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* GeneralFailure: He believes that combating possible communist spies on American soil is much more important than doing anything to prepare for future Titan threats to the human race, and he activately tries to sabotage Monarch to that end. He also antagonizes the 50s Monarch trio to their faces, especially Keiko for being a Japanese ex-Navy woman. All of this means that the 50s trio actively hide things from him and that Shaw pulls out all stops to get him booted out of the organization.
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* FrameUp: Ultimately, Shaw frames him for keeping Godzilla's survival of Castle Bravo secret from General Puckett in order to convince Puckett to get rid of him, when in truth Hatch genuinely didn't know about it because Shaw, Keiko and Bill had taken an oath to keep that information to themselves. Of course, considering what an asshole Hatch was and that he was sabotaging Monarch to suit his own Red Scare priorities, no-one will feel sorry for him.
* GeneralFailure: He believes that combating possible communist spies on American soil is much more important than doing anything to prepare for future Titan threats to the human race, and heactivately actively tries to sabotage Monarch to that end. He also antagonizes the 50s Monarch trio to their faces, especially Keiko for being a Japanese ex-Navy woman. All of this means that the 50s trio actively hide things from him and that Shaw pulls out all stops to get him booted out of the organization.
* GeneralFailure: He believes that combating possible communist spies on American soil is much more important than doing anything to prepare for future Titan threats to the human race, and he
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Unlike the deliberately-bigoted Lieutenant Hatch, Puckett is more InnocentlyInsensitive in his treatment of the Japanese female doctor Keiko, but his interactions with her do show that he's still a product of his time. He's genuinely surprised on first meeting Keiko that she's a woman with a doctorate. At the gala in 1955, his genuine attempt to jump in and ward off Lieutenant Hatch's racism in Keiko's defence involves him saying that she's "one of the good [Japanese]".
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Towards Keiko due to [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the views on women and the Japanese in his time]]. Aside from accidentally slighting her by assuming that she's a miss on their first meeting (which is a source of annoyance for the female doctor), Puckett attempts to defend her against Lieutenant Hatch's racism by calling her "one of the good [Japanese]" when she's right next to him, which greatly upsets her.
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* SoProudOfYou: He expresses pride in Lee Shaw's ascension in rank and authority through Monarch multiple times. Most notably, he says as much after he's had a few drinks at the 1955 gala, and [[spoiler:the last time that he sees Shaw when the latter is about to pioneer an attempted mission to HollowEarth]] in 1962, Puckett is notably beaming at Shaw with a smile.
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General Puckett's liaison for Monarch's military oversight after passing over Lee Shaw, gutting the organization's funding out of contempt, skepticism, and racism.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He sneers at Dr. Keiko Miura being given American military clearance due to her being 1) a woman, and 2) Japanese, specifically citing her being a former member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. He then guts Monarch's funding while scoffing that they should focus on a ''real'' threat to American national security, like [[RedScare Soviet spies infiltrating the country]], and delivers a damning report to General Puckett claiming they've been wasting the US government's resources in an attempt to get it shut down.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Lieutenant Hatch's attempt to shut Project Monarch down was what led Bill Randa to theorize about the existence of the Hollow Earth, reducing him to the laughingstock he was at the beginning of ''Film/KongSkullIsland''.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Lieutenant Hatch's attempt to shut Project Monarch down was what led Bill Randa to theorize about the existence of the Hollow Earth, reducing him to the laughingstock he was at the beginning of ''Film/KongSkullIsland''.
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* GeneralFailure: He believes that combating possible communist spies on American soil is much more important than doing anything to prepare for future Titan threats to the human race, and he activately tries to sabotage Monarch to that end. He also antagonizes the 50s Monarch trio to their faces, especially Keiko for being a Japanese ex-Navy woman. All of this means that the 50s trio actively hide things from him and that Shaw pulls out all stops to get him booted out of the organization.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a self-serving, racist, nationalist {{slimeball}}, who rapidly starts oozing derision for Monarch's monster-hunting mission, borderline-graphically insults Keiko to her face for her Japanese heritage and Imperial Navy past, and actively tries to sabotage Project Monarch from within so that he can shut it down and repurpose all its funding towards the Red Scare.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He submits a biased and damning report about Monarch to Puckett in an effort to get the organization shut down. Shaw retaliates by framing Hatch to make it look as if he's the one responsible for Puckett not being informed that Castle Bravo failed to kill Godzilla and by making it look as if he severely underplayed the extent of the Titan threat in his report (which he did), and the facts that we never see Hatch again and that Monarch has fully bounced back from his sabotage by 1962 imply that he was stripped of authority over the organization and that his career suffered.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He sneers at Dr. Keiko Miura being given American military clearance due to her being 1) a woman, and 2) Japanese, specifically citing her being a former member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. He then guts Monarch's funding while scoffing that they should focus on a ''real'' threat to American national security, like [[RedScare Soviet spies infiltrating the country]], and delivers a damning and biased report to General Puckett claiming they've been wasting the US government's resources in an attempt to get it shut down.
* SkewedPriorities: Though he does have ''some'' reason to believe that Titans aren't all that common and can be killed on account of him being in the dark about how many of them there are and about Godzilla surviving the Castle Bravo test, he thinks that safeguarding the U.S. alone against Soviet spies and communism matters more than safeguarding anyone against the existential threat of gigantic atomic monsters.
* {{Slimeball}}: He's a smug bigot who oozes condescension, he quite crudely insults the female Japanese doctor Keiko to her face, and upon being granted control of Project Monarch by General Puckett, he actively tries to sabotage the organization and get it shut down with a negatively-biased and damning report to Puckett so that he can repurpose its funding toward his own Red Scare tactics. His attitude and behavior leads to the Monarch trio not telling him anything of value and ultimately leads to Shaw pulling out all stops to get him ousted.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Lieutenant Hatch's attempt to shut Project Monarchdown down, though it ultimately failed once Lee exposed his corrupt actions, was what led Bill Randa to theorize about the existence of the Hollow Earth, reducing him to the laughingstock he was at the beginning of ''Film/KongSkullIsland''.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a self-serving, racist, nationalist {{slimeball}}, who rapidly starts oozing derision for Monarch's monster-hunting mission, borderline-graphically insults Keiko to her face for her Japanese heritage and Imperial Navy past, and actively tries to sabotage Project Monarch from within so that he can shut it down and repurpose all its funding towards the Red Scare.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He submits a biased and damning report about Monarch to Puckett in an effort to get the organization shut down. Shaw retaliates by framing Hatch to make it look as if he's the one responsible for Puckett not being informed that Castle Bravo failed to kill Godzilla and by making it look as if he severely underplayed the extent of the Titan threat in his report (which he did), and the facts that we never see Hatch again and that Monarch has fully bounced back from his sabotage by 1962 imply that he was stripped of authority over the organization and that his career suffered.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He sneers at Dr. Keiko Miura being given American military clearance due to her being 1) a woman, and 2) Japanese, specifically citing her being a former member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. He then guts Monarch's funding while scoffing that they should focus on a ''real'' threat to American national security, like [[RedScare Soviet spies infiltrating the country]], and delivers a damning and biased report to General Puckett claiming they've been wasting the US government's resources in an attempt to get it shut down.
* SkewedPriorities: Though he does have ''some'' reason to believe that Titans aren't all that common and can be killed on account of him being in the dark about how many of them there are and about Godzilla surviving the Castle Bravo test, he thinks that safeguarding the U.S. alone against Soviet spies and communism matters more than safeguarding anyone against the existential threat of gigantic atomic monsters.
