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| 4 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/abraxasch1_0.jpg]] |
| 5 | [[caption-width-right:350:Chapter 1 cover art. See more [[ImageLinks/AbraxasHrodvitnon here]].]] |
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| 7 | ->''"Within the head lies the seat of the soul. Despite all appearances, Dr. Graham didn't die that night. Ghidorah has plans for her, punishment for her efforts to contain him. He will remake her in his own image. And now Jonah has them both. But things rarely go according to plan, and the head left behind to keep her is too curious for his own good. Far too curious... and far too eager to learn."'' |
| 8 | -->-- Official plot summary |
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| 10 | ''Abraxas'' is a ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' Franchise/MonsterVerse fanfiction written by [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/ Hrodvitnon]], which is available to read on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/ FanFiction.net]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573 Archive Of Our Own]] (with extra author's notes). |
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| 12 | Set after the events of ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and diverging from the [=MonsterVerse=] continuity before ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', the story's set-up in the first chapter is that not only does King Ghidorah's severed head still contain San's (also known among the fandom as "Kevin") living mind, but it’s also carrying Vivienne Graham's OnlyMostlyDead body after she was SwallowedWhole by Ghidorah's central head during the film -- San is reviving and regenerating her to form a new half-human, half-Ghidorah {{Kaiju}} chimera; with San and Vivienne's minds residing in separate heads on her transformed body as "brother and sister". Caged by Alan Jonah and his mercenaries in an unknown location after the duo's painful rebirth, Vivienne suffers from PTSD and warily makes a truce with San so they may escape to freedom. The story follows the fused siblings' building relationship and their struggle to avoid slipping to their pain and madness. |
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| 14 | As of December 2021, the story has the fourth-highest hit count and the twenty-first highest Kudo count of any story in the ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' category on [=AO3=]. |
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| 16 | Status: Completed as of October, 2021 |
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| 18 | The author announced she does not intend to write a sequel of the same length as the original fic, and instead she's encouraged readers to create their own RecursiveFanfiction for the [=AbraxasVerse=]. That being said, she has posted [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/673221826296594432/ a timeline which describes significant events during the four years following the main story's ending]], as well as various snippets both [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/709885319486554112/ canon]] and non-canon; on her Tumblr. In May 2023, the author posted a collection of one-shot stories called ''Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness'', which she says will include canon and non-canon works. |
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| 20 | Recursive Fanfiction sequels that have been published as of May 2023 include a series of one-shots (an [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34734553/ outdated original version]] and an [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40197696/ updated "Second Edition"]]) and ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver'' ([[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38446570/ link]]), by [=SyfyGuy2=]. In April 2024, the author [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747017348233543680/ canonized]] ''The Clash of Silver''. |
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| 22 | Post-completion, the author has also posted a [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/671332701107814400/ playlist]] for the story. |
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| 24 | For tropes applying specifically to ''Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness'' and ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver'', see those individual pages. |
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| 26 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 28 | ---- |
| 29 | !!The main story contains examples of: |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[index]] |
| 32 | * AbraxasHrodvitnon/TropesNumberToH |
| 33 | * AbraxasHrodvitnon/TropesIToP |
| 34 | * AbraxasHrodvitnon/TropesQToZ |
| 35 | [[/index]] |
| 36 | |
| 37 | !!The [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline specifically contains examples of: |
| 38 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: The Timeline states Monarch operatives [[spoiler:Nathan and David Lind]] are involved in the [[spoiler:Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles]]' construction, whereas in [=MonsterVerse=] canon, [[spoiler:Nathan]] and Monarch were only introduced to the vehicles after their construction and [[spoiler:David]] was dead by this time. |
| 39 | * GiantAnimalWorship: A modernized and sacrifice-free (as far as we know) example. [[spoiler:According to the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline and further [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/692573372262072320/ word from the author]], by 2021, new Titan-worshipping {{cult}}s have begun forming among the public for the first time since the Titans last ruled the Earth]]. |
| 40 | * RankUp: The Timeline chronicles two instances of established characters from the main fic getting promoted through the ranks of their respective organizations. [[spoiler:Mark Russell, who ended the main fic planning to retake his old job at Monarch, has become co-director of Monarch four years later; while Ren Serizawa starts as a member of Apex Cybernetics' R&D, and he rises to become chief engineer]]. |
| 41 | * RiddleForTheAges: The characters can only speculate on whether the HollowEarth Citadel's builders were wiped out by Ghidorah, Godzilla or civil war. |
| 42 | * TakingUpTheMantle: The [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline reveals that by 2024, [[spoiler:Mark Russell is the new co-director of Monarch, [[ParentChildTeam with Madison as his assistant and confidant]]]]; not unlike Serizawa and Vivienne's dynamic in ''Film/Godzilla2014''. |
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| 44 | !!Universal tropes: |
| 45 | [[folder:#-A]] |
| 46 | * EleventhHourRanger: |
| 47 | ** [[spoiler:Methuselah and the MUTO Queen]] join Godzilla and Mothra's side in the FinalBattle of the main fic. |
| 48 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:Kong joins the Hong Kong battle just in time to save Godzilla from Mechagodzilla, like in canon]]. |
| 49 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: |
| 50 | ** Mark Russell, on top of the grief of losing Emma and having missed out on a big chunk of his now-ShellShockedVeteran daughter's childhood like in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', also has SurvivorGuilt and receives YouShouldHaveDiedInstead in this continuity. |
| 51 | ** In ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver'', [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla devastates much more of Hong Kong than it managed to in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'']]. |
| 52 | * AdaptationalBadass: |
| 53 | ** Ghidorah, multiple-fold. [[spoiler:Its backstory reveals that it was originally created by technologically-advanced humanoid beings to be a planet-sterilizing BioweaponBeast like the Toho versions; but unlike the Showa and Heisei Ghidorah, [=AbraxasVerse=] Ghidorah [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned against and completely eradicated its makers]] almost right after they set it loose for the first time]]. Ghidorah's {{telepath|y}}ic and [[HealingFactor regenerative]] powers are a lot more demonstrably potent than in [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah MonsterVerse canon]]; being able to regenerate itself and its individual minds entirely from a single severed appendage with time and energy, and retaining full-blown, long-range {{psychic link}}s with its various pieces[[spoiler:, offshoots and other creations]]. |
| 54 | ** [[spoiler:Gigan has been a PsychoForHire at most, or a plain puppet to HumanAliens since his inception in ''Film/GodzillaVsGigan''. Whilst the ''Abraxas'' version of Gigan ''is'' associated with non-kaiju advanced aliens, he's ''their'' master instead of vice versa]]. |
| 55 | * AdaptationalFriendship: Dr. Vivienne Graham has more explicitly close friendships with several of her ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' colleagues in Monarch's top brass than anything shown in Franchise/MonsterVerse canon. She's shown to be friends with Drs. Chen, Stanton and Coleman and Colonel Diane Foster, whereas in the movie she never has any interactions to indicate they're especially close. |
| 56 | * AdaptationalHeroism: |
| 57 | ** Monster X (Vivienne and San) is benevolent, aligned with Earth's Titans, and comparatively goes further out of its way than most Titans do to avoid innocent human casualties; instead of being an evil invader. |
| 58 | ** Mandazawa is an innocent {{Protectorate}} to the heroic Titans and tries to be a TagalongKid in Chapter 17, whereas the [[Film/{{Atragon}} original incarnation]] was an AntiVillain and subsequent incarnations in movies have been BrainwashedAndCrazy or straight-up monsters. |
| 59 | *** This extends to Manda's father the Lord of Dragons before him, who was on outright friendly terms with Godzilla when alive and isn't mentioned as having gone to any morally ambiguous lengths defending his territory. |
| 60 | ** The ''Abraxas'' version of Ren Serizawa, who was introduced before ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' came out, is a mostly heroic character who develops a respect for the Titans, rather than a callous EvilGenius with an anti-Godzilla agenda. |
| 61 | ** From what [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/678283285035630592/ Word of God]] says, some of the lesser Earthborn Titans such as Scylla are ''[[AnimalsRespectNature consciously]]'' [[AnimalsRespectNature committed to doing their part to maintain Earth's natural balance]], so long as they aren't enslaved to Ghidorah's will. [=MonsterVerse=] canon's post-''King of the Monsters'' instalments instead implied that the subordinate Titans only maintain nature's balance so long as Godzilla is calling the shots, and many of them would much rather disrupt the global equilibrium by pursuing their own instincts and ambitions without caring how other species are affected, if left to their own devices. |
| 62 | *** Rodan and Scylla both fight for Godzilla against the Many; whereas in canon the closest either of them have come to acting heroically is when they submit to Godzilla's dominance, and they -- particularly [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Scylla]] -- have since been portrayed in later [=MonsterVerse=] instalments as some of the outright nastier Titans. |
| 63 | ** {{Subverted}} with [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics]]. They approach Monarch with plans for legitimate projects which could better prepare mankind to defend itself against Titan-level threats and make the Titans' job of defending the world somewhat easier for them, but the Timeline all but confirms that though their plan is a bit different in this continuity, their philosophy and end-goals are roughly the same. |
| 64 | *** [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] however eventually has a HeelRealization by 2024, and makes plans to side with Monarch against [[spoiler:Apex]] ''if'' the latter loses control of Project Talos; compared to how the [=MonsterVerse=] version was loyal to [[spoiler:Apex]] to the end.%% |
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| 66 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: Both Mark Russell and [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] get this alongside AdaptationalNiceGuy. |
| 67 | ** Mark becomes the emotional kind due to CharacterDevelopment; growing into a more competent parent figure to Madison who overcomes the MyBelovedSmother and JustAKid pitfalls, [[spoiler:and more of a {{reasonable authority figure}}]], compared to his canon counterpart's failure at both those hurdles in ''Godzilla vs. Kong''. |
| 68 | ** [[spoiler:Maia]] is an IronLady who knows how to amicably get what she wants from people, and she also shows explicit awareness of her PsychopathicManchild father's shortcomings. Compare that to the open book jerk in ''[[spoiler:Godzilla vs. Kong]]'' who was little more than her father's lackey and who [[spoiler:infamously [[TooDumbToLive shot at Kong]]]]. |
| 69 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: |
| 70 | ** Mark Russell starts the story with the same temper issues and judgmentalism that he persistently displays in [=MonsterVerse=] canon, but he calms down and becomes more open to others' reasoning. The ending heavily implies this version of Mark will be more considerate and have a much better relationship with his daughter than the relationship strained by MyBelovedSmother and FantasyForbiddingFather that they have in ''Godzilla vs. Kong''. |
| 71 | ** This continuity's version of [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] is a lot more amicable than the smug, rich jerk from ''[[spoiler:Godzilla vs. Kong]]'', even if she is still complicit in some very illegal stuff.%% |
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| 73 | * AdaptationalSecrecyDowngrade: |
| 74 | ** [[spoiler:In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', [[EvilInc Apex Cybernetics]]' project to perfect Mechagodzilla with the aim of murdering and usurping Godzilla in the name of MugglePower and [[TakeOverTheWorld corporate hegemony]] was kept almost completely secret by Apex's {{corporate conspiracy}}, with Monarch and the public only knowing that Apex claimed to be working on a Godzilla-combating {{secret weapon}} and that they were seeking the HollowEarth[='s=] GreenRocks as a power source; not realizing what the weapon was precisely or that it was already built. In the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline, Apex collaborate with Monarch openly to build the first Mechagodzilla, Kiryu, with Apex telling Monarch and the world that the mech's purpose is to provide the world with an extra, human-controlled Protector Titan against hostile threats -- it's just the fact that Apex are piggybacking on the Kiryu project and are building a second, [[SuperiorSuccessor more advanced]] Mechagodzilla of their own in secret in order to kill and usurp Godzilla, that are being kept secret]]. |
| 75 | ** Due to the main ''Abraxas'' fic starting publishing before ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' came out, the verified existence of the HollowEarth and its ties to the Titans are pretty much public knowledge. In Franchise/MonsterVerse canon, the Hollow Earth's existence was revealed to the world at the end of ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'', but BroadStrokes in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' led to a SeriesContinuityError where the Hollow Earth was still regarded as a quack theory by the world at large in that movie.%% |
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| 77 | * AdaptationalSympathy: |
| 78 | ** [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 The film]] made San out to be goofier than Ghidorah's other two heads, and a doormat to the middle head, who literally pushes him around and yells (roars) at him. In this fic, the expansion on San's and Ghidorah's characterization and backstory gives San even more sympathetic traits and redeeming qualities, and the abuse he suffers is ''not'' PlayedForLaughs in this version. He's been under chronic physical and verbal abuse from his brother heads whilst having literally nobody else for ''billions'' of years, which has in turn made him dependent, severely love-starved, and [[ItsAllMyFault prone to self-blame and self-loathing]]; [[spoiler:to say nothing of what he went through before all that with [[AbusivePrecursors the Makers]]]]. San also truly likes and cares for Vivienne, taking his new responsibility as her brother head to heart. |
| 79 | ** Sort of with Rodan. In the [=MonsterVerse=] canon, Rodan joined King Ghidorah, and is made out to be a WildCard who has no fixed loyalties and an ambiguous morality. In this fic, it's made clear that Rodan only joined Ghidorah because the latter dominated and enthralled him, and he apparently didn't enjoy being slave to an OmnicidalManiac one bit, to the point where he carries a grudge. He still has a temper and an attitude problem all on his own, though. |
| 80 | ** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Ichi and Ni -- though it isn't used in any way to make their present day selves seem any more redeemable, this version of Ghidorah has a very dark and compelling FreudianExcuse which neither the [=MonsterVerse=] version nor most of the other licensed iterations ever possessed. [[spoiler:Long story short, Ghidorah was viciously experimented on and thoroughly tortured by AbusivePrecursors, and after Ghidorah killed said Precursors, the lingering biological consequences of their experiments continued to torment Ghidorah into killing ''just'' in the hopes it could get some reprieves from the torture, and this drove Ghidorah insane over billions of years; moulding its heads' minds into the depraved, genocidal {{sadist}}s they now are]]. "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46831738/chapters/122322187 Damnatio Memoriae]]" recounts Ghidorah's [[spoiler:emotionally excruciating]] StartOfDarkness. |
| 81 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747017348233543680/ Word of God]] says that if [[VanHelsingHateCrimes Raymond Martin]], the BigBad of the [=MonsterVerse=] graphic novel ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted'', is ever adapted into the [=AbraxasVerse=], he'll still be a heinous and violent Titan-hater, but he'll also be portrayed as more of a pitiable and broken man with more emphasis on his backstory.%% |
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| 83 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 84 | ** Whilst Ghidorah's left head is a redeemable character, the middle and right heads (Ichi and Ni), on the other hand, are more explicitly vicious than Ghidorah's general portrayal in ''King of the Monsters'' was. Not content with just killing all humans for kicks and killing Godzilla while xenoforming the Earth into Ghidorah's new habitat, Ghidorah is a CardCarryingVillain who already wiped out numerous other planets for the ''sakes'' of conquering and sterilizing them before Earth became its latest target. Ichi and Ni try to do almost anything within their twisted imaginations to put Vivienne through [[AFateWorseThanDeath living hell]], [[spoiler:including but not limited to [[ForcedToWatch forcing her to watch them try to kill her loved ones]], and planning to rape and impregnate her until her mind breaks]]; ''just'' because Vivienne unknowingly pissed Ichi off by pressing his TraumaButton previously, and because Ni lusts to see her turn into a metaphorical monster. |
| 85 | ** [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Walter Simmons]] is apparently no less evil and petty here than he was in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', and technically endangers even more lives as part of his EngineeredHeroics than his canon self did. His plan to kill and usurp Godzilla is even more needless in the [=AbraxasVerse=] than in already was in [=MonsterVerse=] canon on account of Godzilla securing a more lasting human-Titan coexistence. According to [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/675395664276078592/ Word of God]], Simmons has also ordered his hitmen to assassinate his own daughter Maia if she becomes a security risk -- the closest that the canon Simmons ever came to OffingTheOffspring was sending Maia on a mission with a mortal occupational hazard, and he was apparently never aware that she'd died as a result of this before he followed her to the grave. The [[AscendedFanon ascended]] RecursiveFanfiction ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver'' explicitly shows this filicidal cotingency plan of Simmons', plus it also reveals his grizzly plans for the other Titans after killing Godzilla: {{lobotom|y}}izing them and using their bodies as giant {{living batter|y}}ies, whereas canon was more ambiguous about what precisely Simmons' plans, if he had any, for "neutralizing" the other Titans were outside of it being something [[MugglePower humanocentric]]]]. |
| 86 | * AdaptationNameChange: |
| 87 | ** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Monster X, which in this version lacks the Keizer Ghidorah name [[spoiler:due to it being a DecompositeCharacter]] – instead, Monster X's other official name is ''Titanus Abraxas'', or simply Abraxas. |
| 88 | ** [[spoiler:The cloned ''Titanus Gojira'' Ladon is basically [[Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzillaII Godzilla Jr.]] in all but name, down to being locked up by humans at the start of his life]]. |
| 89 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: |
| 90 | ** Since Ren Serizawa was introduced in the fic before ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' was released (and before the first trailer hinting at Ren being a sinister character even aired), Ren's personality ends up being quite different from his movie counterpart. For starters, his father issues, though they ended up being quite similar in their cause, are nowhere ''near'' as bad on his end in ''Abraxas''; and Ren ''does'' have a degree of respect and admiration for the Titans and nature overall (even if it isn't as profound as Ishirō's), which his movie counterpart ''absolutely'' lacked. Instead of a quiet, scheming EvilGenius who lacks empathy and [[BlackSheep practices no less than what his father preached against]], Ren Serizawa in [=AbraxasVerse=] is a sarcastic JerkWithAHeartOfGold with clear morals who is slowly learning to fill his forebears' shoes as a borderline-mystical Titan naturalist. |
| 91 | ** [[spoiler:Maia Simmons. Instead of being a haughty, unpersonable and rude RichBitch who panics to the point of suicidal stupidity and blindly goes along with her ruthless father's demands; this version is a polite, charming, affable and ruthlessly brilliant corporate IronLady who casually chides her father's faults and is gradually growing disillusioned with him]]. |
| 92 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Thanks to Mark's character development in the fic, by the time of the last couple chapters [[spoiler:(which were published after ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'')]], Mark and Madison's relationship is [[ParentChildTeam considerably better]] than [[MyBelovedSmother what]] [[ObsessivelyNormal they]] [[JustAKid had]] in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', as lampshaded by the author in [[https://www.tumblr.com/hrodvitnon/700972045402603520/ these]] [[https://www.tumblr.com/hrodvitnon/701370934645374976/ posts]]. |
| 93 | * AffectionateGestureToTheHead: |
