History Recap / MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E1Aftermath

* ApocalypticLog: Bill records a video for his family in case he doesn't make it off the island, though the Mother Longlegs is ultimately distracted and then drowned by a Mantleclaw hiding on the beach

* BehemothBattle: Mother Longlegs chases Bill to the edge of the island, where a Mantleclaw is disturbed by the intrusion and immediately turns its attention to the other

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Mother Longlegs, a gigantic spider, chases Bill through the forest.

* BilingualBackfire: Cate only seems to know English, but eventually reveals she can speak Japanese fluently and just chooses not to.

* GiantFootprintReveal: PlayedWith. One of the photos on Randa's files is of Keiko standing inside a giant Titan footprint resembling Godzilla's, smiling and posing for the photo.

%%* HatesTheirParent

%%* HiddenInPlainSight: The Mantleclaw.
%%* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier

* LivingADoubleLife: Cate learns Hiroshi has a second family in Japan, assuming the keys she wound were just to an apartment he was leasing while working there.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Hiroshi is presumed dead after his bush plane disappeared in a storm over Alaska, though neither a wreckage nor a body was found.

* SecretOtherFamily: Coming to the apartment in Tokyo where her father stayed, Cate is rocked to find a woman and a son her own age living there with photos of her father. She soon realizes her dad had been cheating on her mother for years and lying about it.

* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: The Bad kind. Ultimately, approaching and accidentally disturbing the Endoswarmer nest gets Keiko killed despite Bill and Lee's best efforts. In fact, Lee and Bill got into an argument before directly approaching the nest about whether it was worth getting a sample for research or leaving well alone out of caution.

%%* TrackingDevice

%%* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti

%%* ApocalypticLog

%%* BehemothBattle

%%* BigCreepyCrawlies

** Cate lets out a couple ''heart-rending'' Big No's when the busful of schoolkids plummets in front of her.

%%* BilingualBackfire

%%* IfIDoNotReturn: Hiroshi.

%%* LivingADoubleLife

%%* MutualKill

%%* NoEscapeButDown

%%* TakeMyHand
* TakeThat: Cate's taxi driver in Tokyo who murmurs about San Francisco being a hoax and offers his podcast on it is a very clear one to other conspiracy theorists who deny disasters as being set ups. [[labelnote:Note]]He also acts as an unintentional CallForward for [[Film/GodzillaVsKong Bernie Hayes]][[/labelnote]]

* TakeThat: Cate's taxi driver in Tokyo who murmurs about San Francisco being a hoax and offers his podcast on it is a very clear one to other conspiracy theorists who deny disasters as being set ups [[labelnote:Note]]he also acts as an unintentional CallFoward for [[Film/GodzillaVsKong Bernie Hayes]][[/labelnote]]

%%* EmptyPromise

* GasMaskMooks: Even if Monarch aren't technically evil, the gas masks and black gear that their soldiers wear in Cate's flashback to G-Day, while coldly documenting the destruction and ignoring a distressed Cate's cries for help as they walk around her, certainly help to cement Cate's bleak view of Monarch.

* DistantPrologue: [=IGN=] [=YouTube=] posted on 4 November the opening scene of the show and it features a flashback of William "Bill" Randa on Skull Island, running away from a Mother Longlegs, as he records a videotape he hopes will be discovered after his possible demise. The flashback takes place in 1973, whereas the plot takes place after the battle of San Francisco.

* AreaOfEffect: PlayedWith. As Shaw, Randa and Miura get closer to the abandoned power plant where the Endoswarmers are nesting, they cross the threshold from an irradiated area with live vegetation to a radiation-free area (due to the Endoswarmers feeding) where the trees are all long dead, with the power plant visible roughly in the epicenter.

* BigNo: Cate at Hiroshi when he lets her down in the aftermath of G-Day in one of the most emotionally-traumatic ways he could have.

* BusFullOfInnocents: Darkly {{subverted}}. There ''is'' a bus full of schoolkids balanced on the collapsing Golden Gate Bridge, but no-one saves it. Cate only manages to get a handful of her charges out before the rest go into the river.

* AreaOfEffect: PlayedWith. As Shaw, Randa and Miura get closer to the abandoned power plant where the Endoswarmers are nesting, they cross the threshold from an irradiated area with live vegetation to a radiation-free area where the trees are all long dead, with the power plant visible roughly in the epicenter.

* BrokenTears: A little {{downplayed|Trope}}, but Cate's eyes are brimming with tears when she fiishes recounting how she last saw her father in the wake of G-Day.

* GutFeeling: Lee has a bad feeling about approaching the Endoswarmers, despite Keiko and Bill both being more confident that it's okay. It turns out Lee's gut was right.

* GasMaskMooks: Even if Monarch aren't technically evil, the gas masks and black gear that their soldiers wear in Cate's flashback to G-Day, while coldly documenting the destruction and ignoring a distressed Cate's cries for help as they pass her, certainly help to cement Cate's bleak view on Monarch.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Cate makes several attempts to crack Hiroshi's safe by inputting the birthdays of herself and other people close to him. Ultimately, the real passcode is found by mish-mashing of the days and months in Cate's, Kentaro's and their respective mothers' birthdays, and Cate gets this mix-and-match right on the first try.

%%* HiddenInPlainSight