Muto Prime/Jinshin-Mushi

Muto Prime origins

MUTO Prime is an ancient superspecies that lived alongside Godzilla and other Titans. While a MUTO Prime could theoretically implant its parasitic larvae into any Titan, MUTO Primes preferably targeted Godzilla's species due to their size and radioactivity. Under the extreme danger of targeting Godzilla's species, MUTO Prime had to evolve to become the "perfect matchup" to them. As a result, MUTO Prime became "custom built" by evolution to counter attacks from the members of Godzilla's species specifically, and became exceptionally dangerous to them. Monarch scientist Dr. Emma Russell theorizes that MUTO Prime is either the adult form of a female MUTO or the last survivor of a MUTO plague which caused a mass extinction in prehistoric times. At the same time a group of ancient Phoenicians traveled to Japan, MUTO Prime battled a Godzilla-like Titan known as Dagon by the ancients and later designated Species 5146_Adam by Monarch. MUTO Prime prevailed and infected Dagon with its spores, eventually killing it before its body became buried in an underground cavern in the Philippines. In 1999, a mining company unwittingly excavated Dagon's skeleton, allowing one of the spores to hatch into the larval male MUTO, while the other dormant spore was taken to the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, where it finally matured into the female MUTO in 2014. According to Godzilla: Aftershock writer Arvid Nelson, MUTO Prime has fought other members of Godzilla's species in the past,defeating many of them

Muto prime personality

Monarch classifies MUTO Prime's behavior as that of a "destroyer," As a prehistoric parasite, MUTO Prime's sole goal is to seek out any suitable hosts to infect with its parasitic spores. In 2014, MUTO Prime eventually gained Godzilla's attention and allowed him to chase it to exhaust him in a hit-and-run tactic. It displayed great brutality in its fights with Dagon and Godzilla, knocking them around with its blows and utilizing its sonic roar on the latter to shatter his dorsal plates. After being lured by the sound of its young, MUTO Prime responded with great hostility.

Muto Prime design

MUTO Prime has the same basic body shape and appearance as its offspring. However, it is considerably larger and possesses a hardened outer shell along with razor-sharp back spines. MUTO Prime's legs are gigantic and muscular, as are its forelimbs, which it uses to knuckle-walk. MUTO Prime's skin is primarily smooth and black, save for its spiked forelimbs, which are orange due to the lava-like blood flowing through them. Its red veins are hotter streams of blood

muto prime history

MUTO Prime first revealed itself in 2014 when it attacked a United States military base in Guam, following a series of earthquakes which traveled there from Japan. The creature emerged from the ground underneath the base and tore its way through it before feeding on a nuclear submarine just offshore. Godzilla emerged from the sea to fight it, but MUTO Prime punched him in the face before escaping back underground through the crater where it had initially emerged. Monarch's Dr. Emma Russell was called by the Japanese government to a Shinto shrine in Kyushu, accompanied by Tarkan Cavusgolu of Monarch's Crisis Response Unit and Miles Atherton of the San Francisco Commission. There, they discovered a massive crater that had opened when the earthquakes first began. Emma and Tarkan began descending into the crater using Katatsumuri gear, but MUTO Prime appeared inside the crater, tossing aside tons of bedrock as it burrowed. Tarkan managed to escape the crater with Emma before they were crushed, while MUTO Prime vanished. The priest at the shrine explained that MUTO Prime was a creature spoken of in ancient myth known as Jinshin-Mushi, the Dragon Beetle, an aspect of the earthquake and rain god Jinshin-Namazu. He explained that the temple was dedicated to Raijin, the lord of thunder. When Raijin tires, he explained, it is said that Jinshin-Mushi rises. MUTO Prime next appeared in the Barents Sea, destroying a Russian nuclear submarine before being attacked by Godzilla. The beast again punched Godzilla with its massive fist before swimming away. Meanwhile, Emma, Tarkan, and Atherton traveled to an old Monarch outpost in Siberia, which contained a crater similar to the ones MUTO Prime had opened in Guam and Kyushu. Inside, they discovered countless MUTO eggs that were seemingly already hatched. MUTO Prime appeared once again at the Athena II Nuclear Power Plant in France, tearing open the reactor before Godzilla emerged from the sea and fired his atomic breath at it. The

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enough to emit a sonic roar which shattered his dorsal fins. Godzilla collapsed, and MUTO Prime once again extended its ovipositors. However, Emma successfully activated the Orca prototype, which caused MUTO Prime to hesitate just long enough for Godzilla to recover and lift MUTO Prime onto his back. Godzilla unleashed a powerful pulse of atomic energy from his shattered dorsal fins, launching MUTO Prime into the air, severing some of its limbs, and sending it crashing back to Earth. As MUTO Prime lay on its back, Godzilla quickly walked over to it and stomped on its head, killing it.