| 94 | ** On account of the fact they share a single body below the necks, gestures to the other's head is the main way that Viv and San physically show affection towards each-other. They bump their heads together, twine their elongated necks around each-other in a protective gesture, and in Chapter 11, Vivienne teaches San what a [[AnywhereButTheirLips kiss to the forehead is]] while recalling it's something that her mother did to her. |
| 95 | ** In ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' "Sermones ad Mortuos", Mothra pats Manda's head with one of her talons to placate him. Vivienne is also reminded of how her human mother would brush a hand through her hair.%% |
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| 97 | * AliensAreBastards: True to classic ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' form, the majority of alien lifeforms that have a notable impact on the story and/or are still alive in the main time frame, particularly alien {{Kaiju}}, are evil and hostile. The only exceptions to make a physical appearance are San, and later [[spoiler:San-Who-Could-Have-Been]], and even then, those are both [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turns]]. |
| 98 | ** Ghidorah is a highly malicious, ancient DraconicAbomination from space who has extremely {{sadist}}ic and cruel personalities, and it's an OmnicidalManiac that moves from world to world, wiping out all life that it can on every one; [[spoiler:''especially'' if said life includes intelligent, human-sized aliens capable of making their own civilization. That being said, later chapters of the fic make it clear that Ghidorah's extreme malevolence is strictly down to a tragic and unnatural FreudianExcuse in its early backstory, rather than being down to its extraterrestrial origin]]. |
| 99 | ** Aside from [[SatanicArchetype Ghidorah]], there's also [[spoiler:the enigmatic alien civilization who created it [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters and became the victims of its second ever planetary genocide]]. The Makers ''made Ghidorah what it now is'', and it wasn't a pleasant process for Ghidorah, involving inhumane experimentation on wild animals which made them suffer unimaginably. "Damnatio Memoriae" furthermore confirms that the Makers created Ghidorah to commit [[FinalSolution total planet-wide genocide]] on another planet's civilization that had provoked the Makers by rejecting their alternative "offers", killing all visible life on the planet]]. |
| 100 | ** [[spoiler:Word of God on Tumblr confirms that [[Film/GodzillaVsGigan Gigan]] also exists in the [=AbraxasVerse=], and that his sadism and depravity rivals or even supercedes that which Ghidorah displays during the main fic]]. |
| 101 | ** [[spoiler:Furthermore, Gigan has a fleet of advanced spacefaring aliens as his heralds and servants, and they're nightmarish {{sense freak}}s who mar themselves in {{cyborg}} conversions and BodyHorror on top of supporting their vile lord's evil campaign across the stars (although these aliens might have been forcibly twisted into becoming the way they are now by Gigan)]]. |
| 102 | * AllThereInTheManual: The author has provided some extra pieces of information about the story's universe on [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/ her Tumblr account]] (not all under the same tag), and in the [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20059573?show_comments=true&view_full_work=true#comments Archive Of Our Own author's notes and comments section]]. |
| 103 | * AlternateAnimalAffection: Godzilla and Mothra exchange some Type 2 with each-other, in the form of Mothra playfully jabbing with her OverlyLongTongue and Godzilla's licking and nibbling, in Chapter 18. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/709158137834471424/ Drabbles by]] [[https://tardisspacemug.tumblr.com/post/718261959084097536/ the author]] indicate that a grown Manda shows affection by slithering up the other Titan's limbs and booping heads. |
| 104 | * AlternateSelf: |
| 105 | ** There's essentially more than one version of San, as the San who serves as one of the protagonists only has memories of Ghidorah's actions up to his head's decapitation, and doesn't remember what his regrown doppelgänger on Ghidorah's body did before it died at Boston — kind of like an outdated backup file copy. Besides the San who died at Boston, San-2/Youngest Brother is the result of San's old Ghidorah head regenerating his personality and memories after San's consciousness transferred from it to Monster X, and he lacks the main San's CharacterDevelopment that led to a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 106 | ** [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother is [[spoiler:a "shed skin" like Vivienne's San, created by Ghidorah's right head splitting off during the three-headed monster's regeneration and forming an autonomous body with the Many. He's also seemingly even more AxCrazy than is normal for Ni. During Chapter 17, two versions of Ni/Elder Brother are existing at the same time after Ghidorah has regenerated its right head from [=MaNi's=] creation]]. |
| 107 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:it's indicated that a copy of Ren Serizawa's mind, personality and memories is accidentally created in Mechagodzilla's Zmeyevich-derived neurology after the real Ren has been exposed to an outdated psionic uplink device, while the original Ren is separately still alive with his mind intact]]. |
| 108 | * AlternateUniverseFic: {{Continuation}} type. The fic began publishing in 2019, and the author [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/641317119466815488/ originally]] wanted to match the fic's events within the frame of any future developments in the {{canon}} {{continuity}} such as ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' before the film's release, but the fic has since become an AlternateContinuity. Major divergences from post-''King of the Monsters'' canon include Ghidorah's decapitated head continuing to regenerate instead of decaying to an undead skull, and the Titans from the Mass Awakening remaining active yet keeping the peace with humanity's world, and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/749668728464097280/ Word of God]] also says that Rio de Janeiro (and likely other cities attacked during the Mass Awakening) are likely to remain in ruins instead of being rebuilt offscreen. Many human characters, Titans and pieces of HollowEarth lore which were introduced in post-''King of the Monsters'' [=MonsterVerse=] installments are confirmed (within the main story, the Timeline or by [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/656745903530639360/ Word of God]]) to also exist in the [=AbraxasVerse's=] canon in some shape or form, although there might be some differences in [[AdaptationPersonalityChange personality]] or [[AdaptationalBackstoryChange backstory]] for some of the characters. |
| 109 | * AmbiguouslyBi: It's hinted in the story that Vivienne is bisexual, with [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/666381938165268480/ Word of God]] further supporting this -- the ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' one-shot "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" outright confirms that Vivienne is interested in both males and females. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/673121730966978560/ Word of God]] has also suggested Godzilla probably mated with males and females in his past. |
| 110 | * AmbiguousSituation: |
| 111 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/694435146019078144/ The author]] confirmed that Mothra is semi-telepathic, but she left it ambiguous whether Madison's seeming connection to Mothra is a sign that Maddie has formed a PsychicLink with Mothra, or is merely due to Madison's general Bone Singer RecessiveSuperGenes. |
| 112 | ** A lot is left ambiguous to the end and even into the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline about [[spoiler:the Zmeyevich]]. Do they have any way of knowing what they are or about Ghidorah [[spoiler:and its plans for them]]? Are they AlwaysChaoticEvil, will DefusingTheTykeBomb work on them, is it even crucial? Word of God and the [[invoked]][[AscendedFanon ascended]] recursive fic ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver'' have since shed much more light on the Zmeyevich. |
| 113 | ** Precisely who or ''what'' caused [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla's "glitch"]]. Was it caused by [[spoiler:Abaddon and Megiddo, or other Zmeyevich, or Ghidorah, or the Many]]? Is this a sign that [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla]] has tissue from the Many or Zmeyevich integrated into it? [[spoiler:In the aforementioned ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', we get an answer]]. |
| 114 | * AmicableExes: There's some [[AmbiguouslyBi slight hints that Vivienne is bisexual]], and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/666381938165268480/ Word of God]] has supported the suggestion that Vivienne and Dr. Ling were once in a relationship but ended it on good terms when Vivienne was still human. ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' does away with the ambiguity entirely. |
| 115 | * AnimalJingoism: According to [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/735369304541921280/ Word of God]], several of the Titans have specific enmities with other Titans, which will often lead to a territorial fight if one of them (usually a Destroyer Titan, but a Protector Titan can also be the aggressor, especially if undergoing an aggression-heightening biological cycle) aggravates the other. |
| 116 | * AnimalNemesis: {{Averted|Trope}} by Ren Serizawa before the story's events. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/694435146019078144/ Word of God]] says that despite the Titans being the reason why [[WhenYouComingHomeDad his father was seldom around]], Ren felt that holding a grudge against them was as non-sensical as holding a grudge against a tornado or a tsunami. |
| 117 | * AnimalTalk: Specifically Kaiju Talk. All the Titans including Monster X are able to communicate with each other and understand what they're saying, plus there's special humans who can somewhat [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Speak Fluent Kaiju]] to a degree. |
| 118 | * AnthropomorphicShift: PlayedWith by the Titans, not in terms of physique but in terms of sentience. Though many of them in Franchise/MonsterVerse canon are clearly highly intelligent animals, they're portrayed as being susceptible to SmartAnimalInconvenientInstincts, and supplementary materials describing Godzilla's P.O.V. make him seem almost like an EldritchAbomination clothed in an animal. In [=AbraxasVerse=], though the Titans are still definitively animalistic and get FurryReminder, they display basically human-like levels of self-awareness, communication, and even basic human body language cues like Godzilla gesturing to the heart when referring to one's emotional connections and grieving process. |
| 119 | * TheAntichrist: Monster X is the AntiAntichrist; a half-human ArtificialHybrid created by Ghidorah which [[spoiler:Ghidorah]] wants to drive down a StartOfDarkness, but is firmly on the side of humanity and the heroic Titans. The Zmeyevich [[spoiler:are quite literally Ghidorah's human-sized hybrid offspring which it intends to aid it in the long run while blending in among humanity -- some Zmeyevich become the Anti-Antichrist like Monster X, breaking away from Ghidorah's plans to live benign lives, while others are nefarious or outright loyal to Ghidorah]]. |
| 120 | * ApocalypseHow: |
| 121 | ** Besides the threat that a restored Ghidorah might try to pick up where it left off in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' (see the trope entry [[GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019/TropesNumberToH here]] for details), it's outright confirmed by San's memories and [[invoked]]WordOfGod ([[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/649738995841024000/ 1]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/685085904520527872/ 2]]) that Ghidorah previously ''completed'' the same apocalypse on numerous alien worlds with intelligent life, [[SaltTheEarth furthermore making sure to render these conquered worlds as inhospitable to life as possible]]. When discussing what would have happened if Ghidorah had completed its original plan for Earth in ''King of the Monsters'', the author agreed ([[https://www.tumblr.com/hrodvitnon/703365355024859136/ 1]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736744231470759936/ 2]]) with the Franchise/MonsterVerse novelizations' assessment that the fallout on Earth would be a ApocalypseHow/Class5, and she compared it to the fallout from "certain methods of [[https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Exterminatus Exterminatus]]"; with Ghidorah actively having humanity hunted into extinction, pelting the Earth with [[PerpetualStorm constant superstorms]] which would've killed off all non-Titan life, and the Earthborn Titans under Ghidorah's thrall would've also died shortly after. |
| 122 | *** The climax of "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46831738/chapters/122322187 Damnatio Memoriae]]" depicts Ghidorah's first ever omnicide against a planet when it's still young and new to its capabilities, [[spoiler:eradicating the local sapient civilization and reducing the world to a "graveyard" after the Makers (whom Ghidorah would go on to eradicate) released Ghidorah on the planet as a FinalSolution]]. |
| 123 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/676003150839398400/ Word of God]] heavily implies that [[spoiler:Keizer Ghidorah]]'s plan to [[PlanetaryCoreManipulation devour the Zohar at the Earth's core]] in the present will cause a ApocalypseHow/ClassX if it succeeds.%% |
| 124 | |
| 125 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: |
| 126 | ** The main fic: |
| 127 | *** This question from Vivienne to Mariko about the deaths at Outpost 58 renders the latter silent in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/3 Chapter 3]]: |
| 128 | --->"''Do you… even ''care''?''" |
| 129 | *** And she successfully gives Jonah one in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/6 Chapter 6]]: |
| 130 | --->"''Did Ash know you let him die?''" |
| 131 | *** Godzilla immediately gets Vivienne to stop and calm down with one in Chapter 15 when she's panicked and in no state to fight: |
| 132 | --->"''WHAT CAN YOU DO BEYOND FRIGHTENING MANDA?''" |
| 133 | *** [[spoiler:Susan]] poses this question when San suggests [[spoiler:absorbing her as another part of Monster X]], and it makes San realize despite his logical internal counter-arguments that going through with it would ultimately be selfish; in Chapter 18: |
| 134 | --->"''[...] if you were to [[spoiler:do to me what was done to Vivienne]], what difference would there be between us and those horrible Many creatures?''" |
| 135 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', the rogue [[spoiler:Kiryu]] seems momentarily agitated when Aleksandra asks him how he can sense that she's "different" and asks him where he came from.%% |
| 136 | |
| 137 | * AscendedExtra: San and Vivienne Graham, who were both technically minor or supporting characters in Franchise/MonsterVerse canon and are considered Ensemble Dark Horses by the [=MonsterVerse=] fandom, are the two main {{protagonist}}s of this story, and they respectively get further characterization and CharacterDevelopment. Mariko, a one-scene character in the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization, is elevated to a supporting character in the fic. |
| 138 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/733561178791477248/ Word of God]] says that this trope is how Titans become Alpha Titans. Any Titan can become an Alpha if they defeat a previously-established Alpha. |
| 139 | * AsTheGoodBookSays: |
| 140 | ** The Many's dialogue makes clear references to the Bible at times, fitting with how their HiveMind is a disturbing mix of HorrorHunger and fanaticism. It seems to be a kind of family trait: the Many, [[spoiler:Ghidorah's heads and Mechagodzilla]] all respectively reference Genesis 3:5 in particular. |
| 141 | ** It's revealed that [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics]] secretly encoded verses from the Book of Samuel referring to David challenging Goliath into the Encephalon supercomputer, presumably to act as a villainous MoralityChip – the implication is that [[spoiler:Apex]] see themselves (or rather their weapon, with [[spoiler:Apex]] blasphemously painting themselves as the Israelites) as David, and they see [[spoiler:Godzilla and his Titan allies]] as Goliath. [[spoiler:Walter Simmons furthermore blasphemously quotes Isaiah 27:1 in ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'']]. |
| 142 | *** In addition, [[spoiler:Apex's {{corporate conspiracy}} leader Walter Simmons names two captive Zmeyevich after names from the Bible: Abaddon (which refers to an angel from the abyss or to a place of destruction connected to the realm of the dead), and Megiddo (which refers to the prophesized site of the final battle between good and evil in Armageddon)]]. |
| 143 | * AxCrazy: |
| 144 | ** Ghidorah's three heads (especially Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother) are no AdaptationalNiceGuy here whatsoever, getting a kick out of tormenting and then killing with extreme prejudice anything that they consider to be an enemy or beneath them -- [[ItsPersonal except for Vivienne]]. The story also reveals how Ghidorah became this way, [[spoiler:revealing it was a result of BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil followed by eons of death-demanding TerribleTicking]]. |
| 145 | *** [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother takes this a bit further: unlike Ghidorah, who knows how to restrain itself when it's very pragmatic, [=MaNi=] only cares about ''playing with'' Monster X with some good old ultraviolence [[StupidEvil and he doesn't know when to stop]]. And he won't hesitate to attack ''any'' living thing that has Monster X's scent on them, if he thinks it'll provoke Monster X to fight him more fiercely. |
| 146 | ** Jonah has an [[NotHimself uncharacteristic]] psychotic episode in Chapter 5, when he performs a particularly nasty experiment on Monster X that involves fire and he goes out of his way to try verbally ripping Vivienne to shreds for minimal reason, signifying his SanitySlippage. |
| 147 | ** [[spoiler:The author has made the [=AbraxasVerse=] version of Gigan out to be as deranged as ever in his evil, even comparing his [=AbraxasVerse=] brand of insanity to that of [[Characters/{{Xenosaga}} Albedo Piazzolla]] ([[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/654201501637656576/ 1]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/739105487568715776/ 2]]), and revealing that he presides over a cult of self-torturing extraterrestrial {{sense freak}}s]]. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:B-D]] |
| 151 | * BadassBoast: |
| 152 | ** Ghidorah has this for a Bone Singer who communicated with it, in the past in Chapter 5:[[note]]The below capitalization, font and lack of grammar is how each of the trio’s dialogue is respectively written in the fic[[/note]] |
| 153 | --->'''Ichi''': '''WE ARE DEATHLESS'''\ |
| 154 | '''Ni''': WE ARE ETERNAL\ |
| 155 | '''Ichi''': '''WE ARE THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS'''\ |
| 156 | '''Ni''': CONSUMED EMPIRES OF FLESH AND BONE AND METAL\ |
| 157 | '''San''': we live forever cut off our heads and they will grow back\ |
| 158 | '''Ichi''': '''THE HEAD IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL'''\ |
| 159 | '''Ni''': THE HEAD IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL\ |
| 160 | '''San''': the head is the seat of the soul |
| 161 | ** Vivienne has this for Jonah when she and San are almost ready to escape containment: |
| 162 | --->"''Did you think us defeated? Broken down to be your tool? Did you think yourself like Odin, all-seeing and all-knowing? Binding us like Fenrir, foretold to bring about great destruction at the time of Ragnarök? For all his wisdom and insight and knowledge, did it ever occur to Odin that by binding the wolf he was only creating a self-fulfilling prophecy? Fenrir's sons will devour the sun and moon, Gleipnir will break, and Fenrir will have his vengeance on Odin. This fetter will break...''" |
| 163 | ** And Monster X have this to say to [[spoiler:Ichi]] in Chapter 17: |
| 164 | --->'''[[spoiler:Ichi]]: HA. YOU ARE MORE LIKE ME THAN YOU CARE TO ADMIT.'''\ |
| 165 | '''Monster X ([[spoiler:final form]]):''' Comes with the name. I am Abraxas. I can be good... and I can be a terrible, necessary evil. |
| 166 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/694483325970153472/ Word of God]] says that Monster X saying "stock edgelord phrase" such as "''YOUR DEATH COMES''" or "''YOUR ANGEL OF DEATH AWAITS''" may sound corny to humans thanks to pop culture, but among Titans it sounds a lot more intimidating.%% |
| 167 | |
| 168 | * BaddieFlattery: Vivienne gets complimented a couple times by [[spoiler:San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother, Ichi/Eldest Brother and [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother respectively]] on how ferocious, brutal and beautiful a creature she's grown into, because a monster that's just like Ghidorah is what they want of her. In ''The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Walter Simmons]] compliments Bernie upon realizing that he's Mad Truth]]. |
| 169 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: |
| 170 | ** The [[AbusivePrecursors Makers]], full stop. [[spoiler:In order to create Ghidorah, they violently captured wild alien animals, and they performed torturous experiments on them for years. After reading [[Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness "Damnatio Memoriae"]], it's unsurprising that the young Ghidorah turned against and exterminated the Makers the first chance it got]]. |
| 171 | ** ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'' mentions that Don, one of the [[spoiler:Zmeyevich]] antagonists, once squashed a spider just because it was there. |
| 172 | * BaldOfEvil: |
| 173 | ** Besides [[Creator/CharlesDance Alan Jonah]], two of his {{mook lieutenant}}s who are [[OCStandIn O.C. Stand-in]]s in the story – Tejada and Sergeant Travis – are confirmed by [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/628652716177096704/ Word of God]] to be {{mook}}s from ''King of the Monsters'' who were shaved-headed. In the case of the latter two it's arguably {{subverted}}, since Tejada and Travis are both AffablyEvil and one of them is implied to make a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 174 | ** In ''The Clash of Silver'', the Zmeyevich pair Don and Meg [[spoiler:whom are planning to use Mechagodzilla to continue Ghidorah's work]] are bald and half-bald respectively. |
| 175 | * BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: |
| 176 | ** In the main fic, San has gone from being the "youngest sibling" head of a planet-destroying, Earth-threatening, utterly misanthropic Titan OmnicidalManiac that is aligned against Godzilla, and the [[TokenGoodTeammate least evil]] of the minds composing said Titan; to being the "elder sibling" head of a protective, Earth-defending, profoundly human-protecting Titan that is aligned ''with'' Godzilla, and San is the more pragmatic and unforgiving of the minds composing said Titan. San's relationships with his sibling heads in either Titan are also complete contrasts. As a part of Ghidorah, San was loathed, put down and abused by the other two heads; as part of Monster X, San is loved, encouraged, nurtured and protected by Vivienne. |