* {{Slimeball}}: He's a smug bigot who oozes condescension, he quite crudely insults the female Japanese doctor Keiko to her face, and upon being granted control of Project Monarch by General Puckett, he actively tries to sabotage the organization and get it shut down with a negatively-biased and damning report to Puckett so that he can repurpose its funding toward his own Red Scare tactics. His attitude and behavior leads to the Monarch trio not telling him anything of value and ultimately leads to Shaw pulling out all stops to get him ousted.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Lieutenant Hatch's attempt to shut Project Monarch
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* DirtyCoward: Downplayed, since he's not so much a coward as he is as much a politician as he is a general. Whenever Monarch provides concrete evidence of the Titans and the threat they poise, he's always 100% behind them. However, if things go south, he's quick to abandon ship per his superiors' orders. During the first Hollow Earth expedition, he's proudly praising Monarch and the party line of American exceptionalism that got them to this point, but when it goes haywire, he quickly backs out and doesn't back up Monarch in the wake of the tragedy at all.
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** He points out that telling the military that a 400 foot lizard at large in the world and not expecting them to at the least consider a preemptive strike to keep it away from American soil is pretty silly.
** After [[spoiler:Shaw's apparent death, he remorsefully agrees with the orders to shut down Monarch since they cannot determine what happened or how to prevent it from happening again.]]
** He points out that telling the military that a 400 foot lizard at large in the world and not expecting them to at the least consider a preemptive strike to keep it away from American soil is pretty silly.
** After [[spoiler:Shaw's apparent death, he remorsefully agrees with the orders to shut down Monarch since they cannot determine what happened or how to prevent it from happening again.]]
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* OhCrap: He is terrified when he is brought to the imprint of Godzilla's footprint. When he later learns that Godzilla survived Castle Bravo, he's so scared that he immediately reverses course regarding Monarch's termination and full backs them up.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:When Shaw appears to have died, he's genuinely torn up about it and pleads with Randa to not allow Hiroshi to lose him as well.]]
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:When Shaw appears to have died, he's genuinely torn up about it and pleads with Randa to not allow Hiroshi to lose him as well.]]
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A four-star U.S. Army general in 1954, who authorized the attempt to kill Godzilla disguised as the Castle Bravo test after Monarch brought their findings to him, and who subsequently gave Monarch the unlimited budget it needed to expand into a global coalition.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mostly. His first and express reaction to proof of Godzilla's existence is horrified fear (which is understandable, if misguided in the case of this particular Titan), and he internalizes Lee's concerns that Godzilla could be an even greater potential threat to U.S. national security than the exhaustion of the uranium reserves that are needed to deter foreign powers via a nuclear arsenal would be. Although Puckett takes Shaw, Keiko and Bill's request for uranium to lure Godzilla out for study as meaning they need to [[NukeEm nuke Godzilla A.S.A.P.]] and he takes to the idea, and although he also refuses the trio's subsequent protests to destroying Godzilla; unlike Admiral Stenz six decades later, General Puckett is a lot more justifiable in believing that an atomic weapon could actually kill Godzilla with certainty and work as intended since it had never been tried before him. After Godzilla is seemingly killed, Lee suggesting that another Titan like Godzilla could turn up far nearer to an American population center convinces Puckett to reject Lee's request for extra funding and resources for Monarch... to instead give Monarch ''unlimited'' extra funding and resources. When Lee shows up at a backyard barbeque to protest being left behind while Keiko and Bill were sent to investigate a Titan sighting, Puckett says that he's considering promoting Lee to take his place overseeing Monarch, which he will then be able to run as he sees fit, warning Lee that if he makes the wrong choices it could spell disaster. When Lee chases after Keiko instead of attending an important meeting, Puckett assigns military oversight of Monarch to Hatch, who contemptuously guts their previously-unlimited funding while sneering at Keiko for being Japanese.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mostly. His first and express reaction to proof of Godzilla's existence is horrified fear (which is understandable, if misguided in the case of this particular Titan), and he internalizes Lee's concerns that Godzilla could be an even greater potential threat to U.S. national security than the exhaustion of the uranium reserves that are needed to deter foreign powers via a nuclear arsenal would be. Although Puckett takes Shaw, Keiko and Bill's request for uranium to lure Godzilla out for study as meaning they need to [[NukeEm nuke Godzilla A.S.A.P.]] and he takes to the idea, and although he also refuses the trio's subsequent protests to destroying Godzilla; unlike Admiral Stenz six decades later, General Puckett is a lot more justifiable in believing that an atomic weapon could actually kill Godzilla with certainty and work as intended since it had never been tried before him. After Godzilla is seemingly killed, Lee suggesting that another Titan like Godzilla could turn up far nearer to an American population center convinces Puckett to reject Lee's request for extra funding and resources for Monarch... to instead give Monarch ''unlimited'' extra funding and resources. When Lee shows up at a backyard barbeque to protest being left behind while Keiko and Bill were sent to investigate a Titan sighting, Puckett says that he's considering promoting Lee to take his place overseeing Monarch, which he will then be able to run as he sees fit, warning Lee that if he makes the wrong choices it could spell disaster. When Lee chases after Keiko instead of attending an important meeting, Puckett assigns military oversight of Monarch to Lieutenant Hatch, who contemptuously guts their previously-unlimited funding while sneering at Keiko for being Japanese.
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Matthew [=MacCaull=]
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''
General Puckett's liaison for Monarch's military oversight after passing over Lee Shaw, gutting the organization's funding out of contempt, skepticism, and racism.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He sneers at Dr. Keiko Miura being given American military clearance due to her being 1) a woman, and 2) Japanese, specifically citing her being a former member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. He then guts Monarch's funding while scoffing that they should focus on a ''real'' threat to American national security, like [[RedScare Soviet spies infiltrating the country]], and delivers a damning report to General Puckett claiming they've been wasting the US government's resources in an attempt to get it shut down.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Lieutenant Hatch's attempt to shut Project Monarch down was what led Bill Randa to theorize about the existence of the Hollow Earth, reducing him to the laughingstock he was at the beginning of ''Film/KongSkullIsland''.
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Matthew [=MacCaull=]
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''
General Puckett's liaison for Monarch's military oversight after passing over Lee Shaw, gutting the organization's funding out of contempt, skepticism, and racism.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He sneers at Dr. Keiko Miura being given American military clearance due to her being 1) a woman, and 2) Japanese, specifically citing her being a former member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. He then guts Monarch's funding while scoffing that they should focus on a ''real'' threat to American national security, like [[RedScare Soviet spies infiltrating the country]], and delivers a damning report to General Puckett claiming they've been wasting the US government's resources in an attempt to get it shut down.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Lieutenant Hatch's attempt to shut Project Monarch down was what led Bill Randa to theorize about the existence of the Hollow Earth, reducing him to the laughingstock he was at the beginning of ''Film/KongSkullIsland''.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mostly. His first and express reaction to proof of Godzilla's existence is horrified fear (which is understandable, if misguided in the case of this particular Titan), and he internalizes Lee's concerns that Godzilla could be an even greater potential threat to U.S. national security than the exhaustion of the uranium reserves that are needed to deter foreign powers via a nuclear arsenal would be. Although Puckett takes Shaw, Keiko and Bill's request for uranium to lure Godzilla out for study as meaning they need to [[NukeEm nuke Godzilla A.S.A.P.]] and he takes to the idea, and although he also refuses the trio's subsequent protests to destroying Godzilla; unlike Admiral Stenz six decades later, General Puckett is a lot more justifiable in believing that an atomic weapon could actually kill Godzilla with certainty and work as intended since it had never been tried before him. After Godzilla is seemingly killed, Lee suggesting that another Titan like Godzilla could turn up far nearer to an American population center convinces Puckett to reject Lee's request for extra funding and resources for Monarch... to instead give Monarch ''unlimited'' extra funding and resources.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Not only is he the military figure who ordered the nuclear strike on Godzilla at Bikini Atoll in 1954, it's revealed that it was his actions that caused Monarch to decide to keep the government and military in the dark about how many dormant Titans they found around the world for the next six decades, leading to the events of ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''. '''And''' he's the one who gave Monarch the blank cheque in government funding which enabled it to expand to its 21st century size. Although Puckett's appearance was relatively minor, his actions shaped the whole Franchise/MonsterVerse.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Not only is he the military figure who ordered the nuclear strike on Godzilla at Bikini Atoll in 1954, it's revealed that it was his actions that caused Monarch to decide to keep the government and military in the dark about how many dormant Titans they found around the world for the next six decades, leading to the events of ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''. '''And''' he's the one who gave Monarch the blank cheque in government funding which enabled it to expand to its 21st century size. Although Puckett's appearance was relatively minor, his actions shaped the whole Franchise/MonsterVerse.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mostly. His first and express reaction to proof of Godzilla's existence is horrified fear (which is understandable, if misguided in the case of this particular Titan), and he internalizes Lee's concerns that Godzilla could be an even greater potential threat to U.S. national security than the exhaustion of the uranium reserves that are needed to deter foreign powers via a nuclear arsenal would be. Although Puckett takes Shaw, Keiko and Bill's request for uranium to lure Godzilla out for study as meaning they need to [[NukeEm nuke Godzilla A.S.A.P.]] and he takes to the idea, and although he also refuses the trio's subsequent protests to destroying Godzilla; unlike Admiral Stenz six decades later, General Puckett is a lot more justifiable in believing that an atomic weapon could actually kill Godzilla with certainty and work as intended since it had never been tried before him. After Godzilla is seemingly killed, Lee suggesting that another Titan like Godzilla could turn up far nearer to an American population center convinces Puckett to reject Lee's request for extra funding and resources for Monarch... to instead give Monarch ''unlimited'' extra funding and resources.
