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| “ | 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 to the Earth due to humanity causing destruction to the planet. |
| “ | Long live.. the king. | „ |
| ~ Emma's last words before she dies upon being injured by King Ghidorah after attempting to distract him usin the ORCA in order to save Godzilla. |
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
Background
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
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 that 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 a Titan called "Monster Zero". However, while there, they were attacked by MONARCH forces and Emma found herself confronted by Mark. Mark attempted to convince Madison to come over to him so that he can escape with his family, but before he could do so, Emma activated a detonator which sets off the explosives around the area Monster Zero was contained in, releasing King Ghidorah from his icy prison. 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. Afterwards, Jonah plans on awakening a destructive Pteranodon-like Titan named Rodan. He orders Emma to use the ORCA to awaken Rodan from a nearby volcano in Mexico, despite Madison's pleas to her mother not to trust Jonah in which Emma sadly refuses to listen. Upon being awakened after responding to the ORCA's call, Rodan instantly starts destroying everything in his path, but is somehow defeated by Ghidorah, who now steals Godzilla's title as the new alpha after the latter's supposed death by a nuclear warhead known as the Oxygen Destroyer while fighting his rival underwater (although it turned out that Godzilla had survived, but badly injured from the blast, although later revived after Serizawa sacrifices himself by detonating another warhead to increase Godzilla's power). Ghidorah then makes Rodan his right-hand man and calls out to the other Titans, ordering them to cause numerous massacres under his command. Madison, upon seeing Ghidorah and the Titans cause destruction to the world, angrily berates Emma for her actions and disowns her following an argument with her mother before storming off.
Later, Emma eventually starts doubting that Jonah's goals are as effective as he says they are, and suggests that they quit the operation, but Jonah disagrees. Emma later discovered that Madison, having overheard her and Jonah's conversation, 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 battles Ghidorah and Mothra fights Rodan. While there, Emma, realizing her wrongdoings, ended up sacrificing her life to use the ORCA as a distraction to lure away Ghidorah and save Godzilla so that she can give him time to recover, but this results in Ghidorah severely injuring her and destroying the ORCA. Emma was most likely killed and disintegrated after Godzilla, achieving a fiery form due to having Mothra's transferred into him when she sacrificed herself to Ghidorah, activated 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 a massive 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 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 destruction on the world and ensure he didn't die for nothing. Emma redeemed herself at the end by saving Godzilla from Ghidorah and luring him away in order to save her daughter and husband before eventually getting killed.
Trivia
- Emma is the 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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