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XenotarisGodzilla ForumWhy do you think Kong and Godzilla will fight?

Well I think Godzilla will try to reach Skull Island get him to submit.

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The RealistGodzilla (Toho) NewsGodzilla: King of the Monsters Blu Ray/DVD Covers Revealed.

Typically the Best Buy steelbook covers feature unique art and are often hard to get in my area. Not sure what the 3D box art is either.

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XenotarisGodzilla ForumGojiverse

Chapter 7: Final isn't so Final

New York City, New York
2012 A.D.

An xillien ship hovers above one of the titan protection bunkers, a xillien approaches the big blast doors. With the touch of his staff the blast doors open and inside humans cower in fear at his very presence. "Kneel before your gods! Your pathetic guardians are no match against us! What is Godzilla to Ghidorah? Its nothing more than a giant radioactive lizard. You humans place your faith in an animal god that could easily consider you its next meal! Why suffer for hungry beasts when you could place your faith in us?"

"You will never understand. Godzilla is more than just an animal, he is the living embodiment of nature. Godzilla will restore balance" Dr. Robert Kurosaki stood up to the xillien overlord.

"You insolent monkey!" shouted the xillien overlord, with inhuman speed he stood before the elderly scientist. He raised the old man up by his neck "How dare you talk back to me! Know my name and quiver in fear for its Shinmusu the DESTROYER OF WORLDS!" he barked. He hurled the man into a crowd of people, "Round the humans up, bind their hands, SHE will be waiting for them" Shinmusu barked his orders to his xillien warriors.

"My Lord Godzilla is approaching" Kia, Shinmusu's right hand, stated.

"How predictable, send out Gigan and Hedorah" Shinmusu commanded.

"Yes, my lord. As you command" Kia then taps at his communication tablet, "By order of High Lord Shinmusu, release the Hedorah and Gigan. Remember, not to forget to arm Gigan with his new toys.. this time"

A pod falls from the sky before crashing into the ground. The pod bursts open, a thick cloud of steam hisses forth before a giant red monoeye gleams menacingly at anyone unfortunate to see it. Pedestrians flee in terror as Gigan climbs out of his pod. Gigan hoots gleefully as he finally is able to try out his disruptor cannon arms on something organic, the fleeing crowd were instantly reduced into orange fluid as they splash all over the streets. Gigan hoots in murderous glee as he continues to turn people into "tang". Hedorah steps in from the adjacent block, spewing his toxic miasma down on the fleeing humans below. They all collapse, choking to death before their bodies are digested by Hedorah's larvae.

Nick Fury, a tall bald African-american man with an eye-patch was dressed in all black attire and Maria Hill, a brunette Caucasian-american woman dressed in blue attire; watched in horror as the devastation across the globe just keeps getting worse. A swarm of various flying bug kaiju flies forth from the Hollow World, Titanosaurus emerges from the ocean near Ellis Island, Megalon stabs his mechanical drills into the brooklyn bridge, he pulls down with all of his might, the bridge that killed Zilla more than a decade ago comes crashing down into the water. A young women with mixed European and Asian ancestry observes the destruction from her apartment roof top, she puts both her hands above her mouth as the titanic monsters smash, bash, crash, and roar across the city. Meganula a giant kaiju dragonfly comes barreling at Skye intend to devour her. Meganula crashes a story below Skye, the concrete floor buckles then caves in as Skye is sent tumbling off the apartment. Skye felt herself become airborne, her eyes widen in terror as she was now plummeting fast to the ground.

A loud cry could be heard screeching from the debris, Mothra arose from the brown debris cloud and on her back was Skye. Two tiny fae-like beings sporting fairy wings emerge from Mothra's fur. "Don't be frighten" the tiny faeries spoke in unison, "We are the elias, Lora and Moll"

"Whoa your tiny?" Skye said still clutching her breathe, "Whats going on?" she frantically glances side to side but the motions forces her eyes shut.

