Godzilla (Monsterverse)
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- Main article: Godzilla (Monsterverse).
- This article covers the Monsterverse Godzilla within the primary continuity of the Monsterverse and does not account for non-canon/alternate-canon media such as crossovers (Examples: Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong and its sequel series), video games (Example: Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers), or both (Examples: Call of Duty, Fortnite).
- Disclaimer: This article accounts for ALL CANON information. However, the material content is not entirely definitive and interwoven, resulting in some subtle degree of speculation to compensate for uncertainties.
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He moves through his territory; his territory moves in him. He knows his domain by its voices, sounds, scents. By cycles larger than epochs and smaller than heartbeats, he knows it by its thirsts and hungers. By what it needs. Territory is not a place. It is a compulsion. Territory is not a choice. It is what creates him, and what he creates. Bone is rock, flesh is soil, blood is the ocean inside of him.
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— Godzilla's narrative in Godzilla Dominion |
Godzilla is a Titan that first appears in the 2014 Legendary Pictures film Godzilla, going on to reappear in numerous films and other media as the Monsterverse crossover series progressed. An immensely ancient Titan with a vast history with humankind and other creatures like him, this Godzilla assumes a heroic purpose of maintaining order and harmony, radically standing out from other Godzilla incarnations with his moral independence and almost divine guardian disposition. First reacquainting with modern human civilization following the end of World War 2, Godzilla eventually disappeared in the mid-1950s and remained absent until 2014, revealing himself to the world as he pursued the MUTOs to end their threat to the earth.
Name
- See also: Godzilla#Name.
Godzilla's Japanese name, Gojira (ゴジラ), comes from a combination of the Japanese approximation of "gorilla" (ゴリラ gorira) and the Japanese word for "whale" (クジラ kujira).
In-universe, likewise, Gojira is a conjunction of the Japanese words for "whale" and "gorilla". Godzilla is known by this name in legends from throughout the Pacific Ocean.[30]
When Gojira was translated into the English name Godzilla is unknown, but characters such as Major-promoted-Colonel Lee Shaw and General Puckett have referred to him by the latter as far back as 1955.[31]
By the events of 2019, Monarch had given Godzilla the Titan classification name Titanus Gojira, which is shown on his Titan profile.[13]
In the novelization of Godzilla vs. Kong, Jia shares with Dr. Ilene Andrews an old Iwi story that speaks of Zo-zla-halawa, the Great Eternal Enemy. This name is used for both Godzilla himself individually and for his species as a whole.[3]
Within their temple, the Iwi tribe in Malenka have ancient writings describing Godzilla's history with the Great Apes. As translated by Dr. Andrews during the events of 2027, the writings refer to Godzilla as The Monster Who Ate a Star.[4][5]
Design
The Monsterverse Godzilla introduces a new design with realistic proportions and textures like the Tristar Godzilla while remaining full-heartedly true to the traditional appearance of the character. Godzilla's head is broad and heavily angular, with a squarish crocodilian-like snout filled with two rows of sharp, uneven teeth. Godzilla's body and tail are much bulkier than past incarnations, the latter feature spanning a significant length and ending in a whip-like tip. The upper torso is mostly barrel-shaped, with the ribcage making up a good amount of the physical form. Godzilla's legs are long and thick like an elephant or a sauropod while the wide feet are flat at the bottom and possess short yet sharp toe-claws, giving a likewise appearance. The front of Godzilla's torso yields visible pectoral and abdominal muscles along the middle. Godzilla's dorsal plates retain the traditional maple leaf shape, albeit simplistic and relatively smaller in size compared to past incarnations, and by singular distinction very sharp and jagged. The front flanks of Godzilla's neck possesses two sets of five visible gills while the throat is protected by over six armor plating scales.
GareGoji
Godzilla taking his leave from San Francisco in Godzilla (right)
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Godzilla (2014 film)
Godzilla is depicted with a black or dark charcoal grey colored hide. His irises are dark ember and his sclera are seemingly white.
Godzilla: Awakening
Godzilla is consistently green throughout Godzilla: Awakening whether as a complete color scheme or as a tint. His design heavily simplified, resembling his appearance from Godzilla in only a few panels. Otherwise, his design and details are more rounded or more generically reptilian. His eyes are portrayed as watery pale green, yellow, or red depending on the lighting.
In 250 million BC, Godzilla possesses stubbier arms, pointed brow ridges, and more abundant and pronounced abdominal muscles.
During his second visit to Moansta Island in 1954, Godzilla conveniently appears identical to the Marvel Earth-616 Godzilla's irradiated design in one panel.
Godzilla: Aftershock
Godzilla's design in Godzilla: Aftershock remains entirely true to his in-universe look as debuted in Godzilla, his hide being the standard black/dark grey coloration and his eyes being orange/dark amber. However, as the events of the graphic novel progress, Godzilla gains numerous battle scars throughout his upper body, inflicted by MUTO Prime's claws. In the final battle, the MUTO-progenitor uses her sonic roar to shatter Godzilla's dorsal plates, which emit a blue plume for the rest of the graphic novel.
When Godzilla charges and unleashes his nuclear pulse, his body glows with bright veins and a blue discharge of light straight up into the sky.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
For Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, both the GareGoji and the DougheGoji CGI models were reworked, with the former being portrayed for the events of 2014 and earlier while the latter being portrayed for the present-day.
In 1954,
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DougheGoji
Godzilla standing as some of the other Titans surround him in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (right)
Godzilla was given a new design for Godzilla: King of the Monsters that was intended to enhance his image, all while also honoring Toho's classic Showa era Godzilla films. To achieve this, Godzilla's new design was given some of the characteristics of the original Godzilla from the 1954 film.
Godzilla is bigger and more beefy, with his shoulders being broader and his thick being thicker. His tail is relatively shorter than previously and end with a larger, more rounded tip. The claws and toe claws are longer and sharper. The feet are angled to the sides outwards and the toes are arranged more like those in the ShodaiGoji design.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
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"Burning Godzilla"
Godzilla charging up the first of three thermonuclear pulses as Burning Godzilla in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (right)
Godzilla's design whilst in his thermonuclear state pays direct homage to the Heisei Godzilla's nuclear meltdown state of the same name from Toho's 1995 film Godzilla vs. Destoroyah; Burning Godzilla.
The filmmakers of Godzilla: King of the Monsters took inspiration from lava and molten rock when designing Burning Godzilla.
Most prominently, Godzilla glows orange and red in this states, flashing a yellow-to-red spectrum in the crevices of his skin and armor. His eyes glow red.
Godzilla vs. Kong
For Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla's CGI model had the textures redone.
Whilst towards his full strength, Godzilla's bioluminescence is a darker blue than in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, reverting to the previous hue of blue when Godzilla's energy is exhausted.
Godzilla Dominion
Godzilla is consistently portrayed in Godzilla Dominion with either his canon black/dark grey color scheme or a blue tint, the latter in adherence to the aesthetic and tone of the graphic novel.
A brief set of flashbacks reveal Godzilla's design from his youth an extremely long time ago.
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Legends of the Monsterverse: The Omnibus "Godzilla: Fight or Flight"
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
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Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted
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EvoGoji/"Godzilla Evolved"
Shot of Godzilla in his "evolved" form in the film (right)
Godzilla's "evolved" form introduces a radical new design to reflect on Godzilla's self-mutated evolution. Certain new traits are a result of Godzilla incorporating Tiamat's DNA in his own.
Godzilla has significantly bulked up at the neck and upper torso, having burnt away his entire fat reserves to achieve a toned out physique that emphasizes muscle and athleticism. His skin is tinted green, otherwise appearing cool grey or black depending on the lighting. The textures throughout his body are spiked and more reptilian. His dorsal plates are given a fleshy design with visible veins and backward slanted forms. His tail now possesses four dorsal plates towards the tip that compose a newly obtained thagomizer. His bioluminescence is pink, changing to purple if his atomic energy is honed as intensely and lengthily as possible.
Personality
The Monsterverse Godzilla radically stands out from past and subsequent incarnations of the character by being a self-motivated benevolent guardian of order and life, holding immense regard for both the natural world and humanity alike. Unlike some Godzillas such as the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla, the Second-generation Tristar Godzilla, and the Second-generation Showa Godzillas, who are generally influenced into being or becoming heroic by the love of their families, the Monsterverse Godzilla acts independently and with a morally-driven sense of judgement, showcasing growth across his appearances and consistently demonstrating acts of observation, understanding, mercy, and other intellectual or ethical values. In contrast to past incarnations' tendencies to hold little to no regard for collateral damage, the Monsterverse Godzilla proactively tries minimize the destruction he causes, typically by minimizing the amount of contact he makes with manmade structures unless engaged in combat.
