Abraxas Hrodvitnon / Tropes I to P

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The Abraxas (Hrodvitnon) main story provides examples of the following tropes:

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• Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: Both Monster X and Keizer Ghidorah go through this trope in Chapter 17. Monster X's final form is more like the original incarnation than the previous two forms; whilst Keizer Ghidorah reshapes its body to look increasingly more and more like the original Godzilla: Final Wars Keizer design over the course of Chapter 17.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each chapter title is a rune from the Elder Futhark.
• Ignored Epiphany:
  • Jonah has evidently responded this way to the events of King of the Monsters which saw a beneficial human-Titan coexistence successfully come about, based on his Restart the World speech to Vivienne whilst he's Not Himself in Chapter 6.
  • MaNi/Elder Brother pauses for a fleeting moment when Vivienne says a particular word in a particular context to him, evidently remembering the confused Tortured Monster that he once was, before he brushes it off and resumes gleefuly tormenting her; in Chapter 16.
  • Word of God says that Ghidorah's reaction to receiving pity and/or being asked And Then What? would instigate this trope: Ghidorah will rethink its immortal-life choices for a while, but then it'll just resume its Omnicidal Mania while changing its end-goals to the In Their Own Image trope.
• I Have Your Wife: Downplayed in Chapter 13. The Many and an insane Jonah taunt Vivienne they know where Madison and her mother both are if they decide to go after them. Vivienne responds appropriately.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: San very much has a case of this, having never gotten anything but abuse and the scarcest shred of respect from his brothers throughout Ghidorah's eons-long life, leading to him seeking affection from his new sister Vivienne which he never got from Ichi and Ni. It also applies to San's Alternate Self, who never underwent post-fusion-to-Vivienne Character Development.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Monster X gets impaled through the abdomen by the Many with a bladed tail during the Yonaguni battle, in Chapter 13. In Chapter 17, Monster X does this to MaNi/Elder Brother using a church steeple as Stage 1 of his Rasputinian Death.
• Impeded Communication: The final torch-and-bury op sent into the abandoned Monarch outpost suffer radio interference in Chapter 11. In Chapter 15, the Many cut off Castle Bravo's communications with the outside world so that they can't warn anyone at Yonaguni of MaNi/Elder Brother's impending Dynamic Entry at the island.
• Implacable Man:
  • The Skullcrawlers in Chapter 11 are unfazed in their efforts to get through an opening even when they get lit up by grenades. And the scariest thing is, it's implied they're driven by fear.
  • The Many. They can be slowed down, but they scarcely seem to feel anything you throw at them and will keep going until they've fulfilled their Hive Queen's wishes.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Both Mothra and Monster X display this with their Projectile Webbing and Destroyed Thunder respectively; hitting their targets or targets' body parts on-the-mark from a proportionately significant distance away.
• Improvised Weapon: A couple of the Titans are more than intelligent enough to make use of their surroundings in combat against other monsters. Scylla uses a broken-off antler as a stabbing weapon against the very giant creature that the antler was formerly attached to. Monster X at separate points uses a pair of broken-off stalactites and a broken-off cross from a church steeple as stabbing weapons against MaNi/Elder Brother.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Calling it love would be a gross misuse of the word, but Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/MaNi are straight-up aroused by Monster X's capacity for Ghidorah-like ultra-violence, and worse yet, they intend to forcibly make Vivienne a monster Baby Factory and break her down until she becomes just as Ax-Crazy as them.
• Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: Vivienne starts the story traumatized, and spends more of it having fears and doubts about what she's become and what she's now capable of; whilst San is basically the Draconic Abomination equivalent to an abused child, and he has a borderline guilt complex where wronging or hurting his sister is concerned. Alan Jonah on the other hand is far too self-assured for his own good, whilst San's elder brothers (who eventually return in the present) know just how powerful and ancient they are.
• In-Series Nickname:
  • In Canon, Ghidorah's heads were named Ichi, Ni and San by the production crew and were never called such In-Universe. In this fic, it's revealed in Chapter 2 that Vivienne gave the heads those names while she was monitoring Outpost 32. Only San answers to his nickname, while Ichi and Ni are primarily referred to as Eldest Brother and Elder Brother respectively. San-2/Youngest Brother is eventually referred to as San-Who-Could-Have-Been In-Universe.
  • San and Vivienne collectively and individually have a couple other nicknames in the story. Subject G, Eddie the Head, Dinosaur Lady, etc..
• Instant Expert:
  • Viv and San's Twin Telepathy enables them to pick up the other's native languages respectively. Meanwhile,
  • Ghidorah uses the Many's Hive Mind to read the assimilated victims' knowledge of humanity's ways and literature.
• Internal Reveal:
  • The revelation to Vivienne that Serizawa is dead, having made a Heroic Sacrifice to heal Godzilla after her apparent death in Antarctica.
  • Monarch have one when they discover that the new Titan is a chimera of an Inhuman Human Vivienne Graham and a Ghidorah head...
  • ...and both Monarch and the Russells have a far more dreadful one when San breaks the following news to them in Chapter 9:
    "Ghi-dor-ah. Lives."
• Internet Jerk: Amongst the Monster X news forums, HumanityHellYeah is a mild one by this trope's usual standards; trolling about Monster X being an "Uncanny Valley Alien Lizard Person Freak" and calling Monarch "egghead retards".
• Interspecies Friendship: Chapter 17 shows that the Titanus þunraz and T. Methuselah species were on good terms when there was more than one of them around, and it's hinted that Thor's son when young struck up a friendship with a Titanus Methuselah calf.
• In the Back: In Chapter 6, Jonah shoots one of his own men through the head from behind, attempting too late to silence said man from revealing too much to Viv and San in a panic.
• Involuntary Group Split: Team Mauzer suffers one during the first joint operation with the G-Team, when the floor collapsing under Krupin separates him from the rest of the team, in Chapter 7.
• Ironic Echo:
  • In Chapter 5, an Ax-Crazy Jonah at one point derides Vivienne as "a little bitch" while she's being tortured with napalm. In Chapter 13, she throws the same phrase right back at him while trying to irk the Many he's connected to.
  • It's revealed in Chapter 15 that Vivienne's words to Mariko earlier in the story ("Don't make a promise if you don't know you can keep it") are what Vivienne's mother said to her almost word-for-word before the events in Antarctica.
• It's All About Me:
  • Jonah is unwilling to risk his own life but will sacrifice others for the "greater good", including someone who was like a son to him. It also turns out he experimented with Ghidorah's DNA and forcibly tested it on unwilling Disposable Vagrants all to bring back a dead loved one.
