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Dominant Species and Contenders

Kong

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Kong's Parents

Appear In: Kong: Skull Island (fossils) | Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics)

Species: Giant prehistoric apes | "Titanus Kong"

Two giant apes who are Kong's mother and father. Their remains rest in the Valley of the Fallen Gods, home to the Skullcrawlers.

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• Action Dad: Kong's father survives hordes of Skullcrawlers long enough to see the birth of his son.
• Action Mom: Kong's mother survives hordes of Skullcrawlers long enough to see the birth of her son.
• Battle Amongst the Flames: Riccio's visions in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (which might be real or might just be a result of him imbibing too much of the Iwi's medicine) depict Kong's parents' last stand against the Skullcrawlers occurring amid lightning and what appears to be a volcanic eruption. Notably, the landscape grew much more peaceful and solemn after the battle ended.
• Battle Couple: They were the last of their species to survive Skull Island's first onslaught of Skullcrawlers, and they eventually died fighting the Skullcrawlers together so that their son can live.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: In Riccio's visions; though Kong's parents wouldn't exactly be considered beautiful to humans after they're killed and the Skullcrawlers have left, both their corpses are shown to be uneaten, intact, and no worse for wear apart from several gouges in their chests, which is very puzzling since the entire source of the Skullcrawlers' hyper-aggression is all-consuming Horror Hunger.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Facing off against a horde of Skullcrawlers along with their Alpha, the two great apes would not only handily hold their own against the threat for quite a while before being overwhelmed but Kong's mother would go so far as to give birth to him on the battlefield, hide him away and then return to the fight in short order to go down swinging alongside her mate.
• Dead to Begin With: By the time of both the comics and the films.
• Dramatic Thunder: Riccio's vision depicts them fighting amid lightning which, if the vision wasn't just a hallucinogen-induced dream, might have been caused by a volcanic eruption nearby.
• Giant Equals Invincible: Subverted big time, though it took the Skull Devil and an army of Skullcrawlers to do so.
• In the Blood: In hindsight, Kong being an absolute beast of an ape isn't all that surprising given how tough both of his parents proved to be in their final stand.
• Kaiju: They are members of a species of gigantic apes.
• Mama Bear: Her last act was to hide her newborn son in a cave and die helping her mate fight off the Skullcrawlers.
• Monster Is a Mommy: Kong's mother gave birth to him in the middle of a fight with the Skullcrawlers.
• Papa Wolf: Kong's father held off the Skullcrawlers while his mate gave birth to and hid their son away.
• Pregnant Badass: Kong's mother was in labor during the assault of the Skullcrawlers and still managed to give birth to her son in the process.

Skullcrawlers (Halakrah)

Portrayed By: N/A

Appear In: Kong: Skull Island | Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics) | Godzilla vs. Kong | Skull Island | Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (corpse only)

Species: Giant predatory reptiles | "Cranium Reptant"

"Kong's god on the island, but the devils live below us."

—Hank Marlow

Giant, reptilian-looking kaiju who seem to be at an intermediate state between the divergence of lizards and snakes; mostly serpentine in shape, they use a pair of prehensile forelimbs to half-drag, half-slither across the ground. Their name derives from their pronounced facial bone structures, which combine with their white facial coloration to make them look like they have skulls for heads. Apex predators on Skull Island, their voracious appetites make them a feared and hated existential threat which could dismantle the entire ecosystem if left to their own devices. Kong, who violently keeps their numbers in check, has a personal hatred for the creatures due to the major role they played in the eradication of the rest of his species.

