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Mine is Kawa Mun. Kawa Mun would be a 200ft upright standing dog-lizard being. It would be a very distant cousin of Godzilla. It would be able to spew acid or lava out of its mouth, all generated from a crest on its head. Its tail would have a stegosaurus like spike cluster to defend against any hostile attackers such as Ghidorah or Rodan.

Mine is Komodo God. Its a Komodo Dragon that evolved on Skull Island for 30 years. It grew to a height of 35 meters. It then traveled away from Skull Island. It grew gills to swim under water. It then fed on plasma energy becoming 90 meters in height. It then was able to seemingly fire a beam that a Maser Canon would fire. It still kept the ability to spit poison. It then attacked India. It decimated India. Then, it America. It first destroyed Canada, and then attacked USA. The USA government decided to drop the Tsar Bomb on Komodo God. After evacuating the whole country, they dropped the Tsar Bomb on Komodo God. After the smoke cleared, Komodo God was only with a head, one arm no legs, no tail, and to body. They defeated Komodo God, with the cost of polluting and destroying USA. The world celebrated, and they were free. Then, on Skull Island, Komodo God egg hatched out... 

So that is my kaiju   

SasquaDash

Disney wanted in on the monsterverse 

YeOldFossil

I think leaving the questions open ended leaves room for more story opportunities. I don’t think it’s as much of a problem if the story isn’t done.

SasquaDash

It took me two minutes, and another thing is it’s definitely not trying to cater to an American audience. It’s full of references only Japanese viewers would get and there’s a lack of marketing in America as well. It didn’t take me hours to research I just knew it already and didn’t make a connection 

HinikunaGoji

I know that the show is more focused on science than action, my issue is that they don't really explain Jet's growth in the show, it just sort of happens. Godzilla vs Megalon at least gave some explanation for his growth (even if it was just a throw away line). Again, I get that the show is more based on science, but I feel like we shouldn't need to do hours of scientific research in order to understand why Jet Jaguar suddenly decided to change size.

Warthog or wild boar. Those things will ruin your day and even top predators don’t mess with them when given the choice not to.

SasquaDash

it has scientific basis like the rest of the plot, it’s a science driven story, not a action or character driven one

Yeah, it was told like that. But then Adam came out and said Godzilla was just playing with Kong the whole time and finally took the fight seriously when he got hit in the head. So basically the director just said Godzilla didn’t take Kong seriously at all and when he snapped he took Kong out in quick manner. 

Jet Jaguar in a nutshell:

Jet Jaguar grew because of Plot Convenience (same goes for his appearance in Godzilla vs Megalon), he needed to grow so he "programmed himself to change sizes".

G. H. (Gman)

our universe is in the fourth demension.

Accoridng to the physics of the show time is set and doesn’t branch off. The the clashing singular points were giving different answers.

HinikunaGoji,
Dimensions are different than universes though. For example the fourth dimension is in our universe, we just can't see it because we exist in a third dimensional world. Archetype exists in the same universe, but a different dimension and has somehow seeped into the third dimension.

But the idea that singular points had competing solutions in our universe point to multiple possibilities. Multiple possibilities [could] mean multiple universes--each with 10 dimensions.

Monster_Zero thinks the actress for her is hot, that's why.

AND THERE'S NO WAY THAT MAIA IS THE BEST.

I would do a Godzilla Vs. Destroyah and a Kong: Hollow Earth

Two Titans, Dogzilla and Cat Kong

It all depends if Warner Bros got Godzilla’s rights again…

G. H. (Gman)
I don’t think so, the other demensions talked about in the show seem to be strictly in terms 2d, 3D, 4D, 5D demensions, not alternate realities. Archetype is a 4d object, and it’s implied the kanji are as well

My Titan would be a 120ft elephant (who could be a cousin to Behemoth). She awakens to avenge the deaths of elephant herds that have been slaughtered by poachers. Her main ability is that she can cause earthquakes by stomping her feet, she can also flood areas by spraying water from her trunk. her design resembles a giant African bush elephant, she has "mountain-like rocks" and some trees covering her back (similar to Methuselah) and her skin is heavily armored. Her local name is "Tembo wa jiwe", which translates to "Elephant of Stone", referencing her rock-like armor. Vibrations from her infrasound can travel nearly 72 miles. Like regular elephants, she grieves for the loss of others like her, mourning the loss of elephant herds and even burying them. 

Charts have been updated.

Analysis of Godzilla vs. Kong's Japanese run:
At this point we can stop using covid as an excuse. Other films have overperformed in increasingly worse conditions. As of this writing, Fast & Furious 9 is still in the top 10 having accrued $28.1M/2.03M in attendance in just 4 weeks. The numbers embarrasses Godzilla vs. Kong's 9 week climb to $17.2M/1.25M in attendance. It's still the 2nd highest grossing Hollywood film of 2021, but what does that mean in Japan exactly?

The big issue is Japan is more interested in domestic films, while foreign (or Hollywood) movies have done progressively worse in the country for years. With less and less marketable Hollywood offerings lately, the scale seems to have tipped further.

For example, the Japanese production Tokyo Revengers opened 1 week after Godzilla vs. Kong and it currently sits at $36.6M/3.01M in attendance. Another Japanese film, Belle, opened 2 weeks after Godzilla vs. Kong and is at a whopping $50.8M/4.02M in attendance. Both movies are still in the top 10 after being in theaters for 7 and 8 weeks respectively. Godzilla vs. Kong fell out of the top 10 after week 5 and other Hollywood movies have done much worse. Black Widow, Jungle Cruise, Tom & Jerry and Wonder Woman 1984 all failed to hit $10M. The closest was Black Widow with only $8.2M and 0.6M in attendance.

