Nevada
Nevada is the 36th state in the United States of America. It is notably home to the city of Las Vegas and its popular casinos and resort hotels that make up the Las Vegas Strip and the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, both in which received relevance in Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse.
MonsterVerse
Godzilla (2014)
During a mining operation in the Philippines in 1999, two MUTO spores were discovered attached to a massive skeletal structure in a cave. While the first spore - the male, had already hatched and made its way to the Janjira Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, the other spore - the female, did not. Instead, the Americans took possession of said spore so they can vivisect and perform several tests on it. After some time, they disposed of it in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, believed to have been dormant.
In 2014, the male MUTO sent out a mating call to the female MUTO, signaling to her that it has matured and now ready to mate. Realizing that Godzilla intercepted the call and is now pursuing the male, Dr. Ishiro Serizawa and his assistant Vivienne Graham explained the existence of the female spore to Admiral William Stenz and Captain Russell Hampton, realizing the female was not dormant as they thought it was. Once Serizawa told Stenz and Hampton it was located at the Yucca Mountain Repository, military personnel was deployed to the repository to check.
By the time the military reached the repository, it was too late. The female MUTO had already broken out and made its way towards the Las Vegas Strip, terrorizing the populace and leaving untold amounts of destruction in its wake. After passing through the now-destroyed strip, the military fired missiles at the female, hoping to at the very least, slow it down.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Five years after the female MUTO broke out and destroyed the Las Vegas Strip, it was left in its damaged state, and at some point completely abandoned. As noted by Dr. Emma Russell in 2019, the unique radiation emitted by the female MUTO (and by extension, all the Titans) caused the area to be completely overgrown with vegetation.