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• Advertised Extra:
  • The giant Skullcrawler with red coloration from Godzilla vs. Kong was featured quite prominently in promotional material and even got an action figure. Said Skullcrawler gets about 30 seconds of screentime before it becomes Mechagodzilla's first victim.
  • A Skullcrawler appears on the official poster for Skull Island (2023) and also in the trailer, which makes it look like the creatures will play a prominent role. In the actual show, one Skullcrawler appears in episode 7 for around a minute before getting swiftly killed by Kong.
• Alien Blood: Number 10's blood and innards in Godzilla vs. Kong are green. Averted in other appearances, where the Skullcrawlers bleed red blood.
• All There in the Manual: The Novelization for Godzilla vs. Kong reveals that the Iwis' name for them is Halakrah.
• Amphibian at Large: The Godzilla vs. Kong novelization specifically classifies them as non-amniote reptiliomorphs, technically making them amphibians (or more specifically, part of a branch that lies between modern amphibians and true reptiles). In the film, we also see Skullcrawlers lay translucent eggs like frogs or salamanders.
• Arch-Enemy: To Kong. They are the ones responsible for killing Kong’s parents.
• Armless Biped: Inverted. They move via slithering and with two massive arms, but lack legs.
• Ascended Extra: They seem to be based on the two-legged lizard from King Kong (1933), and their role in Kong: Skull Island is beefed up to the main antagonists.
• Awesome McCoolname: Hank Marlow came up with their name, thinking it sounded 'neat'. When he says it out loud, he changes his opinion a little (mostly because he notices its Names to Run Away from Really Fast).
• Back from the Dead: In the non-canon comic Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong, the League of Assassins drops some Skullcrawler skulls into the Lazarus Pit in order to resurrect them.
• Beneath the Earth: They live there, given Skull Island is mostly hollow underground.
• Black Eyes of Evil: Subverted. It looks like they have these (further reinforcing the skeleton theme they have going on), but this is an illusion—what appear to be large black eyes are actually fenestrae in their skulls. Their real eyes are tiny and placed much further back on their heads.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: The specimen that appears in Skull Island (2023), upon cornering the Island Girl at a rock face, takes its sweet-ass time stalking ever so slowly towards her for the kill, which buys enough time for Kong to turn up and get the drop on it.
• Bullying a Dragon: In Kong: Skull Island, two small Skullcrawlers have the brilliant idea to pick a fight with the adolescent Kong, who is at least three times bigger than them if not moreso. This goes about as well as you expect.
• The Cameo:
  • A Skullcrawler appears for roughly one minute in Skull Island (2023), chasing the Island Girl before being promptly killed by Kong.
  • The carcass of a dead Skullcrawler can briefly be seen lying on the rocky shoreline of Skull Island during the first episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
  • A few Skullcrawler eggs can be seen in Raymond Martin's Trophy Room at the beginning of the tie-in comic Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted.
• Captain Ersatz: Although their design is inspired by the two-legged lizard, their role in the story is very similar to Gaw and the Deathrunners from the Kong: King of Skull Island novel. Both are violent reptilian carnivores which caused the almost total extinction of the Kong species (including Kong's parents), and Kong establishes himself as king of Skull Island by killing the largest of the species.
• Conceive and Kill: The Godzilla vs. Kong novelization addresses the question of how they ever make time for mating with their Horror Hunger drive, stating that some studies have indicated that males sometimes end up devoured by females during mating.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the MUTOs. Like the MUTOs, the Skullcrawlers are ancient Earth monsters who are simply instinct-driven predators whose natural urges threaten the local humans and ecosystem, and are the natural enemy of the protagonist monster. Unlike the MUTOs, who are somewhat sympathetic, the Skullcrawlers are played for full-on horror, with few to no sympathetic traits. Whereas the MUTOs are bulky, insectoid, driven to reproduce, and barely notice the humans they trample over; the Skullcrawlers are slender, reptilian beasts driven to constantly eat any meat they come across, and they actively and relentlessly hunt any humans in sight to that end.
• The Croc Is Ticking: An unusual non-comedic variant, played for suspense. As the Skullcrawler circles the surviving characters through the dense fog in the Boneyard, the only thing they have to track its location with is Randa's camera flash going off inside its belly.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: That is what tends to happen whenever the little Skullcrawlers get into a fight against Kong:
  • When two Skullcrawlers attack Kong in Kong: Skull Island, they are both overpowered and killed in less than thirty seconds.
  • In episode 7 of Skull Island (2023), Kong easily kills a Skullcrawler by stabbing its jaws with a sharpened tree trunk.
• Degraded Boss: In Kong: Skull Island, the Skullcrawlers serve as the primary threat, causing the deaths of several major characters and almost succeeding in killing Kong himself. In their subsequent appearances, they tend to be pretty minor villains, usually appearing for only one scene and getting killed with little trouble by Kong or some other monsters.
• Demoted to Extra: Some Skullcrawler eggs and an enormous adult Skullcrawler appear briefly in Godzilla vs. Kong, but their plot relevance is otherwise nil, aside from being a Call-Back and being on the lower end of The Worf Effect from Mechagodzilla. The species has an even more minor role in Skull Island (2023), where one of them appears as a cameo in the Whole Episode Flashback.
• The Dreaded: The Iwi are terrified of these things, to the point where they refuse to speak their name.
• Dug Too Deep: They live in the vents and subterranean depths below Skull Island, and Kong works to kill any of them that venture to the surface and invade the island. In Kong: Skull Island, the expedition's use of seismic charges and bombardments unwittingly disturbs the Skullcrawlers and brings more of them up, including the Skull Devil.
• Enemy Rising Behind: The second of the two small Crawlers which fight with Kong appears over a mountaintop behind Kong while he's facing the first Crawler. Subverted, as if one looks closely at Kong's face, he notices the second Crawler is behind him within a couple of seconds by the noise that it's making.
• Enfant Terrible: The Godzilla vs. Kong novelization states that Skullcrawlers are "born starving" and that the newborns are essentially just miniaturized adults who are fully independent upon hatching.
• Fearless Fool: They're implied to be this, as while they can be smart about it by working in numbers, they never stop picking fights with Kong no matter how many times he dominates them because all they see is a meal.
• Fearsome Foot: When a Skullcrawler manages to corner the Island Girl in the opening scene of the episode "You're Not a King, You're Just a Stupid Animal" of Skull Island (2023), there's a shot focusing on its two huge legs while she's in between.
• Fisher King: Skull Island is mostly lush and tropical, covered in vegetation which may or may not be part-animal, but the Bone Graveyard where the Skullcrawlers mostly live is a barren land where only a few adapted species live and next to none are visible; littered with the bones of Kong's parents and other megafauna, spewing poisonous and flammable gases from volcanic vents^note Confirmed by Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure. The location reflects the Skullcrawlers' purely-destructive nature as invasive hypervores which can and will devour all other species on Skull Island into extinction without Kong arond to check them.
• Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies: Downplayed. When Madison, Josh and Bernie find some translucent eggs of Skullcrawlers in Godzilla vs. Kong, the unborn babies are shown to be a little bigger than humans. As adults, Skullcrawlers can grow to quite impressive sizes, with the Skull Devil and Number 10 reaching up to 100 feet if not more.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: A Skullcrawler shows up briefly in Godzilla vs. Kong, where it gets lasered vertically into half by Mechagodzilla after a 30-second Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Head Crushing: One of the two small Skullcrawlers who try to fight Kong ends up having its head smashed by the ape's enormous foot.
• Hero Killer: Not only do the Monarch Files imply that many of Skull Island's other predator species were wiped out by the Skullcrawlers, the Skullcrawlers are implied to be the overall main reason why the entire Titanus Kong species who protected the Iwi have been whittled down to just one adolescent since they were banished to Skull Island. They are also responsible for the deaths of several major human characters, including Gunpei Ikari, Major Jack Chapman, William Randa and Captain Earl Cole.
• Horrifying the Horror: Even the other monsters that populate Skull Island are afraid of these things, as shown when a Spore Mantis flees in terror the moment it notices a Skullcrawler coming its way.
• Horror Hunger: Their bodies have increased metabolism, keeping them in a state of constant starvation.
• Immune to Bullets: Shots from rifles frankly seem to bounce off their skin. A small one is completely unfazed by several M16s pumping lead into it nonstop, and even M2 fails to stop it.
• Immune to Fire: Downplayed. When the Sky Devils use a flamethrower to set a Skullcrawler on fire, it shrugs it off without too much damage. They have their limit though, since this same Skullcrawler is later killed by a fiery gas explosion.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Kong kills a Skullcrawler by driving a tree trunk through its skull in episode 7 of Skull Island (2023).
• Introduced Species Calamity: Unlike most of Skull Island's creatures, they're not indigenous to the island's surface, but rather are an invasive species which crawl up from the island's subterranean vents that connect it to the Hollow Earth. Dr. Brooks notes that without Kong keeping their population in check, the Skullcrawlers would proliferate out of control and likely annihilate Skull Island's ecosystem.
• Kill It with Fire: The Boneyard Skullcrawler is killed by being engulfed in a fireball twice its size when flammable gas is ignited using Weaver's lighter, essentially napalming the Crawler and burning it to death. Notably, this is the only instance in which a Skullcrawler is killed by humans without the aid of any kind of Titan.
• Kung-Fu Sonic Boom: At one point during the Bone Graveyard scene, a Skullcrawler slams its tail into the ground with such force that it creates a shockwave powerful enough to send a nearby soldier flying a few meters into the air.
• Lightning Bruiser: While they are cannon fodder next to Kong, next to humans they are this. Huge, fast, and very hard to kill.
• Lured into a Trap: In episode 7 of Skull Island (2023), the Island Girl has a Skullcrawler chasing her until she's cornered against a cliff face. However, it's then revealed that she deliberately led it there so that Kong could attack it from behind and kill it with a tree trunk.
• Malicious Monitor Lizard: Skullcrawlers resemble giant, two-legged, vicious monitor lizards.
