It's time we addressed the important question

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On the subject of how one intends to view this film, I’m actually planning on making a premiere night for my younger family members. Back when KOTM came out, I got my cousin’s daughter HOOKED on Godzilla movies and lore, to the point where saying she’s obsessed with Kaiju is an understatement.

She even got all the other little ones in the family into it, so now, I have an obligation to take all them to see the movie. So, to both save money but also make an unforgettable viewing experience, I plan to break out the old projector, put up a good screen in the backyard, get some neat lighting to mark the isles, chairs, blankets, pillows all out in the backyard, surround stereos, and get an assortment of candies, popcorn, etc. and run a ‘mock up concession stand’ for the kids and have a huge backyard movie party for them to see the film, too. Best part is I’m coordinating with their parents so we can all pitch in to make it something special for them.

Making monster movie memories. I feel lucky I could pass my adoration of these kinds of films onto a younger generation.

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You are wonderful! That is such a good idea!

For those who don’t know, I am ancient… like in my 50’s ancient. So I got hooked on Godzilla when I was a little kid. Like I saw Godzilla on Monster Island in the theater when it was current. But Mothra vs Godzilla got me started. The network Comet is running old Godzilla movies right now and I couldn’t be happier.

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Part way there. Trailer breakdowns have pointed to Mecha Godzilla being the likely third party antagonist. There’s a brief shot showing some schematics, there’s a blurry shot of something silver/red attacking people, and apparently unexplained Godzilla attacks are a plot point- and Mecha Godzilla’s original appearance saw him covered in some sort of fake skin before revealing his robotic nature. It’ll probably some hologram stuff in the movie.

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So, interesting theory I’ve heard.

If, and this is an -if- here. Someone mentioned the idea that the primary antagonist is likely Mecha-Godzilla, but does believe Godzilla will fight Kong. The logic?

We see pretty clearly there is going to be a fight at sea. Godzilla, largely, is the king of the Titans. I say it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that he attacks the ships transporting Kong on the basis that, as far as he’d know, the humans are transporting one of his pantheon without permission so he has to react as any good king would. Kong, in turn, basically sees Giant Radioactive Dino being a threat to the kid we see he bonded with in the trailer.

Realistically, Kong aint winning a fight in the sea, so my logic here is that Godzilla is not fighting Kong to kill, but more trying to keep the status quo and subdue kong before dropping him off at his island, or the Hollow Earth.

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it costs like $10 for for a carton of flavacol that will last you like 100 bowls of popcorn.

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My biggest issue with the Mechagodzilla theory is despite being in a world full of Kaju, the Monsterverse is still by and large based in reality.

How exactly would an eco-terrorist build a gigantic mechanical Kaju complete with weaponized laser breath?

That’s starting to untether the narrative from the “grounding” it otherwise has had.

Not to say I wouldn’t love to see a modern interpretation of Mechagodzilla, but wouldn’t the simpler solution be that there is another Goji Titan that people mistake for Godzilla?

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I’ve watched exactly one more King Kong movie than I have Godzilla.

Which isn’t saying much, actually. I’ve only watched like, one King Kong movie.

I have no dog in this race. Or monkee, as it were.

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The original mecha-godzilla was built around a deceased Godzilla’s skeleton.

Odds are they did the exact same thing for this one, and they’ve just been using the APEX company as a shell to siphon money, equipment and people to get the mechanical ‘under-body’ built and using Ghidora’s head and its native regenerative abilities to fill in the blanks.

Hence why this Godzilla is far more clumsy and aggressive.

That said I would appreciate a second Godzilla, a smaller, more immature and more territorial one that’s come crawling out of the Hollow Earth and is looking to assemble its own pantheon of Titans and thinks subduing Kong will be a good way to say “I’m badass, follow me!” to the other, older Titans.

And I’d die laughing if the hard swerve is that Japan built Mecha-Godzilla on their own as an Anti-Titan defence, told nobody, and when the actual Godzilla shows up, it get Power Ranger’d like a Villain-of-the-Week once it goes up against an actual Alpha Titan.

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I know Gidorah’s head is the popular theory at the moment, but I mean…Mecha-Gidorah is already a thing. Plus I always took the ending of KotM as being a backdoor way to bring Gidorah back down the line (Much in the same way the news report revealed Mothra had supposedly laid an egg before dying).

