In this anime-influenced series a group of cryptid ocean explorers get attacked by a kraken Titan and find themselves shipwrecked on Skull Island. Our next chronological move is to the sequel series to Kong: Skull Island, Netflix’s Skull Island. It seems Monarch has done some good work in locating more of the mysterious monsters. Both Conrad and Weaver are recruited by Monarch and get clued in on the existence of Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. Packard nearly achieves his goal, but Kong crushes him and the biggest Skullcrawler, as the surviving humans come to see Kong in a new light. The squad mobilizes to stop Lieutenant Colonel Packard from achieving his mission of killing Kong. Conrad and Weaver learn that Kong is the last of his kind and the only thing protecting them and the other island inhabitants from the deadly skull crawlers. We learn he had made friends with the Japanese pilot he crash-landed with, but he was killed by a predatory “skull crawler” monster. Unsurprisingly, the researchers want to learn and the soldiers want to kill, and these counte- operating missions cause trouble all along the way.Īce tracker James Conrad and photojournalist Mason Weaver find the island’s indigenous people and the aged American WWII pilot from before. After some ill-advised explosive charges, the group is attacked by Kong, and split into two groups on the island. The next major action in the timeline takes us to Kong: Skull Island in 1973 in the South Pacific at the height of the Vietnam War and US military involvement in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.Ī group of both Monarch researchers and soldiers take an expedition to the ominous Skull Island to search for alleged primeval creatures. As a response, Project Monarch was established to study Godzilla and any other monster-like organisms in secrecy. But in the Monsterverse, these bombings were a failure and were unable to kill Godzilla. Sidenote: this lines up with the timing of Operation: Castle, a real-world series of nuclear bombing tests actually conducted by the US military at Bikini Atoll between March and April 1954. That same year, Godzilla was lured to the Bikini Atoll in an attempt to kill him with a nuclear bomb. This is the first recorded time humans became aware of monsters, and their response was decidedly violent. In 1954, a deep-sea expedition awakened a creature named, you guessed it, Godzilla. And in the earth, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Neither man can do anything about it, seeing as they’re stranded on Skull Island, but this is the first canonical appearance of Kong, resident of Skull Island, though Kong and all the other monsters likely have a very long precedence on earth. Kong: Skull Island opens in 1944 during World War II as an American and a Japanese pilot fight after emergency-parachuting onto an island in the South Pacific where they're interrupted by a familiar gigantic ape.
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