History Characters / MonsterVerseHumans

* AlwaysABiggerFish: The Titan Hunter can tear through smaller, weaker Titans without too much effort. However, by Martin's own admission, it's not ready t fight the larger, stronger Titans like Godzilla. He's proven correct when he goes up against Kong, and while able to land some good hits, ends up tossed into a ravine for his trouble.

''' [[center:[-[[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah Alan Jonah]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseRenSerizawa Ren Serizawa]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseWalterSimmons Walter Simmons]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies Families]] ([[Characters/MonsterVerseRussellFamily Russell Family]]) | [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch Monarch]] ([[Characters/MonsterVerseIshiroSerizawa Dr. Ishirō Serizawa]]) | [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Skull Island Expeditions]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseUSGovernmentAndMilitary U.S. Government & Military]] | [[Characters/MonsterVerseApexCybernetics Apex Cybernetics]]-]]]'''

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!!Eco-Terrorists
[[folder:In General]]
A skilled international paramilitary team of armed mercenary cells, who follow Alan Jonah in the belief that releasing the dormant Titans is the key to restoring the natural order.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: They directly attack and take over two of Monarch's Titan-containing outposts so they can loose the Titans inside. The first sign of the eco-terrorists' presence at Outpost 61 is when the security system malfunctions and Dr. Mancini suspects sabotage, before the doors to the main lab explode and the mercs gun down everyone in sight whose last name isn't Russell. The group proceed to Outpost 32 to awaken Ghidorah, gunning down all the staff there, before [[spoiler:Emma's [[EvilAllAlong treachery is revealed]] and]] the eco-terrorists blow Ghidorah loose, causing the base to collapse.
* BaldOfEvil: With Alan Jonah the trope is {{downplayed}}, as he has a balding spot on his head courtesy of being played by Creator/CharlesDance and is one of the most evil human characters in the Franchise/MonsterVerse. A notable bald woman is among Jonah's {{Mook}}s who is seen in the background throughout the film, and the Mook who talks in the scene where Jonah's men hack into Outpost 56's systems is shown in other scenes over the film to have a bald scalp underneath the beret if one looks out for him.
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Overlapping with WesternTerrorists. They're ultra-radical eco-terrorists who want to commit acts of mass genocide and destruction in order to alleviate the strain that humanity is putting on the environment; releasing the Titans is their plan to achieve this end.
* CrazyPrepared: They're almost-''constantly'' step ahead of the heroes, marking them as one of the [=MonsterVerse's=] more competent and independently-dangerous human threatsby far. Monarch's G-Team have seen through their Yunnan decoy and caught up with them in Antarctica before they've finished freeing Monster Zero? Jonah fluidly gives his men an order to keep them busy before said troops launch a devastating ambush on the G-Team, clearly showing that the eco-terrorists were prepared for the possibility of Monarch catching onto them.
* EcoTerrorist: Duh. They attack mankind in believing that they are restoring the natural order.
* EvilIsNotAToy: They're indiscriminate in ''which'' Titans they choose to set loose on the world for their plan, not considering the possibility that some of the Titans' awakened presences will be even more destructive for the world than humanity are (just like the [=MUTOs=] were). They even go as far as releasing the Alpha Titans ''first'', when the ORCA which they need to control the Titans can't dominate so much as bargain with or piss off the Alphas. The result of this methodology is that the second Titan the eco-terrorists awaken, [[BigBad Ghidorah]], is a hostile Alpha who dominates the other Titans for himself and sets about [[OmnicidalManiac sterilizing the planet]] instead of healing it. [[spoiler:The ensuing catastrophe still isn't enough to convince Jonah ''or'' his soldiers that they should [[EvilVersusOblivion help Godzilla, Mothra and the rest of the cast to stop Ghidorah from killing everyone]], as they prefer to hunker down in their bunker against the coming apocalypse for as long as possible]].
* EvilVersusOblivion: {{Defied}} by all of them [[spoiler:sans Emma Russell]]. [[spoiler:Emma]] is ready to make a HeelFaceTurn once she realizes King Ghidorah isn't just bringing GaiasVengeance but is instead liable to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe the Earth clean of all life as we know it]], and she tries to warn Jonah that they've fucked up by awakening Ghidorah. However, Jonah hates humanity ''so much'' that he refuses to lift a finger to try and stop Ghidorah, instead hiding himself and his mercs away whilst the apocalypse is escalating. In the novelization, Jonah goes even further out of his way to stop Emma from trying to hinder Ghidorah's rampage. Ultimately, Jonah and his mercenaries are the only human party in the movie who don't come to Godzilla and Mothra's side against Ghidorah and his Titan army at all, staying out of the conflict.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Late in the film, [[spoiler:Jonah's men who are guarding the ORCA all conveniently take a break all at once, leaving the device unguarded and allowing Madison to easily snatch it and waltz out the front door with nobody to stop her. Better yet, nobody discovers that the device was stolen until Jonah sees a news broadcast about the monsters ceasing their attacks, which alerts him that Madison stole the device and used it. {{Downplayed}} in the novelization, which reveals they ''do'' leave someone behind to guard the ORCA, but Madison dispatches said guard when she's caught]].
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}]]. Besides kidnapping Emma Russell to [[spoiler:seemingly]] be the group's ReluctantMadScientist, Jonah also kidnaps Madison at the same time. Mark observes in the novelization that the logical assumption for why Jonah took Madison too is to use her as leverage to make Emma comply. [[spoiler:In reality, Jonah and his group took Madison because both she and Emma were already in on the eco-terrorists' agenda]].
* InvincibleMinorMinion: When your leader is an InvincibleVillain and TheChessmaster, you can expect to be one of the most, if not, the most dangerous mook ever. When Alan Jonah plans ambush attacks on the heroes, these mercenaries take out the latter's army with barely a scratch. When monarch and the military try to search for them, [[spoiler: they outsmart them and remain on the run]].
* KarmaHoudini: After personally slaughtering dozens of people and causing millions more deaths around the world (nevermind their leader's [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist intention to]] ''[[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist let]]'' [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist King Ghidorah destroy the Earth]]), all of the eco-terrorists barring the late [[spoiler:Emma and]] Asher escape being killed or arrested amid the chaos. [[spoiler:The movie ends with the group still at large when Jonah and several of his mercenaries collect Ghidorah's leftover severed head in TheStinger]].
* KnightTemplar: All their distinguished members are convinced that massacring members of the pro-Titan but less-misanthropic organization Monarch, and allowing potentially billions of people to become collateral damage when they set over a dozen Titans loose on the world is worth saving the world from mankind's fatal mistakes in how we treat the environment. Asher in the novelization has a conversation with Jonah which indicates he genuinely believes the latter's cause is for the greater good; [[spoiler:[[FallenHeroine fallen Monarch operative]] [[VisionaryVillain Emma Russell]] is the most apologetic over the atrocities the terrorists are committing, and she firmly [[EvenEvilHasStandards draws the line]] when she realizes King Ghidorah will eradicate '''all''' humans and will exacerbate instead of [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans repair the ecological destruction]];]] while Alan Jonah, who is [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist less genuine in his end-goals' altruism]] (and all but admits outright in the novelization that [[ItsAllAboutMe he's doing everything just to satisfy himself]]), insists that literally ''any'' sacrifice is worth [[MisanthropeSupreme permanently eradicating humanity's worst evils from the planet's surface]]. In the novelization, Jonah religiously describes the eco-terrorists' cause as "the one true church".
* NatureIsNotAToy: They think they can level the global socio-political playing field by forcibly awakening the Titans and trying to manipulate their actions using the ORCA. It's heavily implied in the ''King of the Monsters'' CreativeClosingCredits that even if they ''hadn't'' fucked up by awakening [[spoiler:the hostile alien]] [[IntroducedSpeciesCalamity Ghidorah]], their plan to control the Titans instead of letting the Titans sort themselves out would have still spiraled out of control, albeit without the same risk of global multicellular extinction that Ghidorah presented.
* PunchClockVillain: The novelization portrays the subordinate mercenaries in such a light. During the Osprey ride to Outpost 32, they're chuckling and talking with each-other like ordinary work buddies, until it's time for them to massacre another Monarch outpost, and then they become all-business; something which greatly disturbs Madison. Asher in the novel makes it clear that while he believes in Jonah's cause and will kill as many people as Jonah tells him to, that doesn't mean he'll enjoy it.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: ZigZagged. The ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' novelization states that Monarch suspect the Titan poachers in ''Godzilla: Dominion'' and the novel's prologue, who tried to capture Na Kika before Godzilla destroyed their oil rig, might have been a rogue splinter group from the eco-terrorists -- this theory is one of the many things that Mark Russell is [[ArbitrarySkepticism sceptical]] of in the book. The poachers' interest in exploiting the Titan's biological materials for profit in the novel's prologue is similar to how ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' stated the eco-terrorists fund their operations by trafficking Titan DNA, but unlike Jonah's group, the poachers are entirely self-serving and have no higher end-goals beyond making themselves a good buck.
* RestartTheWorld: The MisanthropeSupreme form. These BombThrowingAnarchists believe that HumansAreTheRealMonsters for all the atrocities humans have committed against each-other in war, and for all the abuse humanity is inflicting on the environment which is currently pushing the world towards the worst mass extinction since the end of the dinosaurs. As a result, the eco-terrorists [[spoiler:with the help of a rogue Monarch scientist]] want to set all the accounted-for Titans loose on the planet in one fell swoop so that the creatures can decimate human civilization and usher in a world where humanity isn't the dominant species. The eco-terrorists' leader Jonah [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist doesn't really care]] whether that new world is a ''balanced'' world where the Titans have renewed the environment, or a dead, charred world under [[OmnicidalManiac King Ghidorah]]'s rule; so long as humanity has been decimated and so long as the eco-terrorists themselves get to sit out the apocalypse in a Monarch bunker for as long as possible.
* ShortLivedAerialEscape: Narrowly {{subverted}} in Antarctica. After they blow the glacier holding Ghidorah, they get back on their stolen Monarch Osprey and start getting the hell out of dodge with Ghidorah waking up. Thanks to [[TokenGoodTeammate Madison]] rebelling while everyone else is off-guard and trying to save the heroes' lives with the ORCA, Ghidorah ''almost'' shoots the eco-terrorists' Osprey out of the sky, but Emma shuts the device down and Ghidorah turns his attention back to the human heroes while the terrorists escape.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Their bunker outside of the Boston metro area. The security presence is so poor that Madison is able to [[spoiler:snatch the ORCA from the control room, exit the bunker, hike all the way to the control room in Fenway Stadium, and set it running before Jonah and Emma even realize it's gone. In the novelization she ''is'' caught by one guard, but shocks him into unconsciousness with a stun gun before he can stop her.]]
* TaughtByExperience: They conquer the first two Monarch outposts via bypassing the security protocols [[spoiler:with Emma's aid]], massacring every Monarch operative in their way, and setting the Titans loose; but after Monarch catch up to them early at the second outpost and almost neutralize them altogether, the eco-terrorists promptly go for a different approach at target number three. Instead of invading the outpost physically (which is what Monarch are initially expecting them to do), the terrorists remotely hack into its containment systems to loose Rodan, whilst bouncing their signal off of multiple satellites so that Monarch can't trace where they're broadcasting from. Monarch are completely taken by surprise, and the hijacking of the outpost is a complete success.
* VillainBall: For some odd reason, all of them allow Madison unsupervised free reign of their base. Which leads to [[spoiler: Madison being able to steal the ORCA -- the device they've been using to awaken the Titans -- when they leave it in a insecure room]].
* VillainsOutShopping: {{Downplayed}} in a deleted scene, where Jonah and his {{Mook}}s are watching Madison training in kickboxing the way you'd probably watch a small show in the village square if you lived without TV or wi-fi and didn't have much better to do.
* WesternTerrorists: A paramilitary [[EcoTerrorist eco-terrorist]] group whom fund their operations by trafficking in the new Titan DNA black market, and are looking to commit mass terrorism and global genocide in the name of stopping humans' unsustainable over-exploitation of the environment at any cost. Jonah even compares them to a church in the novelization. Despite the organization being international/nationless, the members whom we see are predominantly light-skinned, all the ones who speak during the film are either British or American; and furthermore, the end credits list several of the backgrounded members' names and they're all names of distinctly British origin.
* WouldHurtAChild: Their plan to manipulate the Titans calls for the mass endangerment of billions of people around the world, children included. In the novelization, they garner extra points when Jonah gives an order that Madison Russell is to be executed via throat-slitting if Emma steps out of line, and neither the soldier being given the order nor any of Jonah's other subordinates protest.

[[folder:Alan Jonah]]
-> See [[Characters/MonsterverseAlanJonah his page]].
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[[folder:Asher Jonah]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jonathan Howard
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''

Jonah's second-in-command.

* AllThereInTheManual: Most of what we know about him, including when and how Jonah hired him, comes from the {{Novelization}}. His first missions with Jonah were attacking a chemical plant in China, and another assignment involving game hunters in the Congo. [[spoiler:The book also confirms he is not related to Jonah, despite him being called "Asher Jonah" in the film credits for some reason.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Colonel Foster.]]
* EvilBrit: Like his boss.
* InSeriesNickname: "Ash" for short.
* MookLieutenant: Not quite TheDragon [[spoiler:due to getting sniped in his second scene]], but he is Jonah's right-hand man and the leader of the other henchmen.
* MoralityPet; Alongside Jonah's deceased daughter, he is one of the only two human beings Jonah had any compassion towards.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. He has the same last name as his boss. [[spoiler:Though as noted they're not related.]]
* PunchClockVillain: In the novelization, he flat out tells Jonah he'll do anything he says, including killing people, but that he still dislikes doing it and he is concerned that it's becoming easier for him to deal with the guilt.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He's only in two scenes before getting killed, and is, in fact, the only one of Jonah's {{Mooks}} who dies in the movie at all. That said, he gets some much-needed backstory and character development in the novelization by Greg Keyes.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Like his boss, he is hellbent on saving the planet by any means necessary.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: [[spoiler:Jonah liked him immensely, and is quite upset by his death in the novelization, surprising Madison who didn't think he cared about anything or anyone beyond his and Emma's twisted version of saving the planet. That said because Jonah is very mission-oriented, Asher quickly becomes a ForgottenFallenFriend. The novelization, however, flat out states what was ''left'' of Jonah's humanity died with Ash.]]

!!Other Characters
[[folder:Akio]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jake Cunanan
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
A young Japanese boy who's separated from his parents on a monorail in Honolulu just before Godzilla and the male MUTO surface.

* AdaptationalDumbass: In the film he's quite keenly aware of his surroundings, whereas in the novelization he doesn't seem to notice that he's been separated from his parents.
* KidAmidTheChaos: He gets separated from his parents due to a mundane incident with a train's automated doors shutting on him, prompting Ford to watch out for him until they can get him back to his parents. Then Hokmuto shows up, [[spoiler:and Ford ends up saving this boy from a potentially grievous death]].
* {{Protectorate}}: He's one for Ford in the brief time he's in Ford's custody during the kaiju incident.

