global apocalypse]].
255	* KeepingSecretsSucks: She secretly spies on the Randas for Duvall, but the guilt for betraying theirs (particularly Cate's) trust in such a way eats her up [[spoiler:to the point where she comes clean about it out of guilt within less than two episodes]].
256	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: She had to abandon her old life [[spoiler:as Corah Mateo]] because she committed cyber-terrorism against a powerful company that were conducting appallingly cruel experiments on monkeys [[spoiler:with an experimental BrainComputerInterface, and they'd been feeding her own work for them into it]], to avoid their ire. She doesn't regret it, though, knowing that she did the right thing, [[spoiler:only regretting that she allowed her {{greed}} to blind her into unwittingly aiding their evil before she reached that point]].
257	* NotSoStoic: For the first two episodes, she presents herself as [[DullSurprise monotonous, cold and un-emotive to everything]], but after going on the run as a result of Monarch coming after her and the Randas, she snaps at Kentaro for getting her involved in this and making her a fugitive.
258	* SharedFamilyQuirks: Her sister says that her tendency to think most people are idiots but help them when they need her is a Mateo family trait.
259	* ShipTease: She becomes increasingly affectionate and touchy-feely with one of the main characters above everyone else as the series goes on: [[spoiler:Cate]].
260	* TechnoWizard: She's skilled at coding and hacking, helping decode the files that Cate and Kentaro discover in a hidden safe in their father's office. Her coding skills also got her hired by Applied Experimental Technologies [[spoiler:until she discovered her work was being used in unethical experiments]].
261	* WorkingWithTheEx: She was romantically involved with Kentaro before breaking up with him, and is initially angry when he comes to her for help.
262	[[/folder]]
263
264	[[folder:Du-Ho]]
265	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mlom_duho.jpg]]
266	[[caption-width-right:350:]]
267	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BruceBaek
268	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''
269	A pilot and an old friend of Lee Shaw, located in South Korea. He assists Shaw, May Olowe-Hewitt and the Randa half-siblings to reach Alaska in their search for Hiroshi's whereabouts.
270	----
271	* DueToTheDead: PlayedWith. Lee burns Du-Ho's body, but beyond giving his fallen friend a decent send-off, the fire primarily serves to attract a Monarch helicopter's attention for rescue.
272	* INeedAFreakingDrink: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. He keeps a bottle on his plane at all times "in case of emergencies", but it isn't alcohol -- it's a bottle of water that he uses as a makeshift altitude indicator on his dashboard.
273	* OhCrap: He freaks out and immediately makes a beeline back for his own plane the moment he sees the Frost Vark's claw-marks in the destroyed plane's fuselage and realizes that there's a giant, plane-downing monster up on the Alaskan mountain with the cast.
274	* RedShirt: In the same episode where he's introduced, he's killed at the episode's end by the Frost Vark using its [[EnergyAbsorption heat absorption]] to completely freeze-dry him in seconds, establishing the creature's power and the threat it poses to the remaining cast for the next episode. Lee manages to return to Du-Ho's body and give him a makeshift funeral pyre in Episode 4, reminiscing about their past with each-other as he does so.
275	* StepfordSmiler: Outwardly, he appears to have a larger-than-life and upbeat personality. During a tender private conversation with Cate, however, he reveals that he watched his own father, multiple girlfriends, and ''many'' other people die during his life.
276	[[/folder]]
277
278	[[folder:Raymond Martin]]
279	!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted''
280	The head of RM Construction, who uses his company's resources to build a crude anti-Titan mecha of his own dubbed the "Titan Hunter". Styling himself as a hunter, his utmost desire is to slaughter as many Titan lifeforms as possible, not caring in the slightest whether they're bad, good or even harmless, and he has his kills stuffed as morbid trophies.
281	----
282	* AlwaysABiggerFish: The Titan Hunter can tear through smaller, weaker Titans without too much effort. However, by Martin's own admission, it's not ready to fight the larger, stronger Titans like Godzilla. He's proven correct when he goes up against Kong, and while able to land some good hits, ends up tossed into a ravine for his trouble.
