The Iwi Giant

The Iwi Giant is a 2024 spin-off CGI animated series based on Monsterverse. It premiered on December, 5 2024 for Apple TV+. The series is set in an alternate universe where Jia and The Iwi Tribe are more gigantic than Godzilla, Kong and the other titans known as Sub-titanius Iwi and like in canon, Jia is seemingly the last of her kind. While the series is geared to preteen and younger audiences, it contains more monster fights and more landmark/city destruction and the same violence and still maintaining the scale and stakes of the previous Monsterverse installments. 
== Premise and synopsis ==
=== Season 1: Journey ===
In an alternate universe where Jia and The Iwi are just as gigantic as other titans and sadly being mostly wiped out by a storm caused by King Ghidorah, Dr. Ilene and Monarch have decided to adopted the last living Iwi child and make sure that no harm gets in her way and gets to Hollow Earth.
=== Season 2: Campaign ===
Set 3 years after Season 1, Jia is struggling to balance being The Alpha Titan and being an adoptive big sister to Suko while she tries to save Hollow Earth from an anti-Titan campaign. 
=== Season 3: Resurrection ===
After RM Construction's anti-titan campaign was stopped, The growing Kong squad (Jia, Kong, Suko, Mothra, Shimo and Mohan) needs to stop a coming prophecy: The eventual resurrection of King Ghidorah by a cult. 
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
==== Iwi ====
* Jia (voiced by Kaylee Hottle) - The young, deaf orphaned Sub-titanuis Iwi, the adopted daughter of Ilene, surrogate older sister of Suko and main protagonist of the series where she's seemingly the last of her kind and formed a special bond with Kong and Monarch members. After the final episode of the first season, She's currently the Alpha Titan, succeeding Godzilla and currently helping Monarch expansion and her new home is Hollow Earth.
** In the pilot 4-part episodes (1 and 2), She has her Godzilla v Kong appearance and later episodes, Jia has her Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire appearance. This was the case of intentional aging in the show.
** The B. E. A. S. T. Glove is her primary weapon after she sustained a critical injury in her right arm by MechaGodzilla, She later acquired Kong's battle axe and a Whipslash similar to Skar King's.
** Her current height is 329 feet (105 meters) tall while as a 10-year-old in the first two episodes, she's 260+ feet (91 meters) tall while her former height as a younger child was 114 feet (31.7 meters) tall in the back-flash episode.
==== Monarch ====
* Dr. Ilene Andrews (voiced by Rebecca Hall) - the secondary protagonist of the series, Monarch's current director, anthropological linguist and Jia's adoptive mother who is willing to help her out and keep her safe.
* Dr. Nathan Lind (voiced by Alexander Skarsgard) - the Monarch geologist and chief cartographer who also works closely with Ilene and has second thoughts of helping Jia due to her immense size and warming up to her.
* Trapper (voiced by Dan Stevens) - Monarch's resident Titan veterinarian.
==== Supporting: ====
* Bernie Hayes (voiced by Brian Tyree Henry) - an anti-villainous conspiracy theorist who hosted the The Titan Truth Podcast and formerly worked for Apex Cybernetics as a technician and now for Monarch.
* Huston Brooks (voiced by Joe Morton) - TBA
* Lee Shaw (voiced by Kurt Russel) - TBA
* Rick Stanton (voiced by Bradley Whitford) - a crypto-sonographer working for Monarch.
* Ishiro Serizawa (voiced by Ken Watanabe) - the scientist and former director of Monarch who is the late father of the show's main villains
=== Antagonists ===
=== Main ===
=== Apex Cybernetics (Season 1 and 2): ===
* Walter Simmons/Mecha-King Ghidorah (voiced by Demian Bichir, while the creature sounds for Mecha-King Ghidorah is provided by Frank Welker, Rob Paulsen and Corey Burton) - the central antagonist of The Iwi Giant. He's the powerful CEO of the Apex Cybernetics and the father of Maia Simmons. Driven by a need to feed his ambitious ego and greed, Simmons in the face of the Iwi and the titans, sought of to be the one to re-establish humanity as the sole "Apex" on Earth with his company on top and to get rid of Jia, But after dying in a freak accident, His subconscious went to a mecha-version of the former Alpha Titan known as Mecha-Ghidorah and now he wants to personally kill Jia and the Iwi for shutting down most of his operations.
* Maia Simmons/Mecha-Godzilla (voiced by Eiza Gonzalez while the creature sounds for Mecha-Godzilla provided by Dee Bradley Baker) - the daughter of Walter Simmons and the second in command of Apex Cybernetics, after the events of The Iwi Giant: Titan Smash, Her subconscious is transferred into the rebuilt Mecha-Godzilla recreated by both Apex Cybernetics and RM Construction as a team project. 
