Shimo's History
Shimo (霜 Shimo?) is a reptilian Titan created by Legendary Pictures and one of the two main antagonists (alongside the Skar King) of the 2024 film, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. An ancient monster that holds chilling power over cold temperatures which made her a dangerous force of the Hollow Earth, Shimo was made an unwilling pawn of the Skar King and forced to obey his commands, assisting him in his plot to dominate the entire planet.
Origins
Shimo was a very ancient and extremely powerful Titan that used her powers to alter the world's climates. Several cultures in the South Pacific call Shimo "The Monster Whose Breath Makes the Ocean into Stone". It is theorized that Shimo is a former Alpha Titan and she may have aided Godzilla in freezing and imprisoning Ghidorah in Antarctica. Cave paintings also suggest that Shimo attempted to challenge Godzilla at some point, before he defeated her and made her submit.
According to Iwi prophecy, Shimo at some point became enslaved by the Skar King, and was forced to start the last great Ice Age using her frost abilities. Eventually, Godzilla fought, defeated, and imprisoned the Skar King and his army of enslaved Kongs, Shimo included, in the depths of the Hollow Earth.
Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted
Kong comes across a cave painting illustrating Shimo battling Godzilla while exploring the Hollow Earth.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
When Kong is lead back to the Skar King's stronghold by the juvenile ape Suko, the tyrant of the Great Apes engages in a brief duel with Kong, but is eventually overwhelmed. As his warriors rush to assist him, the Skar King calls them off and instead orders for Shimo to be brought out from her imprisonment. Shackled in the bones of long deceased Titans, Shimo emerges from behind a massive lava waterfall and, under the influence from the Skar King's special crystal, blasts a concentrated beam of frost directly at Kong. Though Kong is able to temporarily stave off the blast with his battle axe, frost begins to creep up his hand, eventually freezing it to the point of frostbite. As Shimo prepares to blast Kong again, the latter instead flees the stronghold. After claiming Kong's axe for himself, the Skar King sends out a group of his warriors to chase down Kong and finish him off.
During this encounter, Godzilla was able to sense Shimo stirring, and thus hastened his preparations for battle in order to confront her and the Skar King. Despite knowing the vital role she played in earth's ecosystem, he was prepared to kill her if necessary.
Later, after being informed by a scout of viable Hollow Earth vortexes to the planet's surface were located in the nearby Iwi city of Malenka, the Skar King gathers a small army, Shimo included, and sets off to begin his conquest of the surface world. As the army travels, Shimo involuntarily freezes everything in her path, leaving behind a trail of frost. Eventually, the army reaches Malenka, with the Skar King using Kong's axe to shatter its protective barrier. The Skar King then commands Shimo to freeze the Iwi's pyramids, only to be distracted when Monarch veterinarian Trapper leads a flock of Vertacines against them. Shimo eventually manages to annihilate the flock with her frost bite blast, but the arrival of Godzilla and Kong again prevents the army from proceeding. A fierce melee ensues in which Shimo and the Skar King engage Godzilla and Kong, while Mothra arrives and restrains the Skar King's warriors with her silk webbing.
Eventually, the Titans fall through a vortex while battling and end up on the surface world, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Having arrived first, the Skar King orders Shimo to blast her frost bite blast into the sky, creating a monolithic blizzard, before ordering her to blast the city of Rio. Godzilla and Kong arrive soon after and the battle continues. Shimo grapples with Godzilla, destroying entire city blocks in their struggle, while Kong battles the Skar King. Suko soon arrives with Kong's axe and shatters the Skar King's crystal with which he uses to control Shimo. Having broken free from the tyrant ape's enthrallment, Godzilla then tells Shimo to take her long-awaited vengeance on the Skar King, freezing him instantly with her frost bite blast before Kong shatters him into thousands of pieces.
With the Skar King defeated, Shimo chooses to no longer fight Godzilla and Kong. After a roar from Godzilla, she immediately freezes the Skar King. And after Kong smashed the frozen evil ape to pieces, she watches in awe as Godzilla uses his atomic breath to revert the apocalyptic blizzard she had been forced to create. Of her own volition, Shimo chooses to stay with Kong and Suko and returns to the Skar King's former stronghold with the duo to liberate the enslaved Great Apes still being held there.