In Godzilla, after overhearing the male MUTO's mating call whilst somewhere in the interior of the Earth, Godzilla hastily emerged from a vile vortex west of Hawaii, and making a beeline for Honolulu. Godzilla was intent on intercepting and confronting the young adult since he and his brood-mate/female counterpart posed a catastrophic threat to the world through their would-be offspring. Though immensely focused on hunting and stopping the MUTOs, Godzilla was otherwise mindful towards humanity, which he first demonstrated when he dove underneath the USS Saratoga as opposed to plowing through the aircraft carrier. After making landfall, Godzilla maintained stealth whilst reaching the Honolulu National Airport, intentionally announcing his presence to the MUTO with a stomp before booming a battle cry and engaging the other monster in fight that he quickly dominated. After the MUTO escaped and fled east, Godzilla unhesitatingly broke into pursuit, peculiarly permitting the company of the USS Saratoga and some other ships whilst heading for San Francisco on the mainland. Conveniently around the time the female MUTO had stolen a nuke that the US military was transporting to the city, Godzilla suddenly dove down to a depth of 10,000 feet to hasten his approach, seemingly to avoid creating another tsunami as he had in Honolulu.
Relationships
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Godzilla and humans
Godzilla and humanity
Status quo
Godzilla's history with the human species as a whole dates back to his youth hundreds of millions of years ago, when the surface of the planet was still relatively new to sustaining life. Historically, Godzilla’s actions towards humans reflects on moral matters and affairs, holding the innocent and good-hearted in regard while not hesitating to show aggression and hostility towards the evil and destructive.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Ford Brody
Status quo
Though his encounters and interactions with US Navy EOD Lieutenant Ford Brody were very minimal, Godzilla displayed inquisitive and protective behavior towards the soldier. When Ford destroyed the MUTOs' nest and gained the female's attention, Godzilla took notice off-screen before proceeding to fire atomic breath at the enraged mother, pushing her back and briefly incapacitating her. Right before the male MUTO flanked him from behind, Godzilla's eyes can be seen looking downwards to his right, in the general direction and angle of Ford's position, hinting that he picked up on the man's role in the destruction of the nest. The second time they interacted, when a skyscraper forced him onto his hands, Godzilla noticed Ford nearby, exchanging vulnerable expressions before he was enveloped in a dust cloud. When the vengeance-fueled female MUTO stared down Ford on a boat in San Francisco Bay and prepared to devour him, Godzilla snuck up on the MUTO from behind before clamping on her shoulder and carefully pulling her away from the boat, saving Ford once more and holding regard for his life despite barely knowing him.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Cate Randa
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with Cate Randa remains for the most part surface-level, but their interactions progressively grow a unique connection.
At first, Godzilla was simply a symbol of fear and trauma and loss for Cate.
When they reencountered each other in Algeria, Godzilla and Cate locked eyes, the former visibly managing to recognize Cate from before.
Following the defeated Ion Dragon being flung into a rift whilst in Axis Mundi, Godzilla noticed Cate in the nearby pod as it was pulled into the rift. Making eye contact for a second or two, Godzilla and Cate exchanged smiles.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Mark Russell
Godzilla and Dr. Mark Russell looking at each other as mutually understanding allies (right)
Status quo
To be redone.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Ishiro Serizawa
Status quo
Godzilla’s relationship with Ishiro Serizawa stands special given that Ishiro’s father dedicated most of his life to studying and understanding Godzilla, a legacy Ishiro in turn spent most of his life carrying on. At first, Godzilla was unaware of the man’s faith in him due to being generally oblivious or uninterested in individual humans. But in Ishiro’s final moments, the critically harmed Godzilla opened his eyes to the sight of a man who had brought a thermonuclear warhead to his lair to revitalize him, sacrificing his life as the nuke blew. This interaction permanently became etched into Godzilla’s memory, becoming a subject of the monster’s self-reflection and recollection whilst searching for a new lair.
In 2014, Godzilla first bore his presence to Ishiro when the latter stood on the deck of the USS Saratoga to see the monster with his own eyes. When it seemed that Godzilla was about to cleave the USS Saratoga in half in his approach to the Honolulu shoreline, he instead dove under the ship and came back up on the other side. Following this, Ishiro repeatedly tried to defend Godzilla out of belief that Godzilla meant good for the world, a faith that Godzilla fully lived up to by hunting down the MUTOs and ending the threat of their offspring overrunning the world to extinction. The morning after Godzilla collapsed in San Francisco, Ishiro got up close and looked upon the lying monster with sadness on his face under the belief that he was dead. When Godzilla suddenly snorted and opened his eyes, Ishiro watched Godzilla’s triumphant return to the ocean with glee.
In 2019, after the use of the Orca came to his attention, Godzilla paid Monarch a visit at their Bermuda outpost with his dorsal plates flashing and humming, his intimidation display. Whereas most of the Monarch personnel were on-edge by Godzilla’s behavior, Ishiro tried to convince them to stand down.
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History
To be added.
Godzilla and Madison Russell
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with Madison Russell is not looked into, but they do have two interactions with each other in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, both signifying yet another special connection between Godzilla and a good-hearted individual human. When Madison used the Orca to cease the Titans’ worldwide aggression, evoking the wrath of King Ghidorah, Godzilla swiftly traveled to Boston in the nick of time to find Ghidorah cornering her and about to obliterate her with his gravity beams. Seemingly having figured out her role in calming the other Titans, Godzilla fired atomic breath to surprise and knock down Ghidorah, intentionally saving Madison. With an ominous roar, Godzilla locked eyes with the kid, letting off a roar and acknowledging her with a nod. As he and Ghidorah began to approach each other, Godzilla signaled Madison to get out of the way, waiting a moment before picking up speed to clash into Ghidorah.
After Ghidorah was defeated, Godzilla looked at Madison and her father in a nearby Monarch osprey, acknowledging them and eavesdropping. When Madison noticed something and whispered ”look”, Godzilla furrowed a brow ridge and curiously turned to see the other Titans beginning to surround him.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Malenka Iwi tribe
Status quo
Godzilla possesses a sort of symbiotic relationship with the Malenka Iwi temple, heeding their warning of the return of the Skar King.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Jia
Status quo
In their one interaction, Godzilla observed and listened to Jia with visible curiosity, hearing her and Mothra out when they suddenly stopped him from killing Kong, displaying evident understanding when they explained Kong's intent on allying against the threat of the Skar King. Given that she's an Iwi, the two of them share the ability to communicate telepathically, and that she arrived via Mothra, Godzilla's regards for the girl are especially high.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and other monsters
Godzilla and Mothra
Status quo
To be added.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Shinomura
Status quo
To be redone.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Male MUTO
Status quo
To be redone.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Female MUTO
Status quo
In contrast to his more personal feud with the male MUTO, Godzilla's actions and feelings towards the female MUTO were entirely out of his responsibility in stopping her from reproducing, though he did display subtle irritation when he was faced with her and the male teaming up on him in San Francisco. Given her complete disadvantageousness against him, Godzilla displayed no frustration whilst enraged with her in combat, though their dual was not without committed roars and grunts on his side of things.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and MUTO Prime
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with MUTO Prime was somewhat significant given her singular role in killing Dagon, the only other member of his species to survive into Human history on the surface of the Earth, and catalyzing the events that ended back in San Francisco. In addition to this, MUTO prime was responsible for killing numerous individuals of his species and triggering many cataclysmic extinction events in the past, further cementing Godzilla's rivalry with her. Having sensed her reawakening some time prior before their on-panel meeting in Guam, Godzilla was quick to track down MUTO Prime and meet her face to face amongst present-day humanity.
In Godzilla Dominion, as he passed by a graveyard of slain Titans that had all previously challenged ownership of his youth-hood lair, Godzilla swam by a MUTO Prime corpse amongst them, though whether Godzilla actually fought and killed this seeming predecessor is unknown. Regardless, the corpse's vicinity to his youth-hood lair represents additional significance in his relationship with the surface-world individual.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Ion Dragon
Status quo
To be redone.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Titan X
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with Titan X is almost unlooked into, but it ultimately amounts to a mutual understanding that resulted in them parting ways on resolved terms despite being enemies briefly.
History
Godzilla and Titan X first interacted in 2017 during the events of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters when Titan X strayed off-course from her periodic migratory route in order to spawn. Dormant at rift on the ocean floor in the South Pacific Ocean at the time that Titan X had settled in northeast Australia, Godzilla remained unaware of the matter until Colonel Leland Lafayette Shaw III deployed Dr. Kosaku Suzuki's upgrade Suzuki Device in the vicinity of Titan X's position. The simulated gamma rays woke up Godzilla, who took but a moment to discover Titan X's status before scowling with a determined look in his eye. Swimming to the source of the gamma radiation in Australia seemingly within a mere few hours if not less, Godzilla hummed a resonant moan as he breached the surface in approach of the shoreline, with Titan X in his sights. Fully emerging upon entering the walkable shallows, Godzilla roared a battle cry at Titan X.