resources. When Lee shows up at a backyard barbeque to protest being left behind while Keiko and Bill were sent to investigate a Titan sighting, Puckett says that he's considering promoting Lee to take his place overseeing Monarch, which he will then be able to run as he sees fit, warning Lee that if he makes the wrong choices it could spell disaster. When Lee chases after Keiko instead of attending an important meeting, Puckett assigns military oversight of Monarch to Hatch, who contemptuously guts their previously-unlimited funding while sneering at Keiko for being Japanese.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Not only is he the military figure who ordered the nuclear strike on Godzilla at Bikini Atoll in 1954, it's revealed that it was his actions that caused Monarch to decide to keep the government and military in the dark about how many dormant Titans they found around the world for the next six decades, leading to the events of ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''. '''And''' he's the one who gave Monarch the blank cheque in government funding which eventually enabled it to expand to its 21st century size. Although Puckett's appearance was relatively minor, his actions shaped the whole Franchise/MonsterVerse.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Not only is he the military figure who ordered the nuclear strike on Godzilla at Bikini Atoll in 1954, it's revealed that it was his actions that caused Monarch to decide to keep the government and military in the dark about how many dormant Titans they found around the world for the next six decades, leading to the events of ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''. '''And''' he's the one who gave Monarch the blank cheque in government funding which eventually enabled it to expand to its 21st century size. Although Puckett's appearance was relatively minor, his actions shaped the whole Franchise/MonsterVerse.
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesMConnor
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (voice) | ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' (''Isle of the Damned'')
A U.S. Army officer who contacts Lieutenant Colonel Packard to inform him that Landsat are requesting a military escort for their survey expedition to Skull Island.
After Packard and most of the Sky Devils have died on the expedition due in part to Monarch's deceit at the onset and due to Kong initially slaughtering half the squadron, General Ward takes an active interest in Skull Island, forming a group of mercenaries with the aim of killing Kong in revenge for the Sky Devils' losses.
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* AscendedExtra: In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', Ward was just {{the voice}} on a phone in a single scene, passing on the request for a military escort to Packard. In the new Franchise/MonsterVerse Skull Island tabletop game campaign that's set after the movie, Ward is a major antagonistic character, heading one of the main factions.
* AFatherToHisMen: {{Implied|Trope}}. He amicably suggests to Packard when calling him that he could turn down the Landsat job in favor of taking some earned time off at home. In the ''Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' game's ''Isle of the Damned'' story, General Ward is hellbent on avenging the deaths of Packard and other Sky Devils by Kong's hand.
* GeneralRipper: Similarly to what Packard became before him, General Ward in the ''Cinematic Adventure'' game's ''Isle of the Damned'' storyline has become hellbent on killing Kong, leading a conspiracy with military mercenaries against the ape in vengeance for the deaths of the Sky Devils.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He's more or less the new Packard in ''Isle of the Damned'', as a military officer who wants to settle a blood debt with [[BigGood Kong]] for the latter's role in the deaths of his men and who serves as an antagonist.
* TheVoice: He's never seen in person in the movie. Only his voice is heard over the phone when he calls Packard about Landsat's request for a military escort.
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesMConnor
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (voice) | ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' (''Isle of the Damned'')
A U.S. Army officer who contacts Lieutenant Colonel Packard to inform him that Landsat are requesting a military escort for their survey expedition to Skull Island.
After Packard and most of the Sky Devils have died on the expedition due in part to Monarch's deceit at the onset and due to Kong initially slaughtering half the squadron, General Ward takes an active interest in Skull Island, forming a group of mercenaries with the aim of killing Kong in revenge for the Sky Devils' losses.
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* AscendedExtra: In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', Ward was just {{the voice}} on a phone in a single scene, passing on the request for a military escort to Packard. In the new Franchise/MonsterVerse Skull Island tabletop game campaign that's set after the movie, Ward is a major antagonistic character, heading one of the main factions.
* AFatherToHisMen: {{Implied|Trope}}. He amicably suggests to Packard when calling him that he could turn down the Landsat job in favor of taking some earned time off at home. In the ''Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' game's ''Isle of the Damned'' story, General Ward is hellbent on avenging the deaths of Packard and other Sky Devils by Kong's hand.
* GeneralRipper: Similarly to what Packard became before him, General Ward in the ''Cinematic Adventure'' game's ''Isle of the Damned'' storyline has become hellbent on killing Kong, leading a conspiracy with military mercenaries against the ape in vengeance for the deaths of the Sky Devils.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He's more or less the new Packard in ''Isle of the Damned'', as a military officer who wants to settle a blood debt with [[BigGood Kong]] for the latter's role in the deaths of his men and who serves as an antagonist.
* TheVoice: He's never seen in person in the movie. Only his voice is heard over the phone when he calls Packard about Landsat's request for a military escort.
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* GratuitousJapanese: Before charging into battle against a Skullcrawler, Marlow draws Gunpei's sword and whispers "Death before dishonor" in Japanese. [[spoiler: As we later learn, Gunpei was killed by Skullcrawlers, so it might have been a tribute to him]].
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* GratuitousJapanese: Before charging into battle against a Skullcrawler, Marlow draws Gunpei's sword and whispers "Death before dishonor" in Japanese. [[spoiler: As we later learn, [[spoiler:It was earlier revealed that Gunpei was killed by Skullcrawlers, a Skullcrawler, so it might have been a tribute to him]].
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* IWillFindYou: His motivation is to get off Skull Island so that he can reunite with his wife and the now-grown son that he never got to meet.
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* EurekaMoment: He bitterly says it'll be impossible to cross from the Iwi's village to the northern side of the island in one piece... then his face turns thoughtful as he adds, "At least not on foot."
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* EurekaMoment: He bitterly says it'll be impossible to cross from the Iwi's village to the northern side of the island in one piece... then his face turns thoughtful as he adds, "At least not on foot."foot," getting the idea to use ''The Gray Fox'' to navigate along the rivers.
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* SracasmBlind: When Conrad sarcastically calls his jury-rigged makeshift boat "lovely", Marlow replies, "Damn right." Although based on how Marlow gives Conrad a glance just before replying, Marlow may have been jokingly feigning sarcasm blindness.
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* SracasmBlind: SarcasmBlind: When Conrad sarcastically calls his jury-rigged makeshift boat "lovely", Marlow replies, "Damn right." Although based on how Marlow gives Conrad a glance just before replying, Marlow may have been jokingly feigning aware of the sarcasm blindness.and snarkily pretending not to notice it.
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* SracasmBlind: When Conrad sarcastically calls his jury-rigged makeshift boat "lovely", Marlow replies, "Damn right." Although based on how Marlow gives Conrad a glance just before replying, Marlow may have been jokingly feigning sarcasm blindness.
