Skullcrawler

A skullcrawler is a lizard-like creature from Skull Island. They are around 100 ft. long and have two legs and prehensile tongues.

## Physical description

### *Kong: Skull Island*

A juvenile Skullcrawler is first seen feasting on a dead Sker Buffalo by Kong. Kong prepares to confront the creature when he is ambushed by a second one from behind. After a quick battle, Kong ends up subduing and killing both Skullcrawlers by stuffing one's head into the ground, breaking its neck, and smashing the other's skull with a devastating stomp.

Another juvenile Skullcrawler ambushes Jack Chapman and a Spore Mantis, but went for Chapman and ate him alive while the Spore Mantis managed to escape. The same Skullcrawler then shows up in the boneyard and regurgitates Chapman's skeletal remains. When William Randa attempts to make his camera work, he is devoured by the Skullcrawler, who then tries to attack the group. Randa's camera starts to flash inside the predator, which starts to aggravate the monster.

The Skullcrawler then starts chasing Mason Weaver but the group retaliates using flamethrowers. The creature batts a crew member with its tail onto one of the Kong skulls, causing his backpack to detonate several canisters of toxic gas. The Skullcrawler starts to grow more relentless and disturbs a flock of resting Leafwings, which then turn their attention to attacking the group. James Conrad manages to kill some of the flying creatures using Hank Marlow's katana. The Skullcrawler then sets its eyes on Conrad and Reg Slivko, but Weaver rescues them by tossing Conrad's lighter at one of the subterranean vents, creating an explosion that kills the Skullcrawler on the spot.

The dangerous Skull Devil is awakened due to seismic explosives used to kill Kong and after he is incapacitated by Packard, she lets her presence be known by emerging out from the water. Then she attacke the weakened Kong, quickly rendering the ape unconscious before turning her attention to the humans. As she chases Conrad and the other survivors of the research expedition sent to Skull Island, Earl Cole tries to sacrifice himself along with the beast by arming several grenades before having the massive creature try to eat him. However, the monster doesn't take the bait and batts him against a mountainside as the grenades went off, killing him.

As the Skull Devil finally reaches the rest of the crew in a marsh, Kong appears in time to stun the giant reptile with a large boulder, allowing the crew to run to safety. The Skull Devil then returns her focus to Kong, pouncing on him and biting his throat. Kong and Skull Devil continue to brutally wrestle, pummel, and bite each other until the Skull Devil throws Kong into a shipwreck with her tail, where the ape is entangled in the chains. With Kong subdued in the wreck, the Skull Devil is about to kill him when she's fired upon by Houston Brooks and the other humans. She then returns her focus to the humans and approaches them, giving Kong the chance to free himself from the chains.

As she approaches the crew once more, the monster's right eye was destroyed by a flare fired by Weaver, and Conrad lures her away from the crew on their boat. This allows Kong to use and swing the propeller of a wrecked ship at his adversary like a medieval flail, which catches the beast in the shoulder and allows Kong to pull the Skull Devil back toward him and resume their fight. Kong continues to wrestle the creature and throws her into the side of a cliff, causing Weaver to fall into the water below.

As the Skull Devil continues to attack Kong, the ape uppercut her with the ship's propeller, slicing the monster's throat wide open and seemingly killing her. As Kong saves Weaver from drowning, the Skull Devil pounces on Kong once more. After coiling her tail around Kong, she wraps her tongue around the ape's arm, pulling it down her gullet in an attempt to devour Weaver. After a brief struggle, Kong tears out the creature's internal organs through her mouth, killing her instantly and avenging the deaths of his parents and his race.

### *Skull Island: The Birth of Kong*

The Skullcrawlers' history on Skull Island is revealed in Riccio's visions. Riccio says that the Skullcrawlers attempted to invade Skull Island and waged war against Kong's ancestors. When the Iwis first arrived on Skull Island, the Skullcrawlers had wiped out all but the two strongest apes, which turned out to be Kong's parents.

After the 1973 Monarch expedition, Skullcrawlers still inhabit Skull Island, but their population is controlled by Kong, and none of them have grown to the size of the Skull Devil. In another vision, Riccio explained that the Skullcrawlers continued their fight against Kong's parents.

One day, a pack of Skullcrawlers attempted to kill Kong's Mother while she was in labor, but Kong's Father kept them at bay. After Kong was born, his mother hid him in a cave and sealed it with rocks before she rushed to aid her mate. Kong then watched as the Skullcrawlers slaughtered his parents.

### *Skull Island series*

Sometime in the 1990's a medium-sized Skullcrawler covered in unique ornate spikes pursued a young woman through the forests of Skull Island. After cornering the woman against a mountain face, the Skullcrawler prepared to devour her, but was suddenly impaled through the back of its skull with a sharpened tree trunk by Kong, killing it instantly.

### *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*

In the novelization of the film, a horde of Skullcrawlers attempt to leave Skull Island upon hearing Ghidorah's call, but they are stopped by Kong before they can do so.

### *Godzilla vs. Kong*

A massive adult Skullcrawler, codenamed Number 10, is held captive by Apex Cybernetics to be used as a test subject for Mechagodzilla to kill, as well as numerous Skullcrawler eggs that are being transported from Pensacola, Florida, to Hong Kong. The creature breaks free from its containment cell and begins chasing after Madison Russell after she, Josh Valentine, and Bernie Hayes had wandered into the facility, but is swiftly grabbed and restrained by Mechagodzilla. The Mecha then dislocates Number 10's limbs before slicing it in half using the A-74 proton scream.

### *Monarch: Legacy of Monsters*

The carcass of a dead Skullcrawler is seen on the rocky shoreline of Skull Island after Bill Randa sent his backpack adrift.

### *Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong*

After winding up in the MonsterVerse, the Legion of Doom find themselves on Skull Island where they come across a particularly large Skullcrawler which is consequently attacked by Kong. During the battle, the Legion of Doom takes shelter in a Monarch outpost (save Grodd who stays behind to worship Kong as a god).