"You are on Mothra's back, we are in the admits of a kaiju's battle" the faeries still calm in their demeanor. "Why not try relaxing? You'll be less scared that way"

"Ooooh I don't think I can relax on the back of a giant bug is going to make me any less scared than I am now!" Skye back talked.

"Mothra!" The Elias corrected Skye. "Mothra is more than just bug, she is the Queen of the Monsters, Goddess Defender of Earth but she is very kind, once you get to know her better" the Moll explained, "She also loves mankind, so be thankful she rescued you and not Battra" the Lora retorted.

"Why? What's wrong with Battra?" Skye asked curiously.

"Battra is also a Defender of Earth but unlike Mothra, he is not fond of humans, not one bit"

"Thanks... I guess" Skye relaxes somewhat.

"Oh Meganula is very angry we robbed him of his meal" said the Moll.

"Meganula are always angry" said the Lora.

Meganula furiously flutters his dragonfly wings. It flares open its mandibles as it inches ever so closer to Mothra. Battra swoops in and fires his Prism Beams into Meganula's abdomen and left wing set, the kaiju dragonfly falls from the sky like a shot down plane. Battra flies along side Mothra for a brief moment before racing off to attack another Meganula.

Meanwhile Agent Coulson, Agent May, Agent Ward, Agent Garret, Dr. Simmons, and several other MONARCH Agents march through the New York sewer system. Their group is armed and wearing flatjackets in case they get attacked. "Alright, the old Zilla nest used to be here somewhere" Coulson muttered under his breath as he takes his team deeper in the ruins of Madison Square Garden. "Looks like what ever used to live here is dead now or long gone" Agent Garret commented. He rests his back on a very large scalely "rock", the "rock debris" then open its eye and stares down at the MONARCH agents. "Whoa!" Ward shouts as he aims his gun at the massive eye. The "rock debris" then begins to move, its spiky back stabs the ceiling like serrated knives. dust falls from the ceiling, the entire cavern shakes as the beast starts digging up to the surface. "I think we found Zilla!" Coulson shouted.

"You think?!" May sarcastically retorts.

Zilla bursts out of the ground like a graboid, SkssssshhhhhhhGYAOOOOOOON! Gigan briefly glances at Zilla before ultimately ignoring him. Zilla leaps out of his burrow to chase Gigan. Gigan continues to pop pedestrians into orange fluid before Zilla bites into one of Gigan's arms. Gigan hisses angrily. The metallic teeth on his sternum and tummy starts to vibrate and move in a chainsaw fashion. Zilla wrestles Gigan to the floor, he uses his left foot to hold the alien robot chicken in its place as he tugs and pulls on Gigan's arm. Gigan's torso buzz-saw cuts in to the ground as he is shoved face first on the ground. Hedorah tucks in his arms, legs, and feat as he takes to the sky. It releases its toxic gas on to the fleeing people below, everyone falls to the ground dead or dying.

Zilla inhale some of the toxic fumes, the parazillasaurus releases Gigan as it began choking on Hedorah's miasma. Gigan took no time to rise of his feat, he squawked angrily as he leaps towards Zilla. Gigan cuts Zilla up with his buzzsaw tummy. Zilla howls in pain and doubles back only for Hedorah to shoot its eye laser in Zilla's side. Zilla collapses on the floor slowly suffocating as the two alien kaiju inch closer and close to him. "Alright fire on the sludge monster and the space turkey!" Commander Kane ordered to his tank battalion. A battalion of M1A1s fire sabot at the two alien kaiju, Gigan roared furiously only to be swarmed by a fleet of attack helicopters.

Hedorah uses its eye beams to slice and dice the attack helicopters, Gigan fires his disruptor cannons at the tanks. He cackles as the tanks exploded. "Alright we got their attention, now lead them away from the big lizard" Hedorah follows the helicopters, taking his toxic miasma with him. Gigan wasn't so easily fooled, he just stood and watched the tanks drive away. He turns back to the fallen Zilla, only to find the creature was no longer there. Zilla despite his wounds managed to climb on an adjacent skyscraper, Gigan sees Zilla was stalking behind him through the building's window reflection. But it was too late, Zilla leap from the skyscraper.

