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The latest look at season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters gives fans of the Apple TV series everything they want. There are glimpses at all the characters introduced in the first season, including Kurt and Wyatt Russell as the older and younger versions of military man Lee Shaw, Anna Sawai as kaiju survivor Cate Randa, and Kiersey Clemons as Apex defector May Olowe-Hewitt. But the big draw for everything in Legendary Pictures‘s MonsterVerse is, of course, the monsters, and that’s where things get interesting.

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Throughout the trailer, we get glimpses of the new big bad of the show, a monster previously identified as Titan X. The trailer still doesn’t fully reveal this new monster, which means we viewers can’t really identify him. We know that Titan X is even larger than King Kong and Godzilla and at least spends significant time in the sea. We also see that it has tentacles and horns, including a pair of horns on its snout.

That’s not enough to tell us for sure who Titan X might be, but it is enough to let us speculate wildly… at least until Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 arrives and secures the creature’s identity.

King Ghidorah

Titan X, of course, makes us think of Monster X aka King Ghidorah. King Ghidorah is one of the major enemy monsters across several eras of Godzilla, and has already made its presence known in the MonsterVerse, having appeared in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and played a part in the construction of Mechagodzilla in Godzilla vs. Kong. In Godzilla Final Wars, Ghidorah becomes Keizer Ghidorah, a bigger monster with horns and a bifurcated tail, all of which tracks with what we’ve seen for Titan X.

Titanus Na Kika

The shot of Titan X’s silhouette swimming through the water brings to mind another mythological monster, the mighty Kraken. Although it hasn’t had a lot of attention, a Kraken does exist in the MonsterVerse, in the form of Titanus Na Kika. Na Kika has never appeared on screen, but it was mentioned in the King of the Monsters official novelization and showed up in the prequel comic Godzilla Dominion. While those depictions mostly track with what we see in the Monarch trailers, they do describe Na Kika as one of the less aggressive Titans, making a clash with Kong unlikely.

Titanus Leviathan

As you might pick up from the description of Na Kika, MonsterVerse tends to take existing monsters from regional mythologies and work them into the universe. Such is the case with Titanus Leviathan, a variation of the creature mentioned in the Biblical book of Job. While a photo of Leviathan shows up in Kong: Skull Island, the image is just a riff on the famous picture of the Loch Ness Monster. King of the Monsters shows Leviathan’s name on a military map, and the novelization of the movie gives a little more information. But basically, all we know about Leviathan is that it’s some sort of sea monster which, you know, is exactly what we see in the trailer.

Dagahra

Godzilla is a long-running franchise that has reinvented itself time and time again, and has given the world tons of fan-favorite monsters that only true nerds know about. Case in point, Dagahra, the water-based dragon kaiju from 1997’s Rebirth of Mothra 2. Dagahra comes from the sea, has a plenty of horns, and has a large tail that could work like a tendril. That said, we don’t really see any giant wings on Titan X, and that is kind of an important part of Dagahra… Still, until we hear otherwise, we can still hope that Dagahra will show up.

Biollante

We see a lot of tentacles coming off of Titan X in that trailer, and when it comes to tentacles, nobody beats Biollante. A plant monster created by splicing Godzilla’s cells with those of flowers (and also the mad scientist’s dead daughter, because of course it is) Biollante first appeared in 1989’s Godzilla vs. Biollante and has been a favorite among fans. Biollante’s glowing center and sharp jaws do match what we see of Titan X, and the water environment would suit a giant plant monster. But it still feels like a stretch to say that Biollante is Titan X.