Godzilla and Ghidorah
Status quo
Godzilla and Ghidorah are arch-nemeses with a rivalry so intense, the welfare of the entire planet hangs in the balance of the two Alpha Titans. Godzilla is the native, rightful "king" of the Earth, while Ghidorah is the foreign invader that seeks to essentially destroy the world itself. After Ghidorah arrived on Earth in prehistoric times, Godzilla waged conflict with the three-headed dragon over dominance over the other titans on the surface of the world. Monarch's Dr. Ishiro Serizawa deemed their feud "ancient and unique", signifying how the ancient humans that existed then recorded it in cave paintings and murals. Godzilla himself is fully conscious of Ghidorah's ambitions and destructive desire, holding the defeat of the alien in high regard, exerting himself in pursuing and fighting his nemesis in 2019. While Godzilla holds no proactive malice towards others, his hatred for Ghidorah shines in the form of a frustrated roar when Ghidorah fled from their fight in Antarctica, and later when he smiled as he obliterated his enemy as Burning Godzilla.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Rodan
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with Rodan isn’t as looked into as the pterosaur's interactions with Ghidorah and Mothra, but unlike with the other two alpha Titans, Rodan pays Godzilla with much more respect. Whereas Rodan challenged Ghidorah unhesitatingly and later obliged to engage with Mothra in mid-battle, Godzilla intimidated Rodan so much that the other Titan refrained from challenging him after just one imposing glare. Either too afraid or too moved to even attack Godzilla, Rodan bowed to the true "king" in a gesture of respect and submission.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Behemoth
Status quo
Godzilla and Behemoth remain on mutually good terms, both being ‘protector’ Titans and both prioritizing the welfare of the Earth. Both also care about humanity and go out of their ways to protect the innocent around them. As such, it was to be expected that Godzilla favored Behemoth when arriving to put the attacking Amhuluk in his place. Given that Behemoth renewed the planet’s vegetation and kept the air breathable for all life, Godzilla apportioned the Amazon Rainforest to Behemoth to allow his fellow titan to play his part in the protection and maintenance of the Earth. Due to Godzilla’s favorance and protection of him, Behemoth looks up to Godzilla with gratefulness and loyalty. When Rodan started a group submission to Godzilla in Boston following the demise of Ghidorah, Godzilla smiled at Behemoth’s submission, showcasing glee in Behemoth’s loyalty and respect.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Scylla
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with Scylla was rocky for as long as it lasted, though it wasn't always a rivalry. Godzilla earned Scylla’s submission in Boston without a sign of opposition or objection. When Scylla appeared in Savannah, Georgia two years later to acquire a nuke to feed on it, Godzilla understood that Scylla was starving and desperate for food, adjusting his combat approach to keep her from risking the immature detonation of the nuke and to simply beat her into submission. At the end of the fight, Godzilla followed Scylla underwater to see her blasting off into the distance, seemingly trusting that she gave up and would not cause trouble for the time being, which remained true for six years. In 2027, when Godzilla sensed Scylla awakening and journeying throughout the world for sources of radiation, Godzilla determined that she was accumulating power to challenge him for the status of alpha Titan. Chasing her everywhere and popping up at each of her stops along the way, Godzilla arrived late to assess the damage she caused. When the time came, Godzilla eventually intercepted Scylla in Rome, where he signaled his presence to her to settle their feud. Believing that Scylla couldn’t be reasoned with, Godzilla swiftly overpowered her and pinned her down to fire atomic breath at point-blank. Brutally popping her, Godzilla would go to sleep in the Collosseum, seemingly resting to reverse the damage she had done to the atmosphere, if he hadn’t already.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Queen MUTO
Status quo
To be redone.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Methuselah
Status quo
To be redone.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Amhuluk
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with Amhuluk cements another understanding between a noble leader and a briefly unruly Titan with malevolent intentions.
More to be added.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Na Kika
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with Na Kika is a peculiarly healthy one despite Monarch classifying them as “protector” and “destroyer” Titans respectively.
More to be added.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Tiamat
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with Tiamat remains a hostile but uneasy rivalry/truce, the two of them switching between understanding adversaries to potential nemesises in their known interactions.
According to Tiamat's updated Titan profile in Monsterverse Declassified, there was evidence that following the end of Ghidorah's brief reign in 2019, Tiamat was Godzilla's next "failed challenger", suggesting the possibility that like Scylla, Tiamat was accumulating power to challenge Godzilla for dominance.
More to be added.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Mechagodzilla
Status quo
Due to Mechagodzilla being the puppet of the globally ambitious Apex Cybernetics and later the will of Ghidorah himself, Godzilla's feud with his mechanical manmade doppelgänger carries his determination in opposing it with depth. In essence the collective amalgamation of his most significant enemies, Godzilla prioritized the pursuit and destruction of the machine above close to everything, showcasing the worst in himself in doing so. Even while Mechagodzilla was merely under construction, Godzilla set off to target and destroy the Apex Cybernetics facilities housing the robot in order to end the threat posed by it.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Kong's species/Great Apes
Godzilla's historic rivalry with Kong's species and the Great Apes remains one of his most significant and impactful conflicts.
Godzilla and The Rival
Status quo
Godzilla's youth-hood rivalry with the befittingly called "The Rival" was one of the most significant and ancient relationships of Godzilla's entire existence, setting the foundation for many of Godzilla's other relationships and feuds.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Kong
Status quo
Godzilla's relationship with Kong is one of the most complicated and sophisticated ones existent, shifting between pressured rivals and brothers-in-arms.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Skar King
Status quo
Godzilla and the Skar King were historical arch-enemies in the hyper-ancient conflict between their species and themselves as personal enemies. The details of their shared history are ambiguous, but it is definitive that they waged war with each other so significantly, Godzilla almost died and the Skar King was met with a critical downfall. This feud was reignited in 2027, during which, they were positioned with some form of leadership over their respective sides in the ensuing final battle.
History
To be added.
Godzilla and Shimo
Status quo
History
Origins
Godzilla is a dinosaur-like Titan that dates back to at least the Permian period, with both Godzilla and Godzilla: Awakening establishing that he and other creatures like him originated from a time when the Earth was ten times more radioactive than it is in the modern-day[32][33], living off this radiation as a natural food source before eventually being forced into the deepest depths of the oceans and further underground to gain sustenance from the planet's interior sources, with radiation being absorbed straight from the Earth's core. According Dr. Vivienne Graham's account in Godzilla, Godzilla and others like him were forced under when the radiation levels on the planet's surface naturally subsided.[34] According to Dr. Eiji Serizawa's account in Godzilla: Awakening, the radiation levels in the Earth's atmosphere forever diminished following the Permian—Triassic Extinction event over 250 million years ago, forcing Godzilla and his contemporaries underground[35]. In the Godzilla: King of the Monsters novelization, many members of Monarch such as Mark Russell and Ishiro Serizawa introspect that Godzilla and the other Titans originate from hundreds of millions of years ago, with Mark surmising during Rodan's emergence that they lived during the time when the Earth was red and the atmosphere void of oxygen[36]. Similarly, Godzilla: Awakening reveals via panels in a flashback that Godzilla slept through many geological eras in Earth's history, the first panel portraying a time when the face of the Earth was red and seemingly lifeless[37], likely alluding to the Paleoproterozoic Era. By then, the Great Oxidation Event had triggered a global rusting process that turned the oceans and surface of the world red as well as giving way to the emergence of aerobic or oxygen-dependent organisms. Ultimately, Godzilla's recollections of his past trace his existence to the time during which many of his species lived and fought, back when the Earth was first covered by ice, when it was first covered by water, and when the first green organisms emerged; all three occurrences likely alluding to the Archean Eon, which began no more than 4 billion years ago.[38]
In Godzilla, Dr. Ishiro Serizawa and Dr. Vivienne Graham explain that Godzilla was awakened in 1954 by the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine as well as the first to ever reach the lower depths of the ocean.[39] Following such, Godzilla made contact with American and Russian submarines, inciting the two nations to each believe that it was the other responsible. The discovery of his existence lead to the founding of Monarch and the start of preparations for Operation: Castle Bravo to be conducted at Bikini Atoll. In Godzilla: Awakening, it is instead revealed that Godzilla was awakened off-shore in the vicinity of Japan by the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945[40], traveling to the city to discover that the Shinomura too had been awoken by the nuclear explosion.[41] After years of pursuing the primordial parasite throughout the Pacific Ocean from 1945 to past 1950[42], the USS Nautilus had finished construction and was deployed under the commission of finding Godzilla. Just as the vessel decided to abort its ultimately fruitless search, Godzilla had curiously stalked the submarine to the surface without attack.[43]
