Abraxas Hrodvitnon / Tropes # to H

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

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: During the Final Battle, both Monster X and Godzilla get this. Monster X metamorphoses into its significantly more powerful final form, and Godzilla unlocks his Spiral Heat Ray.
• Accusation Fic: Downplayed in that they're only a supporting character and a Villainous Legacy respectively and it isn't the main point of the fic, but Mark and Emma Russell from King of the Monsters, neither of whom the author is a fan of, get called out on their canon actions. Here, Mark's jerkass behaviour during King of the Monsters means he's unpopular among Monarch, although the author has made a point to avoid steering into Ron the Death Eater treatment whilst giving Mark the opportunity to develop into a better person. Whilst Emma's Unintentionally Unsympathetic crimes and motives mean she's posthumously reviled by Madison and Vivienne, and even her ex-husband questions if her Heroic Sacrifice really outweighs all the bad that she committed. In both characters' cases, this karmic backlash was absent from Godzilla vs. Kong.
• Action Survivor: Ren and the boat crew he's with at Yonaguni could count, when they find themselves running and then hiding for their lives from a Titan battle amid a storm in Chapter 13.
• Adapted Out: The King of the Monsters novelization mentions that Vivienne has nephews and nieces (and therefore she logically has sibling/s). In this story's continuity, she was an only child.
• Advanced Ancient Humans: The ancient civilization of Mu are implied to have been this. According to Godzilla, they had a "great city with vast fanes and mighty fleets", and the entire island of Yonaguni (which has an area of nearly 29km) is just a small fragment of the original kingdom.
• Advertised Extra: The ancient Bone Singer from Chapter 5 is on the Chapter 9 cover art, even though the Bone Singer only appears in the one chapter.
• Affably Evil:
  • Mariko comments that Tejada and Sergeant Travis are okay people for Western Terrorists. Indeed, Tejada is quite capable of playing cards in her downtime and has a genuine Villainous Friendship with one of Jonah's Mook Lieutenants, whilst Travis overall seems like a pretty normal person off-the-clock until he suffers Sanity Slippage.
  • Mariko herself can be considered this. She's quite capable of socializing normally with others, and there are lines she refuses to willingly cross, but she did get her colleagues at Outpost 58 killed when she freed Behemoth due to agreeing that humans have no right to contain or try to kill the Titans.
  • San-2/Youngest Brother can be considered the Zig-Zagged form. He's a Psychopathic Manchild whose brutal to those whom piss him off or get in his way, and he views other lifeforms as toys at best; but he genuinely prefers being gentle with his toys and trying to "fix" them when he takes an interest in them, compared to how his brothers would much prefer specifically having chew toys that scream when used.
• After the End: Downplayed, in that the aftermath of Ghidorah's global Titan rampage in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) is no worse than a Class 1 fallout for humanity. Boston, Washington D.C. and Moscow all remain in ruins, it's mentioned in Chapter 11 that plush toys of Mothra are apparently popular in Kunming, and a new Titan warning system has been implemented all over the world to alert populations when a Titan is approaching.
• Agent Scully: A minor example. There's an unnamed Monarch operative in Chapter 15 who is sceptical of Monster X's warning about the Many coming due to the duo's extensive mental trauma.
• Alas, Poor Villain:
  • Considering his Affably Evil, it's hard to not feel sorry about Sergeant Travis' particularly slow and cruel Brown Note-caused Sanity Slippage and his post-suicide Fate Worse than Death, even if he was one of the human bad guys.
  • And Alan Jonah. As much of an evil Smug Snake as he was, the revelation after his Karmic Death that his motives for experimenting on Monster X and Ghidorah's DNA were partly thinking he could resurrect his dead daughter can evoke a moment of pity.
• Alien Autopsy: The original staff of the abandoned Monarch outpost apparently did this to Chuchuna specimens, the corpses of which are present in an old mortuary chamber.
• Alien Blood: Monster X has black blood like Ghidorah, as does the Many "patchwork body" of Ni/Elder Brother.
• Aliens in Cardiff: Ren Serizawa lampshades Titans' tendency to show up at major cities or other well-known population centers in Chapter 13, and the fact the Titans' battle at Yonaguni (due to the Monument's contents) breaks pattern. So does the later battle at Berezniki.
• Allergic to Evil: A (somewhat unreliable) POV in Chapter 17 indicates that a human child who was exposed to the Many fell ill as an early Virus Victim Symptom.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Discussed and defied by Dr. Brooks, who notes that if Madison is put in an environment with other teenagers (i.e. enrolled in a public school), she'll be pariahed or worse due to the kids focusing on her relation to the infamous Emma Russell, regardless of Madison's crucial heroism at Boston and in this fic.
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The ultimate fate of Jonah and his paramilitary forces in the Ural outpost, due to a combination of the Many overrunning the base and Ghidorah's decapitated head inflicting Sanity Slippage to make Jonah and his men fuel the Many.
• Alternate History: Somewhat, due to the movies' events. The Titan Mass Awakening occurred in 2019 (see After the End). It's also worth noting that despite most of the story explicitly taking place in 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic doesn’t seem to be a problem (probably Justified by the Titans' post-Awakening effects on Earth's ecosystems).
• Ammunition Conservation: It's revealed in Chapter 17 that following the events of King of the Monsters, the Argo has been fitted with a prototype external megaphone system as a less ammunition-costly way to attract and divert a Titan's attention. Colonel Foster has it put into service in the Berezniki battle.
• Androcles' Lion: Inverted – Godzilla believes that a Titan going out of its way to defend the human race will lead humans to return the favour. As said by Monster X:
  "Think of them as neighbors, like Godzilla or Rodan. If we don't bother them they'll leave us alone, but if we get in the way or break something they'll get mad at us. [...], and if you do something like protect them from something bad, they'll remember it."
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Sergeant Travis initially survives the Many overrunning Jonah's base, only to get turned into one of their Artificial Zombie forms. The corpse of Manda's father, who was aligned with Godzilla and protective of humans when alive, gets taken over and turned into one of the Many's zombie forms.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: Ghidorah and the Many are not at all above threatening or attacking their foes' loved ones to get to them — the former in particular might do it just for sheer sadistic glee. MaNi/Elder Brother goes after first San and then Manda trying to get Vivienne to snap.
• Answer Cut:
  • In Chapter 7, one of Team Mauzer responds "What the fuck" when receiving footage from Krupin's headcam. Then the narrative cuts to the perspective of Krupin's headcam and shows us what provoked that reaction, before Mariko exposits.
  • In Chapter 15, Vivienne wonders why a Monarch helicopter is approaching, and the POV cuts to show the reader why.
• Apocalyptic Gag Order: Subverted by Monarch. Although they don't tell the world what they know about Monster X and the Many straight away, it doesn't take them long to quit stalling, true to the ending of King of the Monsters which established Monarch are striving to be more open about what they know. However, it's still not clear if Monarch also mentioned that they knew Monster X's San half wasn't the only piece of Ghidorah that's still alive and active, so the trope might actually be downplayed.
• Arbitrary Skepticism:
  • Mentioned by name in Chapter 8 when Mark Russell doesn't believe that Vivienne is Back from the Dead as a Kaiju, prompting Mariko to remind him of Ghidorah's other borderline-Eldritch abilities which Mark himself witnessed (to be fair on Mark, Dr. Brooks says that what's happened to Vivienne is unprecedented even for Monarch). In Chapter 11, Dr. Brooks calls Mark out in a much friendlier manner for considering the theory ancient humans and Titans could directly communicate to be "out there" when Mark himself perpetuates a long-outmoded zoological theory.
  • Vivienne had a similar attitude to Bill Randa about the belief that aliens (at least ones vaguely resembling humans) might exist, until San tells her he and his brothers once destroyed an advanced civilization; in Chapter 10.
• Arc Words: "The head is the seat of the soul."
• Artifact of Doom: The decapitated Ghidorah head inside the abandoned Monarch outpost, which is implied to still have some of Ghidorah in it after San's consciousness has left.
• Ascended Fridge Horror:
  • In Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), it's ambiguous just how long Vivienne was alive when she was swallowed whole, and she could've died instantly from being crushed when Ichi's jaws shut around her or, as this video by Goji Centre suggests, she could've been electrocuted to death almost instantly. In this fic, it's explicitly confirmed that Vivienne was not electrocuted and did not in any way die quickly when she was eaten.
  • This story also confirms what a lot of people were speculating after the end of King of the Monsters: that San's decapitated head retains his mind and still has enough life in it to fully regrow Ghidorah from the neck stump, with all three malevolent minds intact (unlike in Godzilla vs. Kong, where San's severed head was revealed to be a rotting Undead Abomination holding a mere Soul Fragment).
  • In-Universe, the Executive Maia Simmons broaches the possibility that if Ghidorah was an alien, then there could be other, equally-hostile monsters among the stars that are just waiting to stumble on our little blue planet.
• Asshole Victim:
  • Jonah's Mook Lieutenant who deliberately pushes Vivienne to anger in Chapter 4 is really just asking to be ripped apart by increasingly antagonizing a Skullcrawler-sized, half-Ghidorah and traumatized Titan with any and all tricks in the book, but it should be noted that he was ultimately only acting on Jonah's orders rather than being a little shit like Guard B-04.
  • Speaking of Guard B-04, given the circumstances under which he dies, it's entirely possible that the red-seeing Viv and San aren't even aware when they kill him that he's the same Dirty Coward bully who, for no reason but his own amusement, cruelly taunted and antagonized Vivienne whilst she was in no position to attack him.
