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Alluring Bulbs, also known as Gloria mesmeri, are plant florafauna superspecies created by Legendary Pictures that first appeared in the MonsterVerse book, Kong: Skull Island Cinematic Adventure.
Name
Alluring Bulbs are named for their manner of luring prey with their floral aroma. Gloria mesmeri is derived from 'Gloria', a popular breed of garden cosmos, and mesmerize.
Design
Appearance
Alluring Bulbs are massive plants made up of a bulbous body with a fanged mouth and stomach, as a pastel bed of flowers grows on top of it acting as camouflage. Clusters of vines grow around the plant, allowing them to move their spherical body around the island in search of new spots for hunting.
Personality
Alluring Bulbs are ambush predators that use their innocuous flowery hide to lie in wait for prey. Like real-life carnivorous plants, these creatures will emit a pleasant aroma to attract creatures that wander too close. Upon sensing its prey, the bulb will snatch the prey in its jaws like an active bear trap and slowly digest them.
Origins
Beautiful flowers cover the ground in layers on top of leafy tresses, creating what looks like a soft patch for animals to rest upon. The flowering buds emit an irresistible fragrance that invites closer inspection. But woe to any creature foolish enough to stop and savor the aroma, for this idyllic field of flowers is, in fact, the mouth and stomach of the Alluring Bulb, a notorious Skull Island ambush predator. As its prey comes in close, either to lay on the soft bed or to smell the flowers, sharp spikes emerge from the center of the petals—which, in reality, are needle-like teeth, heralding that the seemingly flat patch of flower-covered ground is rolling up to engulf, and eventually digest, its latest victim.
An Alluring Bulb is an efficient predator made up entirely of mouth, jaw, and stomach. Its natural shape is that of a mossy-looking spheroid, and it can slowly roll through the thickest undergrowth of Skull Island. When it senses a good ambush area, it unhinges its jaw and lays flat on the ground, displaying tendrils that look and feel like leafy vines. In reality, however, the tendrils are covering up the membrane that separates the creature’s mouth from its acid-filled stomach cavity. Whenever the Alluring Bulb hungers, its petals, resembling dark-hued, morning glory flowers, open and emit hallucinogenic pollen, interpreted by mammalian brains as the scent that they each find the most alluring, which draws the creatures to their doom.
Once a medium- or smaller-sized prey has entered the area, the creature's teeth protrude through where the flower's stigma would be, and the Alluring Bulb rolls up to embrace its meal like an organic Iron Maiden. Not suited for fighting, an Alluring Bulb will retreat (preferably with its prey still being bitten into and digested) by rolling away as fast as it can whenever it is damaged from without. Unlike most creatures, its "outer" skin is much more vulnerable to damage than its mouth and innards.
― Cinematic Adventure Creature Codex
History
Alluring Bulbs are among the numerous superspecies encountered on Skull Island.
Abilities
Aroma emission
Alluring Bulbs produce a sweet, fragrant, pheromone-like pollen that is almost irresistible to most creatures and beckons them toward the Bulb.
Camouflage
Alluring Bulbs use their false flower hide to remain undetected in an environment, especially in grassland, forest, meadow, or scrublands habitats.
Sharp teeth
The Alluring Bulbs' petals are described as 'needle-like teeth' from the center of which sharp spikes emerge, and the stigmas of their flowers also protrude teeth.
Tendrils
The Bulbs possess leafy, vine-like tendrils that primarily cover up the membrane that separates their mouth and stomach.
Tremorsense
While undercover, Alluring Bulbs can see and hear any creature that is in contact with the ground or water within 100 feet of it.