[[folder:Bus Driver]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DeeJayJackson
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
A bus driver transporting children across the Golden Gate Bridge amidst the San Francisco evacuations, when Godzilla arrives.

* BadassDriver: When Godzilla arrives at the Golden Gate Bridge just after the driver has been told to turn around, he manages to drive his vehicle full of kids through police and military barricades in the middle of an explosive skirmish between Godzilla and the Navy. He gets off the Golden Gate Bridge just before the massive {{Kaiju}} barges through it.
* HeroicBystander: He's clearly just a civilian, yet the moment him and the bus full of kids he's transporting are caught between Godzilla and military gung-ho, he puts the pedal to the metal and gets them all to safety like a champ, despite the many obstacles in his vehicle's path.

[[folder:Josh Valentine]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JulianDennison
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''

A young boy who allies with Madison and Bernie in their investigation of what is causing Godzilla's rampage.

* BrainyBrunette: He has dark hair, and although he's [[CowardlyLion a little bit timid]] and isn't on the same intellectual level as Bernie and Madison, he makes up for these things by possessing people skills which the other two both lack; coming in handy when Madison is trying to track down Bernie. Josh apparently pirates media during his spare time, [[spoiler:and although his efforts to perform HollywoodHacking on Mechagodzilla's satellite uplink are useless, he ''does'' resourcefully find a way to [[CuttingTheKnot cut the knot]] with seconds to spare before Mechagodzilla would have killed Kong]].
* CowardlyLion: He's definitely the timidest member of Team Godzilla, and if the other two decide to approach something that looks ominous, he will be the one to complain about it and be the last one to step through. But that doesn't stop him sticking by his allies and making himself useful where he can. Notably, Madison gives him the choice to accompany her or back out before she heads off to find Bernie Hayes, and he goes along.
* CuttingTheKnot: Josh and Bernie are unable to hack into [[spoiler: Mechagodzilla's control board, and Bernie [[DrowningMySorrows gets ready to chug the flask of whisky he keeps for his darkest hour]], giving Josh the idea to just dump the alcohol into the control panel to short-circuit it.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When we first meet him showing up to Madison's house with his brother's stolen van, he's expressing nervousness about being caught for the act (despite his brother being immediately implied to be someone who wouldn't even notice), and he questions why he and Madison have to get involved in the current Titan crisis. When Maddie looks him in the eye and asks whether he's coming or staying, Josh replies with a brave face and nil hesitation that he's most certainly coming with her -- then he goofs up his attempt to look like a toughie while opening the van door.
* HollywoodHacking: {{Subverted}}. He tries doing this to Apex's computers, but [[spoiler:randomly typing in pass codes just gets him locked out of the system]].
* LogicalLatecomer: He protests and tries to warn the other characters, including Madison Russell from [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the previous film]], when they're heading toward instead of away from something that any practical-minded or common-sensed person would consider ominous and dangerous.
* MatureYoungerSibling: His brother, who owns the van he steals for Madison, is apparently an oblivious DisappointingOlderSibling, whereas Josh is a sharp and weary kid.
* TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless: {{Subverted}}. Although him, Bernie and Madison infiltrate Apex Cybernetics' secret facilities to investigate their role in Godzilla's rampage, for most of the movie they're only [[FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator a kind of P.O.V. character]] for the audience to watch the mystery gradually unveil through, and they fail to make any meaningful impact on the plot. [[spoiler:That is, until Mechagodzilla, possessed by Ghidorah's subconsciousness, [[NearVillainVictory is about to kill Kong]] after Godzilla has been heavily weakened, and Josh is in ''just'' the right place at just the right time to sabotage the computer controlling the Mecha's satellite link once Bernie gives Josh an idea]].
* MundaneSolution: In the novelization, Team Godzilla at one point comes to a locked door in the Apex HQ with a keypad, and when Bernie asks Josh if he can hack it, Josh proposes they just take a nearby staircase instead.
* NerdGlasses: He has browline/chunky-black glasses, has stereotypical-nerd levels of timidness, and is a hacker (his main specialty is movie piracy).
* OnlyFriend: Sort of. It's hinted in the movie, and confirmed by the novelization, that Josh is the only friend or acquaintance Madison has managed to make who is in her age group, since Mark enrolled her in a high school where all the other kids [[AllTheOtherReindeer ostracize or pick on her]]. However, it should be noted that Madison feels she has ''adult'' friends and peers within Monarch.
* OnlySaneByComparison: PlayedWith. Compared to Madison and Bernie who head toward unknown possible danger without much second thought if they think it'll get them closer to the answers they're after, Josh as the token CowardlyLion is keenly aware and willing to point out when heading this way or that way isn't a safe idea.
* PluckyComicRelief: {{Inverted}}. He's a source of quirks and humor like Bernie, although he's not quite as wacky as the latter, leaving Madison as the only serious member of Team Godzilla.
%%* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl
* SpannerInTheWorks: Team Godzilla's only role up until the FinalBattle [[spoiler:against Mechagodzilla]] is discovering the conspiracy behind Apex, but when [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla is reprogrammed by Ghidorah's consciousness, Josh narrowly prevents Mechagodzilla from successfully killing Kong by pouring Bernie's flask of alcohol on Mechagodzilla's controls. Had it not been for that, Mechagodzilla would've likely beaten both Kong and Godzilla and gone on to threaten the whole world]].
* StreetSmart: Funnily enough, he, [[NerdGlasses of all people]], stands out amongst Team Godzilla for showing shades of this. Despite his nerdy and timid appearance, Josh is person-savvy enough to know precisely how to get Bernie's whereabouts from a store clerk when Madison was struggling to get what they were after, he's good at {{cutting the knot}} on the fly [[spoiler:(this trait of his narrowly derails a Ghidorah-possessed Mechagodzilla's near-certain victory at a time when Madison was helpless and Bernie was about to give up)]], and he exhibits a practical spatial awareness and cautiousness of danger when he's accompanying Madison and Bernie through Apex.
* YouTalkTooMuch: Bernie tells him this word-for-word in the novelization.

[[folder:May Olowe-Hewitt]]
!!'''Coral Mateo'''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KierseyClemons
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''
A roguish American ex-patriate and a talented techy, who accompanies Kentaro and Cate Randa on their investigation into their father's disappearance.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She's ''heavily'' implied to be bisexual, but it's not been explicitly confirmed. She sleeps with Kentaro Randa the day she first meets him, and dates him for a while until their relationship eventually falls apart due to lack of communication. After Cate Randa helps save her when she falls into ice-water, May begins to warm towards her, and their interactions become increasingly affectionate and protective throughout the series--something that annoys Kentaro when he notices it--though it's not confirmed whether May is attracted to Cate or not. She also went on a dinner date with Brenda Holland before discovering the latter's true colors, and the pair act like mutually-betrayed ex-lovers in the present.
* BecomingTheMask: She admits in episode 7 that this has happened to her over the course of the series. At first, she was lying and was just trying to save her own skin when she started accompanying the Randas on their cross-global trek based on Bill Randa's files, but she grew closer to them and doesn't want to be that kind of person anymore.
%%* BlackAndNerdy
* DefectorFromDecadence: She used to work for a Seattle-based tech innovation company called Applied Experimental Technologies, [[spoiler:the direct precursor to Apex Cybernetics,]] until she discovered their secret project that her research was being fed into, where they were conducting extremely horrific neural implant-based experiments on chimpanzees with cybernetics. She promptly wiped the company's database on moral principle [[spoiler:at the cost of her being forced to go on the run. After getting caught by AET and confronted by Holland in the present, May admits that despite the grief it's caused her, she'll never regret what she did]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: When the Randas first approach her with Bill Randa's files, May is initially very cold, aloof and reluctant to help out beyond scientific curiosity. She later [[NotSoStoic gets angry]] and blames Kentaro for getting her involved and putting her on the run from the life she made in Tokyo. After nearly dying during the encounter with the Frost Vark and being nursed by Cate and Lee, she warms up a lot more to Cate and Kentaro. [[spoiler:The latter initially isn't enough to stop May from agreeing to become Duvall's mole amongst the Randas in exchange for getting her life back, but she later comes clean to them out of guilt. From the seventh episode onwards, she's a lot more [[ShipTease openly protective and affectionate]] towards Cate]].
%%* DullSurprise
* {{Greed}}: In her backstory, she was enticed by money [[spoiler:to join [[ResearchInc AET]] before she learned of their [[EvilInc true colors]]]]. In the present, she's quite ashamed of it.
%%* GuileHero
* HatesRichPeople: She apparently doesn't think much of very well-off people in general, and she derides the title of Kentaro's official art show as pretentious when she first meets him. Her past with [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Brenda Holland]] might have a lot to do with this.
* HoldingHands: Cate and May hold hands at the end of Episode 4, relieved that they both made it out alive, and May thanks Cate for not leaving her behind. Cate and May also pointedly hold each-other's hands quite a lot throughout the final episode, by which time they've grown close to ShipTease levels. [[spoiler:In the latter episode's climax, Cate makes a point of grasping both Keiko and May's hands on either side of her in comfort as they're hurtling inside the pod towards the rift out of the Axis Mundi]].
* HeroicNeutral: She just wants to go back to the life she's made for herself in Tokyo. [[spoiler:By the end of "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E7WillTheRealMayPleaseStandUp Will the Real May Please Stand Up?]]", she's grown a lot more loyal to the Randas, and in the following episode, they agree to help Monarch stop Shaw from potentially triggering a global apocalypse]].
* NotSoStoic: For the first two episodes, she presents herself as [[DullSurprise monotonous, cold and un-emotive to everything]], but after going on the run as a result of Monarch coming after her and the Randas, she snaps at Kentaro for getting her involved in this and making her a fugitive.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Her sister says that her tendency to think most people are idiots but help them when they need her is a Mateo family trait.
* TechnoWizard: She's skilled at coding and hacking, helping decode the files that Cate and Kentaro discover in a hidden safe in their father's office. Her coding skills also got her hired by Applied Experimental Technologies [[spoiler:until she discovered her work was being used in unethical experiments]].
* WorkingWithTheEx: She was romantically involved with Kentaro before breaking up with him, and is initially angry when he comes to her for help.
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[[folder:Du-Ho]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BruceBaek
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''
A pilot and an old friend of Lee Shaw, located in South Korea. He assists Shaw, May Olowe-Hewitt and the Randa half-siblings to reach Alaska in their search for Hiroshi's whereabouts.
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* DueToTheDead: PlayedWith. Lee burns Du-Ho's body, but beyond giving his fallen friend a decent send-off, the fire primarily serves to attract a Monarch helicopter's attention for rescue.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: {{Subverted|Trope}}. He keeps a bottle on his plane at all times "in case of emergencies", but it isn't alcohol -- it's a bottle of water that he uses as a makeshift altitude indicator on his dashboard.
* OhCrap: He freaks out and immediately makes a beeline back for his own plane the moment he sees the Frost Vark's claw-marks in the destroyed plane's fuselage and realizes that there's a giant, plane-downing monster up on the Alaskan mountain with the cast.
* RedShirt: In the same episode where he's introduced, he's killed at the episode's end by the Frost Vark using its [[EnergyAbsorption heat absorption]] to completely freeze-dry him in seconds, establishing the creature's power and the threat it poses to the remaining cast for the next episode. Lee manages to return to Du-Ho's body and give him a makeshift funeral pyre in Episode 4, reminiscing about their past with each-other as he does so.
* StepfordSmiler: Outwardly, he appears to have a larger-than-life and upbeat personality. During a tender private conversation with Cate, however, he reveals that he watched his own father, multiple girlfriends, and ''many'' other people die during his life.
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[[folder:Raymond Martin]]
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted''
The head of RM Construction, who uses his company's resources to build a crude anti-Titan mecha of his own dubbed the "Titan Hunter". Styling himself as a hunter, his utmost desire is to slaughter as many Titan lifeforms as possible, not caring in the slightest whether they're bad, good or even harmless, and he has his kills stuffed as morbid trophies.
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!!Apex Cybernetics
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!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' | ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''

A multinational, wealthy and powerful corporation headed by Walter Simmons, whom are invested in technological advances including the harnessing of psionics. Having been active since at least the aftermath of G-Day, they are hiding a sinister corporate conspiracy concerning their interest in the Titans and Godzilla's 2024 rampage.

