History Film / GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: [[spoiler:Rodan wipes out the remnants of Gold Squadron with an aileron roll that demolishes the tight formation of the fighters.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Previously a [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness top-secret government agency]], Monarch has given up the game and gone fully public in the aftermath of Godzilla's fight with the two [=MUTOs=], since it would be almost hilariously impossible to cover up the fact that ''three giant monsters half destroyed at least three cities and rampaged across two states'', and there's now [[TheUnmasquedWorld no reason for them to try.]] Their mission has now shifted from trying to keep the existence of Titans a secret to prevent a public panic, to trying to reassure a rightfully-terrified public that all possible action is being taken for a hypothetical resurgence.
*** However, Monarch's actual activities are still classified, and the public doesn't know exactly what they're up to. Just because everyone knows they (and the subjects of their study and efforts) exist doesn't mean they have access to everything Monarch is doing. And many are ''not happy'' they don't get a say in what Monarch does and how, precisely, they do it.
** The death toll in the previous movie was likely in the thousands or the hundreds of thousands. In this film, it's implied by the news report exposition in an early scene and even more so in the novelization, that thousands of families' loved ones being among the death toll of the previous film is actually one of the main reasons why the majority of the public are calling for the government to try exterminating all the Titans indiscriminately.
** Naturally, with the massive human death and destruction that occurred in the previous film, U.S. government figures and a lot of other people are going to treat Monarch's findings that the Titans are essential to the planet's ecosphere (and therefore humanity's own survival) as little more than an afterthought.
** Monarch is literally on-trial because the government originally founded the organization to find a way to ''kill'' the Titans before they woke up, and they've deliberately ''avoided'' doing that.
** Because of his size, Rodan in particular can cause massive damage from the shockwave and wind he generates by simply flapping their wings or flying at high speed. In older movies, barring Rodan's film debut, flying monsters can only create a small gust of wind that couldn't even uproot trees unless they put some effort into it.
** All of the flyers have ''gigantic'' wingspreads for their proportions. Anything as massive as they are would need an extremely large wingspread just to fly (even if in reality it'd be impossible for anything the size of kaiju to get off the ground by flapping no matter how large the wingspan).
** A mild case. Ghidorah, having three heads, has three minds for each head's brain for the first time, and the heads have occasional disagreements about what to do with their shared body. This is most notable in the Antarctica scene when the left-hand head stoops down in seeming curiosity to examine the terrified Monarch soldiers as they shoot at it, with the centre head having to snap it back into focus before they start blasting.
** [[spoiler:The Oxygen Destroyer kills all the fish around Isla de Mara]]. TheStinger reveals that [[spoiler:Isla de Mara's fishermen have lost their livelihood and are desperate enough to take any offer Jonah makes for the severed head of Ghidorah they dredged up.]]
** While it's clear Godzilla doesn't have an issue with humans he isn't exactly the perfect defender of the Earth like he was in the 70s films. Right at the start we are reminded that Godzilla accidentally causes human collateral, such as Andrew Russell. Even when he comes to the rescue the good giant monsters are still dangerous. In Antarctica Godzilla steps over the downed Osprey and his dragging tail shoves it near a dangerous crevice which nearly kills much of the cast. Then during the finale after Madison smiles in relief as Godzilla arrives she realizes it's time to get out of the way of the two fighting giants or else she will suffer the same fate as her older brother. Even Mothra, as she duels Rodan, can't stop her enormous wings from accidentally knocking helicopters and jets out of the sky, or Rodan's as she grappling with him.
** A creature's biology that telegraphs its long range move, Godzilla's scutes lights up, looks really cool but is a huge warning sign to dodge. Harder for humans on foot to dodge but for King Ghidorah it is easy unless he's completely distracted or is too close to effectively dodge. During the Antarctica battle Ni and Kevin are clearly watching Godzilla's tail start to light up and know what's coming.
** Ghidorah might be ImmuneToBullets, but missiles can still distract him, much like a bugbite can distract a human. This probably saves Mark and the other key Monarch brass in Antarctica from ending up like [[spoiler:Dr. Graham]], and it allows humanity to meaningfully take part in the FinalBattle by laying into Ghidorah and keeping him distracted during his battle with Godzilla, helping give Godzilla the upperhand.
** Just because the tide turns in humanity's favor when [[spoiler:Godzilla shows up to battle Ghidorah in Boston, narrowly saving Madison from being vaporized by the three-headed psychopath]], doesn't mean madison's HellYesMoment is going to last for more than a few minutes -- she quickly slips from it into a HeroicBSOD when she's running from the [[LamePun titanic]] creatures' battle.

