Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Summary
Monarch : Legacy of Monstersis a show that traverse decades and succeed the history of three generations of the Randa crime syndicate as they each have their own experiences with the Titans that roam the Earth , including Godzilla and Kong . The Apple TV+ series fill in the quip and broaden the macrocosm of the Legendary Monsterverse enfranchisement . phallus of the Randa fellowship were there almost at the get-go of the titular organisation , which is devoted to contemplate , preserving , and sometimes hiding monsters , so it makes sense that the show is centered around them .
Over the course of 10 episodes in the first season , theMonarch : Legacy of Monsterstimelineprimarily takes place in the 1950s and in the year 2015 . The 1950s represent the early level of Monarch as the establishment essay to study the monsters that are hold out on Earth , and it is when the Randa family story get down with the uncovering ofMassive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms ( MUTOs ) . In 2015 , the Randa family and the quietus of the world are consider with the consequence of Godzilla ’s flack on San Francisco as everyone tries to put itself back together and forestall any further attack .
William “Bill” Randa
Played by Anders Holm & John Goodman
First see inKong : Skull Island , William " Bill " Randa is a cryptozoologist who afterwards begins work for Monarch in hunting of the truth about Titans and other monsters that have existed on Earth for thousands of year . John Goodman originated the fibre inKong : Skull Islandand repeat his role in the television seriesMonarch : Legend of Monsters . Before his death onSkull Island , Bill throws a bagful of Monarch arcanum into the sea meant forhis boy , Hiroshi , to find and preserve .
sovereign : Legacy of Monsters ' first two episodes reveals more about John Goodman ’s Bill Randa , but does n’t address his fate in Kong : Skull Island .
In theMonarch : bequest of Monsters1950s timeline , Bill is roleplay by Anders Holm . Before he meets Lee Shaw and Keiko Miura in the Philippines hobo camp , he is researching occult patterns of an ancient tartar - like wight that is rumored to live in the field . Bill and Miura marryand have Hiroshi . Bill was also aboard the U.S.S. Lawton , a Navy ship that sank under cryptical circumstances off of Pearl Harbor in 1944 but was later discovered in the Philippines by Bill and Keiko Miura .
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Dr. Keiko Miura
Played by Mari Yamamoto
Dr. Keiko Miura is a Nipponese scientist who studied at the University of California , Berkeley , and is cut across radioactive signals throughout the world in search of what , or who , is causing the disturbances . Keikofalls in love life with Bill Randa , and the two marry and haveone son , Hiroshi . While she , Bill , and Lee Shaw are explore radioactive signals in Kazakhstan that they conceive tunnel through the Earth , Keikio is attacked and killed by a swarm of recently hatched insect - similar monster .
Hiroshi Randa
Played by Takehiro Hira
Hiroshi Randa isthe son of Bill Randa and Dr. Keiko Miura . He works for Monarch and leads a double lifespan with a wife and girl in San Francisco and a wife and son in Tokyo . His employment with Monarch was hide in secrecy , and he was always traveling to remote parts of the human race , never spending much time with either of his two families . Several days after Godzilla attacked San Francisco in 2014 , Hiroshi was ask by Monarch to travel to Alaska . Police in Fairbanks , Alaska , believe his plane went down in a violent storm , but the wreckage was never recovered .
Hiroshi did eventually incur the bag of Monarch secrets his beginner left for him , and he locked it in his Tokyo function . Whenhis Logos , Kentaro , and daughter , Cate , discover it , they trigger Monarch to start a manhunt for them that eventually leads them to Lee Shaw . Hiroshi is presumed deadened in the plane crash , but there are many within Monarch who believe he may still be live and being hidden by Monarch .
Cate Randa
Played by Anna Sawai
Cate Randa isthe daughter of Hiroshi and Caroline Randaand lives in San Francisco . She was a schooling instructor and was on a bus with children on the Golden Gate Bridge when Godzilla attacked in 2014 . Cate was able to narrowly escape , but many of her students were killed in the attack , and she suffers from post - traumatic focus whenever she is prompt of the attack she experienced firsthand .
After her father , Hiroshi , is presumed dead , Cate discovers mystic documents and keys that target to the work he had on-going in Tokyo . She travels there and uncovers not only his Monarch secrets but the whole other family Hiroshi was stay fresh from Cate and her mother , includingthe brother she never knew she had , Kentaro . Angered by the deception of her forefather , she is set to happen answers to his past tense and what his study was with the organization that was present in the aftermath of the Godzilla onset .
Kentaro Randa
Played by Ren Watabe
Kentaro Randa isthe Word of Hiroshi and Emiko Randaand lives in Tokyo , Japan . Kantaro ’s biography as a young artist is upend whenhis secret babe , Cate Randa , picture up at the apartment he apportion with his mother , asking about their recently deceased founding father . Kentaro is enraged that his father led a twofold life and reluctantly agrees to help Cate dig out into on the dot what Hiroshi was doing with Monarch .
Their investigating sends Monarch punk to his Tokyo apartment , but Kentaro is able to narrowly get away after his mother cave in him a depiction ofhis " Uncle " Lee Shaw . mate with information Kentaro find out at his forefather ’s Tokyo office , he and Cate go off in search of Shaw and answers about their father ’s aliveness .
Emiko Randa
Played by Qyoko Kudo
Emiko Randa isthe wife of Hiroshi Randa and lives in Tokyo with her son , Kentaro . She , like Cate and Emiko , seems to be incognizant that Hiroshi had a secret spirit in the United States , but she is able to make peace of mind with it and facilitate Kentaro with his resentment and anger toward his Padre . She help Kentaro escape when Monarch representatives hail to their flat looking for the documents and data point files Kentaro happen upon in his founder ’s business office .
Caroline Randa
Played by Tamlyn Tomita
Caroline Randa isthe mother of Cate Randaand was married to her father , Hiroshi Randa , back in the United States . She and her daughter were displaced during Godzilla ’s attack on San Franciso in 2014 and spent the next few days desperately search for Hiroshi . Caroline was very hesitant about Cate nominate the trip to Tokyo to unveil some of the secrets Hiroshi had in his work .
Leeland “Lee” Shaw III
Played by Wyatt Russell & Kurt Russell
Army Lieutenant Lee Shaw is first introduce to Bill Randa and Dr. Keiko Miura when he is asked to attend to as a protection envoy to Keiko while she research radioactive anomalies throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim . Shaw is run in the 1950s by Wyatt Russell and in the 2015 timeline by the doer ’s Padre , Kurt Russell . Kurt and Wyatt Russell work together to craft the Lee Shaw character , who sport prominently in both timelines of the show .
In the 1950s , Shaw is reluctant to believe what Bill and Keiko are searching for , but after he save them from a monster attack aboard the U.S.S. Lawton , he ’s positive to stick with them on their deputation , and the trio work together until Keiko ’s death in 1959 . In 2015 , Shaw go in an assisted living facility outside Tokyo where he ’s to a great extent monitored by Monarch , even at his advanced age . WhenKentaro and Cate place their " Uncle " Shawat the death of episode 2 ofMonarch : Legacy of Monsters , he informs them what they know about their Father-God ’s destruction is likely a Trygve Halvden Lie , but go after the truth will have consequences .
