Abraxas Hrodvitnon / Tropes Q to Z

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

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• Quizzical Tilt:
  • Vivienne makes a couple tilts; when curious about Mariko (before Vivienne realizes who she is) knowing her name, when hearing Thor's call, and when she's confused to learn Mothra won't tutor her in how to use her new Titan body. San, being as inquisitive as he is, makes this gesture a lot when he's curious or confused.
  • This trope is Rodan's physical reaction to Vivienne going from trying to avoid a fight breaking out to charging in a blind attack, in Chapter 9.
  • Thor directs a couple head-tilts at Vivienne, first out of concern more than anything else and then when observing Monster X gathering debris.
  • Whereas most Titans react to an ORCA signal by becoming either pacified or violent, Godzilla has no bigger response to hearing a manmade vehicle producing the signal than a head-tilt of puzzlement.
  • Manda, not unlike his adoptive uncle, makes a few head-tilts of curiosity or concern over the story.
  • MaNi/Elder Brother responds with a head-tilt when Monster X triggers a slight Ignored Epiphany in him, in Chapter 16.
  • One chapter later, Monster X returns the gesture to MaNi/Elder Brother whilst the latter is being ripped apart.
• Ragnarök Proofing: A lot of stuff in the Monarch outpost which has been abandoned for decades is still in working condition; including a lazer-cage containment field, and chemical weapons believed to date back to the First World War. Briefly lampshaded by Jonah in Chapter 2.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: In Chapter 11, one of the Theta-1 team is horrified when they think a woman has been artificially inseminated by Jonah's Basement Club. In Chapter 16, Vivienne is more horrified than she's ever been (and that is saying something) when she realizes Ghidorah wholly intends to inflict this on her and forcibly use her as a monster Baby Factory.
• Rasputinian Death:
  • It's revealed in Chapter 13 that Thor's son received one from Ghidorah in ancient times, remaining Defiant to the End even after both his arms were ripped off.
  • MaNi/Elder Brother gets impaled, his spine severed, bludgeoned, partly decapitated, and he receives Vampiric Draining before he's finally rendered (at least mostly) dead for good; and dear God, is it cathartic.
  • Keizer Ghidorah is slowly killed by a Combination Attack beatdown by eight Titans, Feed It a Bomb, and a very thorough vaporization.
  • Thor gets his arm excruciatingly torn apart by the Many, then he's horrifically partly absorbed into Ghidorah and is still alive with a broken neck, and finally he gets put out of his misery by vaporization.
• Real Dreams are Weirder: Averted. Both of the nightmare sequences – one of which appears to be ultimately mundane in nature apart from the dream-sharing, whilst the other was implicitly influenced by Monster X's psychic link to Ghidorah – are trippy if semi-consistent in roughly equal measure.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Vivienne and San tear into Jonah when they work out that he indirectly caused Asher's death without thinking of a better alternative, but wouldn't risk his own skin when Emma pointed a gun at him, in Chapter 6:
    Vivienne: Did you stop and think, maybe have someone else take point? Someone who isn't like your own family? A real father would trust his son's abilities, but still do what he can to help him. I would have risked my life to save someone. I died saving someone.
    Jonah: Congratulations, you’re a hero.
    San: And you. Are a cow-ard.
    […]
    Vivienne: You said Madison escaped with the ORCA. Remember that? So how did Emma get out? Did she help Madison, or…
    […]
    Jonah: [...] Since my men refused to cooperate, she held me at gunpoint.
    Vivienne: And?
    Jonah: ...I let her go.
    Vivienne: Imagine that. Hardened mercenaries against one scientist. Tell us, Colonel, did you think your men wouldn’t fire fast enough before she took the shot?
    San: Would you. Have sacri-ficed one of your own. To keep your-self. A-live?
  • In Chapter 8, Mariko tears into Mark Russell. She makes a real point about his It's All About Me personality, while also pointing out the things that made him a dick during the movie's time frame.
    Mark Russell: Do you realize how it feels to relive losing a child to monsters turning your home into a war zone?! How close I probably was to losing my daughter the same way I lost my son?!
    Mariko: Oh, shut up for once and get in line, Russell! You talk like you're the only one who's suffered! What about everyone else who lost someone, or everyone? Do they not count? Just faceless statistics? What's so special about you that makes your problems so much more important? You talk on and on about how much you hate the Titans and how we should have killed them and blah blah blah! Spouting bullshit is all you're good for! And Graham — would you say she spent her life saving yours? Because it sounds to me like she wasted it on you!
  • One of the commenters on Monster X news (whose username hints they might actually be Rick, hilariously enough) gives an Internet Jerk the RYS Speech you're likely to find somewhere in Real Life comment boards:
    "Since you're clearly so knowledgeable and experienced, by all means, give us some ideas. What should we do to prevent a Titan from crushing you in particular to death and ruining your day? Must be an important guy to single yourself out with that scenario. Well? And don't tell us you don't feel like sharing with the class."
  • As heartbreaking and understandable as their angry first reaction to Monster X was, Susan Graham still gets chewed out by San for their behavior since San's Berserk Button has been pushed.
    "YOU WERE THE REASON SHE WANTED OUT OF THE CAGE. [...] ALWAYS THINKING OF YOU, IN WAKING AND DREAMING. SHE WAS AFRAID YOU MIGHT BE DEAD, AFRAID YOU MIGHT LIVE, AFRAID OF WHAT YOU MIGHT SAY. SHE DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT YOU THUNDER IN HER EARS! YOU SAY SHE IS DEAD! YOU DON'T LISTEN! YOU HURT AND FRIGHTEN HER!"
  • When Monster X is experiencing an unpleasant face-to-face with and thus encounters Ghidorah in Chapter 16, San himself gets one from Ichi/Eldest Brother, San-2/Youngest Brother and MaNi/Elder Brother...
    Ichi: IT THINKS IT CAN PROTECT [Vivienne]? IT COULD NOT EVEN CHANGE HER INTO OUR SHAPE!
    San-2: even when you do something right you ruin it
    Ichi: IT CAUSED HER SUFFERING! IT TOOK THE QUEEN GNAT TO FIX THAT MISTAKE!
    San-2: so much of her is broken because of your mistake
    MaNi: IT CANNOT EVEN TEACH HER TO CONTROL HER POWER.