* AdaptationalMundanity: Similarly to the [[EcoTerrorist eco-terrorists]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', Apex Cybernetics seem like an adaptation of the HumanAliens of the old Creator/{{Toho}} movies as actual humans. Their hi-tech resources, their [[spoiler:construction of Mechagodzilla]], and their efforts to cage and/or control the Kaiju -- breeding and enslaving Skullcrawlers as cannon fodder, and [[spoiler:trying to turn Ghidorah's [[UndeadAbomination undead remains]] into a part of their anti-Godzilla superweapon similarly to how earlier incarnations of Ghidorah were the mere puppets of human aliens' invasions]], even Bernie Hayes and Ren Serizawa's respective musings in the novelization that Apex might use the remaining Titans as their slaves -- all bring the Toho human aliens to mind.
%%* AdaptationOriginConnection: To the Oxygen Destroyer.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Though they justify their atrocities and attempted atrocities with the ideas that they're returning complete control of the world to mankind and are creating a more secure line of defence against Titan attacks, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Walter Simmons]]' overall behavior, and also the gaping holes in their argument such as Madison points out, betray their true colors. Apex want to upstage the Titans' power just to prove that they ''can'', they want to be [[FakeUltimateHero hailed and glorified by the world as heroes]], and it's also implied they want to overpower the Titans before any other organization can beat them to the prize and steal their glory. Apex don't care one whit for the ''millions'' of civilians whom they callously and knowingly put in Godzilla's warpath as part of their EngineeredHeroics. It's furthermore implied in the novelization, and explicitly confirmed in the art book, that Apex intend to [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans take over the world for themselves]] after usurping Godzilla.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals:
** A monster variation. They're breeding Skullcrawlers in captivity and then [[spoiler:throwing them at Mechagodzilla as target practice]]. Using captive Titans in such a way as this is something Monarch would never even ''consider'' doing.
** A straighter case is revealed [[spoiler:in ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'', which reveals that their Cybernetic Neural-Interface Unit project was secretly and brutally experimenting on chimpanzees with cybernetics, much to May/Corah's horror]].
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:They wish to be the ones that annihilate Godzilla, Kong, and all other Kaiju to insure humanity becomes the dominant species on Earth, but their own technology backfires as related to TooDumbToLive, they uplinked King Ghidorah's mind to Mechagodzilla and thus are killed off by their own creation. Maia Simmons and her own army of men on the other hand are swiftly eaten or crushed to death by Kong and Hellhawks.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: They have a sneak appearance in the mid-2010s timeline of ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''. [[spoiler:"[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E7WillTheRealMayPleaseStandUp Will the Real May Pleast Stand Up]]" reveals at the end that Applied Experimental Technologies, who featured prominently throughout the episode as a corrupt corporation that have been trying to get Monarch in their pockets since G-Day and that May was a DefectorFromDecadence to, was in fact a pre-rebranding Apex Cybernetics]].
* ConnectedAllAlong:
** A reveal later in the movie [[spoiler:-- that they have the skull of Ghidorah's leftover severed head from ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', which they're using as part of Mechagodzilla's brain --]] indicates that Apex probably had offscreen interaction with Alan Jonah and his eco-terrorist paramilitary before the movie began. The novelization elaborates, [[spoiler:stating that Walter Simmons purchased Ghidorah's remains from an international criminal who contacted him; one who's all but stated to be Jonah (an ironic interaction, given that Jonah and Apex's respective objectives and their respective worldviews on humans and Titans are very diametric)]].
** It's revealed later in ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'' that they played a key role in one of the main characters' backstories [[spoiler:when the corporation was still called Applied Experimental Technologies. They're the reason why May Olowe-Hewitt (real name Corah Mateo) abandoned her old life and changed her name, as she used to work for AET until she discovered their cruel experiments and wiped their database. And their executive, Brenda Holland, tries to get May back under their thumb in the present]].
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: As the chief human antagonists of ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', Apex contrast Alan Jonah's [[EcoTerrorist eco-terrorist]] organization who filled that role in [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the previous movie]]. Jonah's group's goals were seeing the Titans reclaim the planet from humanity and restore the human-ravaged natural order, while Apex's goals are killing or enslaving all the Titans in order to prove humanity's technological superiority and make humans "the [[DoubleMeaning Apex]] species" on Earth. Jonah's group were an underground paramilitary terrorist force, whereas Apex are a highly-futuristic corporation who have a legitimate front and a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity moderate public image]] which helps shirk off suspicion.
* CorporateConspiracy: Bernie describes Apex's mysterious [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla]] project as this, and it's rather accurate. They're secretly building Mechagodzilla with OffscreenVillainDarkMatter so they can be the architects of human domination over all the Titans, and when [[spoiler:their work]] provokes Godzilla into a rampage, Apex take advantage of the ensuing public bewilderment to make it seem like Godzilla has turned on mankind and Mechagodzilla is necessary to fight back against the Titans.
%%* CreateYourOwnHero: Bernie Hayes in the novelization.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: They're looking to build a HumongousMecha which can enable its human controllers to successfully fight on the same level as the Titans, and instead of selling it to Monarch or even the military for the trillions of dollars that such parties would be willing to pay for such a thing, Apex plan to use their creation in a gigantic [[spoiler:and horrifically amoral]] EngineeredHeroics scenario in order to kill Godzilla themselves and then [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans rule the world]], because the company is run by a delusional CorruptCorporateExecutive with a desire to usurp Godzilla as the apex lifeform.
* DevilInPlainSight: When Godzilla attacks Pensacola, he ''only'' focuses his destruction on Apex Cybernetics' local facility (something which a national TV report observes), and he causes very few deaths for a Titan of his power before departing. And yet ''no-one'' in the world except for Team Godzilla thinks they should actually be subjecting ''Apex'' to scrutiny and work out why Godzilla targeted their factory, when the much wilder and less rational assumption that Godzilla [[EasilyCondemned has turned evil]] for no reason is on the table (bear in mind that previous movies made it clear that this Godzilla ''always'' has a reason for attacking). Worse yet, the fact it's obvious to anyone with half a brain cell that Godzilla had something against Apex's factory specifically doesn't stop Monarch from ''partnering up with Apex'' to try and take Godzilla down, by following a plan that ''Apex themselves'' set forth. In the novelization, one of Bernie's podcasts reveals that Apex have a consistent pattern of building their facilities in places already occupied by Monarch with a military presence, and yet no-one finds it suspicious that the corporation would need to do this. Really, humanity has no-one but themselves to blame for how much death and destruction in this movie could have been avoided but wasn't.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: They're ''incredibly'' arrogant, and inconsiderate of their own limitations if not outright blind to them; but according to [[https://www.reddit.com/r/GODZILLA/comments/niq8wk/comment/gz3m6kj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Jared Krichevsky]], Apex's Mecha is likely vulnerable to an {{EMP}}. [[spoiler:Remember back in ''Film/Godzilla2014'', when Hokmuto and Femuto's [=EMPs=] made military equipment including fighter jets spectacularly fizz out and fall like flies instantaneously? Now remember that one of the Titans Apex want to annihilate or enslave is Barb, a ''MUTO'', plus there's a significant probability that there'll be even more bio-electrical Titans emerging in the future which Mechagodzilla could get pitted against. ''Yeah'']]. Apex are as good at making snazzy tech as they are at humiliating themselves.
* DoubleMeaning: The company's name superficially refers to their knack for developing state-of-the-art cybernetics and leading groundbreaking technological advances, but the hidden second meaning is that it also refers to the company leaders' intentions to [[MugglePower make humanity the sole unchallenged apex species of the Earth]] by using cybernetics to conquer the Titans (Alpha Titans in particular) and then [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world themselves]]. See Walter Simmons' entry [[Characters/MonsterVerseWalterSimmons here]] for another example.
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: It's implied in the movie that Apex, led by a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist who has a sociopathic and narcissistic pathology, want to create a world where they have corporate hegemony and they've been hailed as heroes [[spoiler:for supposedly ending a city-destroying disaster that they, in actuality, [[EngineeredHeroics deliberately engineered for this very purpose]]]]; where [[BigGood Godzilla]] has been murdered and the world ''celebrated''; and where all the Titans are either extinct or in chains and where [[MugglePower humans consider themselves the master lifeform on Earth]] (note: even without the first two, [[WrongGenreSavvy this last part isn't nearly as good or benevolent a thing in the MonsterVerse as it might be in most other Kaiju settings]]). The art book ''Godzilla vs. Kong: One Will Fall -- The Art of the Ultimate Battle Royale'' explicitly confirms it and provides this quote:
-->"''Apex's goal in building Mechagodzilla is ostensibly to fight fire with fire, shutting down threats by using the only thing that can go toe to toe with a Titan. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist In the long term, however, Apex and its CEO Walter Simmons are looking to establish a new era of corporate dominance]]. 'Mechagodzilla would basically be the largest policeman ever created,' says writer Zach Shields. 'This giant apex predator would be under Apex control, so by proxy it would be either the world's policeman, or a bully.[='=]''"
* EngineeredHeroics: In the wake of Godzilla's unexplained hostility, Apex claim to the world that they're going to put a permanent stop to him. It's ultimately revealed that Apex [[spoiler:are directly and knowingly responsible for provoking Godzilla's attacks in the first place, because Godzilla can sense the part-Ghidorah Mecha they're building as a rival to his dominance whenever its signal activates, and Apex are taking advantage of Godzilla's reactions to turn a confused human race against him and to justify Mechagodzilla's construction as an anti-Godzilla weapon – basically, Apex are making it look like the chicken (an aggressor Godzilla) came before the egg (Mechagodzilla) when it's actually the other way round]]. What's worse, it's implied in the movie (and all but confirmed in the novelization) that Apex are '''intentionally''' [[spoiler:[[FalseFlagOperation ensuring Mechagodzilla's signal draws Godzilla to densely-populated urban areas including Hong Kong]][[note]]One of the most densely-populated cities ''on the planet'', with a population numbering eight million[[/note]] so as to maximize the carnage and further make Godzilla look bad]]. The novelization also confirms that Apex genuinely didn't know until after [[spoiler:Godzilla's first attack]] that [[spoiler:the Mecha's signal was going to provoke Godzilla]], but Simmons was nevertheless all too happy to exploit it.
* EvilCounterpart:
** To Monarch. They're both organizations with futuristic hi-tech, bases and outposts on multiple continents, and an active interest in the Titans and the Hollow Earth. But whereas Monarch are mostly naturalists, are highly reverent of the Titans, care about human lives, and attempt to preserve the peace between man and Titan; Apex are modernist human [[{{Pride}} hubris personified]], they're solely committed to overpowering the Titans in the name of humanocentric pride, they don't give a damn how many civilians have to die in the crossfire for their EngineeredHeroics, and they actively go looking to start a fight against Godzilla unprovoked. This is somewhat {{lampshaded}} as an InUniverse case in supplementary Franchise/MonsterVerse materials; which state that Apex have been shadowing Monarch everywhere that the latter organization had a presence for years, and the sourcebook for ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' makes Monarch and Apex out to be sister organizations ever since the events of ''Film/Godzilla2014''.
** Apex also function in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' as a dark shadow to Kong and his ancestors. Like them, Apex stand out in a world of Titans for being builders that use intelligence, ingenuity and technology to gain an edge[[spoiler:, and the movie ultimately proves that those wits alone aren't enough for either of them respectively to win against a god of nature like Godzilla]]. Kong and Apex both work towards dominating and ruling over the creatures around them (the other beasts of Skull Island for Kong, the Titans generally for Apex), they both ostensibly work towards protecting and defending the humans around them from such threats, and both are opposed to Godzilla for deep-rooted reasons. However, Kong duels and conquers other monsters to maintain the natural balance of his home and in self-defence, he ''genuinely'' protects and cares for the humans whom he considers under his charge, and at the end of the day he just wants to be left alone by everyone else including Godzilla; having no interest in fighting the latter except when attacked first, and otherwise being happy to leave him alone -- Apex by contrast are hellbent on using rampant technology with [[UndeadAbomination unnatural implements]] to conquer the global Titans and endanger the natural balance purely for their own power and pride rather than leave well enough alone, they have ''no'' reservations about hurting and endangering millions among the very human race that they claim to be defending if it benefits them even slightly, and they're actively seeking out and starting a fight with Godzilla first because they seek to usurp his kingship, refusing to acknowledge or respect that Godzilla very recently saved their entire species from certain extinction by Ghidorah. [[spoiler:Apex insisting past the point of reason on picking a fight with Godzilla after the latter saved humanity from King Ghidorah gets Apex destroyed by their own hubris, whereas Kong buries the hatchet with Godzilla and lives after the latter helped him to defeat Mechagodzilla]].
* EvilInc: Type 2. They're a hi-tech corporation invested in the fields of robotics, neurology and A.I., with facilities on U.S. and Chinese soil, and they're the vessel of a CorporateConspiracy to [[spoiler:build a Titan-killing Mecha (callously and knowingly putting millions of civilians in Godzilla's crossfire in the process) so the company can kill Godzilla and usurp him as the dominant force on Earth]]. Worse yet, they have the [[TooDumbToLive astonishing arrogance and stupidity]] to think [[spoiler:they can use a [[KillAllHumans human-hating]] DraconicAbomination[='s=] undead remains as the ''brain'' of their Mecha and just expect it to do what they say '''without''' any unexpected side-effects]]. When Apex's [[spoiler:own actions instigate Godzilla's rampage]], true to corporate form, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Walter Simmons]] who's masterminding their EvilPlan takes advantage of it to make the public think Godzilla has made a FaceHeelTurn and that Apex will be humanity's savior instead of [[spoiler:the ones entirely responsible for the mess in the first place]].
* EvilIsNotAToy: They used [[spoiler:''King Ghidorah's'' remains]] in Mechagodzilla, thinking they could use him as a telepathic controller for the robot. [[spoiler:Turns out, [[NotQuiteDead Ghidorah's consciousness still exists in his remaining bone and nerve tissue]], and the moment Mechagodzilla is powered up with an [[BlackBox eldritch power source]], whatever's left of Ghidorah's consciousness possesses it and turns on Apex. It's also hinted that whatever remained of Ghidorah's mind/s might've been active the entire time before the Hollow Earth energy source enabled it to turn Mechagodzilla into Ghidorah reincarnated; with the Ghidorah skull's GhostlyWail when it's found by Team Godzilla in the movie, and with how Mechagodzilla or its parts are twice shown signaling Godzilla when Apex aren't doing anything and the parts are supposed to be inactive (implying that what remained of Ghidorah was deliberately signaling Godzilla to try and resume their clash for dominance)]].
* EvilReactionary: ZigZagged. They're aggravated that humanity officially can't call themselves the top species on Earth anymore after the Titans' existence is revealed, and they want to re-establish humanity as the supreme force on Earth by killing and usurping the King of the Monsters, not giving a damn about how beneficial Godzilla's reign has been due to him making the other Titans rejuvenate the ecosphere and leave human population centers alone. That having been said, Walter Simmons [[VisionaryVillain does love waxing lyrical about going "forward" and about how overpowering the Titans is the next stage in mankind's development]], with the novelization revealing Ren Serizawa shares these particular thoughts.
* FalseFlagOperation: It's revealed that they're secretly conducting one of these. After Godzilla attacks Pensacola seemingly unprovoked and destroys an Apex facility, Simmons takes advantage of the resulting shift in public opinion to declare Godzilla is a threat to humanity rather than a guardian, and that Apex are going to take him down for good. [[spoiler:In actuality, Apex are the ones who provoked Godzilla to attack in the first place, and now they're planning to ''deliberately'' repeat the incident on a much larger scale by covertly luring an aggravated Godzilla to Hong Kong (putting eight million people in the line of fire), where they intend to fight and kill him using Mechagodzilla. By making it appear to the world that Godzilla has suddenly decided to terrorize humanity, Apex will be able to justify Mechagodzilla's creation and their plan to topple the Alpha Titans (which they started mainly out of [[AmbitionIsEvil obscene ambition]] married to a sense of {{pride}} based on a monstrously-warped take on humanism) as a necessity, with no-one realizing they were actually the ones behind Godzilla's new aggression]].
* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Simmons and Ren's MugglePower ultimately comes down to this. For all their delusions that Mechagodzilla is necessary for mankind's survival among the Titans, ultimately they just ''can't accept'' the idea that humanity isn't the sole dominant species on Earth; not because of casualties or survival, but because of ''pride''. Unlike the [[EcoTerrorist eco-terrorists]] in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', who were provoked to action partly because of {{the government}}[='s=] folly, Apex's justifications are ultimately hollow: Titans like Godzilla and Kong are already fulfilling the defensive role that Mechagodzilla was built for, and the world would still be in a better place with humans and Titans at peace if Apex had never acted, but Apex just couldn't leave well enough alone.
* FinalSolution: The [[https://cosmicbook.news/godzilla-kong-synopsis-legends-collide pre-release early plot summary]] for the movie indicates Apex wholly intended to exterminate the other Titans around the world after killing Godzilla, like what TheGovernment wanted to do in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' (in which case, Apex have had an even bigger IgnoredEpiphany response to the human-Titan coexistence in ''King of the Monsters''). In the movie proper, it's unclear what Apex's plans for the other Titans were beyond using the perceived need for a better defence against the creatures as justification for [[spoiler:building Mechagodzilla]], although Simmons' remark that "[[ThereCanBeOnlyOne there can only be one Alpha]]" heavily implies he intends to murder Kong after Godzilla just for being an Alpha. In the novelization; Bernie speculated in one of his earlier podcasts that Simmons wanted to control the Titans if possible and summarily wipe them out if he couldn't do that, and Ren himself is unsure whether the Titans will be eradicated outright or "repurposed for human ends" in enslavement.
* FuturisticPyramid: The above-ground part of their main headquarters in Hong Kong looks like someone took the trope page's image, slightly recolored it and slapped it atop a mountain. Symbolically, this resemblance to an Ancient Egyptian sculpture is quite fitting for a NebulousEvilOrganization whom are characterized by and criticized for [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair the same kind of arrogance]] that Percy Shelley's ''Ozymandias'' criticized the titular, long-gone Ancient Egyptian pharaoh for.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The novelization reveals they [[spoiler:provided the military with parts that were used in the Oxygen Destroyer prototype's construction before it was launched]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', making Apex partly responsible for enabling Ghidorah's [[NearVillainVictory global takeover of the Titans]] which caused untold death and destruction on a global scale and almost led to the eradication of all complex life on Earth.
* HateSink: In contrast to most of the [=MonsterVerse's=] other human antagonists whom are given at least some sympathetic qualities or valid points, Apex are consistently portrayed as a morally-corrupt and despicable organization with entirely self-serving motivations. [[spoiler:In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', they all but deliberately start a needless war against the very Alpha Titan whom saved humanity from King Ghidorah and the [=MUTOs=], and they even more deliberately endanger millions of people in Hong Kong, just so that they can rule humanity and control the Titans for their own petty ambitions and out of chauvinistic pride. In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', it's revealed that they were barbarically experimenting on primates with cybernetics to develop their psionic uplink technology, much to May Olowe-Hewitt's horror, and fear of the company's wrath is the main reason why May had to run away and change her identity in her backstory]].
* TheHorseshoeEffect: Their MugglePower agenda to see humanity returned to the top of the food chain and all the Titans enslaved or killed makes them diametrically opposite to Alan Jonah and his [[EcoTerrorist Eco-Terrorists]] from ''King of the Monsters'', but they do have a couple things in common: their actions risk causing the end of the world, and they don't care how many people have to die to get what they want.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: An InUniverse case in the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization. The novel reveals they [[spoiler:were not only responsible for helping [[MilitariesAreUseless the military]] build the Oxygen Destroyer which ultimately enabled Ghidorah's NearVillainVictory, but they likely had [[DeathByOriginStory Sara Hayes]] murdered in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident traffic accident]] to cover it up, yet Simmons' money and influence has ensured the company didn't face any form of justice]]. Roll around to the story's present day and Simmons, Ren, and likely a lot of the other bastards who were in on Apex's immoral conspiracy are killed by [[spoiler:[[MechanicalAbomination the monster they've brought to life]]; and although the company's fate after Mechagodzilla's death isn't revealed, it's more than likely they'll be put out of business for good once their conspiracy and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity crimes against humanity]] are exposed]].
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: During the attack on Apex's Pensacola factory, Bernie spots and follows several scientists in white labcoats whom are running to "Level 2" instead of the designated Titan shelters which the menial staff are headed to. [[spoiler:Notably, whilst the scientists disappear afterward, the secret door they go through ultimately leads Bernie to the room where Mechagodzilla's optic is being stored, implying that these scientists were involved in Simmons and Ren's secret Mechagodzilla project]].
* LethallyStupid: They're so blinded by hubris, they legitimately thought that [[spoiler:they'd have no problem using ''King Ghidorah's'' remains to control [=MechaGodzilla=]. As a result, instead of getting a Mecha that only causes as much damage and death as Apex want for their EngineeredHeroics and their plan to upstage the Titans, Apex get a Mecha that threatens ''all'' of humanity and potentially all life on Earth like its past life did]]. The novelization furthermore reveals that Apex's experiments causing [[spoiler:Godzilla's first attack on their Pensacola facility]], which claims several lives and causes localized property damage, was a genuine accident on their part before they caught on and [[FalseFlagOperation deliberately repeated the results]].
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: The novelization reveals that Apex indirectly helped the military try to kill the Titans [[spoiler:by helping them build the Oxygen Destroyer]] before the events of ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', which Bernie regards as Apex capitalizing on the threat the Titans posed. [[spoiler:The novel also reveals that Mechagodzilla's signal instigating Godzilla to attack Apex's Pensacola facility was a genuine accident on Apex's part, but afterwards, with the whole world misinterpreting Godzilla's attack and believing he's gone bad; Apex are all too happy to ''intentionally'' repeat the results in a more densely-populated city, [[FalseFlagOperation so that Godzilla's name will be smeared even further]] [[EngineeredHeroics before they set Mechagodzilla on him]]]].
* LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair: Apex Cybernetics are pretty much human hubris ''personified''. They believe they'll be able to make humanity the apex species of the planet and retake it from the Titans [[spoiler:by creating their own Titan in Mechagodzilla]], and their genuinely-groundbreaking technological advancements have inspired such overconfidence that they wholly believe they can safely control eldritch {{Black Box}}es which they incorporate into their tech after gaining a surface understanding of them. In practice, Apex can barely get their creation ''running'' without relying on the aforementioned Black Boxes as shortcuts, [[spoiler:and once they do, mixing a truly eldritch power source with an [[UndeadAbomination undead]] DraconicAbomination leads to the latter taking over the machine immediately and destroying Apex]].
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Their [=HEAVs=] mount pretty sizable racks of missiles that can damage Hollow Earth monsters as large as Warbats.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: They're not known to abuse their employees or innocent civilians ''directly'' (keyword) in the movie, but in the novelization, it's believed by Bernie that they arranged the car collision which killed [[spoiler:his wife Sara, an Apex employee, because she stumbled on their secret contract to supply the military with a component for the Oxygen Destroyer before the events of ''King of the Monsters'']].
* ManipulativeBastard: Their plan relies on manipulating Dr. Lind into leading them to the HollowEarth energy source, and taking advantage of Godzilla's Pensacola attack to paint Godzilla as a menace. [[spoiler:The former is necessary to activate Mechagodzilla, and the latter is necessary to justify Mechagodzilla's creation and Apex's MugglePower plans to the world]]. Apex actually succeed in both these goals at first, and are only undone by their own stupidity and arrogance in thinking that being "[[BlackBox monkey see, monkey do]]" with materials straight out of a CosmicHorrorStory wasn't liable to backfire.
* MeaningfulName: A tech company that prides itself on leading technological advancement called Apex Cybernetics. Their name has two other, more sinister meanings underneath, analogous to the sinister CorporateConspiracy they're hiding beneath their benevolent image: "Apex Cybernetics" also refers to the conspiracy's intent to make humanity the supreme species of the planet using their technological prowess, and it refers to their intention to create [[spoiler:the new "apex" predator in the form of Godzilla's cybernetic successor]]. Considering what [[{{Narcissist}} Walter]] [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans Simmons]] is like, and the implications that Apex specifically want it to be themselves before anyone else who overpowers the Titans as the greatest force on Earth, the "Apex" in their name can also be read as the company's leaders wanting to become more powerful than any government or nation on the planet by eclipsing the Titans.
* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler:''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'' reveals that they used to be called Applied Experimental Technologies when their psionic uplink technology was still in its highly-experimental stages. In 2015, Walter Simmons rebranded the company to the above MeaningfulName to reflect their new agenda in the wake of G-Day and their desire for working ties with Monarch]].
* TheMole: The novelization at one point mentions that Apex have several moles in Monarch.
* MugglePower: Apex's CorporateConspiracy is spearheaded by people who feel humanity should be prioritizing becoming the most unchallenged species on Earth over coexisting peacefully with the Titans, after the creatures' emergences (particularly King Ghidorah's reign of terror and the aftermath) knocked our view of ourselves as the supreme species down a peg. Apex want Option 1, mixed with at least ''some'' of Option 2 if not [[FinalSolution the full package]]: their EvilPlan is to first [[spoiler:build an anti-Titan Mecha in Godzilla's image equipped with enough firepower to challenge and kill Titans on its own]], then use it to [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt kill Godzilla and replace him]]. Simmons' "[[ThereCanBeOnlyOne there can only be one]]" remark heavily implies Apex would've afterwards gone on to murder Kong just for being an Alpha Titan using their [[spoiler:Mecha]].
* MurderByInaction: They deliberately engineer the deaths of thousands in population centers via Godzilla's rampage, and plot to provoke him into killing millions more in Hong Kong before letting Mechagodzilla loose on him so Apex will be viewed as "saviors", all without a second thought.
* NatureVersusTechnology: Apex are the Technology to Godzilla, Kong and most [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]]' Nature -- they're a remarkably hi-tech corporation whom are obsessed with rampant technological advancement in the name of dominating or subjugating nature (the Titans) to establish humanity as the supreme lifeform on Earth, embodying [[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair Ozymandian hubris]] and greed. [[spoiler:Apex are secretly creating [[HumongousMecha Mechagodzilla]] with the aim of killing and usurping Godzilla as the supreme Alpha Titan, uncaring that Godzilla is the chief reason why humanity hasn't already been destroyed, but using [[UndeadAbomination Ghidorah's undead skull]] and GreenRocks as the remote piloting brain and the fuel source respectively leads to the Mecha [[AIIsACrapshoot breaking free of Apex's control and turning against them]], and it poses an active threat to all humans ''and'' Godzilla. Apex's rogue creation comes close to killing Godzilla (albeit only because the latter was only at half strength when fighting it), but it's ultimately overwhelmed and destroyed by Godzilla and Kong]].
* NebulousEvilOrganisation: [[ConspiracyTheorist Bernie Hayes]]' frantic broadcasts prominently paint Apex as this, and it turns out he's quite right. Under CEO Walter Simmons' design, Apex are secretly [[spoiler:building Mechagodzilla using [[UndeadAbomination Ghidorah's undead remains]]; aiming to kill and usurp Godzilla as the most powerful force on Earth out of humanism-based {{pride}} and [[AmbitionIsEvil ambition]] (despite how beneficial his presence has been to the world and despite him saving humanity from certain extinction), and having no moral objections to [[FalseFlagOperation putting millions of people around the world in harm's way]] for the sake of their EngineeredHeroics]]. Ironically, the novelization reveals that Simmons is a huge fan of Hayes' podcasts, [[spoiler:one of the reasons he spares Team Godzilla after they infiltrate the Hong Kong facility]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Minor case in the novelization. The novel reveals that [[spoiler:activating Mechagodzilla for the test run in Hong Kong]] diverted Godzilla from investigating the Vile Vortex in Antarctica which Kong had just gone through. Had it not been for this, Godzilla would've likely pursued Kong's trail through the Antarctica Vile Vortex, trashing the Monarch outpost surrounding the Vortex on the way and thus causing more casualties and property damage.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' art book ''One Will Fall – The Art of the Ultimate Battle Royale'' explicitly confirms the movie's implications that Apex's claims to be ensuring humanity's advancement and protecting us from future Titan attacks are nothing more than a thin excuse for their true motivations: to {{take over the world}} after they've overpowered the Alpha Titans.
* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: They have the resources to build a [[spoiler:trans-Pacific underground tunnel system with futuristic car-pods linking their facilities on different continents, anti-gravity vehicles,]] and [[spoiler:a 466-foot-tall HumongousMecha that's armed to the teeth with missiles, rocket launchers, plasma punches, and an all-destroying laser beam, '''in complete secrecy'''. It's explained in the novelization that, along with being a successful tech-company, more than half their income comes from the military-industrial complex]].
* PowerfulButIncompetent: Comparative to the guerrilla [[EcoTerrorist eco-terrorists]] from ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters''. Apex have far more resources as a leading hi-tech corporation TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, as well as a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity decent public image]]; yet unlike the eco-terrorists, whom were able to [[XanatosSpeedChess think on their feet]] against Monarch, [[CrazyPrepared deployed]] [[TaughtByExperience contingencies]] when Monarch came close to catching onto them, and technically achieved the best of their end-goals in a roundabout way; Apex place all their eggs in one basket, they have no in-case-of-emergency backups (at least not any that come into effect), and they're [[SelfDisposingVillain defeated]] '''[[SelfDisposingVillain entirely]]''' [[SelfDisposingVillain by their own hubris (without the heroes needing to do anything)]] when their arrogance leads them to unwittingly unleash ''the mirror opposite'' of [[MugglePower what their agenda was all about]] upon Hong Kong.
* {{Pride}}: They have a particularly bad case of this even by the standards of their setting, which is made all the more prominent by the fact these guys surface as a threat '''after''' the events of ''King of the Monsters'' (which were overall a lesson in humility for most of the human race). Apex's technological prowess and incredible advancements have made them ''hubristically'' cocky; believing they're going to be the ones to overthrow Godzilla and outpower all the Titans on Earth by [[spoiler:building Mechagodzilla in the Titan TopGod[='s=] image]], and assuming that everything will go according to plan even when they [[spoiler:use [[DraconicAbomination Ghidorah]]'s still-telepathically-active alien skull as the core of Mechagodzilla's brain]] and the HollowEarth[='s=] element as a power source, [[BlackBox without properly understanding how either one works]]. Combining these three things results in [[spoiler:Ghidorah essentially becoming reborn within Mechagodzilla and slaughtering Apex using their own weapon]], destroying their MugglePower plan.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: According to the ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' sourcebook, Apex hire contractors and mercenaries among their staff stationed on Skull Island.
* PropagandaMachine: Unlike in the film, the novelization version of the commercial playing in their Pensacola headquarters has a bit more emphasis on painting the Titans as a threat needing to be conquered.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Their Hong Kong headquarters where [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla is hidden]] has red and blue lighting which creates an overall faux purple hue. Meanwhile, Simmons' control room and the room where [[spoiler:Ghidorah's decapitated skull is stored and acting as the Mecha's neural system]] are respectively lit by purple light, emphasizing how Simmons thinks he's the one on top of everything and how [[spoiler:Ghidorah's lingering consciousness]] is on top in actuality. Make no mistake, Apex might be in possession of a lot of power, but they're staggeringly incompetent and irresponsible with it.
