Sorry to be that guy, Gentarn, but the original Mecha-godzilla (during the Showa era in the 70s) was actually a construct made by the Simian alien race.
However, you are thinking about a canon version of Mecha-Goji, in all fairness. The one that was created from the deceased Godzilla skeleton was the Millenium mecha from the early 2000s, which featured in I believe 2 films.
…sorry, I had to nerd all over the place.
I honestly didn’t know godzilla had such deep lore
Wait until you find about the giant rose monster that was also a mad scientists daughter that also had Godzilla’s DNA in it.
And then got sucked into a black hole, spat out a white hole and came back as a bigger, angrier, edgier Godzilla with even stronger bull-dust power and bling’d out shoulders bigger than an Orc’s pauldrons.
And then was only defeated by those same shoulders.
Godzilla lore is wild.
dont forget the comic series where Godzilla got sent to hell and killed literal Satan and then later killed God
The Oxygen Destroyer they used to kill Godzilla in the 1954 film mutated microscopic crutaceans in the ocean and over the next 40 year mutated more and began to grow large sizes.
And then all those crustaceans combined to form an even bigger crustacean to fight godzilla.
And then it evolved 2 more times and it’s horn was essentially a laser sword.
when it comes to Monsterverse Godzilla, he’s ancient, survived the oxygen destroyer, which was a bio weapon that destroys all life, face-tanked one of the largest modern day nukes point blank which only made him stronger, absorbed Mothra’s power, can have his body go into a thermo-nuclear meltdown and go into Burning mode which is so hot that everything around him gets incinerated and he managed to kill a giant alien dragon that had wolverine healing powers.
Meme aside, Kong is just…M O N K E Albeit a big monkey but he has no special abilities or powers. He’s just very big. It’s really hard to see him as any sort of viable threat to the big G when we already saw Ghidorah get stomped who was no doubt more powerful and scarier than Kong. I mean push comes to shove, if Godzilla went into metldown mode, Kong would literally be turned to ash just by standing close to him.
All that aside, everyone know that a 3rd big bad is gunna enter and they’ll team up to fight them. (And if you saw the leaks like I have, you already know who it is)
Both are the “heroes” of the respective franchises, so neither will lose. And despite being older (only by 20 years) Godzilla is the much bigger franchise and TOHO are very protective of how he’s portrayed so they probably wouldn’t let Legendary make him lose anyways.
There’s also the comic book series where he and Zeus duked it out.
So, this has been addressed earlier in this thread by several people including myself but…
Kong is more agile than him (this is speculative but given his build and his animalistic traits, it’s almost a certainty), and has been shown in the monsterverse to be able to improvise weaponry.
Godzilla has better combat instinct, but Kong is by far the more experienced fighter, as he spends all his time on Skull Island fighting the creatures there. He’s learned more about fighting different species, wheras Goji only surfaces every so often to keep other monsters in check. Aside from the comic with the MUTO prime between 2014 and KOTM, he’s speculated to have just been swimming in the ocean.
Godzilla’s meltdown is heavily speculated to be a one time powerup that came at the cost of Mothra and Serizawa. It’s not likely he’ll be able to whip this move up again since it was the result of the explosion of energy from when Serizawa juiced him up, and something Mothra did since her wings and shriek were present during the blast waves.
As I said earlier in this thread, Kong will likely lose, but it won’t be a curbstomp like everyone is memeing it as. There’s a lot of factors, several unknowns, and Kong is much more than a mere M O N K E.
He’s -THE- M O N K E.
All in all, gonna be a great fight.
Its not he uses it in one of the monsterverse comics as well, albeit it wasnt as crazy. But Godzilla I would say has more combat experience. Kong is still very very young. And While Godzilla in modern days doesnt fight as often, he’s 252 million years old and has been alive since before the dinosaurs and has probably hundreds of thousands if not millions of years of combat experience under his belt. He’s spent most of his life fighting other alpha class titans, even killing a species of titan that evolved specifically to kill his own species.
