BEWARE THIS ARTICLE HAS SPOILERS
As of aug 27 Godzilla King of the Monsters is now out digitally and physically on 4K bluray and DVD. And now that the Big G retained his spot on the top our attention will now turn to another go of the “legendary” fight between the Gman and Kong. Who’s going to take the top? Will there even be an end to the fued????
Who knows.
First let’s talk about Legendary's Monster-verse story arc as a refresher and for those who aren’t familiar. Our story starts with “Godzilla” (2014) and other than Godzilla being prehistoric since waaay before the dinosaurs we learn that atomic testing in the pacific during 1954 wasn’t just for testing. They were trying to kills the top dog, G. Flash forward to ‘99 and our scientists, Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham, discover a massive skeleton of a Godzilla-like monster with a hatched spore unearthed in a uranium mine in the Philippines. These two scientists work for Monarch, which is a secret organization made for studying and tracking the planets titans or Kaiju. Later we learn that this spore has made its way to a nuclear power plant in Japan. This plant detects wave after wave of seismic activity with the epicenter being the plant itself! This unfortunately puts an end to the reactor, the plant, even the surrounding town, and to our Joe Brody’s (Bryan Cranston) wifes death.
Later we see monarch trying their best to hide all trails of the presence of giant kaiju. One of the giant EMP enabled kaiju, the M.U.T.O, breaks out of its spore at the Monarch containment facility and kills Joe Brody and many others and flys away. Flash forward towards the end and Godzilla comes back from a long hiatus and puts the two MUTOs to their grave in San Francisco with a giant tail smack, some smashes, and an atomic breath blast decapitation. But us humans decided that an atomic warhead was needed to stop the fighting. This of course did not work and the mechanical countdown cannot be deactivated (who saw that coming). But our protagonist, Ford gets the bomb out on a boat far enough away form the city to prevent huge destruction just in time. Godzilla wakes up from a well deserved nap and heads to sea to chill. That’s the gist of Godzilla 2014.
Now to Kong: Skull Island.
This movie actually takes place before the events of Godzilla 2014 towards the end of Vietnam. Our young company, Monarch has discovered Skull Island and they want to get past the constant storms and map out the island and study its many creatures AND to prove the Hollow Earth Theory. If you don't know the Hollow Earth Theory is based off of an idea that the earth has a vast underground network of tunnels complete with their own ecosystems and their own hosts of kaiju! For our Monarch friends to get to skull island they recruit the help of the a team of helicopter squadrons led by Lt. Colonel Preston Packard. They get through the storms and start dropping seismic explosives to start mapping the island and possibly, the hollow earth. everything seems to be going well then BOOM! palm tree through a copter. Kong isn't happy with all the bombs going off on his property. Kong almost completely wipes out the crew and gives Packard a hankerin for some revenge. The group gets seperated and eventually stumbles upon a long stranded WW2 pilot, Hank Marlow. Marlow tells them that the giant ape is King Kong and hes the protector of the island, a defender from the likes of the Skull Crawlers from the hollow earth. He tells them that you don't want to mess with them or wake up "the Big one." They learn that kong is just a child and that his kind has been wiped out by the skull crawlers. We see other HUGE kong skeletons in a mass grave. One thing leads to another and the big boi skull crawler is out and is coming for Kong. Packard thinks he has his moment to get revenge but of course he is crushed by kong. A big fight ensues between the giant Crawler and Kong. Kong is king so therefor - by law- he wins.
Our survivors and monarh friends leave in a quick fashion. They are held by monarch and are told that kong isnt alone. Monarch is studying and tracking others. Creators are shown on the screen. Mothera, Rodan, godzilla, and.....Ghidorah. Its go time.
ON TO GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS!
Monsters destroyed parts of Vagas, Hawaii, and completely ruined San Fran. The secrets out, monsters are real. The world knows and now its 5 years after the events of Godzilla 2014. Monarchs own paleobiologist, Dr. Emma Russell, is in china and witness the birth of the larva stage of Mothra. Mothra starts going berserk so Emma russell uses her new machine called the Orca. This device emits a frequency that can attract or alter the mind of a kaiju, and it works! however, as soon as mothra seems to be tame the evil eco-terrorist group breaks in an kills all the staff but emma Russell and her daughter Madison. It seems Russell knows these people and may have a darker idea of what to do with the Orca. Now the terrorist group, led by Alan Jonah (Charles Dance), travel to Antarctica where the mythical Monster Zero is frozen in ice. This Monster Zero is stored at the Antartic Monarch base and Monarch know it as they race to get there before the terrorists can do anything, but they are too late. The terrorist free Monster Zero with the help from Dr Russell and her Orca machine and surprise guess who it is?! ITS GHIDORAH! Ghidorah rises from the shattered ice and starts killing off monarch soldiers then suddenly ghidorah stops and looks around. BOOM our Godzilla rises from the ice and a classic stand off ensues. Godzilla fights off ghidorah and tries to fire atomic breath at him but misses and gettings tackled to the ground in response. Meanwhile the terrorists are long gone and our Monarch friends are struggling to leave with the giant monster fight going on around them. Godzilla gets back up and seems to open another can of kaiju whoop-ass and ghidorah isn't having it and takes off and flies away.
