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Godzilla, Kong, Gamera & Co.: The Kaiju Mega-Thread

Presumably Superman's ability to deal with Kong would be on a par with his ability to deal with Titano. Since I assume most Titano stories are not just a few pages long, it stands to reason that it would be challenging for Superman.

As for Godzilla, you've got the added complication of the atomic breath. Also, Godzilla isn't just a brute-force fighter, but is cunning and creative and has a way of rallying back with a surprise move when he seems to be down. Superman would have to watch himself.
 
Christopher said:
Presumably Superman's ability to deal with Kong would be on a par with his ability to deal with Titano. Since I assume most Titano stories are not just a few pages long, it stands to reason that it would be challenging for Superman.
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Pre-Crisis Titano and a couple of the later versions had Kryptonite powers. The first Post-Crisis Titano was an innocent mutated chimpanzee and Superman's challenge was to stop him without hurting him in the process. Something that he ultimately failed in, as that version of Titano died at the end of his first and only story, though not at Superman's hand.
 
This crossover has the potential to be absolutely terrific. I love the Monsterverse and I love the JL, so I could not be more excied for this. I'm even one of the few people who actually enjoyed Godzilla vs Kong.
 
I'm reading the Godzilla: King of the Monsters novelization, and it mentions an encounter with Godzilla a few months after the events of the 2014 film that Emma and the ORCA were involved in. Is this referencing another piece of media like a short film or comic, or is it fresh backstory created for the KotM story?
 
Smiley said:
I'm reading the Godzilla: King of the Monsters novelization, and it mentions an encounter with Godzilla a few months after the events of the 2014 film that Emma and the ORCA were involved in. Is this referencing another piece of media like a short film or comic, or is it fresh backstory created for the KotM story?
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I haven't read the novelization, but I would assume that's a reference to the Godzilla: Aftershock comic which served as a prequel to KOTM.
 
Smiley said:
I'm reading the Godzilla: King of the Monsters novelization, and it mentions an encounter with Godzilla a few months after the events of the 2014 film that Emma and the ORCA were involved in. Is this referencing another piece of media like a short film or comic, or is it fresh backstory created for the KotM story?
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As captainkirk says, that's from the comic book Godzilla: Aftershock. Apparently the novelization also references the first tie-in comic, Godzilla: Awakening, which followed Dr. Serizawa's father in the years between 1945 & 1954. The comics are meant to be canonical, and the novel referencing them bears that out.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
Pre-Crisis Titano and a couple of the later versions had Kryptonite powers. The first Post-Crisis Titano was an innocent mutated chimpanzee and Superman's challenge was to stop him without hurting him in the process. Something that he ultimately failed in, as that version of Titano died at the end of his first and only story, though not at Superman's hand.
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That is what I was thinking: Titano was only a challege for Superman pre-crisis because he had kryptonite powers and post-crisis because Superman didn't want to hurt him.
 
Someone on Twitter pointed out that Kurt Russell's character Lee Shaw was actually introduced in the Godzilla: Awakening comic that served as a prequel to Godzilla 2014. He's rescued by Serizawa's father when Godzilla and other monsters emerge in 1954.
 
captainkirk said:
Someone on Twitter pointed out that Kurt Russell's character Lee Shaw was actually introduced in the Godzilla: Awakening comic that served as a prequel to Godzilla 2014. He's rescued by Serizawa's father when Godzilla and other monsters emerge in 1954.
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Oh, that's good. I was concerned that the comics might go the way of other "canonical" tie-ins and get ignored by new screen productions. It sounds like Legendary is trying to maintain a consistent cross-medium continuity. Though I wouldn't be surprised if they tweak some details to serve the needs of the show.
 
I wish it were subtitled, but the comments on YouTube reveal that the closing line is "That monster will never forgive us."

I was easily able to understand "Is that... Godzilla?" in the shot used as the screencap. Which is interesting, since this is set in the '40s, so how is Godzilla already known? Well, maybe the scene is from later in the movie after news of Godzilla's emergence has spread.

Hearing the announcer say "Gojira Mainasu Wan" at the end made me think of something. I've been taking the title to be a reference to "T minus one," like a countdown, since it's set before Godzilla's traditional 1954 debut. But the Japanese use the English loan word "minus" to mean "negative," for instance, "minus energy" for "negative energy." So it could also be interpreted to mean "Godzilla negative one," especially since the logo is written as "G -1.0". I don't know if that means anything, though, unless it's just another way of expressing the idea that this is before the original Godzilla. (Which would make the 1954 one Godzilla Zero, which kind of works, since most continuities center on a second Godzilla that emerged after the original one died, either briefly thereafter in the Showa series or decades later in the Heisei series and most of the Millennium films, with the exceptions of Megaguirus, where the original's death was retconned out, and GMK, where the original had nearly died but regenerated.)
 
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