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* MilitarySalute: He salutes Conrad, Weaver, Brooks, San and Nieves' group when introducing himself to them and confirming he's a long-marooned military pilot.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He doesn't believe that any of the superspecies Monarch was founded to hunt are real, and with that in mind he initially refuses to do Bill any more favors helping them to investigate Skull Island when the U.S. Senate currently has the immediate fallout of the Vietnam War's end on their plate, stating that he's already done Bill too many favors in the past. However, he's persuaded to use his pull to get Randa and Brooks the chance to piggyback on the Landsat expedition to Skull Island when Brooks points out to him that if Monarch aren't on that island with Landsat, then the Soviets will get anything of value that might be on the island ahead of America. Willis also, despite making it ''very'' clear that he wanted this to be the last favor he ever granted Randa, is apparently convinced to approve Randa's ''last''-last request for permission to form a military escort to the island.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He doesn't believe that any of the superspecies Monarch was founded to hunt are real, and with that in mind he initially refuses to do Bill any more favors helping them Monarch to investigate Skull Island when the U.S. Senate currently has the immediate fallout of the Vietnam War's end on their plate, stating that he's already done Bill too many favors in the past. However, he's persuaded to use his pull to get Randa and Brooks the chance to piggyback on the Landsat expedition to Skull Island when once Brooks points out to him that if Monarch aren't on that island with Landsat, then the Soviets will get anything of value that might be on the island ahead of America. Willis also, despite making it ''very'' clear that he wanted this to be the last favor he ever granted grants Randa, is apparently convinced to approve Randa's ''last''-last request for permission to form a military escort to the island.
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* AgentScully: He doesn't believe in {{Kaiju}}, and only finances Randa's trip to Skull Island to avoid letting anything valuable fall into the hands of the Russians.
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* AgentScully: He doesn't believe in {{Kaiju}}, and only finances Randa's trip to Skull Island to avoid letting anything valuable fall into the hands of the Russians.Soviets.
* DeadpanSnarker: He manages to consistently maintain a serious-sounding tone, while not missing a chance to deride Brooks and Randa's monster-hunting as conspiracy theorist nonsense.
* DeadpanSnarker: He manages to consistently maintain a serious-sounding tone, while not missing a chance to deride Brooks and Randa's monster-hunting as conspiracy theorist nonsense.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He doesn't believe that any of the superspecies Monarch was founded to hunt are real, and with that in mind he initially refuses to do Bill any more favors helping them to investigate Skull Island when the U.S. Senate currently has the immediate fallout of the Vietnam War's end on their plate, stating that he's already done Bill too many favors in the past. However, he's persuaded to use his pull to get Randa and Brooks the chance to piggyback on the Landsat expedition to Skull Island when Brooks points out to him that if Monarch aren't on that island with Landsat, then the Soviets will get anything of value that might be on the island ahead of America. Willis also, despite making it ''very'' clear that he wanted this to be the last favor he ever granted Randa, is apparently convinced to approve Randa's ''last''-last request for permission to form a military escort to the island.
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* FlowersOfRomance: He brings flowers with him for his wife [[spoiler:when he reunites with her and their son after leaving Skull Island]].
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* ManlyFacialHair: A WWII pilot, and a decades-long veteran survivor of an IsleOfGiantHorrors which might be the most hostile wilderness anywhere on Earth's surface, and a loving husband and father who wants nothing more than to see his wife again and see the now grown-up son that he never got to know; who has grown a very bushy beard in his many years marooned and cut off from civilization. [[spoiler:Even when he gets back to the United States once and for all in TheStinger, Marlow has cut his beard but still maintains a bushy mustache when he reunites with his family]].
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* ObsessiveSportsFan: He's a huge fan of the Chicago Cubs. Wanting to know if they've won a world series is among his questions about what's happened in the world at large during his decades stranded on Skull Island, and he jokingly takes offence to Slivko supporting the Detroit Tigers. [[spoiler:After returning to civilization and after reuniting his family, catching up on sports on the TV is one of the first things Marlow does]].
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* YoureInsane: "This is ''NUTS''! YOU HEAR ME?! NUTS!!!"
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* BareHandedBladeBlock: In the opening scene, Marlow catches Gunpei's shin-guntō with his hands. His hands get bloody and he screams in pain, but he manages to pull the sword out of Gunpei's hands.
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* IdenticalGrandson: Marlow's son is played by Will Brittain, who also played young Marlow in the prologue.
* IdenticalGrandson: Marlow's son is played by Will Brittain, who also played young Marlow in the prologue.
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* {{Expy}}: He takes over the role that the fictionalized version of General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur in ''Godzilla: Awakening'' originally had; of the U.S. Army officer who authorized the Castle Bravo atomic bombing in an attempt to kill Godzilla, over protests from Monarch, and who contributed to Monarch's growth in its early days.
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!!!'''Air Force'''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JohnCReilly & Creator/WillBrittain (Young)
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland''
-->''"The way they tell it for thousands of years, the people on this island lived in fear. That's a hell of a long time to be scared. And then, the damnedest thing happened. Some of the things they were afraid of started protecting them against the things that were eating them."''
A World War II Lieutenant who spent 28 years stranded on Skull Island. He knows the creatures of the island, and he is a friend of the Iwi natives.
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JohnCReilly & Creator/WillBrittain (Young)
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland''
-->''"The way they tell it for thousands of years, the people on this island lived in fear. That's a hell of a long time to be scared. And then, the damnedest thing happened. Some of the things they were afraid of started protecting them against the things that were eating them."''
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* GeneralRipper: A fairly understandable case, given what the Titans physically are combined with how little-understood they and Godzilla were in his time. His express reaction to Titans' existence is abject horror and fear of what a creature as big as Godzilla could do if it ever encroaches on the U.S.. When Lee Shaw, Keiko Miura and Bill Randa request 150 pounds of uranium to lure Godzilla out of hiding, Puckett instead puts that uranium to use building an atom bomb to try and kill Godzilla without telling the trio, and when they find out, he turns down their protests to killing Godzilla before they even know if Godzilla ''will'' pose a threat, of his true nature, or what his greater role in the world might be. When Godzilla is seemingly killed by the blast, Puckett turns to his celebratory men with a grin and boasts, "Magnificent!"
* {{Expy}}: He takes over the role that the fictionalized version of General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur in ''Godzilla: Awakening'' originally had; of the U.S. Army officer who authorized the Castle Bravo atomic bombing in an attempt to kill Godzilla, over protests from Monarch, and who contributed to Monarch's growth in its early days.
* IronicEcho: When Shaw expresses displeasure at him building a nuclear bomb behind his and his team's backs to kill Godzilla, Puckett justifies his actions by throwing back in Shaw's face the words that Shaw originally used to convince Pucket that (scientifically) investigating Godzilla was worth redirecting 150 pounds of the country's uranium supply to begin with: Godzilla being "an existential threat to global security."
* NukeEm: A little {{downplayed|Trope}}. He takes to the idea of nuking Godzilla first and asking questions later once Lee, Keiko and Bill convince him that safeguarding the U.S.'s territories against an incursion by the Titan is worth redirecting their uranium supply into dealing with him (with the trio being unaware that Puckett would interpret their advice as "nuke Godzilla" instead of "lure Godzilla out for study"). Puckett not only all but goes behind the scientists' backs when arranging the nuclear strike against Godzilla, he also turns down the trio's subsequent pleas that they should wait to learn more about Godzilla before they resort to trying to kill him, justifying his hasty course of action by saying, "You wait to see what the enemy's gonna do, you've already lost". When Godzilla vanishes in the atomic blast and is presumed dead, Puckett turns to his jubilant men and he calls what they've done "magnificent" while sporting an unsettling grin, making him come a lot closer to playing this trope straight.
