Alan Jonah

**Alan Jonah** is a mercenary leader who appeared in the 2019 Legendary Pictures film, *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*.

Formerly a British Army Colonel and MI6 agent, Jonah bore witness to the worst of human nature during his expansive military career. Mankind's endless cruelty and capacity for violence drove Jonah to resent his fellow man and finally defect from MI6 in 2004. Influenced by revolutionary propaganda, Jonah became a mercenary and eco-terrorist leader, developing a strange preoccupation with the Titans. This led Jonah to attempt to enter a MUTO dig site in 2005, only to be caught and detained in Pakistan. Still, Jonah proved resourceful and continuously escaped custody over the following decade as he carried out an unclear plan to use the Titans to end humanity's reign on the Earth. Designated a Class-1 eco-terror threat by Monarch, his current whereabouts are unknown.

## History

#### *Godzilla: King of the Monsters*

At some point following their two meetings in 2014, Monarch scientist Emma Russell contacted Jonah and hatched a plan to save humanity from itself. In 2019, Jonah and his mercenaries stormed Monarch Outpost 61 in China's Yunnan Province, abducting Emma and her daughter Madison and killing most of the Monarch staff there. They commandeered an Osprey and flew to Outpost 32 in Antarctica with Emma, Madison, and Emma's sonar device called the ORCA in tow. After landing outside the base, Jonah's troops exited and gunned down the Monarch guards. They made their way to the central chamber of the outpost: a wall of ice containing the frozen three-headed Titan known only as Monster Zero. Jonah asked Emma if she had everything she needed, and when she replied in the affirmative he told her to get started. Emma began calibrating the ORCA to Monster Zero's bioacoustics as Jonah's troops began boring into the ice with drills and planting explosives. Once Monarch learned of the ORCA's location and headed to Antarctica aboard the flying fortress known as the USS *Argo*, Jonah began to escort Emma and Madison out of the base. Jonah's troops ambushed G-Team when they breached the facility, but Emma's husband Mark charged in after them after seeing Emma and Madison on a video feed. He finally came face-to-face with them on a catwalk in front of the wall of ice. G-Team's Colonel Diane Foster shot and killed Asher, Jonah's right-hand man, as he held the detonator for the charges. Mark held Jonah at gunpoint and told Emma and Madison to come to him. Shockingly, they both stayed behind as Emma picked up the detonator. She apologized to Mark before telling him to run and pressing the detonator. The charges in the ice exploded, causing the ice to crack and the outpost to crumble. Emma and Madison escaped with Jonah in an elevator while Mark stayed behind to help G-Team escape. Emma boarded Jonah's Osprey which began to take off as the ice below split open and Outpost 32 sank into the fissure. Once the ORCA was fully calibrated, Jonah ordered Emma to wake up Monster Zero. She activated the device, which emitted a series of sonar pulses which reached into the ice below. Monster Zero's three heads gradually emerged from the ice and saw the members of G-Team before them. After G-Team opened fire, Monster Zero broke through the ice and began to attack them. Madison grabbed the ORCA from her mother and tries to use it to stop Monster Zero before he could attack the Osprey that Mark was on. Emma and Jonah's mercenaries seized it back from her, but Emma used it to halt Monster Zero for a split second before he destroyed the Monarch Osprey. Jonah's Osprey then escaped as Godzilla emerged from the ice to confront his ancient enemy.

Their next target was Isla de Mara, Mexico, site of Monarch Outpost 56 and the slumbering Titan known as Rodan. In a broadcast to the *Argo*, Emma explained her plan: awaken the Titans and allow them to restore the natural order before humanity destroyed the planet. In the bunker where they were holed up with Jonah and his troops, Madison begged her mother to stop. Jonah was infuriated, stating that Emma knew exactly what was going to happen because she approached him, and ordered her to activate the ORCA. Emma tried to ask Jonah to give the nearby civilians more time to evacuate, but one of his men replied that they needed to act immediately. Emma apologized to Madison and activated the ORCA, with the sonar being broadcast through speakers at Outpost 56. Rodan emerged from the crater of the volcano and soon challenged Monster Zero, only to be swiftly defeated. Godzilla confronted the three-headed monster next, ripping off his left head, only to be incapacitated by the U.S. military's Oxygen Destroyer. After regenerating his missing head, Monster Zero perched on top of the volcano and shrieked out to the heavens, his call serving as a mass awakening for all of Earth's Titans, who began to destroy everything in their path. Jonah and Emma observed the mayhem on a screen in their bunker, with Jonah remarking that he was under the impression they would awaken each Titan individually. Emma replied that she wasn't responsible for this, prompting Jonah to look at Monster Zero on the screen and declare "Long live the king."

Madison, grasping the horror of what her mother had unleashed, took it upon herself to set things right. After overhearing her mother discuss with Jonah the potential to use the ORCA to control the Titans, she stole it and escaped the bunker near Boston where they were hiding. She activated the ORCA in Fenway Park, ending the rampages of all the Titans except Monster Zero, now named King Ghidorah, and Rodan. Upon realizing Madison had taken the ORCA, Emma set out to rescue her. Before she could board a jeep to leave, Jonah and his troops surrounded her. Jonah mocked Emma's preoccupation with finding her daughter over their mission, only for her to draw a gun on him. Jonah told his troops to let her leave, as they already had everything they needed. In the end, a resurgent Godzilla destroyed King Ghidorah in Boston, with Emma sacrificing herself and the ORCA to distract the three-headed monster at a crucial moment. Following the battle, Jonah and his men traveled to Isla de Mara, where local fishermen had dredged up Ghidorah's severed left head from the waters still polluted by the Oxygen Destroyer. Jonah observed the head before declaring that he and his men would "take it."