283	* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: He ''is'' the head of a construction company, but he has enough resources to hire an army of goons, to build and maintain a HumongousMecha that can briefly go toe-to-toe with Kong (something which the multi-billion Apex Cybernetics corporation struggled to make a reality), and to bribe ''Monarch itself'' and multiple other relevant agencies into turning a blind eye so that he'll have free reign to rampage for 48 hours. One has to wonder if he ''really'' got all that money from his construction company, or if Walter Simmons somehow left his entire fortune to him.
284	* AxCrazy: His utmost goal in life is killing as many Titans and Titan-adjacent creatures as possible using his Titan Hunter mech, and he targets passive and outright defenceless creatures on sight like the Sker Buffalo, and a pair of Spineprowler cubs that are too young to pose a threat -- the latter he goes ''way'' out of his way to try and murder.
285	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Similar to Apex Cybernetics' brutal use of the Skullcrawlers as target practice for Mechagodzilla, Martin is practically a SerialKiller of megafauna who's illegally slaughtered numerous creatures from Kong's domain before the story's start, and he captures and brutally kills a Spineprowler to test his Titan Hunter. Worse yet, Martin attacks and slaughters a defenceless [[GentleGiant Sker Buffalo]] on sight (which disgusts even his own men), and then he outright chases and attempts to murder a pair of terrified Spineprowler ''[[WouldHurtAChild cubs]]''.
286	* BigBad: He's the main antagonist of ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted'', as his hunt with the Titan Hunter is the main threat and his actions also provoked Scylla into her rampage.
287	* BoobyTrap: He uses a giant electric booby trap to capture the Spineprowler that previously picked a fight with Kong.
288	* BullyingADragon: While openly admitting the Titan Hunter isn't ready yet to fight the larger, stronger Titans, he ends up picking a fight with Kong despite knowing Kong is not only one of those larger, stronger Titans, but managed to do decently well in a fight against Godzilla himself. While the Titan Hunter does land some good hits and knock Kong down, Kong doesn't have too much trouble dispatching the mecha.
289	* CharacterCatchphrase: He keeps saying "Too easy!" when he's hunting Titans.
290	* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
291	** To Walter Simmons, Ren Serizawa and Apex Cybernetics in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''. Like them, he's the head of a rich, shady organization who sees all Titans as a threat to humanity; seeking to best the Titans using a HumongousMecha that he created, directly attacking one of the Protector Alpha Titans, and endangering hundreds of innocents in pursuit of his agenda by collaterally instigating Titan rampages. However, Apex were a shiny, chrome, well-dressed, hi-tech evil ResearchInc; were largely cold and clinical in their desire to dominate the Titans, they had [[VisionaryVillain visionary ideals]] of [[TakeOverTheWorld ushering in a mega-corporate world hegemony with themselves at the top]]; sought to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity maintain a decent public image]] and ultimately be worshipped by the world via EngineeredHeroics; and in the novelization, were banking on Godzilla escalating the destruction of a heavily populated city for their agenda. Raymond Martin on the other hand is a shabbily-dressed, self-styled hunter whose technology has a more rustic and patchwork aesthetic; has a much more emotional and less long-sighted desire to personally kill as many monsters as possible for his own catharsis with no higher end-goal; and he doesn't care about public image beyond bribing anyone that might get in his way to turn the other cheek; and sets up his beacons in comparitvely isolated areas.
292	** He also starkly contrasts Colonel Lee Shaw in the preceding overall Franchise/MonsterVerse instalment, ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''. Both men tragically lost the people they loved to a hostile Titan creature, which motivates their present day actions; both of them lead an illegal organization and believe they're protecting humanity against monster threats, and both tend to let their emotions cloud their judgment and actions in the long run. However, Shaw was an AntiVillain with a military background who recognized that some of the Titans like Godzilla are in fact humanity's allies, he had no personal hatred for the hostile Titans, and he simply wanted to cut the HollowEarth off from the surface so that the Titans couldn't encroach on humanity's world -- Martin, who instead has a background as a construction company executive, is an AxCrazy KnightTemplar who murderously despises all monsters, seeking to sate his bloodlust on personally slaughtering as many of them as he can, and he doesn't distinguish in the slightest between monsters which are actually a threat and ones which aren't. Shaw had staunch moral limits to how far he would go in the name of his plan, refusing to sacrifice lives, [[spoiler:and in the end he sided with the heroes]] -- Martin on the other hand has no line that he won't cross to sate his anti-monster bloodlust, which disgusts even his men when he starts slaughtering non-threatening creatures and targeting infant creatures on sight, and he dies completely unrepentant for his crimes. Shaw had a personal chip on his shoulder towards Monarch, and formed a RenegadeSplinterFaction from them, whereas Martin has no connection to nor interest in Monarch beyond bribing them to look the other way while he rampages. Shaw had a very personal connection to the main human heroes in his work, whereas Martin has no connection to Bernie Hayes in his work and the two never even meet.
