| “ | Our world is changing. The mass extinction we feared... has already begun... and we are the cause. We are the infection. But like all living organisms, the earth unleashed a fever to fight this infection: its original and rightful rulers, the Titans. For thousands of years, these creatures have remained in hiding around the world. And unless all the Titans are found, our planet will perish, and so will we. They are the only guarantee that life will carry on. | „ |
| ~ Emma Russell explaining her goal to awaken the Titans and restore peace. |
| “ | Long live.. the king. | „ |
| ~ Emma's last words before she dies after being injured by King Ghidorah. |
Dr. Emma Russell is a major antagonist-turned-anti-heroine of the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters. She is the wife of Mark Russell, mother of Madison Russell and a Monarch scientist who defects to Alan Jonah's terrorist group, but after her son Andrew was lost during Godzilla's fight with the M.U.T.O.s in 2014, Russell became convinced that humanity was a plague and that the Titans were the only way to restore order and balance to the planet.
She was portrayed by Vera Farmiga, who also played Norma Bates in Bates Motel, and Joanna in The Commuter.
History
At some point prior to the movie, Emma contacted Alan Jonah and his ecoterrorist group and offered to give them the ORCA her ex-husband Mark Russell had designed so they could use it to awaken the other Titans. After Jonah and his men killed the other members of Emma's MONARCH expedition, they retrieved Emma and her daughter Madison along with the ORCA.
Russell then traveled with them to Antarctica where they intended to use the ORCA to awaken "Monster Zero". However, while there, they were attacked by MONARCH forces and Emma found herself faced by Mark. Mark attempted to convince Madison to come over to him, but before he could do so, Emma activated a detonator which set off the explosives around the area Monster Zero was contained in, releasing King Ghidorah. Emma and the rest of Alan Jonah's forces then made their escape on helicopter as Ghidorah rampaged and attacked the Monarch forces before Godzilla intervened and fought the Titan until Ghidorah escaped.
After Ghidorah's escape, Emma contacts MONARCH for a negotiation, claiming that by awakening the Titans, she can restore the natural order and revert the wrongdoings of humanity.
However, when they got back to Alan Jonah's base, Jonah's team discovered that King Ghidorah was already awakening the other Titans and commanding them to wipe out the humans and terraform the world to his will. Though Jonah was fine with this, Emma began to have doubts. Emma later discovered that her daughter Madison had stolen the ORCA and was heading to Boston to transmit a signal to disrupt Ghidorah's communication with the other Titans and get them to stop attacking.
After Jonah decides to let Emma go, she then went to Boston herself to rescue her daughter, encountering Mark and the remaining members of MONARCH while Godzilla and Ghidorah battled. While there, Emma, realizing her wrongdoings, ended up sacrificing her life to use the ORCA as a distraction to lure away Ghidorah and give Godzilla time to recover, resulting in Ghidorah severely injuring her and destroying the ORCA. Emma was most likely killed and disintegrated after Godzilla, now in a fiery form, activates two nuclear pulses that vanquish Ghidorah's wings and two side heads before stomping on top of the Titan's body and crushing it in an electrical explosion.
Personality
Emma was described as a brilliant and independent, but somewhat unorthodox , she was passionate about the well-being of the planet stemming from her pre-Monarch days as an environmental activist. Emma was also dedicated to her daughter Madison, and feeling a duty to both her and the planet, Emma seeks to prepare her daughter for the post-Godzilla world. Emma also holds resentment towards Mark for running out on the family after Andrew's death; that bitterness probably manifested in parental alienation, in which Emma tried to turn Madison against her father by telling Maddie that he was a drunk who left them because he couldn't be strong for Madison's sake and he didn't care about them anymore. Her grief over Andrew's death gave Emma the desire to right old wrongs by joining Alan Jonah's eco-terrorist group so she can help them awaken the Titans to reverse humanity's wrongdoings and ensure he didn't die for nothing. Emma redeemed herself at the end luring Ghidorah away to save her daughter and husband before dying in the process.
Trivia
- Emma is thr first villain in MonsterVerse to be redeemed followed by Rodan.
- Emma Russell is the first female villain in the MonsterVerse film series, with Preston Packard and Alan Jonah as the male human villains in the film series.
See also
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