  • Mariko calls Mark Russell out on how he, tragic though the death of his son may be, chronically acts as if he's the only one in the world who's hurting even though he lives in a world where thousands of families have gone through the same loss as him, as described under "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  • Downplayed with MaNi/Elder Brother. Though he's subservient to Ghidorah's dominance, he'd much rather have Vivienne all to himself to toy with, and will seize any opportunity to get some time alone with her.
• It's Personal:
  • Both halves of Monster X grow to hate Alan Jonah's guts, not just based on matters of principle (Vivienne's outrage at his atrocities and San's disgust at his hypocritical Dirty Cowardice) but for the torture he's inflicted on them throughout their first several months following their rebirth.
  • Two-way between Monster X and Ghidorah (particularly the middle head). Ichi/Eldest Brother instructed San to transform Vivienne because he wanted to grant her a Fate Worse than Death for unwittingly bringing back very bad memories from Ichi's backstory when Ghidorah was frozen (the same bad memories which motivate Ghidorah's hatred of humans and human-like lifeforms actually). Both halves of Monster X hate Ghidorah for all the suffering it has personally caused either of them.
    • Viv and San aren't the only ones with a personal beef against Ghidorah. Thor hates it for wiping out the rest of his kind including his son, Rodan would love nothing more than to get another shot at kicking Ghidorah's ass after it bested and enslaved him, and Vivienne's human loved ones including Madison and Ilene hate Ghidorah for the awful things it's done to Vivienne among its other crimes. This comes out when all of them join the Final Battle against Ghidorah's forces.
  • Monster X's beef with MaNi/Elder Brother becomes very distinctly personal for the former in short time, thanks to the shed skin inflicting Cold-Blooded Torture on Monster X and attacking Manda.
• Jawbreaker: There are a good few examples over the story when it comes to Ghidorah and its relatives including Monster X, probably partly helped by the fact their Healing Factor makes this kind of damage only temporary. Two major examples occur in Chapter 17, with Ni/Elder Brother ripping his jawbone in half escaping Methuselah's horn, and his shed skin MaNi getting his upper-skull separated from the rest of him.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Jonah in Chapter 3 snarkily asks Mariko if she's proud of getting her friends killed when she released Behemoth in an act of Well-Intentioned Extremism. It becomes clearer when Vivienne chews her out for it that Mariko isn't devoid of guilt for her actions.
  • A mild case with the merc who drives Vivienne to her Rage Breaking Point in Chapter 4 (mild in the sense that as vicious as his heckling was, he was acting on orders rather than malicious personal character). Whilst his mocking of Vivienne's relationship with Serizawa is bullshit, the merc has a bit of a point when calling out Serizawa for not making much time to see his son: although Ren in this story isn't nearly as messed-up as the MonsterVerse canon version, he still has some unresolved daddy issues and isn't exactly a poster-boy for emotional health.
  • Discussed in Chapter 11 when an internet commenter on the Monster X news suggests that perhaps HumanityHellYeah has a point that people should be wary about the Titan's uncanny resemblance to Ghidorah.
• Jurisdiction Friction: Downplayed in Chapter 7 with the joint operation between the G-Team and the Russian Team Mauzer. Colonel Foster decides to ensure no biological samples make their way to anyone but Monarch regardless of Team Mauzer's orders.
• Just Think of the Potential!: It turns out that mercenary groups, foreign governments and corporations are secretly invested in the Titan DNA market and have been secretly buying from Jonah's paramilitary. Monarch actively try to warn the world against messing around with Titans' (especially Ghidorah's) DNA, using the Many as an example of the consequences.
• Kids Are Cruel: Discussed by Dr. Brooks, who points out that Madison will be severely pariahed, and possibly even the target of a murder attempt, if she were enrolled in a public school and the other students learned she's the daughter of the woman who caused millions of deaths on a global scale in 2019.
• Killed Mid-Sentence:
  • One of Monarch's Ospreys gets vaporized by a Gravity Beam when its pilot is in the middle of speaking.
  • This trope is just barely subverted earlier, when MaNi/Elder Brother attempts to eat San's ripped-off head alive in Chapter 16.
• Killed Offscreen: One of Jonah's mooks named Kauffman kills himself offscreen, and Travis describes his death in vivid detail in Chapter 6. Sergeant Travis' own death by gunshot during the events of Chapter 7 occurs offscreen and is described in an In-Universe official report.
• Kirk Summation: Madison explains to Mariko in non-minced terms why her own dead mother sucked in Chapter 12 when Mariko hits Madison's Berserk Button. Mark likewise somberly chips in, and Ilene adds a Humans Are Flawed speech.
  Madison Russell: This might come as a shock to you, President of the Emma Russell Fanclub, but while she had a point about the Titans and their beneficial presence to the world, SHE WOULDN’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU! Everyone in this room – people who thought she was their friend, the best of us – she would have let us all die in a fire if it meant seeing her plans through! She didn’t agonize over the people of Isla de Mara! Do you know… [laughs] Do you know, I heard Jonah order one of his men to, and I quote, "slit my throat" if I pulled anything… and she just stood there doing nothing.
  Mariko: […] I read the reports from Boston. She sacrificed her life, didn’t she?
  Madison Russell: So we're just going to ignore the hypocrisy in trying to avenge one dead child by causing God knows how many kids to die in the process?
  Mark Russell: […] Maybe she had good intentions for the world, but it didn't apply to the people living in it.
  Ilene Chen: "We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels." Emma's problem was she focused too much on the dark side of mankind. We have wars and pollution, poverty and disease, yes. But that doesn't invalidate all the good mankind has accomplished. We as a species have cared for one another since the beginning when we were learning how to build spears or weave baskets. Even in darkness, beauty thrives.
• Klingons Love Shakespeare:
  • Whereas San is flat out Intrigued by Humanity, his brothers only have any genuine interest in the horrors that humans are capable of, making them a dark version on this trope.
  • Word of God says that Titans like Methuselah, Behemoth and Mothra would be personally fascinated by some of humanity's architecture and artistry, particularly if it's ecologically-beneficial. Mothra would probably spend her downtime flying around the world to look at some of the less eyesore things that humans have built.
• Knight of Cerebus: Downplayed. The work is highly dark and edgy when it comes to any of the antagonists or the main protagonists' trauma generally; but Ghidorah and MaNi/Elder Brother both manage to take it up a notch. Keizer Ghidorah's entrance is marked by an entire city getting assimilated by the Many, while MaNi torturing Viv and San is pretty much the darkest moment in the entire story.
• Landmark of Lore: It turns out the Yonaguni Monument and the island itself are all that remains of a vast and ancient seafaring city called Mu which was guarded by Manda's father, with the last known egg of the city's protector hidden inside the monument.
