List of Godzilla film continuities

This is a list of the various continuities of the Godzilla films, along with other official media that is confirmed to take place within them, arranged in the order in which they chronologically take place.

Showa continuity

Godzilla (1954)
Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Rodan (1956)^[1]
Varan (1958)^[1]
Mothra (1961)^[1]
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
Atragon (1963)^[1]
Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)^{[note 1]}
Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965)^[1]^{[note 2]}
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)^[1]^{[note 3]}
The War of the Gargantuas (1966)^[1]
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
King Kong Escapes (1967)^[1]
Son of Godzilla (1967)
All Monsters Attack (1969)^[1]^{[note 4]}
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)^{[note 5]}
Zone Fighter (TV 1973; 26 episodes)^[2]^[3]
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
Destroy All Monsters (1968)^{[note 6]}

Notes:

The unofficial short story 2075: Meister Titano's Counterattack, written by Yukiko Takayama, takes place 100 years after the events of Terror of Mechagodzilla in the year 2075.
The Escape from the Hotel with Godzilla Approaching escape room at Atami Bay Resort Korakuen presents itself as a sequel to King Kong vs. Godzilla. It is unknown whether it acknowledges the subsequent Godzilla films in the Showa era.

Heisei continuity

Notes:

The last five films in this continuity each take place in the year after they were released. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah also features time travel to 1944 and 2204.
The 1994 book Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla Super Complete Works states that MOGUERA was built using records of the original Moguera left behind from the Mysterians' 1957 invasion of Earth, suggesting that The Mysterians is canon to the Heisei series.^[4]

TriStar continuity

GODZILLA (1998)
Godzilla: The Series (TV 1998-2000; 40 episodes)

Godzilla 2000: Millennium continuity

Godzilla (1954)
Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)^{[note 7]}

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus continuity

Godzilla (1954)^{[note 8]}
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)^{[note 9]}

GMK continuity

Godzilla (1954)
GODZILLA (1998)^[1]
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)^{[note 10]}

Kiryu series continuity

Godzilla (1954)^{[note 11]}
Rodan (1956)^[1]
Varan (1958)^[1]
Mothra (1961)^[1]
Atragon (1963)^[1]
Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965)^[1]^{[note 12]}^{[note 13]}
The War of the Gargantuas (1966)^[1]
King Kong Escapes (1967)^[1]
Space Amoeba (1970)^[1]^{[note 14]}
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)^{[note 15]}
Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003)^{[note 16]}

Note: While Godzilla Dictionary [New Edition] does not place Gorath or Dogora in the Kiryu series' continuity, Fantastic Collection - Godzilla: Tokyo SOS confirms the appearances of Maguma and Dogora.^[5]

Godzilla Final Wars continuity

Godzilla Final Wars (2004)^{[note 17]}

Note: Though Godzilla first appeared in 1954, Final Wars is not considered to be in continuity with the original film or any others.^[6]

Monsterverse continuity

Godzilla: Awakening (2014)^{[note 18]}
Kong: Skull Island (2017)^{[note 19]}
Skull Island (TV 2023)^{[note 20]}
Skull Island: The Birth of Kong (2017)^{[note 21]}
Godzilla (2014)
Godzilla: Aftershock (2019)^{[note 22]}
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (TV 2023-2024)^{[note 23]}
"Sliver of the Skull" (2023)^{[note 24]}
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization (2019)^{[note 25]}^[7]
Godzilla Dominion and Kingdom Kong (both 2021)
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) and Godzilla: Fight or Flight (2023)^{[note 26]}
Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted (2024)^{[note 27]}
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)^{[note 27]}

Shin Godzilla continuity

Shin Godzilla (2016)

GODZILLA anime trilogy continuity

GODZILLA: Monster Apocalypse (2017)^{[note 28]}
GODZILLA: Project Mechagodzilla (2018)^{[note 29]}
GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters (2017)^{[note 30]}
GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)^{[note 30]}
GODZILLA: The Planet Eater (2018)^{[note 30]}

Fest Godzilla continuity

Godzilla vs. Hedorah (2021)
Fest Godzilla 3: Gigan Attacks (2022)
Fest Godzilla 4: Operation Jet Jaguar (2023)
Fest Godzilla 5: All Monsters Showdown (2024)

Note: The first film in the series, Godzilla Appears at Godzilla Fest (2020), depicts Godzilla as a fictional character.

Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex continuity

Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex (2022)
Godzilla vs. Megalon (2023)

Notes:

Though Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex is a sequel to the fan film G vs. G (2019), the former seems to ignore it, establishing that Godzilla hasn't appeared in a quarter of a century.
Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex contains allusions to Godzilla Junior and the ending of Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, though whether it and its sequel are connected to the Heisei continuity remains unconfirmed.