* {{Pride}}: Not only is he certain that an atomic bomb can and will obliterate Godzilla (which is a lot more justifiable in his case than it was in Stenz', since in his time it's never been attempted on a Titan before); but his reaction to Godzilla's seeming death in the blast is to grin and shout to his men, "Magnificent!", clearly taking pride in the destructive power of man trumping nature's perceived horrors. Of course, the audience is fully aware that his attempt on Godzilla's life has [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated completely failed to kill him]], and if anything it's probably made him even stronger in the long run.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mostly. His first and express reaction to proof of Godzilla's existence is horrified fear (which is understandable, if misguided in the case of this particular Titan), and he internalizes Lee's concerns that Godzilla could be an even greater potential threat to U.S. national security than the exhaustion of the uranium reserves that are needed to deter foreign powers via a nuclear arsenal would be. Although Puckett takes Shaw, Keiko and Bill's request for uranium to lure Godzilla out for study as meaning they need to [[NukeEm nuke Godzilla A.S.A.P.]] and he takes to the idea, and although he also refuses the trio's subsequent protests to destroying Godzilla; unlike Admiral Stenz six decades later, General Puckett is a lot more justifiable in believing that an atomic weapon could actually kill Godzilla with certainty and work as intended since it had never been tried before him. After Godzilla is seemingly killed, Lee suggesting that another Titan like Godzilla could turn up far nearer to an American population center convinces Puckett to reject Lee's request for extra funding and resources for Monarch... to instead give Monarch ''unlimited'' extra funding and resources.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Not only is he the military figure who ordered the nuclear strike on Godzilla at Bikini Atoll in 1954, it's revealed that it was his actions that caused Monarch to decide to keep the government and military in the dark about how many dormant Titans they found around the world for the next six decades, leading to the events of ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''. '''And''' he's the one who gave Monarch the blank cheque in government funding which enabled it to expand to its 21st century size. Although Puckett's appearance was relatively minor, his actions shaped the whole Franchise/MonsterVerse.
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!!!'''Air Force'''
[[folder:Lieutenant Hank Marlow]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JohnCReilly & Creator/WillBrittain (Young)
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/KongSkullIsland''
-->''"The way they tell it for thousands of years, the people on this island lived in fear. That's a hell of a long time to be scared. And then, the damnedest thing happened. Some of the things they were afraid of started protecting them against the things that were eating them."''
A World War II Lieutenant who spent 28 years stranded on Skull Island. He knows the creatures of the island, and he is a friend of the Iwi natives.
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* GeneralFailure: {{Downplayed}}. Every time this guy has been put in charge of trying to combat a Titan threat, his decisions, complicity, and failure to think outside the box have directly caused [[FromBadToWorse a bad Titan situation to become]] ''[[FromBadToWorse so]]'' [[FromBadToWorse much worse than it needed to be]]. Stenz' decision to use a nuke against Godzilla and the [=MUTOs=] despite Monarch's urgings to the contrary ends up creating a disgraceful military FUBAR [[spoiler:that puts the entire city of San Francisco at risk of nuclear destruction]] whilst giving the [=MUTOs=] a food source to fertilize their spawn (and Stenz [[UltimateJobSecurity somehow wasn't demoted]] after commanding this blunder). Five years later, Stenz' implicit support of TheGovernment[='s=] Titan-exterminating agenda and his part in the [[FantasticNuke Oxygen Destroyer]]'s launch ''directly'' enables [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]]'s reign of terror, putting the entire human race and all life on Earth as we know it under the threat of near-certain and total destruction. All of the above having been said, it's made clear in the 2014 movie and the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization that it's less a matter of Stenz being incompetent at his job, and more a matter of the entire U.S. military being completely out of their depth whilst severely underestimating the Titans' capabilities. In fact, from what we've seen of the rest of the government and military, it's likely that any other military commander might have been even ''more'' arrogant and bull-headed than Stenz if they were put in the same role as him, so it's less that Stenz is a failure and more that he was the ''least inept'' man the military had for the job.
* GeneralRipper: {{Downplayed}} in that he's selfless, has some respect for the experts he's provided and he's ultimately well-intentioned, but Stenz does overall function in a similar role. Though he's not as blind to reason as the government he serves; Stenz is persistently skeptical of the idea of coexisting with Titans or letting them fight due to his narrow outlook, he tends to think the GodzillaThreshold has been crossed far too early and fall back on NukeEm methods, and he has a track record of [[IgnoredExpert deciding to dismiss Monarch's advice at the worst times]]. It's indicated in ''King of the Monsters'' that Stenz listening to his higher-ups is the ''problem'' rather than solution to his faults, as the government are indicated to be even less reasonable and forward-thinking than Stenz is. He overall tends both to fail at thinking outside the box, and to underestimate the consequences of his NukeEm measures as well as not thinking in advance about what the hell he'll do if the Nuke 'em attempt backfires.
* GeneralRipper: {{Downplayed}} in that he's selfless, has some respect for the experts he's provided and he's ultimately well-intentioned, but Stenz does overall function in a similar role. Though he's not as blind to reason as the government he serves; Stenz is persistently skeptical of the idea of coexisting with Titans or letting them fight due to his narrow outlook, he tends to think the GodzillaThreshold has been crossed far too early and fall back on NukeEm methods, and he has a track record of [[IgnoredExpert deciding to dismiss Monarch's advice at the worst times]]. It's indicated in ''King of the Monsters'' that Stenz listening to his higher-ups is the ''problem'' rather than solution to his faults, as the government are indicated to be even less reasonable and forward-thinking than Stenz is. He overall tends both to fail at thinking outside the box, and to underestimate the consequences of his NukeEm measures as well as not thinking in advance about what the hell he'll do if the Nuke 'em attempt backfires.
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* GeneralFailure: {{Downplayed}}. Every time this guy has been put in charge of trying to combat a Titan threat, his decisions, complicity, and failure to think outside the box have directly caused [[FromBadToWorse a bad Titan situation to become]] ''[[FromBadToWorse so]]'' [[FromBadToWorse much worse than it needed to be]]. Stenz' decision to use a nuke against Godzilla and the [=MUTOs=] despite Monarch's urgings to the contrary ends up creating a disgraceful military FUBAR [[spoiler:that puts the an entire major city of San Francisco at risk of nuclear destruction]] whilst giving the [=MUTOs=] a food source to fertilize their spawn (and Stenz [[UltimateJobSecurity somehow wasn't demoted]] after commanding this blunder). Five years later, Stenz' implicit support of TheGovernment[='s=] Titan-exterminating agenda and his part in the [[FantasticNuke Oxygen Destroyer]]'s launch ''directly'' enables [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]]'s reign of terror, putting the entire human race and all life on Earth as we know it under the threat of near-certain and total destruction. All of the above having been said, it's made clear in the 2014 movie and the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization that it's less a matter of Stenz being incompetent at his job, and more a matter of the entire U.S. military being completely out of their depth whilst severely underestimating the Titans' capabilities. In fact, from what we've seen of the rest of the government and military, it's likely that any other military commander might have been even ''more'' arrogant and bull-headed than Stenz if they were put in the same role as him, so it's less that Stenz is a failure and more that he was the ''least inept'' man the military had for the job.
* GeneralRipper: {{Downplayed}} in that he's selfless, has some respect for the experts he's provided and he's ultimately well-intentioned, but Stenz does overall function in a similar role. Though he's not as blind to reason as the government he serves; Stenz is persistently skeptical of the idea of coexisting with Titans or letting them fight due to his narrow outlook, he tends to think the GodzillaThreshold has been crossed far too early and fall back onNukeEm methods, [[NukeEm throwing high-risk weapons of mass destruction at the Titans]], and he has a track record of [[IgnoredExpert deciding to dismiss dismissing Monarch's advice at some of the worst times]]. It's indicated in ''King of the Monsters'' that Stenz listening to his higher-ups is the ''problem'' rather than solution to his faults, as the government are indicated to be even less reasonable and forward-thinking than Stenz is. He overall tends both to fail at thinking outside the box, and to underestimate the consequences of his NukeEm measures as well as not thinking in advance about what the hell he'll do if the Nuke 'em attempt backfires.