• Land, Sea, Sky: Thor is a land-bound Titan, Godzilla is aquatic, Rodan is a flyer, and Monster X starts out land-bound before becoming a flyer.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Besides the Karmic Deaths, there's several instances of the antagonists who abused others getting the tables turned on them before the end. There's Jonah getting turned into a demented puppet of Ghidorah (after he tried to brainwash Vivienne into being his own weapon), and him getting turned into part of the Many (a fate which he previously inflicted on non-consenting human guinea-pigs). There's MaNi/Elder Brother receiving The Dog Bites Back from the abused "Youngest Brother" San-2. And there's Monster X giving Ichi/Eldest Brother a taste of his own Break Them by Talking medicine before it kills him.
• Laser Sight: Castle Bravo's Maser turrets use blue-colored targeting lazers in Chapter 15.
• Last of His Kind: Godzilla and Thor (Titanus þunraz) are the last of their respective species as far as any of the cast know. Ghidorah had a direct hand in making both of them this.
• Laughing Mad: Vivienne is repeatedly driven to episodes of mirthless giggling and outright guffaws, thanks in no small part to the mental trauma she's dealing with. Sergeant Travis himself ends up giggling briefly during his Sanity Slippage, when describing Kauffman's suicide.
• Late to the Tragedy: When the G-Team and Mauzer arrive at the abandoned Monarch outpost looking for survivors, there are only a handful of people left to save from the Artificial Zombies.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: The G-Team and Team Mauzer do this during their first joint expedition into a dark Elaborate Underground Base, with either team going a separate way to the other. Lampshaded by Tejada when she aims to defy this trope in Chapter 11.
• Life Energy: Dominating, killing and/or consuming an opponent to gain its power is a recurring literal and metaphorical symbol throughout the story. Besides Monster X and Ghidorah's Vampiric Draining, ancient Bone Singers believed that to claim a person's head means to claim their soul. Word of God also states that Ghidorah's severed pieces are reliant on an internal power reserve to remain animate, and this reserve can be fueled by absorbing energy from their surroundings, but it can otherwise run out and render the piece lifeless.
  San: maybe they killed and ate to consume the enemy's power this one and brothers do the same
• Light-Flicker Teleportation: A couple variations occur over the course of the story. First, this is downplayed when the headcam of one of the torch-and-bury operation catches sight of an Artificial Zombie which is heard disappearing when the camera briefly swivels, in Chapter 7. Then in Chapter 17, Monster X pulls a lightning-flicker teleportation when stalking MaNi/Elder Brother.
• Like a Son to Me: Serizawa was a Parental Substitute in Vivienne's eyes like in MonsterVerse canon, and it's strongly hinted in the story that he reciprocated the feelings. It's also hinted that Jonah felt the same way towards the late Asher based on his reaction to Ash's death being brought up.
• Like Brother and Sister: Vivienne's father-daughter relationship with Serizawa is a variation. It's mentioned in Chapter 4 that Monarch operatives debated whether or not the nature of their closeness was romantic.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Ishirō Serizawa and Ren Serizawa had their differences, though they're not nearly as diametric as their MonsterVerse canon portrayals turned out to be. Ishirō was a stoic and resolute man with a profound respect for Titans. Ren had a more neutral outlook on the Titans until he starts moving past his father's death, and he bottled up his issues with his father behind a comparatively thin mask, which causes those issues to explode out of him when he finally addresses them. That being said, Ren seems to be stepping more into his father's and grandfather's shoes as the fic goes on.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Besides a mild Strong Family Resemblance, Vivienne and her mother both shared a sharp tongue, a fierce case of Beware the Nice Ones, and an appreciation for nature.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: Manda's father was the Lord of Dragons and protector of Mu, while next to nothing is known about Manda's birth mother. Averted with Thor's son, as it's hinted he got most of his fighting spirit from the mother who is introduced in flashback.
• Little "No":
  • Mariko briefly murmurs a third-type Little No when she realizes part of Monster X is Vivienne in Chapter 3.
  • Jonah gives the first type to Vivienne when refuting her warning about the decapitated Ghidorah head's Psychic Powers in Chapter 6, fuelled by arrogance and possible Sanity Slippage.
  • Vivienne herself gives a string of first-type Little No's towards Ichi/Eldest Brother when declaring they're Not So Similar in Chapter 13.
  • Susan gave what was mostly a Type 1 but more gentle than usual, when refusing to be saved in Chapter 18.
• Lockdown: Castle Bravo is effectively thrown into one when its power and communications are shut down with everyone still inside, in Chapter 15.
• Locked Out of the Loop: San and Vivienne are both out of the loop at first on events that have happened since San's decapitation. Jonah's organization are also at first out of the loop on Monster Zero's alien nature and its real name.
• Logical Weakness: There are quite a few cases.
  • Monster X has a Healing Factor, but unlike Ghidorah, it has to retrieve severed limbs or heads which will re-attach to the stumps they were cut from, and it consequently can't regrow duplicates if they're outright destroyed.
  • Word of God states that the Many must expend biomass when repairing damage to themselves, so it would be logically possible to make them use up all their health-packs by damaging them enough times if they can't assimilate new biomass.
  • Psycho Electro monster versus MUTO EMP. MUTO wins.
• Loose Lips: One of Jonah's men blabbing in fear for his life to Viv and San about "the others" gets him fatally shot by his commander. Given the guy's current circumstances, his blabbing only turned his life being cut short from a likelihood into a certainty, but still...
• Losing Your Head:
  • After San's original head is severed from Ghidorah, it's both still alive and still retains San's mind. Somewhat downplayed in that the head is (seemingly) immobile before San's consciousness transferral to his and Vivienne's new shared body.
  • In Chapter 15, the Many pull a John Carpenter's The Thing move, shifting most of their consciousness-carrying tissue to their Mind Hive's head and tearing the head loose to escape.
  • And in Chapter 16, San's head gets ripped off of Vivienne but remains alive and animate.
  • This happens twice in Chapter 17. First MaNi/Elder Brother suffers the downplayed form of this trope, when his head (minus his lower-jaw) is ripped off and it subsequently becomes inanimate due to expending its Life Energy reserve, as confirmed by Word of God. Then it happens again to Keizer Ghidorah's middle head, which also doesn't live on for long before it's destroyed.
• Lost in Transmission: Tarkan begins instructing a lone B3-Golf via comms to fall back when the communications disconnect before Tarkan can specify the fallback point, in Chapter 11:
  "Fall back to the m-"
• The Lost Lenore: Somewhat Played for Drama. Thor's mate is apparently long gone and he never really got over it. Likewise, Susan Graham outlived Vivienne's father decades ago, and she still thought of him when Vivienne was a grown woman.