Gallery
List of appearances
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References
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Godzilla: Awakening • Godzilla: The Official Novelization • Godzilla: The Art of Destruction • Godzilla: With Light and Sound! • Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization • The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island • Skull Island: The Birth of Kong • Godzilla: Aftershock • Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization • The Art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters • Godzilla Dominion • Kingdom Kong • Kong and Me • Godzilla vs. Kong - The Official Movie Novelization • Godzilla vs. Kong: Sometimes Friends Fight (But They Always Make Up) • Godzilla vs. Kong: One Will Fall: The Art of the Ultimate Battle Royale • Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong • Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted • MonsterVerse Declassified • Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization • The Art of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire • Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong 2 • Return to Skull Island • Escape from Skull Island
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• Shinomura • • • Mire Squid • Mother Longlegs • Psychovulture • Sker Buffalo • • Spore Mantis • Snarehunter Ant • Skull Island Deer • Death Jackal • Magma Turtle • Sirenjaw • Swamp Locust • • Dagon • • • • • • • Leviathan • • Amhuluk • • • Quetzalcoatl • • • • Amhuluk • • Tiamat • Lahamu • Margygr • • • • • Hollow Earth lizard • Genitor swarm • Genitor • Spirit Tiger • Fern Bird • Vinestrangler • Giant Dodo • Sker Buffalo • Trapdoor Crab • Rock Bug • Vine Snake • Galloping Crocodile • Hawk • Dog • Grass Hedgehog • Aloe Turtle • Jovian Flytrap • Horncrest Chameleon • Amberpede • Kraken • Endopede • Ion Dragon • Frost Vark • Brambleboar • Titan Hunter • Spineprowler • • • Kong Tribe • Wart Dog • Parrot Frog • Vertacine • Drownviper • Tree Mimic • • Co-Cai • Sea Scarab • Vinerat • Needlewalker • Stampede Caterpillar
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Aaron Brooks • (Charles Dance) • Annie (Mae Whitman) • (Anthony Ramos) • Ato • Bernie Hayes (Brian Tyree Henry) • Cap (Benjamin Bratt • Cejudo • Charlie (Nicolas Cantu) • (Aisha Hinds) • Douglas MacArthur • Earl Cole (Shea Whigham) • Eiji Serizawa • (Elizabeth Olsen) • (Vera Farmiga) • Evgenij Medov • Evelyn Matemavi • (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) • Glenn Mills (Jason Mitchell) • Gunpei Ikari (Miyavi) • Hank Marlow (John C. Reilly) • Helen Karsten • Hiro (Yuki Matsuzaki) • (Corey Hawkins) • (Rebecca Hall) • (Zhang Ziyi) • Irene (Betty Gilpin • (Ken Watanabe) • Island Girl (Fryda Wolff • Jack Chapman (Toby Kebbell) • (O'Shea Jackson Jr.) • (Tom Hiddleston) • Jerry (Thomas Middleditch) • (Kaylee Hottle) • (Bryan Cranston) • (Julian Dennison) • Kuso • (Elizabeth Ludlow) • Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell/Wyatt Russell) • (Zhang Ziyi) • (Millie Bobby Brown) • (Eiza González) • (Kyle Chandler) • (Brie Larson) • Mike (Darren Barnet) • Miles Atherton • Nakamura • (Alexander Skarsgård) • Papa Brava • (Samuel L. Jackson) • Reg Slivko (Thomas Mann) • Reles (Eugene Cordero) • (Shun Oguri) • (Bradley Whitford) • Sam (Phil LaMarr • (Carson Bolde) • (Thomas Middleditch) • San Lin (Jing Tian) • (Juliette Binoche) • Satou • Steve Woodward (Marc Evan Jackson) • Singh • Tarkan Cavusgolu • Victor Nieves (John Ortiz) • (Sally Hawkins) • Walter R. Riccio • (Demián Bichir) • (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) • Senator Willis (Richard Jenkins) • (John Goodman/Anders Holm) • (David Strathairn) • Zamalek
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Africa (Algeria, Egypt) • Antarctica • Australia (Buselton) • Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan (Hiroshima, Janjira, Kyoto, Tokyo), Russia (Novosibirsk), Philippines) • Axis Mundi • Castle Bravo • New Zealand (Rotorua) • Hollow Earth • Pacific Ocean (Bikini Atoll, Guam, Moansta Island, Skull Island, Yap) • America (Brazil, Mexico, Pensacola, United States (Boston, San Francisco (Chinatown, Golden Gate Bridge), Hawaii (Honolulu), USS Saratoga))
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Apex Cybernetics • Monarch • Iwi
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| Staff
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Film series: Yoshimitsu Banno • Max Borenstein • David Callaham • Derek Connelly • Sharen Davis • John DesJardin • Alexandre Desplat • Michael Dougherty • Bob Ducsay • Gareth Edwards • Alex Garcia • John Gatins • Dan Gilroy • Tom Hammock • Henry Jackman • Jon Jashni • Bear McCreary • Seamus McGarvey • Eric McLeod • Kenji Okuhira • Mary Parent • Owen Paterson • Brian Rogers • Terry Rossio • Jim Rygiel • Ben Seresin • Josh Schaeffer • Zach Shields • Thomas Tull • Jordan Vogt-Roberts • Patricia Whitcher • Adam Wingard
Novels: Arthur Adams • Eric Battle • Jimmy Betancourt • Greg Borenstein • Yvel Guichet • Drew Edward Johnson • Jann Jones • Lee Loughridge • Robert Napton • Arvid Nelson • Allen Passalaqua • Alan Quah • Richard Starkings
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Bandai Creation's Godzilla 2014 Toy Line • Jakks Pacific's Godzilla • NECA's Godzilla • Godzilla: With Light and Sound! • Godzilla: Smash3 • Godzilla: Strike Zone • Godzilla: Crisis Defense • S.H. MonsterArts • Godzilla Eggs • Battle Spirits • Godzilla (2014 video game) • Lanard's Kong: Skull Island toy line
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| Scrapped content
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Rokmutul • Pterodactyl • Unnamed multi-legged monster • June 2012 screenplay • Shimidah
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