293	* CutLexLuthorACheck: Martin is clearly extremely intelligent and competent, and the Titan Hunter is, while not as powerful as Mechagodzilla and outclassed by the larger Titans, able to handle the weaker ones fairly easily and at least last a few minutes against the larger ones. Despite this, he decides to use it for hunting Titans as part of his personal obsession.
294	* DisneyVillainDeath: Kong pushes the Titan Hunter off a cliff, causing it to be damaged beyond repair. Martin himself survives the fall, at least until he's found by the Spineprowler cubs.
295	* EatenAlive: He's eaten by a pair of Spineprowler cubs, and it's [[KarmicDeath completely deserved]].
296	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As ruthless as he may be, it's clear that he's still suffering from the death of his family to this day.
297	* EvenEvilHasStandards: While he sets up beacons to distract Godzilla from his tests, they're usually set up in relatively isolated locations, as opposed to population centers. When Scylla ends up attacking and destroying a power plant, he looks on with a horrified expression, flashing back to the loss of his family. This gets downplayed as he immediately uses this as "proof" that titans are a threat.
298	* EveryScarHasAStory: He got the scars on his face when Femuto attacked a building that was holding him and his family -- his family died in that incident, the which is the catalyst for his monster-murdering rampage in the present.
299	* ExitPursuedByABear: He is last seen at the mercy of two Spineprowler cubs whose mother he has killed. His fate was probably less than pleasant.
300	* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has glaring scars almost like claw marks running from his mouth down to his throat, and he's a truly vile and evil piece of work.
301	* KarmicDeath: He meets his end by the otherwise-defenceless Spineprowler cubs that he went out of his way to try and murder using the Titan Hunter, and after he killed their mother. For extra irony, he is killed by creatures avenging their family, the same way he was motivated by the loss of his own.
302	* KnightTemplar: He sees himself as a HunterOfMonsters who's completely in the right. In reality, he's a ''monstrously'' self-serving madman, who murders completely non-threatening creatures like the Sker Buffalo, and he hounds and attempts to murder a pair of defenceless cubs before attempting to murder the most philanthropic living Alpha Titan on the planet, proving in the end that humans sometimes [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters really are the true monsters]].
303	* TheLostLenore: His wife was killed by the MUTO female in his backstory, and it's 20% of the reason why he's now a psychopath thirsty for all monster life's blood to a point which goes into and beyond VanHelsingHateCrimes.
304	* MugglePower: Type 2. He murderously despises ''all'' Titans and Sub-Titans regardless of whether they're hostile, benign or outright protective, or even if they're [[WouldHurtAChild cute and completely defenceless cubs]], and he believes that every last one of them should be wiped out. He seeks to kill as many monsters as he can using the [[HumongousMecha Titan Hunter]].
305	* MythologyGag: His name seems to be a combination of Steve Martin, the main character of ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1956'' (the American dub of the original Godzilla movie), and Creator/RaymondBurr, the actor who played said character.
306	* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He prattles on about the Titans and the threat they pose after seeing Scylla's rampage; ostensibly his creation of the Titan Hunter is to combat this threat. However, it's ultimately shown this he's mainly motivated by revenge for his own personal losses.
307	* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: For the head of a mere construction company, he's somehow able to fund cartoonish levels of villainy. He has his own private army, a gigantic base, a HumongousMecha, and he effortlessly bribes every other agency that might interfere with his Titan murder sprees, including ''Monarch itself'', to look the other way.
308	* OhCrap: He lets out a loud gulp when he realizes that he's about to be devoured by the two Spineprowler cubs.
309	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son was killed by the MUTO female in his backstory, and it's 20% of the reason why he's now a psychopath thirsty for all monster life's blood to a point which goes into and beyond VanHelsingHateCrimes.