• Man on Fire: Not exactly a "man" per say, but a Skullcrawler gets its entire body set on fire by a soldier's flamethrower during the boneyard scene. Unfortunately, that's not enough to kill it.
• Mauve Shirt: Outside of the Skull Devil, most of them serve as cannon fodder to Kong. The single one that got away, however, serves as a major threat against humans. It not only kills major characters Chapman and Bill but its fight is used to demonstrate the species' tough hide and fighting style. Upgraded to full Red Shirt status when an adult Skullcrawler is completely manhandled by Mechagodzilla before being bisected lengthwise by its Proton Scream.
• Meaningful Name: Twofold Skullcrawler, both because of their skull-like heads and crawling locomotion and because Skull Island is crawling with them, and Halakrah, which in the Iwi language means "persistent enemy".
• Mech vs. Beast: Invoked by Apex Cybernetics. During the events of Godzilla vs. Kong, they breed Skullcrawlers specifically to have them fight Mechagodzilla in order to test his capabilities.
• Mook Carryover: Played With. A few decades after the death of their Alpha, the Skullcrawlers try to leave Skull Island to join King Ghidorah in the Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) novelization. However, they are stopped by Kong before they can do so.
• More Predators Than Prey: One of the reasons they are so feared is that they wiped out most of the island's other predators and their prey and without something like Kong to keep their numbers in check, they would ravage the entire ecosystem.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Their mouths are full of a ridiculous number of inward-angled fangs^note Clearly based on leatherback turtle mouths◊, which are keratinous spines rather than teeth, which serve predominantly to support using their prehensile tongues to swallow smaller creatures whole.
• Multipurpose Tongue: They have multiple-pronged tongues, and much like the amphibians and reptiles that the Godzilla vs. Kong novelization states they're distantly related to; the Skullcrawlers can fire these tongues out of their mouths to grab prey and drag them back into their jaws to be swallowed. They're also shown using these tongues for smelling their surroundings.
• Mysterious Past: Their Monarch profile in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong lists their origins as little-known. Subverted following the publication of the Godzilla vs. Kong novelization, which reveals genetic analysis has suggested they evolved from a lineage that split off from the amniote before the amniote gave way to modern reptiles, birds, and mammals.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Hank Marlow calls the huge reptilian creatures lurking on the island "Skullcrawlers", and the classified Monarch reports designate them as "hypervores" in the viral marketing. Both seem to indicate how insatiable and vicious they are. Also lampshaded by Marlow.
  Marlow: Look, I just made that name up. I'm trying to scare you.
• Non-Malicious Monster: The negative kind. They're ultimately just animals whose metabolisms mean they're constantly on the brink of starvation and thus constantly driven to find and eat any potential food they see — they're essentially living stomachs. But it doesn't matter to them whether it's a tiny morsel or a Titan who's powerful enough to take on and kill a whole pack: if it's alive and it's made of meat, they will attack it and they won't stop until they've either fed or they're dead.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Except for the Skull Devil, standard Skullcrawlers are basically Mooks by Kaiju's standards, with Kong being able to kill them with little difficulty. They continue to pose a terrible threat to other creatures on the island and the human characters. We later see a Skullcrawler from the Hollow Earth ecosystem, a Rodan-sized black and red individual nicknamed "No. 10". While larger, it's still not particularly powerful and is taken out with zero resistance by Mechagodzilla.
• The Nose Knows: According to their Birth of Kong profile, Skullcrawlers' olfactory system can sense warm-blooded life across vast distances, and once they've caught a scent it's like "blood in the water".
• Not So Extinct: Skull Island: The Birth of Kong indicates that Dr. Brooks' notes inaccurately assumed that Kong wiped the Skullcrawlers out during the film. As a result, Aaron is surprised to see more of them are still alive on Skull Island.
• Prehensile Tail: Skullcrawlers have a long, prehensile tail that can be used to grapple and constrict their enemies.
• Primate Versus Reptile: They are reptilian creatures related to snakes and lizards who have been at war with the Titanus Kong species since ancient times.
• Red Is Violent: The gigantic Skullcrawler that appears in Godzilla vs. Kong has an unusual red coloration to its skin, and it's no less driven by man-eating Horror Hunger than others of its kind.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: They're the only explicitly reptilian creatures seen on Skull Island, and are certainly the most dangerous. Marlow reveals they are an invasive species that hurt the ecosystem by overhunting animals. If Kong weren't around, the Skullcrawlers would be free to multiply and hunt both Skull Island's native wildlife and the entire human race to extinction.
• Roar Before Beating:
  • Upon being released from its containment cell, Number 10 lets out a powerful roar before it starts chasing Madison, Josh and Bernie.
  • In the non-canon comic Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong, a large Skullcrawler roars loudly at the Legion of Doom as soon as it comes across them.
• The Scottish Trope: Implied, as the natives refuse to say their real name.
• Series Continuity Error: In both Kong: Skull Island and the Skull Island animated series, the run-of-the-mill Skullcrawlers on the titular island bleed red blood. But in Godzilla vs. Kong, the abnormally-colored Number 10's blood and innards are all bright-green. B-roll footage for Godzilla vs. Kong shows that crimson fluid and viscera would've been used to portray Number 10's remains at one point before they changed it.
• Skull for a Head: The structure of their head looks an awful lot like it, which is where their name comes from — their Birth of Kong profile indicates it's their actual skull, or at least part of it, wrapped in translucent skin. Early concept art does show that a literal skull (of a Kong ape) was considered, however.
• Snakes Are Sinister: They're essentially built like giant snakes with just two forelimbs for locomoting. They're also described as particularly nasty creatures, they're driven by Horror Hunger to hunt and eat anything they come across relentlessly, and among the creature kingdom on Skull Island, the Skullcrawlers are an invasive species that will destroy the entire ecosystem if they aren't kept in check. They're even described as the local devils to Kong's God.
• Spit Out a Shoe: Some time after devouring Major Chapman, a Skullcrawler coughs up his skull and his dogtag in the boneyard, which are found by James Conrad.
• Stealthy Colossus: Even though they're downright tiny by Kaijus standards, the smaller Skullcrawlers are still at least as big as houses. Despite their large size, they can be quite stealthy when they want to be, with one of them managing to get very close to Major Chapman before he notices its presence (for his defense, he was also distracted by a Spore Mantis).
• Stronger with Age: They start around house-sized and can grow to become much bigger, eventually becoming around the size of Kong when he was an adolescent. Ones that live in the Hollow Earth ecosystem itself can reach the size of a small-ish Titan like Mothra, Rodan, or Hokmuto.
• Super-Persistent Predator: Part of what makes Skullcrawlers so monstrous is they will never give up a hunt, no matter how tough their quarry, because they see all moving objects as food and seem to have no "flight" instinct. The Iwi call the Skullcrawlers Halakrah, which meant "persistent enemy" in their language, for good reason.
• Super-Toughness: They aren't indestructible like larger creatures but they are very resilient. A smaller one takes getting torched with a flamethrower and fire from a heavy machine gun with no real damage, only dying when standing over a vent of natural gas that was then ignited under it.
• Swallowed Whole: Subverted with Randa's death as one of them devoured him in just two bites. It did however use its tongue that grabbed one of Packard's soldiers and gulped him entirely.
• Tail Slap: During the boneyard fight scene in Kong: Skull Island, the Skullcrawler whips its tail into the soldier who's using a flamethrower on it, the force in the blow knocking the man clean off his feet and sending him flying dozens of meters in the air. The Skullcrawler also shortly afterwards slams its tail into the ground and creates a shockwave powerful enough to throw a nearby soldier off the ground x3 his height.
• To Serve Man: They devour everything they come across, and make no exception for humans.
• Use Your Head: During the Bone Graveyard battle, a Skullcrawler rams into the soldier on the Triceratops' skull head first and smashes it into pieces.
• The Usual Adversaries: While there are many dangerous creatures on Skull Island that come into conflict with Kong, the Skullcrawlers are by far his most recurring enemies. Kong is shown fighting some Skullcrawlers in most of his appearances, including Kong: Skull Island, the Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) novelization, Skull Island (2023) and the comic Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong.
• Voice Changeling: The novelization reveals that Skullcrawlers can mimic human cries, which happened to be the cause of Gunpei's death, as he was killed by one after he and Marlow thought they heard an Iwi child scream in the distance and went to rescue them.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: During the Bone Graveyard scene, we get a nice up-close, low-angle head-shot on the Boneyard Skullcrawler's face from the front as it heaves and retches up its green stomach acids and the bones of the last human it digested.
• Whoosh in Front of the Camera: We see a Skullcrawler running quickly in front of the camera while it stalks the expedition team at the Kong family graveyard, building up suspense right before the monster starts its attack.
• The Worf Effect: One even bigger than the Skull Devil appears briefly during Godzilla vs. Kong, but is quickly and brutally cut in two by the newly revealed Mechagodzilla's Proton Scream to establish how strong this mecha is.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • During the boneyard scene in Kong: Skull Island,.a Skullcrawler sets its sights on Mason Weaver and starts chasing her through the skeletons of Kong's family.
  • In Skull Island (2023), a Skullcrawler chases the Island Girl through the jungle until it manages to corner her. If Kong hadn't intervened in time to save her, she would have ended up as its lunch.
  • When Number 10 is released from its containment cell in Godzilla vs. Kong, it comes very close to eating Madison Russel before Mechagodzilla grabs it and kills it.
• You Are Number 6: The Skullcrawlers used as test subjects by Apex Cybernetics are referred to by number, with their gates marked appropriately. The one killed by Mechagodzilla in Godzilla vs. Kong was called "Number 10" by Walter Simmons.
• Zerg Rush: How Kong's parents died. The Skullcrawlers were no match for them on an individual level but their sheer numbers proved too much for the apes, with them getting more and more injured as the Skullcrawlers' sheer numbers overwhelmed them.

