Alan Jonah is a major antagonist in the MonsterVerse franchise, serving as the secondary antagonist of the 2019 MonsterVerse graphic comic book Godzilla: Aftershock, one of the two main antagonists (alongside King Ghidorah) of the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and the unseen overarching antagonist of Godzilla vs. Kong.
Background[]
History[]
Jonah is a former British Army colonel and MI6 officer who, after being maddened into misanthropy by decades of firsthand war experience and the tragic murder of his daughter, became an international paramilitary eco-terrorist obsessed with restoring what he perceived to be the natural order to the detriment of humanity, causing the Titans to draw his interest after they were revealed to the world.
Personality[]
Jonah is a cold-blooded killer, who conducts himself with stone-faced professionalism and mercilessness when massacring the Monarch staff who are between him and his objective. He's shown to be a highly stoic individual who near-constantly projects an icy and composed demeanor, even after he's genuinely shaken by the death of Asher; and when he does raise his voice, it's almost always in a controlled manner. The extent of Jonah's unflappable demeanor is shown when he reacts with shock but complete composure to Ghidorah unexpectedly awakening all the dormant Titans simultaneously. He is deathly-quiet when he doesn't have any real reason to speak, but when he does speak, he displays a dry wit and a deadpan sense of humor. He doesn't mince his words, whether he is talking to an adult or a child. After the tragic loss of his daughter Lindy and seeing the worst in humanity firsthand over his decades-long military career, Jonah took on an extreme misanthropic mentality, and now he believes that humans don't deserve to live because of mankind's escalating destructive tendencies; believing that human nature only gets ever worse and worse with time and progress. He believes that "evolution isn't always right", citing the mere existence of humanity as well as the basic human drive to care for others of their species regardless of said species' faults (an impulse which Jonah has largely divorced himself from) as such a mistake. His gritty sense of realism and awareness of how unpleasant his and Emma's eco-terrorist plan will be shows when he calls out Emma for dragging Madison into their plan without making the girl properly aware of how far a cry from an easy, painless process the plan would be.
Jonah vocally demeans both Emma and Madison for respectively not thinking things through during the debate about releasing Rodan, and it's shown throughout Jonah's interactions with Emma that he's fine with psychologically bullying, belittling and manipulating his extended allies in order to keep them under his thumb once he has them in his grasp. Jonah enjoys holding power over others whom he has at his mercy, shown during his two encounters with Emma Russell during the MUTO Prime crisis and also shown when he kept the ORCA around instead of destroying it after having decided he no longer needed it. By contrast, Jonah seems to genuinely get on well with the paramilitary troops under his command via a sense of comradery, based on his interactions with Asher, his slight informal language when addressing Sergeant Travis, and Madison spying him and several other soldiers retrieving a bottle of whiskey. As evil as Jonah is, he does have rare moments of kindness, such as his attempt to amuse Madison when he caught her silently staring at him in the elevator in Outpost 32 on top of his aforementioned relationships with those under his command.
Thinking of himself as a well-intentioned extremist, Jonah claims that his objective is saving the Earth from an irreversible mass extinction at humanity's hands, and he has no qualms whatsoever about billions of people getting killed in the process, as he writes them off as necessary sacrifices for the greater good of the planet. However, once Ghidorah becomes the new reigning alpha, Jonah brushes off Emma's attempts to make him aware that Ghidorah is actively creating an even rapider extinction event of his own making instead of restoring the planet's ecology: he has a retort for every pointer Emma makes about how or why they should intervene to stop Ghidorah, using increasingly warped logic and excuses, such as claiming they should let the Titans retake the world because it's the creatures' right regardless of Ghidorah's destructive reign, citing human nature as being irredeemably despicable, and claiming that Ghidorah will give the Earth a "clean slate" anyway. Instead of doing anything to try and stop Ghidorah, Jonah prioritizes keeping himself and his troops hidden in their bunker from Monarch whilst they wait out Ghidorah's apocalypse, refusing to let Emma blow their cover. Despite this, when Madison succeeds in stealing the ORCA, escaping, and disrupting Ghidorah's control over the other Titans, Jonah makes no move to head out and stop her despite the bunker's computer tracing the ORCA's exact location, and he instead remains focused on keeping himself and his troops alive whilst claiming the ORCA no longer matters, showing a nihilistic side to him.
Ultimately, unlike with Emma, who genuinely believed in making the world better and draws the line when she realizes how much of a threat Ghidorah is; for Jonah, saving the Earth is nothing more than an excuse for his genocidal misanthropy, and he's a deranged hypocrite who twists his original eco-terrorism agenda out of shape to suit his own desires once it looks like Ghidorah will actually bring Jonah the total eradication of humanity that he so craves.
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MonsterVerse[]
Godzilla: King of the Monsters[]
Godzilla vs. Kong[]
Printed Media[]
MonsterVerse comic books[]
Godzilla: Aftershock[]
MonsterVerse novels[]
Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization[]
Godzilla vs. Kong - The Official Movie Novelization[]
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