    San-2: we would have shown her the most wondrous things
    Ichi: IF IT CARED SO MUCH, IT WOULD HAVE TAUGHT HER BETTER, NO?
  • ...to which San immediately retorts with the following:
    "AND WHAT ABOUT YOU?! YOU ARE ME! CHANGING [Vivienne] WAS MY TASK! BUT I CHOSE TO STAY WITH HER! WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE TORMENT BEGAN?! WHERE WERE YOU TO TEACH HER CONTROL?! YOU WERE PLAYING AT BEING MAKERS!"
• Red Baron: Several if not all of the Titans — including Monster X within a couple months of the world becoming aware of it — have numerous names. Humans with the hereditary ability to communicate with Titans are known by various names among the Titans themselves depending on the Titan in question; including Bone Singers, Corpse Whisperers, Grave Chanters and Those Who Speak To The Gods/Spirits.
• Red Is Heroic: Monster X produces reddish-colored lightning, while Thor and Rodan are both respectively an overall red color.
• Red Is Violent: Red bioluminescence seems to be a sign of wrath and unstoppable rage regardless of the Titan: Monster X, and a pissed-off Mothra and Godzilla's wrathful combination attacks.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni:
  • Zig-Zagged by Mothra, and lampshaded in Chapter 17. Mothra is normally the Blue Oni to Godzilla's Red Oni, but when she's sufficiently pissed off, the Queen of the Monsters will become just as fierce as her King.
  • Amongst the two surviving Russells, Madison is the collected, introverted and rational Blue Oni, and her father Mark is the Red Oni whose emotions cloud his judgment. It's even slightly lampshaded by the Red Oni disliking cold climates and the Blue Oni disliking humid climates.
• Red Shirt: Although he's one of the examples that has a name, Lieutenant Krupin is first introduced being part of the joint rescue mission between Team Mauzer and Monarch's G-Team into Artificial Zombie territory, and he dies in the same chapter that he's introduced.
• Redshirt Army: The Gamma-5 "Wrecking Crew" mobile task force that accompany Tejada and the Theta team all end up dead (or probably worse).
• Red Sky, Take Warning: Monster X and the unwhole Ghidorah's Weather Manipulation create a hellish-red sky filled with red lightning during the Final Battle.
• Reincarnation: Besides Mothra's Born-Again Immortality, it's confirmed in the story that after death, there's a temporary Cessation of Existence followed by reincarnation. It's hinted that the newborn Manda might be a reincarnation of Dr. Serizawa in that respect.
  To die is to be held once more in divine darkness, the Mother Darkness from which all Life was born; the body returns to earth as sustenance and the soul forgets, one day returning to Life as something new.
• Relative Button: San's brothers and Ghidorah's other creations are quite fine with doing this. The Many drive Vivienne into a Berserker frenzy by threatening her mother among others. MaNi/Elder Brother and Ichi/Eldest Brother make a point of viciously taunting Vivienne when they intend to kill San. Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother goad Thor to fury by unfavourably comparing his cowardice to his son's death in combat.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated:
  • Vivienne of course, who is still believed by Monarch and by the world at large to be dead until later in the story.
  • Mariko, a character in the King of the Monsters novelization who was responsible for setting Behemoth loose, is officially listed as deceased but actually survived and went off the grid.
  • And then there's San and Vivienne breaking the news to Monarch that Ghidorah is regenerating From a Single Cell.
• Retractable Appendages:
  • MaNi/Elder Brother reconstructs a bone spike from his broken arm as a stabbing appendage, and can retract it at will.
  • Monster X in its final form has a pair of giant wings which it can retract and fold into an elytron-like crest/shell.
• Revision: The story does a bit of this to some of the events of King of the Monsters: namely, Ghidorah eating Vivienne in Antarctica and Serizawa's possible Together in Death second motivation for making his Heroic Sacrifice.
• Roar Before Beating:
  • Godzilla upholds his tradition in the beginning of a training match with Monster X, and Viv and San in turn exchange one with him when attempting to mimic wolverines' alleged yowling tactic, in Chapter 9.
  • In Chapter 17, Monster X starts a pre-asskicking war cry among the Titans:
    "RIP AND TEAR!"
• Russian Guy Suffers Most: Thanks in part to most of the first arc's events taking place in Russia, Russians suffer a lot. From the disposable vagrants whom had already lost their homes amid Moscow's destruction subsequently suffering a fate worse than death, to 150,000 more Russian people being lost to the same fate in Berezniki. Additionally, during the Monarch-Russian Ground Forces joint search and rescue mission, Monarch's international/mostly American G-Team suffer no casualties, but the Russian team aren't quite so lucky.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • Vivienne has been teetering on this due to her Trauma Conga Line throughout the story and her suffering untreated PTSD symptoms. It doesn't help that Ghidorah actively wants her to complete the slip and suffer a Start of Darkness.
  • The psychic influence of the decapitated Ghidorah-head gradually inflicts this on Jonah and most of his Basement Club with varying effects; making Jonah turn genuinely crazy, making Travis and others turn suicidal at differing rates, and making some act… well… creepy. It leads to the creation and proliferation of the Many.
• "Save the World" Climax: Initially, the story is about Viv and San trying to attain their freedom, adjust to what they've become, and work through their personal traumas and obstacles (particularly Vivienne's PTSD). Then the Many and Keizer Ghidorah enter the picture, and the fic's last act is about Vivienne, San and others trying to stop a living apocalypse from regaining its full strength and picking up where it left off, with Ghidorah's new plan being to conquer and destroy Earth from the inside-out via targeting the core's Zohar.
• Say My Name:
  • Monster X have a couple instances. They scream Jonah's name whilst in an Unstoppable Rage, and it's difficult to tell at this point whether it's Vivienne or San speaking in Chapter 6. San tends to cry out to Vivienne when he's particularly distressed and terrified for one or both their lives, using her name in You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious manner.
  • In Chapter 6, Tejada is screaming her friend's name when the latter dies.
  • In Chapter 10, Madison, while she's alone, tests on her tongue the new name of the Two Beings, One Body creature that her resurrected Parental Substitute has become half of.