He dug his claws deep into the alien titan and wrapped his jaws around the turkey-thing's neck. This time without Hedorah's interference Zilla crunched down hard, Gigan screamed, Zilla crunched again and again. Gigan desperately fires his cannons wide until Zilla delivered a final crunch to the alien's neck. Gigan's weapons power down, Zilla pulls the alien titan's head right off its shoulders.

Zilla crawls off the dead space chicken-thing, Gigan's spines delivered a mortal wound to the victorious Zilla. Zilla succumb to his wounds, gasping for air as he lies dying... He groans as his body starts to shut down on him. Zilla struggles to keep his eyes open but despite his resistance his eyelids were getting rather heavy. The world darkened and soon everything was fading to black. Zilla heard a high pitched cry before slowly embracing death. The cry got louder and louder, Zilla then found new strength to open his eyes. There a giant Moth stood over him, she was showering him in her own radioactive energy. Zilla's wounds started to shut close as well as life started to return to him.

Hedorah continued to follow the helicopters until it reached the New York ports, it stared suspiciously at the water. There he was rising from the water, Godzilla or Godzillasaurus athelta; MONARCH designated him Jaeger. Jaeger fires his atomic breath directly into hedorah's face, yet hedorah stood its ground. Jaeger fired again and again but only managed to break it apart into smaller chunks. Then behind Godzilla came Megalon and his mechanical drill arms. Godzilla tail smacked Megalon back into the water before continuing blasting Hedorah apart. The xilliens watched the battles through their monitor screens, "That thing, survived! What did MONARCH call it?" Shinmusu asked.

A female xillien walked up from behind her overlord, "They call it Zilla, due to its relation to the other Godzilla species. Yet it lacks the divine power of its cousins hence the name"

"Thank you, Shikusumi. Continue your work gathering Intel, If you serve me faithfully... I may be able to help you and your human consort find your missing daughter"

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AndoV2.0Godzilla (Toho) NewsGodzilla: King of the Monsters Blu Ray/DVD Covers Revealed.

Phew - glad they are doing the 3D version. Cheers for the confirmation The Realist.

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XenotarisGodzilla ForumGojiverse

Chapter 6: MONARCH

MONARCH a secret organization that was founded after the second world war in 1946 was created to investigate the sinking of USS Lawton and eventually hunt down Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms. In 1954, Monarch discovered three Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms, later named Godzilla after the Japanese legend of Gojira. The first Godzilla was roughly measured to 50 meters tall and it devastated the Japanese country side, causing countless loss of life.

MONARCH sent several agents to investigate, one of them was Steve Martin and Eiji Serizawa, brother of Daisuke Serizawa. Godzilla attacked a cruise boat before reaching land, the city of Shinagawa was destroyed by Godzilla. The JSDF and MONARCH build electrical tower fence to impede Godzilla the following morning but at night Godzilla rises from Tokyo Bay and tears the high tension wires down and uses his atomic fire breath to melt down the electrical towers.

The creature was then reported to have been destroyed by an experimental Japanese weapon dubbed the Oxygen Destroyer, however its inventor Dr. Daisuke Sherizawa not wanting the oxygen destroyer to fall in the wrong hands. Remaining beneath Tokyo Bay to ensure that the oxygen destroyer could ever be made, Dr. Daisuke Serizawa died along side Godzilla. The second Godzilla arrived at the Bikini Atoll islands a month later. It was reported that it was far larger than the Godzilla that ravaged Japan. However this creature wasn't alone, another MUTO later identified as Shinomura arrived to fight Godzilla. MONARCH had both titans taken out by the Castle Bravo bomb.