I didn’t know they made more monsterverse comics, gonna have to check this out.
True, but he’s an incredibly fast learner. Not only that but who is to say what he’s learned in 50 years?
I forget, was it ever stated that Godzilla was the only one of his species and had been alive for that long? Or were all the cave paintings of others from his species? We know he’s at least several thousand, but 252 million I don’t think was ever stated in the films, unless I missed something.
True, but! And counterpoint; Kong is a vastly different animal than what he’s faced before. The inexperience versus his kind might allow for the gap to be closed. Gorrilas are obscenely strong, intelligent, and resourceful creatures, so one to scale with his size is going to surprise him versus the primordial reptilian creatures he’s used to going up against. A majority of titan creatures appear to be reptilian or insectoid animals, with very few mammalian exceptions such as the Behemoth. Godzilla also isn’t used to dealing with creatures that tend to have more cunning than average.
He’s not exactly stupid, but his intelligence isn’t really his strongest trait either, not to the extent it is for Kong. When you have the agility of a gorilla and the intellect of one (actually, Kong seems smarter than most gorillas even, perhaps a trait of growing near the hollow earth tunnels where radiation may have affected his intellect?) it lends itself to making a more suitable match for Godzilla.
Gonna be real nice when the Big Monkee beats the Has-Been radioactive Dinosaur who is actually clearly a paper tiger. tosses gauntlet down
The memes are funny, not gonna lie.
Monsterverse Godzilla is the heavy of the piece, absolutely. And in isolation is completely, 100% the more powerful of the two. He thrashes big boys.
Monsterverse Kong, by comparison, is the street tough. He doesn’t fight Titans at all comparable to the ones Godzilla faces, but Kong fights significantly more often than Godzilla comparatively speaking.
Godzilla’s old but several years and even centuries go by between his fights. He’s able to recharge and heal. Kong, by contrast, has to fight seemingly daily just for a meal. He doesn’t get “breaks” the same way Godzilla seemingly does.
Throw that in with the aforementioned ability to improvise weaponry (which we see in the trailer having made an axe from some kind of material that is able to deflect/absorb Godzilla’s energy beams), and Kong actually has a believable means by which to stand up with Godzilla in the short term.
I don’t think anyone, having seen leaks or not, is under any illusions that the two are not ultimately going to tag team a bigger baddie. So really this isn’t a contest where one of them has to die and thus, the biggest concern of the conflict is whether or not the two combatants can actually pose enough of a challenge to the other to make the movie up to the point they team up entertaining. And I think it’s safe to say that’s not going to be much of a problem.
He uses it in Godzilla: Aftershock against MUTO Prime
We know of one other of Godzilla’s species, he was known as 'Dagon" and Muto-prime killed him by implanting her parastic eggs inside of him, which slowly killed him from the inside. Dagon’s skeleton is where the Muto eggs from 2014 were found.
Its from the Godzilla: Awakening graphic novel where Godzilal was fighting a titan called Shinomura right before the Premian-Triassic extinction (which was 253 million years ago) but Godzilla was already a full adult as of this comic so he’s likely older still
Oh wait, that one? I thought Aftershock was before KOTM? You’re right though, it was less impressive.
Yeah I definitely need to reread the comic cuz for some reason this detail slipped my mind. I do know about that, but like…wow. My brain is so foggy.
Ah, now that’s one I didn’t know about. Thanks for the heads up, I’ve actually been horrible about keeping up with the monsterverse extended media.
It is, he could always use a Thermonuclear Pulse. It just gets an upgrade in KOTM
Hrm, but how can we be sure that upgrade is permanent is my holdup. My assumption was that it was the result of Serizawa’s nuke that caused him to be able to make a blast that big.
Well Serizawa’s nuke seemed to give him a pretty big Perma power up as after he absorbed the radiation from it, his body physically mutated. He became taller and his dorsal spines even grew in size after the nuke. So if the nuke permanently altered his body, than as long as he keeps up his radiation diet I dont know why the powers he gained from it would disappear.