#skullcrawler

[empressofthecherries]

SkullCrawler babyyyy

I pumped this one out so fast wth possessed me

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Deleted/altered Monsterverse scenes in Godzilla & Kong: The Cinematic Storyboard Art of Richard Bennett

Kong: Skull Island

There's a longer opening sequence, with Marlowe discovering Gunpei's camp instead of them both crashing at around the same time.

Conrad stows away on the expedition instead of being hired as a tracker

Weaver and Conrad meet at a Philadelphia train station (no clue what the context was).

Kong swings around a helicopter while the gunner is still firing and the bullets hit another helicopter, which I think is the closest he's ever come to using a gun.

Packard's group watches Kong fight the Mire Squid instead of Chapman.

Very different take on the Iwi village, with smaller lost ships/planes incorporated into the architecture.

The big one: Conrad flashes back to an encounter with King Ghidorah in Vietnam. The three-headed monster's silhouette is basically just the Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah version, but he has at least five prehensile tails he uses to snatch up soldiers.

Conrad and Weaver are tied to a tree during the napalm plot against Kong. Another character sets them free and they go wild on a few soldiers, with Weaver hitting one on the head with a rock. The Skull Devil emerges in a separate scene.

Kong uses a plane wing as a weapon in the final fight.

The Skull Devil has a grappling tail similar to that of Otachi in Pacific Rim.

The Iwi fight Conrad's group (I think) as the Gray Fox is lowered down a waterfall with a pulley system and something ambushes Kong in the background. This one was especially hard to make any sense of without dialogue.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Jonah spies on Emma and Madison as they drive to Mothra's temple.

The video montage in the Senate hearing is done via hologram. A mushroom cloud is displayed while Serizawa argues with a senator.

Mark bows to a wolf that approaches him in a nice bit of foreshadowing.

Mothra arrives in Boston alongside Godzilla instead of turning up later.

Godzilla vs. Kong

In an alternate opening, the Iwi retell the history between Godzilla and Kong's species using highly-elaborate puppets. There's a horned character loaded with weapons who briefly traps Godzilla in a cage and transforms into a Rodan-like figure. An ancient mecha?

Text mentions that "the Pensacola/Florida Godzilla attack scene was going to be much longer, involving a mall stampede.

A massive explosion takes place on Skull Island (I believe coming from the Vile Vortex there).

Jia is first shown signing with Kong just before the fleet engages Godzilla.

In true kaiju kid fashion, Jia messes with the controls of the ship to set Kong loose.

Nathan discovers his brother's crash site in the Hollow Earth and gets into a fight with several guards. This scene was definitely filmed.

Bernie was at one point a woman (drawn with ultra-short hair, although in general the human characters in these storyboards bear little resemblance to their screen counterparts).

Kong finds a skeleton of another member of his species sitting on the throne. He breaks off the skull, stares at it, and throws it aside.

Group troops engage Godzilla and Kong during their Hong Kong fight; neither even notices.

Mechagodzilla coils into a semi-sphere to deflect Godzilla's atomic breath.

Echoing his fight with Kong, Godzilla tries to outrun Mechagodzilla's Proton Scream through the streets of Hong Kong.

[leoprime13]

I've wanted to do this for so long when they announced the Monster'verse would continue, and I'm so proud of how it turned out in the end. And I wanted to use this song because it would make a perfect trailer song for a future Monster'verse movie.

[pyrasterran]

Skullcrawler #MonsterMarch2024

[thecreaturecodex]

Are you still planning on converting the Monsterverse Kaiju (and hopefully the Skullcrawlers)?

Eventually I would like to. That whole "Year of Monsters" thing fell apart due to burnout, fatigue, and it being partially fueled by nutmeg induced delusions of grandeur... no, seriously. But I would like to tackle them at some point!

[nemesisthetoy]

Behold, the Frost Queen!

Bonus:

[hrodvitnon]

Imagine if, because of their upbringing with Rodan and extended family members like Mothra, Godzilla, Viv and San, etc. , as well as never having to worry about food like the average wild skullcrawler has to, Keeta reaches the peak of their species and becomes an alpha titan once they reach adulthood. And at the same time, after growing up watching and hearing of how Godzilla and Mothra would protect the world's balance, they get inspired to have a similar ambition of their own:

Redeem the skullcrawlers as a whole and break the vicious cycle they're all stuck with. Because if Keeta can be good, then what's stopping the rest of their kind from becoming beneficial to the world as well? If skullcrawlers are inherently evil, then logically, Keeta shouldn't exist at all, but here they are. They know that it won't be easy to do, but that doesn't mean it's impossible, and that if they don't try, then no one else will.

Rodan would be very cautious for Keeta's safety, but is ultimately supportive of their goals. Viv, Godzilla, and Mothra would be in the same boat as Rodan. San would be very sympathetic with Keeta's goal there, seeing that he was also similarly judged as inherently evil just because he was part of Ghidorah, and would want Keeta to succeed with that.

And then there's Kong, who definitely won't be pleased at all if he ever finds out about this, especially if Keeta already has a small but very loyal pack (which has steadily increasing members over time) by the time he's heard of it. He (wrongfully) thinks that Keeta has finally become the threat he always feared they will become once they reached adulthood, and that he will watch his tribe of apes be slaughtered by skullcrawlers all over again. If it weren't for Suko constantly trying to convince him otherwise, he would've declared war on Keeta and their pack (as well as all skullcrawlers in general) right then and there.