  • Generally speaking, Jonah's Basement Club and the rest of his Eco-Terrorist paramilitary could count, when San's old Ghidorah-head which their boss is keeping around starts psychically inducing Sanity Slippages in them and when the Many assimilate them, since these are the same guys who followed Jonah in massacring Monarch operatives and were willing to cause the deaths of billions of people in the name of their cause during King of the Monsters. Still, their ultimate Fate Worse than Death seems like a worse fate than even they deserve for their crimes.
• The Assimilator: The Many do this to hosts they infect and reanimate, furthermore being capable of fusion dances, and Ghidorah's plan for Monster X is to turn Vivienne into Ghidorah's fourth head (Shi).
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Titans, being intelligent beasts, generally have a Darwinist hierarchy where they respect might and victory.
• Attack the Mouth: This happens to the evil monsters a few times.
  • In Chapter 13, the Many end up Eating the Bomb when they try to smother Rodan's head.
  • In Chapter 15, Scylla stabs the zombified Manda through its mouth and skull with a broken antler.
  • In Chapter 16, Vivienne violently rescues San's freshly-ripped-off head from MaNi/Elder Brother's gullet.
  • And in Chapter 17, Viv and San execute Keizer Ghidorah's severed head the same way Mechagodzilla killed Skullcrawler Number 10 and was going to kill Godzilla.
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant: In Chapter 17, Mothra uses her own version of the Alpha Call to rally the other Titans around the world to war, including Titans such as the MUTO Queen who have not yet had any involvement in the war against the Many and the regenerating Ghidorah.
• Back from the Dead:
  • Vivienne, as she did indeed die — to the point that brain activity temporarily ceased — while she was inside Ghidorah, before San revived and began transforming her.
  • It's also revealed in Chapter 5 that Ghidorah will always come back from death eventually so long as some piece of it remains. San's original Ghidorah-head hasn't been disposed of, and Ghidorah's minds including San's Evil Doppelgänger are now active.
  • Mothra is alive during the fic due to her Born-Again Immortality.
• Badass Crew: Monster X, Godzilla and Rodan have shown signs of this dynamic, with Godzilla as the most dominant of the lot. They're all individually powerful, and Vivienne has shown signs of bonding with both the other two Titans.
• Bad Boss:
  • Ghidorah viewed the Titans that it commanded during the events of King of the Monsters as little to nothing more than curs for it to bend to its will and sic on the world as it pleased.
  • Jonah has no problem killing any Disposable Vagrant who compromises his operations, and he (possibly due to Sanity Slippage) forgets to think about his own soldiers' welfare in Chapter 6.
• Baddie Flattery: Vivienne gets complimented a couple times by 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.
• Bald of Evil: Besides Alan Jonah, two of his Mook Lieutenants who are O.C. Stand-ins in the story – Tejada and Sergeant Travis – are confirmed by Word of God to be Mooks 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 Affably Evil and one of them is implied to make a Heel–Face Turn.
• Battle Couple: Godzilla and Mothra are heavily implied to be this, based on their interactions before and after they get to fight together again.
• Battle in the Rain: Most of the Yonaguni battle in Chapter 13 occurs amid a rainstorm. Justified by the Many's Weather Manipulation.
• Being Evil Sucks: San and by extension San-2/Youngest Brother genuinely crave affection and ultimately happiness from Vivienne, both of which are things that Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother deprived Ghidorah's left head of, only letting him indulge in gleefully killing and eating.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil:
  • Jonah and later Ghidorah both seek to invoke this on Monster X so they can break down Vivienne's identity and reshape her into something else.
  • It's later revealed that this trope happened to Ghidorah in its Backstory at the hands of its creators, driving Ghidorah to pull a Turned Against Their Masters and subsequently suffer Slowly Slipping Into Evil due to the Terrible Ticking its creators had left its heads with.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Monster X and Rodan have shown signs of this in the two creatures' vitriolic interactions, and the author has joked more than once about it on her Tumblr. The AbraxasVerse Timeline indicates they become mates two years later.
• Belly Mouth:
  • The Many's Fusion Dances can form these out of their hosts, with MaNi/Elder Brother having a rudimentary Belly Mouth formed out of the Skullcrawler half of his body.
  • Keizer Ghidorah has a Norris style maw in its chest.
• Berserk Button: Getting a whiff of Ghidorah's scent really makes Rodan forget about everything except what the three-headed monster did to him, in Chapter 8.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: 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.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • 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 Trauma Conga Line 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?)
  • 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 Chapter 9, and she furthermore lives up to her name as Godzilla's Queen of the Monsters in Chapter 17.
  • Susan Graham is/was also this, as proven in Chapter 12.
  • 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 unloaded a machine-gun at a gigantic Skullcrawler.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Chuchuna (a kind of Russian yeti) is a human-sized cryptid that turns out to be real. The author also entertained the idea that other human-size hominid cryptids might be real in AbraxasVerse.
• Big Damn Reunion: After the truth about the new two-headed Titan comes out, Vivienne has a few emotional and relatively happy if bittersweet reunions with loved ones from her human life who have believed her to be dead for the last year; including Madison, Mark and Ilene. She has an overall bittersweet reunion with Susan.
• Big Labyrinthine Building: The Elaborate Underground Base has chambers that are more than large enough to house a Skullcrawler-sized Titan, as well as stairways, observation rooms, and catwalks stretching through vast underground caves; and it's heavily implied that the full complex hasn't even been mapped out yet.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: To put it very mildly. The Many's Hive Mind have a very twisted idea of themselves, the slowly-regenerating Ghidorah, and Vivienne who Ghidorah still has very nasty plans for, to be a growing family, a notion which San-2/Youngest Brother also seems to buy into.
• Big "WHAT?!": Tejada lets out a Flat "What" promptly followed by this trope when she learns San's old head has disappeared, in Chapter 11. Mark also lets out such a "What" when he learns that the late Emma did nothing when Jonah threatened to slit their daughter's throat in King of the Monsters.
• Bilingual Bonus:
  • There are bits of French over the story from Vivienne and at one point from MaNi/Elder Brother, which the reader can translate on their own.
  • Translating what the Japanese letter in the Chapter 14 Nightmare Sequence means adds to the Nightmare Fuel.
  • Several chapter posters (6, 8, 9, 16, 17 and 18) each have an Elder Futhark message inserted for the readers to themselves translate.
• Bittersweet Ending: More Sweet than Bitter compared to King of the Monsters, but still. On the Sweet side: The world is saved (and this time there was no worldwide massive loss of life), Keizer Ghidorah is destroyed, Monster X's Trauma Conga Line is at an end and they've finally found peace, and Mothra and Susan are both still alive. On the Bitter side: More than 150,000 people fell victim to the Many, a large city and its surroundings have been rendered completely uninhabitable to humans for decades to come (which has furthermore forced people to evacuate their homes), San's clone and Thor are dead, multiple Zmeyevich are unaccounted for by Monarch (with at least two currently in the hands of an ambitious Evil, Inc.), Nadezhda's near future fate and the fates of multiple other pregnant Zmeyevich mothers is likely a Foregone Conclusion, and although Viv and San are inseparably together they can never directly express certain forms of affection towards each-other again in their final form's state.
• Bizarre Alien Senses: Courtesy of San, both of Monster X's heads have the ability to perceive electrical fields in their vision. Mothra meanwhile can sense otherwise-imperceivable "Life-Strands" and the impact other Titans' emotions across far distances have on them.
• Black Site: The isolated Monarch outpost which Jonah's paramilitary take up residence in is an abandoned Black Site. It's both off-book to Monarch, and was originally built by the Russians in the 20s to study Chuchuna before Monarch took it over.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Scylla uses her sharp-bladed legs as cutting weapons, and MaNi/Elder Brother possesses a retractable bone spike-claw in his arm.
• Blood from the Mouth: Vivienne vomits blood when she and San hit a Heroic RRoD in Chapter 6. When suffering a psychically-induced seizure, both Viv and San cough up blood as part of the Blood from Every Orifice trope, in Chapter 14. It gets mentioned in Chapter 18 that Susan Graham suffered a mild case of this in hospital.
• Bloodier and Gorier: It has more Body Horror than any of the canon MonsterVerse installments, to say nothing of the Cruel and Unusual Deaths.
• Blue Is Heroic: 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.
• Bookends:
  • The story's first chapter starts with an excerpt from Dr. Chen's notes and the final chapter ends with another excerpt from her notes. Both the opening chapter and final chapter also respectively have a Time Skip of a matter of months.
  • From an In-Universe perspective, Word of God has suggested that Ghidorah's left head was probably the first ever head that got severed and left a shed skin, billions of years before Ghidorah found Earth. In the present, said head getting severed again at Isla de Mara results in two versions of that head making a Heel–Face Turn, and the possible (though less-than-likely) end of the main Ghidorah.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: This nearly occurs when Keizer Ghidorah attempts to use an Alpha Call to force the non-Alpha Titans to turn against Godzilla and Mothra, with the fic stating that Titans are compelled by instinct to follow an Alpha Call's commands when they hear it and have little self-control. Fortunately for the heroes, it's subverted when Monster X cuts Ghidorah off mid-Call and the affected Titans shake the effect off.
• Break Them by Talking:
  • Jonah attempts to psychologically break Vivienne by verbally ripping her apart whilst she's in an emotionally vulnerable state and whilst she's enduring Cold-Blooded Torture, in Chapter 5. He might have almost succeeded, but ultimately Vivienne recovers.
  • San and Vivienne turn the tables on Jonah with a Hannibal Lecture when he approaches them; finding a weak spot in his mental defences in the form of his feelings about the death of Asher during King of the Monsters and ripping into it, in Chapter 6.