Meanwhile an international spy organization called S.H.I.E.L.D. was launched shortly after the second world war, founded by Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, and Steve Rogers to hunt down renegade Axis science division called the Cult of Hydra. Eventually MONARCH and SHIELD jurisdiction and goals converged, the two organizations soon partnered up in the 1960s due to increase MUTO activity and alleged Cult of Hydra activity. The year was 1964 when earth was attacked by an extraterrestrial lifeform, it came from the sky like a meteor before taking the form of a golden dragon. Fortunately the Earth's MUTOs we now designate as Titans such as Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra; drove the golden dragon off world.

However MONARCH and SHIELD has not seen the last of Alien treachery. The following year a new race of alien beings arrived to Earth, the Xilliens as they called themselves. They resembled humans to a degree, yet most of their bodies were covered in scales and spikes as well as possessing a tail. They plead to the world governments that they needed earth's assistance, the catch was they needed Godzilla and Rodan to rid their world, Planet X of last year's menace King Ghidorah. Foolishly the world governments agreed and the two titans were given to the xilliens, however the Xilliens tricked humanity and turned Earth's two titans against them via mind controlling devices.

MONARCH and SHIELD managed to reveal the Xilliens can blend in with the human population via skinsuits and body manipulation as deomstrated by Xillien spy Miss Namikawa. Meanwhile Howard Stark alongside Junpei Fuyutsuki invented a device to disrupts the mind-controlling waves, freeing all three kaiju from Xillien control. The Xillien ship was destroyed, King Ghidorah fled earth for the time being, Rodan and Godzilla were reported that they went their separate ways.

Then the 70's came, Xilliens started a proxy war with earth via sending in enslaved alien titans to do their dirty work and hiring alien mercenaries factions to build them mechanized godzilla-like robots. Meanwhile MONARCH send out an expedition to Skull Island to further study the hollow earth. After the discovery of Skull Island was not only crawling with titans but was a gateway to the Hollow Earth, MONARCH consumed SHIELD with its ranks to better carry out their operations in the wake of SHIELD's failure to save a girl during the last Mechagodzilla incident.

The 80's wasn't a very good year for MONARCH despite now having fully consumed SHIELD. The Japanese MONARCH division splintered off in the wake of a new Godzilla attack, G-FORCE was soon established. They sent their teams to collect G-Cells which then lead to the creation of the enigmatic titan Biollante, Godzillasaurus gigas survived its fall in the volcano and soon destroyed Biollante, however Biollante released spores into the upper atmosphere, only time will tell when they'll take root.

MONARCH and G-FORCE grew further and further apart and then came the 90's the two organizations became rivals. MONARCH called the creatures Titans while G-FORCE called them Kaiju. G-FORCE barred MONARCH from any Kaiju-Titan Intel, so the existence of Battra, Space Godzilla, G-FORCE's own Mechagodzilla, Desghidorah, and Destroyah was kept hidden from MONARCH. MONARCH in turn kept the existence of Zilla and secretly were attempting to rediscover Dr. Serizawa formula to making the oxygen destroyer, from G-FORCE. However G-FORCE discovered Zilla after she attacked Manhattan in 1998, a NRC scientists mistakenly identified the creature Godzilla and assumed the creature's gender was male despite being pregnant.

Further Godzilla attacks carried on into the new millennium. MONARCH was able to contain the attacking Titans while they evacuated civilians to designated titan protection bunkers. G-FORCE did the same thing but only in Japan and has reconstructed a Mechagodzilla MK II "Kiryu". Then came the "Final Wars" were the Xilliens make their return after decades of proxy wars. Which continued well beyond 2004 and its only getting worse since the xilliens keep releasing newer breeds of titans and newer mockeries to Earth's Titans.

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Garrix24QGodzilla ForumWhat Made You a Godzilla Fan?

A me gustó Godzilla al ver como este peleaba contra otros mountros igual que el y pues eso fue epico!! es cuando comencé a ver todas las películas que pudiera sobre el.

