Mire Squid

The Mire Squid is a giant cephalopod monster that appears in the 2017 Legendary Pictures film, Kong: Skull Island.

Personality
Mire Squids are omnivores. They hunt from beneath the surface waiting for unsuspecting prey, attacking even those as large as Kong. The specimen who attacked Kong released ink as a last resort, to no avail.

Origin
According to Monarch's superspecies profile of the Mire Squid, it is classified as a "megalopod" under the sub-division of "Architeuthis [the Giant Squid] Hybrid." The report states that the initial hypothesis was that the Mire Squid was a distant cousin of the Great Pacific Octopus with some notable evolutionary mutations. However, the Monarch report implies that it might be a result of geothermal gigantism that is seen in Skull Island's creatures, though the report also states that a more detailed geothermal study must be conducted to understand the environmental factors that lead to this gigantism.

Kong: Skull Island
While drinking from a lake and cleaning his wounded hand, Kong realized that a Mire Squid was lurking near him. Kong punched the water, leading the beast's tentacles to erupt from the water and wrap around Kong. After briefly struggling with the Mire Squid's tentacles, Kong was able to stomp on its head and crush it. Kong tore off some of the Mire Squid's tentacles and ate them, then dragged the creature's carcass away.

Tentacles
The Mire Squid's most prominent trait is its many tentacles, which it uses in an attempt to bind and strangle Kong.

Ink
The Mire Squid can expel superheated black ink that is stored within its mantal chambers. In this way, the Mire Squid can hide itself from predators while boiling them alive at the same time.

Whirlpool
To hunt prey, the Mire Squid rotates its jaw like a centrifuge, forming a whirlpool in the surrounding water that allows the creature to swallow its prey.

is a giant cephalopod monster that appears in the 2017 Legendary Pictures film, Kong: Skull Island.