Quite literally. When the mercs are traversing the long grass, they hear something approaching and raise their rifles, ready to face another monster... only for a cat-grass planimal to slowly stalk out, passively regard and meow at them, then continue on its way. A Time Skip later, and then the Hawk shows up.
Then immediately after the Hawk's first appearance, the frazzled group hear a ping coming from behind them that freaks them out and prompts them to turn... to find it was just the tracker pinging as the tracker merc awkwardly confirms that it's been fixed. An annoyed Irene asks her to turn down the volume on it.
Death by Irony: The Croc Monster eats a merc alive in a Dynamic Entry, then it receives the exact same kind of death from a hungry Kong.
Dramatic Drop: Sam, one of the most composed members of Irene's group, drops his machine gun from abject shock after the Kraken literally tears apart their rescue chopper in one move.
Helicopter Flyswatter: The moment the Kraken senses a helicopter passing over Skull Island's waters, the creature immediately lifts its tentacles above the water, grabs the aircraft, and tears it in two and lets the remains crash into the water; all practically unprovoked.
Hellish Copter: The only helicopter seen in the series, within seconds of showing up, gets torn in half by a monster like paper, and the flaming front end goes crashing into the monster-infested water.
Inevitable Waterfall: After Mike and Charlie fall into the river and get swept by the current, the crocodile monster for some reason chases after them on the shore rather than entering the water. The reason why is because both teens are heading straight for a waterfall. While Mike realizes the danger and urges Charlie they should head for the shore, the boys fail to do so before they go over the edge.
Irony: Charlie lampshades the irony that him and Mike started out running from one of the mercenaries that attacked them and Annie, but are running after said merc once they've been spooked by a creature moving in the shrubbery.
Missing Steps Plan: When Irene hatches her plan to get rid of Dog, capture Annie and leave the island with her, Cap questions how they'll get past the Kraken once it's time for them to leave, seeing as the creature is attacking and annihilating anything that tries to cross the island's waters. Irene admits that whilst she's thought about killing the Kraken so that it won't be able to stop them leaving anymore, she can't think up a way to accomplish killing it.
Say My Name: Charlie and Mike cry out the other's name to find each-other after they've gone over the waterfall and been briefly separated.
Self-Deprecation: Dog gets bored of watching Charlie and Mike talking about their situation, issues and other minutiae and wanders off, prompting Mike and Charlie to wonder if they're more boring than they thought they were. Appropriately, the MonsterVerse's previous instalments have often been criticized for focusing too much on human characters whom the viewers didn't always find were worth paying so much attention to at the expense of the monster-focused scenes.
Charlie: Wha- Are we boring? Mike: No! We're incredibly entertaining. Charlie:[disbelieving] That's what I thought!
Super-Persistent Predator: The Croc Monster. Having long legs and longer arms and able to run on land, it never stops pursuing the kids - even over a giant waterfall and even after eating one of the expedition. It finally is stopped when Kong eats it.
Too Dumb to Live: Subverted when Mike and Charlie encounter the Croc Monster. When faced with a distinctly alligator-like, semi-aquatic man-eating monster that just fatally ambushed a man in a river before coming ashore, who in their right mind would ever think that their best shot at escaping the predator is to dive into the river that it just came out of? Mike and Charlie are just lucky that it happened the Croc Monster was unwilling to hunt them in the water due to the risk of it getting caught up in the rapids as they were and carried down a nearby waterfall, and that there weren't any other Croc Monsters lurking in the river.
Waist-Deep Ocean: A Croc Monster rises out of a bog that a mercenary is standing ankle-deep in and eats him.
Wrong Assumption: Charlie assumes based on the presence of giant mutant animals on a remote island and the armed seafaring mercenaries' appearance that the latter party, whom the human heroes have run afoul of multiple times now, must be poachers. In some of the other King Kong continuities, Charlie would be right on the mark, but as Mike points out, the guns they were carrying aren't the type used for hunting. The mercs are actually Private Military Contractors whom are here for Annie rather than the local monsters.