* RememberTheNewGuy: The ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' novelization and the ''Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure'' guidebook both state that Apex have had a history with Monarch for years, the latter work in particular making Apex and Monarch out to be sister organizations since the [[TheUnmasquedWorld masquerade-ending]] events of 2014: Apex have handled Titan-related infrastructure and technology whereas Monarch have handled defence, Apex have done contract work for Monarch (which is implied to have contributed to Monarch's radical advancement and new resources in-between ''Film/Godzilla2014'' and ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019''), and Apex have shadowed Monarch everywhere the latter organization built an outpost or ventured inbetween 2014 and 2024. Despite all the above, there is absolutely no reference to Apex existing in ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' nor its associated spin-offs (not even during the global Titan crisis with King Ghidorah), nor are Apex referenced in either of the ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' prequel graphic novels. The closest we got to a direct Apex reference in the pre-''Godzilla vs. Kong'' [=MonsterVerse=] was early mentions of [[UnseenNoMore Ren Serizawa]] by name and relation only, in the ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' supplementary materials.
* ResearchInc: They're highly successful in technology and neurology. They've developed maglev (magnetic levitation[[note]]Described in the novelization[[/note]]) train technology for transporting their supplies across continents, the gravity inversion-surviving [=HEAVs=], and Mechagodzilla plus the psionic uplink technology which pilots it (with a major organic BlackBox).
* TheReveal: It's revealed that they were formerly known as [[spoiler:Applied Experimental Technologies or AET before rebranding themselves]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The novelization mentions that the military provide over half of Apex's funding and that the company avoided any legal punishment for their shared part in [[spoiler:the Oxygen Destroyer's EpicFail]] due to a combination of the government's desire to cover up their own blunder and Simmons' wide influence.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: This and ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections above are mentioned in the novelization as the reasons why they weren't brought to justice ''years'' before the events of ''Godzilla vs. Kong''.
* SelfDisposingVillain: Apex are defeated by their own hubris, with the heroes not needing to do anything to stop Apex specifically from winning. Apex's plan was doomed from the moment they [[spoiler:incorporated Ghidorah's skull as the core of Mechagodzilla's brain, which results in Ghidorah's subconsciousness taking over the Mecha and destroying Apex as soon as the HollowEarth[='s=] energy source is added to the mix as a necessary fuel source]]. Essentially, Apex sabotaged themselves before the movie even started.
* SevenDeadlySins:
** '''Lust:''' Non-sexual. Apex want to {{take over the world}} via a practically ''insane'' methodology, and they specifically want to be loved and hailed by the world as heroes, using EngineeredHeroics, which is fitting since their leader Walter Simmons is a {{narcissist}}. On a more individual basis; Maia Simmons is implied to be a WellDoneDaughterGirl who craves approval from a father whose [[TheSociopath pathology]] would mean that he's only capable of giving her the most fragile love at best, and Ren Serizawa craves the attention of a neglectful father who is now dead and he craves revenge on an AnimalisticAbomination who doesn't even know what its existence cost Ren.
** '''Gluttony:''' They greedily threaten to, in Ilene Andrews' words, "strip [the HollowEarth GreenRocks] for parts" so they can power Mechagodzilla (since the latter requires a truly ''insane'' amount of power to function for more than two minutes), without regards for the potential risks in disrupting such a little-understood part of ''[[PlanetaryCoreManipulation the planet's core]]''. Additionally, earlier drafts of the movie would have depicted Apex harvesting the life force of the Titans Mechagodzilla kills to be used as fuel.
** '''Greed:''' They're already excessively wealthy, being worth at least ''billions'' of dollars (potentially even trillions depending on how they amassed the funds for Mechagodzilla's budget [[https://www.reddit.com/r/GODZILLA/comments/niq8wk/hey_rgodzilla_jared_krichevsky_here_designer_of/gz3ey6n/ here]]), and they still want even ''more'' material gain via [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]].
** '''Sloth:''' Unlike Preston Packard and Alan Jonah, Walter Simmons relegates all the dirty work to his underlings, and he spends most of his time sitting comfortably inside his corporate facilities while he watches his evil plan pan out -- the novelization even notes that Simmons hasn't accomplished all that much himself as an individual, and he has a habit of taking the credit for the accomplishments of others. Furthermore, whilst Apex ''have'' developed some truly astounding and groundbreaking new technology, when it comes to their evil plan to usurp the Alpha Titans, they tend to use {{black box}}es scavenged from the Titans themselves or the Hollow Earth in order to make it work instead of patiently developing a more reliable and understood means on their own; which can be justified by the novelization explaining that Apex would otherwise need to wait decades to realize their plan's success, and also by (A) Apex being [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist not-so-well-intentioned extremists]] whom have convinced themselves that they're "solving" an urgent Titan problem in the world, and (B) Walter Simmons likely not having that long to live and see his dream come true since he's already in middle age.
** '''Wrath:''' Apex want to kill or enslave all the Titans on Earth, even the outright good ones like Godzilla and (implicitly) Kong, with the murder and usurpation of Godzilla being the crux of their agenda; and they're perfectly willing to indirectly engineer the devastation of entire cities and the mass endangerment of ''millions'' of civilians for their own ends. In the novelization, Ren particularly wants to kill Godzilla out of rage that the Titan's mere existence indirectly robbed him of a relationship with his father.
** '''Envy:''' They want to kill and usurp Godzilla so that they can assume his position as the reigning alpha over the other monsters and the dominant lifeform on Earth, feeling provoked by knowing that they aren't in Godzilla's shoes as the apex power of the planet. On an individual basis, the novelization also reveals that Ren is motivated by envy that Godzilla drew his father's attention away from him throughout his life and that he regards Godzilla as something of [[CainAndAbel an Abel to his Cain]].
** '''{{Pride}}:''' The worst of the seven sins is also, fittingly, Apex's defining characteristic. In a setting filled with human arrogance causing catastrophic Titan problems, Apex are easily among the most prideful characters of all. They're extremely proud of human ingenuity and their own technological accomplishments, and even after the Titans have already trampled over humanity more than once as a result of mankind's less radical efforts to combat or control them going horribly wrong; [[spoiler:Apex are convinced they're going to upstage and then enslave or destroy the Titans by implementing an even ''more'' radical and reckless scheme that involves reanimating [[OmnicidalManiac Ghidorah]]'s undead skull and connecting it to a GreenRocks-filled [[HumongousMecha artificial Alpha Titan]] -- and they're [[TooDumbToLive genuinely blindsided]] when [[EvilIsNotAToy the predictable happens]]]].
* StartXToStopX: How do they prove that they're out to defend humanity against Titan attacks and minimize the collateral? Why, by actively looking to start a fight with Godzilla (the one Titan besides Mothra who's interested in preserving the world at large as humanity knows it), disrupting five years of entirely-beneficial peace between man and Titan, and going out of their way to ''knowingly'' put millions of civilians unnecessarily in the crossfire [[spoiler:as part of their FalseFlagOperation]]. Madison straight-up calls Simmons out on this.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: They have terrible security, with Team Godzilla having little trouble sneaking through their facilities. Of course, given their supreme hubris, this is completely in-character.
* TaughtByExperience: {{Implied}} in the official novelization. [[spoiler:It's heavily implied there that before Mechagodzilla was built, Apex first attempted to realize their ambitions to dominate the Titans by contributing to the [[FantasticNuke Oxygen Destroyer]]'s creation (and [[EpicFail we all know how well that turned out]])]]. It appears the hard proof that [[TakesOneToKillOne only Titans can kill other Titans]] is the '''one''' lesson from the events of ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' that Apex really internalized, leading them to attempt achieving their goals by creating their own artificial Titan instead.
* TheoryTunnelVision: They carry the ideals that Godzilla is the main threat to the world, that mankind both can and ''needs to'' subjugate or destroy all Titans for the sake of our survival, and that our civilization's technological achievements make us the true [[{{Pun}} apex]] of evolution; past the events of not just ''Film/Godzilla2014'' but also ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', events which all but disproved ''all three'' of those views. It's implied that rather than admit [[Film/Godzilla2014 nature is NOT within man's control after all]] and that Godzilla really is our civilization's best shot at survival, Apex have simply rationalized the events of 2019 as proof that humanity's safety is in even deeper shit than was initially thought.
* TooDumbToLive: One of the ''biggest'' cases in the entire Franchise/MonsterVerse.
** Their idea of achieving their goals to reclaim the Earth from Titans and become glorified for it? It's to [[spoiler:build an Ultimate Destroyer on par with the two toughest known living Titans on Earth, and use the undead skull of '''''Ghidorah''''' – an extraterrestrial DraconicAbomination whose BizarreAlienBiology demonstrably violates the known laws of science even by the Titans' standards and a known OmnicidalManiac who actively wants Titans to wipe the Earth clean of life – as the core component of the machine's ''brain''! Because that couldn't ''possibly'' go wrong or have unforeseen consequences in any way, right? It's not like the GhostlyWail of Ghidorah's roar that the wired-up skull is producing even before the Hollow Earth energy is synthesized is a possible red flag, is it?]] The trope name doesn't ''begin'' to cover it.
** During Godzilla's Pensacola attack, two Apex guards who catch Bernie running up a restricted corridor immediately stop him to demand he show them his clearance credentials (this when Bernie was just about to go back the way he came). Bernie promptly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades the trope]] by calling the guards out on how they're putting that at the top of their immediate priorities while ''Godzilla himself'' is rampaging in the area -- the guards don't take Bernie's point, and guess whose BreathWeapon turns the guards into collateral damage five. Seconds. Later.
* TunnelNetwork: Apex's facilities are secretly linked up by trans-continental underground tunnels, which they use to clandestinely transport cargo on magnetic levitation trains, including [[CorporateConspiracy Mechagodzilla's giant optic]] and the eggs of Skullcrawlers which Apex are illegally breeding. This network links Apex's Pensacola factory to their Hong Kong HQ, and it apparently also links up with other Apex facilities in other places like [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]].
* UngratefulBastard: They don't give a damn that Godzilla is the chief reason why they along with the rest of humanity haven't already been wiped out by the [=MUTOs=] or especially by King Ghidorah, nor do they care that Godzilla will continue defending humanity as long as they're a part of the world's natural order. To them, Godzilla is nothing but a BossBattle to be surpassed in order to prove Apex's human superiority.
* UnwittingPawn: [[AmbiguousSituation It's ambiguous to what degree]], but [[spoiler:at best they gave Ghidorah's dead spirit a happy accident when mixing the hydra's skull with the HollowEarth energy caused a SoulFragment to slip into Mechagodzilla; or at worst, Ghidorah was active, psychically corrupting an oblivious Ren, and waiting to receive its new body the entire time, while Apex blatantly ignored the red flags signifying the hydra's lingering sentience]]. In any case, Apex thought they were building a superweapon with which they could conquer the world in the name of making humanity "the apex species", when in reality they were unwittingly [[spoiler:bringing back the most murderous and [[KillAllHumans anti-human]] Titan of them all from the moment they decided that using Ghidorah's skull as an organic supercomputer was a good idea]].
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Early plot summaries for ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' indicate Apex's actions would've escalated into a straight-up indiscriminate genocide of every last Titan on Earth if he hadn't lost control [[spoiler:of Mechagodzilla]], and if Apex had succeeded in killing and replacing Godzilla. Simmons' comment that {{there can be only one}} Alpha when confronted by Madison on his crimes implies he also intended to murder Kong, along with any other Alpha Titans that he found, so that Mechagodzilla would be unchallenged after killing Godzilla. In the novelization, Bernie speculates that Simmons plans to exterminate any Titans his creation can't control, and enslave the rest.
* VilerNewVillain: Compared to the [[EcoTerrorist eco-terrorists]] from ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'', Apex are also entirely willing to put millions of innocent people in mortal peril order to further their own ends, and they're also led by a dangerous and ultimately self-centered NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist. However, the eco-terrorists at least had a legitimate provocation with their pointers that the idiotic and/or misguided [[TheGovernment government]] and military were about to try exterminating the Titans (which would have likely spelled more trouble than it's worth for humanity in the bigger picture), and Monarch wasn't doing enough to stop that from happening; and the eco-terrorists are presented as [[VillainHasAPoint having a point in the end]] about the benefits of Titans returning to the world. Apex on the other hand have taken virtually nothing away from the events of ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' (which proved that humans can coexist with Titans if they learn to respect nature more), [[spoiler:starting an unprovoked and costly war with Godzilla for entirely impractical and petty ambition]], and the film doesn't present them as having any legitimate points in their defensive arguments: they're just a chauvinist EvilReactionary organization driven by pointless, overbloated pride and vile ambition, and the world would still be in a better place if they'd never acted.
* VillainousLegacy: Monarch continues to use their [=HEAVs=] for Hollow Earth travel after the Mechagodzilla project's fiasco. ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted'' reveals that [[VanHelsingHateCrimes Raymond Martin]]'s organization have somehow obtained a HEAV, which enables Raymond to carry out his monster murder spree in the Hollow Earth.
* VillainousRescue: Downplayed in they're not at the [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla creation stage they are in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', but given that and their actions in the series as AET, the audience knows their assisting in rescuing Cate, May and Keiko can't be for noble reasons]].
* VillainousUnderdog: The enemy who they want to usurp is '''Godzilla'''. Without [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla]], Apex are just an EvilInc of hubris-filled god-wannabes led by a TooDumbToLive egotist.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: {{Downplayed}}. On the surface, they're a legitimate company who are respectable enough to avoid suspicion from Monarch and the world, and they're successful in several fields. That being said, the novelization reveals they have a shady history and are regarded with misgivings by many people in Monarch [[spoiler:due to the two organizations' past shared involvement part in creating the Oxygen Destroyer, which led to Ghidorah's apocalyptic Titan-rampage]].
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: {{Discussed}} in the novelization. Bernie thinks most of Apex's run-of-the-mill engineering staff are little more than unquestioning worker-bees who don't ask questions. While he might have a point, this guy also believes the government are covering up the existence of Santa's elves at the North Pole, so...
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The movie doesn't reveal what happens to Apex after [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla's destruction]], but it's likely that they'll be facing many lawsuits and a public investigation over their activities which could result in them being shut down once the extent of their crimes is exposed. [[spoiler: With Walter Simmons and his associates dead and exposed, their names and legacy are now permanently disgraced.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: They seem to think they're in a ''Film/PacificRim''-style kaiju movie where the giant monsters are evil invaders stealing the world from humanity, and humanity must build human-piloted {{Humongous Mecha}}s as a deterrent, with Apex viewing themselves as the resident CreatureHunterOrganization. However, Apex are completely ignorant of the events of previous movies (particularly ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'') which have proven that Godzilla is more or less on humanity's side and that the Titans can peacefully and ''beneficially'' coexist with humans; and Serizawa's speech about how "[[Film/Godzilla2014 the arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around]]" (and the evidence in the previous movies' events to back that up whenever the military presence tried neutralizing the Titans on their terms) is an aesop which flies '''completely''' over Apex's heads. Apex believe that possession of a BlackBox more or less equates to complete mastery of it, unaware that they're actually just a bunch of high-caliber hubrists who are destined to shoot themselves in the foot. They also seem to be clueless about how in the previous [=MonsterVerse=] movies, the Titan {{Big Bad}}s' awakenings were all caused by humans (a mining company, Packard and the eco-terrorists) not letting sleeping dogs lie, and Apex are now repeating the pattern. Though Apex view themselves as heroes saving the world, it ''cannot be overstated'' how transparently despicable their actions are to anyone who isn't deluded to hell and back: completely disregarding the millions of civilians they put in the crossfire unnecessarily, [[spoiler:firing the first shot against Godzilla in the middle of a beneficial peace between him and mankind, and lying to the world about their criminal role in Godzilla's rampage for the sake of turning their campaign to murder Godzilla into a giant FalseFlagOperation]].