| 177 | ** The ''Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness'' StartOfDarkness one-shot "Damnatio Memoriae" shows that Ghidorah's other two heads, Ichi and Ni, were a case of this during Ghidorah's backstory. [[spoiler:Before they became the psychopathic, vicious and abusive assholes that they are now towards San, they were actually thoughtful, supportive and [[BigBrotherInstinct fiercely protective]] brothers towards him]].%% |
| 178 | |
| 179 | * BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: |
| 180 | ** Jonah and later [[spoiler:Ghidorah]] both seek to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this on Monster X so they can break down Vivienne's identity and reshape her into something else. |
| 181 | ** It's later revealed that [[spoiler:this trope happened to Ghidorah in its {{Backstory}} at the hands of its creators, driving Ghidorah to pull a TurnedAgainstTheirMasters and subsequently suffer SlowlySlippingIntoEvil due to the TerribleTicking its creators had left its heads with]]. |
| 182 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: |
| 183 | ** Thor somehow caused or at least influenced the [[StockUnsolvedMysteries Dyatlov Pass Incident]]. |
| 184 | ** The [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/657013082755842048/ author]] jokingly claimed that Scylla will in future cause the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction 2021 Suez Canal Blockage]] in [=AbraxasVerse=]. The [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline later confirms this. |
| 185 | * BewareMyStingerTail: Mothra gets to use her stinger once she reaches her imago form, and [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother has a thagomizer-like tail which he enjoys using as a weapon. In ''The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla like in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' has a rotating anti-Titan drill on the tip of its tail which it uses in combat]]. |
| 186 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: |
| 187 | ** Monster X overall has this. Vivienne wasn't easily angered when she was a human, but her temper was frightening when she was pushed too far, and she is now more dangerous due to her TraumaCongaLine and PTSD. Likewise, San is a real sweetheart towards Vivienne and is at least tolerant and mildly curious towards humans, but God help you if you hurt his sister. (Did we also mention Monster X's storm powers are fuelled by anger and hate?) |
| 188 | ** Mothra has an angelic and benevolent personality, but you do ''not'' want to cause a harmful ruckus involving those she considers her children. Rodan and Thor learn this in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/9 Chapter 9]], and she furthermore lives up to her name as Godzilla's Queen of the Monsters in Chapter 17. |
| 189 | ** Susan Graham is/was also this, as proven in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/12 Chapter 12]]. |
| 190 | ** Dr. Brooks is a rather mellow man and he can even be slightly nervous at times, but when a firm hand is required he'll remind you with nothing but his gaze that he's the same guy who [[Film/KongSkullIsland unloaded a machine-gun at a gigantic Skullcrawler]]. |
| 191 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', Dr. Valentine, Aleksandra's caregiver, seems mellow enough most of the time, but she's no pushover when she's angry. |
| 192 | * BigBrotherInstinct: |
| 193 | ** This runs both ways with Viv and San – anyone who actively and seriously messes with one of Monster X's heads is in for a world of agony and likely death from the other. Vivienne eventually also somewhat extends this to [[spoiler:San-2/Youngest Brother during that {{Alternate Self}}'s RedemptionEqualsDeath]]. |
| 194 | ** "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that Ghidorah's three heads (Ichi the "Eldest Brother", Ni the "Elder/Younger (Middle) Brother", and San the "Youngest Brother"); were originally very protective and loyal to each-other in the face of a threat to any one of their respective youngers at the beginning of Ghidorah's life. By the present day, those positive traits have long since gone, and now the body-sharing three heads' violent, abusive and codependent relationship with each-other is just a dark echo of the SiblingTeam that they once were.%% |
| 195 | |
| 196 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: To put it ''very mildly''. The Many's HiveMind have a very twisted idea of themselves, the slowly-regenerating Ghidorah, and [[AntiAntichrist Vivienne]] who [[spoiler:Ghidorah still]] has very nasty plans for, to be a growing family, a notion which San-2/Youngest Brother also seems to buy into. The Zmeyevich aren't much less screwed-up in ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'': [[spoiler:two of them are attempting to help Ghidorah to destroy the world after having been reared underground and groomed on two separate fronts by [[EvilInc Apex Cybernetics]] and Ghidorah itself for their entire lives, while the much more benevolent Aleksandra is a medical {{child by rape}} who has been neglected by her mother's husband due to her mother's death in childbirth]]. |
| 197 | * BigShutUp: |
| 198 | ** Deriding Vivienne's paternal relationship with Serizawa makes her snap and scream this a couple times. |
| 199 | ** [[spoiler:Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother]] snap at [[spoiler:San-2/Youngest Brother]] with this just for talking too much while they're in a bad mood. They also repeatedly scream for [[TerribleTicking the Old Noise]] in their heads to shut up in "Damnatio Memoriae". |
| 200 | * BioluminescenceIsCool: [[LivingMoodRing Mothra]] and [[BlueIsHeroic Godzilla]] return, plus Monster X's bio-electrical powers cause their body to release flashes of reddish bioluminescent light. ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' reveals that Manda can flash aqua bioluminescent light from his body when he's slightly older. |
| 201 | * BizarreSexualDimorphism: {{Downplayed}} with the ''Titanus Manda'' species. According to [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/675182721218248704/ Word of God]], females of Manda's species had horns, compared to the males who have antlers. |
| 202 | * BloodierAndGorier: ''Abraxas'' has more BodyHorror than any of the canon [=MonsterVerse=] installments, to say nothing of the {{cruel and unusual death}}s. |
| 203 | * BloodKnight: Though San isn't an OmnicidalManiac like his brothers and is less sadistic unless provoked, he genuinely enjoys a fight. San's Elder Brother Ni and by extension [=MaNi=] in particular favor fighting and killing for their own sakes. In fact, [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747230403316826112/ Word of God]] says that all three of Ghidorah's heads generally enjoy a good fight. Rodan is no fight-avoiding diplomat himself. {{Subverted}} by Godzilla, who draws the line between TranquilFury and TheBerserker in Chapter 8. |
| 204 | * BlueIsHeroic: Thor's eyes and electrical powers are blue, and he's a fierce protector Titan. Manda has a blue coloration, and despite being a baby is already displaying noble personality traits. In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:a Nozuki which has submitted to Kong as its alpha flashes with blue light when using a bio-electrical sting]]. |
| 205 | * BodyHorror: |
| 206 | ** Monster X's first form is in a chronic state of agony, has ingrown extra fangs along the jaws, and a horrifically extreme case of ''Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva'' which is exacerbated by the {{Healing Factor}}'s defect, making it very difficult for Viv and San to move certain joints without risking breaking their bones. |
| 207 | ** Then there's the Many, whose appearance was apparently partly inspired by bone cancer images (do a quick Google Images search, and you'll see why [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/622316219520974848/ the author advised against doing just that]]). [[spoiler:The Many's FusionDance splitting apart and fusing together infected bodies, and incorporating tumorous-looking smaller bodies in]], only adds to the effect. |
| 208 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/735206743682990080/ Word of God]] says that the fleet [[spoiler:that worships Gigan]] modify themselves extensively with genetic tampering [[spoiler:and [[{{Cyborg}} cybernetics]]]] from utero to just before death with the aim of [[SenseFreak heightening sensations, pain included]]. |
| 209 | ** The Zmeyevich, [[spoiler:as crude [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human, half-Ghidorah born hybrids]]]], are apparently grossly disfigured by human standards. [[spoiler:''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'' furthermore portrays them having distorted Ghidorah-like vestigial skulls in their chests which can come to life and puppeteer their bodies]]. |
| 210 | * BoisterousWeakling: [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747931705213583360/ Word of God]] describes Amhuluk as a "hostile little shit", and states that he'll often try to cause trouble and encroach on other Titans' territory, but he can be easily scared off with certain harmonics or can be fought off by Monster X. |
| 211 | * BreathWeapon: In addition to Mothra's webbing and Godzilla's abilities[[spoiler:, and Kiryu and Mechagodzilla's artificial energy breath cannons]]; Rodan can spit fireballs from his maw, and [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother [[spoiler:retains his Gravity Beam]]. |
| 212 | * BrightIsNotGood: In contrast to the benevolent [[DarkIsNotEvil Monster X]], [[UndeadAbomination the Many]] have partly golden-yellow skin to match [[BigBad Ghidorah]]'s scales and lightning. [[spoiler:In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', the bright-chrome, Zmeyevich-controlled Mechagodzilla is in Ghidorah's service like the Many]]. |
| 213 | * BrokenTears: |
| 214 | ** Both halves of Monster X. Vivienne, understandably, has tears lining down from her malformed face in the hours to days after she's reborn from the head of the monster she feared as a pain-wracked, BodyHorror-laden monstrosity, held captive underground. San completely breaks down and sheds tears when he comes to understand Vivienne's feelings better and hits a HeelRealization. |
| 215 | ** In Ghidorah's origin story in ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'', [[spoiler:[[UsedToBeASweetKid Ichi]] broke down crying as a result of failing to protect his younger brothers and himself from being tortured by the Makers]]. |
| 216 | * BruiserWithASoftCenter: Monster X, and most of those heroic Titans who are Protector class (namely Godzilla, Thor, Kong [[spoiler:and Kiryu]]), are ferocious beasts who'll fight tooth and claw to the death, yet they have soft sides for humans and/or certain fellow Titans. For a human example, Zima is a well-built and intimidating-looking guy even after he's been malnourished for months, yet he's very tender and concerned for his wife[[spoiler:, and later for their Zmeyevich daughter in ''The Clash of Silver'']]. |
| 217 | * CainAndAbel: |
| 218 | ** San and his brothers (Ni and Ichi) are the Abel and the Cain respectively. Ichi and Ni viciously abused San for eons, and San has disowned them after fusing to Vivienne. [[spoiler:Ichi and Ni would happily kill San, and he them, if they crossed paths again after San has become a shed skin]]. |
| 219 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:the Zmeyevich Aleksandra, having been [[DefusingTheTykeBomb raised right]] in Monarch, fights against her malevolent, long-lost Zmeyevich half-siblings, Abaddon and Megiddo]]. |
| 220 | * TheCameo: |
| 221 | ** A character who exclusively featured in the Franchise/MonsterVerse graphic novel ''Godzilla: Aftershock'' makes a one-chapter appearance in Chapter 11. |
| 222 | ** [[BusCrash Admiral Stenz]] makes a brief appearance in Vivienne's NightmareSequence in Chapter 14. |
| 223 | ** Methuselah and Scylla appear as news footage cameos in ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver''. |
| 224 | * ChildByRape: Nadezhda, Esfir and Lubyov have been artificially inseminated with [[spoiler:Ghidorah-related]] {{Fetus Terrible}}s, clearly without their consent. It's revealed in Chapter 16 that [[spoiler:Ghidorah intends to {{invoke}} [[BabyFactory this]] on Vivienne as another way to torture her]]. |
| 225 | * ClassifiedInformation: The abandoned Monarch outpost's existence is buried under this, as is Thor's existence according to [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/662352391279149056/ Word of God]], and [[spoiler:Apex]]'s reports on [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla's test run]] are heavily redacted. |
| 226 | * ColorContrast: |
| 227 | ** Ghidorah and Monster X notably have this. Monster X's lightning and bioluminescence are reddish-orange instead of yellow, and after its second {{Metamorphosis}}, the gold traces in its bones and skin have turned into silver (in stark contrast to Ghidorah’s gold scales) and its skin is [[DarkIsNotEvil dark-gray]] compared to Ghidorah's [[BrightIsNotGood gold scales]]. |
| 228 | ** Thor's bright-blue lightning is also a contrast to both Ghidorah and Monster X. |
| 229 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', the [[spoiler:mechanized]] Titans [[spoiler:Kiryu and Mechagodzilla]] have a YellowPurpleContrast. |
| 230 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: The author has described what the voices of [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/623720240777412608 Godzilla and Ichi, Ni]] and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/631248784044736512/ San]] respectively sound like. She's also provided voices for [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/674866733284294656/ Thor, Rodan]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/742493948705210368/ Mothra]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/656925774619738112/ Scylla and Methuselah]], and she's toyed with what [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/665698309633114112/ several minor humans]]' voices would sound like, and she's stated Monster X's voice in its first form sounds like the Gravemind's in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. |
| 231 | * ContrivedCoincidence: |
| 232 | ** A little bit. The abandoned Monarch outpost which Jonah's paramilitary take up residence in happens to be the one next to the odd Titan who rejected King Ghidorah's summons during the Mass Awakening, which results in said Titan remaining in the vicinity to respond when it hears Monster X's HowlOfSorrow. |
| 233 | ** The [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline reveals that the FinalBattle of the main story occurs precisely on the one-year anniversary of Ghidorah's awakening and Vivienne's death in Antarctica. |
| 234 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Maia Simmons and her father Walter Simmons]], the heiress and director respectively of [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics]]. [[spoiler:Maia]] is ultimately a {{downplayed|Trope}} case, as she illegally trafficks [[spoiler:Abaddon and Megiddo to Apex]] and she has some involvement in Project Talos' secretive true purpose, but she slowly has a HeelRealization about her corporate cabal's evil. [[spoiler:Walter Simmons]] however is a straighter example -- part of the reason [[spoiler:Maia]] has a Heel Realization is ''because'' of just how far the former is willing to go to get what he wants, and it's implied (outright confirmed in ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'') that [[spoiler:even without a Ghidorah skull, Simmons' EvilPlan here is not much, if at all, different from [[Characters/MonsterVerseApexCybernetics his plan in MonsterVerse canon]]]]. |
| 235 | * CrypticBackgroundReference: |
| 236 | ** It's revealed that the island of Yonaguni used to be the site of Mu, "the great sea-city of dragons" where Manda's father the Lord of Dragons lived as guardian, and the present day Yonaguni Monument and other rock formations of ambiguous origin on the island are actually the eroded remains of ancient structures from the time of Mu. We don't know how Mu declined and fell, or how the same happened to the Lord of Dragons and his entire species, [[spoiler:but the body of the Lord of Dragons is entombed underwater in the Yonaguni Monument, while the fate of his mate (Manda's biological mother) is unknown]]. We also know that Mu/Yonaguni has subterranean tunnels which both the Lord of Dragons and the humans of Mu used to travel. |
| 237 | ** According to Rodan, the aforementioned Mu and Godzilla's underwater temple from ''King of the Monsters'' are just two of many forgotten prehistoric acropolises, necropolises and graveyards that are concealed by the earth and sea all over the world. |
| 238 | ** Active Bone Singers were more prevalent in the time when the Titans were last active before the Mass Awakening than they are today, and various Titans have had encounters with them in different parts of the prehistoric world. Thousands of years ago, a group of shamanistic-looking Bone Singers braved Antarctica's deadly conditions to approach the glacier where Ghidorah was trapped in suspended animation. Godzilla thinks upon smelling Monster X and learning what they are that Vivienne is a more northern breed of Bone Singer than the ones that Godzilla previously encountered. Thor had quite a close relationship with Bone Singers in his time (heavily implied to be Old Norse or a precursor to those people), recalling several songs and rituals that they performed, including a galdr that they sung over their dead to keep them from rising again. |
| 239 | ** Information on [[InscrutableAliens the Makers]] is kept vague and limited. [[spoiler:It's made clear that they had a superficial resemblance to modern day humans, down to the use of {{hazmat suit}}s, flamethrowers and {{shock stick}}s, but their science and technology were far beyond ours; having transformed Ghidorah into [[DraconicAbomination what it is now]] and transported it across space to another planet. In ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'', it's stated that the Makers made Ghidorah to [[FinalSolution commit total genocide]] against another sapient planet because, as the Makers state, "thrice [the Makers] have offered and thrice they [the Enemy] have refused," and it's also revealed that they viewed religion and spirituality as [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions superstitions that their ancestors had long outgrown]]]]. |
| 240 | ** [=MaNi=] seems to have a slight IgnoredEpiphany when Vivienne directs the right word at him in the right context, as he balks for a moment, and she thinks that she's caused a distant memory to momentarily resurge in him. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/645147573238333440/ Word of God]] specifies just ''what'' that distant memory was and why [=MaNi=] reacted that way. |
| 241 | ** Thor's recollections reveal that his kind and Methuselah's kind were peacefully affiliated when there was more of them around.%% |
| 242 | |
| 243 | * CueTheSun: |
| 244 | ** Twice in the main fic. At the end of the Yonaguni battle, the stormclouds caused by the Many's WeatherManipulation break up and sunlight begins filtering through. [[spoiler:At the end of the FinalBattle, Keizer Ghidorah is defeated and its sky-blotting storms dissipate just moments before dawn breaks]]. |
| 245 | ** At the end of ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:after Mechagodzilla is destroyed and the main conflict resolved, Mothra's arrival scatters the gloomy gray clouds that have been hanging over Hong Kong and brings in the sunlight]]. |
| 246 | * {{Cyborg}}: |
| 247 | ** In the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline, [[spoiler:the HumongousMecha Kiryu is secretly built around a deceased ''Titanus Gojira''[='s=] bones which act as an endoskeleton, making him a FullConversionCyborg. And it's also implied that the other Mechagodzilla being built has some organic element integrated into it, with ]]. |
| 248 | ** [[spoiler:[[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/735206743682990080/ Word of God]] confirms that Gigan in [=AbraxasVerse=] has cybernetics integrated into his body like he did in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', and that the aliens which follow him likewise modify their own bodies with mechanical implants throughout their lives in worship of Gigan]]. |
| 249 | * DarkIsEvil: The underground and darkness are associated with the antagonists. When the Many and [[spoiler:Keizer Ghidorah]] come to the surface, they darken the skies with their Ghidorah-derived WeatherManipulation. {{Inverted}} by Monster X once they gain [[DarkIsNotEvil dark-gray skin]]. [[spoiler:Camazotz plays a minor role in the official timeline; darkening Skull Island with a storm before he's {{weakened by the light}}]]. |
| 250 | * DeadpanSnarker: Besides Jonah and Stanton, Vivienne demonstrates a sharp tongue and a deadpan sense of humor a few times throughout the story. Chapter 15 shows it's a trait that [[spoiler:Vivienne's mother Susan]] also possesses, when the latter is observing a news feed. Godzilla himself isn't above making an occasional snark while sounding dead-serious. [[spoiler:Even Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother get in on this trope at the early onset of their VillainousBreakdown in Chapter 17]]. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747931705213583360/ Word of God]] says that Kraken/Na Kika is "passive aggressive" when making their displeasure known. |
| 251 | * DeathByIrony: |
| 252 | ** Besides the {{Karmic Death}}s, the fic lampshades that both Serizawa and Vivienne's respective deaths during ''King of the Monsters'' were this. Vivienne was killed by the very Titan whose containment she was in charge of before it broke free, while Serizawa was born at Hiroshima before the bomb dropped and he ultimately died in the blast of a nuclear bomb. |
| 253 | ** The Skullcrawlers, creatures which canonically are such a threat because they're extreme biological hypervores, get killed by an even more horrible EldritchAbomination which is ''also'' driven by HorrorHunger to consume everything. |
| 254 | ** ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' reveals that the Makers basically {{invoked}} this trope on their enigmatic enemy, and the trope happened two-fold. [[spoiler:Since the number three was a religious motif in the Enemy's culture, after they rejected the Makers' so-called "offers" for the third time, the Makers created a ''three''-headed BioweaponBeast which annihilated them... before said beast turned around and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters annihilated the Makers too]]]]. |
| 255 | * DeepSleep: |
| 256 | ** In the aftermath of their first HeroicRROD, Monster X fall into such a sleep and possibly even a NearDeathExperience before their second {{Metamorphosis}} begins. They have a brief, deep and much more peaceful sleep after [[spoiler:Keizer Ghidorah's death]]. |
| 257 | ** The Timeline reveals that after all the events of 2019 and 2020 which demanded his attention, [[spoiler:Godzilla enters a rest period of dormancy for three years]].%% |
| 258 | |
| 259 | * DefectorFromDecadence: |
| 260 | ** Mariko and Tejada both become increasingly disgusted and disillusioned with Jonah's actions as he [[SanitySlippage loses his marbles]], culminating in both of them [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere ditching any remaining alliance to him]] in favor of joining up with the {{disposable vagrant}}s looking to survive. [[spoiler:They both later aid Monarch in trying to stop what Jonah's actions have unleashed, although it doesn't spare them from facing legal punishment for their crimes after the FinalBattle has ended]]. |
