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What qualifies as a 'Different Incarnation'

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Lamango (talkcontribs)

Like we have so many Godzilla's on his page alone, yet missing some key ones. Rulers of Earth Godzilla is different from any Godzilla's as we don't know his origin. The Monsters on Godzilla Island are different from their Showa counter parts in the fact they're twice the size of them. The creatures in Monster of Monsters and SuperGodzilla are all different from their original counterparts too (biggest examples, Gigan being alive and well despite Zone Fighter killing him, Hedorah still existing despite Showa Godzilla killing him etc.) There's at least two MechaGodzilla 3s running around at this point.

I'm just a confused man who can't understand this stuff.

Les (talkcontribs)

All of the above are different incarnations. The dream is for there to be separate pages for every distinct version of Godzilla from every comic, TV show, and narrative video game. It just hasn't been made a reality yet.

Lamango (talkcontribs)

Aaaaah, OK, I just got confused. Like, does this goal also reach the other kaiju?

Lamango (talkcontribs)

Another example: There's Showa Gezora, who clearly died in Space Amoeba. Then a bigger one appeared in Monster of Monsters, and a possibly even bigger one appeared in Rulers of Earth. Does that warrant three incarnations for Gezora?

Les (talkcontribs)

At present, the only characters we've split into incarnation pages are Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, Rodan, Anguirus, Gamera, and Kong. This is because they are the most frequently appearing, and hosting all of their versions on one page gets to be a bit much. For less important characters like Gezora, one page is fine. There's definitely arguments to be made that things like Gigan or Manda could be split up at this point though.

Astounding Beyond Belief (talkcontribs)

Gyaos is also going to get incarnation pages, though work on those has stalled.

Lamango (talkcontribs)

Alright, thanks for clearing that up. I didn't want to accidentally make a sandbox for something that'd be useless like, 'Atari Pipeworks Megalon' or something.