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TheGMan123Godzilla (Toho) NewsGodzilla: King of the Monsters Blu Ray/DVD Covers Revealed.

Welp, there's another spam-bot.

I feel like the IMAX poster should've been used for some of the covers. That, or the fantastic individual HD stills from the movie.

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KaijuBuildzGodzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

I would have to say Mechagodzilla. I am not gonna repeat myself on how and why because I have made multiple topics and comments on the subject, but I simply want to have the full Toho big 5 in the Monsterverse at some point.

Warner Bros has acquired the rights for Mechagodzilla in recent years, maybe one more time would be that much of a problem for them.

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ZillaDude345Godzilla (Toho) NewsGodzilla: King of the Monsters Blu Ray/DVD Covers Revealed.

I really like the Ghidorah and Godzilla cover. Their is a perfect amount of colors.

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KaijuBuildzGodzilla Forumtop 5 most/least likely monsters to appear in the monsterverse

Yeah, the more I think about it the more it makes sense. The closest the Godzilla franchise has gotten to actual alien-looking aliens were green monkeys and cockroaches so it would be a nice change of pace.

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XenotarisGodzilla ForumGojiverse

Mothra sliced through the dorats with her scythe-like claws. She bellows a high pitched cry which disorientates the rest of the Dorats. Then Battra flew in to incinerated the daze Dorats into ash. Rodan ignites himself as he barrelrows into the dorat remaining swarm, their bodies were again reduced to charred ash. King Ghidorah's collective heads snarled angrily as his children were being slaughtered, his main head barked at Desghidorah to carry out his orders. Desghidorah quickly sprouted out wings before taking to the sky to confront the bothersome Moths and Pterosaur kaiju. Meanwhile Legend races across the ruins of Atlantis, his massive feet sending shockwaves into the the fragile crusts. King Ghidorah swooped down to intercept the charging godzilla, Legend reached out and grabbed left and right heads of King Ghidorah. The two massive kaiju wrestled each other into buildings, roads, and mountains; sending even more shockwaves into the fragile crust of Atlantis.

Shin Godzilla roars like a deranged monster before firing purple lasers show into the sky. the lasers destroy more towers and mountains. Battra's left wing is reduced to tathers as he crashes into the atlantean soil. Mothra swoops down and digs her scythe talons deep into Shin Godzilla's neck. Anguirus back jumps into Shin Godzilla's left leg, the spikes from his back causes Shin to bleed. Gamera launches himself out of the water, his shell spinning at deadly speeds to deliver some hefty damage to Shin Godzilla. King Kong grabs an atlantean statue's spear and drove into Shin's heart. Shin lowers his neck perpendicular to the ground before raising his tail up, his tail started to open up as smaller, more humanoid godzillas started to crawl out of it. The tiny humanoid godzillas began to shriek as the breath their first breath of air but then came a blue atomic fire. the small humanoid shin godzillas fall to the ground burnt and lifeless, Heisei bellows a victorious roar. Shin Godzilla raises his head up once more to roar before being hit by another one of Heisei's atomic breath. Before either Mothra, Kong, or Heisei Godzilla could finish off Shin, the ground collapsed and jets of dust and heat radiate the surface. Mothra pulled out her talons of Shin's neck before retreating back into the sky to help Legend, King Kong pulled the spear out of Shin's back before impaling the creature's head to the ground.

The mountains began erupting into a series of volcanoes, giant waves came sweeping up most of Atlantis's ground. King Kong quickly leaped out into the water to save as many Atlanteans from being sucked out into the Atlantic ocean. King Ghidorah and Legendary Godzilla stared intensely at each other, Ghidorah was preparing to strike before suddenly taking to the skies. Legend fired his atomic breath but missed, Mothra swooped in to slow down Ghidorah but Desghidorah vaporizes Mothra. Legend charges off into the ocean to finish King Ghidorah once and for all. The frighten atlanteans desperately cling on to King Kong's fur as the mighty ape titan was pulled out into the open ocean by a great wave. Kong helplessly watched the rest of atlantis burned and sink below the waves. Legend followed after King Ghidorah to finish their fight.