| 261 | ** The [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline reveals that after the Executive [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] discovers the depths of the Director's corruption [[spoiler:and madness]], she plans to defect to Monarch if the Collaborators lose control of their HumongousMecha project. The [[invoked]][[AscendedFanon ascended]] RecursiveFanfiction ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'' sees her go through with this defection.%% |
| 262 | |
| 263 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: |
| 264 | ** In the main fic; after Sam Coleman makes Vivienne aware that [[spoiler:her mother]] is with him at Castle Bravo, they end up promptly bringing [[spoiler:Susan]] to the control room to see Monster X. As lampshaded by Ling and by Vivienne herself, it was an impulse decision, and deciding to make [[spoiler:Susan]] aware of [[spoiler:her daughter's fate]] on pure impulse like this without thinking through how to ease her into the revelation was a bad idea. |
| 265 | ** [[spoiler:"Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that the Makers performed inhumane experiments on Ghidorah to make it as powerful as it is, and they implanted an [[TerribleTicking excruciating, constant mental noise]] into the three heads which could only be temporarily abated by killing everything within sight and reach in order to force Ghidorah to act as the Makers' [[BioweaponBeast weapon of global destruction]] against their enemies. However, the Makers didn't seem to realize that once Ghidorah had wiped out all life on the planet they sent it to and it didn't have anything left to kill there, it would use its new space-faring powers to leave the planet behind, and it would have every reason to return to the Makers and annihilate them next, after all the suffering they inflicted on it]].%% |
| 266 | |
| 267 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 268 | ** Ichi/Eldest Brother's response to Vivienne ''unknowingly'' setting off his bad memories while he was too frozen to physically lash out was to [[SwallowedWhole eat her alive]], then have San bring her BackFromTheDead transformed into something like the very three-headed dragon she feared, intended [[FateWorseThanDeath as a way of showing not even death will grant her quick release from Ghidorah's retribution]]. |
| 269 | ** [[spoiler:Walter Simmons]]' response to [[spoiler:Maia]] giving Ren ''one'' consolation about a highly-suspect project that Ren felt uncomfortable about is to cut her out of Project Talos under the justification that she's going soft. In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', he has an even nastier response to Ren punching him in front of his subordinates. |
| 270 | * DistantFinale: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Roughly midway through the main story's final chapter, there's a TimeSkip of a couple months, and the Timeline covers events over the following four years. |
| 271 | * DraconicAbomination: King Ghidorah is even more eldritch than it is in the ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'' canon, being capable of assimilating other Titans into itself and infecting other beings with its biomass to mutate them into hybrid monstrosities. Even after being immolated by Godzilla, its MindHive remains active and resurrects Dr. Vivienne Graham as a MonstrousHumanoid amalgam of herself and San's (Ghidorah's left head's) severed head that eventually metamorphoses into Monster X. Alan Jonah's experiments splicing tissue samples from the severed head with corpses give rise to an UndeadAbomination horde called the Many. Ni (Ghidorah's right head) is severed and regenerates using the Many into a nightmarish gestalt monster called [=MaNi=]; and [[spoiler:Ghidorah creates a HumanoidAbomination servitor species called the Zmeyevich by impregnating human women with its mutagenic DNA]]. |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[folder:E-F]] |
| 275 | * ElementalPersonalities: |
| 276 | ** As in canon, Godzilla is an aquatic monster who seeks to maintain the world's balance, Mothra's ability to create blinding flashes of light matches her protective nature, Methuselah is a rocky monster with a peaceful and passive disposition, and Rodan is a highly-aggressive pyrokinetic beast. |
| 277 | ** Ghidorah, as in canon, is a PsychoElectro. [[TwoBeingsOneBody Monster X]] is a positive Electricity when they manage to activate their bio-electrical powers, with the Vivienne Graham half of them being a ReluctantPsycho who's unwilling to sit on the sidelines but is prone to [[TheBerserker Berserker]] rages for most of the story, while the San half of them is actively inquisitive; in contrast to [[BigBad Ghidorah]]'s negative Electricity. |
| 278 | ** Scylla is Ice: [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/678283285035630592/ Word of God]] confirms that she's responsible for reversing the ice caps' melting like in the ''King of the Monsters'' CreativeClosingCredits; she makes a hard and pragmatic attempt to kill a Titan ally before said ally can turn and become a threat after [[spoiler:he's been infected by the Many]]; and she apparently has destructive urges and a mean penchant for mischief such as causing the 2021 Suez Canal Incident. |
| 279 | ** Camazotz, though only appearing as a ContinuityCameo in the main story and on the Timeline, gets extra Darkness points beyond his [=MonsterVerse=] portrayal for apparently having gone into seclusion following the events of ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', unlike the other awakened Titans. |
| 280 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:Kiryu is Metal. He gains sentience and stubbornly resists any and all effort by his human creators to get him back under their control, sometimes with psychic or electrical violence]]. |
| 281 | * EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Ford and Elle Brody apparently have only a very limited command of Japanese, which presents itself when they try to reassure a terrified nurse on Ishigaki in Chapter [[spoiler:18]]. According to [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/696115062838067200/ Word of God]], Monster X will probably try to teach Manda pieces of humans' languages in the future, but Manda will struggle to learn ''one'' language and only scraps will stick, due to his brain being more animal than human. In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', the intelligent IronLady [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] is portrayed as understanding basic sign language, although what she communicates with it sounds basic. |
| 282 | * EveryScarHasAStory: |
| 283 | ** Although Mariko survived the destruction of Outpost 58 in the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization, she came out of it with bad facial scars which serve as a permanent physical reminder of her crime. |
| 284 | ** ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals the origin of the permanent horn chip on Ghidorah's right head (Ni): [[spoiler:it was damaged by the Makers in the process of capturing him, before they forcibly transformed Ichi, Ni and San into Ghidorah and caused the beginning of their spiral into madness and evil]]. |
| 285 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 286 | ** Monster X overall is a Good Counterpart to Ghidorah, having similar powers [[spoiler:and a similar origin]] but remaining on the side of good. Vivienne particularly has an Evil Counterpart in Ichi/Eldest Brother, who is essentially what Vivienne could've become if she became hateful due to her traumas and abused San instead of forming a caring bond with him. |
| 287 | ** Vivienne also gains an Evil Counterpart in [[DiscOneFinalBoss Alan Jonah]] to a degree. Like Vivienne after the latter finds out about Serizawa's death, Jonah in his backstory was driven to the brink of despair by the tragic and untimely death of someone he loved (his daughter instead of his ParentalSubstitute). Unlike Vivienne, who pulled through her grief-induced depression, Jonah never let go of his, which mangled him into the apathetic, misanthropic, nihilistic monster that he is today. |
| 288 | ** San in turn gains an Evil Counterpart in [[spoiler:[=MaNi=]/Elder Brother, who remains loyal to Ghidorah and lusts to see Monster X's capacity for violence, in contrast to how San makes a HeelFaceTurn and genuinely loves Vivienne as a sister]]. |
| 289 | ** [[spoiler:The Zmeyevich]] were intended by [[spoiler:Ghidorah]] to be an EvilCounterpartRace to humanity, aiding Ghidorah analogously to how humans form symbiosis with the terrestrial Titans. |
| 290 | ** ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'' features a couple: |
| 291 | *** [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla is a HumongousMecha made by Project Talos, just like Kiryu is. But Kiryu was made partly by Monarch under the impression they'd be helping the world, and it develops an overall benevolent consciousness and helps to defend the world, whereas Mechagodzilla is an exclusively [[EvilInc Apex]]-made machine which is possessed by Abaddon and Megiddo's malevolent consciousnesses, seeking to destroy the world and ensure Ghidorah's resurrection]]. |
| 292 | *** Abaddon and Megiddo (Don and Meg) become their biological half-sister Aleksandra's evil counterpart. [[spoiler:Where Aleksandra was given a compassionate upbringing in Monarch custody with a loving carer in order to [[DefusingTheTykeBomb defuse the tyke-bomb]], Don and Meg were instead raised in Apex Cybernetics captivity and exploited to fulfil their surrogate "father" [[TheSociopath Walter Simmons]]' twisted plan, and they were also psychically contacted by Ghidorah, leading Don and Meg to sadistically attempt to destroy humanity and aid Ghidorah's return]]. Don and Meg [[spoiler:as Mechagodzilla]] can also be seen as an evil counterpart of Monster X who is slavishly devoted to Ghidorah's evil instead of going against it. |
| 293 | * EvilInc: Pharmaceutical companies and corporations including Bio-Major are apparently scrambling over each-other and willing to hire mercenaries to obtain Titan DNA samples (including the Ghidorah samples Jonah has obtained) for lucrative purposes. There's also [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics]], who participate in a form of HumanTrafficking and are overall implied to be just as bad here as in canon. |
| 294 | * EvilLaugh: It's hinted in this main fic that some of the times when Ghidorah's heads produce their high-pitched roars (which ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' viewers have historically compared to deranged cackling), the heads really ''are'' cackling. In Ghidorah's backstory in "Damnatio Memoriae", both San and Ichi cackle darkly in their [[AnimalTalk Kaiju Talk]] translations [[spoiler:when musing on getting their revenge on the Makers]]. |
| 295 | * EvilTakesANap: According to Word of God [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747931705213583360/ here]], Camazotz has largely gone dormant underground after his failed attempt to conquer Skull Island. The author also said [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/656745903530639360/ here]] [[spoiler:that Ghidorah would have likely sent the Many into dormancy for a brief period while it worked on breaking Monster X if it had succeeded in taking Monster X into the Hollow Earth]]. |
| 296 | * EvilVersusEvil: [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747230403316826112/ Word of God]] reveals that Ghidorah has encountered Gigan during its travels across space before it landed on ancient Earth, and that the two clashed and tried to kill each-other. |
| 297 | * ExpressiveHair: In Monster X's second form, San has fully-developed horns which droop or flare with his mood, just like when he was originally part of Ghidorah. Manda's beard-tendrils undulate to reflect his mood in certain ways, as shown in both the fic and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/709158137834471424/ this non-canon drabble]]. |
| 298 | * FantasticRomance: The Timeline reveals that in 2022, [[spoiler:Monster X and Rodan]] are reportedly a mated pair [[spoiler:(trio?)]], and the ''Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness'' one-shot "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" chronicles the relationship's beginning. [[spoiler:For Rodan to become Monster X's mate, Vivienne had to get turned from a human into a Titan, and San had to get separated from Ghidorah and merge with Vivienne]]. |
| 299 | * FixFic: The main fic started as one for the author, who is a Creator/SallyHawkins fan and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/185679855344/ very much disapproves]] of her character's wasted potential and how they not-so-reverently {{dropped a bridge on her}} in the Franchise/MonsterVerse, hence this fic bringing Vivienne {{back from the dead}} after the movie's ending and using her as one of the two main protagonists. [[spoiler:To a lesser extent, the fic later brings Dr. Serizawa back after a fashion (''[[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane maybe]]'') via amnesiac spiritual {{reincarnation}} in the newborn Manda]]. The last couple chapters and the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline fix a couple other problems that the author and other [=MonsterVerse=] fans had with ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': keeping most of the Titans that were introduced in ''King of the Monsters'' awake lastingly, instead of sending them all back into hibernation between movies and rendering ''King of the Monsters''[='=] NothingIsTheSameAnymore DawnOfAnEra ending entirely moot; [[AdaptationPersonalityChange rewriting Maia Simmons]] as a much more intelligent, mysterious and competent character whose redeeming qualities are explored a little more; and using Mark Russell's [[AccusationFic post-accusation]] character development during the main fic to make him grow into a more humbled and {{reasonable authority figure}} and a more open-minded and decent father to Madison than Mark's ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' portrayal (who the author found obnoxious and regarded as a disappointingly-{{aesop amnesia}}c "dunce" who was unworthy of his responsibilities). |
| 300 | * {{Foil}}: Both Viv and San have several contrasts – besides [[DiscOneFinalBoss Alan Jonah]], they have Foils in Godzilla, Manda, Thor and Madison. They aren't the only ones either – Jonah and Ghidorah are Foils, and Mark Russell has Foils in Thor and Ren Serizawa. See the characters' respective folders on the [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnon character pages]] for more details. |
| 301 | * ForcedToWatch: |
| 302 | ** Viv and San get subjected a couple times in the main fic [[spoiler:courtesy of Ghidorah's other remnants. [=MaNi=] nearly forces Vivienne to watch San get killed in front of her. The completed Monster X is later forced to watch Keizer Ghidorah attempt to violently assimilate Thor into the Many]]. |
| 303 | ** In "Damnatio Memoriae", Ghidorah was subjected to this trope in its backstory. [[spoiler:Ichi and Ni had to watch helplessly as the Makers started cutting a screaming San open, before the Makers started doing the same to the other two one by one, with Ichi (the eldest who [[UsedToBeASweetKid looked out for the other two]]) being last]]. |
| 304 | * ForegoneConclusion: |
| 305 | ** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Nadezhda in the main fic. [[spoiler:She and her husband Zima end the story hoping that they'll get to live happily ever after raising their child, but Nadezhda's child is one of the Zmeyevich (which present serious health risks to their mothers), and it's heavily implied by Nadezhda's weakening health that she'll be among the unlucky fraction of Zmeyevich mothers who [[DeathByChildbirth don't survive the childbirth]]. In the ascended recursive fic ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver'', Nadezhda's DeathByChildbirth is confirmed]]. |
| 306 | ** "Damnatio Memoriae" tells Ghidorah's origin story. The basic plot progression is already known from San's account in the main fic, it's just the extra details concerning Ghidorah's characterization, [[spoiler:and the Makers and the Enemy,]] and precisely where the one-shot will cut off that are unknown to the reader in advance.%% |
| 307 | |
| 308 | * ForTheEvulz: |
| 309 | ** There's [[spoiler:the Many]] leaving a security headcam message for the torch-and-bury op to find in Chapter 11. They seemingly had no reason to do that except to screw with them. |
| 310 | ** {{Discussed}} in Chapter 17. Barnes observes that Jonah and his paramilitary had nothing to really gain towards their [[EcoTerrorist cause]] by PlayingWithSyringes on San's original head, and he speculates they pretty much did it just because they could. Of course, Barnes doesn't know about [[spoiler:Jonah's LoveMakesYouEvil motivation for his cruel experiments]]. |
| 311 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/649738995841024000/ Word of God]] comments that Ghidorah, true to the character's proneness to this in [=MonsterVerse=] canon and previous licensed iterations, would sometimes personally wipe out species who hadn't challenged it just for fun during its conquests of alien worlds.%% |
| 312 | |
| 313 | * ForWantOfANail: A few by the story's end in relation to post-''King of the Monsters'' [=MonsterVerse=] installments: |
| 314 | ** A conversation with Dr. Brooks results in Mark Russell being talked out of enrolling Madison in a public school, and getting some further parenting advice against the canon Mark's questionable parenting methods in ''Godzilla vs. Kong''. The Timeline reveals this leads to [[spoiler:Madison becoming Mark's assistant in Monarch by 2024]]. |
| 315 | ** Due to his AdaptationalHeroism personality, [[spoiler:Ren is conducting corporate espionage on Monarch's behalf instead of being a willing part of Apex Cybernetics' agenda]]. |
| 316 | ** Due to San's old head continuing to regenerate instead of becoming an UndeadAbomination skull, [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics have Abaddon and Megiddo instead of a Ghidorah skull in their custody]]. |
| 317 | ** Monster X intervenes to prevent Camazotz' PerpetualStorm permanently enveloping Skull Island, and [[SparedByTheAdaptation most of the island's inhabitants are saved with the storm dispersed]]. |
| 318 | ** Skull Island's Vile Vortex is apparently completely caved in after the battle against Camazotz, rather than merely being de-stabilized as in ''Kingdom Kong''. As a result, [[spoiler:the Lind brothers' first attempt to enter the Realm Below takes place in Antarctica instead of Skull Island]]. |
| 319 | ** Because the Titans from the Mass Awakening remain awake in this continuity, [[spoiler:they all join Godzilla in destroying Apex Cybernetics bases]] in 2024. |
| 320 | * FreudianExcuse: |
| 321 | ** San, Ichi and Ni have one in their backstory. [[spoiler:Billions of years ago, they were originally a benign-natured type of juvenile wild animal, but they were {{kidnapped for experimentation}} by {{humanoid alien}}s who brutally altered them. They were cruelly tortured to madness by the Old Noise for generations, and they subsequently spent literal ''eons'' wiping out entire planets per the Old Noise's standing instruction in desperate bids to rid themselves of the Noise, until all the mounting torments and the constant, never-ending omnicide warped them into the deranged, hyper-sadistic beasts that Ghidorah's heads are now]]. |
| 322 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736416447128043520/ Word of God]] says that Ladon isn't the most temperate [[spoiler:Godzilla, even comparing him to a watered-down version of the ''[[Film/GodzillaMinusOne Minus One]]'' Godzilla iteration]], on account of him having spent his start to life locked up underground and being treated like a labrat at best. |
| 323 | ** When asked about [[Film/Godzilla2014 Hokmuto and Femuto]]'s self-awareness and thoughts in [=AbraxasVerse=], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/740810976672317440/ the author]] commented that they were likely as bad as they were and as unwilling to bow to Godzilla to save their own lives because of their lifelong lack of guidance. |
| 324 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:the Zmeyevich Don and Meg are ruthless, cruel and completely genocidal creatures, on account of having been raised by Walter Simmons as his weapons while being psychically groomed by Ghidorah all their lives. They've grown into [[WellDoneSonGuy well-done son guys]] that are eager to please Ghidorah with global genocide and have no moral compass beyond that, in contrast to the moral Aleksandra who was "raised right" without any apparent influence from Ghidorah]]. |
| 325 | * FriendToAllChildren: Vivienne used to babysit Ilene's twin daughters, who remember her fondly. Thor can be outraged to wrath when "young ones" he cares about are threatened. "Sermones ad Mortuos" reveals that when Vivienne was a child, she had an elderly neighbour called Mr. Tomlinson who gave her apples during visits and indulged her [[KidsLoveDinosaurs interest in dinosaurs]] with quizzes. |
| 326 | * FusionDance: |
| 327 | ** The Many perform a lot of this with their biomasses, [[spoiler:being partly TheAssimilator in the style of ''Film/TheThing1982'']]. |
| 328 | ** Monster X is TwoBeingsOneBody, [[spoiler:but when it transforms into its single-headed final form, Viv and San experience a MentalFusion]]. |
| 329 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736280271902703616/ Word]] [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736371211145216000/ of God]] says that after the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline's end-point, [[spoiler:Dagon's old {{genetic memory}}, the A.I. in Kiryu's manmade supercomputer brain, and possibly other factors all fuse together to grant the Kiryu mech consciousness]]. |
| 330 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:a copy of Ren Serizawa's consciousness gets melded to that of Don and Meg when they body-jump into Mechagodzilla, and when they subsequently break out of the mech in an organic form]]. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder:G-H]] |
| 334 | * GeneticMemory: |
| 335 | ** Whenever any of Ghidorah's three heads are lost and they have to be regenerated – either from Ghidorah's body, or from a previously-severed appendage if that's all that's left of Ghidorah after the body has been killed – the regrown head(s) have all the exact same pre-severing memories and personality as their severed counterparts fully backed up, resulting in clones of the same individual head's mind if a regrown head's severed counterpart is still intact and alive on its own. |
| 336 | ** [[spoiler:Word of God ([[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736280271902703616/ 1]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736386104247369728/ 2]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736371211145216000/ 3]]) states that after the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline's end-point, the [[HumomgousMecha Kiryu MK I]] gains sentience, and its consciousness [[SoulFragment partly inherits]] fragments of Dagon's personality and memories that lingered in his bones after his death while still ultimately being a new and separate consciousness from him]]. |
| 337 | * GoneHorriblyRight: |
| 338 | ** Jonah having his goons try to [[BullyingADragon provoke]] a reaction in Monster X in Chapter 4 works far too well, leading to the ''brutal'' deaths of at least three of his mercenaries. |