• Loved I Not Honor More: Defied by the Brody family. Never being separated as a family again as they were during the 2014 Titan crisis is explicitly why Elle and Ford have both joined Monarch together.

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• Macross Missile Massacre: The military pull this in the Final Battle more than once to significant effect when acting as the Titans' assist; firing short barrages and a practical hammerdown against Keizer Ghidorah.
• Madness Makeover: Both Jonah and Sergeant Travis go through this. By the time of Chapter 6, their beards and hair have grown out, and it's at around this time that their respective Sanity Slippages are advanced enough to raise unmistakable red flags.
• Mad Scientist: Specifically Mad Biologists, with just a touch of Mad Chemists. Jonah and his aptly-named Basement Club experiment on San's old head and its tissue in the bowels of their base, which results in the creation of the Many which ultimately overwhelm them (although the Club are too far in their Sanity Slippage to be anything other than pro-Many by that point). Mariko, whilst working for Jonah's paramilitary, is a Reluctant Mad Scientist when participating in their inhumane experiments to test Monster X's Healing Factor.
• Mad Scientist Laboratory: The basement levels of the outpost where Jonah's paramilitary took up residence are implied to be functioning as this. The rest of the outpost has turned into an Abandoned Laboratory with Artificial Zombies roaming as of Chapter 7.
• Magical Defibrillator:
  • Averted when a certain someone has a heart attack. It's made very clear that that someone's prescribed heart medication tablets are required before defibrillator with a licensed kit can even be attempted, unlike the standard Hollywood portrayal where just zapping or pressing down on the heart works.
  • Implied with San. When his head is ripped off, receiving a jolt of lightning from Monster X's body seemingly causes it to spring back to wakefulness. Justified considering what San is.
• Magic Countdown: The Final Battle begins in the late evening, and ends a few minutes before dawn breaks, all in the same chapter in what seems like a few hours at most. Possibly Justified/averted, as the In-Universe date is early summer for the northern hemisphere and the battle's location is far enough north of the equator that it would probably see very short nights at that time of year.
• Make Way for the New Villains: Alan Jonah and his paramilitary serve as the most prominent antagonists for the first 1/3 of the story. Then the Many and Keizer Ghidorah come along, and they promptly drive almost all of the paramilitary insane and assimilate them, thereby fully usurping Jonah's group as the story's main antagonists.
• Male Might, Female Finesse: Godzilla and Mothra get to display this dynamic in combat once again, in Chapter 17: Mothra favors Hit-and-Run Tactics whilst Godzilla is a more up-close and confrontational combatant.
• Mama Bear:
  • Mothra is fierce when those she considers her children are threatened or harmed unjustly.
  • Vivienne is this herself when it comes to Madison, and later when it comes to Manda. Trying to harm either one of those kids is tantamount to signing your own death warrant, with Monster X as your executioner.
• Manly Tears: Observing Mothra's cocoon pulsing in tune to Thor's music causes Mark and several others to phase out and then return to their senses in tears without knowing why, in Chapter 14.
• Man of Kryptonite: It turns out the MUTO Queen's EMP can temporarily cripple electrical Titans' powers.
• The Marvelous Deer: Played With. The ancient Bone Singers' headdresses include antlers.
• Mask of Sanity: Inverted. Nadezhda notes in Chapter 11 that the Basement Club still acted somewhat normal, compared to the others who suffered Sanity Slippage from the decapitated Ghidorah head's psychic influence, but it was easy to spot that just below their surfaces something was seriously wrong in them.
• Mass Hypnosis: Those members of Jonah's paramilitary who aren't driven to commit suicide by their induced Sanity Slippage instead seem to become set on aiding Ghidorah or the Many.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!":
  • The G-Team react this way in Chapter 7 when they realize not every piece of Ghidorah was destroyed in Boston, and it prompts Lieutenant Brody to curse, "Shit."
  • Mark's gut sinks and the Outpost 61a residents' faces go "ashen with mind-numbing realization" in Chapter 9, when they all piece together that Ghidorah will always have a chance to come back and threaten the world again so long as there's a living piece of it – and Jonah's actions have scattered Ghidorah's DNA all over the world.
  • Despite everything they've seen beforehand, the G-Team are rendered sick with horror when they first see the part-Many Keizer Ghidorah in Chapter 17.
• Master of Your Domain: After being Swallowed Whole by Ghidorah, Vivienne's body was deliberately regurgitated into a "womb" inside San's neck, and after San was decapitated from Ghidorah, he wilfully instigated her Metamorphosis inside his old head while also transferring his consciousness to be the newborn Monster X's second head. Mothra's metamorphosis inside her cocoon is notably slower this time around compared to in King of the Monsters, due to a lack of a necessity to speed it up until in Chapter 16.
• Mating Dance: The literal, animal kind between Monster X and Rodan during a Friendly Rivalry spar in Chapter 18.
• Mauve Shirt: Tejada is one of Jonah's several Mook Lieutenants who gets a fair deal of characterization alongside Sergeant Travis. And she survives, unlike Travis and the other two MLs whose names are censored.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane:
  • Somewhat with Manda. It's effectively confirmed by Mothra's POV in Chapter 17 that after death, there's Cessation of Existence followed by Reincarnation, but it's suggested that Manda might in fact be Dr. Serizawa's reincarnation following his Heroic Sacrifice, though it's ultimately left deliberately ambiguous.
  • There's another one in Chapter 17: does the old galdr that Thor recites really have supernatural power that fights off the Many's influence, or does it merely fuel Thor's Heroic Willpower by its psychological relevance?
• Meaningful Echo: A meta case occurs in Chapter 15, where Susan Graham's words wondering what the last thing they said to Vivienne before the events in Antarctica were. In a deleted scene, Vivienne wondered the exact same thing about Serizawa during her Heroic BSoD.
• Meaningful Look: A few occur towards the end. Monster X makes it clear to Rodan with nothing but a glare that they know he brought Manda with him to the battle. Both Thor and San-2/Youngest Brother at one point respectively communicate a message to Monster X with nothing but their gazes. The look on Susan's face alone tells San how horrified she is by learning what happened to him and Vivienne after they were abducted.
• Memento MacGuffin: It's heavily implied that the galdr memorized by Thor helps him out quite a bit in the battle against Keizer Ghidorah.
• Men of Sherwood: The G-Team alongside other military forces act as support for the Protector Titans when they go into major battles, providing enough cover fire to keep the Big Bad disoriented, and they don't lose any more of their own during the events of this fic.
• Mentor Archetype: Thor, Godzilla and Rodan all respectively serve as experienced combat tutors to Monster X (particularly Vivienne) over the story.
