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Maia Simmons is a major antagonist in the 2021 film Godzilla vs. Kong. She is an executive at Apex Cybernetics and the daughter of the CEO Walter Simmons.
Personality[]
Throughout the movie, Maia shows herself to be a very prideful and self-centered individual, completely devoted to her (father"s) company. When explaining the capabilities of the Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles, she remarked that Nathan should be more impressed with Apex Cybernetics’ accomplishments with it and becomes quite snippy when he referred to it as a helicopter. Simmons' also showed she cared very little about anyone else involved in the mission, caring more about the mission and concern with getting the job done.
Thinking herself smarter or more cleaver than she actually is, in truth Simmons was a spiteful, petty, overly elitist halfwit who showed signs of cowardice and toxic selfishness that always caused her to end up sabotaging herself. She was also seen to be a true blue daddy's girl whom only ever blindly followed Walter's designs to please him.
About the only person she seemed to care about besides herself was her father, whom she seemed to respect if nothing else. Arrogant to the point of lethal stupidity, she dismissed the strength of King Kong, only realizing too little too late her mistake upon angering the Titan; twice. Despite these flaws, Maia did show concern for Jia when she approached an angered Kong and was quick to help the Iwi native when she fell to the ground after coming through the door where she nearly drowned, demonstrating a potential soft spot for children compared to adults. This may have been just a cover for her true intentions however, as Maia didn't hesitate to hold Jia and the rest of the non-apex affiliated crew at gunpoint when she and her paid stooges tried to abscond with the Hollow Earth energy against their protests.
In spite of her stern character, the selfish heiress was also prone to cowardice and panicked flight; accommodated by ill executed decisions while in a pinch. Her demanding the fighter carrier crew dump Kong when Godzilla first attacked them to save herself shows how shortsighted she could be. Since the team needed a Titan to find a way into the Hollow Earth for Apex to collect the energy needed for Mecha G.
Maia's fatal entitlement also drives her to make enemies way outside of her weight class, as shown whilst writing off Lind and co. as redundancies within viewing range of the Titan whom is friends with the only remaining Skull Island tribesman under the Alpha's care. Her final deathly laps in judgement came whilst in a bout of terror, she foolishly ordered her pilot of a H.E.A.V. transport to gun at Kong as they attempted a hasty exit. Only to cement just how unwise a decision it was for Simmon's father to put her in charge of such a delicate operation. Her truly yellow character shone thru with her humiliating end at the King's hand when she repeatedly pleaded to be spared her fate.
Relationships[]
Nathan Lind[]
Maia was very dismissive of Nathan Lind, seeing herself as his babysitter and being more concerned with his doing his job than his actual welfare. She also cared very little about the other members of the expedition as she nearly ordered her men to shoot the team when they objected to her taking a sample of the Hollow Earth energy source.
Walter Simmons[]
Besides her own well-being, the only person Maia seemed to care about was her father as she pridefully claimed that her progenitor gets what he wants. Often believing the mission she would partake in securing the Hollow Earth energy was his idea of a snipe hunt in the novelization.
Kong[]
She was very demeaning in her remarks toward Kong. Seeing him as nothing more than a big monkey, and an annoying but necessary nuisance she'd have to put up with for the sake of the mission. Showing both surprise and astonishment at Kong's ability to understand and use sign language to communicate, but even this display of intelligence by the beast was not enough to stop her from suggesting simply dumping him overboard to save themselves from Godzilla when the former attacked their convoy. Later after retrieving the sample of the energy source she tried to force Kong to move out of the path of her vehicle by having her pilot fire on Kong which ultimately lead to her death as the enraged super ape immediately grabbed her transport and crushed it in his hand.
History[]
Godzilla vs. Kong[]
Maia was sent by her father to deliver H.E.A.V. transports for the expedition and to watch over the venture and ensure its success. After retrieving the necessary information regarding the energy signature of the Hollow Earth's power source she tried to abandon the rest of the expedition and escape to the surface but made the mistake of ordering her pilot to fire on Kong to make him move out of the way causing Kong to grab the H.E.A.V. when it tried to go through the Hollow Earth tunnel that Godzilla drilled through with his atomic breath. After peeking inside the vehicle to make sure that Jia wasn't inside, Kong casually crushed the H.EA.V. causing it to explode, killing Maia and everyone else inside of the vehicle.
List of appearances[]
Films[]
- Godzilla vs. Kong (First appearance)
Novels[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Maia Simmons is the second female character to be a villain in the MonsterVerse, following Emma Russell.
- Also, she is the second human antagonist to be killed by Kong, following Preston Packard.
- It also possible that she the first woman to be killed by a monster that is hero-like.
- Ironically, despite her devotion to her father and their company's goals, Maia is never actually seen interacting with him at any point in the film.
- In the novelization, Maia comments that while her father thinks a lot of her and trusts her, he is nevertheless playing head games with her. She notes that he completely failed to mention to her that Kong would be involved in finding the power source in Hollow Earth, saying that it's probably little.
- In an article from The Hollywood Reporter, Eiza González revealed that Maia Simmons had a drastically different storyline that “went in different routes” compared to the final cut of Godzilla vs. Kong. She also revealed that a lot of the movie’s story was cut and changed, with the removal of Jessica Henwick’s character affecting a lot of the other characters.[1]
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