  • Ghidorah regularly attempts this on Viv and San via the Psychic Link, using techniques varying from tempting to belittling, to striking when Vivienne is mentally vulnerable.
  • In Chapter 17, Monster X turns the tables on Ichi/Eldest Brother by suggesting before they kill him that when Ichi dies this time, they'll ensure he won't come back. It successfully completes the Villainous Breakdown.
• Breath Weapon: In addition to Mothra's webbing and Godzilla's abilities; Rodan can spit fireballs from his maw, and MaNi/Elder Brother retains his Gravity Beam.
• Bright Is Not Good: Unlike Monster X, the Many have partly golden-yellow skin to match Ghidorah's scales and lightning.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Godzilla and Mothra's interactions certainly feel like this, with Godzilla as the brooding one with a grumpy streak and Mothra as the chippier and affectionate one.
• Brown Note: The author notes that generally, the power in Titans' calls in the AbraxasVerse tends to make exposed human beings realize just how small we really are in the big, Eldritch Abomination-filled universe, and that humans who are mentally sensitive to the Titans are vulnerable to being manipulated by ill-meaning Titans. The severed Ghidorah-head's psychic influence causes Sanity Slippage and drives the affected people to commit suicide... if they're lucky. Thor's vocalizations likewise have a compelling effect on people when he dreams.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Monster X, and most of those heroic Titans who are Protector class (namely Godzilla and Thor), 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.
• Brutal Honesty: Downplayed and Played Straight. San is honestly blunt and doesn't leave out relevant details when reporting to others, partly because he hasn't had a concept of lying before and he thinks once he understands it that it's a waste of brain-power. Word of God notes that this is something San and Ni/Elder Brother have in common after a regenerating Ghidorah gains access to the Many's socio-cultural knowledge.
• Bullying a Dragon:
  • Guard B-04 viciously verbally taunts Vivienne on a recurring basis for no other reason than shits and giggles. Viv and San eventually end up killing him.
  • In Chapter 4, Jonah has one of his Mook Lieutenants deliberately attempt to provoke Monster X to anger by relentlessly hurling increasingly vicious taunts at Vivienne. When said soldier finally goes too far on her, San takes over the wheel and shuts him up permanently — and mercilessly.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Apart from Vivienne, San, Jonah and the O.C. Stand-ins, other characters from the movies don't appear beyond mentions, dreams and flashbacks until at least several chapters in.
  • The Skullcrawlers from Kong: Skull Island unexpectedly make an appearance in the story as late as Chapter 11.
• Bystander Syndrome:
  • San is disinterested in intervening to help individual strangers in need because he doesn't see why he and his sister should stick their necks out and put themselves at risk over unknown neutrals that are neither allies nor enemies. That being said, he'll still help out alongside his sister if it's what the latter wants them to do.
  • In Chapter 12, several of the backgrounded Monarch operatives in Castle Bravo's control room decide to ignore a present character's intense emotional outburst until it goes away like weathering a storm outside one's house.

C-E

• Came Back Wrong:
  • Vivienne is an Inhuman Human case in Monster X's defective first form, although her memories, personality and other mental faculties are intact. The author explained here why it happened to them.
  • Travis and Krupin, when their corpses are infused with Ghidorah's DNA by Jonah and his closest goons in Chapter 11.
• The Cameo:
  • A character who exclusively featured in the MonsterVerse graphic novel Godzilla: Aftershock makes a one-chapter appearance in Chapter 11.
  • Admiral Stenz makes a brief appearance in Vivienne's Nightmare Sequence in Chapter 14.
  • See below for Continuity Cameos.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: It turns out San literally lacks a concept of dishonesty, and once he gets a grasp of the concept he considers the act of willfully withholding information wasteful. This more or less also applies to his brothers: Word of God says that Ni/Elder Brother considers dishonesty just as mentally wasteful as San does and he prefers hurting others with brutal honesty, but Ichi/Eldest Brother would be happy to use exact words to manipulate and mislead if he ever grass the concept (which he does).
• Can't Take Criticism: Rodan doesn't like being reminded of being humiliated and defeated in the past. Walter Simmons will apparently make a U-turn from saying he's open-minded to saying you're an idiot when faced with criticism.
• Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: Godzilla is a rather calm and benevolent if Good Is Not Soft teacher, whilst Rodan is a lot more snarky and vitriolic; when they're acting as combat tutors to Monster X.
• Cassandra Truth: Defied and consequently downplayed. Mariko is Genre Savvy enough to only explain everything about Monster X to Monarch once they've found out for themselves that it has Vivienne's DNA in it, and Mark is the only one who outright doesn't believe her at first.
• Catlike Dragons: Downplayed by San and Godzilla respectively, who both at times produce purr-like vocalizations as an affectionate gesture. Played straighter by the newborn Manda, who behaves like an inquisitive kitten and was once compared by the author to an "overgrown noodle cat".
• Cell Phones Are Useless: Averted with Ren's cellphone in Chapter 13. He gets a call from Monarch warning him of the Titans converging on his location, so he and his crew at least have a head-start to try heading for cover (not that they get far before the Titans show up). Furthermore, Ren's cell enables Monster X to communicate with him and Griffin, even getting out crucial information about the Many so they can pass it on to Monarch, in the next two chapters.
• Chameleon Camouflage: Somewhat downplayed. Most of the Thunderers had grey coats and were apparently camouflaged against mountainous environments, not unlike Methuselah's kind.
• Citywide Evacuation: Subverted. Monarch and the Russian military look to evacuate Berezniki in Chapter 17, but thanks to the Many, there's absolutely no-one left by the time they get there.
• Close-Range Combatant: Methuselah and Scylla are fierce and powerful fighters who seemingly lack any long-range attacks.
• Cold-Blooded Torture:
  • The worst experiments which Jonah's paramilitary perform on Monster X qualify as this; including using chlorine gas and napalm to test their Healing Factor.
  • Ghidorah and a certain MaNi/Elder Brother straight up begin inflicting this on Viv and San in Chapter 16; physically breaking them, toying with them like a cat with a mouse, and even worse MaNi/Elder Brother attempts to horrifically kill San whilst forcing Vivienne to watch.
• Colonel Badass: Colonel Diane Foster from King of the Monsters returns in this fic, and she's still got it. On the Russian military side, there's Lieutenant Commander Pasternak. Both CBs bring a lot of impressive toys to a Titan fight which manage to deal significant damage, and they both know when to have their troops strike and when to have them pull back.
• Color Contrast:
  • 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 dark-gray compared to Ghidorah's gold scales.
  • Thor's bright-blue lightning is also a contrast to both Ghidorah and Monster X.
• Combination Attack: In Chapter 17, Monster X, Godzilla, Mothra, Thor, Rodan, Scylla, the Queen MUTO and Methuselah all collectively brutalize, cripple and wear down Keizer Ghidorah so he can eventually be finished off, and it is glorious. This also involves Mothra unlocking Godzilla's Spiral Heat Ray.
• Commander Contrarian: Mark Russell has shades of this among Monarch when it indirectly comes to Monster X, such as his initial Arbitrary Skepticism, and his skepticism of San's Heel–Face Turn lasting longer than the others'. Rodan has shades of this among the benevolent Titans, such as protesting to Mothra's verdict on mentoring Monster X, and seeming exasperated when Godzilla, Mothra and Manda's kind have a "bad feeling" that something's wrong (even though they often turn out to be right).
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: There are hints of humanity becoming this in light of the Titans' re-emergence and the humbling events of King of the Monsters. Titans causing costly property damage when forced to enter human-populated areas to deal with threats, and the idea that such things as the Many can even come into being, are things which observationally don't shock people as much as they once would've.
• Containment Field: The abandoned Monarch outpost has lazer cage technology similar to the kind which was briefly used on Mothra in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). Jonah uses it to cage the Vivienne-San hybrid.
• Continuation: It's a direct sequel to the events of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) which began writing before Godzilla vs. Kong came out. Since several things in the latter movie once it came out didn't line up with what the fic had already depicted, the later chapters and subsequent spin-offs set in the AbraxasVerse went Alternate Universe Fic when introducing aspects of Godzilla vs. Kong lore.
• Continuity Cameo: Maia Simmons and Apex Cybernetics from Godzilla vs. Kong make an appearance, whilst Bernie Heyes, Dr. Ilene Andrews and Walter Simmons from the same movie are also mentioned, and Camazotz's invasion of Skull Island in Kingdom Kong is hinted at.
• The Corrupter:
  • Alan Jonah seeks to break and corrupt Vivienne so she'll aid his cause. Vivienne, once she catches on, wonders if Jonah previously influenced Emma's Face–Heel Turn by playing on her grief over the death of her son.
  • Ghidorah has also indulged in this. Its resurrected heads seek to break and corrupt Vivienne, using similar key tactics to the ones Jonah used but to a far more radical and efficient extent, and Ghidorah actively encourages Vivienne's new inclinations towards violence. All in the hopes that Vivienne will eventually become just as bad as Ghidorah is.
• Counter-Attack: Both Godzilla and Rodan respectively pull off a couple such strikes in fights; letting their opponents get in close for an attack, then dodging and taking advantage of the opening to stun said opponent. During Monster X's first fight against MaNi/Elder Brother, they dodge a couple attacks by him and manage to land stabs in the brief openings, drawing MaNi's blood; in Chapter 16.
• Cowardice Callout:
  • Both Vivienne and San call Jonah a coward more than once, after they work out that he sent someone he genuinely cared about to their death but is too afraid to himself Face Death with Dignity.