  • Susan Graham screams Vivienne's name when she realizes half of the two-headed Titan is her daughter resurrected just as the creature departs, in Chapter 12.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Mariko and Tejada when Monster X escapes in Chapter 6, partly because it's clear at this point that Jonah and his closest subordinates are losing it and that there’s no such thing as safe for anyone inside the base.
• Sealed Evil in a Can:
  • Flashbacks to when Ghidorah was frozen in Antarctica confirm that it was a Leaking Can of Evil, psychically influencing humans around it even while it was in suspended animation.
  • In Chapter 14, Godzilla buries one of the Many's constructs alive and seals all the entrances, and it's unknown if this piece of the Many ever escaped and made its way back to the Hive Queen.
• Send in the Search Team: Monarch, having picked up the distress call from the abandoned Monarch outpost, dispatch the G-Team alongside the Russian Armed Forces' Team Mauzer to find and rescue any civilians in the isolated facility. By the time they arrive at the outpost, it's in a different state than when we last saw it – more derelict, and with monstrous humanoids roaming about.
• Serpent of Immortality: It's confirmed that Ghidorah was born eons ago, and has an unlimited lifespan unless every last viable piece of it is killed. Monster X, which is likewise draconic, will apparently live forever or at least for a very long time unless killed.
• Shared Family Quirks: The late Dr. Serizawa and his son Ren have some differences; but they both have an interest in marine archaeology, and Mark observes Ren projecting a Serizawa-like aura when they're observing Berezniki before a Titan battle commences.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Two examples in Chapter 18.
  • Downplayed with Monster X, who wants to hear more when they get a hint that people are shipping them with Rodan.
  • Played Straight with Ren, who pretty much says a variant of the trope name when Griffin teases him about the possibility he'll end up in Maia Simmons' bed.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Vivienne's experience of being Swallowed Whole by Ichi has turned her into this after she's reborn as part of Monster X, and the Trauma Conga Line she's suffered since hasn't done much to help; exhibiting signs of untreated PTSD. Human characters, namely Madison Russell and Ilene Chen, show much milder and more controlled signs of PTSD from their encounters with Ghidorah during the movie.
• Shmuck Bait: Averted by the Monarch torch-and-bury operation when they find three Disposable Vagrants practically placed out for them in the abandoned outpost's lower levels, as they rightfully exercise appropriate precautions when approaching them; in Chapter 11.
• Shock and Awe: Besides Ghidorah; there's Monster X, who has inherited Ghidorah's bio-electrical abilities (referred to by San as "the storm") although their abilities aren't quite the same, and there's Thor who can use his own bio-electrical powers offensively or as a form of communication.

• Shown Their Work: The author really knows their MonsterVerse lore, with the fic featuring references to various events that were depicted in MonsterVerse novelizations, movie Deleted Scenes and spin-off graphic novels.
• Sibling Murder: MaNi/Elder Brother outright attempts to horribly kill San in front of Vivienne, and Ichi/Eldest Brother takes nothing but glee in Vivienne being Forced to Watch. Monster X eventually more or less repays MaNi in kind and personally kills Ichi.
• Sickening "Crunch!": There are quite a few of these during the story when characters are being mutilated or ripped apart. It's prominently used by the author in found footage transcription scenes such as Krupin's death. It also occurs when Monster X is fighting MaNi/Elder Brother and a few bones (it's ambiguous at times which Titan's) are being broken.
• The Siege: What people don't fall victim to the roaming Artificial Zombies' takeover instead end up holing up in makeshift barracks, before they're rescued in Chapter 7.
• Signature Team Transport: The Argo reappears serving as the Monarch top brass's main flagship in Chapter 17.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Discussed, inverted and exploited in Chapter 18. Dr. Brooks discourages Mark from enrolling Madison in a public school since her mother was an infamous genocidal madwoman who murdered millions of people by proxy not long ago, and the students might take Kids Are Cruel to the deadly extreme. Ren Serizawa's family name carries a lot of weight due to his Famed In-Story late father, which enables him to infiltrate Apex Cybernetics as a spy.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: The tribal ancient Bone Singer in Chapter 5. Monster X plays with this trope in that it has semi-exoskeletal bone protrusions resembling armor.
• Slasher Smile: Besides Ghidorah's heads (particularly the middle head); Jonah shows a "rictus grimace of a smile" more than once following his Sanity Slippage. Monster X themselves hand out a few to MaNi/Elder Brother and the partly-resurrected Ghidorah, and MaNi has a couple terrifyingly perverse smiles for Vivienne. Godzilla also has a couple Slasher Smiles when it comes to joining his Queen in kicking Ghidorah's ass.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The story shows both the utterly jading trauma the world can inflict on one, and how there can be silver linings or how things can still get better, and how things can get worse all over again after.
• Snakes Are Sinister: MaNi/Elder Brother has a serpentine lower body, continuing the serpentine theme of Ghidorah, and he's utterly Ax-Crazy. Averted by San after his Heel–Face Turn, with his head retaining his Ghidorah serpentine qualities in Monster X's first two forms.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: Monster X and Rodan engage in some of this before their duel:
  Rodan: Only half of you can say that. The other can just bluster and marvel at my skill while I leave you in the dust.
  Monster X: Try it, spring chicken. I'm going to show you how to really fly.
• Snow Means Death: Vivienne and Madison both associate snow with Ghidorah's rising in Antarctica (which is also the site of Vivienne's death) in their flashbacks.
• So Proud of You: Both forms show up in this story. Dr. Serizawa quoted it ad verbatim to Vivienne on a past birthday, and Mark gives Ren Serizawa the "Your father would have been so proud of you" form.
• Sound-Only Death: Krupin's death is largely unseen and is only heard in Chapter 7. Likewise, the violent doom of the Skullcrawlers and T1-Echo respectively are only heard and not seen.
• Speak Ill of the Dead:
  • Vivienne technically does this when reassuring San that his late brothers – both of whom are presumed to still be dead – were sociopathic bags of shit, in Chapter 5. San, who has no love lost for his brothers, briefly joins in on this trope.
  • Ghidorah did this quite a bit, all three of its heads having spoken ill of the dead at some point or another – including speaking ill of the assimilated Jonah shortly after his death, and speaking ill of Thor's kind after Ghidorah exterminated them; as described in Chapter 13 and Chapter 17 respectively.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Vivienne is one of the modern humans with a strong hereditary sensitivity to the Titans' calls and telepathy, which gives her the ability to communicate with them to a limited extent, manifesting as a hypnotic state with throat-singing. Word of God has expanded on the ability, saying that it's hereditary, and ancient humans used to be able to refine it with specialized training.
