Abaddon

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Overview

Gallery

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Biological Information
Species	Titanus Abaddon
Height	323 feet
Status	Alive
Affiliation Information
Allies	Godzilla
Enemies	Ghidorah † Monarch Kong David Martin Omisha Bhat †
Relationships	Plague Weavers (Offspring)
Controlled by	Ghidorah † (formerly) Godzilla (currently)
Production Information
First appearance	Kong: Survivor Instinct
Latest appearance	MonsterVerse Declassified

Abaddon, also dubbed Titanus Abaddon, is a giant arachnid Titan in the MonsterVerse created by Legendary Pictures who was introduced in the 2019 film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, as a name briefly seen on a monitor. It makes its first full appearances in the 2024 video game Kong: Survivor Instinct and the 2025 graphic novel MonsterVerse Declassified.

Name

"Abaddon" (also known as "Apollyon" by the Greeks) is a Biblical Fallen Angel, sometimes known as the Angel of Death, the Angel of Destruction, the Angel of the Bottomless Pit, or the Angel of the Abyss. He is notably mentioned as the king of an army of locusts. Abaddon's name translates to "Destruction" or "Doom" in Hebrew. It also translates to "Eternal Tooth" in Latin and Greek.

Design

Appearance

Abaddon is a gigantic arachnid-like creature with several unusual traits. Its head is adorned with eight pale teal eyes and mammalian jaws armed with massive peg-like teeth and two long white fangs. Abaddon stands upon eight fleshy pale red legs covered in a sparse coating of light gray hair and ending in massive chitinous spikes. It possesses a dark gray abdomen and, most notably, a gray cephalothorax resembling a human skull.

Roar

Abaddon produces chitters and shrill screeches.

Personality

Abaddon is a highly aggressive Titan and will attack other creatures on sight. It will also use the remains of its victims to deter potential rivals. Abaddon's aggressive nature has led to Monarch classifying it as a "Destroyer". Abaddon also prefers humans as its favorite prey.

Origins

On a Monarch archaeology expedition into the caverns beneath the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, an ancient Incan inscription was found. The words warned of the arachnid creature immortalized in the Nazca Lines covered onto the surface above: an ancient pictogram that has mystified historians for centuries. Abaddon can hide beneath the surface, motionless for years or even centuries, remaining completely undetected. Deep earth scanning of the vile vortices reveal a Titan spider den with an elephant skeleton partially cocooned on a gigantic spider web, acting as both a prey snare and a warning to rivals not to proceed further.

― Kong: Survivor Instinct Monarch Creature Profile

An eternal phobia from the human condition made manifest, the apex arachnid Titanus Abaddon has only been recently confirmed by Monarch scientists. On one of the original Monarch archaeology expeditions into the caverns beneath the Nazca Desert in Southern Peru, an ancient Incan inscription was roughly translated as: “You cannot hide. Abaddon's malevolence sees with eight all-knowing eyes.” The words alluded to the same arachnoid figure immortalized on the surface above in the Nazca Lines geoglyphs that had mystified historians for centuries. Once the Titan had awakened, other forewarnings throughout history became unmistakable—in the New Testament Book of Revelation, an angel called Abaddon is described as "Destroyer," the angel of the abyss, and as the king of a plague of locusts—locusts resembling horses with crowned human faces, women's hair, lion's teeth, wings, iron breastplates, and scorpion tails—that torment for five months anyone who does not have the seal of God on their foreheads. Biblical scholars continue to debate the interpretation of Abaddon as the ultimate evil at the nexus of numerous common devil myths from across the globe. A fossorial creature that travels primarily underground, Abaddon uses exoskeletal sensory membranes to navigate in complete darkness, propelled at great speeds by massive hyper-extended legs for tunneling. Abaddon can hide undetected beneath the surface, motionless for years—maybe even centuries—as it did in Devil's Tower, Wyoming where Monarch Outpost 77 was constructed around it. Deep earth scanning around known Vile Vortices revealed a titanic spider den with an elephant skeleton partially cocooned on a gigantic silken web, acting as both the Titan's prey snare and a warning to rivals not to proceed further. Samples of the steel-like spider silk were collected by Monarch Research & Development for use in weapon and textile manufacturing. After Abaddon had recently awakened and attacked a coastal city near the Gulf of Mexico, the length of viable silk samples grew exponentially from yards to miles. Now, there is enough biological evidence to suggest all arachnid species on Earth have been birthed by Abaddon. Currently it travels the globe, weeping egg sacs to replenish the world's spider population—a sleeper cell army patiently watching and waiting for Abaddon's command to rise and take back a helpless Earth.

― MonsterVerse Declassified Monarch Creature Profile

Not much is known about the evolution of Abaddon or how it came to develop. However, its physiology shares much in common with spiders and similar arthropods. Although it is currently unknown whether there is more than one member of its species present, Abaddon is the direct relative of other spider superspecies, including Plague Weavers (Araneae Pestilentiae), with Abaddon being the progenitor. Abaddon will give birth to these spiders through internal egg sacs, which hatch internally before emerging out of pits on its cephalothorax to serve as its vast network of soldiers. Historic evidence suggests that Abaddon is not only the progenitor of the Plague Weavers, but possibly of every arachnid species on Earth that act as "sleeper agents" awaiting Abaddon's commands. Monarch's deep earth scanning around Vile Vortices has revealed Abaddon has a "titanic" spider-den underground with an elephant skeleton partially cocooned within, as a snare for other Titans and/or a warning to other Titans not to proceed further.