* Ren Serizawa (voiced by Shun Oguri) - The secondary antagonist of the show. He is the estranged son of the late Ishiro Serizawa and the chief technology officer of Apex Cybernetics and the right-hand man of Walter and Maia Simmons.
* Brenda Holland (voiced by Dominique Topper) - the executive of Apex Cybernetics.
=== RM Construction (Season 2) ===
* Raymond Martin (voiced by Jonathan Frakes) - the head of RM Construction and a survivor of G-Day, driven by animosity towards all super-species, Martin sought out to wipe out the titans and the Iwi (including Jia) in order to establish humanity as the dominant species, This took him to hunting down the creatures and remaining Iwi one by one via technology and hunting.
* Mohan (voiced by Keivonn Montreal Woodard) - a young, deaf Nero (same age as Jia) who is forcefully adopted by Raymond and uses as a controlling living weapon (similar to how Skar King uses the crystal at the tip of his Whipslash to forcefully and painfully control Shimo) for killing all the superspecies and the love insert and current boyfriend of Jia.
=== The Harbingers of Ghidorah (Season 3) ===
* Kaltuu (voiced by Eka Darville) - the third and final antagonist of The Iwi Giant, he's is an corrupted Iwi who worshipped Ghirdorah and the head leader of The Harbingers of Ghidorah who sought to resurrect the extraterrestrial with the 8 Aztecs crystals with the help of army of Iwi and Great Apes with The Skar King, being the second-in-command and he implied to be a mass murderer.
== Titans and Superspecies ==
=== Heroic ===
* Kong: The overarching protagonist of The Iwi Giant (and one of the central protagonists of Season 2) and the king of Skull Island/Hollow Earth who has led the surviving Iwi to Hollow Earth and seen as their god/friend and the second Alpha Titan.
* Shimo: The anti-villain of The Iwi Giant and the former master of Skar King now Jia's second in command, current master and noble steed.
* Godzilla: The former Alpha Titan and King of the Monsters.
* Mothra: Reincarnated and now serves as Jia's third-in-command.
* Varan
* Behemoth
* Rodan
* Suko: A juvenile Great Ape Titan that is being mentored by Jia after she became the current Alpha Titan and eventually became her adoptive little brother.
* Doug
* Queen MUTO
* Amhuluk
=== Antagonistic: ===
* Frost Vark: A species of Alaskan mole-like Titans.
* Syclla: TBA
* Abaddon - The giant arachnid spider Titan who been terrorizing the Malekena civilization for an century, being the sworn enemy of Kong with minds of a psychopathic serial killer and a cunning criminal mastermind.
* Endopedes: A species of insectoid titans.
* Skar King: A simian Titan similar to King Kong who used a weapon known as The Whipslash with a crystal on the tip to control Shimo and enslave the surviving Iwi and Kong's species (The Great Apes).
* King Ghidorah/MechaGodzilla: The overarching antagonist of the series and the mortal arch-enemy of Godzilla and the Kong Squad who is responsible for the Iwi's near extinction and destruction of Skull Island and it's parts was remade into Jia's B.E.A.S.T. Glove.
* Camazotz: Resurrected through the Apex Cybernetics' enhancements and aligned with Mecha-Ghidorah.
** Hellswarm: Camazotz's henchmen.
* Skullcrawlers:
** Skull Devil: The Alpha of the Skullcrawlers that was killed by Kong.
* Skar King's Ion Dragon: 
** One-Eye 
=== Creatures of Skull Island: ===
* Warbats
* Skullcrawlers
* Leafwings
* Sker Buffalos
* Mother Longlegs
* Spore Mantis
=== Creatures and plants of Hollow Earth and Axis Mundi: ===
* Hollow Earth lizards
* Warbats
* Physcovultures
* Hellhawks
* Skullcrawlers
* Ions Dragons
* Brambleboars
* Drownvipers
* Hollow Earth Wasps-hoppers
* Wart Dogs
* Tree Mimics
* Uranus tree-flower traps: Large carnivorous tree-like plants that have flower-like mouths with rocky teeth and can eat titans (both titans and the sub-titans).
* Death Jackals
* Frost Varks
* Rockclaws
* Spineprowlers
=== Sub-titanius ===
Sub-titans or Sub-Homo Titanius are giant humanoid titans that have tremendously physical abilities (like strength, agility, durability, stamina, endurance, reflexes, senses, leaping, speed, accelerated regeneration and mobility), extended lifespan/longevity, telepathy, genius-level intellect, connection to other titans, other special abilities that help them stand out and enormous sizes.
* The Iwis: tribe of giant nonverbal, peaceful sub-titans with markings indigenous to Skull Island and Hollow Earth who communicate by using body language and facial expressions, They see Kong (of Skull Island) and Mothra (of Malenka) as gods and true friends.