I feel like using Gidorah as the onus for this false Godzilla copy could potentially ruin future appearances (assuming the Monsterverse keeps going). But maybe that’s because I keep holding out hope for the ultimate Crossover.

Godzilla: Pacific Rim.

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I mean, technically it regenerates.

Give it enough energy, it will regenerate the neck, then the body, then the other heads.

Cut it apart, freeze the ‘surplus’ and use the trauma of being dissected alive to keep ‘Kevin’ in check and compliant with A.P.E.X.'s goals, and we have both Mecha-Godzilla now and, in a later movie(s), the return of Ghidora and the arrival of Mecha-Ghidora.

Hell, do we even know if Ghidora is the only one of its species or will its mate show up and get aggro because the other half of the pair hasn’t turned Earth into a suitable hatching ground after a few thousand years to get around to it?

Depending upon the origin, Ghidora was a guardian deity, a genetically-sculpted war-machine from a pan-galactic war long before Humanity came down from the trees, and the result of three cute little pets being warped into a constantly-in-pain abomination used to devastate Earth and allow alien invaders to take over without any real resistance.

So long as the Monsterverse doesn’t Flanderize the Titans/Kaiju, I don’t care, I just don’t want all of the Titans to suddenly be Humanity’s best buddies since forever like Mothra and, to a lesser extent, Kong and his kind, but setting it up for the plot reveal that Ghidora isn’t this singular menace, but just one member of a giant, galaxy-spanning ‘flock’ that can drift through the void of space until they detect a planet in the ‘green belt’, wake up, fly over and consume and reproduce until the planet is used up and then their spawn move on to the next one would be a horrifying concept, because not only does that mean all the Alien races from the various Godzilla ‘eras’ could show up, but they’re going to be desperate to claim both one of the few habitable planets left in the milky way, but also claim our Titans, who are capable of going toe-to-toe with the Ghidora species and winning.

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gigan and spacegodzilla gaming

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They already had giant flying aircraft carriers and super submarines in the previous movie. And this film takes place some time after that. People seem to generally acknowledge that Kaiju and Hollow Earth and Atlantis/Mu/Lemuria are just a thing to the point where “Kaiju chasers” and , “Let’s get another kaiju to fight this one,” are things people do.

Pretty much the same history/tone established in Pacific Rim. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the first jaeger(s) rolling off the line.

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I’m perfectly okay with some Titans being Friends to Humanity. Mothra, Kong, and (inevitably) Gamera.

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Just imagine: Gypsy Danger fighting back to back with Godzilla against Destroyah.

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I’ve never been invested in any of these monster movies, have never watched any, did not even know there was a mecha-Godzilla but I have to say that I’m impressed that there seem to be enough movies that there’s deep lore and theorycrafting you can do about this subject.

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A relevant video popped up on my feed this morning:

https://youtu.be/siw4czXxXM0

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Mecha Ghidorah is missing its central head. It has no will of its own and is piloted by a time traveling terrorist from the future.

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As opposed to Mechagodzilla, controlled by Green Ape Aliens.

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I’m going with the Mecha Godzilla theory for three reasons.

In his first film appearance Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Mechagodzilla wore a Godzilla costume and proceeded to masquerade as him while wrecking everything. He also beat up Angurius which was very uncool.

A Mechagodzilla toy was leaked ages ago.

The last reason is strictly based on personal interpretation of the films. Within the context of the Monsterverse, Godzilla can’t be bothered with us in any capacity. Literally pulling himself out of the ocean after who knows how many centuries ONLY because 2 bugs wanted to smash and he wasn’t having it. He’s been shot at a lot, and outright benefits from getting slapped with a tactical nuke. As it stands the only thing with the potential to kill him is the Oxygen Destroyer and that has such a massive ecological fallout that I suspect going forward nobody wants to be responsible for pressing the button.

Humans pose little threat to Godzilla and thrashing around Tokyo (again) isn’t a productive use of his energy. And if he presumably made the connection between getting hit with the Oxygen Destroyer and humans, randomly attacking everyone is just putting him at risk of that a second time, except he won’t be getting a Nuclear energy boost afterwards.

Also it would just REALLY upset Mothra if he started acting out.

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I mean, apparently Guillermo Del Toro shares that hope.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/pacific-rim-godzilla-kong-crossover-guillermo-del-toro/amp/

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