"The Big One" (a.k.a. Skull Devil, a.k.a. Alpha Skullcrawler)

Portrayed By: N/A

Appears In: Kong: Skull Island | Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics)

Species: Giant predatory reptile | "Cranium Reptant"

The largest of all Skullcrawlers on Skull Island, also nicknamed the "Skull Devil", and officially labeled the Alpha Skullcrawler in the Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure guidebook. It's unknown if it's the mother or simply the Alpha, but it is known and feared by everything except Kong on the island.

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• All There in the Manual: The data book and novelization call it the Skull Devil, but this is never uttered in the film; the closest anyone gets is calling it "the big one".
• Always a Bigger Fish: The Skull Devil is this to Colonel Packard, the human half of the Big Bad Ensemble. Packard comes very close to killing Kong, but unwittingly unleashes the Skull Devil, the biggest and most ferocious Skullcrawler of them all.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Skull Devil is the Alpha Skullcrawler, and the only one capable of fighting Kong one on one.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Skull Devil is pretty much a nearly 100 feet version of the small Skullcrawler, making it the only one of them capable of challenging an adolescent Kong single-handedly and having a serious shot at winning.
• Behemoth Battle: Against Kong, being the only Skullcrawler his size.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: In the novelization, the Skull Devil has a bladed tail that it slashes at Kong with, something absent in the film.
• Big Bad Ensemble: It's the largest Skullcrawler and Marlow believes that if left unchecked, it will decimate Skull Island, providing the animalistic threat alongside the human Colonel Packard.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: After emerging, the Alpha Skullcrawler attacks the weakened Kong and easily manages to overpower and knock him out. Instead of finishing him off right then and there, since he's the only monster on the island that can pose a threat to it, the Alpha Skullcrawler turns its attention towards the fleeing humans and decides to chase after them. This allows Kong to recover his strength and later come back to fight and kill it. Had it killed Kong when it had the chance, the Alpha Skullcrawler would have been able to rule over Skull Island unchallenged.
• Bring It: When Kong grabs a tree to use as a weapon during their final fight, the Skull Devil reacts by slamming its tail into the ground and giving a growl in defiance before the two opponents charge at each other.
• Conflict Killer: At first, most of the Sky Devils are more-or-less on board with helping Colonel Packard kill Kong in revenge for the fellow soldiers he has killed. However, Marlow and Brooks warn them that Kong is the only being capable of preventing the Alpha Skullcrawler from killing everything on the island, including them. When the Alpha Skullcrawler shows up in the climax, all the Sky Devils abandon their feud with Kong (except Packard), and do their best to help him during his fight against it.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Kong ends up ripping out its entire digestive tract, its heart, and its lungs when it attempts to swallow Mason whilst she's still clutched in Kong's hand. The giant ape finally turns the Skullcrawler inside out with one fierce yank to free himself.
• Cruelty by Feet: It sadistically takes its time moving in for the kill when Kong is tangled in chains and prone, planting its foot atop Kong's chest as it moves upward towards his head.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Essentially beaten Kong in their first battle with no difficulty whatsoever. Justified when the latter was set ablaze from Packard's napalm no less.
• Determinator: You have to give the Skull Devil some credit, no matter how many injuries it receives during its final confrontation with Kong (which includes having a boulder smashed into its head, being hit in the face with a large tree, having its shoulder stabbed by a boat propeller, getting strangled by an anchor chain, and even having its throat sliced wide open by the same propeller), it never abandons the fight and keeps on fighting until it dies for good.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novelization, it's killed by Kong punching down its throat and crushing its organs, rather than having its innards pulled out.
• The Dreaded: While the natives of Skull Island fear all the Skullcrawlers, the Skull Devil is feared above them all. It's feared it would spell the end of the island if Kong can't stop it.
• Evil Counterpart: To Kong. They are the two largest and strongest creatures on Skull Island, but while Kong acts as the island's protector and is worshiped as a god by the Iwis, the Alpha Skullcrawler is an aggressive monster that only wants to devour every living thing on the island and is referred to as the "Skull Devil".
• Eye Scream: Mason shoots a flare rocket directly into its eye, which then explodes, bursting its eye.
• Fearsome Foot: The camera focuses on its charging leg in several shots, when it's rampaging towards Marlow's exposed boat with full intent to retaliate on the occupants for being shot at.
• Feed It a Bomb: Attempted by Cole, with the bombs attached to himself, but the Big One is too smart for that.
• Final Boss: The Skull Devil awakens shortly before Packard is killed by Kong and becomes the final opponent of Kong: Skull Island.
• Green and Mean: The color of the Skull Devil's body is dark green and it is the most aggressive and hostile creature on Skull Island.
• Hero Killer: According to Marlow, it managed to kill both of Kong's parents in the past, who were considered the two strongest combatants in their tribe. In the present, it comes very close to kill the adolescent Kong as well during the climax of Kong: Skull Island.
• Immune to Bullets: Much like its smaller brethren, the Alpha Skullcrawler reacts with little more than annoyance when being shot at with a mounted machine gun and some rifles in the final battle.
• Impossibly Graceful Giant: Despite its enormous size, the Alpha Skullcrawler is just as fast, agile and maneuverable as its smaller brethren.
• It Can Think: The Skull Devil is no more a mindless beast than Kong. But it gets a moment of this, when Cole arms grenades and stands in front of it in an attempted heroic sacrifice. It definitely realizes that something isn't right, and instead of eating him, smacks him away with its tail. This actually makes a fair bit of sense as predators are instinctively cautious around animals that don't appear to be afraid of them. This is subverted in the novelization when the Alpha falls for Cole's trick.
• Jawbreaker: Subverted. Kong attempts to pry its jaws apart during their final battle, but the Skull Devil's jaws are too strong and Kong gives up that approach.
• Karmic Death: After trying to make Mason its latest victim as well as consume Kong’s left arm just to make Kong suffer, it unwittingly allows Kong the opportunity to kill it by literally pulling it apart from the inside-out. Furthermore, if Marlow's exposition about it being the same Skullcrawler which killed Kong's parents is accurate^note Skull Island: The Birth of Kong provides an alternate account where Kong's parents were overwhelmed by an entire horde of Skullcrawlers when Kong was a baby, but this account was a vision which might have been a pure product of hallucinogens and therefore not a valid depiction of what really happened, then the Skull Devil was killed by the son who it deprived of his parents.
• King Mook: Seemingly being the only giant Skullcrawler in the film.
• Large and in Charge: Being the Alpha, it's the biggest of all Skullcrawlers.
• Lecherous Licking: At one point he licks Kong's face in a creepily dominant way of showing his sadism.
• Lightning Bruiser: Massive as Kong himself but that doesn't even dwindle his movements akin to the other Skullcrawlers before him. All it took to finally injure him was a propeller hurled into his sternum allowing Kong to gain the upper hand.
• Made of Iron: Kong cuts it open with a propeller and all it did was temporarily take it out of the fight.
• Moe Greene Special: Weaver manages to score a shot at the Big One by shooting it in the right eye with a flare gun.
• Monster Is a Mommy: Played With. While not apparent in the film itself, the Skull Devil is described as the mother of the smaller Skullcrawlers by the VFX supervisors in the Behind-the-Scenes bonus. However, the movie doesn't in any way use this to paint the Skull Devil in a sympathetic light.
• Multipurpose Tongue: Like others of its kind, the Skull Devil has a multi-pronged, prehensile tongue which it fires out of its jaws like a harpoon and uses to drag meals into its gullet. This ends up being its undoing when it uses the tongue to wrestle with Kong's fist while trying to eat him arm-first.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Skull Devil manages to combine this with Hoist by His Own Petard. When it attempts to eat Mason, along with Kong's entire left arm, just to spite Kong, it allows Kong to literally rip out its entire digestive tract, heart, and lungs, which Kong does.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: According to the data book, it's also known as "The Skull Devil". Considering that it's by far the most dangerous creature you can find on Skull Island, it's a rather appropriate nickname.
• Near-Villain Victory: During the final battle, the Skull Devil manages to throw Kong into a shipwreck, where he becomes entangled in the chains. With Kong subdued, the Skull Devil is about to finish him off, but Houston Brooks fires at it with a mounted machine gun, attracting its attention long enough for Kong to free himself and resume the fight.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: It's really just a bigger, stronger Skullcrawler. On Skull Island, this allows it to be one of the apex predators capable of challenging an adolescent Kong, but it's eclipsed by other kaiju from around the world that exhibit a wider array of abilities, in addition to being bigger and stronger than this thing. What's more, the Skull Devil wouldn't have posed nearly as much of a threat to the fully grown and matured Kong seen in Godzilla vs. Kong. As if to illustrate this point, the film even has another Skullcrawler similar in size to the Skull Devil get utterly obliterated by Mechagodzilla, showing just how small of a fry it was on the grander stage.
• Not Quite Dead: Thought dead, the Alpha Skullcrawler comes back for a final attack during the climax when it attempts to swallow Mason whilst she's still clutched in Kong's hand. Then Kong kills it for good by ripping its organs out.
• Pick on Someone Your Own Size: Kong is explicitly an adolescent at the time of Kong: Skull Island, whereas his main opponent the Alpha Skullcrawler was already a grown adult at the time of his birth.
• Prehensile Tail: It wraps its limbless lower body around Kong's torso like a snake's coils to keep a hold on him when they're battling up close.
• Rasputinian Death: It gets alternatively shot by the survivors with salvaged guns from a B-29 and beaten by Kong, gets choked with an anchor chain, has a boat propeller's edges stabbed into its shoulder, gets one eye blown out with a flare, and then has a vertical slice delivered up the length of its throat with said boat propeller. Finally, Kong finishes it off by ripping its tongue and guts out through its mouth.
• Really 700 Years Old: Implied. If Marlow's description of the Skull Devil killing Kong's parents, and Riccio's visions of that event happening when Kong was a newborn, are to be simultaneously believed, then the Skull Devil is likely to be at least a century or so old.
• Red Baron: "Skull Devil", but only in the data book.
• Sadist: More than once, it displays needless cruelty which doesn't do anything to satiate its inherent Horror Hunger. Upon seeing through Cole's ruse and determining it would be unwise to eat him, it kills him via tail slapping him instead of moving past him. When the Skull Devil has Kong dead to rights, instead of trying to eat him as quickly as possible, it takes its sweet ass time taunting him and drawing out his terror by closing in slowly while he's frantically fighting to free himself, tauntingly sticking its tongue out near his face in what looks like lecherous licking. It's also worth noting that during the Skull Devil's last stand, it tries to eat the arm and fist that Kong is holding Mason Weaver in after he intervened to save the human's life.
• Satanic Archetype: He's the largest and most dominant among a horde of malevolent creatures who are like him, who emerge from beneath the earth (hell); seeking to defeat the benevolent protector god, and destroy his kingdom and all its human inhabitants.
• Slashed Throat: During their final fight, Kong manages to slash the Alpha Skullcrawler's throat with a boat propeller. Subverted in that this only momentarily puts the Alpha Skullcrawler out of action before it gets right back up and continues attacking.
• Spikes of Villainy: The main feature that distinguishes it from the other Skullcrawlers besides its size are the spikes that jut from its elbows. Other giant Skullcrawlers seen with these spikes in The Birth of Kong and Godzilla vs. Kong imply this is a feature of full-grown individuals.
• Starter Villain: The Skull Devil is the first major Kaiju to be fought by Kong in the MonsterVerse. While it was a huge threat to the adolescent Kong at the time of his first film, it's clearly nowhere near as powerful as his later opponents such as the Kraken, Camazotz, Mechagodzilla or Skar King.
• Super-Strength: Even for a creature of its size, the Skull Devil is incredibly strong. This is best demonstrated when it manages to lift Kong and send him flying over a quite long distance with just its tail during their final fight, even though Kong is even bigger and heavier than the Skull Devil itself.
• Tail Slap: Like its smaller brethren, the Alpha Skullcrawler uses its tail as a power-packed whip and club.
• Token Motivational Nemesis: The Skull Devil is the monster who made Kong an orphan, and is also partly responsible for Monarch seeing Kong as an ally. However, it is killed at the end of Kong's first film and is rarely mentioned afterwards.
• Tongue Trauma: Kong tears its tongue clean out of its mouth with his fist. Along with its attached internal organs, which is what finally puts the thing down for good.
• Viler New Villain: The Alpha Skullcrawler serves as the main villain of the second instalment of the MonsterVerse. Unlike its predecessor the MUTOs, who were just Non-Malicious Monsters trying to live out their natural life cycle and acted mostly indifferent towards humans, the Alpha Skullcrawler is a hyper-aggressive predator that attacks anything in sight and appears to take some sadistic enjoyment in hunting its prey.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • According to Hank Marlow, the Skull Devil killed Kong's entire family in the past, including his mother.
  • Right after Kong grabs Mason Weaver to save her from drowning, the Skull Devil tries to devour her out of his hand (possibly in revenge for the flare rocket she fired at its eye earlier).

The Kraken

Appears In: Skull Island

A giant, squid-like, malevolent creature that prowls Skull Island's surrounding waters, killing anyone or anything who comes near with its powerful and venomous tentacles, and seeks to kill and usurp Kong himself. Not to be confused with the Titan Na Kika, who was formerly known as Kraken.

