Titanus Methuselah

**Methuselah** (メトシェラ Metoshera), or Titanus Methuselah, is a huge animal-plant-rock hybrid daikaiju developed by Legendary Pictures. He first debuted in the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters as a lesser Titan who obeys Ghidorah and then Godzilla.

## Design

Methuselah is a quadruped with a forest growing on his rocky, mountainous back, white eyes with no pupils, and a mouth full of huge, razor-sharp fangs. He has enormous horns that twist inwards that grow down from the top of his head. He has clawed forelimbs and hoofed hindlimbs. Methuselah has a serpentine tail as well.

## Origins

*"Methuselah is a biblical patriarch from the Book of Genesis and is part of the genealogy linking Adam to Noah. Said to have died at the age of 969, he lived the longest of all the figures mentioned in the Bible. His name has become synonymous with longevity. Some scholars believe that Methuselah serves the symbolic function of linking the Creation and the Flood/Apocalypse.*

*A Titan sentinel with the power to camouflage, Methuselah can remain hidden in plain sight, able to seamlessly blend into the horizon of any rocky environment as a mountain range, a glacier, even earning the nickname "Archie" among some in the Monarch ranks for its time spent as a derelict island in a remote Canadian archipelago. Disguised by forests of vegetation that have claimed its rocky exterior from centuries of dormancy, Methuselah uses its mountainous body as a shield and sanctuary to protect or relocate entire populations from environmental catastrophes and Titan attacks. While lacking offensive elemental powers, Methuselah is a lumbering tank, able to withstand a heavy barrage of attacks and becoming a granite battleship that bulldozes Titan opponents in combat. Methuselah is the sleeping giant more humans have unknowingly seen throughout history, as it waited patiently for the call to rise."*

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## History

#### Middle ages

Methuselah, according to tradition, demolished a village in Munich, then slept on the ruins, where a forest grew on him and he was mistaken for a mountain until Monarch discovered his true roots.

#### Godzilla: King of the Monsters

The Titan is named "Titanus Methuselah" and is held in Monarch Outpost 67 in Munich, Germany. Several x-rays are taken of him, one of which is briefly examined by Mark Russell when Methuselah's file is browsed. Due to the call of the new alpha, Ghidorah, Methuselah awakens from his rest. Following his new alpha's orders, Methuselah and his new pack begin hunting on Earth, assaulting a nearby railway in Munich.

Despite being on the other side of the world when Madison Russell activates the ORCA in Boston, Methuselah is one of the Titans who make the journey. Methuselah can't get to Boston fast enough, whether he's swimming or journeying through a Hollow Earth route. After Godzilla kills Ghidorah, Methuselah then bows down to Godzilla, recognising him as his new alpha, with Rodan, Scylla, Behemoth, and the Queen MUTO.

#### Godzilla: Dominion

Though he doesn't appear in the graphic novel, Methuselah it apperars in a red-tinted collage of monsters in the start of the graphic novel. It also said that Methuselah, alongside other Titans, are sent into dormancy by Godzilla.

#### Godzilla vs. Kong

Methuselah remains dormant during Godzilla's search for Ghidorah's remains that desecrated by Apex Cybernetics and fight against Kong and later, Mechagodzilla as per his alpha's instruction. As Monarch didn't know the reason of his later inactivity, they label his status as "Defeated".