Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Is Lee Shaw Responsible For Releasing the New Titan in Season 2?

Lee Shaw has always treated Titans like loaded guns that everyone else insists on juggling for fun, but Season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters might finally flip the script and ask what happens when he is the one who pulls the trigger. 

The new trailer teases a colossal, bioluminescent Titan rising from the ocean — Titan X, a creature even bigger and more apocalyptic than anything Godzilla or Kong have had to deal with so far. 

Monarch is scrambling, Skull Island is back in play, and those brief shots of swirling water and glowing tendrils feel less like a simple new monster reveal and more like the fallout from a very human mistake.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 1 already built Shaw as the guy who knows more than he lets on and is willing to break chains, treaties, and continents to avoid another San Francisco‑style catastrophe. 

Axis Mundi made that even messier: his attempt to close the Kazakhstan rift went sideways. 

He was sucked into the in‑between realm where Titans fast‑travel, and time twisted so badly that decades passed topside while he fought to survive below. 

Whether it is a failed containment plan, a desperate “use one monster to stop another” gamble, or a panicked attempt to reopen a Titan gateway from the wrong side, Titan X feels less like a random emergence and more like the bill coming due on decisions Shaw made in and around Axis Mundi.

Two Ways Shaw Might Have Created Titan X

Shaw’s whole worldview is built on one belief: Titans are inevitable, but humanity’s response to them does not have to be chaotic. 

That is why he argued against nuking Godzilla and tore into Monarch for turning San Francisco into an accidental battlefield without a real backup plan. 

He does not trust institutions with extinction‑level threats, so he improvises, and that is where both main Titan X theories collide.

The first theory is the “Containment Plan Gone Wrong.” Trailer analysis and early reporting hint that Monarch once flagged an underwater anomaly and then backed off when the risk outweighed the budget. 

Slip Shaw into that history, and it is easy to imagine him designing a containment protocol—barriers, lures, maybe even Axis‑Mundi‑linked tech—to keep a deep‑sea Titan pinned down. 

If that system fails in Season 2, Titan X’s emergence becomes the direct consequence of an old Shaw plan finally cracking. 

The more brutal version: he may even have tried a “controlled release,” waking Titan X where Godzilla or Kong could respond, underestimating just how uncontrollable this thing really is.

The second theory is the “Axis Mundi Escape Key.” Only Titans are supposed to be able to fully activate and ride Hollow Earth portals; humans are basically collateral damage if they are in the way. 

When Shaw is left behind in Axis Mundi, the rules say he should never make it home. So if he did manage to punch a hole back to Earth, something had to push that door open from the Titan side. 

Shaw might have used Monarch tech, Titan pheromones, or residual energy from Operation Hourglass to ping the wrong creature — an ancient ocean Titan that answered the call like a key fitting a lock. 

In that version, Titan X is not just another random god waking up; it is the price of one man refusing to accept that the rules apply to him, even in a realm built for giants.

Either way, Season 2 is perfectly set up to ask the same uncomfortable question: Is Lee Shaw the man trying to save the world from Titans, or the architect of the next catastrophe they are all about to fight?

Titan X: Titanus Na Kika, Titanus Leviathan, Biollante… or Something New?

We are not guessing in a vacuum — Titanus Na Kika and Titanus Leviathan are already part of MonsterVerse canon, which makes them prime reference points for Titan X. 

Na Kika, introduced in King of the Monsters tie‑in material, is a massive cephalopod Titan with adhesive tendrils that can operate in and out of the water.

The way Titan X looms from the depths in the trailer, trailing bioluminescent patterns and writhing limbs, feels very Na Kika‑adjacent — like an older, more apocalyptic cousin from the same deep‑sea bloodline.

Titanus Leviathan, meanwhile, is the sea‑traveling Titan monitored at a Monarch outpost beneath Loch Ness, whose Hollow Earth tunnel movements fed the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. 

If Titan X is connected to Leviathan, Season 2 could reveal a Titan that has been moving through underwater tunnels and hidden portals for centuries, only now choosing to breach the surface in a way humanity cannot ignore. 

That would fit neatly with the show’s global feel — coastal villages, strange tides, and Monarch realizing too late that one of their oldest “managed” Titans was never really under control.

Biollante enters more as a spiritual inspiration than a direct adaptation.

Titan X’s bulk, tendril‑heavy silhouette, and Godzilla-like vibe have some fans seeing echoes of Toho’s plant‑Kaiju, especially if this new Titan can alter environments rather than just stomp through them. 

Even if rights keep the series from using Biollante outright, Titan X can still borrow that energy: a Titan that spreads, infects, and reshapes everything it touches.

Right now, the smartest bet is that Titan X is a new, original deep‑sea Titan that sits in the same family tree as Titanus Na Kika and possibly shares ancient territory with Titanus Leviathan. 

That lets Monarch honor existing lore while surprising fans with a fresh design and new stakes — and it folds perfectly back into the Shaw question. 

If Monarch already knew Na Kika and Leviathan were out there, and still let someone poke a bigger, older cousin awake — especially after Shaw’s misadventures in Axis Mundi — then Titan X is not just a monster problem. 

It is the latest, loudest proof that in the MonsterVerse, the real catastrophe usually starts with a human decision.

So where do you land — Na Kika’s terrifying relative, Leviathan’s deep‑sea rival, a Biollante‑coded horror, or something completely new?

And more importantly, is Lee Shaw the man trying to stop Titan X… or the one who gave it a reason to rise in the first place? 

Drop your wildest Titan X theories and Shaw predictions in the comments.