  • Both Rodan and Ghidorah's middle and right heads (Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother) respectively call Thor a coward to his face, because of his past decision to flee and preserve himself whilst the rest of his kind died fighting Ghidorah. Thor's earlier internal thoughts confirm them right, as Thor admits to himself that he went into hiding just as much to preserve his own life as to prevent Ghidorah from seizing his power for itself.
• Creepy Cave: The Monarch torch-and-bury operation scouring the abandoned outpost come across several vast, naturally-formed caves and caverns which the manmade lower levels connect into. Skullcrawlers and even worse monsters are lurking in these caves, and they attack the team.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Monster X dishes out some of these during the story, particularly to Jonah's men early on — ripping in half, reducing to unrecognizable viscera, blowing them away with lightning — not to mention the Rasputinian Death Monster X delivers to MaNi/Elder Brother which renders the latter mostly dead. It's also confirmed in the story that Vivienne didn't die too quickly when Ichi/Eldest Brother ate her alive in Antarctica. Thor's death by Heroic Sacrifice when he gets infected by the Many and goes out fighting Keizer Ghidorah is a pretty horrible Rasputinian Death.
• Cue the Sun: Twice.
  • At the end of the Yonaguni battle, the stormclouds caused by the Many's Weather Manipulation break up and sunlight begins filtering through.
  • At the end of the Final Battle, Keizer Ghidorah is defeated and its sky-blotting storms dissipate just moments before dawn breaks.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: MaNi/Elder Brother's battle against Monster X in their final form ends up being this. The closest MaNi comes to getting a hit in is unwittingly shattering his arm against Monster X before his Rasputinian Death in combat begins.
• Curiosity Killed the Cast: Examples include Jonah's little Bullying the Dragon experiment on Monster X which got all the mercs directly involved turned to unrecognizable blood-splatters, in Chapter 4; and B3-Golf taking a turn they shouldn't have in the abandoned outpost's lower levels and running afoul of Artificial Zombies, in Chapter 11.
• Curse Cut Short: B3-Cap in Chapter 11, when she sees the Artificial Zombies' Sinister Silhouettes and then one of them attacks before she can finish the sentence:
  "What the f-"
• Darker and Edgier: Compared to MonsterVerse canon, and the majority of Godzilla licensed continuities for that matter, this story has Bloodier and Gorier, more horror-themed Nightmare Fuel in the form of the Many and Ghidorah, and a keen focus on psychological trauma such as PTSD.
• Darkest Hour: Chapter 16 is about the darkest and edgiest chapter in this story, and it left a couple readers feeling like all hope of Viv and San having a happy ending was lost.
• The Darkness Gazes Back: B3-Golf's head camera catches sight of the Artificial Zombies' Glowing Eyelights of Undeath watching from the darkness, in Chapter 11. In the darkness underground, Keizer Ghidorah's red eyes are the first that's clearly seen of it beyond a yellow pulse during its confrontation with Thor, in Chapter 17.
• Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: Vivienne suffers a variation when she's first reborn into an artificially-lit room after months gestating inside San's old head, in Chapter 2. Thor experiences a straighter variation when he emerges onto the surface after centuries spent underground, in Chapter 7.
• Dead Guy on Display: Dr. Stanton lampshades the controversial implications of mounting the dead remains of the MUTOs and Margygr in Castle Bravo, seeing as the Titans are animalistic but sentient beings; in Chapter 15.
• Death by Adaptation: Of a civilization. Whereas the original iteration of the Mu civilization was still functioning up to the 20th century, the AbraxasVerse iteration is genuinely long-extinct. At least, it seems that way.
• Death by Childbirth: The mother of two Zmeyevich dies in childbirth, and it's strongly hinted that the same will happen to Nadezhda once her child is born.
• Death by Origin Story:
  • Vivienne gets the Own Death by Own Origin Story. The story's first couple chapters cover her revival and slow transformation by San into the newborn Monster X following her MonsterVerse canon death in King of the Monsters.
  • Dr. Serizawa's death can also be seen as the standard form of this trope for Vivienne, since it's after Vivienne learns of his death that she becomes more accepting of San. Vivienne thinks that since Serizawa was completely vaporized, he couldn't be resurrected by her and San's Ghidorah-derived regenerative capabilities even if they tried.
  • It's also revealed that during and after his Sanity Slippage (as noted by Word of God), Alan Jonah is partly motivated by the belief he can use Ghidorah and Monster X's Healing Factors' capabilities to resurrect his daughter, whose death was the chief cause of his descent into villainy. Jonah naturally doesn't come anywhere close to achieving this.
• Death Glare:
  • San and Vivienne both hand out a few of these at times throughout the fic. Examples include their Meaningful Look at Rodan in Chapter 17, and a hateful glare at the Mook Lieutenant who ends up pushing both of them to a Rage Breaking Point in Chapter 4.
  • Susan Graham has one during their first encounter with Monster X in Chapter 12.
  • Like in King of the Monsters, Godzilla has this look for his Arch-Enemy Ghidorah's partly resurrected form.
• Death Wail: Vivienne's Howl of Sorrow in Chapter 4 could be considered as overlapping with this, considering that she's a human-turned-Titan who at this point can still physically vocalize human languages. One of Jonah's Mook Lieutenants who heard the noise mentions their mother made a similar sound upon their sister's death.
• Decomposite Character: In Chapter 17, Keizer Ghidorah is a separate creature from Monster X instead of being Monster X's One-Winged Angel.
• Deconstruction Fic: The story hits both of the Russell parents with this for their respective jerkassery during King of the Monsters.
  • After the events of King of the Monsters, Mark is finding that being a Misdirected Outburst-prone obnoxious prick to everyone around him for five years, showing no appreciation or even respect toward those who try to reach out to him, and acting like he's the only one who's hurting with grief in a world where literally thousands have gone through the exact same loss as him amid city-shaking disasters; has made him a pariah among Monarch operatives who weren't close to him, and it's made said operatives all the more inclined to resent him for his indirect role in Vivienne's seeming death. Whilst Mark's old friends and ex-colleagues are willing to put up with his misdirected outbursts or let him down gently, other people like Mariko and Ren are not going to act like his behavior is acceptable or justified just because he's on the good guys' team.
  • Just because Emma Russell made a Heroic Sacrifice fixing her own apocalyptic mistake with Ghidorah's awakening doesn't mean she's Easily Forgiven of: (A) voluntarily conspiring to commit global mass murder by proxy, before concern for her daughter's life and concern that the death toll would be higher than half the world prompted her change of allegiance; (B) more than once making the choice to leave anyone who wasn't Madison to perish so she could ensure her plan's success, including all the people in Monarch who regarded her with friendship and even her daughter's father; and (C) the sheer unforgivable magnitude of using her son's death as an excuse for engineering millions of repeats of the same incident that killed him on everyone else in the world. A year after the Mass Awakening, Emma is reviled by the public as a quote-unquote "genocidal madwoman", Madison won't enrol in a public school partly because of fear for her life if schoolkids find out who she's related to, Vivienne and implicitly also many Monarch operatives who once saw Emma as a friend now hate her, and not even Emma's surviving ex-husband and daughter can forgive what she did.
• Deep Breath Reveals Tension: Downplayed to just one breath, several times.
  • In the first chapter, Jonah pauses and has to breathe deeply when he's allowed himself to momentarily remember his long-dead family.
  • Madison takes a breath as an immediate sign of anxiety when she's about to attempt communicating with a new Titan in Chapter 8.
  • Colonel Foster, stoic as she is, takes a breath when informed that she has about one minute before Godzilla and the Many clash at her location, in Chapter 15.
• Defiant to the End:
  • It's revealed in Chapter 13 that Thor's son died standing and fighting throughout his brutal demise.
  • In Chapter 17, a couple examples occur: Thor, infected by the Many, uses Heroic Willpower to pull a Taking You with Me against Keizer Ghidorah
  • Ichi/Eldest Brother's decapitated head attempts to act this way during his final minutes when he's at his enemy's mercy, but after Monster X gives him a little Break Them by Talking, he dies in a Villainous Breakdown.
• Demoted to Extra:
  • Godzilla, the main character of the franchise, is in this fic a secondary character (though still the Big Good) due to San and Vivienne being this story's main protagonists.
  • Madison and Mark Russell, both of whom are major characters featured in King of the Monsters, are relegated to more minor roles with fewer appearances between scenes.
  • Lieutenant Ford Brody and his family, the 2014 film's protagonist and major plot-driving force respectively, have appeared in no more than several chapters in a minor role.
• Derelict Graveyard: A fresh one consisting of downed snowmobiles and helicopters has formed outside the abandoned Monarch outpost in Chapter 7.
• Destructive Saviour: True to Godzilla form, Godzilla and Mothra end up being this when they utilize their symbiosis — they save the world from Ghidorah again, but they end up glassing an (uninhabited) city and rendering the area too irradiated for human re-habitation. This trope is notably averted by Monster X, which goes more out of its way than other Titans do to try keeping Titan battles from spilling into human-populated areas.
• Detrimental Determination:
  • Beyond unwittingly and indirectly pulling a Create Your Own Hero by having San's severed head transform Vivienne, Ghidorah remains fixated on getting the Vivienne-San hybrid back so it can complete its cruel and malignant plans for it — when it has Monster X brought to Ghidorah's hiding place, Monster X is able to get a call out alerting Ghidorah's enemies to its location. Had Ghidorah not tried to get Vivienne back as soon as it did after San transformed her; then Ghidorah could have remained hidden from Godzilla, Mothra, the other Earthborn Titans, and humanity long enough to regain its full power before revealing itself.