Legend reaches the shores of the ancient island continent of Antarctica. Great King Ghidorah like a vulture, circles around in the air before spotting an open entrance to the hollow world. Godzilla charged up his atomic reserves before blasting Great King Ghidorah in the sides. His right head snarled in anger, his neck begins to glow like a disco ball before exhaling a gravity beam at Legend. Legendary Godzilla counters it back with his atomic fire, the center head now turns to join in the fight, and not long after so too the goofy left head. Godzilla is violently shoved back by the gravity beams, leaving some seriously nasty lacerations. Great King Ghidorah flies down with his talons at flared, Legend barely had enough time to react before he felt the space dragon's talons pierce his flesh. Legend growls in pain as Ghidorah's trio of jaws bite into Godzilla. Legend had to think of something fast and quick otherwise he will not survive. Legend poured all of his radiation into his spines, the ice around his spikes began to melt, Godzilla roared as the energy build up in his spikes reach critical mass. The glacier that holds both Godzilla and Great King Ghidorah turns into a deep lake causing both titans to plummet into the bitter cold radioactive water. A roar bellowed from the hollow earth entrance, soon the lake Godzilla made was beginning to ice up. Legend uses the last of his atomic reserves to both strike a blow to Great King Ghidorah and to propel himself further away from his archnemesis. Godzilla barely made it out of the lake before it quickly seals up and solidifies, Legend makes one last glance at Great King Ghidorah's frozen prison before heading off to refuel his now depleted atomic reserves. 

King Kong awakened on an island surrounded by a perpetual thunderstorm. He lead his atlantean followers deep into the island's jungles there he meet more of his kind. Other atlanteans found themselves being carried away by their kaiju gods to safety. The legends of the great titans spread across the globe, however, gradually the reverence of the great titans were replaced by human-like gods. Gradually humans forsake nature and placed themselves above all life on this green earth. Humans began to see themselves as above natural order. The year is now 1954 AD, World War II was finished about a decade ago but thoughts of the war was still on many people's minds. The americans started testing their newer atomic bombs on the bikini atoll islands which awakened something not seen since the days of Atlantis....

 

GODZILLA!

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G. H. (Gman)Godzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

"I’m pretty sure Toho would happily give legendary zilla for cheap."

You don't know Toho very well do you?

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The RealistGodzilla (Toho) NewsGodzilla: King of the Monsters Blu Ray/DVD Covers Revealed.

Sadly I prefer the DVD cover. Either way, I think they are better than the placeholder cover with Godzilla firing an atomic blast into the sky. He looks too chunky in that shot.

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XenotarisGodzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

The idea of Mechagodzilla is kind of growing on me... If portrayed as an Alien construct like it was back in the 70's. But Mechaghidorah makes no sense in the monsterverse since King Ghidorah can regenerate a new completely organic body.

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YeOldFossilGodzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

Gman, I honestly think your overthinking the zilla inclusion. A minor appearance in the monsterverse isn’t going to shut it down. I’m not, or any other zilla fan for that matter, is asking for a zilla solo film or comic. We just him to be in it as a minor titan. An appearance in a comic or a movie should be fine and dandy and not cause an uproar with Godzilla fans. Well, the mature ones at least.  There will always be a zilla hater that talks trash but what can they do? I’m pretty sure Toho would happily give legendary zilla for cheap. Also, this topic is about what monster people want in the monsterverse, I want zilla and that’s that. Don’t care what people say.

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G. H. (Gman)Godzilla ForumGodzilla: King of the Monsters [Japanese] Box Office Watch

UPDATE 7/09/19:
Kogyotsushin reports King of the Monsters fell significantly further than expected in its 6th weekend--From 5th to 10th at the box office.  It made $365,000 over the weekend for a $25.1M USD total.