| 339 | ** [[spoiler:It's revealed that Ghidorah was originally created by an advanced alien civilization billions of years ago to be a [[BioweaponBeast weapon of global destruction]] that would wipe out everything on a planet that Ghidorah's makers sent it to. Unfortunately for the Makers, not only did Ghidorah work ''just as well'' as they intended it to and then some, but once Ghidorah's targets were dead, [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters it targeted and eradicated the Makers next]], and it's been wiping out all life that it can find anywhere in the universe ever since, sterilizing entire worlds]]. |
| 340 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:Apex have built an anti-Titan mecha of their own to be capable of matching the Titans' power level and potentially toppling them -- which means that Apex are just as screwed as anyone else is, once the minds Apex have connected to the mecha to control it decide that they don't need Apex anymore]]. |
| 341 | * GuileHero: Both [[MaybeEverAfter Ren Serizawa and]] [[spoiler:[[MaybeEverAfter Maia Simmons]] (after her HeelRealization)]] use their own wits and covert methods to aid the heroes amid their corporate environment. |
| 342 | * HazmatSuit: Mariko, and Jonah's Mooks, are wearing protective suits when approaching the Vivienne-San hybrid in the main fic. [[spoiler:"Damnatio Memoriae" portrays the Makers via the Dorats' thoughts wearing full-body protective suits when they first capture the Dorats]]. |
| 343 | * HeadInTheSandManagement: ZigZagged by Monarch. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/670030704181215232/ Word of God]] says that if Vivienne was asked to address this wiki's Strawman Has a Point entry which describes Monarch's ineffectual handling of TheGovernment in ''King of the Monsters'' ([[YMMV/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 see here]]), Vivienne would admit that she and the rest of Monarch were indeed being highly indecisive and they defaulted to trying to stall the government long enough to reach a firm consensus on humanity's stance about the Titans. |
| 344 | * HeelRealization: |
| 345 | ** San has a particularly brutal one in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/5/ Chapter 5]], when he's viewing Vivienne's memories and has a painful epiphany about just how what he and his brothers did to her has caused her so much misery and why she's been so wary of him. |
| 346 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/656909793179631616/ Word of God]] confirms that San-2/Youngest Brother [[spoiler:had his own Heel Realization during the events in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/17/ Chapter 17]], which in his case was likewise partly triggered by viewing another's memories of their lost loved one/s]]. |
| 347 | ** [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] slowly becomes concerned about Project Talos and her father's actions, and eventually she makes plans to pull a full HeelFaceTurn if Apex ''do'' lose control of [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla and Kiryu]].%% |
| 348 | |
| 349 | * HeroicLineage: |
| 350 | ** From what we see of Ilene's twin daughters' interactions with Titans, Ilene's little girls are ''not'' going to pull a [[Film/GodzillaVsKong Ren Serizawa]] when they grow up: they're likely going to continue the Mothra-worshipping legacy of the Chen family, whom are further revealed by [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/691624167475478528/ Word of God]] to be a bloodline of recurring specialized Bone Singers in their own right. |
| 351 | ** Speaking of Ren, this story's version of Serizawa's son is a ZigZagged case, instead of the outright villain from ''Godzilla vs. Kong''. [[spoiler:Ren has his differences with his late father, but he starts to form an understanding of why his father felt connected to the Titans, and he ends up becoming a hero aligned with Monarch]].%% |
| 352 | |
| 353 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 354 | ** Rodan's personality is rather {{jerkass}}, but he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold stays true to his duty mentoring Monster X despite his reservations about them]], and Vivienne notes he has genuine words of wisdom despite his [[{{Pride}} ego]]. Despite his bluster, he also has an intimate knowledge of how to be charming and attractive when looking to court a mate in the ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46831738/ Abraxas: Empty Fullness]]'' one-shot "Ain't That a Kick in the Head". |
| 355 | ** Dr. Stanton, DeadpanSnarker and PluckyComicRelief that he is, shows self-reflection about his cynicism, worrying it's pushing him towards the DespairEventHorizon, in Chapter 12. |
| 356 | * HollowWorld: Titans can use tunnels cutting through the Earth's mantle to shorten global travel time, like in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', but later chapters also hint that the real Hollow Earth ecosystem located at the planet's core (here referred to by Ghidorah as the Realm Below) is largely unexplored or untouched even by them. |
| 357 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: |
| 358 | ** Remember the Skullcrawlers from ''Film/KongSkullIsland''? Vicious, bloodthirsty, HorrorHunger-mad beasties that'll take Kong in a fight without hesitation? Well, what's lurking around the abandoned Monarch outpost following the {{Artificial Zombie}}s' creation [[spoiler:and the disappearance of San's old head]] is so terrible that Kong's old foes flee in terror when it's near them; in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/11/ Chapter 11]]. |
| 359 | ** As much of a BloodKnight with a [[MagmaMan literal]] and [[HotBlooded figurative fiery streak]] as Rodan is, he's slightly unnerved and given pause when he sees Monster X tearing apart the Many in an insane rage, in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/13 Chapter 13]]. |
| 360 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/694435146019078144/ Word of God]] says that two of the few elements of horror fiction that would genuinely disturb San are: liminal space (a la WebOriginal/TheBackrooms), and [[AfraidOfDoctors hospital horror]]. |
| 361 | ** The fleet [[spoiler:which worship [[{{Sadist}} Gigan]]]] are horrific, BodyHorror-ridden {{sense freak}}s who voluntarily allow themselves to be {{flayed alive}} before they die, but Word of God ([[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736744231470759936/ 1]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747230403316826112/ 2]]) says that even ''they'' are terrified of [[OmnicidalManiac Ghidorah]], due to a past encounter between them which occurred many of the fleet's generations ago. |
| 362 | * HumanityIsInsane: Downplayed, but San in the main fic and Rodan in "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" both think that humans are an odd bunch. San is bemused that humans make emotional relationships so complicated when Vivienne can't give him a straight answer to his question about whether or not her [[ParentalSubstitute bond with Serizawa]] makes the latter's son Ren her brother. Rodan is befuddled that taking a raincheck to think over a courtship proposal instead of instantly accepting or declining it is a thing amongst humans. |
| 363 | * HumanoidAbomination: Monster X in its first form [[spoiler:and final form]] is a MonstrousHumanoid, and what makes it overlap with this trope is that half of Monster X is San (a former head of [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]]). [[spoiler:The Zmeyevich once they're born have a Ghidorah-evocative Monstrous Humanoid appearance, and they apparently have some [[EldritchAbomination eldritch]] nature themselves]]. |
| 364 | * HumansAreFlawed: |
| 365 | ** {{Discussed}} by Dr. Chen in Chapter 12. Indeed, after the Mass Awakening, the majority of the public have grown accepting of the Titans' [[PhysicalGod power and natural authority]] and their ecological importance, though there's still a minority that advocates attempting to kill Titans such as the Ghidorah-like Monster X out of paranoia. Vivienne and human characters also deride the sheer reckless hubris of the military who deployed the Oxygen Destroyer, and the corporations who are utilizing Titan DNA. |
| 366 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/678283285035630592/ Word]] [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/716723671129014273/ of God]] describes the terrestrial Titans' varying opinions on humans' flaws. Most Titans are aware that humanity overall have both their faults and their redeeming qualities, and some of them can at least appreciate [[KlingonsLoveShakespeare humans' creativity and sense of artistry when it comes to architecture]]. |
| 367 | * HumansNeedAliens: The events of ''King of the Monsters'' have made the human race generally more conscious of the fact the world needs the Titans for survival; with the Titans' ecological crucialness and humanity's inability to effectively usurp them if they tried being brought up as much in this fic as they originally were in ''King of the Monsters'', whereas post-''King of the Monsters'' [=MonsterVerse=] installments such as ''Kingdom Kong'' and the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization have humans treating these things more like an afterthought. Even [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] at least acknowledges it's the Titans rather than humanity who are currently the world's real main line of defence. |
| 368 | * HumblePie: The author, when asked to postulate on post-Mass Awakening ''Abraxas'' politics, [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/660135249010917376/ indicated]] that {{the government}} were left in a mortified position; after all their pre-Mass Awakening push for Titan extermination culminated in the Oxygen Destroyer's EpicFail which almost ensured the end of humanity by King Ghidorah, and after overwhelming evidence that Monarch were right about most Earthborn Titans' FertileFeet and capacity to coexist with humans came flooding in after Ghidorah's downfall. This left the government dragging their feet for some time and begrudgingly admitting that Monarch might have been right about coexisting with Titans after all. |
| 369 | * HumongousMecha: Project Talos is creating two mechs [[spoiler:in Godzilla's image (namely Kiryu and Mechagodzilla), as part of the MugglePower]]. |
| 370 | * HybridsAreACrapshoot: |
| 371 | ** {{Subverted}} with Monster X. Viv and San's first hybridized form is unintentionally crippled and plagued by BodyHorror, but with Mothra's aid this gets completely fixed to make them a fully-functional Titan. |
| 372 | ** Ultimately [[spoiler:{{downplayed}}]] with the [[HalfHumanHybrid Zmeyevich]]: [[spoiler:although they're born fully functional, appearance-wise they didn't inherit any of Ghidorah's [[BeautyIsBad good looks]] and they're quite conspicuous-looking]]. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:I-L]] |
| 376 | * TheIdealist: Ilene Chen and the lepidoterran Titan her family worship have this in common. Ilene drops a couple glass-half-full arguments during the main story, and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/678283285035630592/ Word of God]] says Mothra sees humanity in a light not that far off from GoodCannotComprehendEvil. |
| 377 | * IllKillYou: |
| 378 | ** Both San ''and'' Vivienne have respectively screamed the latter two words at someone over and over when ''murderously'' incensed; whether saying the words out loud (as San does in Chapter 4) or saying them within their minds (as Vivienne seems to do multiple times). |
| 379 | ** Godzilla makes quite a chilling goad to the Many when he's hunting one of their constructs, in Chapter 14: |
| 380 | --->"''Come on out, so I may kill you.''" |
| 381 | ** In the ''Empty Fullness'' Ghidorah-centered one-shot "Damnatio Memoriae", Ichi bellows several times that he'll kill the Makers [[spoiler:for horrifically torturing him and his brothers (who at this early point in his life [[UsedToBeASweetKid Ichi still cares for]])]]. |
| 382 | * ImmortalsFearDeath: San, who was formerly part of a biologically-immortal and self-regrowing three-headed dragon, and is chronologically billions of years old, becomes terrified by the thought of dying permanently in Chapter 5. {{Averted}} by Ghidorah: it isn't exactly ''unafraid of'' death, [[spoiler:as shown by its {{Villainous Breakdown}}s in the movie and in this fic]], but the knowledge that it will always come back from death gives the heads (particularly Ichi/Eldest Brother) some measure of well-founded confidence. |
| 383 | * InHarmonyWithNature: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but most of humanity are now one step closer to proper coexistence with the Titans after the events of ''King of the Monsters'' (moreso than in [=MonsterVerse=] canon, where the events of that movie [[{{Retcon}} have been mostly reset and forgotten in later installments]]). Humanity have accepted that the Titans aren't going away anytime soon, and that at this point, humanity has to get used to cohabiting the world with them. [[GiantAnimalWorship Deification of the Titans]] is even making a comeback in some circles. |
| 384 | * TheInsomniac: |
| 385 | ** Vivienne is initially rendered insomniac in her and San's first hybridized form. In the ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' one-shot "Sermones ad Mortuos", Viv and San become insomniac again for several nights [[spoiler:when they're in mourning]]. |
| 386 | ** It's also indicated that sleeplessness is one of the early symptoms of suffering BrownNote from long-term exposure to Ghidorah's telepathy. |
| 387 | ** [[spoiler:Susan has evidently had sleepless nights since the Mass Awakening]].%% |
| 388 | |
| 389 | * InSpiteOfANail: Despite the events of this story and the AlternateUniverseFic points, some things at the end remain the same as they are in [=MonsterVerse=] installments set after ''King of the Monsters'': |
| 390 | ** In an InUniverse clone variation; though the circumstances leading up to San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother [[spoiler:turning against his brothers in favor of aiding Vivienne]] are very different, and he never develops the main San's thanatophobia, the [[spoiler:facial cues he cycles through when he hears Vivienne calling him "brother"]] are notably exactly the same as San's when he first heard the same. It's also heavily implied that like with San, the major turning point [[spoiler:in San-Who-Could-Have-Been's HeelRealization was viewing another being's emotion-tinted memories of their lost loved ones]]. |
| 391 | ** Despite the Titans from the Mass Awakening remaining awake in this continuity, [[spoiler:Camazotz still invades Skull Island as he did in ''Kingdom Kong'']]. |
| 392 | ** Mark and Madison still move to Pensacola (albeit a year or three earlier than when the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization states they did), and Mark [[spoiler:still rejoins Monarch and becomes co-director]]. |
| 393 | ** [[spoiler:[[AdaptationalHeroism Ren Serizawa]] still takes a high-ranking job at Apex Cybernetics, albeit for very different reasons than in [=MonsterVerse=] canon]]. |
| 394 | ** [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics still obtain a remnant of Ghidorah via a black market dealing (though not a piece of the three-headed creature itself this time), and they obtain it just over a year after the events of ''King of the Monsters''[[note]]The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization, which has a bad case of WritersCannotDoMath regarding chronology consistency with the years, indicates Apex buying Ghidorah's remains occurred roughly fourteen months after Ghidorah's death at Boston[[/note]]]]. |
| 395 | ** Despite the Iwi's and the Skull Island ecosystem's SparedByTheAdaptation, Jia's parents are still killed in the chaos caused by Camazotz, and Kong still has to leave the island in 2024 due to growing too big for the ecosystem. |
| 396 | ** Skull Island's bio-dome from ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' is presumably never built, but Monarch [[spoiler:and Apex]] ''do'' still build a giant protective dome elsewhere in 2021; namely atop [[spoiler:Dagon's grave in the Philippines]]. |
| 397 | ** [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics have no Ghidorah skull, they approach Monarch with a collaborative proposal years earlier than in [=MonsterVerse=] canon, and their plan involves building ''two'' mechs in Godzilla's image instead of just one. But they're still illegally building Mechagodzilla in Hong Kong with completion still occurring in 2024, and the mech has shown signs of being possessed by ''something'' that's related to Ghidorah]]. |
| 398 | ** [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] still gets assigned by [[spoiler:her father]] to join the efforts to man a HollowEarth expedition, albeit a year earlier than in [=MonsterVerse=] canon and ''before'' the Linds' failed first attempt. |
| 399 | ** In a more meta sense, the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline confirms that in a world where Titans emerged in 2019 and several major cities have been completely levelled, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction Suez Canal Incident of 2021]] still occurs but the cause is an aquatic Titan. |
| 400 | ** See [[Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver here]] for ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'' entries.%% |
| 401 | |
| 402 | * InterspeciesRomance: It's heavily implied that Barnes got it right in ''King of the Monsters'' when he assumed Godzilla and Mothra have a thing going on. Rodan has some definite BelligerentSexualTension with a certain half-human, half-Ghidorah hybrid [[spoiler:which blossoms into a relationship later on the timeline]]. |
| 403 | * IWantGrandkids: |
| 404 | ** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Susan Graham. She never strongarmed Vivienne into having kids, even when Vivienne hit her forties, [[spoiler:but she's quite happy that her daughter has an adoptive child in Manda]]. |
| 405 | ** PlayedStraight [[spoiler:with Ghidorah. It's considered the [[MotherOfAThousandYoung father]] of [[HalfHumanHybrid the Zmeyevich]], and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/735730101033025536/ Word of God]] reveals that it deliberately designed them to have strong desires because Ghidorah wants them to procreate and proliferate as much as possible as part of Ghidorah's {{long game}}. To say nothing of when Ghidorah intended to impregnate the other part-human "child" that it created, [[ParentalIncest and it intended to do the impregnating itself]]]]. |
| 406 | * JawDrop: |
| 407 | ** Dr. Chen's jaw falls during the FinalBattle [[spoiler:when she's watching the benevolent Titans kick Keizer Ghidorah's ass]]. |
| 408 | ** In the ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' one-shot "Ain't That a Kick to the Head", Monster X's jaw, [[spoiler:MonstrousMandibles and all]], falls slack [[spoiler:when they realize that Rodan is ''courting'' them]]. |
| 409 | * {{Jerkass}}: |
| 410 | ** Guard [=B-04=] is an immature, cowardly shit who relentlessly bullies Vivienne in her and San's helpless state. |
| 411 | ** In one of the internet users commenting on Monster X news, username [=HumanityHellYeah=], we have your standard InternetJerk with a bit of pre-Mass Awakening kill-the-Titans sentiment. |
| 412 | ** What we know about [[spoiler:Walter Simmons]] doesn't paint a picture of an AdaptationalNiceGuy. He's a borderline taskmaster with his daughter, he'll swing from saying he's open-minded into CantTakeCriticism when you give him critique, and he's overall stated outside the main fic to be power-hungry and egotistical like his canon counterpart. |
| 413 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: |
| 414 | ** Rodan is presented as HotBlooded, snarky and aggressive, but he truly adheres to his duty as Viv and San's mentor even though he was reluctant to take on this role to begin with, [[spoiler:and he [[PlatonicCoParenting helps to rear Manda]],]] among other HiddenDepths. |
| 415 | ** Ren Serizawa is frosty, aloof and somewhat sarcastic, but he'll still go out of his way to help out where and when he can if the opportunity presents itself. |
| 416 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 417 | ** InUniverse; in an extra detail that wasn't mentioned in the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization, Jonah reveals that the culprit who murdered his schoolgirl-aged daughter and left her body stuffed in a storm drain was never caught. |
| 418 | ** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with [[EvilInc Bio-Major]]. They're openly accused by Monarch of illegal activity which they are in fact guilty of, and they face severe backlash once [[spoiler:the Zmeyevich created by the treatment they illegally obtained and marketed]] are born. However, nothing is mentioned of them ever being punished for [[spoiler:illegally ''trafficking'' two recently-orphaned Zmeyevich]]. |
| 419 | ** Some of the Makers [[spoiler:directly involved in Ghidorah's creation]] apparently lived out their natural lifespans and died [[spoiler:before Ghidorah [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned against them]]]] according to "Damnatio Memoriae", meaning that those members of the species were never punished [[spoiler:for their role in Ghidorah's unpleasant creation with the intent to commit total genocide]]. Ni was particularly infuriated that he never got his revenge on them. |
| 420 | * KarmicDeath: |
| 421 | ** Guard B-04 and later Jonah are killed by [[spoiler:Monster X, the two-headed Titan that they both respectively tormented in some deliberate way]]. |
| 422 | ** Also, [[spoiler:the [[AbusivePrecursors Makers]]]] received this. They forcibly did horrible and excruciating things to [[spoiler:Ghidorah]], and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/645147573238333440/ Word of God]] indicates [[spoiler:the Makers]] weren't desperate nor operating on BlueAndOrangeMorality, but they really were sadistic assholes who enjoyed finding new ways to destroy things and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals torture animal lifeforms that they captured]]. [[spoiler:Ghidorah ultimately turned against the Makers and]] made them all die "screaming", [[spoiler:using the very PersonOfMassDestruction powers which the Makers had granted it]]. For an extra flavor of karmic, [[spoiler:Ghidorah was doing to the Makers precisely what they made and explicitly programmed Ghidorah to do to ''another'' civilization along with their entire planet]]. |
| 423 | ** [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother not only gets a RasputinianDeath [[spoiler:from the same two-headed Titan whom he inflicted nightmarish ColdBloodedTorture on and whose male half he attempted to [[SiblingMurder fratricide]]]] -- he also [[spoiler:gets a VillainousBreakdown in his dying moments (fitting how he tried to psychologically destroy Vivienne), he gets turned into food by Monster X's VampiricDraining (just like how [=MaNi=] tried to kill and make sustenance out of San), and his severed head is forced to helplessly watch his own death (just like he forced Vivienne to watch him almost kill San). However, [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/690163715553820672/ Word of God]] indicates [=MaNi=] [[UncertainDoom might]] be OnlyMostlyDead, in which case the "death" part of this trope could be {{subverted}}]]. |
| 424 | ** [[spoiler:Ghidorah is ultimately killed again by a combination of the two-headed Titan it's caused so, ''so'' much pain to, and nearly every other living Titan that it's wronged or dominated; including its own regenerated left head who's pulling a RedemptionEqualsDeath against his brothers. Not to mention, Ghidorah's demise isn't a quick one at all]]. |