• Spectacular Spinning: Battling Titans pull this off a couple times during the story. Rodan often uses aerial maneuvres like the aileron roll with his body as an attack, Keizer Ghidorah at one point knocks Rodan out of the air with its tails whilst spinning, and Monster X performs a Human Hammer-Throw with a Many-infected Skullcrawler.
• Stalker without a Crush: Ghidorah's three minds psychically stalked Vivienne while Ghidorah was frozen, and after Ichi, Ni and San-2's minds have regenerated in the present, they begin psychically stalking Monster X and trying to inflict Break Them by Talking. The trope becomes horrifically Zig-Zagged when Ghidorah's heads plan to turn Vivienne into a monster Baby Factory, with Ni/Elder Brother and MaNi in particular looking forward to the copulating part.
• Stock Sound Effects: The author states that Monster X's roar sounds the same as its original incarnation's roar, while Mandazawa is alleged to produce a set of clicking stock vocalizations that science fiction has used more than once.
• A Storm Is Coming: Due to Ghidorah-derived Weather Manipulation. There's the Many generating a thunderstorm before their emergence at Yonaguni in Chapter 13, and there's an unnatural thunderstorm forming above Berezniki before Ghidorah reveals itself and the Final Battle commences.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Vivienne's mother Susan Graham resembles her daughter (when the latter was still human) but with softer features, and Susan would claim that Vivienne facially took more after her father.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Being a Godzilla fanfiction, it would practically be an insult if there wasn't at least some stuff blowing up. There's Viv and San's escape attempt, during which Jonah's mercenaries use anti-tank weaponry against them; there's fights involving Rodan, and the Final Battle features a ton of manmade and Titan-made explosions and destruction all over the place.
• Stunned Silence:
  • Mariko, Tejada and a Mook Lieutenant all respond this way when Jonah shoots one of his Mooks dead attempting to keep them from spilling more than they just have about the Basement Club's Playing with Syringes, in Chapter 6.
  • Madison is at first deadly-silent after she hears the news about Vivienne's return.
  • Viv and San are very briefly rendered silent when Thor brings up his son's death in Chapter 13.
• Subterranean Sanity Failure: Played With. Jonah and several of his closest men go insane over the months they're isolated in an elaborate underground base deep in the Russian tundra, but it's not so much due to being underground as it is due to the Brown Note from Ghidorah's remains getting to them.
• Super-Empowering: Ghidorah can pass on its powers in some form or another to other lifeforms who are merged with Ghidorah's DNA. San is able to transform Vivienne, a human, into a Two Beings, One Body Artificial Hybrid, and Ghidorah's unrefined DNA being artificially spliced onto humans creates an Undead Abomination, with both creatures exhibiting abilities similar to Ghidorah's own.
• Survivor Guilt:
  • Vivienne's nightmare in Chapter 3 reveals she has a level of this concerning numerous civilians and Monarch personnel who were killed by the MUTOs, Jonah’s mercenaries and Ghidorah.
  • Thor has a small amount concerning the genocide of his species, because he knows he went into hibernation as much to preserve his own life as to prevent Ghidorah from using his bio-electrical powers for its own ends.
  • Mark Russell has been suffering this after Vivienne's apparent death in Antarctica, and Monarch personnel's hushed You Should Have Died Instead feelings have added to it. It doesn't get better when Vivienne returns, until she sets him straight in Chapter 9.
• Swallowed Whole: It turns out that when Ghidorah killed Vivienne this way during King of the Monsters, she was Only Mostly Dead, as she was revived and metamorphosed inside San's head to form an Artificial Hybrid. In Chapter 16, Ghidorah inflicts this on her and San again as a way of taking them into its body to transform them into their final form. It's also shown in Chapter 17 that the Many-infected Skullcrawlers do this to assimilate the people they find.
• Swiss-Cheese Security: A somewhat mild case with Monarch's security, not unlike their security inefficiency in canon. Mariko escaping her cell and getting past other door-locks is Justified by a power outage, but no-one seems to consider her dangerous enough that guard personnel would obstruct her at her cell door or try to stop her walking free during the excitement of witnessing Monster X's rebirth.
• Sympathetic Magic: Discussed by Ghidorah and a Bone Singer in the Exposition Beam in Chapter 5, with the Bone Singer commenting that their culture believes claiming an enemy's head allows one to claim the enemy's soul.
• Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: Averted between Alan Jonah and Ghidorah. Jonah retains his tragic backstory from canon, but he's also still treated in this fic as being irredeemable for his continuing crimes against humanity and lack of repentance, and he's past the Moral Event Horizon once his human experimentation is revealed. Ghidorah, whose portrayal in MonsterVerse canon is listed as a invokedComplete Monster, is given a clear Freudian Excuse in this fic, though the creature is no less vicious and horrific than its canon portrayal, and in some ways it (particularly Ichi and Ni) even exceeds its canon portrayal's heinousness.

T-V

• Tail Slap: Monster X, Godzilla (like in MonsterVerse canon), MaNi/Elder Brother and Keizer Ghidorah have all used their tails offensively in this manner during the story, and Manda can use it to deliver a venomous sting even as an infant. In Chapter 3, the Tyrannosaurus in Vivienne's dream uses this move defensively.
• Take Our Word for It: The manner in which the Theta-1 team are injured by the zombies is completely unseen by the reader. We only get a recorded audio transcript of them running for their lives, and a brief mention in the mission report's postword that they've been injured.
  [Heavy breathing, running, infrequent shouts.] [Static.] [Electronic squealing.] [Hoarse voices; indistinct; moist slapping (?)] [Static.] [Burst of audio distortion.] [High-pitched scream.]
  T1-Echo: AGH! GET IT OFF – AAAGH!
  [Low screaming, grunting, flesh tearing.] [Distorted whining.] [Gunfire.] [Static.]
  T1-Echo: SOMETHING'S – IT'S STUCK! GET IT OUT!