In Godzilla: Aftershock during late 2014, Godzilla and his species' history with the MUTOs was somewhat looked into, with Monarch discovering that another of Godzilla's kind had waged a legendary rivalry with the progenitor subspecies of the MUTOs, MUTO Prime. Losing a fateful fight in 1100 BC and being implanted with his enemy's parasitic spores, this Godzilla relative was leeched off until he collapsed dead in the Philippines and was entombed underground, leading to the hatching of the duo that Godzilla killed in San Francisco. Besides the beloved Dagon, many others of Godzilla's species had fallen to MUTO Prime, suffering the same fate and catalyzing many mass extinctions throughout the history of the Earth.[44][45][46]
As discovered by Monarch in 2019 during the events of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla and the other Titans coexisted with humanity in ancient times long before the oldest known civilizations. Unfortunately, the peace was ended by conflicts and wars involving humankind and the titans, some of which were centered around the weaponization of titans by opposing groups of humans. At some point in the past, the extraterrestrial dragon who would come to be known as Ghidorah arrived on Earth from the outreaches of space, becoming a threat to the whole world and earning a horrific reputation with storms that could "swallow man and gods alike." Developing a rivalry with the three-headed alien that stood against the test of time, Godzilla with Mothra by his side fought Ghidorah, the clash being recorded in murals and architecture built by the human civilizations existent at the time. After a long hard-fought conflict, Godzilla took the fight for dominance over the other Titans to Antarctica, where he ultimately triumphed and sealed Ghidorah away in the ice.[47][48]
Godzilla Dominion dwells deeper into Godzilla's past and how he has seen through so much of the Earth's history, going far back to times when long extinct species existed and when ancient human civilizations thrived in what is presently underground or at the bottom of the ocean in the modern-day[49]. Before the temple lair within the sunken Hollow Earth city that Monarch destroyed when revitalizing him, Godzilla resided at a location deeper into the Hollow Earth. There, in his youth, a particular primordial human population worshipped and coexisted with him in harmony, a harmony that was destroyed when Godzilla was defeated and forced from his home by a powerful member of the Great Apes/Kong's species; "The Rival".[50][51][52][53] In addition to mere glimpses into his immensely ancient life, Godzilla's narration and flashbacks reveal the former existence of extinct superspecies, fallen human civilizations, and landscapes that have completely changed.[49]
In Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted, Kong came upon a cave somewhere in the Hollow Earth that housed lots of ancient artwork. Amongst them, he saw a cave painting of Godzilla engaged in battle with Shimo, indicating an ancient rivalry between the two primordial Titans.[54]
History
- Godzilla (2014)
- Godzilla: Awakening (2014)
- Godzilla: The Official Movie Novelization (2014)
- Kong: Skull Island (2017) [indirect mention; cave paintings]
- Skull Island: The Birth of Kong #1 (2017) [photographs]
- Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization (2017) [indirect mention; allusion]
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
- Godzilla: Aftershock (2019)
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization (2019)
- Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
- Godzilla Dominion (2021)
- Kingdom Kong (2021) [cave painting]
- Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization (2021)
- Legends of the Monsterverse: The Omnibus "Godzilla: Fight or Flight" (2023)
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (TV 2023–2026) [episodes 1–3, 5–6, 8–11, 13–14, 16–20; stock footage in 9, 13; allusions in 11; photos in 14; dream in 16; mentioned in 17, 20]
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
- Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted (2024)
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization (2024)
- Monsterverse Declassified (2024) ["Behemoth," "Abaddon" and "Tiamat"; cave painting and narration]
- Godzilla x Kong: Supernova (2027)
- Untitled Godzilla x Kong: Supernova graphic novel tie-in (TBA)[55]
- Godzilla x Kong: Supernova - The Official Movie Novelization (2027)
- Disclaimer: Some canon events lack sufficient if any chronological designation, resulting in an uncertain and partially speculative arrangement of events.
Young Earth/Early Hollow Earth History
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Hadean Eon[38] (Circa. 4,000,000,000 BC)
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In 2024, Godzilla introspected on his memories of past conflicts and times in Earth's primordial history, including a time "when the surface of the earth was liquid rock," most likely alluding to the Hadean Eon, when the surface of the Earth was entirely covered by molten lava and a hellish landscape.[38] Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization Chapter 3; page 38
Archean Eon[38](~4,000,000,000-2,500,000,000 BC)
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In 2024, Godzilla introspected on his memories of past conflicts and times in Earth's primordial history, including the time "when waters came" and "when the green life came and clawed its way onto bare rock." This most likely alludes to the Archean Eon, the Eon during which water first formed on and covered the surface of the Earth as well as when the first autotrophic organisms emerged, such as Cyanobacteria.[38] Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization Chapter 3; page 38
Proterozoic Eon (~2,500,000,000-541,000,000 BC)
Paleoproterozoic era (~2,500,000,000-1,600,000,000 BC)
Huronian Glaciation[38] (~2,400,000,000-2,100,000,000 BC)
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In 2024, Godzilla introspected on his memories of past conflicts and times in Earth's primordial history, including the time "when ice covered everything," most likely alluding to the Huronian Glaciation, when the surface of the Earth was entirely covered by ice for the first time.[38] Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization Chapter 3; page 38
Page scan with the inferred Paleoproterozoic era panel outlined in red (right)
Amongst the geological eras that Godzilla lived through, one included a time when the Earth's surface was red and absent of any multi-cellular lifeforms[37], most likely being the Paleoproterozoic era. By then, oxidation fueled by the cellular respiration of anaerobic prokaryotic single-celled organisms catalyzed a mass rusting effect that promptly turned the surface and atmosphere of the planet red. Godzilla: Awakening page 35
Shimo Rivalry
At some point in the far primordial past of the Hollow Earth's history, Godzilla had waged battle with the ancient Titan, Shimo. A cave painting that recorded the battle was discovered by Kong during one of his treks through the interior biosphere in 2027 not too long prior to meeting the ancient threat herself.[54] Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted page 24
Beforehand, by 2016, Dr. Ilene Andrews had been studying an ancient finding from a "remote" Pacific island in the form of a piece of cave art that portrayed Godzilla engaged in combat with Shimo, which she would share with Travis "Trapper" Beasley eleven years later. As Dr. Andrews recalled to herself in private, Godzilla's atomic breath seemed to have no effect against the other Titan aside from angering her and he in fact looked almost worried. Then again, she figured that the ancient people responsible for the cave art possibly transferred their own fear into the portrayal of Godzilla out of fear that he was going to lose to Shimo. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization Chapter 13; pages 203-206 Chapter 14; page 214 Chapter 15; page 233 Chapter 19; page 286
Though difficult to see, for a brief moment in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, amongst the historical writings and murals inside the Malenka Iwi tribe's temple of knowledge appears to be artwork of Godzilla locking beam attacks with Shimo.
Feud with Kong's species/Great Apes
In the Godzilla vs. Kong novelization, it is revealed from Godzilla's perspective that his rivalry with Kong's species far predates his one with Ghidorah.[56] Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization Chapter 17; page 234
Though the start of the feud is completely ambiguous aside from an implied natural adversity between Godzilla's species and Kong's, it is established that the conflict ended with Godzilla and his kind forcing Kong's ancestors out of Hollow Earth and up to Skull Island, a notion confirmed by Godzilla's introspection during one of his trains of thought in the novelization. Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization Chapter 3; page 40
It is later revealed in the events of 2027 that Godzilla's adversity with the Great Apes was founded by the ambition of the Skar King, who culminated the culling of his kin through his vision for their rise to prosperity and domination of the whole world. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization Chapter 14; page 221
The war was extremely costly for Godzilla, nearly taking his life in the process. Fortunately, as depicted on Iwi murals in Malenka, in a final confrontation with the apes, Godzilla deployed his atomic breath to cleave the very ground beneath the enemy's feet, sending them falling into the confines of a fiery section of the Hollow Earth's more subterranean level, effectively sealing them off from the rest of Hollow Earth. It was thus that the Skar King's empire fell, and the threat it presented to the surface world ceased to be. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 1:01:45-1:02:10
Observable Prehistory
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Permian—Triassic period extinction event (~252,000,000 BC)
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The P—T extinction event explosion, prompting Godzilla to return to the bowels of the planet (right)
Over 250 million years ago on the day that the P—T extinction event-triggering asteroid hit the Earth, Godzilla was lying at the surface of the ocean, camouflaging as an island when a Shinomura flew by over him. Stealthily arising and following his prey, Godzilla came upon the creature as it touched down to feed on the carcass of an Anomalocaris. Signaling his presence with a roar at the parasite, Godzilla blasted his prey with atomic breath, killing it before turning to see an asteroid coming down at him. Surviving the resulting continent-sized explosion, Godzilla returned to the bowels of the planet, bouncing between crevices and caverns before landing in water and swimming to the bottom.[57] Godzilla: Awakening pages 32-34
Mesozoic Era (252,000,000-66,000,000 BC)
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Godzilla lived through the time that prehistoric marine reptiles existed, harboring the memory of swimming alongside numerous species and genuses that existed back then.[58] Godzilla Dominion page 23
