Castle Bravo

Castle BravoMV
Nomenclature
Other names	Outpost 54
General Information
Location	Bermuda
Societal and Political Information
Affiliation	Monarch
Production Information
First appearance	Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Last appearance	Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Castle Bravo, also known as Outpost 54, is a Monarch facility located somewhere in Bermuda to study Godzilla.

Name

Castle Bravo is named after the atomic bomb that was unsuccessfully used to try to kill Godzilla in 1954.

History

Castle Bravo was constructed by Monarch as a means of researching and understanding Godzilla on his home turf. The outpost eventually became the flagship of Monarch, housing many of Monarch's researchers, scientists, and its large personal in the massive facility. Disguised as an oil rig, it splits open to reveal a vertical shaft leading to a massive cavern.

The outpost is divided into 3 levels: above sea-level, sea-level, and below sea-level. The sub-level facility is protected with numerous manual-controlled armaments and specially designed weapons produced by Monarch such as Maser turrets as a means of better protecting the facility from an attack from Godzilla or another sea-dwelling Titan. The sea-level part of the facility has a large cylinder opening at the top leading down into the facility.

The facility is seen to house numerous Monarch Submarines, modified VTOL helicopters, and a large arsenal of submersible vessels. Also, contained on Level Two of Castle Bravo are the remains of several Titans: some only bones and a few others still whole, including the remains of the MUTOs and MUTO Prime.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Mark Russell joins various Monarch personnel at Castle Bravo after eco-terrorists led by Alan Jonah abducted his ex-wife Emma and daughter Madison and stole the ORCA. Just then Godzilla starts to become agitated before swimming from Castle Bravo. Everyone at Castle Bravo becomes silent all course projections predict that Godzilla is heading to Antarctica, where Ghidorah is being contained.

After Ghidorah usurped Godzilla's position as the Alpha Titan, Mothra arrives at Castle Bravo to reveal that Godzilla is still alive.

Trivia

• In the Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization, the remains of a Titan known as Margygr are contained in the outpost after being found in the Arctic, killed by another Titan. It's also revealed by Sam Coleman that the Titan remains are being studied to potentially sequence their DNA and insert certain traits they possess into other sequences.
• Castle Bravo is also the name of a 1954 nuclear bomb test wherein the bomb had a much larger yield than was expected, in turn resulting in items and areas outside the test zone being irradiated, one of them being the Japanese fishing boat Lucky Dragon No. 5. The test, the unintentional mass radioactive contamination of the fishing boat and it's crew, as well as the resulting international incident between Japan and the United States, were among Ishiro Honda's primary inspiration for Godzilla.