• Take That!:
  • As revealed in Chapter 8, apparently McGraw used to argue that Ghidorah (who's referred to as a dragon by Vivienne and Mothra in the fic) shouldn't be called a dragon because it doesn't have the correct number of legs and heads, to a Monarch biologist's exasperation. Anyone who has enough familiarity with dragon fantasy will know there are actually staunch McGraw's in Real Life.
  • Bits of Jonah's vicious rant at Vivienne in Chapter 5 seem like the author subtly calling out the MonsterVerse writers for wasting Sally Hawkins' character, and for the way the characters in King of the Monsters seem to quickly forget about Vivienne after the writers Dropped a Bridge on Her (in contrast to their reactions to Serizawa's sacrifice)^note This isn’t counted as a "Reason You Suck" Speech, because it's shown during the fic that Monarch and the Russells really do miss Vivienne and regard her highly.
• Taking You with Me: San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother and Thor spend the last minutes of their lives wrestling with Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother for control of Keizer Ghidorah until San-Who-Could-Have-Been, Thor, Ni, and Keizer Ghidorah's body are all vaporized together.
• Talkative Loon: Ghidorah's three minds talking over each other at or about the same thing is pretty jarring. The Many, with their Legion voices and Ax-Crazy dialogue are pretty unnerving themselves.
• Taught by Experience:
  • San notes that Vivienne may be inexperienced as a Titan, but she's a quick learner when she needs to be. When she and San are introduced to sparring with other Titans, Vivienne solves problems and works out what she needs to do via trial and error.
  • Colonel Foster thinks that she didn't take the Monarch scientists seriously enough during the events of King of the Monsters, events which saw a literal apocalypse because of the government and military's choice to launch the Oxygen Destroyer rather than listen to Monarch. As far as Foster is concerned, the events of King of the Monsters proved that the monster experts should always be taken seriously on the matters which they were founded to understand.
    "The last time I didn't take a scientist seriously, the world almost ended."
  • This trope is specifically the reason why Tejada and Tarkan are selected to be part of the torch-and-bury operation against Alan Jonah's paramilitary's artificial zombies. Tejada has accumulated extensive experience beating back the zombies, while Tarkan has past experience combating Jonah himself.
  • Steve Martin has learned one or two things over the course of his journalist career. He accidentally caused a couple of his interviewees to blow up in the past by mentioning trauma, which has taught him how to recognize when an angry or wrathful action is born of psychological trauma and vulnerability. He also seems to know better than other journalists through experience when it's time to stop hounding grieving people for information.
  • Ford Brody has gained a hands-on practical experience over the years of how to ease someone who's going through a mental breakdown, thanks to sharing military experiences with other, traumatized soldiers.
• The Team: The original Multinational Team from King of the Monsters appears, with new additions to their ranks featured including Dr. Brooks (here functioning as a Team Dad), Madison being a more direct part of the Team than she was in King of the Monsters, and Ren joining them as The Comically Serious.
• Tears of Awe:
  • Witnessing Thor and Mothra's cocoon singing with each-other sends several observers including Mark into a trance, and when they come out of it, they're tearing up without knowing why and they feel lighter and clearer.
  • Dowplayed with Ren, whose eyes are wet as he beams at Manda upon seeing the Titan up-close in person.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Mariko initially isn't enthusiastic about working with Jonah, and her enthusiasm continues to decrease. She also allies with San and Vivienne in Chapter 6 though the duo neither like nor trust her.
• Teeth Flying: Both Ghidorah's middle head and MaNi/Elder Brother (albeit the Skullcrawler half of his body rather than the half holding his own head) receive blows violent enough to cause this in Chapter 17, when fighting Godzilla and Monster X respectively.
• Terse Talker: San and Thor in particular both do this at times when they're agitated.
• That Liar Lies: Vivienne at first responds this way when informed of Serizawa's death in Chapter 4. Madison says this to San in Chapter 8 when he says he doesn't remember Ghidorah attempting to kill her, as she's unaware that San Cannot Tell a Lie.
• Thematic Theme Tune: The author has described the music of Heilung as being in-tune with the story's theme, in particular 'Krigsgaldr'.
• Theme Naming: Monster X's (Abraxas') scientific Meaningful Name continues the MonsterVerse's tradition where the Titans are often named after mythological figures if they aren't the source of the original lore, while the newborn Manda's name continues the A Dog Named "Dog" tradition with the kaiju species and individuals in the Godzilla franchise. Both Vivienne and the regenerating Ghidorah think that if it were to succeed in absorbing Vivienne, she'd be called Shi^note The Japanese number four in line with each of Ghidorah's three heads having Japanese numerals as their human-given nicknames.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: When killing Ghidorah, the terrestrial Titans would attempt to actively eradicate as much of every last bit of its body as possible, because it's come back From a Single Cell before. This trope is also a requirement with the Many due to them being The Virus and The Assimilator in one.
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Downplayed, but Word of God comments that Bone Singers who become self-aware of their ability tend to become "vulnerable to recognizing certain eldritch clues", which can enable malevolent Titans to psychically manipulate them.
• Third-Person Person: San and San-Who-Could-Have-Been/Youngest Brother, sort of. San at first either refers to himself as "this one" or doesn't use first-person pronouns at all, but he starts using first-person pronouns as his Character Development progresses. The author went into further detail about it here.
• This Cannot Be!: A couple cases occur in Chapter 17. Sam Coleman basically reacts this way to the looming realization that literally the entire population of Berezniki have been assimilated by the Many. This trope subsequently ends up basically being the last words of Keizer Ghidorah's middle head and MaNi/Elder Brother respectively at the crux of their Villainous Breakdowns.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: The Shell-Shocked Veteran Vivienne and the ancient, weary Godzilla both have moments where they display this gaze. Vivienne observes that Godzilla's gaze often looks tired and world-weary as if he's looking right through someone, whilst the post-PTSD look in the now-Titan Vivienne's eyes is compared by the human characters to the look of a soldier coming home from war for the first time.
• Token Good Teammate: San before his head was severed from Ghidorah, was the least malicious of the three heads (though still not entirely devoid of sadism) and overall the only one who exhibits any real capacity for a Heel–Face Turn or any desire for affection towards Vivienne. This also applies to San's Alternate Self which Ghidorah regenerates.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Vivienne's transformation and Trauma Conga Line force her to go from a broken and terrified Transhuman Abomination, in the midst of the Stages of Monster Grief and unwilling to kill her former kind; to a vengeful force of nature who can be as brutal and bloodthirsty as Ghidorah when the need arises.
