Mire Squid

The Mire Squid is a giant cephalopod Kaiju that will appear in Kong: Skull Island.

Appearance
The Mire Squid resembles a giant red octopus with eight long arms.

Personality
The Mire Squid is an ambush predator that lurks in the water.

Origins
The Mire Squid is a giant cephalopod that exhibits a hybrid of squid/octopus physiology. Initial hypotheses suggest this lake-dwelling creature is a distant cousin of the Giant Pacific octopus, though with some notable evolutionary mutations. Again we see evidence of the superthermal gigantism unique to this environment, though a much more detailed geothermal study will be required if we are to understand the environmental factors which have led to the growth of such enormous lifeforms. Like other octopoda, the creature exhibits deimatic behavior when threatened, expelling a thick cloud of black ink that is heated within the furnace-like temperatures of its mantal chambers. In this way, the Mire Squid conceals itself from attacking predators while boiling them alive.

Its beak-like jaws, usually hidden within the rubbery flesh of its huge, bulbous head, are mounted within a complex muscle bed that enables them to rotate like fan blades. Hunting beneath the surface, the creature will swirl these jaws into a centrifuge, stirring up a vortex-like whirlpool that sucks prey down into its gaping maw.

Kong: Skull Island
The Mire Squid will encounter and battle Kong in water.

Ink
The Mire Squid can expel a thick cloud of heated black ink to defend itself when threatened.

Physical abilities
The Mire Squid's multiple arms are strong enough to restrain massive vertebrates that are many times heavier than itself such as Kong.

Whirlpool
The Mire Squid can rotates its jaw like fan blades to create a whirlpool in the surrounding water in order to pull in and swallow its prey.

Trivia

 * Kong's battle with the Mire Squid may have been a reference to his brief fight with the Giant Octopus in King Kong vs. Godzilla.