• Merciful Minion: Defied by Jonah. He's Genre Savvy enough to give his soldiers orders that they're to immediately kill any Disposable Vagrant who show signs of pitying the Vivienne-San hybrid too much.
• Messy Hair: Sergeant Travis' hair and beard become disheveled as his Sanity Slippage worsens. Vivienne's biological father apparently had hair that looked like this.
• Metamorphosis: San transforming Vivienne inside his decapitated head to form Monster X, by reviving and regenerating her while deliberately feeding his own enzymes into her system. Monster X receives another, smaller-scale change which is externally instigated by Mothra in Chapter 7, fixing its initial Power Incontinence and Body Horror. Their transformation into their final form is an Emergency Transformation inflicted by the partly-resurrected Ghidorah as Pragmatic Villainy to keep Vivienne alive, which resulted in an unintentional Mental Fusion for Viv and San in addition to making them more powerful.
• Metamorphosis Monster: Mothra, like in the movie. Monster X has so far gone through two Metamorphoses including the one which created it.
• Militaries Are Useless: Averted by the Russian military backup during the Final Battle, who know when and how to lend the benevolent Titans a hand in the battle and when to step back. It seems either Russia is cool, or humanity's militaries really have learned a lesson from the events in King of the Monsters.
• Mind Hive: Ghidorah and Monster X are the Multiple Head Case variety, while the Many create an extreme case when they fuse together.
• Misplaced Retribution: Madison and Mark both feel animosity towards San, not least due to Ghidorah hunting Madison in Boston and killing Vivienne in Antarctica. In actuality, San genuinely doesn't know what his regrown Alternate Self did after Isla de Mara, and it was technically Ichi who killed Vivienne while San only did the transforming and resurrecting bits.
• Mistaken for Quake: There are a couple times where Thor or the Many respectively moving underground through Russia or Asia causes seismic disturbances which are initially reported as sudden earthquakes, although in the post-Mass Awakening world it doesn't take people long to twig what the true cause is.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Besides Monster X's Red Eyes, Take Warning, the Many seem to have a tendency to turn their hosts' eyes dead white.
• Monster Delay: The Artificial Zombies when they first appear are mostly shrouded in shadow and difficult to make out, and it isn't until Chapter 11 that they're revealed in all their horrifying glory. Ghidorah, having assimilated the Many into itself to speed up its resurrection, gets the same treatment, with only its heads being seen in Chapter 16.
• Monstrous Cannibalism:
  • Defied by Vivienne when she understandably rejects San's suggestion that they eat Jonah's troops, as she's still coming to terms with the fact she's no longer human.
  • Although Monster X is part-human and MaNi/Elder Brother is part-Many, this trope otherwise applies when the latter is willing to cannibalize certain parts of the former. Zig-Zagged, as Monster X is fine with responding in kind towards MaNi and Keizer Ghidorah.
• Monstrous Humanoid: Viv and San's first form, though it possesses a quadrupedal stance, still has a recognizably somewhat humanoid body structure, particularly in Vivienne's skull-like face. The Many's initial forms are Artificial Zombies, looking like jaundiced and monstrously deformed ghouls of their early victims' former selves. The Zmeyevich look quite similar.
• Monumental Damage: A couple examples occur which are slightly tamer than usual disaster movie standards considering the Monuments' obscurity. There's the underwater damage done to the Yonaguni Monument by Godzilla's battle against the Many in Chapter 13, and there's the Khram Vo Imya church in Berezniki losing a steeple during MaNi/Elder Brother's Rasputinian Death and implicitly getting leveled with the city, in Chapter 17.
• Mook Horror Show: Three such shows are inflicted on Jonah's goons by Monster X, inflicting Cruel and Unusual Deaths on multiple mercs including bisection, dismemberment beyond recognition and electrocution.
• Mook Lieutenant: Jonah has several henchmen who report to him and who stand out a little. These include Sergeant Travis, Mauve Shirt Tejada, Tejada's close friend (whose name apparently consists of four characters), and another Mook Lieutenant whose hidden name consists of six characters.
• Morality Pet: Vivienne acts as San's Morality Pet, having a positive influence on his Character Development, and it's because of her that San becomes determined to be better than Ghidorah. San admits that he feels an emotional kinship with Vivienne that he didn't get from his brothers.
• Moral Myopia:
  • Ghidorah has a case of this. It despises the cruel, genocidal Makers, who tortured it and transformed it into the world-ending Draconic Abomination it is now because they wanted to use it as a Bioweapon Beast for genocide. Yet Ghidorah doesn't care that after billions of years of being twisted and corrupted by the Old Noise's mental impact, it's become just as bad as the Makers: cruel and genocidal to all life including innocents who've done nothing to it, and it's even begun fashioning its own mutant monsters out of other lifeforms to use as its weapons. San himself calls Ghidorah out on how comparable he finds the latter to what the Makers did to them. Word of God says that Ghidorah honestly wouldn't care if it realized its Moral Myopia and would just rationalize it away.
  • MaNi/Elder Brother regards San as nothing more than an expendable shed skin who isn't the real Youngest Brother, and he's happy to mock San and put him down over this; yet MaNi gets indignant and insists that he's still Ni when someone points out that he is just as much a shed skin as San is.
• More Deadly Than the Male: It gets mentioned in Chapter 17 that Thor's mate, when she was alive, had always been a better combatant than him and he was attracted to her by her strength of character.
• More than Mind Control: According to Word of God, before Jonah's Sanity Slippage got really bad, San's old head likely gave him a psychic nudge which caused him to persistently think about his dead daughter for the first time in decades, which in turn led a passing thought that he could resurrect her to become an obsession, which likely fueled his insane contributions to the Many's proliferation.
• Multinational Team: Amongst Monarch, new additions to The Team's surviving members after King of the Monsters for this story's duration include; the African-American Dr. Brooks, and the late, Japanese Dr. Serizawa's son Ren.
• Multiple Head Case: A trait Monster X shares in common with Ghidorah, with San and Vivienne's minds residing in either of its two heads.
• Murder Is the Best Solution:
  • Some of the anxious public at first think Monarch should attempt killing Monster X due to its resemblance to Ghidorah, ignoring how Ghidorah proved impossible to kill with manmade means when the military previously tried such a measure.
  • Vivienne regards Admiral Stenz as a General Ripper for his decision to attempt nuking Godzilla and the MUTOs as readily as he did in 2014, and her finding out about the Oxygen Destroyer's launch and correctly guessing his possible role in it certainly hasn't done anything to improve her opinion of him. However, Word of God hints that Vivienne's perception of Stenz is probably colored by her opinion of him rather than an actual reflection of what the author imagines he's like.