| 425 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:Walter Simmons is killed by the very Zmeyevich who he groomed and arrogantly thought he controlled, using his own prized artificial Titan that he gave the Zmeyevich complete control over and that he was planning to use to endanger millions and conquer the Titans]].%% |
| 426 | |
| 427 | * KidnappedForExperimentation: |
| 428 | ** Alan Jonah's cronies eventually start quietly "disappearing" the [[DisposableVagrant disposable vagrants]] that they've been using as manual labor up to this point so that they can use them as test subjects for experimentation [[spoiler:with Ghidorah's DNA. A few of the female kidnappees are [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate impregnated]] with [[HalfHumanHybrid hybridized offspring]]. The rest are turned into MonstrousHumanoid zombies by the experiments done to them with Ghidorah's unrefined DNA samples.]] |
| 429 | ** This trope also occurred in Ghidorah's backstory from ''Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness''. [[spoiler:Before they were the Destroyer of Worlds; Ichi, Ni and San were kidnapped from their original home in an alien world's wilderness by AbusivePrecursors who performed inhumane experiments which gave Ghidorah the world-ending powers that it now possesses, in an effort to make a BioweaponBeast of mass destruction for themselves.]] |
| 430 | * KidsLoveDinosaurs: Vivienne has had a lifelong passion for dinosaurs since early childhood: her [=MonsterVerse=] canon backstory of sneaking off in a museum as a child and falling asleep at the foot of a ''Brontosaurus'' skeleton is incorporated. This is a trait which the young Sam Brody also possesses. |
| 431 | * KrakenAndLeviathan: In addition to the whale-like, crocodilian Godzilla and the part-cephalopod, part-crustacean Scylla, there's a couple undersea Kaiju battles involving a giant {{Dracolich}} in the main story. |
| 432 | * KryptoniteProofSuit: [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics]] are working on protective infantry gear designs designed for the new age of the Titans, and Ren thinks about how they can be insulated against the radiation that Titans feed on and produce so that humans can safely tread through Titan territory. The Timeline reveals this new gear is finalized in 2022. In the ascended recursive fic ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', this gear is being worn by the Hollow Earth expedition. |
| 433 | * LeftHanging: Hrodvitnon wrapped up the main story whilst leaving several plot threads dangling. This pattern reappears in the Timeline, which doesn't specify what happens [[spoiler:following the eve of the enigmatic Clash of Titans]], leaving it up to RecursiveFanfiction to explore -- one such recursive fic, ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver'', was eventually canonized by Hrodvitnon. |
| 434 | * LineageComesFromTheFather: [[spoiler:Manda's biological father was the Lord of Dragons, who protected Mu and was friendly with Godzilla, whereas next to nothing is known about Manda's biological mother]]. GenderInverted with Ilene's twin daughters Ziyi and Yong: like in [=MonsterVerse=] canon, their maternal family are a HeroicLineage while nothing is mentioned of their father (although the author does toy with the question of who he is [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/694341867251302400/ here]] and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/711707754042114048/ here]]). |
| 435 | * {{Lobotomy}}: |
| 436 | ** "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that San was at one point subjected to brain surgery, [[spoiler:when the Makers cut into his brain to make him act as Ghidorah's sentry head]]. |
| 437 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics' plans for the other Titans after killing and usurping Godzilla involve lobotomizing them and inserting mind-control devices into their brains]]. |
| 438 | * LovecraftLite: Moreso than the [=MonsterVerse=] in terms of both the Lovecraft and the Lite. The Titans, especially [[AdaptationalAbomination Ghidorah]], can have a very Lovecraftian BrownNote effect on humans which can cause temporary bizarre behavior or permanent madness, plus there's the (fortunately long-dead) AbusivePrecursors. Though the Titans were already heavily implied in the [=MonsterVerse=] to have human levels of intelligence and emotional sentience, in [=AbraxasVerse=] it's outright confirmed, although it's still not as wacky as the infamous AnimalTalk translations in ''Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster''. Godzilla is even known by Ghidorah's heads as "the Deep One". |
| 439 | * LoudOfWar: |
| 440 | ** It's revealed that the ORCA can disorient Ghidorah not just because it sounds like a rival Alpha Titan's call, [[spoiler:but also because the artificial noise brings back [[TraumaButton bad memories]] from Ghidorah's past and it causes the Old Noise in them to painfully stir up]]. |
| 441 | ** According to [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747931705213583360/ Word of God]], Monarch have discovered thanks to a suggestion from Dr. Stanton that blasting loud music which sounds to a Titan like certain alpha frequencies is enough to scare [[BoisterousWeakling Amhuluk]] away whenever the latter causes trouble. |
| 442 | * LuddWasRight: The author [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/656635359659180032/ said]] she suspects that one reason why the majority of non-simian Titans don't build tools or technological civilizations despite having human-like levels of intelligence is because negative experiences involving AdvancedAncientHumans discouraged them from following humanity's example. |
| 443 | [[/folder]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | [[folder:M-N]] |
| 446 | * MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]] seems to catch Ren's eye, although she mostly keeps it ambiguous to her peers whether or not she reciprocates. The [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline indicates they haven't yet gotten together by the Timeline's ending point. |
| 447 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 448 | ** Vivienne's name means "alive", which is relevant to her being OnlyMostlyDead and coming BackFromTheDead reborn after Ghidorah ate her, and it also reflects how she's at risk of becoming dead on the inside if she and San can't heal from their traumas and they give in to madness. |
| 449 | ** Monster X's name is a reference to Ghidorah's Monster Zero designation, and its ProtagonistTitle name is a reference to the [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} Gnostic figure and concept]]. |
| 450 | ** [[https://www.tumblr.com/hrodvitnon/699677927317569536/ Word of God]] suggests that there's an InUniverse justification for why San and his brothers' names correspond to their respective positions in Ghidorah's heads' pecking order: in this fic, Vivienne was the one who gave the heads their names, and Ghidorah [[LeakingCanOfEvil while it was frozen]] was likely telepathically leaking details about itself such as those into her mind. [[spoiler:Ghidorah's backstory also hints that Ghidorah based its name on the alien word "''Ghee'haszhra''", which it psionically heard the first ever alien civilization it attacked screaming as they perished -- "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that the Ghee'haszhra was a religious text saying "three times, but never four", and that the Makers based Ghidorah's three-headed, [[TwoBeingsOneBody Three Beings, One Body]] design directly on it]]. |
| 451 | *** The shed skin of Ghidorah's right head, on top of retaining his Elder/Younger Brother designation among Monster X [[spoiler:and Ghidorah]], has the Production Nickname [=MaNi=]; which is a combination of the Ni (Two) name which Vivienne gave Ghidorah's right head (denoting him as the middle brother in terms of age and pecking order), and the Many's name (with [=MaNi=] having merged with the Many). |
| 452 | ** The Many's name refers both to their HiveMind nature, and their genetic source, [[RedBaron the One Who Is Many]] itself. |
| 453 | ** Meanwhile, one of Dr. Chen's Mothra-worshipping daughters is named Yong, meaning "perpetual"/"eternal" -- pretty fitting considering their family's relationship with Mothra. |
| 454 | ** The names of two Russian refugees [[spoiler:who get impregnated with hybrids]] have meaningful connotations. Nadezhda's name means "hope", and she's more optimistic than the other impregnated women are [[spoiler:about DefusingTheTykeBomb]]; while Esfir's name means "star", reflecting how Ghidorah [[spoiler:who is the genetic source of her hybrid baby and whom she develops delusions of religious affection for]] "came from the stars". |
| 455 | ** The Zmeyevich are appropriately named after the spawn of a multi-headed dragon by human women in Russian folk-tale InUniverse. In RealLife, Zmeyevich was one of the names of the malevolent dragon Tugarin, who in some versions of one of the tales about him slept with the king's wife. The individuals' names also leave a lot to the imagination about what might happen after the Timeline's end-point in RecursiveFanfiction timelines: |
| 456 | *** Abaddon and Megiddo are both named after biblical places of destruction, including what's believed to be the predestined site of the final battle between good and evil (fitting [[spoiler:Simmons]]' perspective that he's taking the Earth back for humanity [[spoiler:by having Mechagodzilla duel Godzilla -- it also fits how ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'' later portrays Abaddon and Megiddo destroying Hong Kong, and engaging the benevolent Titans in a fight to the death for the fate of Earth there]]). Abaddon is also the name of an [[SatanicArchetype archangel of the abyss]] -- sound like the Zmeyevich's fathers? Ivanna is named after Ivan the Terrible, who poetically had a DisappearedDad during childhood, and became ruler very young (reflecting how the Zmeyevich are YoungerThanTheyLook). Aleksandra's name means "defender of mankind", and ''The Clash of Silver'' depicts her as a benevolent being [[spoiler:who supports Kiryu, built for Type I MugglePower before going rogue, in defending the world and its inhabitants]]. |
| 457 | ** [[spoiler:Apex and Monarch]]'s collaboration on creating mechs for [[spoiler:the MugglePower described below]] is called Project Talos -- in Greek mythology, Talos is the name of an automaton, considered by some the earliest conception of a robot, who guarded the island of Europa against invaders and outsiders. The mythical Talos was kept alive by the ichor of the gods in his body, [[spoiler:fitting how Project Talos aims to power its mechs with the same borderline-divine energy source that gave Godzilla his dorsal spines' power]], and one account of Talos' downfall claims he was driven mad by the spirits of the dead (fitting what ultimately comes of [[spoiler:Dagon's skeleton being integrated into Kiryu, and fitting how Mechagodzilla in ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'' has an indirect connection to the temporarily-vanquished Ghidorah via its children permanently possessing the mecha]]). Talos was also the name of a mythical Greek inventor who made a saw out of a serpent's teeth (fitting with [[spoiler:Apex's occupation]], and the project's use of a Titan skeleton [[spoiler:and [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]]'s presumed-groomed children in either mech]], respectively); and he was betrayed and murdered by his mentor who attempted to bury his body under the guise of burying a serpent, only for the same animal who inspired Talos' saw to expose the murderer. |
| 458 | ** [[spoiler:Kiryu]]'s supercomputer brain is named Encephalon, which is Latin for... you guessed it. "Brain"! |
| 459 | ** [[spoiler:Apex's Godzilla clone]] is nicknamed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladon_(mythology) Ladon]], befitting its saurian nature. Ladon of myth was killed by Heracles as his penultimate labor, in his pursuit of golden apples, and well, [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/649747228243755008 considering the original headcanon about what]] [[spoiler:[[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/649747228243755008 Apex]]]] [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/649747228243755008 planned to do with the creature]]... |
| 460 | ** The HollowEarth[='s=] energy source is temporarily named Zohar, meaning "radiance" or "splendour" in Hebrew – pretty fitting considering how the element is heavily implied to be no less borderline-divine and intrinsic to the planet in this continuity than it is in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', [[spoiler:and it's coveted by a hubristic CorruptCorporateExecutive who implicitly wants to overpower everything that's "{{Physical God}}ly"]].%% |
| 461 | |
| 462 | * MechaEnablingPhlebotinum: In the Timeline, the HumongousMecha [[spoiler:Kiryu]] is built with Titan bones as an endoskeletal framework. [[spoiler:Like in canon, Project Talos seeks to use the [[GreenRocks Zohar]] in the Hollow Earth as a power source for both mechas, although it's stated in the Timeline that they briefly considered using a mundane nuclear core for the mechas before dismissing that idea due to the risk of Titans actively seeking a nuclear core inside the mechas as a food source]]. |
| 463 | * MirrorCharacter: As the story goes on, more parallels emerge between Monster X and other characters; namely Ghidorah, Godzilla, Thor, Manda, [[spoiler:Susan Graham]], Alan Jonah and Madison Russell. Likewise with Thor and Mark Russell, with Mark and Ren Serizawa, and with Madison Russell and [[spoiler:Maia Simmons]]. See the characters' respective folders on the [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnon character pages]] for more details. |
| 464 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: |
| 465 | ** The eons of abuse San received from his brothers mean that he doesn't have much of a crisis of loyalty when he fully realizes that he can turn his back on Ghidorah forever. |
| 466 | ** Downplayed with the Executive in the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline. [[spoiler:It's revealed that in 2022, she sets Bernie Hayes on the path to investigating Apex as an act of spite against Walter Simmons for his earlier DisproportionateRetribution against her]]. |
| 467 | * MixAndMatchCritters: |
| 468 | ** Monster X has reptilian characteristics with some primate characteristics from Vivienne. |
| 469 | ** Thor is part-primate, part-caprina. |
| 470 | ** On top of Rodan's canon points [[Characters/MonsterVerseRodan here]], his chest is an erogenous zone similar to some modern birds like parrots. |
| 471 | ** [[spoiler:The Many are ''[[TheAssimilator The Thing]]''-[[FusionDance type]] mix-and-match]]. |
| 472 | ** Manda is a {{sea serpent|s}} who has reptilian traits, mammalian-looking antlers ([[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/675182721218248704/ horns in females of his species]]), and physical traits resembling those of catfish and sea mollusks, plus [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/695791825354620928/ behavioral and developmental traits similar to a snake or crocodile]]. |
| 473 | * MugglePower: Monarch seek to achieve a completely-benevolent Type I by [[spoiler:building Kiryu MK I as a human-piloted artificial Titan]] so they can contribute meaningfully to Godzilla and the benevolent Titans' future {{Behemoth Battle}}s. [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics, however, have a far more insidious plan to establish humanity as the apex species via using the mechas to kill and usurp the benevolent Alpha Titans]]. |
| 474 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 475 | ** In the main fic, San's realization of just how far from meaningless or minute Vivienne's original human life was, and that Ghidorah's middle head and him killing and transforming Vivienne respectively took all that away from her and mutilated her; is an absolute ''gut punch'' for him. All San wanted out of hybridizing Vivienne was a sister to nurture and be loved by in turn, and he's distraught at how much his actions have unintentionally twisted and tortured her. |
| 476 | ** The ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' one-shot "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that Ghidorah was originally ''horrified'' the first ever time it wiped out all life on a planet billions of years ago, [[spoiler:before eons of being tortured by [[TerribleTicking the Old Noise]] and destroying even more worlds past the point of desensitization turned Ghidorah into the wilfully-vicious monster it is now]]. |
| 477 | * MyGreatestFailure: San isn't proud of his past as part of [[OmnicidalManiac Ghidorah]], but his greatest shame is the hurt that he unwittingly caused Vivienne by turning her into a Titan. As for Godzilla, we don't know the details, but [[https://www.tumblr.com/hrodvitnon/699677927317569536/ the author]] says he has more than one profound regret in his past that he fears witnessing a repeat of. |
| 478 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: The Timeline reveals the HollowEarth[='s=] nameless energized material is temporarily named Zohar, and the temple built by Kong's [[spoiler:and Thor's]] kindreds is dubbed the Citadel. |
| 479 | * NatureIsNotNice: |
| 480 | ** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with the Titans of Earth, but they do have a rather Darwinist way of life that's based on AsskickingLeadsToLeadership. |
| 481 | ** In San and his brothers' {{Backstory}}, on their original alien homeworld, [[spoiler:they hatched from eggs that were left to fend for themselves, and they had to flee from predators which devoured their newborn other siblings]]. "Damnatio Memoriae" also sees the brothers describe other dangers on their original homeworld: |
| 482 | --->'''Ichi: HUNTERS WITH SNAPPING JAWS IN MUD. SILENT STINGERS AND MANY LEGS UP IN THE TREES.'''\ |
| 483 | '''Ni:''' WINGED LIKE US BUT SHARP AND QUICK AND HUNT AT NIGHT. BIG CLUMSY STOMPING THINGS. THINGS WE NEVER SEE BUT THEY MAKE LOUD SCARY NOISES. THOSE OF OUR KIND FROM OTHER CLUTCHES.%% |
| 484 | |
| 485 | * NightmareFetishist: |
| 486 | ** Alan Jonah grows increasingly fascinated by Ghidorah and Monster X and by what their biologies can do. [[spoiler:Which is partly {{justified}} by his SanitySlippage which makes him believe that Ghidorah and Monster X's regenerative capabilities can bring back his dead daughter]]. |
| 487 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/694435146019078144/ Word]] [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/704531515544092672/ of God]] says that San would be a big fan of the stuff in humans' horror movies if he were exposed to them, even post-HeelFaceTurn; and to a lesser extent, he'd be fascinated by Christmas' upbeat chraracteristics and its more macabre and little-discussed historical lore (i.e., Krampus) in equal measure. |
| 488 | * NoNeedForNames: Some if not most Titan species (Rodan's species aren't one of them) don't care for names, and the names that humans know them by and other Titans in [[AnimalTalk Kaiju Talk]] refer to them by instead originate from other species bestowing those names. |
| 489 | * NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Lieutenant Commander Pasternak, in charge of the Russian half of the military rescue team, refuses to leave one of his men behind. In "Damnatio Memoriae", the "eldest" brother [[spoiler:who would one day become Ghidorah's middle head]] refuses to leave his paralyzed youngest brother behind when they're under attack by hostile creatures. |
| 490 | * TheNoseKnows: The Titans generally have heightened senses of smell which enable them to identify things about each-other and other creatures that humans wouldn't normally be able to detect the same way. Thor tracks Vivienne's Bone Singer scent on her and San from afar, Godzilla remembers Serizawa having some of the same scent on him that Viv and San's part-human physiology emits, Manda several times identifies a human or Titan stranger as the kith or kin of one he already knows by smelling them, Methuselah can smell second-hand traces of Monster X's scent on Thor's armor, and Monster X (who inherited heightened senses from Ghidorah) can smell radiation, fear, and can identify one by the smell of one's blood. |
| 491 | [[/folder]] |
| 492 | |
| 493 | [[folder:O-P]] |
| 494 | * OffingTheOffspring: The [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline reveals Esfir attempted to strangle her [[spoiler:Zmeyevich]] son to death. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/675395664276078592/ Word of God]] also reveals that [[spoiler:Walter Simmons]] is willing to have his own daughter assassinated by hitmen in order to keep a corporate DarkSecret. |
| 495 | * OminousLatinChanting: A {{justified}}, Old Norse variation. [[spoiler:Playing an Old Norse galdr recording during the fight against Keizer Ghidorah is enough to awaken Monster X, and it implicitly also helps Thor in the fight]]. It's later [[spoiler:encoded in Kiryu MK. I's Encephalon computer]]. |
| 496 | * OCStandIn: The author confirmed [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/628652716177096704/ here]] that Tejada, Travis and Kauffman are this to notable nameless {{Mook}}s in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''. Travis is also based on a named minor character in the movie {{novelization}}. Dr. Ling and her twin nieces Ziyi and Yong get some characterization in this story which they didn't have in their very-brief appearances in ''King of the Monsters'', as do the Titans Scylla and Methuselah. Steve Martin meanwhile is based on a MythologyGag name-drop in ''King of the Monsters''[='=] CreativeClosingCredits. Ren Serizawa and Susan Graham are/were both TheGhost in [=MonsterVerse=] canon when the fic's incarnations were introduced. ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'' builds on Aleksandra, Abaddon and Megiddo's characters after they were newborns in the parent main fic and [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline, [[spoiler:and it names and develops the son of Admiral Stenz who was also briefly mentioned in the timeline]]. |
| 497 | * OurClonesAreDifferent: |
| 498 | ** When a piece of Ghidorah's body like one of its [[MultipleHeadCase three heads]] is severed, Ghidorah's HealingFactor will regrow a new appendage from the body, with pre-severing memories and personality fully backed up and intact if it's a head that's being grown back... And the old severed head, meanwhile, will ''also'' retain all of its pre-severing memories and personality fully intact, and it will ''also'' begin to regenerate the rest of Ghidorah's body from itself (albeit at a much slower rate) if it comes into contact with energy, backing up and restoring the [[MultipleHeadCase other two heads]]' own minds and personalities as it does so; unless the severed head [[FusionDance merges with another organism]] which permanently rewires its biology to form a new {{Kaiju}} body instead of re-forming the rest of Ghidorah (as [=MaNi=] does in the fic). Ghidorah's heads can ''also'' transfer complete copies of their minds onto another body or organism, via mutating a pre-existing organism into an ArtificialHybrid inside the head and forcing the hybrid to form an extra Ghidorah-like brain and head on itself which the Ghidorah head can upload a complete copy of its own mind into (as San does with Monster X). Although copies of a Ghidorah head which exist at the same time as each-other through any of the above means are separate entities, there's still a {{psychic link}} between them via their similar Ghidorah-derived biology. |
| 499 | ** [[spoiler:In the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline, [[ResearchInc Apex Cybernetics]] are growing a clone of [[LastOfHisKind Godzilla]] from fragments of Godzilla's scales, dorsal spines and blood samples that he's shed over the years]]. |