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• Alien Blood: It has dark bluish-purple blood.
• Ambiguous Gender: The Kraken is referred through the show as "it" whenever the characters use pronouns to address the kaiju, despite the fact most of the MonsterVerse Titans are referred with male of female pronouns. In the last episode, while the Kraken is dragging Kong to the ocean floor, its bioluminescent belly looks like it's filled with eggs, suggesting it might be female or a hermaphrodite Titan.
• Arch-Enemy: It gleefully attacked and slaughtered the things Kong cares about in order to kill and usurp him, giving Kong a very personal enmity with the monster, but it and Kong are locked in a stalemate wherein they refuse to give the other the homefield advantage by crossing out of their preferred terrain.
• Attack of the Monster Appendage: The Kraken makes its existence known for the first time to the main characters by attacking their boat with his huge tentacles and shipwrecking them. It does not make however a full appearance until the season's finale.
• Ax-Crazy: Big time — this thing is practically Ghidorah/Mechagodzilla in a water-dwelling form. Nightmarishly aggressive and sadistic; the Kraken attacks and kills any human presence, however small and non-threatening, that passes over its watery territory, and it even stretches its tentacles to tauntingly kill one of the mercenaries when they've moved miles inland; it went out of its way to slaughter a human village upon awakening and even left the uneaten bodies behind for Kong to find, and it grabs innocent whales and literally hurls them across the island's sky to crash brutally at Kong's temple home in an effort to goad Kong into a fight. Sam suspects that the Kraken behaves so viciously for no other reason than because it's just that much of an asshole.
• Behemoth Battle: Kraken battles King Kong and almost won. Their battle created huge waves of water that flooded an entire beach.
• Big Bad: Of Skull Island (2023), having attacked the main cast's ships, leaving them stranded on Skull, and killing Mike's father, Hiro. It constantly threatens Skull Island itself, challenging Kong for supremacy; and garnered a personal vendetta from Kong by attacking and killing a group of people he was protecting, especially a young woman who befriended Kong.
• Bioluminescence Is Cool: The Kraken can generate blue bioluminescent light to illuminate the dark depths of the ocean.
• Bloodlust: The Kraken was residing in the waters surrounding Skull Island when it was awakened by Kong's blood. And ever since than, it kept on provoking Kong for a fight.
• Choke Holds: During its fight with Kong, it strangles Kong with its red tentacles and drags him into the depths of the ocean, trying to defeat him by drowning him.
• Combat Tentacles: It has giant tentacles that it uses to pull and crush its target, and suckers that can both electrocute and poison its victims.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the Big One from Kong: Skull Island. Both monsters rival Kong in power, apparently vie against him for supremacy over Skull Island, and (reportedly in the Big One's case) killed Kong's loved ones in the past. However, whereas the Big One was slender, reptilian, land-dwelling, driven by Horror Hunger, and could only attack at close range; the Kraken is a semi-aquatic squid-crustacean chimera which pointedly stays in the water as much as possible, can attack at a long range (even from miles away) with its lengthy combat tentacles, and it's incredibly malicious for seemingly no reason beyond being a murderous asshole. The Big One only awoke and showed up near the end of Kong: Skull Island, whereas the Kraken has been an active menace since years before the show's start, as shown in the Whole Episode Flashback.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Its signature roar is a shrill, warbling scream, and it's about as deliberately malicious as Ghidorah.
• Crown-Shaped Head: Sort of, its squid-like head has two membranes conjuring it.
• David vs. Goliath: It's almost twice as big as Kong and is a very powerful adversary.
• Defiant to the End: Even when it's on death's door after taking a brutal thrashing from Kong, the Kraken keeps trying to its last breath to grab Kong and kill him, until Kong finally extinguishes its life by ripping it in two.
• The Dreaded: This titan absolutely terrifies the human characters, and even Kong refuses to fight him for years because he knows there are real chances of getting killed by the Kraken.
• Elemental Eye Colors: It has pinkish-purple eyes, and it's a deadly, venomous creature with a vile and murderous personality.
• Evil Is Bigger: It's clearly malicious and is visibly larger than Kong when they grapple in the ocean — likely at least twice the size of Kong.
• Evil Is Petty: It throws a poor whale from the ocean to Kong's lair on the island, just to provoke Kong. And he touches its goal, because Kong starts to angrily pond his chest when he sees the dead whale.
• Expy: The Kraken resembles a lot Underwater's version of Cthulhu and the showrunner Brian Duffield, wrote for both works.
• Extra Eyes: Has four eyes.
• Eye Scream: Kong stabs its face with a shipwreck about midway through their battle, gouging out both the eyes on the right side of the Kraken's face.
• For the Evulz: About as intentionally malevolent as King Ghidorah, the Kraken goes out of its way to kill anyone and everyone that tries to leave or enter the island. Given that these people pose no real threat to the Kraken or it's territory, and its habit of tossing its kills as a taunt and challenge to Kong, Sam theorizes this thing is just a dick.
• Giant Squid: It makes its first appearance by destroying Cap's ship and killing its crew, and is shown to be almost twice as big as the teenage Kong.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: How Kong ultimately does the Kraken in, beating the stuffing out of the creature on a rock, before ripping its upper half from its lower. This finally kills it.
• Helicopter Flyswatter: In the third episode, the Kraken rips a rescue helicopter apart with its arms, just keep the people it shipwrecked imprisoned on the Skull Island.
• Hydro-Electro Combo: The Kraken can shock and poison foes with its red tentacles.
• In-Series Nickname: The Kraken is referred as Squid, Octopus and Sea Monster.
• It Can Think: The Kraken is portrayed as an intelligent but malicious Titan, trying to draw Kong into fighting it on its territory as it knows Kong has the Homefield Advantage on land whereas the tables will turn in water, and Charlie theorizes that the Kraken is so obsessed with killing Kong because it wants to usurp him as Skull Island's dominant creature. To draw Kong out, the Kraken would slaughter the people he protects, and it taunts and challenges Kong by tossing its kills onto the island.
• Jerkass: Called as such. Despite apparently being an animalistic Titan, the way it challenges Kong by killing off the people he protects; taunts him by tossing whales onto the island; and kills anyone who approaches or tries to leave the island; the best any of the cast can guess about the Kraken is that it's a "just a jerk".
• Kick the Dog: It attacks characters most of the time just because. It wont go just after people Kong cares about, but also after people that don't have anything to do with them. It attacks the Once Upon a Maritime crew without them even being involved with Kong.
• Kraken and Leviathan: Brian Duffield named the monster Kraken.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Kraken is a giant squid with crustacean characteristics like pincers, and a huge fish tail.
• Monster Delay: It's in the first episode and several after, but its full appearance isn't revealed until the season finale. When it finally emerges from the water, it's revealed to be a terrifying cephalopod-like kaiju with a fish tail and crustacean pincers.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Its upper-beak has an extra set of sharp teeth lining the inside, as seen in the show and in more detail in this concept art, and it's an incredibly nasty piece of work with a malicious personality fit to rival Ghidorah's personalities.
• Monster Is a Mommy: Implied and downplayed. In one shot of the final episode, it looks like the Kraken's belly is carrying eggs. Either way, the monster is killed just minutes later, and it has no effect on the plot if the Kraken was pregnant.
• Mythology Gag: This is not the first time a Kraken is pitted against Kong, as it already happened in The King Kong Show.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After Kong destroys two of its eyes, the Kraken goes from just playing with Kong to actually getting angry and viciously attacking him. It also ends up on the receiving end of it under Kong's fists.
• Nonchalant Dodge: Kong throws a Rock Bug at the Kraken, only for the latter to just knock down the Bug with its tentacle, unimpressed.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: One of the biggest residents of Skull Island, it's almost twice as tall as Kong in the 90s and noticeably longer. However it's dwarfed by the kaiju who would appear globally in the 2010s.
• Oh, Crap!: Its eyes widen in terror as Kong delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to it at the end of the fight, and right before Kong rips it in half.
• One-Steve Limit: There is another Titan in the expanded universe called "Na Kika", which is also dubbed "The Kraken". While they are both intelligent cephalopod monsters, they are also very different, especially in behaviour. While Na Kika is portrayed as a benign creature, albeit one who falls under Ghidorah's thrall and kills several people, this Kraken is a maliciously aggressive creature; killing without provocation, and seeking to personally bring down Kong at all costs.
• Poisonous Person: In addition to being capable of generating electrical shocks, the Kraken's red tentacles are venomous.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Despite apparently having the capability of going into land, the Kraken opts not too, as Kong has the Home Field Advantage there. Instead it hopes to lure Kong into the sea, where it has the advantage. However Kong is similarly smart enough to avoid this, putting the titans on a temporary stalemate. They only fight head on when Kong is lured to the sea by the human protagonists.
• Psycho Electro: The Kraken can deliver electric shocks with its red tentacles, and it's maliciously violent to a level that can match King Ghidorah.
• Rasputinian Death: The Kraken proves hard to put down permanently. It's stabbed in face with a boat, subject to a vicious beating, and finally ripped in half before it actually dies.
• Roar Before Beating: The Kraken roars at Kong before dragging him under water.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: It has pinkish colored eyes, and is one of the most sadistic and consciously malevolent kaiju in the MonsterVerse.
• Retractable Appendages: Its reddish set of tentacles retract into its body when they're not in use.
• Sadist: Besides killing all who cross it without provocation, it "plays" with its victims, such as when Michael tries to attack it or tossing the remains of its victims as a way of taunting and challenging Kong. The human cast seem to conclude that it's just being a dick about it.
• Smug Snake: This thing couldn't help itself when it came to pushing Kong's buttons. Eventually it got beaten to death for its troubles for messing with Kong and the things he cared about too many times.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The Kraken can be seen as Kong's version of Ghidorah, even if chronologically it became the Big Bad first. The Kraken is an unusually powerful Titan, capable of rarely high intelligence, and it has a distinctly personal enmity with the benevolent Alpha Titan who it challenges to the death, so that it can claim supremacy over said Titan's territory. Ghidorah and the Kraken are also both exceptionally vicious and evil beasts who maim and kill all humans they encounter for fun. The two Titans even share the traits of being able to generate bio-electricity and being very powerful in their respective elements.
• Tentacled Terror: It stalks the waters near Skull Island, its tentacles are long enough to reach inland and it's incredibly hostile and sadistic.
• The Usurper: The Kraken wants to usurp Kong for the domination over the skill Island, and for that, it just keeps on provoking him to a fight.
• Viler New Villain: Chronologically speaking, this cephalopodic monster is one to the land-dwelling, serpentine Skull Devil and Skullcrawlers which served as the main antagonists of the MonsterVerse's original Kong: Skull Island movie. As vicious and bloodthirsty as the Crawlers were, they have the excuse that they're driven by Horror Hunger to attack and consume every meat source in sight because their metabolisms are constantly on the verge of starvation. The Kraken, however, is a violently deranged beast which attacks anything that passes within reach of its tentacles seemingly just because it can, going so far as to massacre Kong's charges and taunt him with the remains of the Kraken's kills so that it can goad him into a fight for the position of Skull Island's top predator. Speaking in terms of the MonsterVerse's release dates, the only thing that stops the Kraken from at least matching King Ghidorah's vileness is that it's solely interested in usurping Skull Island, compared to how Ghidorah was interested in usurping the entire global territory and reshaping it in a way that would wipe away all other life.
• Villainous Breakdown: It's extremely cruel, but it's also cunning, composed and pragmatic in a serious fight against Kong. After its gambit to slowly drown Kong on the ocean floor fails, and Kong grievously mutilates it by gouging out half its eyes in the process of escaping, the Kraken goes ape-shit, screeching in rage and frantically throwing strikes at Kong as it tries to kill him as quickly as possible.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: It could have killed Kong and claim the island for itself if it wasn't so focused on torturing Kong under water instead of paying attention to Kong grabbing a shipwreck to attack its eyes. Kong escapes, swims back to the surface and the Kraken just lets itself blinded by rage, giving Kong the upper hand and killing it in the end.
• Would Hurt a Child: It tries to kill teenagers Mike and Charlie during its attack on the Once Upon a Maritime, and in the Whole Episode Flashback, a child can be seen among the corpses of the villagers that the newly-awakened Kraken murdered.