  • MaNi/Elder Brother, due to a combination of Assimilation Backfire and being without Ghidorah's middle head, will seize any chance to viciously scrap with Monster X (Viv and San) with severe short-sightedness. Him seeking a fight against a strengthened Monster X without seriously thinking about what kind of situation he's walking into nor about the fact he might actually die in the process enables one of the heroes to kill him.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: San and his brothers have been on the receiving end a couple times. The ancient Bone Singer who communicated with Ghidorah pretty much won an argument with it and threw in a few witty jibes to boot, in Chapter 5. Madison doesn't think twice about angrily yelling at San when she thinks he tried to kill her, which is entirely in-line with her movie characterization; in Chapter 8.
• Dirty Coward: Jonah is viewed as such by Vivienne and San, for being unwilling to risk his own life but being fine with sacrificing others against their will. There's also Guard B-04, who amounts to a vicious little bully picking on something that's in no position to effectively fight back.
• Disappeared Dad:
  • Vivienne's biological father who died before her birth (a detail from her canonical backstory in King of the Monsters supplementary material) is sometimes Played for Drama.
  • The Mook Lieutenant who drives Vivienne to her Rage Breaking Point claims to have a Disappeared Dad too.
  • It's revealed that Godzilla never knew his father but he has a suspicion that it was a particular Titanus Gojira he encountered.
  • The author has suggested that Dr. Chen's husband, who fathered Ziyi and Yong, left the family.
• Disposable Vagrant: Alan Jonah's militia utilize refugees who were displaced by Moscow's destruction as manual labor. Not only does Jonah threaten to shoot any one of them who shows signs of compromising his hiding paramilitary's security, he also uses them as guinea-pigs for Playing with Syringes.
• Distant Prologue: The very first scene in the first chapter is set just after San's decapitation during the events of King of the Monsters. The fic subsequently skips to sometime after Jonah's purchase of San's head depicted in the post-credits scene of the film.
• Distress Call: Mariko and a group of disposable vagrants hijack the abandoned outpost's satellite dish to send out a request for help from Monarch. This brings the G-Team knocking on the base looking to rescue them, although they only arrive after multiple parties of Private Military Contractors already came looking for Titan DNA after they'd also intercepted the transmission.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • Some of San's personality traits and tendencies are reminiscent of the long-term effects of suffering child abuse.
  • The course of Jonah's efforts to psychologically break down Monster X are disturbingly similar to brainwashing and mental defense-breaking tactics historically described in real-life.
  • Ghidorah psychically stalking Monster X in episodes and causing them distress by doing so seems not unlike an obsessive stalker's behaviour and impact.
  • Vivienne's human friends' observations about the Shell-Shocked Veteran change in her character after her resurrection call to mind a soldier returning home from war to their loved ones for the first time. Even Vivienne's Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated since Ghidorah ate her seems vaguely similar to a soldier who was reported KIA to their family subsequently turning out to be alive and coming home.
  • The Many strongly and disturbingly call to mind a cult in their behavior, coupled with their Hive Mind and The Assimilator physiology.
  • Though it was probably unintentional on the author's part, the seemingly-universal Titan warning system that civilians have integrated in their cellphones as a proximity alert post-Mass Awakening seems similar to the contact-tracing cellphone apps that went into use during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Kudos for both the Mass Awakening and the Real Life COVID pandemic being events which saw a global loss of human life and a visible bounce-back in biodiversity, and for both of them starting/occurring in the year 2019.
  • Ghidorah's endgame for Monster X is to ultimately assimilate Vivienne and make her Shi (a fourth head on Ghidorah). Becoming forcibly chained to a vicious abuser and unable to leave their side (literally in this case) for the rest of one's foreseeable life — And Now You Must Marry Me anyone?
  • In Chapter 16, Ichi, Ni and San-2 intending to "have their turns with [Vivienne]" on top of their intentions to use her as a monster Baby Factory makes the trio sound like a gang of rapists. The subterranean (basement-like) environment closed off from the world doesn't lessen the effect one bit.
  • And for an extra bit of Squick, Ghidorah's heads considering Vivienne their "child" and "sister" in one works two more ways — it makes Monster X sound like both the victim of domestic sexual abuse and the product of it.
• Doomed Hometown: Although they're not main characters, the Disposable Vagrants whose names stand out come into the story due to Moscow's destruction during the Mass Awakening.
• Double-Meaning Title: Besides being a Protagonist Title, the title also refers to the concept of duality which Abraxas represents, which is highly meaningful to Viv and San's Character Development.
• Dragons Are Divine: Apart from Godzilla, there's Manda and his species: Titanus Manda are marine Protector Titans which closely resemble the traditional, snake-bodied and short-legged depiction of eastern dragons. They even originally lived around the Western Pacific Ocean near what is now East Asia.
• Dramatic Shattering: In Chapter 17, Mothra's alpha call does this to Outpost 61a's display windows.
• The Dreaded:
  • Ghidorah, naturally. It's the cause of all of Vivienne's nightmares, it's hated by all the terrestrial Titans as the Enemy to All Living Things that it is, and Monarch and Mark Russell react completely appropriately to learning that Ghidorah is Back from the Dead in Chapter 9.
  • Also Camazotz in Chapter 18 – the Iwi refuse to go anywhere near the cave holding ancient hieroglyphs which refer to him, and Dr. Brooks feels his stomach knot when contemplating the possibility of the creature's return.
• Driven to Suicide: This begins happening to several residents in Jonah's paramilitary's base such as Kauffman and eventually Sergeant Travis, implied to be due to exposure to the decapitated Ghidorah head even after Monster X's birth.
• Dynamic Entry: A couple occur over the story.
  • In Chapter 15, MaNi/Elder Brother deliberately pulls one of these on Monster X whilst Godzilla has been diverted, catching Viv and San off-guard.
  • Then in Chapter 17, Godzilla's appearance is directly preceded by his Atomic Breath blowing up the underground tunnels Ghidorah is hiding inside.
  • Rodan appears on the scene almost from out of nowhere, catching Monster X by surprise and knocking them down, in Chapter 18.
• Ear Ache:
  • Several horn variations occur among the Titans. It's made clear that Ichi/Eldest Brother biting at San's horns as he did in the movie (something which this story reveals he does to San and San-2/Youngest Brother on a frequent basis) is roughly analogous to physical slaps in their kind. San, when seriously desperate to snap Vivienne out of a psychotic fit, resorts to biting at her horns, to no avail; and San-2/Youngest Brother inflicts such a Horn Ache on MaNi/Elder Brother when the latter oversteps himself. MaNi/Elder Brother bites at Vivienne's horns in frustration when he wants to play with her.
  • A couple occur amongst the humans. Ren Serizawa and Ford Brody end up getting a sudden explosion of noise from a cellphone and a headset respectively blasting right into their ears and causing them to physically flinch.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Downplayed. After the utter Trauma Conga Line that Viv and San have had throughout the story, Ghidorah is defeated and the worst of the Sibling Team's trauma is over; but they still have a few regrets.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Although San, as a former part of Ghidorah, is complicit in innumerable atrocities on Earth alone (never mind Ghidorah's omnicidal rampages on other worlds), Mothra doesn't hold this against him when taking him and his sister in, nor does Godzilla. With everyone else who talks of San, however, this trope is outright averted: neither the surviving Russells nor anyone in Monarch have forgotten about Ghidorah's many evil crimes and attempted crimes during King of the Monsters, the Russells hold some Misplaced Retribution towards San over Ichi/Eldest Brother eating Vivienne, and it takes time before the humans start lowering their reservations.
  • Not to his face, but Lauren Griffin doesn't seem to hold any dislike or ill will towards Rodan over the destruction he caused at Isla de Mara nor his massacre of the Gold Squadron before he'd even fallen under Ghidorah's control. This is especially curious, since in MonsterVerse canon, Griffin has a cynical outlook on the Titans for the destruction they've caused.
  • By the time of the Final Battle, Dr. Stanton seems to be on good terms with Tejada, despite her past direct participation in the wholesale massacres of Stanton's Monarch colleagues among the eco-terrorists' other crimes against humanity.
• Eat the Bomb: This occurs a couple times.
  • The Many trying to subdue Rodan by shutting their jaws around his head backfires explosively in Chapter 13.
  • In Chapter 17, Godzilla, working together with the military, pulls Feed It a Bomb on Keizer Ghidorah's middle head.
• Eerie Arctic Research Station:
  • The fic goes into more detail than the movie and its novelization did about what life was like on duty at Outpost 32. Apparently, there were some creepy happenings and an unnatural sense of unease, thanks to the dormant Ghidorah's Brown Note.
  • Though it's not located too near either of the planet's poles, the old Monarch elaborate underground base that Jonah's paramilitary have taken over otherwise qualifies; matching all but a couple key attributes. It's isolated in the Russian tundra, communication with the outside world is limited, it takes time for anyone to get there which becomes a plot point, it has a lot of old specialized equipment and weaponry lying in storage, and it's got a captive Titan inside while another Titan stirs from dormancy nearby.
• Elaborate Underground Base: More second-hand and run down than most examples, but the abandoned Monarch outpost which Jonah and his paramilitary take up residence in counts as this.
• Eldritch Abomination: Ghidorah was already a somewhat tame example in King of the Monsters, but its capabilities in this story make it quite a bit more Lovecraftian. And then there's the Many that come from it...
• Eldritch Transformation: Somewhat downplayed with Vivienne when San metamorphoses her into their Flawed Prototype first Two Beings, One Body form, before their second metamorphosis stabilizes the hybridization. Played straighter by the Many, who turn the humans they infect and assimilate into blobs of flesh in their Mind Hives whilst subsuming their consciousnesses and connecting them into the Hive Mind.