* The Neros: inhabitants of Hollow Earth sea temples, They are descended from an enhanced group of giant nonverbal sub-titans from the Indian Ocean who consumed underwater herb embed with Hollow Earth energy, They have the abilities to breathe both on land and water at the exact same time and freeze everything/generate frostbite in their presence, They see Godzilla as their true god.
=== Headcanons voice actors for the titans and sub-titans: ===
* Liyou Abere (Lyla in the Loop, The Boys TV show) - Jia
* Christopher Judge (God of War games, Stargate, MacGyver, Final Space) - Kong
* Chris Hemsworth (MCU, Extraction films, Transformers One) - Godzilla
* Robert Costanzo (DCAU/Arkhamverse franchise) - Doug
* Dante Basco (American Dragon: Jake Long, Avatar franchise) - Rodan
* Iman Vellani (MCU) - Shimo
* Elijah Lindo (Lyla in the Loop, Cocomelon Lane) - Suko
* Mark Hamil (DCAU/Arkhamverse franchise, Avatar franchise) - The Skar King
** Kevin Durand (Kingdom of The Apes, Lost, X-Men franchise)- One-Eye
* Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones, Ice Age franchise) - Skar King's Ion Dragon
* Angela Bassett (MCU, Soul, Orion and the Dark, Olympus Has Fallen) - Mothra
* Chukwudi Iwuji (MCU, DCEU), Keith David (Gargoyles, Princess and the Frog, Spawn) and Paterson Jopesh (Wonka)/Michael Ironside (Splinter Cell, Total Recall) - King Ghidorah/Mechagodzilla
* Cate Blanchett (MCU, Boderlands, How To Train Your Dragon franchise, The Hobbit/Lords of the Rings) - Scylla
* Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice, 2 Batman movies; Batman and Batman Returns, MCU, Cars franchise, Birdman) - Abaddon
== Locations ==
* Skull Island/Outpost 236 (Jia's former home)
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* Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Outpost 58
* Egypt
* Sedona, Scotland
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* Iwi Monitoring center, Hollow Earth
* Malenka, Hollow Earth's subterranean realm
* Monarch's Vile Vortex facility, Barbadaos
* Moscow, Russia
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* Axis Mundi (the forest and overgrown jungle-like environment) 
** RM Construction headquarters and furnace
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* Apex Cybernetics headquarters, Hong Kong
== The differences between the show and main Monsterverse timeline ==
* The Iwi in this timeline are on-par with Godzilla/Kong in terms of strength and size.
* In this show's timeline, Ilene is the current director of Monarch, succeeding Emma Russell.
* Kong still protects the Iwi despite their massive sizes.
* Monarch's technology and security was given an upgrade with more funding from the government.
* Kong's design is an amalgamation of his Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, minus the additional scars from the Hong Kong battle against Godzilla.
* Jia acts like both a Titanius Kong and feral child in terms of personality and traits due to training by Kong himself but still retains her movie counterpart's personality and Iwi heritage.
** She acts more reluctant than Kong did when she's forced to leave Skull Island.
** Jia can't understand human idioms but still intelligent.
* Monarch and Apex Cybernetics are now considered arch-rivals due to the conflicting beliefs and ideology in titans.
* Kong didn't gain the BEAST glove and passes his ancestral axe to Jia due to her connection with the titans
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== Episodes ==
=== Season 1 ===
* Episodes 1-4: New Beginnings - TBA
* Episode 5: Rumble in the jungle - TBA
* Episode 6: The Apex Predator - TBA
* Episode 7: Jaws - TBA
* Episode 8: The frostbite - TBA
* Episode 9: Temptations - TBA
* Episode 10: Thrill of the Hunt - TBA
* Episode 11: The Edge - TBA
* Episode 12-13: The New Titan War - TBA
=== Season 2 ===
* TBA
=== Season 3 ===
* TBA
== Development ==
=== Art style ===
The stylized animated art-style with the character likeness based on the actors from the Monsterverse films and TV shows inspired by Jurassic World: Camp while the other animals and the titans retain their live-action designs as seen in the movies. 
For Jia, Iwis and other sub-titans like Neros, The creators and animators study the movements of Brachiosaurus of Jurassic Park, gorillas, elephants and even Kong and the Great Apes to capture their large and imposing scales but their harmless and peaceful personalities.
== Triva ==
* This is the second Apple TV+ Monsterverse series succeeding Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
* This is the first animated Monsterverse TV series to be set in an alternate reality.
* This is the second animated Monsterverse series after Skull Island.
* Season 3: 
* There are a couple of references and callbacks to other past Monsterverse films such as Jia's morning routine inside the dome, Godzilla's entrance, etc.
* It is confirmed to be a spiritual successor to Godzilla: The Animated Series: as both share the similarities (Jia in this timeline and Zilla Jr., giants being adopted by Dr. Ilene and Niko, small scientists helping Monarch and HEAT monitors monster activity).
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