• The Mutiny: Mariko, Sergeant Travis and a few others plan one against Jonah as the latter's Sanity Slippage progresses and the Basement Club's secrets get more suspicious.
• My Beloved Smother:
  • Downplayed. Thor in Chapter 13 is reluctant about Monster X getting into a severe fight with a new, serious enemy and thinks they are not ready.
  • Mark Russell in Chapter 8 has shades of this towards Madison, trying to shield her from getting involved with grave news.
• Mythology Gag: Has its own page.
• Never Recycle a Building: The abandoned Monarch outpost utilized by Jonah and his paramilitary, which is apparently not one of Monarch's officially-listed bases.
• Next Sunday A.D.: Zig-Zagged. In Chapter 2 (which was published in August 2019), the 2019-20 New Year has passed. It's inverted by Chapter 11, which was published in July 2020, but the In-Universe time is May 2020.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • It's hinted that Jonah's decision to use Serizawa's death to try and break Vivienne down ends up causing Viv and San's reconciliation, which enables them to work together to escape their imprisonment.
  • Ichi/Eldest Brother could have saved himself a lot of future bother if he'd just let Vivienne die a horrible death in his gullet and stay dead. More than that, Ghidorah intentionally making Monster X more powerful as part of its plans for Vivienne backfires when Monster X breaks free of Ghidorah's hold prematurely and joins the fight against it.
• Nightmare Sequence:
  • San and Vivienne's shared dream in Chapter 3 turns into this, featuring numerous people whose deaths Vivienne feels in some way guilty over.
  • There's also Vivienne's dream in Chapter 14, which apparently even gave the author bad dreams after she wrote it.
• Noble Male, Roguish Male: Like in King of the Monsters, Godzilla and Rodan have such a dynamic. Godzilla is the Noble Male (world-weary, patient and reasonable), and Rodan is the Roguish Male (a Hot-Blooded, aggressive Blood Knight with Hidden Depths).
• Nobody Poops: The closest hints throughout the story we get of any characters ever needing to use a lavatory are Jonah's paramilitary having cleaners routinely clean Monster X's cell – it's unclear if they're cleaning up sweat and viscera from the more brutal experiments, or actual excrement (which would be logical since Monster X is being routinely fed and hydrated, unless the alien half of their biology means they literally don't dispose of food waste the same way mammals do). Mariko, Tejada and several others notably spend days holed up in barracks, and nothing of them having lavatory facilities during that time is mentioned – of course, it's also never mentioned if they had any food or water during the time they were in there, so...
• No Full Name Given: Dr. Mariko, Lieutenant Commander Pasternak, Nadezhda and her husband Zima; and Esfir and Lubyov are only known by their first names. Tejada and Sergeant Travis are only known by their last names.
• No Name Given: Two notable Mook Lieutenants have their names (consisting of six characters and four characters respectively) censored out, and they lack a nickname. Downplayed with several members of the Beta-3 and Theta-1 teams and Jonah's cleanup crew, who of course are known by their designations. The author did this partly to slightly alienate the readers from them and give one a sense of San's perspective on them.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range:
  • Godzilla at one point fires his Atomic Breath at the undead Manda at closer range than usual, when the Many's cells begin coalescing.
  • Godzilla fires his Atomic Breath at Keizer Ghidorah at close range a couple times, not unlike during his Boston battle against Ghidorah in King of the Monsters.
  • Keizer at one point in that battle attempts to return the favor, but its electrical Breath Weapon fails to fire.
• Not Enough to Bury: Monster X inflicts this on more than one of Jonah's goons. Jonah himself is only half a body by the time he croaks. Keizer Ghidorah suffers this when it's vaporized.
• Not Himself: This gradually and increasingly happens to Jonah and half his men in the form of erratic behaviour and Sanity Slippage as a result of exposure to San's original head's Psychic Powers. It's likewise a sign that the Many and Keizer Ghidorah are close in Berezniki, drawing the population in for assimilation.
• Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Yonaguni, a relatively little-known Japanese island community, becomes the site of a battle involving three Titans and the Many due to the Yonaguni Monument's contents, in Chapter 13. Ren Serizawa observes this is unusual since the Titans have often smacked down specifically in major cities.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Downplayed. There are a couple Monster Delays (see above), but we only get a limited description of what the Zmeyevich look like.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Lampshaded by Ford Brody after the Final Battle. Monster X's metamorphosis by Ghidorah into its final form, just like Viv and San's original rebirth as Two Beings, One Body and their second transformation after that, is one-way.
• Not in My Contract: A baffled hospital nurse who is confronted with Monster X visiting one of the patients, after briefly stressing and freaking out, leaves them to it, saying that she's not getting paid enough for this.
• Not Quite Dead:
  • Ghidorah's left head ripped off by Godzilla remains partially alive and retains San's mind.
  • It's also revealed in Chapter 5 that the rest of Ghidorah can regenerate From a Single Cell – or a single head – if some part of it remains, meaning San's brothers will return in the future. Ichi, Ni and San's Evil Doppelgänger do regenerate.
  • Then there's the Theta Team attempting to wipe out the Many with explosives. It doesn't finish them, despite the report after the incident.
• Not So Extinct:
  • Mothra apparently believed Thor's kind had been extinct for millennia before he emerged, but Thor is still the Last of His Kind.
  • Likewise, Godzilla believed that Manda's species were completely extinct in the present day, and he's pleasantly surprised when a fertilized egg is discovered and it hatches.
• Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: Alan Jonah is set up to be a clear and direct antagonist from the first chapter, as the unrepentant monster from canon who's holding San's head and Vivienne's fusing body captive. The true Big Bad turning out to be a resurrecting Ghidorah, however, was probably quite a surprise.
• Ocean Awe: Played With. Dr. Brooks notes that Ren Serizawa's archaeological work at the Yonaguni Monument indicates that in his own way, the son of Ishirō Serizawa is as interested in the secrets of the sea as his late father.
• Obliviously Evil: Zig-Zagged by the Many and San-2/Youngest Brother, Zig-Zagged and downplayed by San.
  • The instinctive will guiding the Many's Hive Mind believes they're doing every thinking creature they absorb a favor by "making them whole". Some individual fragments of the assimilated minds themselves, however, are moaning and wailing against their horrible fate.
  • Both versions of Ghidorah's left head (San before his Heel–Face Turn, and also San-2) are not oblivious to Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother's cruelty, nor to how the left head took some joy of his own in Ghidorah's carnage, but both versions initially can't understand why Vivienne would see getting forcibly transformed into their inhuman sister as anything other than a blessing. Subverted in San's case when he has his Heel Realization about what he did to Vivienne.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In Chapter 7, we see the aftermath of a battle or two between humans and the Artificial Zombies that were attempting to swarm their barrack, which took place wholly offscreen some time ago.
• Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: Notably averted with Jonah's paramilitary, who rely on old weapons left lying about the abandoned outpost plus new ammunitions they receive on supply runs.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Vivienne is horrified when she realizes that Jonah's Sanity Slippage is being caused by Brown Note from San's old head, to the point that she desperately appeals to whatever humanity Jonah still has in him to get his Basement Club away from it, in Chapter 6.
  • When Elle Brody and Zima suspect the true nature of the rescued female survivors' pregnancies (one of whom is Zima's wife), the color drains from Zima's face, and both of them slowly turn their heads towards the women in question, before Elle asks Zima an on-topic question in the knowledge she's going to regret hearing the answer.
  • Griffin curses "Oh, shit" when she realizes the Many are headed towards a small treasure trove of Titan biomass.
  • Colonel Foster has one when she realizes the Many were diverting Monarch's and Godzilla's attention away from Yonaguni; all in Chapter 15.
    Foster meanwhile feels like the lightbulb in her head just illuminated the room. It attacked Yonaguni and got what it wanted, drew attention away from Yonaguni, withdraws after being dealt significant damage and only now shuts down communication with the outside world. Textbook diversion; that clever bastard.
  • In Chapter 16, Vivienne has a horrific one when she realizes what else besides turning her into the fourth head it is that Ghidorah plans to do to her, to the point of screaming a Big "NO!" and experiencing an increase in her desperation to escape.
  • Nika, the Russian father in Chapter 17, freezes up and chokes when he finds his two sons turned into extensions of the Many.
  • Just before his Karmic Death, Ichi/Eldest Brother's eyes fractionally widen when he's confronted with the possibility that when he dies imminently, it'll be permanent.
• The Older Immortal: Ichi, Ni and San were originally born billions of years ago, technically making Ghidorah and its shed skins older than the terrestrial Titans (who are presumed to be only hundreds of millions of years old at most). Lampshaded by Monster X in Chapter 18.

• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Mark Russell is still held in contempt by some at Monarch partly for his old anti-Titan bigotry even though he's gotten over it since the events of King of the Monsters. San seems intent on holding a grudge against Ren for his hurtful outburst at Vivienne.
• One-Man Army: Monster X is this to Alan Jonah's paramilitary force even when the hybrid body is a Body Horror newborn, nevermind once it grows bigger and stronger. Ghidorah is this to the other Titans, to the point that it could still put up a fight during a battle where Godzilla and over half a dozen other Titans were attacking Ghidorah at once.
• One-Steve Limit: Vivienne briefly lampshades the fact San has the same name as San Lin from Kong: Skull Island, who is referenced in the story. Both the Brodys' son and Coleman (who share the same first name) make physical appearances. Likewise, Dr. Ilene Chen appears and Dr. Ilene Andrews is also mentioned by her full name. It's worth noting additionally, both Tejada and the Mook Lieutenant with a censored four-letter last name apparently have first names beginning with a V.
• Only Mostly Dead: It's revealed that after Vivienne was Swallowed Whole by Ghidorah's middle head, she only died temporarily before Ghidorah ejected her into a "womb" in San's neck and she was forcibly revived with her mind intact. Word of God implies that MaNi/Elder Brother, as a piece of Ghidorah, might not be permanently dead so long as his physical remains weren't destroyed after he lost all his Life Energy.
• Original Characters: Thor, Nadezhda, Esfir, Lubyov and Zima. Apart from them, the majority of the fic's cast are canon characters or O.C. Stand-ins.
• Outrun the Fireball: During the Final Battle, Monarch's Ospreys try to outrun the electrical/nuclear blast released by Keizer Ghidorah. Griffin just barely succeeds in outrunning it, while another Osprey gets grazed and falls.
• Palate Propping: In Chapter 13, Viv and San are at one point forced to hold the Many's flytrap-like jaws open with their hands to avoid being caught in them. Inverted in Chapter 17, when Methuselah impales his horn through Ni/Elder Brother's jaw and head, effectively immobilizing his jaws shut.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Thor and Godzilla have both displayed indications of this in their respective displays of caring towards Monster X.
  • Mark Russell has moments with Madison but is sometimes My Beloved Smother, initially thinking she's Just a Kid who needs to be shielded when someone upsets her.
  • Darkly exploited by the Many in Chapter 17 when they're hunting and assimilating victims, using a child's voice to lure a lost and dazed father to his doom.
• Paparazzi: Thor and Monster X's presence in the Yunnan Rainforest draws multiple human paparazzi who observe and attempt to document them from afar.
• Parasitic Horror: Two of Ghidorah's "children" cause this. When the Many are being injected into their first human victims, it looks like something is slithering under the body's skin. One of the unborn Zmeyevich kicking like a regular baby against its mother's belly is just a little bit more visible than is human.
• Parents as People:
  • Dr. Serizawa was a great man, a wise figurehead who's posthumously respected around the world, and he loved Vivienne while having a very good relationship with her. But he didn't make much time to see his son Ren (although there's nothing to suggest it was as bad as the full-blown Parental Neglect which the Godzilla vs. Kong novelization describes and which drove Ren to villainy), and he also couldn't help feeling closer to Vivienne than to his son even if he still loved and respected Ren.
  • Mark Russell is gradually and increasingly improving his ways since the events of King of the Monsters, but he still struggles at times to trust in Madison's capabilities and strengths of character. Moreso, his Survivor Guilt is so bad that he at one point ends up saying aloud that he should have died in Vivienne's place while on the verge of a breakdown, all whilst his daughter is next to him; in Chapter 9.
• Past Experience Nightmare: It gets mentioned that Vivienne regularly dreams of Ghidorah after it killed her in Antarctica. Ilene mentions in Chapter 7 that she recently had a nightmare of Vivienne's death in Antarctica (apparently not the first one but the first in a while). Word of God states Thor likely had these during his long hibernation.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Both Viv and San will hit this mentality and savagely slaughter their enemies, when pushed too far. It's revealed in Chapter 10 that this trope is how Ghidorah originally started when it first committed genocide.
• Permafusion: Monster X, the protagonist of this story, is the end result of one, being the combination of the severed left head of Ghidorah being merged together with one Dr. Vivienne Graham.
• Percussive Maintenance: Monster X causes this in Chapter 6 by feeding enough electrical energy into the Ural outpost to activate the communications array.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Downplayed by Tejada's unnamed friend, who admits they feel slightly sorry for Vivienne after hearing her Howl of Sorrow.
  • Tejada herself is genuinely distressed when her friend in question runs to his apparent death.