Benign Creatures

The Hawk Monster

^{Click here to see it as a juvenile}

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

A hawk-like Titan on Skull Island which currently resides on a peak overlooking the region of red long grass where the Grass Hedgehogs live, grabbing its prey from above and carrying them away. It has a history with Kong.

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• Giant Flyer: An unnamed, red, hawk-like Titan capable of carrying both a human and Dog with ease in its talons.
• It Can Think: It's clearly intelligent. It knows to hunt prey on the red grass fields and bring them to Kong's temple to feed its master, it knows to scout Kong's kingdom for threats to the balance, it knows to actively protect the Island Girl on Kong's behalf in a battle where Kong is otherwise engaged, and it's visibly angry and vengeful when a Killer Chameleon bites its leg.
• Red Is Heroic: It has crimson feathers and plumage, and it's an ally to Kong who is revealed to be Good All Along despite a dark start.
• Token Flyer: It forms a three-man team with Kong and the Island Girl in the Whole Episode Flashback, being the only one of them that's capable of true flight, while Kong is at most capable of leaping vast distances.
• Uncertain Doom: Even though it is a loyal companion to Kong, it’s notably absent later in the Monsterverse which seems to indicate that it either died sometime prior to the 2020’s or when the giant storm enveloped Skull island, perishing along with the rest of the islands wildlife sometime before the events of Godzilla vs. Kong.

Sker Buffalo

Appeared In: Kong: Skull Island | Kingdom Kong (tie-in comic) | Skull Island

Species: Skerry bubalis

Amongst the largest of Skull Island's native herbivores, these gargantuan buffaloes inhabit the rivers and marshlands of the island, pursuing an amphibious existence. Aside from their unique triple-pronged horns and sheer size, their most distinguishing feature is the hard, bony structure that grows over their back and flanks. Not only does this provide some protective armor, but it is structured like a coral reef, providing a framework that encourages the growth of symbiotically linked fungi. The creatures spend most of their time predominantly submerged in the water, using their greenery-coated backs to provide camouflage.

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• Bizarre Alien Biology: Downplayed. According to their Monarch profile in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, the Sker Buffalo's heart uses two of the four chambers to pump blood to the muscles and the other two to pump highly oxygenated chlorophyll to the plant life growing on them.
• Brutish Bulls: Their Monarch profile states that they can be highly aggressive if threatened.
• Butt-Monkey: They might be huge, but they're still near the bottom of the food chain in an ecosystem that includes Skullcrawlers.
• Gentle Giant: They're very peaceful animals despite their tough appearances.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: As noted in their Monarch profile, Sker Buffalo have evolved to disguise themselves as islands whilst remaining submerged in lakes or large rivers.
• Horn Attack: Sker Buffaloes can use their massive horns as deadly weapons against potential threats.
• Planimal: Per their Monarch Data File, they're actually symbiotically linked with the algae that grow on their back, to the point of having a four-chambered heart of which two chambers pump blood and the other two pump highly oxygenated chlorophyll!

Magma Turtle

Appeared In: Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics)

Species: Tortoisa Vulkana

Gigantic peaceful turtles native to Skull Island's active volcanoes, their blood is burning hot to deter predators.

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• Alien Blood: Their Monarch profile in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong explains that they bleed lava when injured or bleeding to deter predators. They are docile though.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: They are massive enough that trees grow off their shells.
• Foreshadowing: It's subtle, but it's there - the MonsterVerse has had creatures adapted to life inside of active volcanoes, with a circulatory system as hot as magma, long before Rodan demonstrated very similar physiology in Godzilla: King of the Monsters!
• Gentle Giant: Along with the Sker Buffalo, they are one of the few peaceful animals in the ecosystem.
• Magma Man: Its skin and shell are comprised of hardened igneous rock, and by swimming in molten lava, it heats its internal fluids to boiling temperatures which can spray out to burn predators.
• Planimal: Subverted. The trees growing off their backs are feeding off the volcanic soil their shells are made out of.
• Rock Monster: They are hatched from eggs laid in volcanoes, the cooled-off magma becoming their shells. They bathe in magma throughout their lives as they grow to make their shells bigger.
• Shout-Out: To Gamera and Torkoal from Pokémon.
• Turtle Island: A giant turtle monster with forests growing on it's back.

Fern Bird

Beautiful and docile birds with fern-like physiology.

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• All There in the Manual: Their name is revealed in the book Kong and Me.
• Demoted to Extra: They are never included in the final cut of the film, but made their debut in the book Kong and Me.
• Feathered Fiend: Averted since these birds are among the more docile animals of Skull Island.
• Planimal: They are crane-like birds with plant-like feathers and physiology.

Aloe Turtle

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

A giant, benign, turtle-aloe hybrid that's encountered by Irene and Cap.

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Grass Hedgehog

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

A species of giant, benign, vaguely cat-like creatures which live in fields of red long grass, where they're camoflaged by the identical blades of long grass sprouting from their backs.

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• Elemental Eye Colors: It's a gentle, benign planimal living in the grasslands, and it has bright-green eyes.

Vine snakes

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

Snakes which live in trees, camoflaged as vines.

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Skull Island fish

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

TBA

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Hostile Creatures

Mother Longlegs

Appeared In: Kong: Skull Island | Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics) | Kingdom Kong (tie-in comic) | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Species: Mater Crura or Arachnida Acidosasa

A predatory arachnid that haunts the bamboo forests of the northern regions of Skull Island. These massive creatures use their exaggeratedly long legs to hoist their bodies high above the canopy, silently waiting for smaller creatures to stumble through, as their legs look like the bamboo shoots surrounding them. In addition to rending, crab-like pincers, a cavity in the underside of their abdomen opens up to directly reveal the stomach cavity, with sticky tentacles being used to draw prey inside. More horrifically, their legs are actually hollow and function much like a conventional spider's fangs; impaling a victim on a leg allows the Mother Longlegs to pre-digest and then drink its prey.

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• Accidental Murder: Averted. This at first appears to be the case when one of the soldiers is impaled and killed, but during the subsequent skirmish where the other soldiers try to bring the Mother Longlegs down, it becomes clear that the creature is actively using its legs as stabbing weapons, with Skull Island: The Birth of Kong confirming this.
• Alien Blood: For some reason, instead of having blue blood as real spiders do, these creatures have yellow blood like real-life insects, as seen when the one in the film gets its legs cut off.
• Belly Mouth: There's an orifice of some sort on its abdomen that it can open up to allow direct access to its stomach.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Their legs end in sharpened spikes, and are used for impaling, poisoning, and then sucking the life from ground-based prey.
• Combat Tentacles: Unleashes several fleshy tendrils from its abdomen to pull prey directly into its Belly Mouth.
• Giant Spider: It's unclear if it's this or a Giant Enemy Crab; it looks mostly like a spider, but it has a set of crab-like claws as well. The Monarch Data File on the creature asserts that it's actually a giant harvestman, with attributes of plants integrated into its genetic and physical structure.
• Glass Cannon: It can do a lot of damage with its legs and claws, but it's surprisingly squishy for its size. The soldiers cut through its legs as easily as hacking bamboo, and shoot it to death with their rifles.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: They live in dense bamboo forests on the north side of Skull Island where their part-bamboo legs are perfectly camouflaged as tree trunks and they can strike down and feed on unsuspecting prey.
• Hobbling the Giant: The spider is taken down after having a few of it's legs cut, causing it to lose balance and fall.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How they incapacitate ground-based smaller prey. They stab their legs' bladed tips through them and immobilize them.
• King Mook: The book, Skull Island: The Birth of Kong features a giant specimen that leads a large group of Mother Longlegs' in attacking humans. It is big enough to rival the Skull Devil in size. It actually gives Kong a bit of trouble before he kills it.
• Mythology Gag: As a blending of spider and crab, it references similar "crab-spiders" that appeared in the pit sequence in King Kong (2005)... which were themselves a Mythology Gag to a deleted scene from the original King Kong (1933).
• One-Gender Race: According to the Monarch Data File in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, the Mother Longlegs is an all-female, self-reproducing species.
• Planimal: Much like the Spore Mantis and the Sker Buffalo, the Mother Longlegs is a physical and genetic fusion of both animal and plant aspects. According to its profile, its legs in particular contain vascular bundles of woody xylem — the same material that makes up the bamboo stems it lives amongst.
• Poisonous Person: Their Monarch profile states that their sharp legs have a poisonous spur that immobilizes impaled prey while the Mother Longlegs feeds.
• Projectile Webbing: Skull Island: The Birth of Kong depicts two of them utilizing this when fighting against Kong, not that it does them much good.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The killing of the one encountered in Kong: Skull Island. First Mills slices off the tendrils that are dragging him into its mouth, then the others slice off its legs, then once Mills is out of the way, the entire squad unloads their entire clips into its exposed underside, and after it's fallen to the ground, Packard shoots it five more times at point-blank range, just to be sure.
• Too Many Mouths: Aside from its Belly Mouth, each of its legs also ends in a mouth, allowing them to consume prey just by spearing them.

Mire Squid

Appeared In: Kong: Skull Island | Kingdom Kong (tie-in comic)

Species: Gigantus Leviapus

A massive freshwater cephalopod that mostly resembles a giant octopus with an elongated head. This dangerous creature can defend itself with clouds of superheated boiling ink and rotates its beak at hyper speeds to create powerful vacuums it can use to suck in prey.