Paleogene period (66,000,000-23,000,000 BC)
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End of Ghidorah rivalry (~Circa 30,000,000 BC)[59]
Twitter post by Michael Dougherty stating that Godzilla sealed Ghidorah away in Antarctica (right)
Over 30 million years ago, towards the end of their legendary rivalry, Godzilla took the fight to Antarctica and defeated Ghidorah there, sealing him away in the ice. Michael Dougherty Twitter post Given that Godzilla had previously sealed away the Skar King and his Great Apes in the subterranean realm of the Hollow Earth with his atomic breath as shown on Iwi record, Godzilla likely imprisoned Ghidorah in Antarctica with the same method. In the novelization of Godzilla vs. Kong, Dr. Nathan Lind told Dr. Ilene Andrews that samples of the ice around Ghidorah suggested that the ice was melted swiftly and then refrozen just as quickly.[59] Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization page 202
Last Ice Age (115,000-11,700 BC)
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~30,000 BC
A real-life replica the cave art from the Chauvet Cave featuring lions (right)
Godzilla or another of his kind appeared in France during the Last Ice Age, inspiring a cave art painting of prehistoric lions that includes the subject monster in the background looking upwards.[60] Godzilla: Awakening page 31
Modern Human civilization
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AD 12th Century (AD 1101-1200)
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Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (right)
Godzilla appeared in Kyoto, Japan at some point in the 1100s or 1200s, his existence being recording in the notorious Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, also known as the Scrolls of Frolicking Animals, at the time of its creation.[60] Godzilla: Awakening page 31
1502
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Three Old Women beating the Devil (right)
Godzilla made an appearance in Germany around 1502, inspiring artist Daniel Hopfer to draw the monster in his early 1500s composition Three Old Women beating the Devil.[60] Godzilla: Awakening page 31
1898
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February
Tuesday (February 15th, 1898)
Shown in the opening credits of Godzilla, Monarch at some point believed that Godzilla was responsible for the unsolved sinking of the USS Maine, which sparked the Spanish—American War.[61] Godzilla 0:00:51
1945
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August 6th
Godzilla was lying dormant in the Hollow Earth by the time Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, the nuclear explosion drawing Godzilla from his rest to the surface world in the waters off of Hiroshima.[40][37] Sensing something wrong, Godzilla made landfall within the vicinity of the city, where he eventually looked up to see a Shinomura flying by, promptly following his ancient enemy back to sea and into pursuit of it.[41] Godzilla: Awakening pages 6-7, 35-38
1946
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August[62]
Godzilla surfacing below Shinomura in the Philippines in 1946 (right)
At least a year after first sensing and discovering Shinomura at Hiroshima[62], Godzilla followed the parasite to an island in the Philippines. Around the time the creature was divided into two separate individuals, Godzilla caught sight of the larger individual as it departed, surfacing from the ocean to watch it fly off once more.[63] Godzilla: Awakening pages 11, 19-20
Circa 1947 (August-December 1946)[64]
At some point in the less-than-five-month period of time since tracking the Shinomura to the Philippines, Godzilla inferably followed one of the two split individuals to Novosibirsk, Russia and chased it off. Though a survivor only recalled Shinomura to Dr. Eiji Serizawa, the latter nonetheless believed that Godzilla appeared to chase off the other monster.[64] Godzilla: Awakening page 21
1947[64]
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In 1947, Shinomura appeared in the village of Busselton in western Australia, with Godzilla inferably following it there to chase it off, a witness only recalling Shinomura to Eiji Serizawa, who nonetheless believed Godzilla was there as well.[64] Godzilla: Awakening page 21
1948[65]
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In 1948, Godzilla followed one of the Shinomura individuals to Moansta Island and chased off the other monster. Following this, Eiji Serizawa asked an eye-witness of why the Shinomura fled, with the man explaining to him off-panel about Godzilla's responsibility in causing it.[65] Godzilla: Awakening page 22
1949[65]
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In 1949, Godzilla followed and confronted one of the Shinomura in Rotorua, New Zealand, chasing it off. An eye-witness later told Dr. Eiji Serizawa about Godzilla.[65] Godzilla: Awakening page 22
1950[66]
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In 1950, Godzilla followed one of the Shinomura to the island of Yap, only to once again watch it flee. One of the surviving eye-witnesses tried explaining to Dr. Eiji Serizawa what happened before Colonel Lee Shaw cut the man off in disbelief.[66] Godzilla: Awakening page 23
~1951
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Some time after the brief appearance in Yap, Godzilla followed the Shinomura to Guam and chased it off. An eye-witness told Eiji Serizawa about the monster and spoke his name: "Gojira".[66] Godzilla: Awakening page 23
~1952
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Godzilla curiously stalking the USS Nautilus (right)
At some point between 1950 and 1953, most likely 1952, construction of the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, finished and the ship was promptly commissioned to search for Godzilla in Challenger Deep. After weeks of searching the deepest depths of the ocean with zero success, the Nautilus decided to give up on the mission and return to the surface, heedless of the creature following it as it breached the surface of the sea. Perhaps the entire time, Godzilla curiously stalked the submarine, intrigued by its contents.[43] Godzilla: Awakening page 25-26
~1953
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Godzilla engaging one of the Shinomura at an unknown island in the Pacific Ocean (right)
~Post-January/Circa 1954
At some point between 1952 and the March of 1954, Godzilla managed to track down and intercept one of the two Shinomura individuals at an unspecified location in the Pacific Ocean. Though their fight was brief, it is inferable that the Shinomura with its current size didn't immediately flee and instead gave its ancient predator an effort dual.[67] Godzilla: Awakening page 46-47
December 1953-February 1954[68]
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Over three weeks prior to Operation: Castle Bravo in 1954, Godzilla travelled through Indonesia and left behind a footprint. Lieutenant Lee Shaw, Dr. Keiko Miura, and Dr. Bill Randa discovered the impression and extracted it in time before it could be filled up in the upcoming monsoon season.[69] The three Monarch pioneers presented General Puckett and some other military officials to the footprint as indisputable evidence of Godzilla’s existence and a justified reason for funding the organization.[70] Monarch: Legacy of Monsters "Secrets and Lies"
1954
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Circa March (January-February)
Prior to March 1954, over the course of a few months or so, several military vessels faced unexplained attacks throughout the Pacific Ocean. The Americans and Russians both thought the other were responsible for these attacks until it was discovered that the attacks were caused by a massive previously unseen creature. The discovery of said creature's existence lead to arrangements for the military operation Castle Bravo, also codenamed as Lucky Dragon, at Bikini Atoll.[71] Godzilla MONARCH: Declassified featurette "Operation: Lucky Dragon"
March
Operation: Castle Bravo (March 1stG14)
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The United States military made preparations for Operation: Castle Bravo in advance before Godzilla was eventually sighted on the day of the scheduled detonation, cruising across the sea and surveyed both from a distance and from above. The countdown for the detonation began when Godzilla arrived at Bikini Atoll, reaching its conclusion right as Godzilla surfaced from the water. Photos were taken in time to catch Godzilla's face and upper back before the hydrogen bomb enveloped the island in a 15-megaton explosion. Though the promptly obliged military report steered away from declaring Godzilla definitively eliminated, the monster's silence left most convinced that he perished. More to be added.[72] Godzilla
- Godzilla: Awakening account[73]
After sighting Godzilla firsthand at Moansta Island, the United States military promptly approved the nuclear bomb test Operation: Castle Bravo, already scheduled and preparations made for, to have Godzilla killed at Bikini Atoll.
More to be added.[73] Godzilla: Awakening pages 60-67, 70-71
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- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters account[74]
3 weeks after Monarch had gained approval from General Puckett to utilize a supplement of uranium to allure Godzilla, preparations for Operation: Castle Bravo were made at Bikini Atoll. More to be added.[74] Monarch: Legacy of Monsters "Secrets and Lies"
1955
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Summer (June-August 1955)[75]
Unspecified "Friday" (June 3rd, June 10th, June 17th, June 24th, July 1st, July 8th, July 15th, July 22nd, July 29th, August 5th, August 12th, August 19th, August 26th)[76][77]
A year or so after the first known attempt to kill him with a hydrogen bomb, Godzilla travelled to Japan in 1955 when a manmade device created to simulate gamma rays allured his interest to Hateruma Island. There, Godzilla remained stealthily hidden in the water, not even generating waves whilst in the vicinity of Monarch officials Keiko Randa and Lee Shaw. Somehow pulling the Suzuki device underwater without a trace, Godzilla put the place to silence before suddenly launching the simulator hurling out of the water. Finally breaching the surface, Godzilla made his presence known and roared at the nearby humans before beginning to turn tail. Grabbing the notice of Bill Randa and Dr. Suzuki, Godzilla groaned as he gracefully circled around, diving back down beneath the surface. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters "Terrifying Miracles"
1959[78]
March[78]
"Sunday" (March 15th, 1959)[78]
To be added.[78] Godzilla 0:00:54-0:00:55
1950s
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Dr. Vivienne Graham and Dr. Bill Randa have both indirectly acknowledged that multiple nuclear bomb "tests" were conducted against Godzilla.
