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That's the Big One!
~ Hank Marlow

The Skull Devil, also known as Ramarak or The Big One, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Preston Packard) of the 2017 action adventure monster film Kong: Skull Island, the second installment of the MonsterVerse franchise and a reboot of the King Kong franchise.

She is the tyrannical alpha of the Skullcrawlers and the arch-nemesis of King Kong who has terrorized Skull Island for thousands of years and is the one responsible for the near-extinction of Kong's race, leaving Kong as the sole survivor. Years later in 1973, she engaged Kong in a brutal struggle. However, Kong, with the aid of his newfound human allies, was finally able to triumph over the Skull Devil, ending her reign of terror on Skull Island for good.

Biography[]

Background[]

Not much is known about the Skull Devil's origins, though she was the sadistic, heartless and wrathful alpha of the Skullcrawlers who is responsible for slaughtering Kong's species and his parents in the past which left Kong as the last surviving member of his species, making her the most terrifying and feared creature on Skull Island.

Kong: Skull Island[]

In 1973, when Lt. Colonel Preston Packard and his men ambushed Kong in a swamp, the Skull Devil emerged from the water due to being awakened by seismic explosives being dropped onto Skull Island earlier along with the rest of her kind. She heads quickly to Kong, who crushes Packard with his fist and then begins to fight against her while James Conrad and the others escape. The Skull Devil injures and subdues Kong before she turns her attention to the survivors, who are running towards the waiting boat just as dawn approaches, prompting the Skull Devil to follow them in pursuit.

The Skull Devil soon catches up to the group, but Earl Cole stays to sacrifice himself by blowing himself up with grenades strapped to him, making sure that both he and the Skull Devil die together. However, the Skull Devil sees this and whips Cole away with her tail into the side of a mountain which causes the grenades to explode, killing him. Before the Skull Devil can kill the survivors, it was revealed that Cole's sacrifice had given enough time for Kong to appear and smash a large boulder over the Skull Devil's head, allowing the survivors to escape while the two monsters begin their epic final battle. During the fight, Kong picks up a large tree and uses it as a club to swing it against Skull Devil's face. Barely fazed by the hit, the Skull Devil wraps her tail around Kong and throws the giant ape onto a wrecked ship, where Kong becomes entangled in heavy chains of the ship itself. Just as the Skull Devil had Kong at her mercy and prepares to kill him, she is suddenly distracted by Houston Brooks and Lin San with gunfire from Hank Marlow's boat armed with mounted guns.

Distracted, the Skull Devil turns her attention to the boat until the guns are cut off, leaving them defenseless to the Skullcrawler until Mason Weaver, stood atop a cliff, shoots her in the eye with a flare which then explodes, blinding the Skull Devil and allowing Conrad to lure her away from Brooks and San on the boat. This distraction gives Kong enough time to free himself and uses a propeller attached to a chain like a flail to land a vicious blow on the Skull Devil's back. He then uses the chain to pull the Skullcrawler toward him, yanks the propeller out and slams her into the side of a cliff, unaware that the cliff was the same one Weaver was standing on, causing her to fall into the water below. Kong then proceeds to use the propeller as a shuriken to slice the Skull Devil's throat open, apparently killing her.

Having defeated his foe, Kong turns his attention to Weaver and manages to save her before she can drown. However, as soon as he had her in hand, the Skull Devil, revealed to be still alive, rose back to her feet and attacks Kong once more. In the ensuing fight, Skull Devil uses her prehensile tongue to wrap around Kong's fist in order to devour Weaver. As the Skull Devil pulls her and Kong's hand into her mouth, Kong uses all of his strength to pull his fist out with the Skull Devil's tongue still around it, but also pulled out all of the Skullcrawler's organs, finally killing her, ending the Skull Devil's reign of terror for good and avenging the deaths of both Kong's kind and his parents in the process.

Personality[]

As the alpha of the Skullcrawlers, the Skull Devil had better self-control than the smaller individuals. This was seen when she appeared only once Kong was subdued and incapacitated by Preston Packard. She also seems to have a hint of sadism, as she heartlessly licks Kong's face after he has been tangled up in a shipwreck's rudder chain during their final battle.

The Skull Devil was also shown to have a deep desire of killing and eating humans, which was shown several times when she diverted her attention from Kong to James Conrad and Mason Weaver, implying that she acts not only from primal instinct, but some degree of malice and cruelty. She also demonstrates some intelligence when she swats Earl Cole away with her tail before the grenades can detonate.