  • Inverted with MaNi/Elder Brother. He used to be part of Ghidorah, but after becoming an autonomous creature in his own right, he's smaller than his and his brothers' original shared form, and according to Word of God, severed pieces of him likely have a lower emergency Life Energy storage capacity.
• Torture Cellar: The existence of one is heavily referenced and felt in the abandoned Monarch outpost, with Jonah and his aptly-nicknamed Basement Club's activities: experimenting with Ghidorah's DNA and Playing with Syringes to create Artificial Zombies.
• Tortured Monster: The Many are a pitifully horrific monster, driven constantly by Horror Hunger and by an insanely deluded Hive Mind to assimilate ever more victims into their Body Horror without being satisfied. It's eventually revealed that Ghidorah used to be this in its backstory, only committing mass death and destruction in desperate attempts to stop the Old Noise, but Slowly Slipping Into Evil turned it into an actively malicious Omnicidal Maniac.
• Tragic Villain:
  • Jonah is an irredeemably evil snake, but at the end of his life, the best (or the least vile) part of him wanted to have his dead daughter back.
  • Ghidorah is revealed to be a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds by origin. Besides that, the author and a reviewer have both noted that it's rather tragic that San-2 has the same potential for a Heel–Face Turn as the main San, but remaining attached to Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother prevents that from happening.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • Discussed in Chapter 9. It's made clear during the story that Godzilla relies on this kind of controlled and calculated fury to fuel his actions when fighting.
  • Monster X puts this kind of rage to good use when giving MaNi/Elder Brother a Curb-Stomp Battle in Chapter 17. MaNi/Elder Brother mentally compares the quietness and calm belying Monster X's sheer ferocity to the calm within the eye of a raging superstorm.
• Transhuman Abomination: San, a rogue severed piece of a Draconic Abomination, essentially turns Vivienne into this when he fuses with her and makes them a Two Beings, One Body Titan. Likewise, the Many were created by fusing Ghidorah's experimented-on DNA to humans.
• Trapped in Containment: Berezniki is quarantined in response to the escalating tectonic phenomena and missing-persons crisis, which only leaves everyone who's consequently trapped inside at the mercy of the Many.
• Trash Talk:
  • Viv and San exchange some of this with Jonah during Monster X's fight against the Many's Mind Hive which Jonah is attached to, in Chapter 13.
  • Monster X also taunts Rodan that he can do better when they duel him.
  • Played With by Ghidorah and Thor. Before they end up fighting, Ghidorah directs some vicious scorns and insults at Thor regarding him leaving the other Thunderers to die, and Thor in turn pisses Ghidorah into accepting his challenge by accusing Ghidorah of cowardice.
• Trauma Button: For Vivienne, seeing the wrong visual reminders of her death by Ghidorah can hurl her into a full-blown PTSD flashback and cause her to lose self-control. Alan Jonah accidentally hits his own button when he starts thinking back to a time when his wife was pregnant (presumably this was before his tiresome experiences turned him into the Misanthrope Supreme we all know him as), and he clearly needs a moment to recompose himself. Extremely downplayed by MaNi/Elder Brother, who has a very mild Ignored Epiphany in response to being asked by his torture-victim "Why?" (the same question he and his brothers used to ask when Ghidorah was still just a confused, tragic Tortured Monster long ago).
• Troll: Rodan pushes Viv and San's buttons quite a lot, and they get to return the gesture near the story's end. One internet user commenting on Monster X news is literally an Internet Jerk.
• Troubled Fetal Position: Vivienne has curled into this position a few times when sufficiently traumatized or confused (once when she was human, again as part of Monster X). Sergeant Travis is curled up in this position after his Sanity Slippage has worsened, in Chapter 7.
• Tunnel Network: Played With. The Titans, the Skullcrawlers and the Many are using the Hollow Earth tunnels through the Earth's mantle to cut distances and travel times around the planet.
• Turn Out Like His Father:
  • When Monster X first comes to the public's attention, they're fearful that the new two-headed Titan will be like Ghidorah, noting the physical resemblance.
  • Madison inflicts this trope on herself in Chapter 17, unable to help feeling she's going to turn herself into her mother by using an ORCA signal to awaken Monster X.
• Two Beings, One Body: Monster X and Ghidorah, with the multiple beings that make up either multi-headed creature controlling their own head.
• Two Decades Behind: Despite mainly taking place in 2020 and being written during that year, there's no reference to the COVID-19 Pandemic or social distancing. Possibly Justified, as described under Alternate History and acknowledged by Word of God.
• Two-Faced: A couple non-villainous examples occur with Monster X over the story: in Chapter 3, San manifests in Vivienne's dream as a near-duplicate of her with the left side looking disfigured and Ghidorah-like, and in Chapter 16, both heads suffer this level of damage due to a Heroic RRoD. In Chapter 17, Ghidorah's right head takes this level of damage to his face.
• Two First Names: On top of MonsterVerse canon examples Vivienne Graham, Alan Jonah and the Russell family featuring here, the fic also has Steve Martin.
• Two Girls to a Team:
  • Amongst the group of Titans who stick with Godzilla for most of the story, there are two heroic females (Vivienne and Mothra) to four heroic males (San, Big G himself, Thor and Rodan).
  • Amongst the several members of Jonah's paramilitary who get characterization, two of them are confirmed to be female (Mariko and Tejada), whilst Jonah himself plus Sergeant Travis and Guard B-04 are male.
  • The only two confirmed female members of the Monarch Torch and Bury Operation's infantry, excluding Tejada who isn't in the field, are B3-Cap and G5-Tango.
• Underwater Ruins: Downplayed with the Yonaguni Monument. In Real Life, it's uncertain whether the Monument is literally an ancient manmade structure or its formations occurred naturally — in this fic, it's explicitly revealed to be the former.
• Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: The Argo's new bio-acoustics speakers end up seeing their first test run when they're used in action during the Berezniki battle.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: A villainous case when the Many successfully divert Godzilla and cut off Castle Bravo, preventing them from warning Monster X of an impending Dynamic Entry in Chapter 15.