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!! '''Brenda Holland'''
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DominiqueTipper
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''

A high-ranking executive of the Apex Cybernetics precursor, Applied Experimental Technologies (or AET), who directly supervises their Seattle-based office and is involved in May Olowe-Hewitt (Corah Mateo's) past.

* AmbiguouslyGay: She took Coral on a dinner date before employing her to AET, and there are some definite ''undertones'' to her and Coral/May's interactions. In the present, they act like mutually used and betrayed lovers when they see each-other again. It's easy to hear Brenda talk about everything she intended to give Coral/May if the latter hadn't betrayed her, and just have the words [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} "I can show you the world"]] pop into one's head.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: While she initially plays the role of BenevolentBoss to get Corah Mateo to sign on, once Corah discovers the unethical experiments Applied Experimental Technologies are carrying out, the mask of niceness comes off and Brenda coldly informs her that all of Corah's work belongs to the company to use as they see fit. She later has Corah--now going by May Olowe-Hewitt--kidnapped and threatens her friends and family in order to get her to agree to work for the company again.
* DealWithTheDevil:
** In "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E7WillTheRealMayPleaseStandUp Will the Real May Please Stand Up?]]", her abduction of May/Corah forces Deputy Director Verdugo to cut a lucrative deal with her to bail the former out of her trouble with AET/Apex for good.
** In "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E10BeyondLogic Beyond Logic]]", Kentaro, Hiroshi and Tim have apparently cut a deal with her to help rescue Cate, May, Keiko and Shaw from Axis Mundi, which might have enabled Apex to build their research facility on Skull Island and which has implicitly led to at least Tim owing her his allegiance.
* EvilBrit: She has a Hollywood English accent, and she's a ruthless, cold-hearted {{corrupt corporate executive}} who's in on Walter Simmons' {{corporate conspiracy}} and the amoral measures that it entails. She constantly sounds like she's talking down to whoever's in front of her almost every time she opens her mouth, even when she's pretending to be nice.
* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescription: She calls May/Corah "prideful". Coming from a member of Walter Simmons' inner circle, that is ''profoundly'' rich.
* PurpleIsPowerful: In the present in "Will the Real May Please Stand Up?", she wears a bright-purple suit, fitting her company's color motif.
* {{Slimeball}}: A RareFemaleExample. She's a {{corrupt corporate executive}}, who sounds like she's talking down at you even when she's [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretending to be your friend]], she's smug, and she spends her entire debut attempting to manipulate others to her company's benefit.
* VisionaryVillain: She's a true believer in the company's ideology, who sees their project to create a neurally-controlled Titan-sized machine of their own as the future of humanity and the march of progress, and she believes it's worth any sacrifice that her company deems fit.

[[folder:Walter Simmons]]
-> See [[Characters/MonsterVerseWalterSimmons his page]].
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[[folder:Maia Simmons]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EizaGonzalez

An Apex Cybernetics executive who joins Team Kong's efforts to enter the Hollow Earth.

* TheBeautifulElite: Like father, like daughter, although in her case it's a bit {{downplayed}} by her attitude. She's the heiress of a corporation worth billions, she's played by the stunningly-beautiful Creator/EizaGonzalez, and she wears a couple trendy articles of clothing over the movie. Unlike [[FauxAffablyEvil her father]], Maia is a haughty RichBitch who has the bare minimum in sophistication even before things start going to pot.
* BrainyBrunette: ''Very'' much {{averted}}. She has dark hair like most of Team Kong's actual smart people, yet despite Maia's ability to spout out every technical detail about Apex's [=HEAVs=], she proves to be very harebrained when in a crisis: jumping on the idea to dump Kong into the ocean in order to end Godzilla's attack even though this would also irreparably derail their mission, [[spoiler:and [[TooDumbToLive causing her own death]] by having her [=HEAV's=] pilot ''shoot at Kong'' in a pathetic attempt to avoid certain death]].
* DaddysLittleVillain: She's the daughter of [[BigBadWannabe Walter Simmons]], and she's in on her father's EvilPlan.
* {{Dehumanization}}: She doesn't have much respect or high regard or ''any'' fondness for Kong, preferring to derisively call him "the monkey".
* DirtyCoward: Downplayed. At the first sign of Titan-sized mortal danger, she panics to the point [[TooDumbToLive self-destructive stupidity]], losing almost '''all''' practical forward-thinking cognitive function. During Godzilla's first attack, the moment Maia realizes that he's after Kong, she demands they dump Kong into the sea and let Godzilla have him – not only does this piss off Dr. Andrews, but Maia forgets amid her panic that without Kong to lead her to the GreenRocks' main outlet, her entire mission will be completely ruined there and then if they lose Kong. [[spoiler:When Kong turns on Maia and the flesh-eating Hellhawks descend, Maia at least has enough nerve and loyalty to wait until the data transfer of the Green Rocks is complete before she turns tail; after that, she sprints straight for the nearest HEAV and is reduced to frantically screaming at the pilot to get her out of danger ''now'', and her harebrained order that her HEAV shoot at Kong instead of simply flying ''around'' him to the escape route gets her [[UndignifiedDeath embarrassingly]] [[KarmicDeath killed]]]].
* EvilWearsBlack: Downplayed. Before donning the black-and-gold HEAV jumpsuit, she's always wearing a plain black top, often underneath a coat or jacket. She's also one of the bad guys, like her similarly black-clad father.
* FreudianExcuse: {{Implied}}. She was raised from birth by a corporate tycoon to think like him and does most of what she does to earn her father's approval. Considering said father is also a complete sociopath, it's not a surprise in hindsight that she ended up the way she did.
* HumblePie: {{Subverted}}. After Godzilla's attack on the fleet impresses on her what kind of situation she's in (during which she went into a harebrained panic and suggested dumping Kong into the ocean), Maia appears to tone down her [[RichBitch stuck-up attitude]] a little. [[spoiler:Later, the moment Maia gets what she needs to complete her mission, she doesn't hesitate to betray Team Kong; arrogantly asserting that her father will get what he wants and that they can do whatever they want with the Hollow Earth's energy source now, and ultimately she causes her own death through sheer stupidity by establishing herself as a threat to Jia while Kong was ''standing right there'']].
* InformedAbility: Despite being described by her actress as "a very smart woman behind a company", it really doesn't come across. She's quick to demand in a panic that Monarch dump Kong into the ocean so Godzilla will stop attacking their fleet, forgetting how that would make it more difficult for her to reach the Hollow Earth's energy source, and then there's her infamous TooDumbToLive. This might have something to do with the movie's storyline getting recut and changed in post-production, as [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/ambulance-eiza-gonzalez-michael-bay-1235127417/ Word of Saint Paul]] has it that Maia's role was very different in the original story.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: At first, she's a condescending and smug RichBitch who derides Kong as "the monkey". But she does [[PetTheDog show concern for Jia's wellbeing a couple of times]], demonstrating a potential soft spot for children compared to adults, and her bad attitude seems to gradually mellow over the course of Team Kong's journey. [[spoiler:Then she betrays the team in cold blood in the Hollow Earth, not batting an eye as her armed Apex escorts hold all of them (Jia included) at gunpoint, and leaving them all to die without hesitation when panicked]].
* KarmicButtMonkey: She's not nearly as steely as [[SmugSnake her father]] believes her to be, and it shows – of course, since she's also an obnoxious, stuck-up RichBitch, [[spoiler:to say nothing of her [[DaddysLittleVillain villainous actions]]]], her misfortunes are quite satisfying. After the bridge of the naval carrier is temporarily flooded, the camera focuses on a drenched Maia standing on her own, vomiting seawater. After the [=HEAVs=] cross the Vile Vortex's boundary into the HollowEarth, Maia is the only one onboard Team Kong's HEAV who needs to make use of a barf bag due to the effects of the trippy ride; an occurrence which Nathan predicted precisely before they went in. [[spoiler:To say nothing of the [[UndignifiedDeath embarrassingly comical]] way that Maia causes her own death]].
* KarmicDeath: A matter of minutes after she betrays Team Kong and the Big K himself so she can [[spoiler:power up Mechagodzilla]] (abandoning Team Kong to fend for themselves against the Hellhawks), [[spoiler:Kong himself]] foils her escape and kills her. What's more, [[spoiler:she treated Kong with {{Dehumanization}} throughout the movie, and if she hadn't ordered her [=HEAV's=] pilot to shoot at Kong [[TooDumbToLive in a senseless panic]] in an attempt to get him out of their escape route, he probably would've let her go. When Kong peers into her HEAV with one eye in irrefutable intelligence before he crushes it, it's like he's giving her the middle finger for her earlier behavior before she goes up in flames]].
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The Dark Feminine to Dr. Andrews' Light Feminine when they're working together on the Hollow Earth expedition. Compared to Andrews, Maia is played by the stunning Creator/EizaGonzalez and always wears something that fits nicely around her form throughout her screentime, she's confident (at first), but she's also rude, aloof, and all she cares about is [[WellDoneDaughterGirl completing the mission her father gave her]]; [[spoiler:betraying the rest of the team once they get in her way]].
* LikeFatherLikeSon: She shares a lot of traits with her father, Walter: they're both arrogant, lack any respect for Titans (at least in her case she has no respect for Kong), and have a sense of self-entitlement. They are also both TooDumbToLive; [[spoiler:while Walter gets himself killed by Mechagodzilla thanks to his own hubris in thinking that he fully understands how to use it, Maia gets herself killed not long before when she threatens Team Kong right in front of Kong and not even bothering to capture Jia in case Kong tries to attack the HEAV she's in, and ''then'', she has her bodyguards shoot at Kong to "get him out of the way", which angered Kong to the point he crushed her and everyone else inside her HEAV in a fiery inferno]].
* MyNaymeIs: Subtitles and credits spell her name as "Maia," not the slightly-more-common "Maya."
* OhCrap: When [[spoiler:Kong grabs her HEAV]] and looks right in at her (after she's [[spoiler:shot at him and threatened Team Kong in front of him]] no less), Maia has a look on her face that screams, "Oh, ''fuck''". Cue her UndignifiedDeath.
* PetTheDog: During Godzilla's attack on the fleet, she's the first one to run to Jia's aid when the girl and Dr. Andrews barely escape drowning.
* RapidFireNo: Her last words during her UndignifiedDeath.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: She serves as one to Madison Russell. Although the two never meet, like Madison was in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', Maia is also the daughter of the human BigBadWannabe who is [[spoiler:responsible for kicking off the film's Kaiju crisis]], and she is secretly in on her parent's EvilPlan. But whereas Madison had the morals and personality traits to have a HeelRealization about her mother's actions and rebel against her, Maia remains unwaveringly loyal to her father's actions.
* RichBitch: She waves her father's company's technology in everyone's faces, belittles the rest of Team Kong for being comparatively primitive, and overall does ''not'' exude a friend-making attitude. Her attitude seems to mellow as the mission goes on, particularly after Godzilla's attack on the fleet gives her a wake-up call about what kind of situation she's in and how being amidst battling Titans isn't something she's cut out for handling, [[spoiler:but she still betrays the team]].
* ShootingSuperman: Infamously so. [[spoiler:In a thoughtless panic, she orders her [=HEAV's=] pilot to shoot at '''King Kong''' to get the latter out of their way while they're trying to flee]].
%%* ShortLivedAerialEscape
* TheTeamBenefactor: She and her father are to Team Kong as [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Miranda and the Illusive Man]] are to the ''Normandy'' crew respectively: Walter is providing the expedition with the [=HEAVs=] necessary to access and even stand a chance at braving the Hollow Earth, but Maia represents Apex on the team whilst Walter doesn't physically join them in any capacity.
* TooDumbToLive: She tends to lose common sense and give in to plain panic whenever she's in a life-threatening situation, but she has two counts of this trope in short order in the Hollow Earth. [[spoiler:Her betraying Team Kong ''in front of Kong'' was not a good idea, nor was her ordering her pilot shoot at Kong in a panic to try and get him out of their [=HEAV's=] way]].
* UndignifiedDeath: Her death is about as funny as it is cathartic. [[spoiler:After she pisses Kong off and after she orders her pilot to shoot at him, the retaliating Kong easily grabs her HEAV and [[ItCanThink glares in at her]], causing her to [[OhCrap proverbially shit her pants]]. She spends her last seconds crying out at her impending doom with a panicked RapidFireNo before Kong crushes the HEAV in a casual, almost bored-looking manner and it explodes]].
* UngratefulBitch: She and everyone else on the ship carrying Kong would have drowned when Godzilla capsized it if Kong hadn't flipped the ship back over. Despite that, she still belittles him, [[spoiler:and she even orders her pilot to shoot at him to get him out of her way]].
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: {{Implied}} in the movie. She's part of the mission to the HollowEarth on the behalf of her father (whom the movie shows is a manipulative sociopath), [[spoiler:and she even betrays and threatens Team Kong so she can complete her mission that will enable Walter to realize his ambitions]], summarizing her actions as "My father gets what he wants." In the novelization's expansion, however, Maia implies that she resents her father and is merely waiting until the day she'll inherit his corporate empire.

[[folder:Ren Serizawa]]
-> See [[Characters/MonsterVerseRenSerizawa his page]].
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[[folder:The Defector (*'''Spoilers'''*)]]
!!'''Tim'''
-> See [[Characters/MonsterVerseMonarch here]].
[[/folder]]

!!Other Characters
[[folder:Akio]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jake Cunanan
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
A young Japanese boy who's separated from his parents on a monorail in Honolulu just before Godzilla and the male MUTO surface.

* AdaptationalDumbass: In the film he's quite keenly aware of his surroundings, whereas in the novelization he doesn't seem to notice that he's been separated from his parents.
* KidAmidTheChaos: He gets separated from his parents due to a mundane incident with a train's automated doors shutting on him, prompting Ford to watch out for him until they can get him back to his parents. Then Hokmuto shows up, [[spoiler:and Ford ends up saving this boy from a potentially grievous death]].
* {{Protectorate}}: He's one for Ford in the brief time he's in Ford's custody during the kaiju incident.

[[folder:Bus Driver]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DeeJayJackson
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}''
A bus driver transporting children across the Golden Gate Bridge amidst the San Francisco evacuations, when Godzilla arrives.

* BadassDriver: When Godzilla arrives at the Golden Gate Bridge just after the driver has been told to turn around, he manages to drive his vehicle full of kids through police and military barricades in the middle of an explosive skirmish between Godzilla and the Navy. He gets off the Golden Gate Bridge just before the massive {{Kaiju}} barges through it.
* HeroicBystander: He's clearly just a civilian, yet the moment him and the bus full of kids he's transporting are caught between Godzilla and military gung-ho, he puts the pedal to the metal and gets them all to safety like a champ, despite the many obstacles in his vehicle's path.

[[folder:Josh Valentine]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JulianDennison
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''

A young boy who allies with Madison and Bernie in their investigation of what is causing Godzilla's rampage.