It's attendance is now at 1.86 million--140,000 under Godzilla 2000 and Godzilla vs. Biollante's final attendance count. It's expected to surpass those two movies, which were both considered modest-to-disappointing at the time of their release. It should finish just under Godzilla '14.

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G. H. (Gman)Godzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

Bingo. I don't think it will continue either. Though there is no denying Dougherty really fanboys out over the series.

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KoldWarKid62Godzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

@Gman - I don't put much stock in it either, because unfortunately, I think the Monsterverse ends next year, unless some miracle happens. It's just interesting to see how much of a fan he is and how much he loves that world/genre.

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G. H. (Gman)Godzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

KoldWarKid62,
I have in fact seen that. I didn't put too much stock in it, but you're right. It sets up an entire galaxy of possibilities.

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G. H. (Gman)Godzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

YeOldFossil,
I don’t believe it was made in contempt either.

Think again. Emmerich and Devlin were not fans of the material and didn't want to do it when they were offered the job.

“Both of us thought it was a dopey idea the first time we talked. When Chris came back to us, we still thought it was a dopey idea." - Dean Devlin

"It’s just the same movie over and over again. They always had another monster in it, and I never get anything out of two monsters fighting. For reasons I can’t explain myself, kids all over the world kept watching these movies, in cassettes and at matinees." - Roland Emmerich

“There was no understanding of the property and what it was all about. The Sony executive team that took over Godzilla was one of the worst cases of executive incompetence I have observed in my twenty year career. One of the golden assets of our time, which was hand-delivered to them, was managed as poorly and ineptly as anybody can manage an asset. They took a jewel and turned it into dust.” - Co-Executive Producer, Robert N. Fried

Toho executives didn't like the design either and only gave the movie a green light because they were afraid it was their last chance to break in to the international market--Which ended up being a mistake on their part since the movie made it impossible to license Godzilla merchandise overseas for the next 5 years. Godzilla was considered poison by western markets since so much of the 1998 merchandise didn't move and sat on shelves collecting dust.

I'm glad you enjoy the monster and that the movie got you in to the franchise proper, but it still weakened the franchise to a point where even Toho couldn't save it in Japan. There's literally no reason to bring the creature itself back to the screen and the only reason Toho keeps licensing it out to overseas comics is because it's an opportunity to make extra pocket change off the character. Fans of GINO, or Zilla, are a niche group in an already niche fandom. It would only be pleasing a fraction of a fraction of a fraction--Which isn't financially worth it.

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enderpotato00Godzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

Anguirus should be the next one. It makes so much sense, yet they never added him. 

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KoldWarKid62Godzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

This is less about what I want to see and more about why Mike Dougherty was the right man to direct this (albeit it at the wrong time, but then again, timing is everything isn't it?). It also does play with the theme/question posed here. I think G.H. (Gman) will find this interesting, if he hasn't already seen it. The following was a snippet I saw posted in the Boston Herald:

“The film firmly establishes that Ghidorah can regenerate. That DNA is not of this world, which means that the possibilities are endless,” said Dougherty. “I think that’s why (Jonah) definitely has a little glimmer in his eyes. Because he sees all the potential uses, whether it be the whole head itself or even just a small sample of the DNA.”

There is definitely a whole world of possibilities, especially if a mad scientist were to get a hold of some of that monster DNA. But that’s not all.

“We also see a swarm of flies that are feasting on the head,” points out Dougherty. “So how is that going to affect the insects that are eating its flesh?”

The filmmaker also didn’t discourage hopes of seeing Mecha-King Ghidorah — the man-made robotic Ghidorah seen in 1991’s “Godzilla vs King Ghidorah.”

“That’s the fun of Godzilla movies,” Dougherty said. “While they have one foot (closer to) our existing world in sort of a grounded science fiction reality, they aren’t afraid to just go for it, get weird, and embrace this bizarre science fantasy logic. Let’s have a mechanical Godzilla. Let’s give Ghidorah a mechanical robot head. Why not?”