  • San-2/Youngest Brother, being an exact copy of San as he was before fusing to Vivienne, is likely to Pet Vivienne, unlike Ghidorah's other two heads.
• Pitiful Worms:
  • Ghidorah has called humans "insects", including a brave Bone Singer who communicated with it in ancient times.
  • Vivienne after being transformed into part of Monster X occasionally mentally calls Jonah and his men insects when she's provoked to action and sufficiently enraged.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Viv and San eventually become an inseparably close Fire-Forged Sibling Team after their fusion. Before that, Vivienne and Dr. Serizawa were extremely close, to the point that Vivienne is sent into a severe Heroic BSoD when she learns that he's dead.
• Plot Parallel: In certain ways, Monster X's emotional journey in the A-plot is mirrored by the Russell family in the B-plot after the latter group have entered the fic's storyline. Both parties consist of a teamed-up younger female and elder male who are considered direct family to each-other, and throughout the main fic, both parties are trying to step out of the shadows cast by the traumas they endured during, or as a direct result of, the events of King of the Monsters. Vivienne and Madison both feel haunted and are at some point plagued with doubts about themselves due to their memories of Ghidorah and Emma Russell respectively, fearing they'll repeat either villain's atrocities — for bonus points, Ghidorah naturally consists of San's elder brothers and it's considered by some of the antagonists to be Vivienne's "father" after her rebirth, paralleling how Emma is Mark's ex-wife and Madison's mother). San and Mark meanwhile both know that they've been bad creatures in the past until recent events; both of them have a proclivity for self-blame and self-loathing, especially when it comes to the things that Vivienne has gone through; and the fic ultimately sees both of them develop into better beings than they ever were before.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Among Monarch, Jackson Barnes and Rick Stanton are this, like in King of the Monsters: Barnes gets the creeps at the sight of Scylla, and Rick is often a source of jokes concerning interactions with the drink which he always has within arm's reach no matter how grim the scene.
• Polar Madness: Played With. The effects of Ghidorah's Brown Note on the Outpost 32 staff during the years before Jonah's assault were initially written off as this. In the present, Ghidorah's severed head slowly but surely has the same effect on Jonah's Basement Club during their year-long stay at an Elaborate Underground Base in the Russian wilderness, and it likewise is initially written off as mere cabin fever.
• Posthumous Character:
  • Serizawa is dead, but his memory lingers strongly, especially with Vivienne throughout the story. He's apparently revered by the world for his Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Excluding San, the rest of Ghidorah (San's regrown Alternate Self, Ni and Ichi) is dead, but it is very much casting a shadow on Viv and San from beyond the grave, and Ichi and Ni are featured in flashbacks and memories. Then Ghidorah's minds start regenerating From a Single Cell.
  • Emma Russell and Admiral Stenz make minor appearances in dreams and/or flashbacks, besides being mentioned several times.
  • Subverted with Susan Graham. It isn't until Chapter 11 that we find out whether or not she died during the year that's passed since Ghidorah ate Vivienne in Antarctica.
  • Thor's mate and son, both of whom died millennia ago, eventually make an appearance in Thor's flashbacks, and their personalities are expanded on.
• Power Echoes: This trope crops up a few confirmed times; with Monster X, and the ancient Bone Singers in San's memory; and implicitly also many other times with the Titan voices' Comic-Book Fantasy Casting choices. Unsurprising considering some of the author's tastes.
• The Power of Hate: One of the main emotions alongside anger that can activate and fuel either Monster X's or Ghidorah's bio-electrical powers, but only in large doses.
• Power Incontinence:
  • Viv and San in their first form have the inverted form of this trope due to their body having too little metal traces in it to properly conduct their electrical powers.
  • Averted by MaNi/Elder Brother. Rather than the infectiousness of The Virus in his tissues being an automatic process, MaNi due to being a Ghidorah head can wilfully "turn it off" in the event he so desires, according to Word of God.
• The Power of the Sun: The hatching of Manda's egg in Chapter 13 is seemingly triggered by contact with warm sunlight.
• Power Up Full Color Change: Played With. When Godzilla and Mothra utilize their symbiosis, the changing colors of their respective Power Glows synchronize and cycle through several colors in unison.
• Power-Upgrading Deformation:
  • Vivienne's first metamorphosis inside San's decapitated head does this to her, causing her to inherit Ghidorah's bio-electricity and Healing Factor but also turning her into a crippled Body Horror hybrid. Inverted by Vivienne and San's second transformation.
  • The Many's Mind Hives made of their assimilated victims are unnaturally resistant to pain and capable of all kinds of limited shapeshifting, and boy are those writhing, wretched, horrific tumor-like things that remain of the individual victims' melted bodies horrible to look at.
• Private Military Contractor: The armed mercenaries sent to the abandoned Monarch outpost (not Jonah's group) are believed to have been hired by corporations and pharmaceutical companies invested in the Titan DNA market to claim any samples of worth.
• Prophet Eyes: The Many tend to turn their hosts' eyes blank and white, whilst Methuselah's milky eyes glimpsed in King of the Monsters are confirmed in this fic to be a sign that he's half-blind.
• Protagonist Title: Monster X is officially named Titanus Abraxas in Chapter 10, based on the Gnostic figure.
• Protectorate: San takes his duty of caring for his new sister and teaching her to fend for herself to heart. Later in the story, Manda as an egg and an infant becomes a Protectorate to both Viv and San.
• Psychic Link:
  • Monster X has one with Ghidorah once its three minds have regenerated, which it uses to torment Viv and San from afar. It's also all but stated that Esfir, possibly due to her broken mind combined with her Zmeyevich pregnancy, has a psychic link of her own to Ghidorah.
  • Word of God confirms that Mothra has a form of telepathy like Ghidorah, but in her case it only extends to select special humans, such as the Chen family and possibly Madison.
• Psychic Nosebleed: Exposure to intense dosages of Ghidorah's Psychic Powers can cause humans and even Monster X to suffer this.
• Psychic Powers: Ghidorah exhibits a powerful psychic influence on humans around it which can have Mind Rape effects or worse, and those who have Bone Singer/Grave Chanter ancestry seem to be particularly susceptible. Ghidorah later establishes Psychic Links with Monster X and the Many respectively.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Most of Jonah's mercenaries who get characterization. Tejada and Sergeant Travis are quite Affably Evil to Mariko, play card games when they're off the clock, and Tejada has a couple Villainous Friendships with fellow mercs.
• Purple Is Powerful: Purple is the penultimate color which Godzilla and Mothra's synchronized bioluminescence cycles through when they're powering up, in Chapter 17.
• Putting the Band Back Together: Amongst the humans, the old team consisting of the Monarch key brass and Mark Russell from Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) are reunited.

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