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A time warp (タイムワープ taimu wāpu) is an action by which one or more individuals travel through time, either forwards or backwards, with the use of a time machine. It is demonstrated several times in the 1991 Godzilla film Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, in which time travelers from the year 2204 travel to 1992 in order to convince the Japanese government to prevent the birth of Godzilla. Known time machines include MOTHER and its subship KIDS, both of which were in the possession of the Earth Union Organization in the 23rd century. KIDS was later incorporated into the cyborg monster Mecha-King Ghidorah.
This article will attempt to explain not only the known mechanisms of time warping, but also the time travelers' effects on the timeline of the Heisei Godzilla films.
History
Heisei era
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
The universe of the Heisei Godzilla films operates on a branching timeline. When alterations were made to history, it split reality off into new flows of time where events happened differently. Detailed below are the events of each timeline.
Timeline #1
Over 1,000 days after Godzilla defeated Biollante and was infected with Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria by the JSDF, the King of the Monsters was still suffering from its effects. In fact, unbeknownst to the people of the present day, Godzilla never recovered from his ANEB poisoning even after upwards of 200 years. No longer menaced by the monster, Japan rapidly expanded and became rich by the 21st century. In the 22nd century, its borders expanded to territories in South America and Africa, and it surpassed the United States, the Soviet Union,[note 1] and China in economic power, becoming the most prosperous nation on the planet and the globe's dominant superpower. Japan's growth was unable to be contained even by the Earth Union Organization, a sort of futuristic successor to the United Nations. In 2204, three representatives of the Equal Environment of Earth Union, a group believing in the equalization of power between nations, took matters into their own hands and stole the time machines MOTHER and KIDS from the EUO in order to travel back in time to 1992. The trio, consisting of Wilson, Glenchiko, and Emmy Kano, consulted a centuries-old book entitled The Birth of Godzilla, in which author Kenichiro Terasawa theorized that the Godzilla that menaced Japan in 1984 and 1989 was originally a dinosaur living on Lagos Island who was irradiated by the Bikini Atoll nuclear testing of 1954. Using this knowledge, the group plotted to deceive present-day Japan by making up a story about Godzilla resurfacing and annihilating Japan in the 21st century. They would convince the Japanese government to allow them to travel to Lagos Island in 1944 and prevent Godzilla's creation, while secretly leaving behind three genetically-engineered creatures called Dorats to be mutated into a monster they could control.
Upon arriving in 1992, the "Futurians" analyzed Godzilla's skeletal and cellular structures and ran calculations with their 23rd-century computer that confirmed Terasawa's theory with near-100% accuracy. They enacted their plan, receiving clearance from the Japanese government to erase Godzilla, and sent a group consisting of Terasawa, Kano, their android M11, Professor Hironori Mazaki, and psychic Miki Saegusa back in time to 1944 Lagos Island. The so-called Godzillasaurus was moved to the floor of the Bering Sea where it would not be in range of the H-bomb, and Kano secretly left behind the Dorats in its place before returning to 1992.
Timeline #2
By making alterations to history, the Futurians created a new timeline in which Godzilla was never created by the H-bomb, and the three-headed dragon King Ghidorah emerged in his place. However, sometime before 1992, a freak nuclear submarine accident caused nuclear fuel to leak into the Bering Sea, mutating the still-living Godzillasaurus into Godzilla. In 1992, the Futurians unleashed King Ghidorah on Japan, aiming to exhaust the country's defenses and convince its government to implement their computer system and seemingly hand over political control. Refusing to submit, the government hatched a plan to recreate Godzilla by blasting the Godzillasaurus, who they were not yet aware had already been mutated, with a nuclear missile from a submarine owned by businessman Yasuaki Shindo. The plan was put into action, but when the submarine arrived in the Bering Sea, it was downed by the already-mutated Godzilla, who fed on its radiation and grew even taller and more powerful. The King of the Monsters landed in Japan and made his way to Abashiri, where the Futurians deployed King Ghidorah to face him. Godzilla ultimately severed Ghidorah's central head and blasted him out of the air when he attempted to escape, dropping him into the Sea of Okhotsk.
Meanwhile, Kano, who believed Wilson had taken the use of King Ghidorah too far, raided MOTHER with the help of Terasawa and M11, and rigged it to teleport to Abashiri where it was destroyed by Godzilla. With nothing to stand in his way, Godzilla attacked various locations across Japan, including Sapporo and Shinjuku, and destroyed nuclear power plants which consumed the country with pollution. The Futurians had, indirectly, succeeded in stifling Japan's growth. However, Kano vowed to reverse this future by taking KIDS to 2204 and convincing the EUO to convert King Ghidorah into a cyborg she could pilot against Godzilla. The EUO ultimately agreed, and Mecha-King Ghidorah was brought to 1992.
Timeline #3
Mecha-King Ghidorah intercepted Godzilla in Shinjuku, carrying him out to sea using the Machine Hand in its chest. The two plummeted into the water when Godzilla blasted the cyborg with his atomic breath, but Kano escaped in KIDS and warped to 2204.
Having prevented Godzilla's razing of Japan, Emmy created the third and final timeline, which is the setting of the remainder of the Heisei films.
Notes
- ↑ Emmy Kano explicitly refers to the Soviet Union in dialogue. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah was released on December 14, 1991, mere days before the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union. In-universe, this could be seen as Emmy intentionally withholding information, an alternate universe in which the Soviet Union never fell, or a simple continuity error.
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