Titanus Scylla

**Scylla** (スキュラ Sukyura), also dubbed **Titanus Scylla**, is a giant armored cephalopod daikaiju created by Legendary Pictures that first appeared in the 2019 film, *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*, as a minor Titan that obeys Ghidorah and later Godzilla.

## Design

Scylla is a giant armored cephalopod, with brown coloration, and six very long, bony, and lightly haired legs, each with two joints and ending with a claw with small spikes growing out of the first joints. She also has a plated mantle with ten tendrils and a pair of orange eyes.

## Origins

*"In Homer's Odyssey, Scylla is a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart, Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other - so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass dangerously close to Scylla and vice versa. The coastal town of Scilla in Calabria takes its name from the monster and is said to be the home of the nymph. The idiom "between Sylla and Charybdis" has come to mean "being forced to choose between two similarly dangerous situations.*

*Scylla is an armored tank of a Titan that can quickly change direction and maneuver sideways to throw off the attacks of opposing Titans in battle, driving its massive claws into the earth like six seismic mortars. Titanus Scylla is a scavenger with a biological imperative to feed on the carcasses of dead Titans and process their nutrients into a deadly bacteria that can poison water sources. As such, standard-post combat protocol calls for Monarch Pathology teams to immediately begin breaking down any Titan carcasses after engagements as quickly as possible. It has the ability to abandon its shell and burrow into a rock face or use cobbled together parts of sunken battleships as replacement exoskeletal armor until she can grow a new one to protect its tender invertebrate muscle tissue. With its long and dexterous facial proboscis, it can pull prey into its maw and consume from above. After digesting the flesh, the remains and sinew are regurgitated into a field of scattered bones arranged into distinct piles described in ancient mythology texts as "rows of dried skeleton wheat". Mythological evidence has been discovered that connects Scylla to Easter Island with analysis suggesting the mysterious statues that guard the shores may have been erected by ancients as megalithic scarecrows to keep it away."*

-Cryptid Profile

## History

#### Ancient Greece

Scylla, according to Greek mythology, lived in and near the sea, killing sailors from ships that came too close to her.

#### Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Scylla is in a Monarch containment facility in a desert near oil rigs in Sedona, Arizona, being watched by Monarch and labelled "Titanus Scylla" in Godzilla: King of Monsters. Scylla is awoken by the call of her new alpha, Ghidorah, and destroys the oil rig she was locked beneath after her file is briefly checked by Mark Russell. Scylla is sent on a hunt with the other Titans (excluding Godzilla, Mothra, and Kong), and she is shown using her legs to destroy buildings in Phoenix with the other Titans.

Scylla is one of the Titans to make the trek when Madison Russell activates the ORCA in Boston, but she is unable to make it across America in time to rescue her alpha, and thus arrives to find Godzilla has killed Ghidorah. Scylla, Behemoth, Methuselah, and the Queen MUTO join Rodan in kneeling down to Godzilla, her new alpha.

Scylla's Greek origins were later confirmed by Monarch, and it is clear that Scylla has become one of humanity's most popular and well-known Titans. Scylla has a favourable impact on the environment, according to studies, by producing enough liquid nitrogen to slow the melting of ice in Antarctica and stabilise the world sea.

#### Godzilla: Dominion

Scylla is first seen assaulting a nuclear-weapons-carrying ship off the shores of Savannah, Georgia, before Godzilla fends her off and forces her to retreat to an island near the tip of South America, where she hibernates in its cold lake. Godzilla sends her, along with the other Titans, into hibernation.

#### Godzilla vs. Kong

Scylla remains asleep during Godzilla's search for Ghidorah's remains, which were desecrated by Apex Cybernetics, and fights Kong and subsequently Mechagodzilla as instructed by her alpha. Monarch labelled her status as "Defeated" because they didn't know the reason for her later inactivity.