Godzilla Minus One continuity

Godzilla Minus One (2023)^{[note 31]}

Notes

↑ Set in 1965.
↑ Following a prologue set in 1945, the film's events pick up 15 years later (1960). Despite this, the timeline laid out in Godzilla Dictionary [New Edition] places it between Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and Invasion of Astro-Monster.
↑ Set in 196X (props from the film place it in 1965). This was changed to 197X in the film's Toho Champion Festival release, though the change is not considered canon.
↑ All of the film's monster scenes take place in the dreams of a schoolboy.
↑ Set in 197X. The English dub instead states that the beginning of the film takes place “in the first part of 1971”.
↑ Set chronologically last. While both English dubs specify its setting as 1999, the Japanese version simply places it at the end of the 20th century.
↑ Set in 2000.
↑ Altered version in which Dr. Serizawa either never used the Oxygen Destroyer or Godzilla survived it.
↑ Set in 2001.
↑ Set in 2002.
↑ Altered version in which the Oxygen Destroyer killed the first Godzilla, but left his skeleton intact.
↑ Following a prologue set in 1945, the film's events pick up 15 years later (1960). Despite this, sources state that within the continuity of the Kiryu series, Frankenstein, Baragon, and the Giant Octopus all appeared in 1965.
↑ Version with the alternate ending including the Giant Octopus.^[5]
↑ A second Kamoebas appeared in Guam after the events of this film in 1987.
↑ Set in 2003.
↑ Set in 2004.
↑ Set in 20XX.
↑ Primarily set from 1945 to 1954.
↑ Set in 1973.
↑ Set in circa 1993.
↑ Set in 2012, with the majority of its events being flashbacks to 1995.
↑ Set in 2014.
↑ Primarily set in 2015 and ending in 2017, with flashbacks to 1952, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1973, 1982, 2012, 2013, and 2014.
↑ Campaign set in 2015.
↑ Kong's response to King Ghidorah's call is the only part of the novelization to be confirmed canon, as per director Michael Dougherty. Otherwise, there are several contradictions to the film in the novelization.
↑ Both set in 2024.
↑ ^27.0 ^27.1 Set in 2027.
↑ Set from 1999 to 2039.
↑ Set from 2029 to 2048.
↑ ^30.0 ^30.1 ^30.2 Set in approximately 22048.
↑ Set from 1945 to 1947.

References

This is a list of references for List of Godzilla film continuities. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 ^1.13 ^1.14 ^1.15 ^1.16 ^1.17 Nomura 2014, p. 311
↑ Godzilla Movie Studio Tour. Windows 95, Premier Systems, 1998.
↑ Nomura 2014, p. 88, 109
↑ Abe 2014, p. 65.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Shimazaki, Tomoi & Kobayashi 2003, p. 79
↑ Shin Godzilla Walker: The New Legend of the King of the Monsters (3rd ed.). Kadokawa. 26 September 2016. p. 47. ISBN 978-4-04-895632-1.
↑ Dougherty, Michael (6 June 2019). "From the #GodzillaMovie novelization by Greg Keyes. https://amazon.com/dp/178909092X/... 🦍". Twitter.

Bibliography

Nomura, Kohei (7 August 2014). Godzilla Dictionary [New Edition]. Kasakura Publishing. ISBN 978-4-7730-8725-3.
Abe, Katsu, ed. (23 May 2014). Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla Super Complete Works (Kindle ed.). Shogakukan. ISBN 978-4-09-101444-3.
Shimazaki, Jun; Tomoi, Taketo; Kobayashi, Yuji (30 December 2003). Fantastic Collection - Godzilla: Tokyo SOS. Asahi Sonorama. ISBN 4-257-03688-5.

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[2] Set in 1965.

[3] Following a prologue set in 1945, the film's events pick up 15 years later (1960). Despite this, the timeline laid out in Godzilla Dictionary [New Edition] places it between Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and Invasion of Astro-Monster.

[4] Set in 196X (props from the film place it in 1965). This was changed to 197X in the film's Toho Champion Festival release, though the change is not considered canon.

[5] All of the film's monster scenes take place in the dreams of a schoolboy.

[6] Set in 197X. The English dub instead states that the beginning of the film takes place “in the first part of 1971”.

[9] Set chronologically last. While both English dubs specify its setting as 1999, the Japanese version simply places it at the end of the 20th century.

[11] Set in 2000.

[12] Altered version in which Dr. Serizawa either never used the Oxygen Destroyer or Godzilla survived it.

[13] Set in 2001.

[14] Set in 2002.

[15] Altered version in which the Oxygen Destroyer killed the first Godzilla, but left his skeleton intact.

[16] Following a prologue set in 1945, the film's events pick up 15 years later (1960). Despite this, sources state that within the continuity of the Kiryu series, Frankenstein, Baragon, and the Giant Octopus all appeared in 1965.

[18] Version with the alternate ending including the Giant Octopus.^[5]

[19] A second Kamoebas appeared in Guam after the events of this film in 1987.

[20] Set in 2003.

[21] Set in 2004.

[22] Set in 20XX.

[24] Primarily set from 1945 to 1954.

[25] Set in 1973.

[26] Set in circa 1993.

[27] Set in 2012, with the majority of its events being flashbacks to 1995.

[28] Set in 2014.

[29] Primarily set in 2015 and ending in 2017, with flashbacks to 1952, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1973, 1982, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

[30] Campaign set in 2015.

[31] Kong's response to King Ghidorah's call is the only part of the novelization to be confirmed canon, as per director Michael Dougherty. Otherwise, there are several contradictions to the film in the novelization.

[33] Both set in 2024.

[Monsterverse-34] 27.0 ^27.1 Set in 2027.

[35] Set from 1999 to 2039.

[36] Set from 2029 to 2048.

[Anime-37] 30.0 ^30.1 ^30.2 Set in approximately 22048.

[38] Set from 1945 to 1947.

[Dictionary-1] 1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 ^1.13 ^1.14 ^1.15 ^1.16 ^1.17 Nomura 2014, p. 311

[7] Godzilla Movie Studio Tour. Windows 95, Premier Systems, 1998.

[Dictionary2-8] Nomura 2014, p. 88, 109

[FOOTNOTEAbe201465-10] Abe 2014, p. 65.

[Fantastic-17] 5.0 ^5.1 Shimazaki, Tomoi & Kobayashi 2003, p. 79

[23] Shin Godzilla Walker: The New Legend of the King of the Monsters (3rd ed.). Kadokawa. 26 September 2016. p. 47. ISBN 978-4-04-895632-1.

[32] Dougherty, Michael (6 June 2019). "From the #GodzillaMovie novelization by Greg Keyes. https://amazon.com/dp/178909092X/... 🦍". Twitter.

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