• Elemental Absorption: Monster X retains Ghidorah's ability to feed on sources of electrical energy – manmade technology with power stores, other bio-electrical Titans – to strengthen themselves and strengthen their storm/electricity-based powers.
• EMP: The MUTO Queen can do this, like the male MUTO in Godzilla (2014). The Many can apparently also use this to shut down technology.
• Emerging from the Shadows: Godzilla seems to just materialize from the underwater darkness when arriving at Castle Bravo's location for battle, in Chapter 15. Subverted by Keizer Ghidorah when it starts to emerge from the shadows by showing its eyes and internal light, then shrinks back to let its Elite Mook attack at the moment Ghidorah's adversary has taken the bait; in Chapter 17.
• The End... Or Is It?: Ghidorah is killed again, and unlike the last time there's apparently nothing left of it to regenerate. But the Zmeyevich are still out there and it's heavily implied Ghidorah can still come Back from the Dead again through them, plus a certain Evil, Inc.^note The same Evil, Inc. who were responsible for unwittingly bringing Ghidorah back to life in MonsterVerse canon have gotten their hands on two of these creatures. It's also hinted that remnants of the Many might still be out there.
• Enemy Rising Behind: The Many slither up behind the father Nika in this fashion in Chapter 17.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Indirectly. Vivienne and Madison have both respectively taken Emma's betrayal to heart since the movie's events.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Despite Mariko's Well-Intentioned Extremist actions which caused all her colleagues' deaths and her initial justification of them, she's immediately disgusted at the inhumane treatment the Vivienne half of Monster X suffers from Jonah and his goons.
  • In Chapter 6, Tejada and her unnamed partner are both disgusted when Jonah doesn't think about his soldiers' welfare whilst refusing to get them away from the severed Ghidorah head, and when it's immediately afterwards revealed that Jonah used his surrogate son as a meat-shield at Outpost 32 and has been using their manual labor as human guinea-pigs. It seems to be a factor in Tejada's Screw This, I'm Outta Here Heel–Face Turn.
  • Ghidorah seems to despise outright cowardice, with Ichi and Ni both vocalizing disgust and contempt at Thor fleeing to hide himself while the rest of his kin stood and died against it, although it's uncertain how much this is genuine standards and how much it's just the heads saying things that they know will make Thor squirm. True to Ghidorah's portrayal in King of the Monsters and unlike its pre-MonsterVerse portrayals in Toho, Ghidorah in Abraxas is a lot of evil things but a coward is not one of them.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor:
  • Both of San's brothers share a really sadistic sense of humor after absorbing humanity's socio-cultural knowledge, with Word of God commenting that they find the worst atrocities in human history outright amusing. Be advised, if Ichi or Ni/MaNi say you can walk free when they wanted your audience, they will accentuate that statement by breaking your legs and watching you helplessly squirm to get away.
  • There's also Jonah's Deadpan Snarker mocking way of introducing Mariko to Viv and San without telling her in advance about the Titan's Body Horror or that it can talk or that half of it is Dr. Vivienne Graham.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Jonah evidently hasn't taken anything away from what happened when he and Emma thought they could make Ghidorah do what they wanted it to, based on his trafficking of the decapitated head's DNA and Playing with Syringes.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: Ghidorah is considered to be a case of Beauty Is Bad, but the Many being utilized by MaNi/Elder Brother and Keizer Ghidorah in their own bodies (something which San and Mothra respectively consider a new low even for Ghidorah) results in both those creatures' bodies substituting a full-fledged Ghidorah's beauty for straight-up Body Horror.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Both Ghidorah's right head and MaNi/Elder Brother, having the same voice, sound like this according to the author's Comic-Book Fantasy Casting.
• Expendable Clone: As far as Ghidorah's heads are concerned, the only copies of their minds which are the "real" versions are the ones currently attached to Ghidorah's body. Ghidorah's shed skins are basically considered subhuman and expendable by the attached heads, although the shed skins themselves might have a differing opinion on this since they're on the receiving instead of giving end of this treatment. Word of God has described how Ghidorah formed this attitude in its backstory.
• Exploring the Evil Lair: The Monarch torch-and-bury operation delve into the uninhabited levels of the Elaborate Underground Base, uncovering clues to Jonah and his inner circle's activities.
• Exposition Beam: San and Vivienne view each-other's memories in Chapter 5. San (and the reader) get a look at some of Vivienne's memories of Serizawa, including how the two met, and another encounter with Serizawa that was mentioned in the Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) novelization; and Vivienne and the reader get a look at one of San's memories of Ghidorah's past encounter with ancient Bone Singers.
• Extra-Long Episode: The penultimate chapter in which the Final Battle occurs is the longest chapter in the story.
• Eye Awaken:
  • San has a couple of this trope: first when he and Vivienne are first reborn as Two Beings, One Body, making one of Jonah's men jump; then in Chapter 16, his ripped-off head has one when jolted back to consciousness by Vivienne.
  • In Chapter 17, Monster X has one when reborn in their final form.
• Eye Scream:
  • Both of Monster X's heads suffer blood in their eyes and from every other orifice, courtesy of Ghidorah's Psychic Powers, in Chapter 14.
    • Vivienne has a couple more on her own. She's shot in the eye by Jonah's Mook Lieutenant in Chapter 4, and though her and San's Healing Factor repairs the damage, she still has some subconscious baleful memory of the event in later chapters. It's revealed in Chapter 6 that she once suffered a bloodshot eye when she was human, due to Ghidorah's Brown Note.
  • MaNi/Elder Brother loses an eye to Monster X in Chapter 16, though it scarcely disorients him, and later both his eyes are gouged out.
  • In Chapter 17, Mothra takes out one of Ichi/Eldest Brother's eyes.

F-H

• Faceless Goons: Apparently averted by Jonah's Mooks when they're wearing Hazmat Suits, as it gets mentioned in Chapter 4 that their faces are usually clearly visible through the visors.
• Facepalm: Vivienne pinches the bridge of her nose in Chapter 9 when Mothra snaps her out of her immediate thoughts about Ghidorah, and Mark Russell in Chapter 10 buries his face in his hands when he learns journalists saw Monster X fighting Rodan.
• Face-Revealing Turn: Played With in Chapter 17. A miner rushes through the darkness towards two children, and only once he's a foot away does he see by their faces that they're not human anymore.
• Facial Horror: In the Artificial Hybrid's first form, Vivienne's face is skull-like and has ingrown fangs breaking through the flesh on either side of her mouth. Some of the Artificial Zombies are revealed to have even more painful-looking cases of this trope among their Body Horror, in Chapter 11.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Implied. It's ultimately ambiguous, but the ending hints that Ghidorah still has other safeguards in place to resurrect it.
• Famed In-Story: All the Titans could individually be considered this, and Monster X is no exception, attracting a lot of curiosity and attention from the world due to its resemblance to Ghidorah. Vivienne was already Famed in Story when she was human, as is the late Serizawa, as two of Monarch's key figureheads.
• Family Eye Resemblance: Thor's cub had the same blue eyes as him. Vivienne inherited her hazel-green eyes from her biological father who died before her birth.
• Fatal Flaw: For Jonah, it's Pride: he thinks himself a smarter and stronger person than he really is, and it's this that screws him over — to say nothing of how he repeats Evil Is Not a Toy when it comes to Ghidorah. With Ghidorah and MaNi, just like in King of the Monsters it's their excessive viciousness which ultimately leads them to their dooms. Mark Russell, despite having gotten over some of his issues since King of the Monsters, still struggles with self-control of his emotions.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • Vivienne thinks that Ghidorah transforming her into Monster X due to Ichi/Eldest Brother's desire to torment her further beyond merely killing her was crueller than just killing her outright. Word of God makes it clear that if Ghidorah succeeds in its plan to assimilate Vivienne, it'll be an endless, undying Mind Rape and a slow-progressing case of Being Tortured Makes You Evil.
  • The victims of the Many definitely qualify for this trope. Stuck in an unnatural state of undeath, their minds turned to hungry, Ax-Crazy mush, never mind the stomach-churning Body Horror of the victims' bodies getting fused and melded together and digested.
• A Father to His Men: Lieutenant Commander Pasternak seems to be one, based on his interactions with Krupin and his prioritization of reuniting him with the team after Krupin falls through a collapsed floor, in Chapter 7. The captain of the Beta-3 "Salamanders" assault team is a female variation, telling Tejada to shut up for suggesting abandoning one of "[her] boys", in Chapter 11.
• Faux Affably Evil: Alan Jonah pulls this off with hints of Deadpan Snarker — his first meeting with Vivienne after her and San's rebirth in Chapter 2 is a pretty good example. Ichi/Eldest Brother has also started exhibiting this mannerism, first seen notably when he psychically contacts Monster X in Chapter 14.
• Faux Flame: A few instances with the Titans. In Chapter 16, Mothra's red-colored bioluminescence creates the illusion of flames when she's furious, and Vivienne's fury apparently makes her body's red-themed bioluminescence burn bright enough to create the same effect based on the author's artwork. In Chapter 17, the glowing storm Keizer Ghidorah creates makes it look as if the sky behind the clouds is filled with hellfire.
• Feel No Pain: Downplayed. Between their first form's agonizing Body Horror and the long line of injuries which they heal from, Monster X has quite a high pain tolerance threshold. The Many seem to barely react to blows and injuries that would absolutely stun a living Titan.
• Final Battle: This occurs over the lengthy course of Chapter 17, and frankly it is epic, featuring no less than eight Titans and two human military forces battling Keizer Ghidorah (and MaNi). The author herself described Chapter 17 as being like its own miniature kaiju movie.