* GeneralRipper: {{Downplayed}} in that he's selfless, has some respect for the experts he's provided and he's ultimately well-intentioned, but Stenz does overall function in a similar role. Though he's not as blind to reason as the government he serves; Stenz is persistently skeptical of the idea of coexisting with Titans or letting them fight due to his narrow outlook, he tends to think the GodzillaThreshold has been crossed far too early and fall back on
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* HairContrastDuo: He forms an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] with the much darker-haired Dr. Serizawa in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' while they're working together or tracking the Kaiju, and debating the military's use of nuclear weaponry. Serizawa is by far the more idealistic and philosophical of the duo with his borderline-esoteric conviction in Godzilla's benign purpose, he reveres nature, and he believes that human intervention does more harm than good compared to letting nature sort itself out. Stenz on the other hand is committed to protecting the public from the Kaiju to the point of being short-sighted to the bigger picture, he's down-to-earth to a fault if out of his depth, he's skeptical of the idea that Godzilla is anything more than another destructive beast that threatens the lives Stenz is charged with defending, and disgust at the idea of doing nothing is one of the reasons why Stenz initially authorizes [[NukeEm nuking the Kaiju]] over Serizawa's objections. The two men at a couple points have a heart-to-heart over their respective countries' history with each-other at the end of World War II and (in the novelization) their respective fathers' contrasting personal histories with the Little Boy atomic bomb.
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* HairContrastDuo: He forms an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] with the much darker-haired Dr. Serizawa in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' while they're working together or on tracking the Kaiju, and debating the military's use of nuclear weaponry. Serizawa is by far the more idealistic and philosophical of the duo with his borderline-esoteric conviction in Godzilla's benign purpose, he reveres nature, and he believes that human intervention does more harm than good compared to letting nature sort itself out. Stenz on the other hand is committed to protecting the public from the Kaiju to the point of being short-sighted to the bigger picture, he's down-to-earth to a fault if out of his depth, he's skeptical of the idea that Godzilla is anything more than another destructive beast that threatens the lives Stenz is charged with defending, and disgust at the idea of doing nothing is one of the reasons why Stenz initially authorizes [[NukeEm nuking the Kaiju]] over Serizawa's objections. The two men at a couple points have a heart-to-heart over their respective countries' history with each-other at the end of World War II and (in the novelization) their respective fathers' contrasting personal histories with the Little Boy atomic bomb.
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* UltimateJobSecurity: {{Downplayed}}, but [[https://godzilla.fandom.com/wiki/William_Stenz as noted on his Godzilla Wikia page]], he's been promoted by two extra stars between the 2014 film and ''King of the Monsters'', despite the massive San Francisco fiasco which his decisions ultimately exacerbated. Possibly {{justified}} by the five-year gap between the movies meaning he made other accomplishments that earned him promotion -- or alternatively, it might have something to do with the government's portrayal in ''Godzilla Aftershock'' and ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', which reveals they're even less forward-thinking and [[TooDumbToLive even more idiotic]] than Stenz is.
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* UltimateJobSecurity: {{Downplayed}}, but [[https://godzilla.fandom.com/wiki/William_Stenz as noted on his Godzilla Wikia page]], he's been promoted by two extra stars between the 2014 film and ''King of the Monsters'', despite the massive San Francisco fiasco with the nuke which he was in charge of and which his decisions decision ultimately exacerbated.instigated. Possibly {{justified}} by the five-year gap between the movies meaning he made other accomplishments that earned him promotion -- or alternatively, it might have something to do with the government's portrayal in ''Godzilla Aftershock'' and ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', which reveals they're even less forward-thinking and [[TooDumbToLive even more idiotic]] than Stenz is.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: With his moderately reasonable attitude towards the {{Ignored Expert}}s and constant level-headedness, Stenz could be an excellent military leader in any other disaster movies' settings. Unfortunately, in the [=MonsterVerse=], the giant rampaging monsters are directly tied to a philosophical and idealistic GreenAesop which Stenz can't wrap his head around, and themes of mankind's [[{{Pride}} hubris]] in thinking we are in control of nature are in full effect; making Stenz, with his inability to think outside the box, a poor liaison for competently handling Titan crises.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: WrongAssumption: With his moderately reasonable attitude towards the {{Ignored Expert}}s and constant level-headedness, level-headedness while trying to combat the franchise's resident Kaiju, Stenz could be an excellent military leader in any other kaiju or disaster movies' settings. Unfortunately, Stenz happens to be in the [=MonsterVerse=], a non-classical kaiju setting where the giant rampaging monsters are directly tied to a philosophical and idealistic GreenAesop which Stenz can't wrap his head around, and themes of mankind's [[{{Pride}} hubris]] in thinking we are in control of nature are in full effect; making Stenz, with his inability to think outside the box, a poor liaison for competently handling Titan crises.
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* MirthlessLaughter: Having been left [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} a little eccentric]] by his long time marooned on Skull Island, Marlow has moments where he bursts into inappropriate giggles. He laughs when he learns Conrad and Weaver's expedition has a way off the island but it's in the north and they only have three days to get there, which Marlow knows is a damn-near impossible objective to meet without getting eaten first. Ironically, Conrad doesn't even twig that Marlow's laughter is the Shock- and Irony-type version of the trope until Marlow starts slapping Conrad's face mid-laughter.
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* MirthlessLaughter: Having been left [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} a little eccentric]] by his long time marooned on Skull Island, Marlow has moments where he bursts into inappropriate giggles. He laughs when he learns Conrad and Weaver's expedition has a way off the island but it's in the north and they only have three days to get there, which Marlow knows is a damn-near impossible objective to meet without getting eaten first. Ironically, Comically, Conrad doesn't even twig that Marlow's laughter is the Shock- and Irony-type version of the trope until Marlow starts slapping Conrad's face mid-laughter.face.
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* AesopAmnesia: After his attempt to nuke Godzilla and the [=MUTOs=] [[EpicFail spectacularly backfires]], Stenz' last appearance in the 2014 movie is him opting to hold out hope that [[IgnoredExpert Serizawa]] is right about Godzilla being humanity's ally instead of our enemy who will solve the MUTO problem for us [[spoiler:(which Godzilla ''does'' do)]]. In ''King of the Monsters'', Stenz is right back to dismissing Serizawa's pro-monster advice, refusing to consider Godzilla an ally, and trying to kill the Titans on U.S. military terms – in fact, it's hinted in the senate scene that Stenz is siding with {{the government}}[='s=] plan to exterminate all the Titans (which would likely include Godzilla). Semi-{{justified}}, as Stenz' original decision to put faith in Godzilla was born out of desperation and there was literally nothing else the military could do, so he most likely saw it as a last-ditch EnemyMine rather than as proof that he should've taken Serizawa more seriously.
* BeleagueredBureaucrat: In the 2014 film, he makes it clear to Serizawa that his dismissal of the latter's concerns about nuking the Kaiju isn't the standard GeneralRipper[='s=] paranoia and overt ignorance of experts, but is based more on Stenz' professional and moral duties to prioritize the public's lives and on Stenz being ''massively'' bogged down by the collateral the [=MUTOs=] cause with every passing minute. Stenz pretty much states that he'd be happy to consider alternative methods of neutralizing the threat if he didn't see nuking them as the least costly recourse available, a character trait which receives even more emphasis in the novelization. These traits seem to have somewhat faded in ''King of the Monsters'': it's hinted Stenz is siding with the government in favor of a [[WrongAssumption Titan extermination agenda]], although he still hints to Serizawa [[spoiler:when the Oxygen Destroyer is launched]] that he's been stalling for time in the hopes Monarch could resolve the problems on their own terms (which they haven't, or so he assumes).
-->"''I understand your concerns, doctor. But I am sacrificing lives every minute trying to steer one of these things clear of population centers and now there are two more on the way!''"