Now that Ghidorah is awake, Dr russell reveals that shes working with the terrorists to awaken the Titans to cleanse the planet of humanity's mistakes and preserve the earth, giving the earth back to "its rightful rulers" the titans. She remotely awakens Rodan in mexico using the Orca. Rodan awakens from a volcano and a fight ensues between the airforce, monarch, and Rodan. Monarch lures Rodan to the giant storm on the approach that's surrounding Ghidorah. The two fight but monster zero quickly defeats Rodan and goes after the Monarch air craft and last minute Godzilla breaks the water under all of this and tackles Ghidorah into the ocean. They fight and struggle and G-Man manages to sever the left head of ghidorah. At this time The US Government calls Monarch and tells them to GTFO because they have developed a super Bomb that more deadly than an atomic bomb, its the Oxygen Destroyer. Yes the same bomb that killed Godzilla back in the Toho days. BOMB it goes off and seems to have killed our godzilla but Ghidorah gets away and lands on the volcano and REGROWS ITS HEAD YO! After this ghidorah starts waking up the other titans around the world and Mothra hatched from her cocoon and shes all wing all beautifuly ready to help godzilla. Monarch takes a sub and discovers godzillas underwater lair nad him taking a snooze at the heart of the radiation on a lava, fiery mess because he was just about killed from that bomb. Monarch learns that if they blow him up with an atomic bomb they can recharge Godzilla. They do it and it works and now hes on his way to Boston. back in boston we learn that Russell has been hiding there in a bunker the whole time. Madison then realises her momma be crazy and steals the orca and heads to Fenway Park because speakers. She turns the orca on and it calls the monsters around the world who are just destroying the planets cities. Ghidorah isnt having any of this and comes to put an end to it and godzilla as well as Humanity (because they are joining the fight this time) meet him there to put this to an end. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! that bomb has made godzilla go nuclear, hes stability isn't looking good and goes BURNING GODZILLA. ghidorah has met his match and tries to fight but cant penetrate godzillas burning body, we see that godzilla has a new ability of something like a super nova. He can charge his back and explode out in all directions like a star, this attack burns away ghidorah wings and other heads. Godzilla finishes him off with a stomp on his chest and one last giant nova blast destroying Ghidorah nad most of the city surrounding him. Godzilla keeps his spot on the top, he is and always will be the KIng of the Monsters.
Now of course these were all quick "what happened" for the past 3 movies. Did you notice how much Godzilla changed from 2014 to 2019? there's actually a really cool reason for that. There is a comic series titles "Godzilla: Aftershock" that takes place between 2014 and the recent King of the Monsters. I wont get into that story because you need to read it and the prequel comic "Awakening." But i guess i can tell you that because of a huge fight Godzilla has it changed his spikes on his back completely and man he got beefed up. SO read both of those novels because there's a lot to learn about what happened before and in between these movies.
Lets talk Godzilla, Gman has it over Kong.
Our next stop takes place next year in the summer 2020. Kong Vs Godzilla. Its hard to say right off the bat who is going to win. Will there even be a winner? WE cant go off the movies 100% for this because the Japanese movies had Godzilla come out and the US movie had Kong winning. I don't believe that Legendary will follow this and from all the stuff taking place in the other movies I believe that we'll have way more happening then a beef fight between two bros. Mothra seems like she may return because we hear that another cocoon was found by Monarch and we see in an after credits in king of the Monsters that those eco-terrorists bought the head of Ghidorah that Godzilla ripped off in the ocean. Will we see another return of Ghidorah/ Mecha-Ghidorah???? I really believe that Kong and Godzilla will indeed throw down but i don't think that there's going to be an end with that in particular, I feel that they are going to fight something of a bigger deal or other monsters completely. Destroyah???? if only... please legendary make him happen.
Now let's talk about the fight in general tho before this article draws to an end. When we last saw kong he was just a kid and we know that will be growing ALOT and that makes more strength and more smarts. That make just be one of the biggest arguments that anyone could have for the fight against godzilla. Kong is way more agile, he gan doge easy and uses tools and the manz has hands with thumbs. What could possibly be his limits in this fight. On another note godzilla has god like limits of damage he can take, its almost impossible to kill him and the lizard is atomic. Is it possible that Kong may just get tired before he can do enough damage to Gman to do enough to put him out and if he doesn't get out of the way of his atomic breath then it may just be the end. Back to size, it is almost guaranteed that Godzilla will always outweigh Kong while Kong keeps the upper hand in agility. The filmmakers behind the coming movie has stated that this is going to be a David and Goliath situation and we all know how that story went, will it be the same here or are they talking jus about size? I'm still banking that there's more to this movie that a lizard vs ape... there's more to be than the fight and more than whos going to win, but that's my opinion.
What do you guys think about Legendary's Monsterverse? Whos going to win between Kong and Godzilla and why? Let us know and thanks for reading.
-Brandon
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