Godzilla vs. Kong did better than most of the imports due to the curiosity of how Hollywood handles Japanese IP. But while Japanese Godzilla fans tend to like Godzilla vs. Kong, its general audience are lukewarm to how we handle their IP, preferring their own content. Another example is the CG remake of Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back. It opened the same year as the big budget, Hollywood take on Pokemon, Detective Pikachu. But the Mewtwo Strikes Back remake still did better in Japan.

So as poorly as Godzilla vs. Kong did, there's two things in its favor: 1) It did okay for a Hollywood flick, especially in comparison to this year's slate and 2) Toho didn't lift a finger to make it. Toho loves the international spotlight too much to let Godzilla vs. Kong's performance deter them from wanting more. And the fact they keep the Japanese box office receipts sweetens the deal. (WB/Legendary doesn't see a cent of the money it makes in Japan.)

But if this were a Toho production, Godzilla would likely be going back on hiatus again.

Comparison:

Godzilla (2014)
- Screens (at opening): 427
- Opening weekend: $5.0 million
- (Opening weekend counting Friday:) $6.7 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $31 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 2.23 million

Shin Godzilla (2016)
- Screens (at opening): 448
- Opening weekend: $6.1 million
- (Opening weekend counting Friday:) $8.2 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $79.2 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 5.69 million

Kong: Skull Island (2017)
- Screens (at opening): 676
- Opening weekend: $3.4 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $17.7 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 1.34 million

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)
- Screens (at opening): 158
- Opening weekend: $1.3 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $3.1 million (est.)
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 169,000 (est.)
(Last official number before dropping from top 10: $3 million)

Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)
- Screens (at opening): 159
- Opening weekend: $945,000
- TOTAL GROSS: $1.7 million (est.)
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 93,100 (est.)
(Last official number before dropping from top 10: $945,000)

Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
- Screens (at opening): 158
- Opening weekend: $901,000
- TOTAL GROSS: $2.6 million (est.)
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 142,400 (est.)
(Last official number before dropping from top 10: $1.9 Million)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
- Screens (at opening): 431
- Opening weekend: $6.3 million
- (Opening weekend counting Friday:) $8.6 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $25.8 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 1.91 million

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
- Screens (at opening): 366
- Opening weekend: $4.3 million
- (Opening weekend counting Friday:) $5.6 million
- TOTAL GROSS: $17.2 million
- TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 1.25 million

Godzilla Series attendance numbers:

Attendance including recent giant monster/kaiju films:

YeOldFossil

He did beat Godzilla in round 2 without help with the axe and Godzilla was out for a while.

Kong killed Mecha G. He delivered the final blow and chopped off the head. Kong had helped, but he was the one that physically did the act. It was the least he could do after Adam decided to make Kong fuckin useless against Godzilla in a movie called Godzilla vs Kong. Like how do you introduce an anti-Godzilla axe and have it not seriously damage Godzilla when it hits him in the head? Why make Kong need help every fight when you build him up to be this alpha Titan that is going to finish a war between their ancestors. The next director better show Kong to be a beast like he always was and I don’t want to see a human anywhere near those fights. Kong handles his own fights and always has.

Monster_Zero

Why do you think so?

My answer for BEST HUMAN CHARACTER is Maia Simmons

Kattozilla

H m m m 

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THAT'S PERFECT.

Like an HBO Max supercut movie called: Rise of The Titans.

sonictiger

Honestly I don’t think KOTM has the worst writing ever. I think it is a bit rushed and has a lack of focus. The ideas could have worked but the exposition and little mistakes in setup and writing pulled it back. 

I think recutting KOTM and GvK into one movie could would strip away most of the bad elements.

I know good writing, and the MonsterVerse isn't really that as KOTM first made it so it looked like Madison saved the world by luring Ghidorah and the other Titans to Godzilla and Mothra's location and then later had a forced redemption cop-out by having Emma sacrifice herself when there was no setup for it and so apparently she saved the world.

Now that's an example of bad writing.

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i know nothing about good writing so i couldn't tell you lol

Even if Kong killed mechaG or not, can't we agree that Kong "won" the battle, but Godzilla won the war?

"I think people get confused when they hear, Character Development. To me what separates good writing from bad writing is Intention. A character does not need to undergo a grand Change or much change at all to be considered a good character. While that does make it interesting it does not mean that the story will succeed. One reason is narrative tension. This keeeps the audience invested, and the character changing does not usually keep the tension. Rather it makes a story interesting another way to engage the audience."

Nail meet head.

I liked Ford Brody, he wasn't bland, just military.

I mean Ren seemed like he was there to, connect the universe? Honestly it’s not that big of a problem  he was decent in my opinion.

monsterzero9

i don’t think it’s ironic,

sequels don’t tend to be as good

SasquaDash

I do think Reiwa has a better grasp so far of how to make characters with clear motivations and personalities, the most aggretious errors in human writing would be the Godzilla Trilogy.

This next bit is my opinion.

I think people get confused when they hear, Character Development. To me what separates good writing from bad writing is Intention. A character does not need to undergo a grand Change or much change at all to be considered a good character. While that does make it interesting it does not mean that the story will succeed. One reason is narrative tension. This keeeps the audience invested, and the character changing does not usually keep the tension. Rather it makes a story interesting another way to engage the audience. Take the movie interstellar. Using the science to drive the plot and the tension around whether Cooper will be with his kids again. ALthough he has arcs of choosing to sacrifice himself he does not change on a significant level. (Note he never chooses to let go until he sees his daughter again.) Yet many don’t criticize the movie on this level, because it doesn’t rely on it. Either way this narrative style is either hit or miss