Bernie Hayes theorized on his Titan Truth podcast that Abaddon emerged from the Hollow Earth to spawn the first arachnids on Earth's surface in a long-term attempt to conquer the surface - he also suggests that Abaddon was the progenitor or a relative to the Mother Longlegs species of Skull Island in this respect. Bernie suspects that Abaddon either evaded Alpha Titans on the surface or was avoided by the alphas themselves, and theorizes that Abaddon's relationship with humans is weaved into many myths and legends on spiders, such as the original spider Arachne of Greek mythology, the Japanese yōkai Jorōgumo, and the African trickster god Anansi: believing that the supernatural elements these stories share are actually sightings of the Titan using its progeny to possess humans like the aforementioned figures. Bernie suspects that humans fought back against Abaddon's larger spawn, causing future generations of arachnids on the surface to become successively smaller, while Abaddon returned underground to await its spider invasion's culmination.

History

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

At some point, Monarch established Outpost 77 around Abaddon in Devils Tower, Wyoming. When Ghidorah calls all the Titans, Abaddon breaks free and begins to hunt with its new pack. When the ORCA calls all Titans to Boston, Abaddon does not arrive in time for the battle and does not see Godzilla become the alpha of all Titans again.

Kong: Survivor Instinct

Abaddon was attracted to an unidentified city in the eastern United States by Kong's presence. The Titan attacks the city, covering a portion of it in silk webbing and spawning countless Plague Weavers to create a new territory. Abaddon starts to capture numerous humans and trap them in cocoons, including Omisha Bhat. It soon turns its attention to David Martin and demolishes several buildings in an attempt to kill him, but fails to do so. Abaddon eventually manages to corner David in the streets but is challenged by Kong just as it is about to kill the man. The gigantic ape and arachnid begin to fight as David retreats underground. David eventually believes that Abaddon lost the battle since Kong is later seen alive and well.

MonsterVerse Declassified

Abaddon appears in flashbacks as it influences and interacts with various past human cultures.

According to its creature profile, Abaddon is still active on the surface in the present, traveling the globe and replenishing spider populations.

Abilities

Bio-fossorial nature

Monarch describes Abaddon's nature as "bio-fossorial", as it can burrow underground and lie motionless for centuries.

Crawling

Abaddon's arachnid-like legs allow it to traverse and crawl on any terrain.

Dormancy

Abaddon's creature profile states that it can lie patiently still underground for years at a time.

Durability

Abaddon can withstand falling debris and attacks from Kong.

Extrasensory perception

Abaddon's exoskeletal sensory membranes enable it to navigate in complete darkness underground.

Hive mind

As the progenitor of the Plague Weavers and various other spider-like species, Abaddon can communicate with all its offspring. It leads an army of countless Plague Weavers and commands them to do its bidding via hive mind.

Legs

Abaddon uses its legs' tips as stabbing and impaling weapons against other Titans and humans. Its legs also enable it to navigate through subterranean tunnels at great speeds.

Reanimation

Through the use of smaller spiders that enter lifeless human bodies through their mouths, Abaddon can control the corpses like a puppeteer with marionettes.

Reproduction

Abaddon can give birth to numerous spiders from internal egg-sacs inside its womb caverns. On reaching maturity, they emerge through the skull-shaped "eye sockets" positioned above Abaddon's head. The most formidable soldiers of Abaddon's "army" are the Plague Weavers.

Silk

Similar to Mothra, Abaddon can shoot large quantities of silk webbing from its mouth that are stronger than steel and are capable of capturing and immobilizing other creatures, as well as keeping damaged objects from falling apart.

Speed and agility

Abaddon can move its legs with great speed and agility in order to catch prey or move around its webbing. Its lighter size helps it dodge attacks from heavier enemy Titans.

Strength and combat

Abaddon's legs and their spiky tips can tear through the silk webbing it produces, as well as through the concrete and asphalt of buildings and roads. Its cephalothorax and jaws are also powerful enough to crush and demolish buildings. It can also use its legs to stab and jaws to bite Kong's thick skin.

Trivia

• The outpost Abaddon was contained in, Monarch Outpost 77, is a possible reference to the 1977 Toho film The War in Space, or The Last Dinosaur, or possibly even Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was also released in 1977 and features Devils Tower.
• The location Abaddon was hibernating under is a sacred site to the region's Native American tribes (the Lakota, the Cheyenne, and the Kiowa), and the correct name of it is Bear's Tepee. It is said to have been created by or the home of a giant bear.
• Coincidentally, there is a newly-discovered Australian harvestman spider genus/species in 2021 called Abaddon despoliator, as parts of Abaddon greatly resemble spiders.
• Abaddon is quite similar to Kumonga, since they are both gigantic arachnids that attacked the United States (Kumonga attacked Arizona in Godzilla: Final Wars while Abaddon attacked Wyoming in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and the eastern United States in Kong: Survivor Instinct).
• Given Abaddon is able to have offspring, the nature of Abaddon's viability is a matter of question. Abaddon is referred to with gender-neutral pronouns, making its biological gender unclear. The Monarch profile on Plague Weavers potentially contradicts this, with the explanation that the spawn emerges through ovoviviparous means. In addition to its ability to asexually reproduce, these could suggest that Abaddon may be female or hermaphroditic, or alternatively this is a novel feature of its species.

List of appearances

Films

• Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Name on monitor screen)

Comics

• MonsterVerse Declassified

Video games

• Kong: Survivor Instinct (First appearance)