• Unwitting Test Subjects: It's revealed in Chapter 6 that Jonah has been abducting the mercenaries' Disposable Vagrants and forcibly using them as test subjects for experiments with Ghidorah's DNA, turning them into Artificial Zombies.
• Urban Ruins: Parts of Higawa are reduced to this by the Titans' battle against the Many, as is the entirety of the city where the Final Battle occurs.
• Vagueness Is Coming: One person who's psychically affected by the Many and/or Ghidorah says the following regarding their Evil Plan for Monster X, in Chapter 16:
  "palach is coming"
• Vampiric Draining: Monster X has inherited Ghidorah's ability to suck the Life Energy from other Titans through biting. It's also revealed that Ghidorah used its own Vampiric Draining ability against Thor's son in the past.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Vivienne seemingly reacts this way when she and San finally kill Jonah in Chapter 13. Ghidorah had a similar reaction in its backstory to exterminating the aliens who drove it to evil, though for different reasons.
• Villain of Another Story: Red Bamboo are among Jonah's trading partners. While they're not specified to be unwitting pawns or the Collaborators' trade partners like Bio-Major are, if the AbraxasVerse version of Red Bamboo are anything like the original incarnation...
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • Jonah has a brief one in Chapter 6 when it looks like he's stuck on the wrong side of a door with a vengeful Monster X right behind him, freaking out and screaming at his men to get the door open.
  • MaNi/Elder Brother freaks out when he realizes how his part in the Final Battle is about to end with him helpless to do anything about it. He expires while begging his opponent to stop, then futilely tries with his last proverbial breaths to deny the reality of what's happening and the blow to his ego.
  • Come Chapter 17, Ghidorah gradually grows more and more frustrated with the benevolent Titans fighting against it, and Ichi/Eldest Brother is reduced to a frantic This Cannot Be! reaction in his final moments. MaNi/Elder Brother likewise loses it when he realizes Monster X is going to pretty much kill him with certainty in a way that does not fulfil MaNi's craving for violence.
• Villainous Friendship: Tejada has this with an unnamed Mook Lieutenant — they play cards together in their downtime, Tejada tries to save said friend when the latter runs to their death, and overall Tejada is rarely seen without this guy before their death in Chapter 6. Also, both of them were apparently genuinely saddened by the death of Kauffman, another merc.
• Villainous Incest: Both Ghidorah's regenerating body and MaNi/Elder Brother are perfectly happy to use Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil among other Cold-Blooded Torture on Monster X to torment Vivienne into Ax-Crazy insanity, and are planning to use Monster X as a monster Baby Factory. All this despite the transformed Vivienne being considered by Ghidorah's heads to be both their sister and their offspring.
• Villainous Underdog: Jonah and his paramilitary could be squashed like grapes by Viv and San if they weren't using ammunitions, a containment field and psychological tactics against the hybrid.
• Villain Respect:
  • Downplayed. Word of God indicates San had a level of understanding verging on admiration of Godzilla's combat proficiency when looking back on his own decapitation by Godzilla. Further Played With in that after his Heel–Face Turn, San thinks Thor's son, who fought Ghidorah in ancient times and was Defiant to the End while he was being dismembered, died quite honorably.
  • Ichi/Eldest Brother also expresses a brief moment of this for Monster X during his Defiant to the End after Keizer Ghidorah is defeated.
• Villains Out Shopping: Two of Jonah's paramilitary troops — Tejada and the Mook Lieutenant she's friends with — spend their downtime playing cards, and they even invite Mariko to join them, in Chapter 6.
• The Voiceless: Lubyov is "deathly quiet" and is never shown speaking a word until Chapter 18. Amongst the Titans in Chapter 17, the MUTO Queen never actually speaks.
• Voices Are Mental:
  • Zig-Zagged by Monster X: in its first form, its roar sounds like a mix of a human's scream and Ghidorah's roar, but when they speak verbally, they sound like the Gravemind from Halo, then in their second form, they can project vocalizations in San's telepathic voice and Vivienne's original human voice through electronics.
  • Played Straight by the Many with their I Am Legion psychic voices.

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• Wall Crawl: Mothra in her larval form, Skullcrawlers, and the part-Skullcrawler MaNi/Elder Brother all seem to have no trouble scaling vertical surfaces. Monster X desperately attempts such a crawl in an underground pit and has some success using their claws. This is also an Implied Trope with the infant Manda and the Artificial Zombies – the former is pretty good at climbing all over Monster X, and an instance of the latter left a blood trail indicating it scaled a wall and ceiling.
• We All Die Someday: Monster X says as much to Manda, and Susan likewise says as much about herself when comforting San, in Chapter 18.
• What Is Going On?:
  • Jonah says as much when the Vivienne-San hybrid has a convulsive spurt mid-metamorphosis whilst it's being monitored by his men, in the first chapter.
  • Also in the first chapter, Vivienne's mind asks as much when she briefly stirs during her and San's first gestation, unaware of what's happening.
  • In Chapter 6, Vivienne flashes back to a time when the effects of being around Ghidorah at Outpost 32 got so bad that she had to make a video call to Serizawa out of the blue, and Serizawa pretty much started the call by asking after her in surprised concern.
  • Also in Chapter 6, Tejada, once she catches on that there's something going on that she doesn't know about (and after having a handful of other big revelations dropped at hers and her peers' feet), demands that Mariko tell her what's going on.
  • At the start of Ilene and Ling's first scene in Chapter 7, Ilene has to ask Ling to repeat the news that the latter was delivering to her about the Russells' visit because she spaced out.
  • Mothra demands to know what happened in a tone that won't be refused when she and Godzilla intervene in Thor, Rodan and Monster X's fight, in Chapter 9.
  • Steve Martin, once he's had enough of not being told what the hell he's in the dark about concerning Monster X, outright asks Monarch and the Russells what's going on with the Titan in Chapter 11.
  • The captain of Ren's expeditionary boat approaches him to ask him what's going on when the public Titan warning systems go off, figuring that Ren will know due to his connections to Monarch; in Chapter 13.
  • Ren himself asks this pretty much first thing once communication with Monster X is re-establishing, after the hybrid from Ren's perspective just had a gruesome and violent seizure almost out of nowhere; in Chapter 14.