| 500 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:a copy of Ren Serizawa's mind is apparently created inside Mechagodzilla/Don and Meg's neurology, when Ren is hooked up to Apex Cybernetics' psionic network while the twins' consciousnesses are in the process of overriding the system]]. |
| 501 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Besides Ghidorah; Monster X and Manda are considered draconic, and there's also [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother. Interestingly, all three of these new draconic creatures can be elementally aligned with lightning, water and undeath respectively. See their respective folders [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonKingGhidorah here]], [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX here]] and [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures here]] for more details. |
| 502 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Susan Graham has been little more than a shell since her daughter's apparent death in Antarctica, unaware that [[AvertedTrope Vivienne is alive]]]]. The first one-shot in ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' reveals that Rodan has had chicks whom he's outlived, giving him an understanding of how difficult it can be for a victim of this trope to move past it. [[https://www.tumblr.com/hrodvitnon/699677927317569536/ Word of God]] says that Mark Russell's worst fear is Madison dying or something especially horrible happening to her, having already lost his other child in San Francisco's destruction. |
| 503 | * OutOfCharacterAlert: |
| 504 | ** Vivienne notes [[spoiler:Ghidorah's three voices]] are uncharacteristically calm after she [[spoiler:rips one of the Many's constructs apart]]. |
| 505 | ** In Chapter 16, Vivienne realizes something is wrong when [[spoiler:Ni/Elder Brother]], known for being more of a raving killing machine than [[spoiler:his brothers]], halts his ferocious behaviour to examine her features, [[spoiler:signifying how he's become even more deranged and obsessed with her as [=MaNi=]]]. |
| 506 | ** In "Sermones ad Mortuos", Monster X realizes that Rodan is responsible for Mothra coming to visit [[spoiler:and soothe the hybrid's grief]] when they see that Rodan, usually HotBlooded and boastful, is currently acting hesitant and unsure of himself around them.%% |
| 507 | |
| 508 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 509 | ** Vivienne wasn't easily angered when she was human, and when she was it was terrifying, but after everything she's been through since Ghidorah ate her, she's changed likely forever while being no less fierce. |
| 510 | ** In Chapter 5, [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious when San calls his sister Vivienne, it must be serious]]. |
| 511 | ** Dr. Chen of all people is reduced to ''furiously screaming at [[spoiler:Ghidorah]] in a venomous fit'' when the ''Argo'' crew realize [[spoiler:what [[HateSink Keizer Ghidorah]] has done to Monster X]], in Chapter 17. |
| 512 | ** {{Implied}} when Martinez swears on Jesus upon seeing [[spoiler:Keizer Ghidorah's visage]]. He's the TokenReligiousTeammate of the G-Team, something that got highlighted only a short while earlier. |
| 513 | ** In "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46831738/chapters/117962629 Sermones ad Mortuos]]", Monster X's personalities become perpetually disjointed from each-other [[spoiler:due to their grief over Susan's passing and San struggling to cope with it]], alerting Rodan.%% |
| 514 | |
| 515 | * ParentalAbandonment: |
| 516 | ** It's revealed in Chapter 10 that San and his brothers were originally born from a clutch of eggs with no biological sire involved in their early life, and Vivienne speculates their species laid the eggs and then left the young have to fend for themselves similar to sea turtles' eggs. As San's CharacterDevelopment progresses, he becomes curious about and craves the experience of having a mother figure. |
| 517 | ** {{Downplayed}} with Godzilla. It's revealed in Chapter 18 that he hasn't seen his mother since he grew old enough to fend for himself, and his biological father had no direct role in his upbringing. |
| 518 | ** The Timeline reveals that [[spoiler:Jia]]'s parents are apparently killed amidst the battle against Camazotz [[spoiler:despite Skull Island's SparedByTheAdaptation]].%% |
| 519 | |
| 520 | * ParentalSubstitute: The author really seems to like this trope: |
| 521 | ** Serizawa was this to Vivienne like in canon's [[AllThereInTheManual Manual]], and she has a ''severe'' [=BSoD=] after she learns of his death. She calls him "father" a few times in both Japanese and Kaiju Talk. |
| 522 | ** Vivienne in turn was this towards Madison. Madison sincerely admits a few times, including to Vivienne herself, that she wished Vivienne would've become her mother if things had happened differently, and in Chapter 9, Mark goes as far as stating Vivienne was more of a mother to Madison than her actual mother managed to be. |
| 523 | ** Vivienne can be seen as a form of this towards San, in contrast to his brothers who were the only kin he knew before bonding to Vivienne. He feels little sentiment for Ichi and Ni after being separated from Ghidorah, compared to how Vivienne eventually [[IJustWantToBeLoved shows him affection]] and forms a [[SiblingTeam strong brother-sister bond]] with him. |
| 524 | ** Mothra apparently considers San and Vivienne her children after Monster X's EmergencyTransformation. In Chapter 9, Vivienne is involuntarily reminded of her human mother. |
| 525 | ** {{Inverted}} by Thor, who acts protective towards Vivienne due to the death of his own son long ago. |
| 526 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/709158137834471424/ Word of God]] indicates that Rodan is officially regarded by Manda as the latter's adoptive father, [[spoiler:after the former mated with Monster X]]. |
| 527 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', Aleksandra has a Monarch-assigned female carer, Dr. Valentine, due to her mother's death while her father has been negligent. |
| 528 | * ParentChildTeam: The Timeline reveals that by 2024, Mark and Madison [[spoiler:are such a team within Monarch, with Mark now Monarch's co-director and Madison acting as his assistant]]. |
| 529 | * PassiveAggressiveKombat: According to [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/747931705213583360/ Word of God]], [[spoiler:after Monster X helped to ruin Camazotz's conquest of Skull Island, Camazotz and Monster X are willing to interact civilly when neutralizing Many instances, but it's always full of barbs and snarks]]. |
| 530 | * PatchworkFic: Although it's a Franchise/MonsterVerse fic, the fic's new lore and worldbuilding expansions take a lot of cues from and make {{mythology gag}}s to other ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuities. |
| 531 | ** Several Toho kaiju who haven't yet been adapted to and aren't confirmed to exist in the [=MonsterVerse=] canon – Monster X, Manda (who has a CaptainErsatz in the [=MonsterVerse=] to replace him due to rights issues), [[spoiler:[[DecompositeCharacter Keizer Ghidorah]]]], Kiryu [[spoiler:and Gigan]] – all exist in the [=AbraxasVerse's=] canon, and most of them are the main or supporting characters. |
| 532 | *** [[spoiler:The city of Mu from Manda's debut movie ''Film/{{Atragon}}'' also exists within the [=AbraxasVerse=] setting, and it maintains its original connection to Manda as his species' protectorate]]. |
| 533 | ** [[BigBad Ghidorah]] has several more references to other licensed iterations of the character. It's a PlanetDestroyer that has turned other inhabited planets into dead wastelands before it targeted Earth, like the [[Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster original portrayal]]; [[spoiler:it's associated with vaguely human-like advanced aliens who used it as a BioweaponBeast, like the Showa incarnation's later appearances (with the difference being that in this version, Ghidorah [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned against its former masters]] the first chance it got and it [[PrecursorKillers wiped them all out billions of years ago]])]]; [[spoiler:Ghidorah used to be three separate, smaller creatures that were forcibly fused into their current form, like the Heisei incarnation in ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'']]; its post-mortem severed appendage is hidden underground and has the potential to regenerate the rest of Ghidorah, like the ''Film/RebirthOfMothra3'' incarnation; [[spoiler:it draws power from thousands of dead humans to restore itself, like the ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'' version; it turns into [[CompositeCharacter Keizer]] [[DecompositeCharacter Ghidorah]], a version of Ghidorah who appeared in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'']]; and it's essentially worshipped by a human-derived cult [[spoiler:who further its coming]], like the ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'' version. |
| 534 | ** After being freed from Ghidorah's control in the movie, Rodan has largely taken up his original Toho characterization; as a close ally to Godzilla who prefers to side with him and Mothra against threats like Ghidorah (though he's still [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a bit of a prick]]), and this is apparently Rodan's normal moral alignment in [=AbraxasVerse=] when he isn't forcibly enthralled by another Alpha Titan's domination abilities. |
| 535 | ** Godzilla is demonstrated to be capable of performing an attack that only the Heisei and ''GMK'' incarnations of the character have ever been shown to be capable of: [[spoiler:the Spiral Heat Ray, although he requires Mothra's power to unlock it]]. |
| 536 | ** Bio-Major, an organization originating in the Heisei movie ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'', exist within this fic, being recurringly mentioned by name [[spoiler:and playing a significant role in the main fic's final chapter which has long-term ramifications for the [=AbraxasVerse=]]]. |
| 537 | ** The concept of an isolated base's monster-studying staff becoming increasingly erratic due to an alien intelligence's mental influence, [[spoiler:before a military team comes to the base]], is similar to the Showa ''Godzilla'' movie ''Film/InvasionOfAstroMonster''. |
| 538 | ** Like in the Millennium movie ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'', there's an UndeadAbomination comprised of thousands of undead, formerly-human souls functioning as a major antagonistic force. |
| 539 | ** Steve Martin is based on the character from the [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1956 Americanized version]] of the original ''Godzilla'' movie, who also reappeared in the first Heisei movie ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla''. |
| 540 | ** Kiryu's role [[spoiler:in Apex Cybernetics' plans]] in the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline – being created by human or humanoid villains under the public guise of being an entirely-heroic protector for humanity, when the mech's creators are really planning to use it for their own evil agenda – originates in the IDW comic book series ''ComicBook/GodzillaRulersOfEarth''; while a human reprogramming the mech [[spoiler:to instead act heroically for real]] occurred in the comic series ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977''. |
| 541 | ** [[spoiler:Ladon is based on Godzilla Jr. from the Heisei movies as a newborn member of Godzilla's species who spends the start of his life from birth in human captivity before he's freed and taken in by Godzilla. However, [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736346701539000320/ Word of God]] says that he also likely has physical traits of the ''[[Film/GodzillaMinusOne Minus One]]'' Godzilla incarnation]].%% |
| 542 | |
| 543 | * PlaguedByNightmares: Vivienne in the main fic, as part of her PTSD, initially suffers from nightmares amidst her TraumaCongaLine (some if not all of which include nightmares of when Ghidorah's middle head ate her). Like transformer like transformee, apparently, as Ghidorah in "Damnatio Memoriae"[[spoiler:, just after it (very traumatically) ''gained'' its iconic form,]] was suffering nightmares. |
| 544 | * PlayingWithSyringes: |
| 545 | ** It's revealed in Chapter 6 that Jonah and his Basement Club have been dabbling in this, apparently with EvilutionaryBiologist motives, [[spoiler:using the {{Disposable Vagrant}}s as unwilling test subjects; fusing Ghidorah's DNA to humans and creating {{Artificial Zombie}}s]]. |
| 546 | ** Ghidorah themselves were on the "victim" end of this trope in their backstory, influencing the dragon's hatred of humanity. [[spoiler:Vaguely human-like aliens called the Makers gave Ghidorah their powers, their current form and their immortality through brutal and inhumane experiments while trying to turn them into a BioweaponBeast for themselves]]. |
| 547 | * PoorCommunicationKills: In 2024, [[spoiler:when the Titans begin mysteriously attacking; with Monster X (the only creature who can currently communicate with both Titans and humans) unavailable, Monarch have to work out what's happening based on the physical evidence and they can't try talking the Titans into calming down]]. |
| 548 | * PowerGlows: Monster X's lightning powers can produce a VolcanicVeins effect merely by San or Vivienne feeling strong emotions, and there's how their powers are, well, ''ShockAndAwe powers''. It also turns out [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother can produce this effect as part of an intimidation display, similarly to Ghidorah and other Titans. "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" reveals that Rodan can make his chest glow like a furnace a la [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmSmaug Jacksonverse Smaug]]. [[spoiler:[[HumongousMecha Mechagodzilla and Kiryu]] both glow with artificial light, although Mechagodzilla glows [[AdaptationDyeJob purple instead of red]] while Kiryu glows yellow]]. |
| 549 | * PredatoryBigPharma: It's implied that pharmaceutical companies are among the parties who hired {{Private Military Contractor}}s to try and steal any Titan DNA samples that might be in the disused Monarch outpost, without regard for the civilians who sent an urgent distress call. Later, several pharmaceutical companies including Bio-Major (who've been subject to scrutiny from Monarch before) acquire a new fertility treatment originally developed by Alan Jonah from Ghidorah's DNA and greedily sell it to the public for the sake of short-sighted profits — which backfires horribly when the part-Ghidorah treatment causes the various women it's used on to give birth to the Zmeyevich. |
| 550 | * ThePromise: |
| 551 | ** San promises Vivienne that he'll see they escape the place where Alan Jonah has imprisoned them, together. Vivienne promises San that she'll never leave him. [[spoiler:Both those promises get tested and are ultimately kept, the latter in particular during the main fic's DarkestHour chapter]]. |
| 552 | ** Towards the main fic's climax, Madison promises Mark that she'll be careful and stay close to him so that he won't risk outliving another child due to a Titan attack. She stays by his side [[spoiler:on the ''Argo'' during the FinalBattle, and the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline reveals that she's his direct assistant in Monarch by 2024]]. |
| 553 | ** "Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that Ichi [[spoiler:before he and his brothers were corrupted]] promised San that he wouldn't let what they thought at the time was a monster [[spoiler:(the Old Noise)]] get to them. [[spoiler:Tragically, unlike the above instances, Ichi was making a promise that he didn't know was impossible to keep until the one-shot's ending, where San brings it up again when they realize the Old Noise has completely infected them]]. |
| 554 | * PsychoactivePowers: Both Monster X and Ghidorah's electrical powers are fuelled by emotions, particularly negative ones like hatred or anger. So is Rodan's ability to influence volcanic eruptions, according to ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness''. |
| 555 | * PsychopathicManchild: San can be quite {{Manchild}}ish when things aren't serious, and though the Psychopathic part is {{downplayed|Trope}} (especially after his CharacterDevelopment), he's still more nonchalant to violence than Vivienne is. [[EvilDoppelganger San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother]] is naturally as childlike as San was at the story's beginning and lacks San's HeelFaceTurn. Remarks about [[spoiler:Walter Simmons]] in the story imply he's a Psychopathic Manchild rather like in [=MonsterVerse=] canon. |
| 556 | [[/folder]] |
| 557 | |
| 558 | [[folder:R-T]] |
| 559 | * RageBreakingPoint: |
| 560 | ** Vivienne [[BewareTheNiceOnes was never easily angered, but was said to be quite scary when someone did manage to push her too far]], back when she was human. After Vivienne is reborn fused to San, Jonah's mercs eventually start trying to ''invoke'' a rage reaction in her. She at first tries to ignore it, but eventually she snaps and attacks them in a pure rage. Thanks to San adding his own five cents to the rampage in defence of his sister, [[NotEnoughToBury there literally isn't much left of Jonah's goons at all]] when Viv and San are through with them. |
| 561 | ** It's noted in "Sermones ad Mortuos" that Manda doesn't easily get angered. That being said, when Manda believes Rodan is just abandoning Monster X in their grief instead of helping them, Manda tries to roar after him in outrage. |
| 562 | * RainbowMotif: Downplayed. The air in the irradiated ruins [[spoiler:of Berezniki]] is colored like the rainbow by daylight refracting off the glassed ground when dawn breaks. ''Titanus Manda''[='s=] bodies are stated by [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/709158137834471424/ Word of God]] to shine with the colors of the rainbow when they catch the light of an aurora borealis. In ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver'', [[spoiler:Kiryu's {{breath weapon}} is rainbow-colored, like the Toho incarnations of Mechagodzilla]]. |
| 563 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Godzilla among the Titans, Dr. Brooks [[spoiler:and later Co-Directors Mark Russell and Guillerman]] among Monarch, and Colonel Foster among Monarch's G-Team. |
| 564 | * ReluctantPsycho: |
| 565 | ** Unlike a certain comrade of his, Sergeant Travis is nothing short of tormented as he suffers an induced SanitySlippage, wanting nothing more than to feel like himself again, [[spoiler:and he's eventually DrivenToSuicide]]. |
| 566 | ** Viv and San have issues with Vivienne's untreated PTSD when something triggers it. Furthermore, Monster X has inherited the same instinct for inflicting violence when experiencing intense feelings of fear or rage such as Ghidorah's biology was hard-wired to exhibit -- fortunately, Viv and San have control of it. |
| 567 | ** It also turns out Ghidorah was once this eons ago in its {{Backstory}}, but SlowlySlippingIntoEvil turned it into the malice-fuelled monster it now is. |
| 568 | * TheResenter: |
| 569 | ** [=MaNi=] is a villain-to-villain case. He's subservient [[spoiler:to Ghidorah]], but Vivienne observes that he'd rather have her all to himself to torture instead of having to share [[spoiler:her with his brothers now that he has an independent body]]. |
| 570 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/740810976672317440/ Word of God]] says the Queen MUTO in [=AbraxasVerse=] is bitter that she can't sire children without endangering the world, [[spoiler:especially after Godzilla, also an endling Titan like her (and hailing from her own species' natural enemy at that), gets to rear Titan children of his own in the future]]. |
| 571 | * RousseauWasRight: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. One notable theme permeating the fic is that no-one is ''born'' evil, not even [[FreudianExcuse Ghidorah]]. Monsters are very much made. Emma and Jonah's respective traumatic origin stories that drove them to evil in ''King of the Monsters'' and its supplementary materials are directly referenced in the fic. Although it doesn't detract from its present day evil, Ghidorah has a pretty compelling FreudianExcuse; and [[HeelFaceTurn San]]'s relationship with Vivienne and his character development show that even one of Ghidorah's heads isn't irredeemably lost (the same can't be said for the other two heads though). The Many are ultimately victims of an inhuman force driving them biologically and cognitively insane. [[spoiler:The Zmeyevich, despite being Ghidorah's tyke-bombs, aren't inherently evil, and they can choose to be good or evil. The only exception to this trope thus far is [[TheSociopath Walter Simmons]]]]. |
| 572 | * RuleOfThree: Shows up multiple-fold with Ghidorah, and not just in the [[MultipleHeadCase number of heads]] it has. |
| 573 | ** The main fic puts a lampshade on the fact the number three has important meaning in human cultures, and [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]] has [[MultipleHeadCase three heads]]. [[spoiler:Ghidorah itself becomes aware of this fact thanks to the Many's HiveMind consisting of so many absorbed humans. It's also revealed that the left head, the only head who has any redeeming qualities left in him and who ultimately makes a HeelFaceTurn, is [[TheRuntAtTheEnd the youngest]], as in the ''third'' in age and rank, of the three]]. |
| 574 | *** [[spoiler:"Damnatio Memoriae" reveals that the Makers designed Ghidorah's creation and body in acknowledgement or mockery of one of their "Enemy's" religious texts which states "three times, but never four", and because the Enemy had thrice rejected three "offers" made by the Makers as an alternative to [[FinalSolution genocide]]]]. |
| 575 | ** The Many leave several scrawlings with a three/trinity theme, clearly in reference to their aforementioned three-headed genetic source whom they view religiously. |
| 576 | ** Precisely three missing female Russian {{disposable vagrant}}s are found and rescued from Jonah's base later in the fic, all three having been [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate medically impregnated]] [[spoiler:and now carrying babies that implicitly aren't entirely human. They give birth to three babies in the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline]]. |
| 577 | ** In ''Fanfic/AbraxasTheClashOfSilver'', [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla's surviving remains have ''three'' consciousnesses inside of them, after Mechagodzilla attempted to resurrect Ghidorah]].%% |
| 578 | |
| 579 | * RunningOnAllFours: |
| 580 | ** In Chapter 17, Godzilla charges out of the ground on all fours in a ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' reference. |
| 581 | ** In ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'', Rodan briefly charges on all fours along the ground after Monster X in "Ain't That a Kick in the Head". |
| 582 | * TheSacredDarkness: Mothra believes that when one dies, one goes through a temporary {{cessation of existence}} which Mothra calls the Mother Darkness, before [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnating]]. [[spoiler:Mothra considers the Mother Darkness a benevolent being]]. |
| 583 | * {{Sadist}}: |
| 584 | ** Ghidorah, naturally. At best, it takes delight in homicidally killing what's in front of it, and at worst, it takes delight in forcing what's in front of it to endure a nightmarish, unending {{fate worse than death}} by its proverbial hand. The middle head, Ichi, is the most prominent case, being the head who's the most committed to putting his intelligence to work finding ways to make Ghidorah's prey and enemies suffer for fun, but all three of the heads take varying levels of glee in making anything that opposes them suffer. |