In Godzilla[79] and its novelization during the events of 2014, Monarch scientists Dr. Ishiro Serizawa and Dr. Vivienne Graham briefed navy EOD lieutenant Ford Brody and some military officials aboard the USS Saratoga that all the nuclear bomb "tests" in the 50s' were attempts to kill Godzilla. Godzilla Godzilla: The Official Movie Novelization
Dr. William "Bill" Randa shared this information with senator Al Willis years prior in Kong: Skull Island[80] and its novelization during the events of 1973, saying that the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear tests weren't tests. Kong: Skull Island Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization
1973
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Towards the end of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War in the March of 1973, Dr. Bill Randa presented images of Godzilla to senator Al Willis, saying that the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear tests weren't actually tests, instead an attempt to kill Godzilla. Willis dismissed the matter as a fairytale, denying belief in what was being shared with him.[80] Kong: Skull Island Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization
Following the expedition to Skull Island, Monarch geologist Houston Brooks and biologist San Lin presented the same images of Godzilla to James Conrad and Mason Weaver before the four of them watched old film footage showcasing ancient cave paintings of Titans, Godzilla being the center of one.[81] In another, Godzilla was seen fighting Ghidorah in a massive battle.[82] Kong: Skull Island Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization
2012[83]
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July[83]
9th[83]
Image of Godzilla rising from the sea at Bikini Atoll during Operation: Castle Bravo in 1954 (right)
Monarch geologist Dr. Houston Brooks had two images of Godzilla during Operation: Castle Bravo from 1954 on a board at the Monarch Field Office "Sigma" in July, 2012.[83] Skull Island: The Birth of Kong "The People Who Came from the Sky" page 4
2014
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~Spring (March-May 2014)
G-Day minus two (May 4th[citation needed], May 16thG14)
Overhearing the mating call of the male MUTO from underground, Godzilla emerged from a vile vortex west of Hawaii, his triggering of the vortex causing a gamma ray spike that Monarch detected.[84] Monarch: Legacy of Monsters "Terrifying Miracles" 23:32
Swimming straight for Honolulu, Godzilla reached the shoreline, where the USS Saratoga floated in anticipation of his arrival. When it seemed that Godzilla was about to plow straight through the aircraft carrier, he instead dove down and swam past the ship from beneath, breaching from the surface on the other side and continuing his way without stop. Godzilla
G-Day minus one (May 5th[citation needed], May 17thG14)
To be added. Godzilla
G-Day (May 6th[citation needed], May 18thG14)
To be added. Godzilla
G-Day plus one (May 7th[citation needed], May 19thG14)
Come the light of day, Godzilla lied amongst the ruins of San Francisco, motionless and silent. People gathered around him as they went about their time picking through debris and recovering survivors. As Dr. Ishiro Serizawa and Dr. Vivienne Graham sadly looked on at him, believing him to be dead, Godzilla suddenly gusted out a breath from his snout and opened an eye, signifying that he lived. Getting up off-screen, Godzilla then peacefully headed for the ocean as he carefully walked past the humans around him, leaving the city awestruck by his triumphant exit. Letting off a howling victory cry as some jets flew overhead, Godzilla slowly waded into the bay, departing into the stretches of the Pacific Ocean before slowly diving below the surface. Godzilla 1:52:18-1:56:08
Godzilla returned west to the vile vortex from whence he came three days prior, triggering another gamma ray spike as he entered the portal.[85] Monarch: Legacy of Monsters "Terrifying Miracles" 23:41
~August-September 2014
Months after the battle of San Francisco, Godzilla sensed MUTO Prime's reawakening in Kyushu, Japan and tailed her to Guam, where he surfaced from the sea in time to find her with a nuclear submarine in her mouth. Booming a battle cry, Godzilla charged at MUTO Prime, only to be clocked with a punch that gave his enemy the opportunity to flee. He watched as MUTO Prime crawled back into the hole in the ground from whence she emerged. Godzilla howled in frustration before making his way back to the water and wading out to sea, bent on tracking MUTO Prime. (Pg 12-14)
More to be added. Godzilla: Aftershock
2015
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In the time since he departed from Montana after killing MUTO Prime there, Godzilla had disappeared from Monarch's notice and made his way to the Alergian Desert, where he settled down into the landscape and went dormant.
About a year after the events of G-Day, Godzilla was woken up by Hiroshi Randa when the man used his rendition of the Suzuki device to wake up a Titan to activate a rift. The hill housing Godzilla shook and broke down as the King of the Monsters stirred from his rest, unearthing and revealing himself before the eyes of the nearby humans.
More to be added.
2017
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Two years after defeating the Ion Dragon in Axis Mundi, Godzilla was sleeping next to a rift on the floor of the south Pacific Ocean.[86] Detecting the gamma rays simulated by the improved Suzuki device in northeastern Australia, Godzilla promptly awakened with an immediate scowl in his eye and swiftly made his way for the location of the device. He also seemingly discovered on his own that Titan X was off her migratory route, determining that she should be dealt with.
2018
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July
To be added.
December
Sunday, December 9th
To be added.
2019
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~Spring (March-May 2019)
At some point, Godzilla was patrolling his territory, taking in the extent of the sensations that painted the surface of the planet and hummed the lives of everything living on it. The changes to his surroundings were always continuous, but never were they as swift and drastic as they were in recent times, courtesy of humanity and its mechanical creations that spook off and disoriented the organisms comprising the flow of life on Earth. Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Unspecified "Tuesday"[citation needed]
To be added. Godzilla: King of the Monsters Godzilla: King of the Monsters - The Official Movie Novelization
~Spring-Summer (March-August 2019)
Unspecified "Tuesday" (March 5th, April 23rd, May 7th, June 4th, July 23rd)
To be added. Godzilla: King of the Monsters end credits
2021
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~Spring (March-May 2021)
Georgia (GD pg 9-16)
Amazon (GD pg 16-20)
Lair (GD pg 21-34)
Mothra and the Moon (GD pg 35-38)
Sea of Okhotsk (GD pg 38-49)(GvK novel pg 8-15) Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization pages 8-15
Sanctuary (GD pg 49-68)
(More to be added.) Godzilla Dominion
2024
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To be added. Godzilla vs. Kong Godzilla vs. Kong: The Official Movie Novelization Legends of the Monsterverse: The Omnibus "Godzilla: Fight or Flight"
2027
- Main article: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
- Main article: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization.
- Main article: Monsterverse Declassified.
To be added. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization Monsterverse Declassified
~2030
- Main article: Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.
- Main article: Godzilla x Kong: Supernova - The Official Movie Novelization.
To be added. Godzilla x Kong: Supernova Godzilla x Kong: Supernova - The Official Movie Novelization
Abilities
Physical abilities
Strength
The Monsterverse Godzilla yields tremendous physical strength, being able to overpower most other monsters with ease. The only Titans relative to or on-par with Godzilla include Ghidorah, MUTO Prime, Mechagodzilla, Tiamat, and Shimo.
Natural weaponry
As a predatory saurian-like Titan, Godzilla is naturally equipped with sharp claws and teeth, the latter armed in a powerful set of jaws. Godzilla's dorsal side is adorned with around 90 dorsal plates that are highly sharp and resilient. Godzilla is capable of grappling, manhandling, striking, kicking, clawing, biting, and tail-whipping his enemies as necessary.
Jaws and teeth
Godzilla possesses a powerful set of jaws armed with numerous sharp teeth, six of which on his upper jaws are longer and sharper than the rest. Godzilla's bite is so strong that he consistently uses it to aide his arms in gripping and flinging around opponents, at times solely using his jaws for the task. Godzilla easily flung around the ~15,000-metric-ton male MUTO and 70,000-90,000-ton Kong with this technique, throwing the latter over a tremendous distance without struggle. Godzilla has also succeeded in overpowering and tearing off Ghidorah's head(s) with his jaws.
Claws
Godzilla possesses four digits on each of his extremities, armed with incredibly sharp claws that consistently cut enemies' skin and even draw blood.
Godzilla's claws are so sharp that combined with his physical strength, they can leave deep slash marks on the toughest hides, having managed to leave such a mark on MUTO Prime's face. When Monarch discovered Ghidorah's body in Antarctica, they found claw marks throughout the dragon's body, inflicted by Godzilla.[87][88]
Tail
Godzilla's lengthy and powerful tail has served multiple uses in battle, typically landing powerful blows like a whip or bludgeon. The tail is prehensile enough that Godzilla can wrap it around an opponent, using such against Kong when attempting to drown him in their Tasman Sea fight.
After undergoing a self-evolution process in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Godzilla fashioned himself a thagomizer at the end of his tail, composed of four dorsal plates that can fold downwards if needed. So far, the thagomizer has proven to function as a blunt weapon, used to briefly whip the Skar King in mid-air.
Dorsal plates
Godzilla's dorsal plates serve numerous functions such as weapons, armor, a visual display of intimidation when glowing his bioluminescence, and honing his radiation either for stamina or for his energy attacks, the atomic breath and the nuclear pulse.
Incredibly sharp, the dorsal plates can slice through enemies as the ones on his tail have done so with the male MUTO in Godzilla, slicing off one of the smaller Titan's primary limbs. In both Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla Dominion, Godzilla's dorsal plates easily cleaved through manmade aquatic vessels when he swam through a submarine in the latter and through a few military ships in the former. During the third battle round with Kong in Hong Kong, Godzilla employed his dorsal plates against the ape after he had jumped onto his back, backing into a few buildings and jabbing Kong with his plates in the process.
Due to their durability, the dorsal plates somewhat serve as protection from behind or above, resulting in enemies taking big risks when attempting to flank Godzilla, including the male MUTO and Kong.
When necessary, Godzilla can charge his energy into his dorsal plates to glow his bioluminescence as an intimidation display against enemies when necessary. Godzilla had first performed this display to Monarch when he briefly visited their Castle Bravo and later Ghidorah upon arriving at their reunion in Antarctica during Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Godzilla also flashed his intimidation display in Godzilla vs. Kong during his arrivals in Pensacola and Hong Kong to confront Apex Cybernetics and their doppelgänger of him. In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Godzilla's intimidation display remained active whilst he accumulated power in preparation for the Skar King's return. In Monarch: Legacy of Monsters episode 19 "Ends of the Earth", Godzilla maintained his intimidation display whilst tailing Titan X to the storm wall out of Skull Island to assert himself in his efforts to diplomatically send Titan X back on her way.
