| “ | When we started Apex Cybernetics, we dreamt of new ways to push past the limits of human potential. Robotics, the human mind, artificial intelligence. Who knows what brave new future we will dream of next? I'm Walter Simmons. And it is my privilege to lead Apex into humanity's bold new era. We're not going anywhere, and neither are you. | „ |
| ~ Walter Simmons. |
Apex Cybernetics, also formerly known as Applied Experimental Technologies, are major antagonists in the MonsterVerse franchise.
They're a multinational tech company who served as a rival organization to Monarch and wish to control or eliminate all of the Titans so that humanity would be the supreme species while Apex conquers the world. They are headed by their CEO Walter Simmons and are responsible for the creation of Mechagodzilla.
History[]
Background[]
Apex Cybernetics was a tech company founded by the billionaire Walter Simmons and particularly engaged in the fields of robotics, the human mind, and artificial intelligence to enhance human potential. After Godzilla's existence was revealed to the world in 2014, Simmons intended for humanity to remain the dominant species on Earth.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters[]
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters[]
In 2019, Simmons purchased the remaining last head of King Ghidorah to begin construction of Mechagodzilla, which cannot be used without a power supply. At some point, Ren Serizawa and Simmons' daughter Maia both joined Apex, with Ren wanting to kill the Titans out of revenge on the death of his father, Ishiro Serizawa. When Bernie Hayes' wife Sara died in a car accident ordered by Simmons after she discovered his involvement in creating the Oxygen Destroyer, Bernie became a conspiracy theorist who wanted to discover what Apex was intending.
Godzilla vs. Kong[]
In 2024, Godzilla attacks one of Apex's facilities in Pensacola, Florida, killing numerous people there, whereas Bernie, who worked at Apex to gather evidence and expose them, survives the attack. Because of becoming more suspicious about Apex, he joins forces with Madison Russell and Josh Valentine, and the three enter one of Apex's transports to discover their true intentions, finding out that they have been breeding Skullcrawlers to use as guinea pigs. Apex also captures Kong and take him to Antarctica to one of the openings to the Hollow Earth, where they send an expedition team led by Maia Simmons, who is killed by Kong but manages to succeed in transporting a sample of energy from the Hollow Earth to her father to power Mechagodzilla.
Bernie, Madison, and Josh eventually travel to the Apex Cybernetics headquarters in Hong Kong, China, where they see Mechagodzilla being tested against a Skullcrawler and killing it and are then captured by Apex soldiers. There, it is revealed that Apex's true goal is to defeat all of the Titans, with Ren being the pilot of Mechagodzilla using Ghidorah's left head's brain. But Ghidorah's mind, boosted by the Hollow Earth energy, infects Mechagodzilla's programming, causing it to kill Simmons by swiping him with it's hand and Ren to be electrocuted to death due to being unable to control Mechagodzilla. Immediately after the death of Simmons, Mechagodzilla went on a rampage through Hong Kong, killing several civilians in the process before fighting Godzilla and Kong. The company was indirectly responsible for the incident, which had led to the rampage in the first place, before Mechagodzilla was taken down by the combined force of both Godzilla and Kong simultaneously.
After Bernie had used the evidence that he had gathered to expose Apex Cybernetics' crimes, the company's remaining employees who were involved in or aware of Walter's crimes, were likely arrested after the death of their CEO and the destruction of their greatest weapon.
Legacy[]
Due to the fact that Apex Cybernetics was involved in aiding and abetting Walter's crimes to kill Godzilla and his fellow Titans under Walter's orders, which was in violation of the United Nations' orders to leave the Titans alone and not to do anything to provoke them, the company was likely shut down by the world's governments. Because the public is now aware of the reason why Godzilla was attacking facilities belonging to Apex Cybernetics, his reputation as the world's savior had been repaired.
In Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers, Apex is seeking to restore it's reputation because of it. However, in Kong: Survivor Instinct, Apex Cybernetics was officially dissolved not long after both Godzilla and Kong had destroyed Mechagodzilla.
Members[]
- Walter Simmons (CEO; deceased)
- Maia Simmons (deceased)
- Ren Serizawa (deceased)
- Bernie Hayes (formerly)
- Sara Hayes (formerly)
- Brenda Holland
- May Olowe-Hewitt (formerly)
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Trivia[]
- The company was initially known as Applied Experimental Technologies (AET). The rebranding to Apex Cybernetics happened around 2015, as seen in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, to reflect CEO Walter Simmons' mission of human supremacy.
- It is implied in the novelization of Godzilla vs. Kong that Apex was involved in the U.S. military's creation of the Oxygen Destroyer used in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, providing one of its components.
- According to concept artist Jared Krichevsky, it is estimated that Apex Cybernetics spent roughly US $3 trillion on Mechagodzilla's creation.
- In the series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, it is revealed that in 2015, Apex (as AET) was conducting cruel experiments on animals such as chimpanzees with cybernetics, which was the precursor research to their neural-interface technology used with Mechagodzilla.
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