• What Is This Feeling?: Downplayed when San has his Heel Realization in Chapter 5 — it's clear he knows why he's feeling the way he does even if he isn't used to experiencing such an emotion. San-2/Youngest Brother goes through the same thing when feeling hurt during a Talking the Monster to Death in Chapter 17.
• When He Smiles: It's quite disarming whenever Vivienne or humans see San smiling in genuine happiness instead of a Slasher Smile. When Vivienne sees Ren smiling in joy at Manda in Chapter 14, she's reminded of Serizawa.
• When It All Began: The chaotic Mass Awakening of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) essentially led to the entire plot of the fic, with San's severed head and a revived, mutating Dr. Vivienne Graham inside it becoming reborn as Two Beings, One Body (the fic's protagonists), and with San's old head after their births enabling Alan Jonah's group to create the Many and enabling Ghidorah itself to regenerate as the fic's true world-threatening Big Bad. And even at the fic's end, Jonah's meddling with Ghidorah's DNA and Ghidorah's manipulation of him has left far-reaching ramifications for the expanded AbraxasVerse, in the form of the Zmeyevich scattered around the world.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Generally Played for Laughs. San still hates being in deep waters even though Monster X's different build and Vivienne's skill mean they can swim unlike Ghidorah, and Scylla's legs give Barnes the creeps.
• Why We Can't Have Nice Things: A few in the vain of the Godzilla standard and the example in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) occur, all because of Jonah's hubris which ultimately created the Many.
  • Godzilla's fight against the Many partly destroys the Yonaguni Monument and buries its internal tunnels before people could find out anything more about its ancient builders.
  • Thor dies in the Final Battle fighting the Many and Keizer Ghidorah; rendering his species extinct and taking many of his and his kind's secrets to the grave.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Both Jonah and Ghidorah respectively became the omnicidal evil snakes they now are after something genuinely tragic and traumatic happened to them that pushed them over the edge.
• The Worf Effect: The Skullcrawlers, the main antagonists of a previous MonsterVerse movie, positively fear either the Many or the partly-regenerated Ghidorah and are dispatched practically without a fight once caught. Downplayed with Monster X: they can implicitly make Rodan or Thor have to work very hard to beat them in a real fight, but it's implied they wouldn't stand a chance if they seriously fought Godzilla on their own.
• Worst Aid:
  • After being injured in a fall, Krupin, despite suspecting his leg is broken, starts moving to look around his new surroundings. Real Life medical advice says you should keep a broken leg as still as you can until medical assistance arrives to help you, and straying too far from the spot where you were injured is also ill-advised if it's not in a public location and medics don't know precisely where you are.
  • Rodan at one point performs the Stock Mistake of cauterizing wounds on another Titan to heal them — in Real Life, cauterization increases the risk of gangrene. Of course, since the Titan in question is half-"alien, immortal Draconic Abomination with a science-defying regeneration factor" instead of an earthly lifeform, this trope is pretty much as Justified as Monster X pulling out a foreign object impaling them was at another point. And besides, neither this story nor MonsterVerse canon has ever really addressed the concept that pathogens can make Titans ill – the closest thing to a Titan-harming infection we've gotten is an unnaturally-made, pathogenic Undead Abomination.
  • Notably averted when a human character is being treated for a heart attack: it's made very clear by a professional medic that defibrillation and CPR on their own won't be nearly enough to get the patient's heart back into a stable rhythm, and medication tablets are also emphasized as a critical component.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Children, human or Titan, are not exempt from being targeted by the Many for gruesome and horrific assimilation into themselves in the slightest.
  • MaNi/Elder Brother if anything seems to be encouraged by the idea of attacking a defenseless baby Titan so long as it'll galvanize Monster X into fighting him.
  • In a nod to the King of the Monsters novelization, Madison mentions that Jonah once casually ordered one of his men to slit her throat if her mother didn't behave. A deleted scene described here would have furthermore confirmed that children are not exempt from being submitted to Jonah's Artificial Zombie-creating Playing with Syringes.
• The Xenophile: Titans evoke awe and reverence in a lot of humans at Monarch like in canon, and following its second Metamorphosis in Chapter 8, Monster X is no exception.
• Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Ghidorah's electrical powers produce yellow lightning, Monster X's produce red lightning, and Thor's produce blue lightning.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Vivienne is told as much by Godzilla in Chapter 9, then by Rodan in Chapter 13, regarding different aspects of her turning into The Berserker.
• You Remind Me of X: Several instances:
  • Played Straight when Dr. Brooks compares Monster X's two halves to Gunpei Ikari and Hank Marlow: two very different entities from opposing origins, whom were gradually brought together by a trying and unthinkable situation that they were stuck in with no-one but each-other to rely on.
  • The other instances are all downplayed:
    • Ghidorah's murderous hatred of the human race, and likely also the other "little ones" it exterminated on other worlds before coming to Earth, is rooted in this trope. Humans remind Ghidorah of its Makers whom tortured Ghidorah into evil. Word of God also confirms that a big factor in San's hatred for Jonah is the latter's cruel actions against him and Vivienne evoking San's bad memories of the Makers. Ichi's burning hatred for Vivienne certainly stemmed from how Monarch's interactions with the glacier holding Ghidorah brought back these memories. Word of God hints that Ni/Elder Brother's own dislike of Vivienne stemmed from her reminding him of what Ichi used to be like before Ghidorah's Slowly Slipping Into Evil.
    • Word of God confirms that San's (and San-2/Youngest Brother's) soft spot for Vivienne is influenced by how her scientific curiosity originally reminded the left head of a smaller, more innocent version of himself. On a darker note, Ichi/Eldest Brother and Ni/Elder Brother see themselves in Monster X in the "I'm so badass, I want to fuck myself" way.
    • Rodan's behaviour towards Monster X reminds Vivienne of a past ex-boyfriend, in Chapter 13.
    • MaNi/Elder Brother is rightfully reminded of his and his brothers' past encounter with ancient Bone Singers when he hears Monster X's Bone Singer-derived vocalizations, in Chapter 17.
• You Should Have Died Instead:
  • Mark Russell is on the receiving end from multiple people at Monarch due to Vivienne's death in Antarctica.
  • Vivienne herself briefly receives a variation from Ren Serizawa in Chapter 14, when he asks why it was her instead of Dr. Serizawa who came Back from the Dead.

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