Combat capabilities
Godzilla is arguably one of the most unopposed and skilled fighters in known existence, being capable of outmatching most opponents with ease even in his weaker states of being. Godzilla is capable of adapting to his opponents on the spot and adjusting his combat approach as needed, allowing him to remain versatile and calculating in battle. Even the likes of Kong, MUTO Prime, Ghidorah, and the Skar King refrain from duels with Godzilla at his full strength unless they themselves are at full strength or if Godzilla is already physically depleted prior to such, only engaging him head-on if desperate or unable to escape.
MUTO Prime, the same Titan who had previously bested Dagon in combat after a legendary rivalry and was responsible for defeating many more individuals of Godzilla's species prior to past extinction events, relied on a hit-and-run tactic that was purposed to exhaust and weaken Godzilla rather than take odds with his full capabilities. Even as he was slowly depleted of his strength and stamina, Godzilla stood his ground against MUTO Prime, managing to counter some of her attacks in their brief duels. During their final fight, Godzilla appeared to leverage his leg into either kicking MUTO Prime or blocking one of her punches.
In the novelization of Godzilla vs. Kong, it is acknowledged from Mark Russell's perspective that the Titans that submitted to Godzilla in Boston were summoned by Ghidorah to kill him, implying that Godzilla was too much for the three-headed dragon alone.[89] It is similarly revealed in the novelization that Dr. Ilene Andrews had honest internal doubts about Kong being able to beat Godzilla in a fight, figuring that it was not worth the risk.[90]
In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Godzilla relied on his skills and competence whenever he engaged with Shimo, a Titan vividly portrayed and acknowledged as his superior in size and physical strength, which stunted him every now and then.
Speed
For a creature of his size, the Monsterverse Godzilla is very fast on foot and especially underwater.
Two times in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla broke the sound barrier from charging at Ghidorah and colliding with the other Titan.
Agility
Though bulky and massive, Godzilla is surprisingly flexible and agile, being able to pounce on enemies and to swiftly crawl on all fours when necessary.
Burrowing
Godzilla is capable of burrowing either by physically digging his way through solid ground or ice with his claws or by firing his atomic breath to drill tunnels and holes when needed.
Amphibiousness
Godzilla is naturally adapted to thriving in and out of water with equivalent ease. His gills and versatile respiratory system grant him the ability to breathe underwater with no known limit. His physiology is heavily adapted to living under the immense pressure and cold of the ocean floor. Godzilla can also stand at the surface of the water with most of his body not submerged or “walk” underwater.
Intelligence
In prehistoric times, Godzilla had allied with Mothra and humanity against shared enemies such as Ghidorah and the Kongs. In the modern day during the events of 2019, Godzilla was unhesitant to lead the offense on Ghidorah in Boston with the military beside him and Mothra in the air, waging a team effort that succeeded just like it did in the past.
In spite of his lack of use for technology, Godzilla is acquainted with the functionality and nature of technology, being able to understand and exploit human or Kong/Great Ape tools and inventions as necessary. In 1954, Godzilla first approached the nuclear bomb during Operation: Castle Bravo with visible assessment and thought, seemingly identifying the danger presented before he even found himself in the ensuing explosion. In Godzilla Dominion, Godzilla introspected human nuclear weaponry as a poison to the surrounding environment. In 1955 over a year after Operation Castle Bravo, Godzilla remained outside of human notice when he detected the gamma rays simulated by the Suzuki device, somehow pulling the device underwater before immediately launching it out upon assessing its function, recognizing another rendition of the device when he was drawn to its whereabouts in Axis Mundi in 2015.
Durability
The Monsterverse Godzilla possesses immense durability, at times demonstrating feats that are unprecedented for the character. Whereas all previous incarnations faced scarring and mutation from being caught in the fallout of atomic bomb detonations in the Pacific Ocean, this Godzilla took numerous Castle Bravo tests in the 1950s with absolutely zero consequence, including the 1954 hydrogen bomb that yielded a blast worth 15 megatons of tnt. Godzilla's hide is so durable, only the natural weaponry of other Titans and Superspecies have successfully bypassed and damaged it.
In 2019, Godzilla survived the effects of the Oxygen Destroyer in complete spite of his aerobic physiology, managing to drag himself hundreds of miles east and into his Hollow Earth beneath the Bermuda Triangle whilst forced into cardiac arrest by the device. His vital signs having flatlined on Monarch's sensors, it caught the organization off-guard when Mothra helped to reveal that Godzilla was still alive and capable of giving a weak response to her god rays.
Atomic Breath
Unlike the Tristar Godzilla, the Monsterverse Godzilla retains the character's trademark heat ray, which for him assumes numerous visual appearances and is used for many purposes throughout the Monsterverse.
Whereas previous portrayals of atomic breath function as a concentrated blast of vaporous radiation, a nuclear fission reaction projected from the mouth as a beam, or instead a plasma-like buildup up and release of concentrated atomic energy, the Monsterverse Godzilla's heat ray is a blast of radiation and energy functionally akin to a particle accelerator. This nature gives it the appearance of a honed flame that can progressively become more focused and laser-like depending on Godzilla's stamina and/or energy input.
Thrust power and kinetic force
Godzilla's atomic breath inflicts enough force to push back or even floor other Titans, including the 135,000-ton MUTO Prime, the 141,056-ton Ghidorah, and even the substantially larger Shimo.
Heat and combustion
Godzilla's atomic breath is capable of singing or even obliterating other monsters, with even Ghidorah susceptible to scarring from the attack as evidenced by scorch marks Monarch discovered throughout the dragon's body while he was frozen in Antarctica.
Focus and accuracy
Godzilla can fire his atomic breath with enough timing and accuracy to down aircraft with single split-second shots or catch other Titans off-guard.
Energy and Power
The energy making up Godzilla's atomic breath, and by extension all of the monster's energy attacks, is stated by sources to be composed of Cherenkov Radiation. However, Dr. Nathan Lind believes that this energy is more closely tied to quantum states.
Nuclear Pulse
The Monsterverse Godzilla retains the nuclear pulse ability from the classic Toho films, first depicted with the ability in 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla: Aftershock. With his dorsal plates intact, the attack appears as a blue spherical pulsation of light and energy. With his dorsal plates shattered as they were towards the end of Godzilla: Aftershock, the nuclear pulse projects from Godzilla's dorsal side like a concentrated burst of heat and force, a result of Godzilla's conditional hinderance to effectively hone his radiation into any standard energy attack.
In Godzilla: Aftershock, the hindered nuclear pulse launched the 135,000-ton MUTO Prime into the sky, severely damaging her and even blasting off some of her smaller limbs in the process. This one attack from Godzilla in his critically injured and weakened state had left MUTO Prime, who was almost at her full strength by then in stark contrast, too knocked out to even save herself from being finished off.
Thermonuclear Pulse
Whilst in his temporary Burning Godzilla state, Godzilla's nuclear pulse is strengthened into an orange, far more powerful heat-revolved variation referred to as a thermonuclear pulse.
In Godzilla: King of the Monsters during 2019, Godzilla unleashed three such pulses upon Ghidorah after entering his thermonuclear form. The first pulse completely disintegrated Ghidorah's wings and sent him collapsing onto his back, making his escape impossible. The second pulse, extra charged by a futile triple gravity beam attempt from Ghidorah, disintegrated the side heads, leaving the middle head alone and defenseless. Godzilla triggered a third, most powerful pulse by placing his foot on Ghidorah's chest, pressing down and bursting into his enemy's innards, their combined energy accumulating into a third thermonuclear pulse that destroyed everything in the blast aside from Godzilla himself and Ghidorah's still-living middle head. Given that Godzilla reabsorbed the energy encompassing the third pulse mid-detonation, it is most likely that the third pulse would've enveloped and destroyed everything caught in the full blast radius, including the nearby Human-carrying Osprey and the incapacitated Rodan.
Electromagnetic Pulse
After energizing himself with the radiation from a french nuclear power plant and the atmosphere above, Godzilla charged up a pulse attack that wiped out the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper swarm attacking him and emanated an electromagnetic pulse, causing "power outage[s] in a thirty-mile radius around the plant."[91]
Titan physiology
Physical size
Godzilla naturally exceeds 355 feet in height and 90,000 tons in weight, his Titan physiology being what allows him to exist at such a size. Over the course of the Monsterverse, Godzilla progressively grows in size and bulk, developing to a height of 393 feet and a weight of nearly 100,000 tons by the events of 2015. In the events of 2027 during Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Godzilla underwent a self-mutated individual evolution that granted him radical changes to his body and power, his physical size being an unacknowledged but inferred example. Given that he lengthened his limbs, torso, and neck, Godzilla very likely exceeds 393ft in height now. Monarch's scans of him concurred that he increased the density of his molecules, indicating that he is considerably heavier then before.