Dougherty, of course, did not guarantee that any of these theories are actual plans for the future.

“I’m not saying that any of these things are definite setups. But you don’t have to think about it very much for very long to sort of dream up a long list of possible ways to go with a severed head of a space dragon,” he said.

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Titan of WaterGodzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

Top 5: Destroyah, Biollante, Anguirus, MechaKingGhidorah, MechaGodzilla

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XenotarisGodzilla Forumtop 5 most/least likely monsters to appear in the monsterverse

I'm completely against human aliens. To make aliens look human diminishes the "human", its make humans less unique and more generic. I'm all for humanoid aliens like the Engineers, Yaut'ja, Protoss, Gungans, Ewoks, Wookiees, Zabraks, and most of the Mass Effect aliens. I dislike human aliens because they are either just repainted humans or they are humans with powers.

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XenotarisGodzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

I love Zilla as well, although Godzilla 1998 unfortunately was made to cashgrab Jurassic Park craze of the 90's, I think Zilla should be forgiven and given a second chance on the big screen. 

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YeOldFossilGodzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

I would not call it a bad movie, it was a basic monster movie. I don’t believe it was made in contempt either. It was made for Americans who have a different taste in movies than the Japanese. Toho and Roland were both at fault for it being a failure Godzilla movie. They allowed for people who did not understand or truly care for Godzilla to direct and make a Godzilla movie. Toho could have stepped in anytime, they gave the thumbs up for the movie. They don’t hate zilla, if they did why keep putting him out there? Why not put him in the movie as a minor titan? Who cares about what the pissy annoying zilla haters say. He is an awesome monster who was determined to not be Godzilla long ago. Get over it I say. He deserves more love. What I said in the previous comment still stands. 

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G. H. (Gman)Godzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

I don't respect bad movies made with contempt for franchises. Both Toho and, by extension Legendary, grew by accepting that the 1998 movie was a mistake and they showed that understanding by leaving it in the past and doing something with more respect and love for the material.

Zilla's done and over with. He'll be seen in more comics and supplementary material I'm sure. But the powers that be have already accepted the mistake and have shown that they understand it by making better movies.

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KaijuBuildzGodzilla Forumtop 5 most/least likely monsters to appear in the monsterverse

Yeah, I hope so too. I have had this idea though about a possible alien invasion storyline, but I think they would kind of need to be more human-like to work.

Just like how we have kaiju which are embodiments of real-life disasters and problems (Godzilla, Hedorah, Biollante, etc) I had an idea of making the aliens an embodiment of fugitives. Just like how fugitives come from countries in crisis and destruction, maybe the aliens could come from something similar (a Ghidorah attack before he came to earth perhaps?).

An alien backstory like this could make the aliens a bit more sympathetic and interesting, but ones again I think they would have to be a bit more human so we could relate the aliens more (if explained properly their human looks could make sense).

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YeOldFossilGodzilla ForumKaiju from Kong and Godzilla cartoons

It’s not illegal. Some tv channels even have their own YouTube channels to post clips and episodes of old show and new. It’s an old show so you won’t find them on tv or websites. Unless you want to buy a box set online, but I doubt you find those anywhere for cheap. Just YouTube it, trust me.

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Titan of WaterGodzilla ForumKaiju from Kong and Godzilla cartoons

Wait is it legal, cause I don’t want to do anything illegal.

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YeOldFossilGodzilla ForumMonsterVerse Monsters: Who do you want?

I disagree, zilla has been done right multiple time in the comics and has turned many fans to love him. Not to mention I think one way of showing growth and betterment is accepting past mistakes and fixing them if possible. Giving zilla a major movie appearance and making him better than his original by sizing him up and give him better durability would really show the audience that they understand their mistakes and will not make them again. Not to mention his design is already epic and he is many Americans first Godzilla movie, including my own. You got to show respect for him in that regard at least. 

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