• Fingore: The ancient Bone Singer in San's memories in Chapter 5 has fingers frostbitten from exposure.
• Fire Is Red: Rodan might be aligned with Godzilla, but he's still Hot-Blooded. This trope also presents itself when an enraged Vivienne produces a Faux Flame effect, which is tinted red due to the coloration of Monster X's electrical powers.
• Fire Keeps It Dead: A rather accidental case, but the Room Full of Crazy scratchings confirm that Viv and San's lightning attack reducing several of Jonah's men to ashes made the Many unable to reanimate and assimilate them.
• Flat "What":
  • This is Stage One of Vivienne's reaction in Chapter 4 when Mariko delivers the first clear hint that Serizawa is dead.
  • In Chapter 11, Tejada delivers a Flat What over comms when informed that Ghidorah's severed head has disappeared.
• Flipping the Bird:
  • Vivienne does this every once in a while, mainly as friendly banter, and San eventually starts using it independently of her after mistaking it for a human greeting.
  • Mark at one point does it himself when Brooks jokingly chides him for still believing the pack-alpha theory about wolf behavior.
• Forbidden Fruit: Discussed and defied by Mariko, who warns Monarch that the more people are told not to mess with Ghidorah's DNA like Jonah did, the more organizations out there will be tempted to do so.
• Foreboding Fleeing Flock: A school of normal-sized fish swim rapidly past Godzilla and Monster X in the ocean without caring about the risk of either predator catching them, a sure sign of a greater danger (the Many) being nearby; in Chapter 13.
• Four Is Death: It's revealed in Chapter 13 that Ghidorah's Evil Plan for Monster X is to forcibly assimilate Vivienne as its fourth head ("dreaded number four"). Made all the more fitting by the fact Ghidorah's heads all have Japanese numerals as their In-Series Nicknames.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
  • Vivienne thinks as much about Jonah's tragic backstory in Chapter 6, noting it doesn't justify forcing millions of other families to experience the same tragedy.
  • During the Chapter 12 Kirk Summation, Madison calls out the sheer hypocrisy of her late mother trying to make Andrew's death "matter" by forcing millions of other families to lose their children and loved ones the same way.
• Friendly Rivalry: Monster X and Rodan form a downplayed one; dueling as a form of mutual physical training and for the fun of it, and they're still snippy with each-other in a banterous way.
• Fully-Embraced Fiend: A slight variant. Monster X and Ghidorah both have an instinct for good old ultraviolence in them and very similar origin stories. Whereas Viv and San want to be good, San's brothers became the Fully-Embraced Fiend long ago.
• Furry Reminder: Though all the Titans are intelligent and are capable of communicating with each other, their body language and some of their non-human social cues make it clear that they aren't humans.
• Gender-Blender Name: One of Dr. Chen's daughters is named Yong, which is typically a masculine name in China. A male Russian refugee is named Zima, which, when given as a first name, is typically a feminine name.
• Genius Bruiser: The Titans don't just use rhymeless Attack! Attack! Attack! when combatting each other, there's a distinct tactical thinking in their actions and timings. The same goes for Ghidorah and the Many's respective fights against the heroic Titans.
• Ghost Amnesia: Word of God indicates the consciousnesses of dead victims reanimated by the Many suffer this to varying degrees whilst their living knowledge and memories are absorbed into the Hive Mind.
• Ghost City: In Chapter 16, Berezniki is rapidly turning into this while sinking into the earth due to the Many's and Ghidorah's activities, and the same is happening to other towns in the region. When Monarch arrive on the scene, there is absolutely no-one left in the town for them to evacuate.
• Giant Foot of Stomping: In Vivienne's dream in Chapter 3, the Tyrannosaurus is using its feet to crush its enemies.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Monster X's eyes glow red along with its Volcanic Veins when Vivienne is extremely enraged or agitated, while the humanoid forms of the Many have Glowing Eyelights of Undeath in the dark. MaNi's eyes "dimly reflect" Monster X's glow underground.
• Going to Give It More Energy: Absorbing too much energy directly from an enemy causes Monster X to suffer a Phlebotinum Overdose. Inverted when MaNi/Elder Brother's body is sucked dry of more energy than he was expecting via Vampiric Draining, which renders the body more or less dead.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: According to Word of God, the Brown Note in Titans' calls or Psychic Powers can drive humans mad, by basically making them constantly see the universe through the same kind of lens that H. P. Lovecraft envisioned it through. A lens which, given this story is based on the MonsterVerse and extrapolates the Lovecraft Lite for what it's worth, isn't exactly an untruthful perspective.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Jonah's experiments with Ghidorah's DNA attempting to find a way to resurrect the dead like Vivienne's revival, only enable the disembodied monster to take root and turn him and many others into Artificial Zombies serving no other purpose than being Ghidorah's puppets.
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: The most obvious case is Ghidorah and the Many having jaundiced-gold scales or flesh, which contrasts with Monster X's post-Chapter 7 form having silver traces in its semi-exoskeletal armor, in addition to a Bright Is Not Good / Dark Is Not Evil contrast.
• Good Is Not Nice: Rodan and Scylla. Not unlike their reputations in MonsterVerse canon, neither of them display particularly compassionate or sensitive personalities, but they're still firmly on Godzilla's side.
• Good Is Not Soft: Godzilla, Monster X and Scylla get special mention, but technically all the Titans are this, having no hesitations about throwing down without mercy to save the world.
• Good Lips, Evil Jaws:
  • Inverted (and Zig-Zagged in Vivienne's case) by Monster X when it's in its first form, with either head possessing a Jagged Mouth, and their enemies consisting of Jonah and his mercs.
  • Played Straight when Godzilla battles the Many's lipless Dracolich Mind Hive.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Monster X and the Many both have a regenerative Healing Factor similar to Ghidorah's, and they suffer many grizzly injuries and mutilations over the story that would be enough to cripple or outright kill most "Earthborn" Titans.
• Gory Discretion Shot: A few deaths and injuries along these lines happen during the military missions into the abandoned outpost described in transcript.
• Great Offscreen War: It's not mentioned with overt frequency, but there are references to Ghidorah killing other members of both Thor and Godzilla's respective species (the former because they refused to submit to Ghidorah's dominance).
• Grim Up North: Ghidorah and the Many are mainly operating within the frigid reaches of the Ural Mountains in Russia, whilst every other region Monster X has so far visited since escaping its imprisonment has been located south of there and within a warmer climate.
• Grin of Audacity: Rodan has one at the prospect of getting payback on Ghidorah, in Chapter 13. Viv and San have a few over the course of the story when it comes to the prospect of fighting or getting their own payback on Ghidorah. Ichi/Eldest Brother sported one when surrounded by heroic Titans.
• Ground Punch / Shockwave Stomp: The MUTO Queen activates EMP blasts this way, the same as the male MUTO in Godzilla (2014).
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Vivienne at one point rips at least two of Jonah's men in half — and she does it pretty much by accident! A Many construct at one point rips itself in two, and one of the resulting halves is mostly an infected Skullcrawler that's missing much of its lower body.
• Halfway Plot Switch: At around Chapter 7-9, the story switches: from a weakened San and Vivienne being held captive by an evil organization in a claustrophobic Elaborate Underground Base, plotting their escape with a very limited set of options and unfamiliar allies; to a freed and healed Viv and San preparing to fight unnatural monstrosities for the fate of the world alongside a much more familiar range of allies.
• Hammy Villain, Serious Hero: Downplayed between iconic arch-enemies Godzilla and Ghidorah. Godzilla has a somewhat stern, controlled and calm personality, but he can be surprisingly philosophical and even crack the odd dry joke. Ghidorah's heads are Ax-Crazy, get a clear fix out of hurting and killing others, and they are not immune to making a scenery-chewing Badass Boast or two if their self-perceived supremacy over all life is called into question.
• Happily Adopted: The infant Manda whose parents died centuries ago imprints on Vivienne as his mother and San as his uncle, whilst receiving co-parenting from a couple other Titans. San, who has never had a parental figure before, is accepted by Susan Graham as an adoptive son.
• Happily Married: Nadezhda and her husband Zima care very much for each-other and interact very amicably.
• Hates Being Alone: Godzilla has apparently heard other Titans and creatures who were this way, some of whom implicitly were tragically the Last of Their Kind to go with it.
• Hate Sink:
  • If Jonah doesn't achieve this by having Monster X cruelly experimented on and attempting to brainwash it, then he achieves it by having his Disposable Vagrants (which include families with children) experimented on and turned into Artificial Zombies. Guard B-04 also achieves this in just a few scenes, making his death very satisfying.
  • And Ghidorah also delves straight into this trope's territory with its vicious and relentless psychological torment of Viv and San, with MaNi/Elder Brother arguably superceding every other character in this department.
• Headbutt of Love:
  • Viv and San have one when San is comforting Vivienne in Chapter 11.
  • In Chapter 17, Manda gives Monster X's new single head one.
  • Mothra shares a couple with Godzilla, and in Chapter 17 she gives Monster X such a headbutt whilst comforting them.
• Healing Factor:
  • Monster X possesses this like Ghidorah, though there's an important difference when it comes to restoring/repairing severed limbs or severed heads.
  • The Many also possess a rapid Healing Factor inherited from Ghidorah.
  • As for Ghidorah itself, it's confirmed in the story that while it takes time, Ghidorah can eventually regenerate just from San's old head.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • San, the curiosity-driven former left head of Ghidorah, is pretty much Heroic Neutral after bonding to Vivienne, being primarily concerned with defending and rearing his new sister. Devoid of his brothers' abuse which kept him in line, and now under his non-abusive new sister's influence, San's Character Development progresses to the point that by the time Monster X has begun interacting with the other Titans, San is now The Atoner.