Though even then, Kong would definitely look for even the smallest reason to start exterminating skullcrawlers once again if he ever gets the chance to do so. And Suko is afraid of what Kong's inability to let go of the past is doing to him, because at the moment, the way Kong would look and speak of Keeta (and skullcrawlers in general) with pure hatred is all too uncomfortably familiar with how the Skar King would look and speak of when it came to the surface world.

Keeta has a good ambition, apparently enough to gain a pack of loyal Skullcrawlers, though I wonder just how effective they are at redeeming their own species considering Keeta is a unique specimen, having been genetically altered by Apex to not suffer the huge metabolism natural to 'crawlers and presumably the nastier effects of this, on top of being raised with care and love. Unaltered Skullcrawlers if left unchecked could wipe out Skull Island's ecosystem, after all.

Of course, maybe Keeta doesn't realize just how different they are compared to the average 'crawler, but it doesn't stop them from trying anyway; they naturally sympathize with their own species and feel bad for how skeletal and unhealthy normal 'crawlers look, so it's only natural that they want to enact positive change no matter the difficulty.

Kong's own inability to let go could pave the way for a dangerous obsession with rendering the Skullcrawlers extinct. It ultimately stems from a place of trauma, which is understandable, but his views on 'crawlers as nothing but mindless and evil monsters means he doesn't see anything wrong with planning horrific actions, like forcing Keeta to watch him rip a 'crawler apart with his bare hands and drench himself in its blood, which causes a lot of friction between him and Suko. Maybe Suko will stir up the guts to tell Kong flat out "how are you any different from Skar King?" only for Kong to coldly retort, "the difference is, I know that I am right."

[shipm8-blog1]

Im getting back into model making and toy photography. Here's some of my old work

[lisanees]

they're feeling left out

[rustybottlecap]

The thing that exites me the most about the Kong animated series is the return of the Skullcrawlers. It's not just their cool design, there is so much thought put into these monsters, how they "evolved wrong" as in they are constantly hungry and in pain because evolution doesn't care if it doesn't get in the way of reproducing, they fit perfectly with the ecosystem angle the Monsterverse sometimes goes for.

I lament that they may be often disregarded as canon fodder for Kong (and more recently Mechagodzilla), they could have their whole movie. They are tragic in their own way. Now that I think about it, they are a similar threat to the 1998 Godzilla, by being a species of agile reptiles that reproduce too quickly and eat a lot. The skullcrawlers are more "realistic", however, not being limited by the Godzilla name and brand: they are a whole species that have evolved under very specific circumstances through millions of years.

[hemipenal-system]

“so how’d you get into vore?”

me: yeah idk kinda just happened

Kong: Skull Island for no reason whatsoever:

this scene was for the vore girlies, tbh

[averagemee-fr]

"The Skull Devil Hungers" An oldie for sure but one I'm proud of which was my Ramarak digitally colored image I did during the Monsterverse watch along. Still one of my favorite pieces from before but that background still needs an update cause oof. Other than that hope you enjoy it.

[chernobog13]

JLA vs. GODZILLA vs. KONG

A crossover between DC Comics and Legendary Comics, announced yesterday at SDCC.

Interior pages from a seven-issue mini-series wherein the Monsterverse mysteriously intersects with the DC Universe.

That’s Titano, not Kong, that Superman’s facing. (When did Titano become a robot or cyborg?  Did I miss that issue?)

For good measure, not only is the Justice League involved with the two titular battling titans (I hate using that word to describe kaiju), but also the Legion of Doom.

Le battle royale!

Hey, do you know what they call a “battle royale” in France?  A fight.

While this is a great idea, I think it would work better as a single, or at most double, premium-sized book.  Stretching the story out over seven issues just seems to be....well, stretching things a bit.

Face facts: Superman alone could stop both Godzilla and Kong AND be home in time for dinner, not to mention the entire Justice League working together.  So expect that: A) either the Legion of Doom come up with a scheme to use the monsters to destroy the heroes; or B) some unknown factor/person is at work to make defeating the kaiju more difficult than it should be.

Either way, as a DC superheroes and kaiju fan, I will be eagerly opening my wallet when these issues arrive at the comic shop.

[ghost-cwunch-artz]

Skullcrawler fan design bc I thought giving it a pair of arms and non-working back legs would look way creepier (my friend said he justlooks like a chicken lmao)

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

Kong: (grown up and during his fight with Ramarak) This is MY island. You are trespassing. I am no slave. I! AM! KING!!!

Ramarak: OH SHIT

[theknucklehead]

Here are some interesting facts about King Kong I'd like to share:

The concept and design for the Skullcrawlers from Kong: Skull Island (2017) were mostly inspired by the two-legged lizard seen in the original 1933 King Kong.

And the deleted scene from the theatrical cut of Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005) where the sailors fight an angry Ferrucutus, that scene was loosely based off the fight against the Stegosaurus in the 1933 film,

It even ends with the dinosaur still moving it's tail even after defeat.