Longevity
Godzilla's lifespan is extremely immense, spanning from hundreds of millions of years to over a few billion based on many indications. Monarch has historically believed Godzilla to originate from a time when the Earth was ten times more radioactive than it is today. Flashbacks in Godzilla: Awakening show Godzilla killing a Shinomura over 250 million years ago, right before the meteor responsible for the Permian-Triassic extinction event struck him and triggered the ensuing mass extinction. Godzilla's accumulated ties to the Hollow Earth and his own recollections of his past reveal that he has been around to witness the surface of the world change over countless ages and states. Godzilla's introspection in the Godzilla vs. Kong novelization indulges that Godzilla remembers when the surface of the world was first covered by magma, when it was first covered by water, when it was first covered by ice, and when the first green organisms crawled onto the barren rock of the surface. The latter three all point to Godzilla tracing his lifetime to at least the early to mid Archean Eon.
Radiation detection and consumption
As with any individual Titan or comparably large Superspecies, Godzilla's physiology is adapted to relying on radiation and other immense sources of energy for sustenance. Naturally, Godzilla is capable of detecting radiation over long distances, and more recently, even through entire biosphere layers.
Though he never demonstrated this method, let alone show any signs of preference for it, Godzilla could hypothetically ingest the radioactive flesh of similar organisms like a typical "predatory" creature. Showcased numerous times, Godzilla can simply absorb radiation through his skin like a sea sponge with zooplankton or a plant with sunlight and dirt. Typically, Godzilla has absorbed radiation with this method whenever he has been caught in the blast or fallout of nuclear bomb explosions like at Bikini Atoll, San Francisco, or his lair. In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Godzilla siphoned and inhaled radiation directly from a nuclear power plant's reactors, Monarch's officials concurring that he reabsorbed the atmospheric radiation produced from the weather-impacting energy conversion.
Radiation emission
Naturally, Godzilla emits radiation and leaves traces of it everywhere he goes. Following his reestablishment as the Alpha Titan, Godzilla intentionally emitted radiation as he swam around the world, spreading his essence as he passed over coral reefs and other damaged underwater environments.
Terraforming
Quite peculiarly, Godzilla is capable of emitting a form of radiation that promotes the welfare and advancement of life in the environment, an eco-friendly ability he utilized in the two-year period he spent leading the Titans' reversal of environmental damage and humanity's other actions.
Echolocation
Hearing
Godzilla can detect both sound electromagnetic wave frequencies of high sophistication over tremendous distances, giving him immense and immediate notice of all occurrences in his surroundings. Titans such as himself communicate over great distances using echolocation and sonar. Whilst in Axis Mundi in 2014, Godzilla overheard the male and female MUTOs communicating with each other on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean, managing to intercept the male in advance. By obligation, Godzilla could hear the frequency of the Orca regardless of his location on the surface of the Earth.
Alpha call
Godzilla is capable of emanating a global call to other Titans and Superspecies to communicate and coordinate large-scale commands or events, such as mass awakenings, returns to hibernation, or carrying out his will. While Godzilla has yet to physically give off an alpha call like Ghidorah and Kong both have, Godzilla did put his fellow Titans back to their ancient rest using a telepathically delivered alpha call in Godzilla Dominion.
Heightened senses/Extrasensory abilities
Sight
Godzilla's eyes are highly keen and perceptive, seemingly granting him binocular vision and being resilient enough to endure extreme displays of destruction and/or light such as Hydrogen Bomb detonations or weaponized bioluminescence from the likes of Ghidorah or Mothra.
Thermal vision
Godzilla is capable of detecting thermal radiation, using this particular form of eyesight to help assess dangerous situations or to see enemies whilst blind in other forms of sight.
Smell
Godzilla has familiarized himself with the countless scents that make up the Earth's inhabitants and their functions.
Taste
Godzilla has familiarized himself with the planet's countless tastes encompassing its functions and needs.
Touch
To be added.
Atmospheric detection
To be added.
Weather detection
Godzilla can detect when clouds are about to precipitate weather.
Magnetic detection
Godzilla can feel the Earth's magnetic pull on a global scale, using it for navigation and for monitoring the planet itself.
Gravitational detection
To be added.
Biotic and Abiotic matter differentiation
Godzilla can differentiate between biotic matter and abiotic matter.
Growth and Decay detection
Godzilla can detect both growth and decay, being able to differentiate between the two and sense both of them on a biospheric scale.
Individual life-form detection
Godzilla's heightened senses are so powerful and pristine that he can make out individual organisms on a biospheric scale, allowing him to locate and track individual Titans when necessary, which plays a major part in his monitoring of the surface of the planet and/or the biospheres below it.
Energy manipulation
Even with his natural Titan physiology, Godzilla possesses versatile control over energy that he uses either for battle or for protecting his surroundings.
Energy absorption
Godzilla is capable of absorbing energy from other monsters in battle or from energy sources, possessing multiple means of doing such.
Energy conversion
Godzilla's Titan physiology grants him the capacity to convert natural or manmade sources of radiation into enough energy to sustain himself, with even the warmth of radioactive lava in his Hollow Earth lair being enough to incubate him over time. His metabolism is potent enough that under his control, the radiation he emits after absorbing nuclear detonations causes the formation and flourishing of entire new ecosystems on a city-wide or semi-national scale.
Energy control
Godzilla's control over his own radiation and energy is enough to withhold it from the surrounding environment when needed. Whilst in his Burning Godzilla state in 2019, Godzilla reabsorbed the last of the three thermonuclear pulses he emitted after it spread out enough to destroy most of Ghidorah, preventing it from reaching the nearby humans. By doing this, Godzilla also remained close to his full strength even after expunging his excess energy reserves, being enough to prompt Rodan and several other Titans into willing submission. In 2027, after energizing himself, Godzilla withheld the heat and energy emanating from his body enough that he passed through and departed from Spain with minimal radioactive contamination into the surrounding environment, managing to protect fleeing civilians from his excessive signature.
Energy projection
Godzilla is capable of honing and weaponizing his power into energy attacks such as his atomic breath and nuclear pulse, both of which have taken on multiple different appearances during their many utilizations.
Weaknesses
Anatomical soft spots
While Godzilla's entire exterior is covered in armor or thick hide, like other organisms, his underside is less protected than his topside. Godzilla's gills pose the most vulnerability, winding up a consistent target in duals with other monsters and being sensitive enough to evoke retaliatory actions such as going through the Golden Gate Bridge or reeling in pain.
Overstimulation and exertion
Many of Godzilla's enemies tend to counter his tenacity and resilience with attacks that produce as much pain or stimuli as possible.
In 2014, though the United States' firepower inflicted no harm to him at all, they did bother him enough that managing to strike his gills evoked irritated roars from Godzilla, one instance being enough to provoke him into forcibly treading through the Golden Gate Bridge, splitting it in half in collateral damage..
In 2019, Ghidorah's attacks were enough to gradually affect Godzilla, with his gravity beams being the most successful means of leaving wounds and evoking pained roars. When Ghidorah bit down on a power grid and channeled the electricity into his wing lightning, the expungement of light and electricity left Godzilla critically stunned, deprived of his strength enough that Ghidorah could add to the exertion by dropping him from the stratosphere. The fall knocked further more of the fight out of Godzilla, giving Ghidorah a chance to drain his remaining energy reserves and finish him off, which came close to succeeding.
Physical limits
Though Godzilla survived the detonation of the Oxygen Destroyer, the device's anti-aerobic effects put him into cardiac arrest, flatlined his vitals, and left him so weak that Dr. Ilene Chen said it would take years if not decades for him to recover and heal. Similarly, Godzilla was temporarily strangled unconscious by Ghidorah's necks whilst being airlifted, ceasing his bioluminescence and leaving his body limp in Ghidorah's grasp.
Gallery
- Main article: Godzilla (Monsterverse)#gallery.
Trivia
To be added.
Notes
- ↑ While most Japanese sources elect to approximate Godzilla's height to simply 108 meters, Toho Special Effects All Monster Encyclopedia (p. 120) instead lists a more precise measurement of 108.2 meters.
- ↑ While the April 14, 2019 issue of Toho Cinemas Magazine uses the more precise metric conversion of 119.8 meters for Godzilla's height, The Art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Chinese marketing materials for Godzilla vs. Kong, and Which is Stronger!? Godzilla x Kong instead round this up to 120 meters. English marketing for the film nevertheless lists his height as 393 feet.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Both American and Japanese sources list Godzilla's weight as "90,000 tons" in Godzilla (2014) and "99,634 tons" in Godzilla: King of the Monsters; however, it should be noted that in Japanese sources this refers to 90,000 metric tons (99,208.018 U.S. tons) and 99,634 metric tons (109,827.685 U.S. tons), respectively. The opening credits of Godzilla vs. Kong give Godzilla a weight of 164,000 tons, although his height remains 393 feet. This and three other statistics in the opening (blood volume, walking speed, and tensile strength of bones) came from a 2014 Popular Mechanics article by Danielle Venton titled "The Impossible Anatomy of Godzilla".[24] In a Reddit AMA on April 22, 2021, Adam Wingard attributed the mistakes to "finishing that title sequence while doing 200 other things during the pandemic and some things got a little overlooked."[25]
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