  • It's a bit hazy with Tejada and Mariko. Tejada is one of Jonah's mercs, whilst Mariko is the woman who helped Behemoth escape and got her own co-workers killed in the process; but after they pull their Screw This, I'm Outta Here on Jonah, they end up defending surviving Disposable Vagrants from Artificial Zombies, and they both cooperate with Monarch quite copasetically.
• Held Gaze: Mostly the Platonic version and some Antagonistic versions.
  • San and Vivienne hold each-other's gazes in the Platonic version when they reconcile in Chapter 5. By contrast, they hold Alan Jonah and Keizer Ghidorah's respective gazes at least once in the Antagnistic version. When Monster X reunites with Susan Graham, the latter locks eyes with Vivienne's head, and Vivienne's gaze is visibly anguished.
  • Mothra holds the gazes of a couple benevolent Titans – namely Monster X and Thor – while comforting and reassuring them.
  • Godzilla holds Monster X's gaze a few times to comfort them. At one point early on, he holds San's gaze and tells him sternly but without belligerence to be better than Ghidorah, and San responds with a moved look.
  • Madison locks eyes with Vivienne when they first see each-other up close and personal since Vivienne's rebirth, but instead of being comforting, the held gaze only enables Madison to see by Vivienne's eyes how mentally damaged she is; in Chapter 8.
  • Manda locks gazes with Vivienne when he first meets Monster X in Chapter 13. Vivienne thinks she spots a spark of recognition in the newborn sea serpent's eyes, hinting that Manda might be Serizawa reincarnated.
  • In Chapter 14, Ren Serizawa is openly awestruck when he meets Manda's gaze, and he subsequently grows quite fond of the baby Titan.
  • Mark holds Madison's gaze comfortingly when he's assuaging her fears about re-activating the ORCA, in Chapter 17.
  • Thor holds Monster X's gaze at one point during the Final Battle. He basically reassures them with his eyes in a last goodbye.

• Hellish Copter: Not every Osprey in this story goes down, but a couple certainly do. In Chapter 17, blasts of lightning and electricity from a certain bio-electric Titan vaporize one Osprey outright and down another one that's carrying one of the G-Team.
• "Hell, Yes!" Moment: Monarch have a couple moments in Chapter 17, when things in the battle look like they're going in the benevolent Titans' favour.
• Heroic Build: From the the author's artwork, both Thor and Monster X have this kind of build in their torsos and limbs.
• Heroic Neutral:
  • Viv and San are at first somewhat this for the first arc of the story, in that their main objective is gaining their freedom, although they've become Neutral No Longer since.
  • Ren Serizawa meanwhile is described as this by the author. He's arguably become more non-neutrally heroic after becoming The Mole for Monarch.
  • There's also Nadezhda and her husband Zima, who just want to get their lives back together.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • It gets lampshaded in Chapter 5 that Vivienne essentially gave her life saving Mark's when she stayed behind in the Osprey to save him just before Ghidorah ate her.
  • A couple occur in Chapter 17. Thor gets partly assimilated into Keizer Ghidorah and pulls a Taking You with Me, and San-2/Youngest Brother turns on his evil brothers; their respective efforts help the heroes to kill Ghidorah and them along with it.
• Hero of Another Story: Mariko and Tejada slightly, after they pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here. The next time that we see them, they've been holed up with other survivors against the Artificial Zombies and staving the creatures off for some time.
• His Name Is...: Downplayed in Chapter 6. A Mook babbles some important details that reveal what Jonah's secretly been doing. Jonah silences said Mook immediately, but Viv and San have heard enough to quickly join the dots.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": In MonsterVerse canon, each of the Titans' respective names are names which humans use to refer to these Animalistic Abominations (whether these names were given by Monarch, by ancient humans who recorded the Titans in their legends, or both). In this fic, it's shown that the Titans themselves are referred to by other Titans speaking in Kaiju Talk using these same names — for an example, it's explicitly shown early on that Ghidorah is the name by which the alien destroyer's three heads identify themselves to others. Considering the introduction of Bone Singers who can communicate with Titans and who were once prevalent in ancient times, it might be Justified in that Bone Singers originally picked up and recorded the Titans' names from the Titans themselves.
• History Repeats: It's revealed that the events concerning Monster X's formation have happened before with Ghidorah itself, who had a similar origin story billions of years ago, except that Vivienne hasn't snapped and turned to evil like Ghidorah did. In Chapter 17, Madison is hesitant to attempt awakening Monster X after Ghidorah has had some time working on them, fearing she'll be repeating her mother's actions. Word of God says that Godzilla fears seeing history repeat the worst mistakes of his past.
• Hit-and-Run Tactics: Scylla, Mothra and the military air support all use this against Keizer Ghidorah at the Final Battle, and Monster X uses a bit of it against MaNi/Elder Brother.
• Hive Mind: The Many are apparently connected this way, with Ghidorah acting as the Hive Queen.
• Holding Hands:
  • A human-kaiju variation of the platonic form in Chapter 8, when Madison grasps the knuckle on Monster X's extended hand after realizing who half of it is.
  • In Chapter 13, Thor grips Monster X's fingers in his own momentarily when his grief over his son's death has come back out. Thor later reaches out and grasps fingers with Monster X in a last gesture of comfort at the Final Battle.
  • Madison finds herself grasping hands with her father and Ling when they're entranced by Thor's singing. Later, Madison grasps her father's hand again when she comfortingly reassures him that she won't risk letting him lose her too.
  • Ren places his hand on Monster X's giant hand in an expression of apology or reconciliation to Vivienne, in Chapter 14.
  • At the start of Chapter 15, Vivienne desperately grasps one of Godzilla's fingers when pleading with the Alpha Titan that she worshipped in her human life to save her mother. Elle Brody squeezes her husband Ford's hand during Susan and Monster X's face-to-face encounter.
  • Finally, Monster X reaches out a finger towards Susan Graham, which the latter grasps at the tip.
• Horns of Villainy: Zig-Zagged. Both good characters (Vivienne, Rodan, Manda's benevolent kind, and even the ram-horned Thor) and bad characters (Ghidorah, the Many's Dracolich form, MaNi/Elder Brother) have horns, with the only real connection amongst all of them being that they're all either Titans or are on a near-Titan level of power.
• Hot-Blooded: Rodan's personality is that of a hothead. The King of the Monsters director once described Ghidorah's right head in the film as being Ax-Crazy and always eager to get into a fight, and MaNi/Elder Brother takes that to the extreme.
• Howl of Sorrow: There are a couple from Monster X.
  • Vivienne lets out a particularly painful one when she learns of Serizawa's death in Chapter 4.
  • Monster X lets out a deranged sound between cackling and wailing, the latter part fueled by the Heroic Sacrifices and losses incurred, in Chapter 17.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Played With by Godzilla and Mothra (who are depicted with an emotional bond and strongly hinted to be a Battle Couple), and by Monster X (Viv and San are a non-romantic but very life-partner example of the trope, if we consider their original respective forms before Monster X's formation).
• Humanity Is Infectious: Vivienne says this almost word-for-word in Chapter 9 when discussing San's Heel–Face Turn. With San's brothers it's very much downplayed, as they pick up nothing more than sarcasm and He-Man Woman Hater talk respectively.
• Human Sacrifice: Discussed in Chapter 3. Mariko compares the deaths of her colleagues at Outpost 58 to ancient human sacrifice, and Vivienne angrily counters that sacrifice has legitimate purpose whereas what Mariko did at Outpost 58 did not, especially if Mariko didn't bother to memorize the names of each and every person she got killed.
• Humans Are Morons: Not all of us but definitely a portion of us. In Chapter 11, Martin lampshades the stupidity that some people are calling for Monarch to try killing Monster X off while ignoring what happened when the military last tried that on Ghidorah with the Oxygen Destroyer. It's also worth noting, the public is at first particularly wary of Monster X due to its resemblance to Ghidorah despite its reported positive interactions with Godzilla and Mothra of all Titans.
• Human Traffickers: Although it's debatable if the victims Bio-Major illegally traffic even count as human. The corporation trafficks two Zmeyevich born of a now-dead customer to Apex Cybernetics.
• Hypocrite:
  • San and Vivienne consider Alan Jonah one. Jonah at one point (albeit when he's Not Himself) calls Vivienne a coward for not daring to stare her possible death in the face, yet it turns out as the story progresses that Jonah himself fears dying far more than Vivienne ever did, and he certainly won't Face Death with Dignity when it's him in that position.
  • In Chapter 14, San scornfully calls out Ghidorah for creating and manipulating the Many, declaring it's being just like the aliens who turned San and his brothers into Ghidorah and is debasing itself.
  • MaNi/Elder Brother considers San worthless and expendable as a shed skin, just as Ghidorah's attached heads would, but MaNi is in denial of the fact that he's just as much a shed skin as San is.
  • Mark has a Justified moment whilst he's almost out of his mind with concern for Vivienne and his Hot-Blooded tendencies kick in. He criticizes Ren for being obnoxiously sarcastic as it doesn't help anyone, even though it's exactly what Mark frequently did in the first half of King of the Monsters, and he even did it again earlier in this story before his "Reason You Suck" Speech. What pushes it from Oblivious to His Own Description into this trope is that Mark made it clear earlier in this story that he's aware how much of an ass he was in the past.
  • Maia mentions that her father Walter Simmons has a habit of saying he's open-minded, and failing to prove it when faced with criticism.

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