* TheBrigadier: A stoic and professional U.S. military officer, Stenz is put in command of the military effort to track and combat the loosed [[{{Kaiju}} MUTOs]]. Five years later, he's directly involved in the senate hearings on the Titans on the U.S. military's behalf, [[spoiler:and in the Oxygen Destroyer's launch against the loosed Titans]]. Stenz ''tries'' to be a {{reasonable authority figure}}, but he ultimately [[IgnoredExpert ignores the experts]] at the most crucial moments, and ends up [[NiceJobBreakingItHero making a bad situation even worse than it could have been]]. Persistently skeptical of Dr. Serizawa's faith in [[HeroWithBadPublicity Godzilla]], Stenz can't think outside of the box when attempting to kill Titans, and he only opens up to deferring towards [[GoodIsNotDumb Monarch]]'s way of thinking ''after'' the military's way of doing things has [[FromBadToWorse created some apocalyptically-catastrophic and needless FUBAR]].
-->"''I understand your concerns, doctor. But I am sacrificing lives every minute trying to steer one of these things clear of population centers and now there are two more on the way!''"
* TheBrigadier: A stoic and professional U.S. military officer, Stenz is put in command of the military effort to track and combat the loosed [[{{Kaiju}} MUTOs]]. Five years later, he's directly involved in the senate hearings on the Titans on the U.S. military's behalf, [[spoiler:and in the Oxygen Destroyer's launch against the loosed Titans]]. Stenz ''tries'' to be a {{reasonable authority figure}}, but he ultimately [[IgnoredExpert ignores the experts]] at the most crucial moments, and ends up [[NiceJobBreakingItHero making a bad situation even worse than it could have been]]. Persistently skeptical of Dr. Serizawa's faith in [[HeroWithBadPublicity Godzilla]], Stenz can't think outside of the box when attempting to kill Titans, and he only opens up to deferring towards [[GoodIsNotDumb Monarch]]'s way of thinking ''after'' the military's way of doing things has [[FromBadToWorse created some apocalyptically-catastrophic and needless FUBAR]].
* DeepBreathRevealsTension: In the 2014 film's novelization, Stenz takes a deep breath to ready himself before addressing a group of soldiers, [[spoiler:shortly after the [=MUTOs=] have nested in San Francisco with a ticking nuke]].
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: He turns down Serizawa's advice in favor of Nuke 'em despite his respect for Serizawa, and though he remains polite to Serizawa, he seems to think the latter is against attempting to kill the Titans due to [[AdmiringTheAbomination his reverence of them]] and due to lingering fears about the Hiroshima bombing (in which case, . What Stenz fails to realize is Serizawa is actually saying that man is not nearly as big as it thinks it is, and that they're not merely trying to fight a living, giant threat but are dealing with eldritch physical forces of nature which they don't yet understand; and that attempting to forcibly subdue such important parts of nature with manmade means is certain to backfire and might if anything make things worse for us. Stenz gets extra points for seemingly not learning his lesson even after Serizawa verbally spells it out for him near the end of the first film, if Stenz' actions in the second film are any indication.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: He turns down Serizawa's advice in favor of Nuke 'em despite his respect for Serizawa, and though he remains polite to Serizawa, he seems to think the latter is against attempting to kill the Titans due to [[AdmiringTheAbomination [[TheXenophile his reverence of them]] and due to lingering fears about the Hiroshima bombing (in which case, . What Stenz fails to realize is Serizawa is actually saying that man is not nearly as big as it thinks it is, and that they're not merely trying to fight a living, giant threat but are dealing with eldritch physical forces of nature which they don't yet understand; and that attempting to forcibly subdue such important parts of nature with manmade means is certain to backfire and might if anything make things worse for us. Stenz gets extra points for seemingly not learning his lesson even after Serizawa verbally spells it out for him near the end of the first film, if Stenz' actions in the second film are any indication.indication.
* FailureHero: {{Exaggerated}}. Both times he turns up to try and contain a Titan situation, the military's recourse goes completely awry and ends up [[EpicFail aiding the truly-hostile]] [[FromBadToWorse Titans' world-ending goals]]. The most that Stenz can do right is in helping to clean up the catastrophic mess the military have made, and even that boils down to the army standing by and doing nothing (in the 2014 film), or creating a ginormous decoy on Godzilla's behalf (in ''King of the Monsters''). ''And even in the latter case'', the novelization states that Stenz and the military fleet's assault meant to distract King Ghidorah was decimated much quicker and more spectacularly than Stenz or anyone else involved in the operation's planning had been expecting.
* FailureHero: {{Exaggerated}}. Both times he turns up to try and contain a Titan situation, the military's recourse goes completely awry and ends up [[EpicFail aiding the truly-hostile]] [[FromBadToWorse Titans' world-ending goals]]. The most that Stenz can do right is in helping to clean up the catastrophic mess the military have made, and even that boils down to the army standing by and doing nothing (in the 2014 film), or creating a ginormous decoy on Godzilla's behalf (in ''King of the Monsters''). ''And even in the latter case'', the novelization states that Stenz and the military fleet's assault meant to distract King Ghidorah was decimated much quicker and more spectacularly than Stenz or anyone else involved in the operation's planning had been expecting.
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* FatalFlaw: ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' seems to have cemented narrow-mindedness as Stenz's Fatal Flaw. Despite maintaining a constant level head and despite his respectful demeanor towards Monarch, he's simply unable to think outside of a normal military mindset of treating the Titans like an active threat to infrastructure and civilians' safety that the military must neutralize, which is particularly problematic due to how the creatures directly tie into the [=MonsterVerse's=] GreenAesop. He sees the Titans merely as "things" and in terms of how much of a threat they pose, and he misinterprets Monarch's protests against killing the Titans for naivete born of their AdmiringTheAbomination. Depending on [[YMMV/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Alternative Character Interpretation]], his role in ''King of the Monsters'' indicates he's either persistent in his [[FantasticRacism distrust of the Kaiju]], or he's choosing [[ToBeLawfulOrGood To Be Lawful rather than Good]] to a fault. Either way, him failing to wrap his head around the Kaiju as anything other than a potential threat and furthermore not taking Serizawa's advice more seriously has so far racked up two ''extreme'' cases of making things go FromBadToWorse.
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* FatalFlaw: ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' seems to have cemented narrow-mindedness to the bigger picture as Stenz's Fatal Flaw. Despite maintaining a constant level head and despite his respectful demeanor towards Monarch, he's simply unable to think outside of a normal military mindset of treating the Titans like an active threat to infrastructure and civilians' safety that the military must neutralize, which is particularly problematic due to how the creatures directly tie into the [=MonsterVerse's=] GreenAesop. He sees the Titans merely as "things" and in terms of how much of a threat they pose, and he misinterprets Monarch's protests against killing the Titans for naivete born of their AdmiringTheAbomination.[[TheXenophile scientific fascination with the creatures]]. Depending on [[YMMV/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Alternative Character Interpretation]], his role in ''King of the Monsters'' indicates he's either persistent in his [[FantasticRacism distrust of the Kaiju]], or he's choosing [[ToBeLawfulOrGood To Be Lawful rather than Good]] to a fault. Either way, him failing to wrap his head around the Kaiju as anything other than a potential threat and furthermore not taking Serizawa's advice more seriously has so far racked up two ''extreme'' cases of making things go FromBadToWorse.
* GeneralFailure: {{Downplayed}}. Every time this guy has been put in charge of trying to combat a Titan threat, his decisions, complicity, and failure to think outside the box have directly caused [[FromBadToWorse a bad Titan situation to become]] ''[[FromBadToWorse so]]'' [[FromBadToWorse much worse than it needed to be]]. Stenz' decision to use a nuke against Godzilla and the [=MUTOs=] despite Monarch's urgings to the contrary ends up creating a disgraceful military FUBAR [[spoiler:that puts the entire city of San Francisco at risk of nuclear destruction]] whilst giving the [=MUTOs=] a food source to fertilize their spawn (and Stenz [[UltimateJobSecurity somehow wasn't demoted]] after commanding this blunder). Five years later, Stenz' implicit support of TheGovernment[='s=] Titan-exterminating agenda and his part in the [[FantasticNuke Oxygen Destroyer]]'s launch ''directly'' enables [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]]'s reign of terror, putting the entire human race and all life on Earth as we know it under the threat of near-certain and total destruction. All of the above having been said, it's made clear in the 2014 movie and the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization that it's less a matter of Stenz being incompetent at his job, and more a matter of the entire U.S. military being completely out of their depth whilst severely underestimating the Titans' capabilities. In fact, from what we've seen of the rest of the government and military, it's likely that any other military commander might have been even ''more'' arrogant and bull-headed than Stenz if they were put in the same role as him, so it's less that Stenz is a failure and more that he was the ''least inept'' man the military had for the job.
