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. She reappears in the graphic novel Godzilla: Dominion, where she battles Godzilla.

# Name

"Scylla" refers to the female sea monster from Greek mythology, the daughter of Typhon. In other versions, Scylla was once a beautiful sea-nymph who was transformed into a hideous creature by the sorceress goddess Circe so that the latter could have the sea god Glaucus for herself. Monarch later confirmed that Titanus Scylla was named by the Ancient Greeks, who interpreted her as a female sea monster. It may also refer to the *Scylla* genus of swimming crabs, as parts of Scylla greatly resemble crabs, particularly her legs.

"Scylla" may be derived from Spiga, another giant spider daikaiju. Scylla also shares a near-similar name with Nerscylla, a giant spider monster from the *Monster Hunter*franchise, whose name was also derived from the Greek monster. Since Scylla is inspired by Cthulhu and resembles it in some aspects of her appearance, her name may also relate to Cthylla, Cthulhu's daughter.

# Appearance

Scylla is a giant armored cephalopod, and is brown coloration with six long segmented legs that are sparsely covered in hairs. Each of these legs possess two joints and end in a massive pointed claw covered in small spikes. She also has a plated mantle with ten tentacles and a pair of orange eyes. Most notably, she has a massive shell that curves inward like the shell of an ammonite.

# 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.*