Appearance[]

The Skull Devil is a huge, slender, muscular, 95-foot-tall Skullcrawler who is almost as large as Kong himself. Unlike the smaller Skullcrawlers, she possesses distinct spikes on her elbows, a thorny tail and a more pronounced, sand-colored transparent ridge running down her spine along with a wide flat crest-like structure on her scalp and a more rounded crocodilian shaped snout in contrast to the smaller Skullcrawlers' pointed Tylosaurus shaped snout.

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

  • Titan Skullcrawler Physiology: As a Titan Skullcrawler, the Skull Devil is incredibly powerful, possessing several physical and supernatural attributes.
    • Immense Strength: The Skull Devil is strong enough to send Earl Cole flying a good distance with a tail slap, grapple and wrestle against Kong and also pull his hand into her mouth with her tongue. She even threw Kong a considerable distance, despite the ape weighing 158 tons.
    • Immense Durability: The Skull Devil is capable of withstanding a boulder smashed on top of her head by Kong, getting whacked across the face with a fallen tree and even having her throat sliced open with a boat propeller.
    • Immense Mobility: The Skull Devil is fast and agile enough to dodge and counter most of Kong's strikes.
    • Immense Stamina: The Skull Devil's stamina is shown to be high, never needing to stop or even slow down during her battle with Kong.

Abilities[]

  • High-level Intellect/Leader: The Skull Devil was the most intelligent of the Skullcrawlers, considering the fact that she swatted Cole away when he tried to get Skull Devil to devour him while he was holding grenades that was about to detonate. As the alpha Skullcrawler, the Skull Devil was a very capable leader.
  • Prehensile Tail: The Skull Devil's long prehensile tail can be used as a formidable weapon or even used in a snake-like manner to hold opponents such as Kong in her grasp.
  • Prehensile Tongue: Just like the other Skullcrawlers, the Skull Devil possesses a long triple-forked prehensile tongue that she could use to grab and swallow prey whole.

Weaknesses[]

  • Limited Durability: Although Skull Devil is an incredibly powerful fighter, she can still be killed with ease. For example, her tongue is connected to her internal organs, so if it were to be pulled out, her organs would be yanked out as well, as she would die within seconds. Her eyes are also vulnerable, seen when one of them was shot out after Mason Weaver fired a flare gun at it.

Trivia[]

  • Since after her death at the hands of Kong, it can be assumed that Skull Devil might be the only adult Skullcrawler in the film as there are no sightings of any other adult individuals anywhere on Skull Island. However, it was somehow proved wrong when one adult Skullcrawler made its appearance in Godzilla vs. Kong.
  • It is unknown if Skull Devil is the parent of the Skullcrawlers or if she is just the alpha of the pack, but in Behind the Magic: Kong Skull Island, she was revealed to be a female and is the queen of the smaller Skullcrawlers.

Navigation[]

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Titans
King Ghidorah | Rodan | M.U.T.O. (M.U.T.O. Prime) | Skullcrawlers (Skull Devil) | Shinomura | Camazotz | Camazotz's Minions | Genitor | Genitor Swarm | Scylla | Amhuluk | Tiamat | Kraken | Ion Dragon | Frost Vark

Apex Cybernetics
Walter Simmons | Ren Serizawa | Maia Simmons | Brenda Holland | Mechagodzilla

Terrorists
Alan Jonah | Emma Russell | Asher Jonah | Asaj | Sergeant Baker | Lieutenant Bottin | Corporal Winston | Sergeant Travis

Others
Preston Packard | Walter R. Riccio

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Movies
King Kong (1933) - Carl Denham | Skull Island Natives
Son of Kong - Carl Denham | Nils Helstrom | Skull Island Natives
King Kong vs. Godzilla - Godzilla
King Kong Escapes - Dr. Who | Madame Piranha | Mechani-Kong
King Kong (1976) - Petrox Corporation (Fred Wilson) | Skull Island Natives
King Kong Lives - Lt.Col. Archie Nevitt | Major Peete | Hunters
The Mighty Kong - Carl Denham
King Kong (2005) - Carl Denham | Skull Island Natives
Kong: King of Atlantis - Queen Reptilla | Lord Sicaphud
Kong: Return to the Jungle - Hunter Stag III | Professor Ramone De La Porta
Kong: Skull Island - Skullcrawlers (Skull Devil) | Preston Packard
Godzilla vs. Kong - Mechagodzilla | Apex Cybernetics (Walter Simmons, Ren Serizawa, & Maia Simmons) | Skullcrawlers

TV Shows
The King Kong Show - Dr. Who | Mechani-Kong
Kong: The Animated Series - Professor Ramone De La Porta | Chiros | Tiger Lucy | Andre | Harpy
Kong: King of the Apes - Dr. Richard Remy | Botila | Richie | Brag and Wheeler
Skull Island - Kraken | Skullcrawlers

Comics
Kingdom Kong - Camazotz | Camazotz's Minions

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