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* GodzillaThreshold: He tends to [[WrongGenreSavvy think the Threshold has been crossed earlier than it actually has been]]. He believes that utilizing nuclear weapons works as the least costly way of dealing with the [=MUTOs=]. He's aware that they feed off of radiation, but believes the sheer strength of the explosion will be enough to kill them, since the H-Bomb that failed to kill Godzilla in 1954 is a firecracker compared to what's at their disposal six decades later. In ''King of the Monsters'', he and the military resort to deploying an even more devastating prototype weapon against Ghidorah, in an attempt to kill him and Rodan after both Titans awaken and escape Monarch's containment outposts.
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* GodzillaThreshold: He tends to [[WrongGenreSavvy [[WrongAssumption think the Threshold has been crossed earlier than it actually has been]]. He believes that utilizing nuclear weapons works as the least costly way of dealing with the [=MUTOs=]. He's aware that they feed off of radiation, but believes the sheer strength of the explosion will be enough to kill them, since the H-Bomb that failed to kill Godzilla in 1954 is a firecracker compared to what's at their disposal six decades later. In ''King of the Monsters'', he and the military resort to deploying an even more devastating prototype weapon against Ghidorah, in an attempt to kill him and Rodan after both Titans awaken and escape Monarch's containment outposts.outposts.
* HairContrastDuo: He forms an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] with the much darker-haired Dr. Serizawa in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' while they're working together or tracking the Kaiju, and debating the military's use of nuclear weaponry. Serizawa is by far the more idealistic and philosophical of the duo with his borderline-esoteric conviction in Godzilla's benign purpose, he reveres nature, and he believes that human intervention does more harm than good compared to letting nature sort itself out. Stenz on the other hand is committed to protecting the public from the Kaiju to the point of being short-sighted to the bigger picture, he's down-to-earth to a fault if out of his depth, he's skeptical of the idea that Godzilla is anything more than another destructive beast that threatens the lives Stenz is charged with defending, and disgust at the idea of doing nothing is one of the reasons why Stenz initially authorizes [[NukeEm nuking the Kaiju]] over Serizawa's objections. The two men at a couple points have a heart-to-heart over their respective countries' history with each-other at the end of World War II and (in the novelization) their respective fathers' contrasting personal histories with the Little Boy atomic bomb.
* HairContrastDuo: He forms an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] with the much darker-haired Dr. Serizawa in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' while they're working together or tracking the Kaiju, and debating the military's use of nuclear weaponry. Serizawa is by far the more idealistic and philosophical of the duo with his borderline-esoteric conviction in Godzilla's benign purpose, he reveres nature, and he believes that human intervention does more harm than good compared to letting nature sort itself out. Stenz on the other hand is committed to protecting the public from the Kaiju to the point of being short-sighted to the bigger picture, he's down-to-earth to a fault if out of his depth, he's skeptical of the idea that Godzilla is anything more than another destructive beast that threatens the lives Stenz is charged with defending, and disgust at the idea of doing nothing is one of the reasons why Stenz initially authorizes [[NukeEm nuking the Kaiju]] over Serizawa's objections. The two men at a couple points have a heart-to-heart over their respective countries' history with each-other at the end of World War II and (in the novelization) their respective fathers' contrasting personal histories with the Little Boy atomic bomb.
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* UncertainDoom: In the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization, Stenz' submarine is apparently damaged at the Washington D.C. battle against Ghidorah and Rodan, and the last that's seen of him is a brief video feed showing his sub is flooding and suffering electrical fires before the signal cuts out, making it likely (given the environment where his sub was going down) that he died, although the novelization deliberately leaves it uncertain. A deleted scene (which was cut from the film because the director wanted to leave the door open for Stenz to return in a future instalment) depicts Stenz [[FaceDeathWithDignity Facing Death with Dignity]] and telling Colonel Foster via video feed ItHasBeenAnHonor, before he's apparently KilledMidSentence by an explosion. If Stenz is dead, this arguably doubles as a KarmicDeath for his role in the Oxygen Destroyer which caused so much avoidable harm and destruction, as he wouldn't have been present at that battle if the [=O.D.'s=] deployment hadn't enabled King Ghidorah's global Titan takeover.
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* UncertainDoom: In the ''King of the Monsters'' novelization, Stenz' submarine is apparently damaged at the Washington D.C. battle against Ghidorah and Rodan, and the last that's seen of him is a brief video feed showing his sub is flooding and suffering electrical fires before the signal cuts out, making it likely (given the environment where his sub was going down) that he died, although the novelization deliberately leaves it uncertain. A deleted scene (which was cut from the film because the director wanted to leave the door open for Stenz to return in a future instalment) depicts Stenz [[FaceDeathWithDignity Facing Death with Dignity]] and telling Colonel Foster via video feed ItHasBeenAnHonor, before he's apparently KilledMidSentence by an explosion. If Stenz is dead, this arguably doubles as a KarmicDeath for [[DoomedContrarian his role in the Oxygen Destroyer Destroyer's usage]] which caused so much avoidable harm and destruction, as he wouldn't have been present at that battle if the [=O.D.'s=] deployment hadn't enabled King Ghidorah's global Titan takeover.
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* MirthlessLaughter: Having been left [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} a little eccentric]] by his long time marooned on Skull Island, Marlow has moments where he bursts into inappropriate giggles. He laughs when he learns Conrad and Weaver's expedition has a way off the island but it's in the north and they only have three days to get there, which Marlow knows is a damn-near impossible objective to meet without getting eaten first. Ironically, Conrad doesn't even twig that Marlow's laughter is the Shock- and Irony-type version of the trope until Marlow starts slapping Conrad's face mid-laughter.
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A member of the U.S. Senate. senator who chairs the committee that's grilling Monarch on their reasons for not cooperating with the government's demands to exterminate the Titans.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She wants the Titans killed while they're still dormant and believes humanity is capable of doing so... overlooking the fact nothing humanity has barring an experimental weapon with severe risk of long term collateral damage does ''anything'' but make the Titans mad (and the one time said weapon is used, it doesn't kill either of the Titans it hits), and Monarch's attempt to kill the male MUTO only resulted in that exact outcome. Even Mark Russell, who is in the same boat of wanting the Titans dead, isn't dumb enough to think humanity should pick a fight with the Titans unless they're absolutely sure that's a fight they can win.
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* SuicidalOverconfidence: She wants the Titans killed while they're still dormant and believes humanity is capable of doing so... overlooking the fact nothing humanity has barring an experimental weapon with severe risk of long term collateral damage do ''anything'' but make Titans mad (and the one time it's used doesn't kill either of the Titans it hits) and Monarch's attempt to kill the male MUTO only resulted in that exact outcome. Even Mark Russell, who is in the same boat of wanting the Titans dead, isn't dumb enough to think humanity should pick a fight with them unless they're absolutely sure that's a fight they can win.
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* WrongAssumption: She seems to believe she's in one of the older ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies, where the military needs to be mobilized to hunt down and destroy all the newly-emerging monsters for the sake of mankind's survival, and where the creatures can be killed by military-grade weaponry; especially if the military catches the creatures while they're sleeping. She also seems to believe in the vein of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' that even attempting to coexist at all with the monsters is an obscene pipe dream and anyone who seriously entertains the idea is not to be trusted. In actuality, Senator Williams is in a GreenAesop where her opponents [[GoodIsNotDumb have good reasons]] for being so overly concerned about the Titans' ecological importance, and where there's ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''-style consequences of politicians like her making ignorant decisions. She ''also'' doesn't realize that she's in a full-blown CosmicHorrorStory where mankind ''can't'' match the Titans on their own terms without getting benign Titans on our side to act as our champions by circumstance.
