The online ARG which was created to market Cloverfield in the months leading up to its release reveals, through several hints, that the monster is indeed a deep-sea creature who was awoken by Tagruato submarines, and special features from the Blu-ray release of the film further reveal that the creature was intended to be a juvenile by the filmmakers. Preliminary details from the attack on Tagruato's Chuai drilling platform indicate that Clover may have been originally discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, and other theories suggest that the Human Scale Parasites which Clover collected on its body may have provoked him into his emergence from the water. Hudson Platt speculates that the monster could either be of extraterrestrial descent or an earthly creature that laid dormant deep underwater, comparing it to the Coelacanth which was presumed extinct for over 80 million years before it was rediscovered in the 20th century. In Cloverfield, the monster's origins are left ambiguous, although several theories are provided.
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From what little can be seen of Clover in The Cloverfield Paradox, he appears to have more visible teeth while his mouth is closed, a longer scalp, broader shoulders, and an overall rougher skin texture. His head has sharp, bony features, two eyes with massive black pupils, and a pair of membranous sacks on the sides, which can inflate and recede back into the head. Two "external esophagi," which end in tooth-like projections, extend from the monster's lower chest. Clover's skin is light grey with darker speckles. His slender, triple-jointed front legs are longer than his hind legs, ending in multi-fingered hands that can bend backward, allowing the creature to knuckle-walk. In Japan, the creature is sometimes referred to as Hakaisha (ハカイシャ), which is homophonous with the word for "destroyer" (破壊者, hakaisha) and appears in the film's Japanese title: Cloverfield/HAKAISHA.Ĭlover is a quadrupedal sea monster with a long, forked tail. None of the film's civilian characters refer to it by a specific name, though Hudson Platt at one point describes it as "a terrible thing." In the movie, the creature is designated by the United States Department of Defense as LSA, an acronym meaning Large Scale Aggressor. He is angry at the failure of his plan, and the monsters all of sudden begin fighting for dominance of the Eath.The monster does not possess an official consistent name, but members of the film's crew-including designer Neville Page on concept art for the creature-as well as many fans have taken to calling it Clover, a shortening of the film's title, Cloverfield. However, an asteroid collides into the sattelite, freeing the monsters from Snow's control. He sends the monsters to rampage across the world. He gains control of Godzilla, Destoroyah, Jet Jaguar, Orga, and Kiryu. He creates a mind-control sattelite that will put alll monsters under his control. So, when he found that there were giant monsters on an island near Japan, he has seized the opportunity to force all nations to submit to him. President Snow decided he was still unsatisfied with ruling America in the form of Panem.