| 585 | *** Although Ni is more interested in fighting and killing than outright torturing compared to Ichi, Ghidorah's shed skin [=MaNi=] proves that when Ni is properly motivated, he can be just as vicious as Ichi. [[spoiler:[=MaNi=] gleefully physically and psychologically tortures Monster X in a horrific fashion, to try and get Vivienne to snap and fight him]]. |
| 586 | ** [[spoiler:Word of God has stated that Gigan in the [=AbraxasVerse=] lives for maiming and torturing others and seeing others tortured for his own pleasure, and it says that his sadism is probably ''worse'' than Ghidorah's in some ways]]. |
| 587 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:Don and Meg delight in using Mechagodzilla's power to kill Skullcrawler cannon-fodder, Walter Simmons, and many other people when they destroy Hong Kong]]. |
| 588 | * ScarsAreForever: In the main fic; Mariko is somewhat disfigured from the destruction of Outpost 58 with noticeable skin grafts on her face, and Rodan is mentioned in Chapter 10 as having a scar on his rocky skin where Mothra impaled him in the film. In "[[StartOfDarkness Damnatio Memoriae]]", it's revealed that Ni's damaged horn has been like that for billions of years, and it doesn't regenerate away implicitly because Ghidorah only gained its HealingFactor after the injury occurred. |
| 589 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: San and Rodan, whom have a little bit of a rivalry, have this dynamic with each-other. San is the Sensitive Guy: [[{{Manchild}} childlike]], highly curious, and has a lot of tender moments with his sister. Rodan is the Manly Man: aggressive, strong (or at least that's how he likes to see himself), confrontational, and eager for a good fight. |
| 590 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 591 | ** Downplayed in Chapter 7 when Dr. Ling teases Ilene about the time that she held Mark's hand on the submarine during the events of ''King of the Monsters'', prompting Ilene to shoot down the notion that she's interested in Mark in ''that'' way. |
| 592 | ** The Chens mention in the main fic and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" that some people in Monarch thought before the events of ''King of the Monsters'' that Vivienne and Mark would have become a couple if Mark had retained custody of Madison, partly because Vivienne was a [[ParentalSubstitute good mother figure]] for Madison. |
| 593 | ** [[spoiler:By the end of the main fic, multiple internet forumers are shipping Monster X with Rodan, and even Susan thinks Monster X has something with Godzilla and/or Rodan]]. |
| 594 | * ShipTease: |
| 595 | ** It's been ''heavily'' implied that Godzilla and Mothra's symbiotic and emotional relationship is probably also romantic. Fitting since the author ''is'' a shipper. |
| 596 | ** There's been a couple humorous moments where other characters (namely Rodan and Lieutenant Brody) have poked fun at Vivienne's attitude towards and interactions with Godzilla both before and after her fusion with San. |
| 597 | ** Ren shows signs of being interested in the FemmeFatale [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonHumans Executive]] towards the end of the main story. The [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline hints that she in turn has been developing a soft spot for Ren after they became work colleagues, setting them up for a MaybeEverAfter.%% |
| 598 | |
| 599 | * SiblingFusion: |
| 600 | ** Viv and San are considered brother and sister after San merges with Vivienne to create TwoBeingsOneBody, since that's Ghidorah's definition of siblinghood. [[spoiler:Furthermore, in their final form, Viv and San have just one head instead of two]]. |
| 601 | ** It’s revealed in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13357907/10/ Chapter 10]] that Ghidorah went through such a fusion in the past. [[spoiler:Ghidorah was originally three single-headed brothers, which were forcibly transformed into a single three-headed body]]. The ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' one-shot "Damnatio Memoriae" goes into some unpleasant detail on the fusion. |
| 602 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', Don and Meg, a pair of [[spoiler:Zmeyevich]] twins, turn into a single-bodied being [[spoiler:when they transfer both their consciousnesses into Mechagodzilla. They also accidentally absorb a clone of Ren Serizawa's consciousness, which they call their brother after the fact]]. |
| 603 | * SiblingTeam: Vivienne and San are considered brother and sister after their fusion in the same way that Ghidorah's three heads are regarded as brothers, and though it takes time, character development and a lot of trauma, San and Vivienne learn to work together as one and look out for each-other loyally. [[spoiler:Ghidorah is a [[EvilCounterpart much darker case]]: its StartOfDarkness reveals that its heads ''used'' to be a loyal, loving and caring team, but nowadays the brothers are ''just'' a team who hate and resent each-other]]. |
| 604 | * SilenceOfSadness: |
| 605 | ** Monster X has several instances. In the early part of the main fic, Vivienne, who is ''extremely'' traumatized and being abused by Jonah's mercenaries, is very quiet around humans when she's not speaking to San. Later, San is silent towards Vivienne out of shame and self-loathing after triggering her TraumaButton sends him into a HeroicBSOD. [[spoiler:Finally, in "Sermones ad Mortuos", Monster X is very quiet when they're mourning Susan's death (especially the San half, who is more troubled than Vivienne about how to address this loss)]]. |
| 606 | ** Drs. Ilene and Ling Chen have a conversation that ends with the former admitting that she misses their friend (and Ling's implied [[AmicableExes amicable ex]]) Vivienne, after which the two sit in silence for a while. |
| 607 | ** Thor goes quiet, and his body language is clearly mournful, when Vivienne tells him in Chapter 12 that she and humanity don't fully remember or understand the old language and songs which Thor's ancient worshippers used to communicate with Titans. |
| 608 | ** [[spoiler:After Susan Graham learns of Monster X and the truth about her daughter's fate, several times she's either silent or struggles to get words out of her throat]].%% |
| 609 | |
| 610 | * SleepDeprivation: |
| 611 | ** On a mundane level; a passing remark by Mariko indicates the {{disposable vagrant}}s in Jonah's employ have been losing sleep due to their growing fears of what their employers might do to them. |
| 612 | ** Madison is barely able to sleep the night before Monster X fully metamorphosises into their second form. |
| 613 | ** After Viv and San are first reborn [[TwoBeingsOneBody as a new Titan]], a traumatized Vivienne is initially [[TheInsomniac insomniac]], whilst San notably goes without sleep so he can keep watch for Vivienne. Both of them have sleeping problems even after the insomnia has passed, [[spoiler:due to episodes of MindRape that Ghidorah inflicts on them via PsychicLink]]. |
| 614 | ** In the ''Abraxas: Empty Fullness'' one-shot "[[StartOfDarkness Damnatio Memoriae]]"; [[spoiler:after the [[TerribleTicking Old Noise]] is implanted into their biology and neurology, the captive]] Ichi, Ni and San are unable to sleep because of the Noise constantly screaming and hurting their heads, [[spoiler:and [[UsedToBeASweetKid Ichi]] becomes {{plagued by nightmares}} which make him reluctant to sleep even if he could catch some]]. |
| 615 | ** In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', Aleksandra [[spoiler:the Zmeyevich]] apparently only ever needs five hours of sleep a night.%% |
| 616 | |
| 617 | * SmallNameBigEgo: |
| 618 | ** [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother insists that he's still a part of Ghidorah and therefore still part of the SatanicArchetype, even though it's made very clear that by Ghidorah's standards, [=MaNi=] has become an ExpendableClone by forming a single-headed creature autonomous from his brothers. This is made even more glaring by the fact [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother derides San as a shed skin [[{{Hypocrite}} yet refuses to admit he is exactly the same]]. |
| 619 | ** According to the author [[https://www.tumblr.com/hrodvitnon/703365355024859136/ here]], Rodan is in the same weight class as the other subservient Titans, but he thinks himself better than them because he interacts more frequently with Godzilla and Mothra [[spoiler:and Monster X]] (all of whom think Rodan needs a routine proverbial or literal smack to the head to keep his ego in line). |
| 620 | * SmallParentHugeChild: [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/676290302084071424/ The author's artwork]] shows Vivienne was taller than her mother Susan even when human, nevermind after Vivienne's been turned into a 100-foot Titan. [[spoiler:This trope extends to San after Susan acknowledges him as adoptive family]]. |
| 621 | * TheSociopath: |
| 622 | ** PlayedStraight by Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother, {{averted}} by San and [[spoiler:San-2/Youngest Brother]]: the former two heads have absolutely no empathy or conscience, they have little to no meaningful emotional attachment towards each-other or their Youngest Brother or anything else, they make their entire purpose in life to be sadistically killing or repurposing any and all living things they encounter for the sakes of their own joy and bringing more destruction, they have a pretty big ego, and they make up for their CannotTellALie with cunning psychological manipulation. |
| 623 | ** [[spoiler:Walter Simmons]] is implied to be a mid- to high-functioning sociopath like in canon. He displays cunning and manipulative streaks, he [[CantTakeCriticism doesn't like being critcized]], and he's willing to [[spoiler:have ''[[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/675395664276078592/ his own daughter]]'' [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/675395664276078592/ murdered]]]] just to keep a secret; on top of the hints he's committing many of the same crimes he committed in [=MonsterVerse=] canon, [[spoiler:which are completely confirmed in ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'']]. |
| 624 | * SoulFragment: According to Word of God ([[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736280271902703616/ 1]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736386104247369728/ 2]], [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/736371211145216000/ 3]]). [[spoiler:Dagon may be long-dead and fossilized, but his bones likely have some pieces of his psyche recorded in their matter via GeneticMemory, which will form one of the multiple foundations of Kiryu's consciousness once Kiryu gains sentience. Although Dagon and Kiryu are ultimately separate entities, this will likely cause Kiryu to inherit one or two of Dagon's tics and personality traits]]. |
| 625 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: The [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline reveals Skull Island's ecosystem and (most of) the Iwi survive after the battle against Camazotz instead of being wiped out by a PerpetualStorm, [[spoiler:implicitly due to Monster X's intervention]]. In the ascended recursive fic ''The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:Ren Serizawa and Maia Simmons both avoid their canon deaths and are still alive at the end]]. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/746325000481636352/ Word of God]] following the release of the ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire'' movie says that Scylla and Tiamat in the [=AbraxasVerse=] avoid their canon deaths. |
| 626 | * TargetedToHurtTheHero: [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother harms San purely to torture and enrage the Vivienne half of Monster X, in Chapter 16. [[https://www.tumblr.com/hrodvitnon/699677927317569536/ Word of God]] says that Rodan, much as he'll hide it, fears he'll be on the receiving end of this trope if he ever grows too attached to another creature. |
| 627 | * {{Technopath}}: PlayedWith a couple times: |
| 628 | ** {{Implied}} in the [=AbraxasVerse=] Timeline. [[spoiler:The incomplete Mechagodzilla's computers suffer a seeming glitch, and the tech team see an ominous message appear to them on the screens,]] implying that something sentient, malevolent and Ghidorah-related is possessing the technology. In ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'', [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla is possessed by the Zmeyevich Don and Meg, who are also able to use the possessed network to control several of Apex Cybernetics' China-based facilities' systems including their ORCA 2.0 network, Apex Hong Kong's machinery and an {{EMP}} generator]]. |
| 629 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/652105848427020288/ Word of God]] has suggested that Monster X can likely tune into and listen to radio channels via their EVP ability. |
| 630 | * {{Telepathy}}: |
| 631 | ** San and Vivienne have direct TwinTelepathy due to a shared nervous system following their hybridization, and [[spoiler:Ghidorah's heads]] can also communicate with them via PsychicLink (the author has described what each of their voices [[VoicesAreMental sound like]] [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/623720240777412608 here]]). Ghidorah can also telepathically communicate [[spoiler:with the Many's HiveMind as their HiveQueen, the half-Ghidorah Zmeyevich are also portrayed as telepathically attuned to their three-headed father and each-other]], and it's implied Esfir [[spoiler:through her unborn Zmeyevich child and possibly also her [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} broken mind]]]] has a link of her own to [[spoiler:Keizer Ghidorah]]. |
| 632 | ** San's internal thoughts in Chapter 9 explicitly indicate that the nature of Bone Singers' [[SpeaksFluentAnimal ability to communicate with Titans]] is at least partly telepathic. |
| 633 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/694435146019078144/ Word of God]] has also confirmed that Mothra is telepathic, although in her case [[PsychicLink it's limited to select humans]]. |
| 634 | * TerribleTicking: The main fic reveals that Monster X and Ghidorah don't like hearing the ORCA's signal because it causes a painfully nasty mental "noise", known to Ghidorah as the Old Noise, to stir inside them. In fact, [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/645147573238333440/ Word of God]] and "Damnatio Memoriae" reveal that the Old Noise [[spoiler:is originally what drove [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Ghidorah]] to become the cruel and deranged monster we know it as]], and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/653745095218266112/ it used to be even worse in Ghidorah's heads than it is in the present]]. |
| 635 | * TruerToTheText: |
| 636 | ** Whereas Rodan in Franchise/MonsterVerse canon is a WildCard with no fixed loyalties who spends the majority of his appearance aligned with Ghidorah instead of Godzilla and Mothra, Rodan in this fic has reverted to his Toho roots of being one of Godzilla and Mothra's most immediate allies [[spoiler:against Ghidorah and its monsters]], after Ghidorah's death at Boston freed him from its control. |
| 637 | ** Ghidorah's [=MonsterVerse=] portrayal has a completely {{mysterious past}} before it fell from the stars to Earth, with no HumanAliens controlling it, and its motives for destroying the world are assumed to be [[HostileTerraforming xenoforming the planet into a more suitable home for itself]]. The [=AbraxasVerse=] backstory makes Ghidorah a serial PlanetDestroyer for whom Earth is just the latest in a long line of planets that it attacked to wipe clean of all life for the fun of it, just like in ''Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster''. [[spoiler:Furthermore, the backstory reveals that Ghidorah is originally an aggressive alien civilization's {{bioweapon beast}} like the original Showa incarnation's reappearances, except that this version of Ghidorah turned against and exterminated its makers billions of years ago and has been operating under its own power ever since]]. |
| 638 | * {{Tsundere}}: According to [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/687445875345309696/ Word of God]], [[spoiler:Vivienne]] will "go full Tsundere mode" if someone points out that she and a certain someone have BelligerentSexualTension. [[spoiler:Said someone, Rodan, will have the exact same reaction, putting this mood on full display after he gets Mothra to comfort Vivienne in "Sermone ad Mortuos"]]. |
| 639 | [[/folder]] |
| 640 | |
| 641 | [[folder:U-W]] |
| 642 | * UncertainDoom: |
| 643 | ** Rada, one of the {{disposable vagrant}}s, isn't heard of again after Chapter 6, leaving it unknown whether she was among the survivors or fell victim to the Many. |
| 644 | ** In Chapter 9, Vivienne is unsure whether her mother is still alive, has died of old age since the Mass Awakening, or died in Ghidorah's global Titan chaos. {{Subverted|Trope}} when Susan's fate is finally revealed in [[spoiler:Chapter 11]]. |
| 645 | ** Somewhat {{inverted}} with [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/689317106053955584/ Word o]][[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/690163715553820672/ f God]] reveals that he was likely rendered OnlyMostlyDead, and if his remains were left intact, then he could be revived, but it's unknown whether or not [[spoiler:Monster X]] disposed of his remains in a way which renders them permanently dead after the last we saw of him. |
| 646 | ** [[spoiler:At the story's end, it's uncertain whether all of the Many died at the FinalBattle or remnants of them are still on the loose]]. |
| 647 | ** It's unknown if Nadezhda [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]] as the main story implies. The Timeline reveals that she and Zima at least agreed to a name for her child. ''Abraxas: The Clash of Silver'' [[spoiler:confirms her death by childbirth]]. |
| 648 | * UnwittingPawn: |
| 649 | ** Jonah seems to have been the accidental kind who blunders into helping rather than being actively manipulated, due to the long-term repercussions of him [[spoiler:selling Ghidorah's DNA from San's old head on to other parties]]. |
| 650 | ** It's later implied in the story that Bio-Major, who are apparently one of Jonah's buyers, are unwittingly aiding [[spoiler:Ghidorah]]'s long-term plan by using Ghidorah's DNA for fertility treatments. |
| 651 | ** The Timeline heavily implies that [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla is possessed by or connected to a Ghidorah-derived entity]], and that [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics]] are too arrogant to recognize the red flag that they're being used. ''Abraxas: The Clah of Silver'' [[spoiler:states that the Zmeyevich Don and Meg whom Apex thought they'd groomed, and Ghidorah acting through them, were using Apex until Mechagodzilla was completed, at which point Don and Meg use it for Ghidorah's purposes]]. |
| 652 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/691622393957023744/ Word of God]] comments that ill-meaning Titans generally can manipulate active Bone Singers into becoming their pawns due to said Bone Singers' increased sensitivity to their {{brown note}}s. |
| 653 | * TheVerse: The [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/631249528601935872/ AbraxasVerse]]. |
| 654 | * VillainousLegacy: |
| 655 | ** The lasting consequences of Emma Russell's actions in ''King of the Monsters'' – the Titans returning to the world, and the emotional impact of her betrayal on the people left behind – are visible throughout the story. The former consequence is in fact even more visible here than in [=MonsterVerse=] canon instalments, since the Titans remain awake following the Mass Awakening in this continuity. |
| 656 | ** Alan Jonah dies roughly 2/3 into the main story, but the Many which he created remain a major threat for the story's remainder, and the Zmeyevich which he also helped create live on as part of Ghidorah's {{long game}} and will continue to have a presence in the [=AbraxasVerse=]. [[spoiler:To say nothing of how [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/648508725162803200/ Word of God]] hints it was ''Jonah's'' mind that gave Ghidorah the whole ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' idea that it planned for Vivienne beyond Jonah's death...]] |
| 657 | * VirtueIsWeakness: Jonah doesn't have a high opinion of {{heroic sacrifice}}s, in Chapter 6. [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/677549009646272512/ Word of God]] comments that Ni/Elder Brother associates goodness and love with weakness, and [=MaNi's=] behavior towards San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother shows this in Chapter 16. [[spoiler:Walter Simmons]] declares [[spoiler:Maia]] has lost her edge after she gives Ren some words of comfort, in the Timeline. |
| 658 | * VitriolicBestBuds: |
| 659 | ** [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/688251237000462336/ The author]] likes to think Rodan doesn't exactly get along peacefully with his fellow Earth-native Titans – and indeed there are hints of this statement in the story with some of Rodan's interactions with Godzilla – but they will still watch Rodan's back when the chips are down. |
| 660 | ** Vivienne and Lauren Griffin apparently had this kind of dynamic before the events in Antarctica. They considered each-other a nerd and a jarhead respectively, yet Vivienne finds in Chapter 14 that she's very much missed their banter. |
| 661 | * WeatherManipulation: Besides Ghidorah's ability to generate lightning-filled tempests, the Many seem to have inherited its ability to cause stormy weather wherever they go. Monster X can influence pre-existing stormy weather with their abilities and presence, and [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/672405103227060224/ Word of God]] says they can form storms of their own. |
| 662 | * WhiteSheep: San has always been less actively malicious than his brothers, and after fusing with Vivienne, he makes a genuine HeelFaceTurn and is on the heroes' side. {{Downplayed|Trope}} with San-2/Youngest Brother due to him having the same personality as San before the latter's CharacterDevelopment, [[spoiler:then PlayedStraight when San-2 turns on Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother]]. |
| 663 | * {{Workaholic}}: The author has [[https://hrodvitnon.tumblr.com/post/749760797398450176/ said]] that the [=AbraxasVerse=] versiojn of [[Film/GodzillaVsKong Director Guillerman]] would be extremely work-oriented. |
| 664 | * WorldOfSnark: Somewhat downplayed, but aside from the returning ''King of the Monsters'' chronic snarkers like Dr. Stanton and Mark, almost every other character – [[DeadpanSnarker Jonah]], the Chen twins, Ford Brody, [[NotSoStoic Ren Serizawa]] – and new characters like Martin have something witty or snarky to say, even if only occasionally depending on the character. It's mostly the humans and [[TranshumanAbomination Vivienne]] who snark, but San starts to make a few snarks as his CharacterDevelopment since attaching to Vivienne progresses and he picks up more cues from her[[spoiler:, as do his evil elder brothers after they use the Many's human-absorbing HiveMind]]. Plus, it turns out that even the other natural-born Earth Titans have at least some concept of snarking (especially [[{{Troll}} Rodan]]), though the snarks from most of ''them'' are rare and muted. |
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