310	* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: His giant mech, the Titan Hunter, a blatant copy of Apex Industries' Mechagodzilla. However, this machine is worse is practically every respect; it lacks any ranged weapons, is much smaller and less durable, requires the pilot to be physically inside it rather than telepathically controlling it from a distance, and is absolutely no match for larger Titans like Godzilla or Kong. It even ''looks'' much cheaper, resembling repurposed construction equipment and having its wires all exposed. If WordOfGod regarding Mechagodzilla's hypothetical three trillion dollar budget is taken into account, then the Titan Hunter, costing a comparatively meagre five-hundred million, is ''six-thousand times'' cheaper.
311	* SinisterShades: He wears black glasses, and he's more of a monster than the literal monsters that he hunts.
312	* SoleSurvivor: He was the only member of his family to survive when Femuto destroyed the building they were in.
313	* SuicidalOverconfidence: After a string of fairly easy wins, Martin decides to pick a fight with Kong rather than cut his losses, despite having previously admitted the Titan Hunter wasn't ready to fight the larger, stronger Titans. This proves to be his undoing, as the Titan Hunter is ultimately overpowered and chucked into a ravine, scrapping it.
314	* TaxidermyIsCreepy: He has all the Titans he killed stuffed and put on display in a room, which doesn't earn him any sympathy points.
315	* TragicBigot: His parents, wife and children were all killed around him during a Titan attack while he came out of the attack with gruesome scars -- as a result, he murderously despises all megafauna and he commits his life and resources to killing as many as he possibly can, not discriminating in the slightest between good and bad or outright harmless.
316	* TrophyRoom: The creepy hunter kind. He has a facility filled with the stuffed corpses of Skull Island and HollowEarth megafauna that he's killed before the start of ''The Hunted''.
317	* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: His backstory as a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds is revealed when he flashes back to it just before receiving news of Scylla's attack on the Indian nuclear power plant.
318	* VanHelsingHateCrimes: ''Big time''. He doesn't discriminate in the slightest when looking for Titans or other megafauna to kill in the Titan Hunter -- whether they be Destroyers, Protectors, or no threat to people, he'll eagerly try to kill them all on sight. A major part of what makes him so despicable despite [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds his backstory]] is that he gleefully slaughters a [[GentleGiant Sker Buffalo]] on sight (which [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his men are appalled by]]), then he pursues and attempts to slaughter two defenceless Spineprowler cubs, and then he happily tries to murder one of the world's two most heroic living Alpha Titans. Notably, his preferred hunting ground is the Hollow Earth, where the Titans are just living in their natural environment and not hurting anyone.
319	* VillainousBreakdown: He raves angrily at the "injustice" when Kong defeats his Titan Hunter in their [[MechVsBeast fight]] and leaves it dangling over a cliff.
320	* VillainProtagonist: He's the BigBad and the main human character of ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted''.
321	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He has white hair to go with his [[GoodScarsEvilScars mean scars]] and his {{sinister shades}}, and he's the main antagonist of the comic, a bloodthirsty monster-killer who terrorizes and attempts to murder Kong's most benign and defenceless charges as well as Kong himself.
322	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He lost is entire family -- his wife, son and parents -- and was himself left physically scarred when they were all caught in the female [=MUTO's=] rampage on G-Day Minus One. As a result, he's now an AxCrazy Titan hunter with a major chip on his shoulder regarding ''anything'' with Titan biology; inavertedly endangering people by luring Titan away with diversions, and building a HumongousMecha so that he can murder and stuff as many monsters he comes across as possible -- even if they're passive {{gentle giant}}s like the Sker Buffalo, or defenceless Titan ''[[WouldHurtAChild babies]]'' like the Spineprowler cubs.
323	* WouldHurtAChild: Upon coming across a pair of Spineprowler cubs while looking for their mother, he ''immediately'' tries to kill them. Worse yet, after he defeats their protective mother, he goes out of his way to hunt down and try to kill the fleeing cubs anyway.
324	* YouKilledMyFather:
325	** He ''hates'' Titans with a passion and wants to kill as many as he can because one of them (Femuto) caused the death of his family.
326	** He eventually finds himself on the receiving end of this trope as well. After he kills a mother Spineprowler, her two cubs go after him in revenge.
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