* BrainyBrunette: He has dark hair, and although he's [[CowardlyLion a little bit timid]] and isn't on the same intellectual level as Bernie and Madison, he makes up for these things by possessing people skills which the other two both lack; coming in handy when Madison is trying to track down Bernie. Josh apparently pirates media during his spare time, [[spoiler:and although his efforts to perform HollywoodHacking on Mechagodzilla's satellite uplink are useless, he ''does'' resourcefully find a way to [[CuttingTheKnot cut the knot]] with seconds to spare before Mechagodzilla would have killed Kong]].
* CowardlyLion: He's definitely the timidest member of Team Godzilla, and if the other two decide to approach something that looks ominous, he will be the one to complain about it and be the last one to step through. But that doesn't stop him sticking by his allies and making himself useful where he can. Notably, Madison gives him the choice to accompany her or back out before she heads off to find Bernie Hayes, and he goes along.
* CuttingTheKnot: Josh and Bernie are unable to hack into [[spoiler: Mechagodzilla's control board, and Bernie [[DrowningMySorrows gets ready to chug the flask of whisky he keeps for his darkest hour]], giving Josh the idea to just dump the alcohol into the control panel to short-circuit it.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When we first meet him showing up to Madison's house with his brother's stolen van, he's expressing nervousness about being caught for the act (despite his brother being immediately implied to be someone who wouldn't even notice), and he questions why he and Madison have to get involved in the current Titan crisis. When Maddie looks him in the eye and asks whether he's coming or staying, Josh replies with a brave face and nil hesitation that he's most certainly coming with her -- then he goofs up his attempt to look like a toughie while opening the van door.
* HollywoodHacking: {{Subverted}}. He tries doing this to Apex's computers, but [[spoiler:randomly typing in pass codes just gets him locked out of the system]].
* LogicalLatecomer: He protests and tries to warn the other characters, including Madison Russell from [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the previous film]], when they're heading toward instead of away from something that any practical-minded or common-sensed person would consider ominous and dangerous.
* MatureYoungerSibling: His brother, who owns the van he steals for Madison, is apparently an oblivious DisappointingOlderSibling, whereas Josh is a sharp and weary kid.
* TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless: {{Subverted}}. Although him, Bernie and Madison infiltrate Apex Cybernetics' secret facilities to investigate their role in Godzilla's rampage, for most of the movie they're only [[FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator a kind of P.O.V. character]] for the audience to watch the mystery gradually unveil through, and they fail to make any meaningful impact on the plot. [[spoiler:That is, until Mechagodzilla, possessed by Ghidorah's subconsciousness, [[NearVillainVictory is about to kill Kong]] after Godzilla has been heavily weakened, and Josh is in ''just'' the right place at just the right time to sabotage the computer controlling the Mecha's satellite link once Bernie gives Josh an idea]].
* MundaneSolution: In the novelization, Team Godzilla at one point comes to a locked door in the Apex HQ with a keypad, and when Bernie asks Josh if he can hack it, Josh proposes they just take a nearby staircase instead.
* NerdGlasses: He has browline/chunky-black glasses, has stereotypical-nerd levels of timidness, and is a hacker (his main specialty is movie piracy).
* OnlyFriend: Sort of. It's hinted in the movie, and confirmed by the novelization, that Josh is the only friend or acquaintance Madison has managed to make who is in her age group, since Mark enrolled her in a high school where all the other kids [[AllTheOtherReindeer ostracize or pick on her]]. However, it should be noted that Madison feels she has ''adult'' friends and peers within Monarch.
* OnlySaneByComparison: PlayedWith. Compared to Madison and Bernie who head toward unknown possible danger without much second thought if they think it'll get them closer to the answers they're after, Josh as the token CowardlyLion is keenly aware and willing to point out when heading this way or that way isn't a safe idea.
* PluckyComicRelief: {{Inverted}}. He's a source of quirks and humor like Bernie, although he's not quite as wacky as the latter, leaving Madison as the only serious member of Team Godzilla.
%%* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl
* SpannerInTheWorks: Team Godzilla's only role up until the FinalBattle [[spoiler:against Mechagodzilla]] is discovering the conspiracy behind Apex, but when [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla is reprogrammed by Ghidorah's consciousness, Josh narrowly prevents Mechagodzilla from successfully killing Kong by pouring Bernie's flask of alcohol on Mechagodzilla's controls. Had it not been for that, Mechagodzilla would've likely beaten both Kong and Godzilla and gone on to threaten the whole world]].
* StreetSmart: Funnily enough, he, [[NerdGlasses of all people]], stands out amongst Team Godzilla for showing shades of this. Despite his nerdy and timid appearance, Josh is person-savvy enough to know precisely how to get Bernie's whereabouts from a store clerk when Madison was struggling to get what they were after, he's good at {{cutting the knot}} on the fly [[spoiler:(this trait of his narrowly derails a Ghidorah-possessed Mechagodzilla's near-certain victory at a time when Madison was helpless and Bernie was about to give up)]], and he exhibits a practical spatial awareness and cautiousness of danger when he's accompanying Madison and Bernie through Apex.
* YouTalkTooMuch: Bernie tells him this word-for-word in the novelization.

[[folder:May Olowe-Hewitt]]
!!'''Coral Mateo'''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KierseyClemons
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''
A roguish American ex-patriate and a talented techy, who accompanies Kentaro and Cate Randa on their investigation into their father's disappearance.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: She's ''heavily'' implied to be bisexual, but it's not been explicitly confirmed. She sleeps with Kentaro Randa the day she first meets him, and dates him for a while until their relationship eventually falls apart due to lack of communication. After Cate Randa helps save her when she falls into ice-water, May begins to warm towards her, and their interactions become increasingly affectionate and protective throughout the series--something that annoys Kentaro when he notices it--though it's not confirmed whether May is attracted to Cate or not. She also went on a dinner date with Brenda Holland before discovering the latter's true colors, and the pair act like mutually-betrayed ex-lovers in the present.
* BecomingTheMask: She admits in episode 7 that this has happened to her over the course of the series. At first, she was lying and was just trying to save her own skin when she started accompanying the Randas on their cross-global trek based on Bill Randa's files, but she grew closer to them and doesn't want to be that kind of person anymore.
%%* BlackAndNerdy
* DefectorFromDecadence: She used to work for a Seattle-based tech innovation company called Applied Experimental Technologies, [[spoiler:the direct precursor to Apex Cybernetics,]] until she discovered their secret project that her research was being fed into, where they were conducting extremely horrific neural implant-based experiments on chimpanzees with cybernetics. She promptly wiped the company's database on moral principle [[spoiler:at the cost of her being forced to go on the run. After getting caught by AET and confronted by Holland in the present, May admits that despite the grief it's caused her, she'll never regret what she did]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: When the Randas first approach her with Bill Randa's files, May is initially very cold, aloof and reluctant to help out beyond scientific curiosity. She later [[NotSoStoic gets angry]] and blames Kentaro for getting her involved and putting her on the run from the life she made in Tokyo. After nearly dying during the encounter with the Frost Vark and being nursed by Cate and Lee, she warms up a lot more to Cate and Kentaro. [[spoiler:The latter initially isn't enough to stop May from agreeing to become Duvall's mole amongst the Randas in exchange for getting her life back, but she later comes clean to them out of guilt. From the seventh episode onwards, she's a lot more [[ShipTease openly protective and affectionate]] towards Cate]].
%%* DullSurprise
* {{Greed}}: In her backstory, she was enticed by money [[spoiler:to join [[ResearchInc AET]] before she learned of their [[EvilInc true colors]]]]. In the present, she's quite ashamed of it.
%%* GuileHero
* HatesRichPeople: She apparently doesn't think much of very well-off people in general, and she derides the title of Kentaro's official art show as pretentious when she first meets him. Her past with [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Brenda Holland]] might have a lot to do with this.
* HoldingHands: Cate and May hold hands at the end of Episode 4, relieved that they both made it out alive, and May thanks Cate for not leaving her behind. Cate and May also pointedly hold each-other's hands quite a lot throughout the final episode, by which time they've grown close to ShipTease levels. [[spoiler:In the latter episode's climax, Cate makes a point of grasping both Keiko and May's hands on either side of her in comfort as they're hurtling inside the pod towards the rift out of the Axis Mundi]].
* HeroicNeutral: She just wants to go back to the life she's made for herself in Tokyo. [[spoiler:By the end of "[[Recap/MonarchLegacyOfMonstersS1E7WillTheRealMayPleaseStandUp Will the Real May Please Stand Up?]]", she's grown a lot more loyal to the Randas, and in the following episode, they agree to help Monarch stop Shaw from potentially triggering a global apocalypse]].
* NotSoStoic: For the first two episodes, she presents herself as [[DullSurprise monotonous, cold and un-emotive to everything]], but after going on the run as a result of Monarch coming after her and the Randas, she snaps at Kentaro for getting her involved in this and making her a fugitive.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Her sister says that her tendency to think most people are idiots but help them when they need her is a Mateo family trait.
* TechnoWizard: She's skilled at coding and hacking, helping decode the files that Cate and Kentaro discover in a hidden safe in their father's office. Her coding skills also got her hired by Applied Experimental Technologies [[spoiler:until she discovered her work was being used in unethical experiments]].
* WorkingWithTheEx: She was romantically involved with Kentaro before breaking up with him, and is initially angry when he comes to her for help.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Du-Ho]]
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BruceBaek
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''
A pilot and an old friend of Lee Shaw, located in South Korea. He assists Shaw, May Olowe-Hewitt and the Randa half-siblings to reach Alaska in their search for Hiroshi's whereabouts.
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* DueToTheDead: PlayedWith. Lee burns Du-Ho's body, but beyond giving his fallen friend a decent send-off, the fire primarily serves to attract a Monarch helicopter's attention for rescue.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: {{Subverted|Trope}}. He keeps a bottle on his plane at all times "in case of emergencies", but it isn't alcohol -- it's a bottle of water that he uses as a makeshift altitude indicator on his dashboard.
* OhCrap: He freaks out and immediately makes a beeline back for his own plane the moment he sees the Frost Vark's claw-marks in the destroyed plane's fuselage and realizes that there's a giant, plane-downing monster up on the Alaskan mountain with the cast.
* RedShirt: In the same episode where he's introduced, he's killed at the episode's end by the Frost Vark using its [[EnergyAbsorption heat absorption]] to completely freeze-dry him in seconds, establishing the creature's power and the threat it poses to the remaining cast for the next episode. Lee manages to return to Du-Ho's body and give him a makeshift funeral pyre in Episode 4, reminiscing about their past with each-other as he does so.
* StepfordSmiler: Outwardly, he appears to have a larger-than-life and upbeat personality. During a tender private conversation with Cate, however, he reveals that he watched his own father, multiple girlfriends, and ''many'' other people die during his life.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Raymond Martin]]
!!!'''Appeared In:''' ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted''
The head of RM Construction, who uses his company's resources to build a crude anti-Titan mecha of his own dubbed the "Titan Hunter". Styling himself as a hunter, his utmost desire is to slaughter as many Titan lifeforms as possible, not caring in the slightest whether they're bad, good or even harmless, and he has his kills stuffed as morbid trophies.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: The Titan Hunter can tear through smaller, weaker Titans without too much effort. However, by Martin's own admission, it's not ready t fight the larger, stronger Titans like Godzilla. He's proven correct when he goes up against Kong, and while able to land some good hits, ends up tossed into a ravine for his trouble.
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: He ''is'' the head of a construction company, but he has enough resources to hire an army of goons, to build and maintain a HumongousMecha that can briefly go toe-to-toe with Kong (something which the multi-billion Apex Cybernetics corporation struggled to make a reality), and to bribe ''Monarch itself'' and multiple other relevant agencies into turning a blind eye so that he'll have free reign to rampage for 48 hours. One has to wonder if he ''really'' got all that money from his construction company, or if Walter Simmons somehow left his entire fortune to him.
* AxCrazy: His utmost goal in life is killing as many Titans and Titan-adjacent creatures as possible using his Titan Hunter mech, and he targets passive and outright defenceless creatures on sight like the Sker Buffalo, and a pair of Spineprowler cubs that are too young to pose a threat -- the latter he goes ''way'' out of his way to try and murder.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Similar to Apex Cybernetics' brutal use of the Skullcrawlers as target practice for Mechagodzilla, Martin is practically a SerialKiller of megafauna who's illegally slaughtered numerous creatures from Kong's domain before the story's start, and he captures and brutally kills a Spineprowler to test his Titan Hunter. Worse yet, Martin attacks and slaughters a defenceless [[GentleGiant Sker Buffalo]] on sight (which disgusts even his own men), and then he outright chases and attempts to murder a pair of terrified Spineprowler ''[[WouldHurtAChild cubs]]''.
* BigBad: He's the main antagonist of ''Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted'', as his hunt with the Titan Hunter is the main threat and his actions also provoked Scylla into her rampage.
* BoobyTrap: He uses a giant electric booby trap to capture the Spineprowler that previously picked a fight with Kong.
* BullyingADragon: While openly admitting the Titan Hunter isn't ready yet to fight the larger, stronger Titans, he ends up picking a fight with Kong despite knowing Kong is not only one of those larger, stronger Titans, but managed to do decently well in a fight against Godzilla himself. While the Titan Hunter does land some good hits and knock Kong down, Kong doesn't have too much trouble dispatching the mecha.
* CharacterCatchphrase: He keeps saying "Too easy!" when he's hunting Titans.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** To Walter Simmons, Ren Serizawa and Apex Cybernetics in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''. Like them, he's the head of a rich, shady organization who sees all Titans as a threat to humanity; seeking to best the Titans using a HumongousMecha that he created, directly attacking one of the Protector Alpha Titans, and endangering hundreds of innocents in pursuit of his agenda by collaterally instigating Titan rampages. However, Apex were a shiny, chrome, well-dressed, hi-tech evil ResearchInc who were largely cold and clinical in their desire to dominate the Titans, they had [[VisionaryVillain visionary ideals]] of [[TakeOverTheWorld ushering in a mega-corporate world hegemony with themselves at the top]], and they sought to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity maintain a decent public image]] and ultimately be worshipped by the world via EngineeredHeroics -- Raymond Martin on the other hand is a shabbily-dressed, self-styled hunter whose technology has a more rustic and patchwork aesthetic, he has a much more emotional and less long-sighted desire to personally kill as many monsters as possible for his own catharsis with no higher end-goal, and he doesn't care about public image beyond bribing anyone that might get in his way to turn the other cheek.
** He also starkly contrasts Colonel Lee Shaw in the preceding overall Franchise/MonsterVerse instalment, ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters''. Both men tragically lost the people they loved to a hostile Titan creature, which motivates their present day actions; both of them lead an illegal organization and believe they're protecting humanity against monster threats, and both tend to let their emotions cloud their judgment and actions in the long run. However, Shaw was an AntiVillain with a military background who recognized that some of the Titans like Godzilla are in fact humanity's allies, he had no personal hatred for the hostile Titans, and he simply wanted to cut the HollowEarth off from the surface so that the Titans couldn't encroach on humanity's world -- Martin, who instead has a background as a constructionn company executive, is an AxCrazy KnightTemplar who murderously despises all monsters, seeking to sate his bloodlust on personally slaughtering as many of them as he can, and he doesn't distinguish in the slightest between monsters which are actually a threat and ones which aren't. Shaw had staunch moral limits to how far he would go in the name of his plan, refusing to sacrifice lives, [[spoiler:and in the end he sided with the heroes]] -- Martin on the other hand has no line that he won't cross to sate his anti-monster bloodlust, which disgusts even his men when he starts slaughtering non-threatening creatures and targeting infant creatures on sight, he endangers hundreds of people by galvanizing Scylla and Godzilla, and he dies completely unrepentant for his crimes. Shaw had a personal chip on his shoulder towards Monarch, and formed a RenegadeSplinterFaction from them, whereas Martin has no connection to nor interest in Monarch beyond bribing them to look the other way while he rampages. Shaw had a very personal connection to the main human heroes in his work, whereas Martin has no connection to Bernie Hayes in his work and the two never even meet.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Martin is clearly extremely intelligent and competent, and the Titan Hunter is, while not as powerful as Mechagodzilla and outclassed by the larger Titans, able to handle the weaker ones fairly easily and at least last a few minutes against the larger ones. Despite this, he decides to use it for hunting Titans as part of his personal obsession.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Kong pushes the Titan Hunter off a cliff, causing it to be damaged beyond repair. Martin himself survives the fall, at least until he's found by the Spineprowler cubs.
* EatenAlive: He's eaten by a pair of Spineprowler cubs, and it's [[KarmicDeath completely deserved]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As ruthless as he may be, it's clear that he's still suffering from the death of his family to this day.
* EveryScarHasAStory: He got the scars on his face when Femuto attacked a building that was holding him and his family -- his family died in that incident, the which is the catalyst for his monster-murdering rampage in the present.
* ExitPursuedByABear: He is last seen at the mercy of two Spineprowler cubs whose mother he has killed. His fate was probably less than pleasant.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has glaring scars almost like claw marks running from his mouth down to his throat, and he's a truly vile and evil piece of work.
* KarmicDeath: He meets his end by the otherwise-defenceless Spineprowler cubs that he went out of his way to try and murder using the Titan Hunter, and after he killed their mother.
* KnightTemplar: He sees himself as a HunterOfMonsters who's completely in the right. In reality, he's a ''monstrously'' self-serving psycho who endangers hundreds of people, murders completely non-threatening creatures like the Sker Buffalo, and he hounds and attempts to murder a pair of defenceless cubs before attempting to murder the most philanthropic living Alpha Titan on the planet, proving in the end that humans sometimes [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters really are the true monsters]].
* TheLostLenore: His wife was killed by the MUTO female in his backstory, and it's 20% of the reason why he's now a psychopath thirsty for all monster life's blood to a point which goes into and beyond VanHelsingHateCrimes.
* MugglePower: Type 2. He murderously despises ''all'' Titans and Sub-Titans regardless of whether they're hostile, benign or outright protective, or even if they're [[WouldHurtAChild cute and completely defenceless cubs]], and he believes that every last one of them should be wiped out. He seeks to kill as many monsters as he can using the [[HumongousMecha Titan Hunter]].
* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: For the head of a mere construction company, he's somehow able to fund cartoonish levels of villainy. He has his own private army, a gigantic base, a HumongousMecha, and he effortlessly bribes every other agency that might interfere with his Titan murder sprees, including ''Monarch itself'', to look the other way.
* OhCrap: He lets out a loud gulp when he realizes that he's about to be devoured by the two Spineprowler cubs.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His son was killed by the MUTO female in his backstory, and it's 20% of the reason why he's now a psychopath thirsty for all monster life's blood to a point which goes into and beyond VanHelsingHateCrimes.
* SinisterShades: He wears black glasses, and he's more of a monster than the literal monsters that he hunts.
* SoleSurvivor: He was the only member of his family to survive when Femuto destroyed the building they were in.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: After a string of fairly easy wins, Martin decides to pick a fight with Kong rather than cut his losses, despite having previously admitted the Titan Hunter wasn't ready to fight the larger, stronger Titans. This proves to be his undoing, as the Titan Hunter is ultimately overpowered and chucked into a ravine, scrapping it.
* TaxidermyIsCreepy: He has all the Titans he killed stuffed and put on display in a room, which doesn't earn him any sympathy points.
* TragicBigot: His parents, wife and children were all killed around him during a Titan attack while he came out of the attack with gruesome scars -- as a result, he murderously despises all megafauna and he commits his life and resources to killing as many as he possibly can, not discriminating in the slightest between good and bad or outright harmless.
* TrophyRoom: The creepy hunter kind. He has a facility filled with the stuffed corpses of Skull Island and HollowEarth megafauna that he's killed before the start of ''The Hunted''.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: His backstory as a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds is revealed when he flashes back to it just before receiving news of Scylla's attack on the Indian nuclear power plant.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: ''Big time''. He doesn't discriminate in the slightest when looking for Titans or other megafauna to kill in the Titan Hunter -- whether they be Destroyers, Protectors, or no threat to people, he'll eagerly try to kill them all on sight. A major part of what makes him so despicable despite [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds his backstory]] is that he gleefully slaughters a [[GentleGiant Sker Buffalo]] on sight (which [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his men are appalled by]]), then he pursues and attempts to slaughter two defenceless Spineprowler cubs, and then he happily tries to murder one of the world's two most heroic living Alpha Titans. Notably, his preferred hunting ground is the Hollow Earth, where the Titans are just living in their natural environment and not hurting anyone.
* VillainousBreakdown: He raves angrily at the "injustice" when Kong defeats his Titan Hunter in their [[MechVsBeast fight]] and leaves it dangling over a cliff.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He has white hair to go with his [[GoodScarsEvilScars mean scars]] and his {{sinister shades}}, and he's the main antagonist of the comic, a bloodthirsty monster-killer who terrorizes and attempts to murder Kong's most benign and defenceless charges as well as Kong himself.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He lost is entire family -- his wife, son and parents -- and was himself left physically scarred when they were all caught in the female [=MUTO's=] rampage on G-Day Minus One. As a result, he's now an AxCrazy Titan hunter with a major chip on his shoulder regarding ''anything'' with Titan biology; endangering people by deliberately instigating Titan attacks as diversions, and building a HumongousMecha so that he can murder and stuff as many monsters he comes across as possible -- even if they're passive {{gentle giant}}s like the Sker Buffalo, or defenceless Titan ''[[WouldHurtAChild babies]]'' like the Spineprowler cubs.
* WouldHurtAChild: Upon coming across a pair of Spineprowler cubs while looking for their mother, he ''immediately'' tries to kill them. Worse yet, after he defeats their protective mother, he goes out of his way to hunt down and try to kill the fleeing cubs anyway.
* YouKilledMyFather:
** He ''hates'' Titans with a passion and wants to kill as many as he can because one of them (Femuto) caused the death of his family.
** He eventually finds himself on the receiving end of this trope as well. After he kills a mother Spineprowler, her two cubs go after him in revenge.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As ruthless as he can be, it's clear that he's still suffering from the death of his family to this day.

* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: He ''is'' the head of a construction company, but he has enough resources to hire an army of goons, to build and maintain a HumongousMecha that can go toe-to-toe with Kong (something which the multi-billion Apex Cybernetics corporation struggled to make a reality), and to bribe ''Monarch itself'' and multiple other relevant agencies into turning a blind eye so that he'll have free reign to rampage for 48 hours. One has to wonder if he ''really'' got all that money from his construction company, or if Walter Simmons somehow left his entire fortune to him.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: ''Big time''. He doesn't discriminate in the slightest when looking for Titans or other megafauna to kill in the Titan Hunter -- whether they be Destroyers, Protectors, or no threat to people, he'll eagerly try to kill them all on sight. A major part of what makes him so despicable despite [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds his backstory]] is that he gleefully slaughters a [[GentleGiant Sker Buffalo]] on sight (which [[EvenEvilHasStandards even his men are appalled by]]), then he pursues and attempts to slaughter two defenceless Spineprowler cubs, and then he happily tries to murder one of the world's two most heroic living Alpha Titans.

* HateSink: They're consistently portrayed as a thoroughly despicable and morally-bankrupt organization with entirely selfish motivations, in contrast to most of the [=MonsterVerse's=] other human antagonists. [[spoiler:In ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', they all but deliberately start a needless war against the very Alpha Titan whom saved humanity from King Ghidorah and the [=MUTOs=], and they even more deliberately endanger millions of people in Hong Kong, just so that they can rule humanity and control the Titans for their own petty ambitions and out of chauvinistic pride. In ''Monarch: Legacy of Monsters'', it's revealed that they were barbarically experimenting on primates with cybernetics to develop their psionic uplink technology, much to May Olowe-Hewitt's horror, and fear of the company's wrath is the main reason why May had to run away and change her identity in her backstory]].

* AmbiguouslyBi: She's ''heavily'' implied to be bisexual, but it's not been explicitly confirmed. She sleeps with Kentaro Randa the day she first meets him, and dates him for a while until their relationship eventually falls apart due to lack of communication. After Cate Randa helps save her when she falls into ice-water, May begins to warm towards her and their interactions become more openly affectionate throughout the series--something that annoys Kentaro when he notices it--though it's not confirmed whether May is attracted to Cate or not. She also went on a dinner date with Brenda Holland before discovering the latter's true colors.

* DefectorFromDecadence: She used to work for a Seattle-based tech innovation company called Applied Experimental Technologies, [[spoiler:the direct precursor to Apex Cybernetics,]] until she discovered their secret project that her research was being fed into, where they were conducting extremely horrific neural implant-based experiments on chimpanzees with cybernetics. She promptly wiped the company's database on moral principle [[spoiler:at the cost of her being forced to go on the run, and she admits in the present after getting caught by AET and confronted by Holland that despite the grief it's caused her, she'll never regret what she did]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: When the Randas first approach her with Bill Randa's files, May is initially very cold, aloof and reluctant to help out beyond scientific curiosity. She later [[NotSoStoic gets angry]] and blames Kentaro for getting her involved and putting her on the run from the life she made in Tokyo. After nearly dying during the encounter with the Frost Vark and being nursed by Cate and Lee, she warms up a lot more to Cate and Kentaro, [[spoiler:although it's still not enough to stop her agreeing to become Duvall's mole amongst the Randas]].

* {{Greed}}: In her backstory, she was enticed by money [[spoiler:to join [[EvilInc AET]] before she learned of their true colors]]. In the present, she's quite ashamed of it.

* HatesRichPeople: She apparently doesn't think much of very well-off people in general, and she derides the title of Kentaro's official art show as pretentious when she first meets him.
* HeroicNeutral: She just wants to go back to the life she's made for herself in Tokyo.
* NotSoStoic: For the first two episodes, she presents herself as [[DullSurprise monotonous, un-emotive to everything]] and cold, but after going on the run as a result of Monarch coming after her and the Randas, she snaps at Kentaro for getting her involved in this and making her a fugitive.

* {{Slimeball}}: A RareFemaleExample. She's a {{corrupt corporate executive}}, who sounds like she's talking down at you even when she's [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretending to be your friend]],she's smug, and she spends her entire debut attempting to manipulate others to her company's benefit.

A high-ranking executive of the Apex Cybernetics precursor, Applied Experimental Technologies (or AET), who directly supervised their Seattle-based office and is involved in May Olowe-Hewitt (Corah Mateo's) past.

* VisionaryVillain: She's a true believer in the company's ideology who sees their project to create a neurally-controlled artificial Titan of their own as the future of humanity and the march of progress, and she believes that it's worth any sacrifice that they deem fit.

* BecomingTheMask: She admits in episode 7 that this has happened to her over the course of the series. At first, she was lying and was just trying to save her own skin when she accompanies the Randas on their cross-global trek based om Bill Randa's files, but she grew closer to them and doesn't want to be that kind of person anymore.

* DefectorFromDecadence: She used to work for a Seattle-based tech innovation company called Applied Experimental Technologies, [[spoiler:the direct precursor to Apex Cybernetics,]] until she discovered their secret project that her research was being fed into, where they were conducting extremely horrific neural implant-based experiments on chimpanzees with cybernetics. She promptly wiped the company's database on moral principle [[spoiler:at the cost of her being forced to go on the run, and she admits in the present after getting caught by AET and confronted by Holland that despite the grief it caused her, she'll never regret what she did]].

* {{Greed}}: In her backstory, she was enticed by money to join [[EvilInc AET]] before she learned of their true colors. In the present, she's quite ashamed of it.

An executive of the Apex Cybernetics precursor, Applied Experimental Technologies, who directly supervised their Seattle-based office and is involved in May Olowe-Hewitt (Corah Mateo's) past.

* BadBoss: While she initially plays the role of BenevolentBoss to get Corah Mateo to sign on, once Corah discovers the unethical experiments Applied Experimental Technologies are carrying out the mask of niceness comes off and Brenda coldly informs her that all of Corah's work belongs to the company to use as they see fit. She later has Corah--now going by May Olowe-Hewitt--kidnapped and threatens her friends and family in order to get her to agree to work for the company again.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She sleeps with Kentaro Randa the day she first meets him, and dates him for a while until their relationship eventually falls apart due to lack of communication. [[spoiler:After Cate Randa helps save her when she falls into ice-water, May begins to warm towards her and their interactions become more openly affectionate--something that annoys Kentaro when he notices it--though it's not confirmed whether May is attracted to Cate or not.]]

* DefectorFromDecadence: She used to work for a Seattle-based tech innovation company called Applied Experimental Technologies, [[spoiler:the direct precursor to Apex Cybernetics,]] until she discovered their secret project where they were conducting extremely horrific neural implant-based experiments on chimpanzees with cybernetics. She promptly wiped the company's database on moral principle [[spoiler:at the cost of her being forced to go on the run]].

A multinational, wealthy and powerful corporation headed by Walter Simmons, whom are invested in technological advances including the harnessing of psionics. Having been active since at least the aftermath of G-Day, they are hiding a sinister corporate conspiracy concerning their interest in the Titans and Godzilla's 2024 rampage. [[spoiler:It's revealed that they were formerly known as Applied Experimental Technologies or AET before rebranding themselves]].

-> See [[Characters/MonsterverseRenSerizawa his page]].

A multinational, wealthy and powerful corporation headed by Walter Simmons, whom are invested in technological advances including the harnessing of psionics. Having been active since at least the aftermath of G-Day, they are hiding a sinister corporate conspiracy concerning their interest in the Titans and Godzilla's 2024 rampage. It's revealed that they were formerly known as Applied Experimental Technologies or AET before rebranding themselves.

* HatesTheRich: She apparently doesn't think much of very well-off people in general, and she derides the title of Kentaro's official art show as pretentious when she first meets him.

%%* IceQueen

* AmbiguouslyBi: She sleeps with Kentaro Randa the day she first meets him, and dates him for a while until their relationship eventually falls apart due to lack of communication. [[spoiler:After Cate Randa helps save her when she falls into ice-water, May begins to warm towards her and their interactions become more openly affectionate--something that annoys Kentaro when he notices it--though it's not confirmed whether or not May is attracted to Cate or not.]]

%%* TechnoWizard
%%* WorkingWithTheEx

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The younger tribe members who hunt and gather food have yellow tribal body paint while the elders have blue.

* WallpaperIntroduction: A variation. As shown in their introductory scene, the Iwi use yellow and brown body paint to camouflage themselves seamlessly against the similarly-colored and hieroglyph-decorated ruins that lie on the outskirts of their village.