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• Acid Attack: According to the profile in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, the Mire Squid can expel a cloud of superheated black ink when threatened.
• Always a Bigger Fish: While it does struggle against Kong for a short time, it quickly ends up as the ape's lunch.
• Combat Tentacles: Makes great use of its tentacles when fighting Kong.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: It produces shrill chirps and squeaks, and it's a tough ambush predator.
• Expy: To Oodako, the giant octopus from King Kong vs. Godzilla.
• Giant Squid: Clearly.
• Head Crushing: Played With. Kong violently stomps on its head after dragging it above water, but doing so doesn't makes its tentacles stop attacking and thus Kong has to maim it further before it's truly defeated.
• Informed Ability: Its boiling ink and whirlpool-creating beak are never used or mentioned in the film (not that they'd be very useful against Kong).
• Informed Species: Stated to be a squid (or in the Monarch profile in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, an octopus-squid hybrid), but has no real squid-like characteristics that are visible.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: According to the Monarch website, it is a giant squid and giant Pacific octopus hybrid.
• Red Is Violent: It's mostly a mottled red color, and not only is it an ambush predator many times the size of a human, but according to its Monarch Sciences bio, it has the ability to expunge clouds of furnace-hot ink and also to stir up maelstroms that will drag its prey in.
• Tentacled Terror: It is a giant cephalopod that lies and waits to ambush unsuspecting prey.
• Tornado Move: Its Monarch profile states it can spin its beaked jaws at high enough speeds to cause suction which can form a whirlpool vortex.

Spore Mantis

Appeared In: Kong: Skull Island

Species: Phasmid Sylas

A massive insect/plant hybrid creature, the Spore Mantis is a stick insect that has not only grown to huge sizes but has also taken its name to a literal definition. Its carapace is comprised of dense bark, whilst its body houses a powerful muscle system that is a unique interweaving of striated tendons and fibrous structural tissues more commonly found in the stems and roots of trees. In fact, the Spore Mantis may be more accurately defined as two creatures in one; an animate tree and a huge slug-like organism with bone-crushing jaws laden with spiked teeth. This secondary creature serves the whole by actually digesting the prey that the host helps capture.

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• All There in the Manual: The Monarch Data File on the creature provides absolutely all the information we know; all we see in the film is that it's a giant stick insect with a carapace of wood instead of chitin.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Initially unfazed by Chapman's bullets, it turns and flees when it sees a Skullcrawler behind him. To be honest, we can't say we blame it...
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Even compared to the other planimals on the island. For starters, it relies on a symbiotic organism to serve as a digestive system, it digests its prey with "protein-rich sap", and it excretes the remains as huge chunks of translucent amber with the undigested bone, shell, etc trapped inside. It also does not react to being shot repeatedly in the head, despite the bullets doing visible damage.
• Body to Jewel: According to the Monarch profile in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, the excreted remains of its victims come out encased in solid sap.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Chapman ends up sitting on one, mistaking it for a log, until it suddenly starts moving.
• Non-Indicative Name: It neither resembles a Mantis nor like it's covered in spores.
• Planimal: It's a literal stick insect, equal parts wooden tree, and a giant bug.
• The Symbiote: The Spore Mantis uses a slug-like organism contained within its trunk to digest its prey for it.
• Why Isn't It Attacking?: Chapman opens fire on the insect, but it doesn't retaliate and quickly flees despite not being injured at all. Chapman is a little confused until he turns around and is messily devoured by a Skullcrawler that was lying in wait.

Leafwing

Appeared In: Kong: Skull Island | Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics) | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Godzilla vs. Kong | Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted (tie-in comic) | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Species: Icarus Folium

Cousins of the Psychovulture, the Leafwings are less aggressive but still highly dangerous, as they use their cacti-like beaks to saw limbs off their victims.

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• Absurdly Sharp Claws: Its saw-like beak can easily slice off human limbs in a single flyby.
• Alien Blood: They have blue blood.
• An Arm and a Leg: Their saw-like beaks are sharp enough to cut off human limbs.
• The Cameo: They appear at the end of Godzilla: King of the Monsters. They're difficult to see due to their small size, but invokedWord of God confirms their presence, as does the novelization. Flocks of them also appear in brief shots in Godzilla vs. Kong on Skull Island and within the Hollow Earth.
• Demoted to Extra: They had three sequences of focus in Kong: Skull Island, but in every subsequent film they appear only as small, generic background fliers.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: A huge flock of them hide on a tree using their leaf-like wings as camouflage. Once they scatter, we and the characters see that the tree they were nesting on was actually bare.
• Monster Organ Trafficking: Their Monarch files state that the Iwi hunt them down because their grounded-up wings act as a trippy drug.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: They're about the size of a dog, but two of them were strong enough to carry a human high into the air.
• Planimal: Like many creatures of the island, they are Flora-Fauna, with cactus spines along their beak. The sourcebook for Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure furthermore states that they use photosynthesis to generate sugars and their skin excretes a sap-like substance.
• Zerg Rush: They tend to attack their enemies in flocks.

Psychovulture

Appeared In: Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics) | Kingdom Kong (tie-in comic)

Species: Vultura Insanus

Large, highly aggressive bat-like creatures that are native to Skull Island. They show signs of psychopathy by purposely ingesting pufferfish indigenous to the island's waters, causing a psychotropic effect that results in them attacking anything including each other.

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• All There in the Manual: Inverted. The Monarch profile makes no mention of their ability to fire electricity from their mouths as demonstrated in the tie-in comic, Skull Island: The Birth of Kong.
• Ascended Extra: They set off the events in the tie-in comic that leaves the second team stranded on the island.
• Badass Abnormal: Seems to have gained the ability to fire lightning and gotten bigger in the tie in comic Skull Island: The Birth of Kong.
• Bat Out of Hell: Although stated to be some sort of pterosaur or pterosaur-like reptile, they strongly resemble earless bats. Their Monarch profile in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong even states that they use echolocation.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite being heavily part of the viral marketing, they never showed up in the film.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: According to their Monarch profile, they are some type of bird/reptile/pterosaur hybrid.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Downplayed. Their Monarch profile notes that they seem to be actively homicidal toward everything that moves, to a point that goes well beyond hunting and territorial instincts. Fortunately, unlike a certain three-headed dragon, the Psychovultures have neither the power nor the capacity to pose a large-scale threat to the world's biosphere or even to Skull Island's local ecosystem.
• Psycho Electro: They've gained the power to shoot lightning in the tie-in comic, and their profile states that they literally seem to murderously hate every living thing.
• Took a Level in Badass: They down an Osprey in the comic.
• Vein-o-Vision: Their profile states study has indicated that they have a thermal vision similar to snakes.
• Zerg Rush: Their main strategy in attacking their enemies.

Death Jackal

Appeared In: Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics) | Kingdom Kong (tie-in comic)

Species: Spinae Mortem

Large land predators of Skull Island with manes as sharp as razor-wire, they immediately attacked the second expedition team when they landed on the island in 1995, only to be stopped by a much bigger and older Kong. They made their debut in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong tie-in comic.

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• Alien Blood: They bleed white due to high levels of calcium in their blood.
• An Arm and a Leg: As pictured, many are missing limbs. Doesn't stop them from being able to hunt.
• Auto Cannibalism: According to their Monarch profile in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, they will eat each other and even themselves if they can not find prey to kill.
• Body Horror: See below.
• Covered with Scars: Multiple Death Jackals have this. Most likely, their Monstrous Cannibalism tendencies have helped with this.
• Handicapped Badass: Despite their missing limbs they are still very effective predators.
• Horror Hunger: They're prone to Monstrous Cannibalism and even Auto Cannibalism if other animals are hard to come by.
• Monstrous Cannibalism: Their Monarch profile suggests that these creatures can only fully satisfy their appetites by eating other members of their kind.
• Raptor Attack: Played With. Although they're not actually dromaeosaurids in any way, the superficial resemblance is still there in their shape, their feather-like manes on their backs and heads whilst the rest of their body is bald, and their tendency to hunt in packs.
• Villainous Rescue: Late in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, several Death Jackals attack Riccio just as he was about to murder Aaron, enabling the latter and the other captives to escape.
• Zerg Rush: Death Jackals have a habit of surrounding their enemies in large packs.

Sirenjaw

Appeared In: Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics)

Species: Gigantus Crocodiliad

Large crocodiles that live in the southern jungles of Skull Island. Like many animals of Skull Island, they are part plants, with trees growing out of their backs. The second expedition had a short but scary encounter with one.

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• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: It's massive, bigger than the Sker Buffalo.
• Green Gators: These huge crocodilians are primarily green in color.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: After growing a small nursery of trees on its back, it lurks in lakes or tributaries disguised as an island, waiting for prey to approach before it ambushes them.
• Jawbreaker: The one that was killed by Kong is left with its jaw ripped off.
• Killed Offscreen: Due to its entire battle with Kong being a Battle Discretion Shot after Aaron and his expedition narrowly escape it, with them only returning to find the Sirenjaw's corpse after the battle has ended.
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: Sirenjaws are enormous crocodilians that lure in prey by posing as islands.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Not so awesome from the Sirenjaw's perspective, but the specimen in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong fights and is killed by Kong offscreen, with Aaron's expedition only arriving at the battle's aftermath.
• Planimal: They are enormous crocodiles engaged in symbiosis with trees as a form of camouflage.
• Puberty Superpower: Their Monarch profile in The Birth of Kong states that when they begin to sexually mature, they start to grow trees out of their backs, looking like an island to unwitting prey when partially submerged.
• Shout-Out: Its appearance is similar to Biollante, being a plant/animal hybrid with crocodilian features.
• That's No Moon: With the vegetation covering their body, they can hide as small islands, letting prey literally wander into their gaping maws.

Swamp Locust

Appeared In: Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (tie-in comics)

Species: Stagnum Acrididae

Large insects that float just below the surface of rivers facing upwards with their claws sticking out, looking like logs.

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• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Take a guess.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: They hide under the water of the island's eastern swamplands, with their limbs remaining above the water looking like crooked swamp trees.
• Lamprey Mouth: The mouth is just a fang-studded giant ringlet with more sharp teeth inside the maw, including phosphate incisors.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The Monarch profile in Skull Island: The Birth of Kong describes it as just being a throat filled with teeth and armed with claws.
• Planimal: It helps their legs blend in, often mistaken for normal logs in the rivers, swamps, and marshes of Skull Island.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: They seem uncannily similar to the Carnictis in King Kong (2005): they dwell in marshy waters, they have Lamprey Mouths, they're biologically for all intents and purposes giant stomachs with sharp teeth and mobility.

Spirit Tiger

Appeared In: Kingdom Kong (tie-in comic)

Species: Icarus Tigris

Abnormally large tigers with antlers growing out of their heads.

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• Brown Note: For some reason, any living creature in the tiger's vicinity experience unusual physical phenomena such as dizziness, euphoria, and the ability to thoroughly hear the beast's heartbeat.
• Cats Are Mean: They like to allow their potential prey to enjoy their euphoria before attacking them.
• Elemental Eye Colors: It has pure white eyes, befitting its light motif.
• Demoted to Extra: The director expressed sadness that they never made it into the film, though their photos do appear in extras for the film before their full appearance in the comic Kingdom Kong.
• Light Is Not Good: It looks like a ghostly, bright-silver tiger with white eyes and glowing antlers, but it's a hostile creature which attacks humans and clashes with Kong.
• Panthera Awesome: It's a large tiger with antlers.
• Prophet Eyes: Its eyes are blank and silver-white.
• Shout-Out: Jordan Vogt-Roberts has gone on record saying the game Ōkami inspired the design.

Trapdoor Crabs

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

Large crabs that dwell on the beaches of Skull Island. They conceal themselves under lids of sand like trapdoor spiders, waiting for unsuspecting prey to come within reach of their claws.

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• Giant Enemy Crab: They're a group of giant beach crabs that ambush their prey from under the sand.
• Shout-Out: Quite possibly to the giant crabs in the Video Game Peter Jackson's King Kong. Both are giant crab like creatures that attack the heroes at the coast shortly after getting shipwrecked.

Rock Bug

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

A gigantic insectoid creature found at Skull Island's shorelines. It disguises itself as a boulder in plain sight, and apparently uses its colorful crystalline underside to mesmerize its prey.

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Croc Monster/Croc

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

A ferocious and bloodthirsty, semi-aquatic man-eating beast resembling a gigantic, semi-bipedal crocodile. It dwells by a river near a massive waterfall.

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• Advertised Extra: It's one of the creatures on the poster promoting the series, despite its role in the series proper being minor: it only appears for a couple minutes in one episode unlike the Trapdoor Crabs, and it doesn't have any real bearing on that episode's nor the greater series' plot unlike the Killer Chameleons.
• Eaten Alive: This happens to the one that was pursuing Mike and Charlie, the would be predator swiftly becomes the prey when it gets grabbed by Kong.

Dodo Bird

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

A silly-looking but aggressive beast, which resembles a dodo with vertically-stretched proportions that make it seem more akin to a terror bird.

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Giant Ant

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

A giant insectoid species which lives in a vast-sized underground ant hill.

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• Monstrous Cannibalism: Implied when the Giant Ant drags its dead brethren's husk into the darkness of the tunnels, over a minute before it emerges to hungrily investigate the kids.

Venus Fly Trap Creature

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

Tree-sized creatures resembling giant flowers, which conceal a set of meat-eating jaws that wait to ambush and snatch up any prey that steps too close to one of them with their guard down. There's a forest of them beyond the Grass Hedgehogs' red grass.

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• Losing Your Head: Downplayed. The one which tries to eat Irene gets decapitated, and not only does its head still resist Cap and Sam's efforts to pry her free afterwards, but several moments later, it's still writhing and groaning as it dies.
• Man-Eating Plant: One of them engulfs Irene when she gets too close and tries to eat her.

Nightboys

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

Pale, small but aggressive creatures which are described as "gremlins". Charlie accidentally disturbs a horde of them that were clinging to a dead tree.

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Killer Chameleons

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

Massive, voraciously relentless, meat-eating chameleons which Kong and the Island Girl fought because they threatened the balance of Kong's kingdom.

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• Chameleon Camouflage: Downplayed realistically. They can change color near-instantaneously in order to blend in with their surroundings, but just like with Real Life chameleons, it's limited to changing their body to a single solid color without imitating any elaborate patterns around them.
• Multipurpose Tongue: Like normal chameleons, their can fire their tongues a greater length than their total body length (several times their body length actually) out of their mouths, to grab prey.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: These giant chameleons are portrayed as vicious, ravenous monsters that will stop at nothing to devour their prey once they’ve caught sight of it.
• Squashed Flat: Kong kills one of them by slowly squishing it under a giant boulder.
• Super-Persistent Predator: Once they catch sight of the island girl, they become hellbent on catching and devouring her, Kong's intervention be damned. Even when one of them gets fatally impaled, it continues trying to snag the girl with its tongue until it finally dies.
• Wall Crawl: They can climb up sheer surfaces like the wall of a cliff at high speed.

Giant centipede

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

A massive, multi-eyed centipede which menaces Cap.

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Snarehunter

A Snarehunter Valkyrie caste (carrying a deer)

Species: Cantus formica

A species of ant that Marlow mentions, it apparently mimics bird calls to lure prey and is apparently the size of a large dog. They do not appear on-screen in the film, but are described in much greater detail in the Tabletop RPG, Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure.

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• Ant Assault: Alluded to by Marlow's negative reaction, and
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: They are said to be massive, despite never being seen. They're depicted in Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure as being so large, the workers can fly off with full-grown deer, and the queens can grow as big as Kong.
• Bioluminescence Is Cool: In Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure, they're depicted with numerous glowing spots under their abdomens, while the queens also have glowing antennae tips.
• Death from Above: They live in the trees, rather than usual anthills.
• The Ghost: It's heard in the film, but does not appear on-screen.
• Noisy Nature: They are said to lure prey using bird-like calls, making this a weaponized version of this trope.
• Silly Animal Sound: Lampshaded by Marlow. They make bird-like chirping sounds, but are actually some sort of giant ant.

Vinestrangler

Species: Vitis Strangulari

A giant katydid-like insect living in trees that ambushes and ensnares prey with their tentacles.

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• Canon Foreigner: A creature that didn't make it into the film but its profile and sketches show up in the Monarch Files extra.
• Combat Tentacles: It ensnares prey with its tentacles and pulls them up to the trees it hides in.
• Death from Above: It hangs from trees and uses its tentacles to ambush prey that walks below it.
• Decomposite Character: It originated as concept art for the Mother Longlegs, but was made into an unrelated animal in supplementary material.
• Planimal: The profile on the extras points that it is like many things on Skull Island, part plant, part animal. Taking it a step further it is hard to tell where they end and the trees they dwell in begin, giving the impression they are an extension of the trees they live in.

Others

Mantleclaw

Appeared In: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Species: TBA

A gigantic, part-rock, crab-like creature which Bill Randa encounters on Skull Island's coastline, disguised as part of a rocky cliff until it sheds its camouflage to fight off an encroaching Mother Longlegs.

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• Accidental Hero: It saves Bill Randa's life when he was running from Mother Longlegs, unaware he was there when it fights her.
• Ambiguously Related: It strongly resembles and acts like the Rock Critters of the Hollow Earth (and is nearly identical to some of their concept art), although it's not explicitly mentioned if it's related.
• Giant Enemy Crab: It resembles and acts like a giant crab the size of a bus, including having large defensive pincers and living along the coast of Skull Island, an environment to which gargantuan crustaceans are a regular staple throughout various continuities.
• Rock Monster: Its carapace resembles a sheet of rock, allowing it to blend in seamlessly with the stoney coastline of Skull Island.
• Uncertain Doom: It's last seen plunging off a cliff into the sea while grappling with a Mother Longlegs. Given its crab-like anatomy and the natural toughness of kaiju, it's certainly plausible it survived, although it's left unclear.

Creatures from Annie's Island

Dog

Appeared In: Skull Island

Species: TBA

A giant, dog-like, intelligent creature from Annie's Island twenty miles away from Skull Island. He bonded to Annie in her childhood and was pseudo-tamed by her, serving as her closest companion ever since.

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• Big Friendly Dog: He's a ten-foot-tall mutant bulldog and a sweetheart to Annie. The other human leads he simply tolerates, though he's showing signs that he's warming up to them.
• Canine Companion: To Annie.
• Feuding Families: His father, presumably hunting for food, was trying to kill Annie's father who mutually killed him in self-defense. Annie and the newly-orphaned Dog, by contrast, became close companions in the fallout of losing their respective fathers in that conflict.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: The only other member of Dog's species we see is his father, who died in a Mutual Kill with Annie's father (an event which was in turn the catalyst for Annie and Dog bonding), whereas nothing is known about Dog's mother.
• Meaningful Name: He's a dog-like Titan named Dog. Annie isn't that creative with names.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: In a nutshell, Dog is basically a giant bulldog with the mane of a lion, claws of a bear, and the hunting instincts of a wolf.
• Savage Wolves: A canine-like kaiju who is willing to attack anyone who comes in his way. But when it comes to Annie and her allies, he's much more friendlier.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Before his first onscreen appearance, he apparently swam on his own across twenty miles of ocean from Annie's Island to Skull Island to find Annie. In the finale, he struggles to stay afloat in Skull Island's exterior bay, and he can't even swim several (relative) meters to a rock outcropping and is heavily implied to be at risk of drowning, leading Kong to save him.

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