* MainliningTheMonster: Briefly mentioned. According to Dr. Graham, there's a new and dangerous market in trafficking Titans' DNA which Alan Jonah is invested in.

* StockFootage: Some of the B-roll used in various scenes such as Emma's MotiveRant, the Senate subcommittee meeting and the end credits is footage taken from the 2014 movie's Comic-Con teaser trailer, the 2014 movie itself (including a joke where the footage of the [=MUTO=]s’ courtship is [[{{Pixellation}} pixellated]]) and even ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' (the brief visual of Kong’s face is taken from Randa seeing him through his camera lens).

** There's also King Ghidorah stopping to momentarily glare at [[spoiler:Emma]]] and [[spoiler:Madison]] respectively when he located either of them in Boston, in contrast to the way he killed [[spoiler:Vivienne Graham]] in Antarctica. Probably {{justified}} by Ghidorah being personally pissed at either of them for using the ORCA against him.

--->'''Serizawa:''' This is a dangerous path! You are meddling with forces beyond our comprehension, gambling with the lives of ''billions''!\\

* BreakingOldTrends: [[spoiler:This film is the first time where humanity decides to ally with Godzilla on a large scale, with Monarch sending in ''The Argo'', multiple aircraft, and a small fleet to back up Big G against Ghodorah. While humanity has aided Godzilla before, they've never done so on this scale]].

** Joe Brody's studies in bio-acoustics from the first film get taken to the logical [[UpToEleven next level]] in this film with Dr. Emma Russel creating the Orca, which communicates with the Titans by mimicking their communication frequencies. Predictably,it works [[GoneHorriblyRight a little too well]] for humanity's comfort.

* DestructiveSavior: Godzilla, as usual - he's quite happy to use the surrounding property to his advantage in battle, smashing Ghidorah through a skyscraper at one point. [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven when he hits his Fire stage - his mere presence is enough to cause the surrounding city to either melt or explode into fire]]. By the film's end Boston has been smashed on a scale that makes the last movie's San Francisco battle look small by comparison. However, this is by far preferable to [[OmnicidalManiac what happens if King Ghidorah isn't stopped.]]

* UpToEleven: The hurricane Ghidorah generates grows to the point it's classified as a Category ''6''.

* AdultFear: Fantastic elements aside, losing track of your only child in a city currently being smashed to pieces, with virtually everything exploding around you, then finding her unmoving and not breathing in the wreckage of your old home - and this after losing your son in a similar way. [[spoiler:Luckily, she's alright]].

** Monarch themselves are also getting this at the start of the film, due to the majority of the public blaming them for the San Francisco incident and the government subjecting them to intensifying scrutiny because they won't cooperate with their plan to kill every Titan. It's implied the backlash is further influenced by Monarch's refusal to reveal what they know about the Titans or how many more there are, are; but more than that, the government and most of the public just want to try killing all the Titans indiscriminately indiscriminately, and don't care for Monarch's arguments that that isn't a good idea.

* DeconReconSwitch: This movie tries to portray the elements of the Toho Godzilla franchise through a realistic lens. Many of the Fridge Horror elements of the Japanese films are addressed and [[AscendedFridgeHorror used to show]] what would happen if giant mythical beasts decided to fight over the fate of the world. That said it also tries to realistically incorporate the more positive aspects of the Japanese films show what giant monsters that aren't automatically AlwaysChaoticEvil but rather run a gamut of various emotions and dispositions would be like and humanities reaction to a fantastic new world beginning to dawn.

* OminousLatinChanting: Most of the themes have Japanese chants in the background, but primary note to Ghidorah's, with the chanting being an actual Buddhist sutra (the Heart Sutra specifically) to represent his theme of annihilation.[[note]] As an added bonus, the ones who recorded the track were monks.[[/note]]

* LightLiegeDarkDefender: {{Inverted}} by Godzilla and Mothra. Mothra is the wise but delicate HighQueen who is literally associated with light and Godzilla is the GrumpyOldMan earth guardian, but ''Mothra'' consistently seems to be the one trying to protect ''Godzilla''.

* IdenticalGrandson: [[spoiler:The Chen twins, their mother and her twin, and their twins grandmothers are all identical.]]

* TheCynic: Mark Russell is the wirst one in the film, and to a lesser extent Dr. Stanton. Both are skeptical of or outright rebuff the idea that Titans can coexist with humans (they also both lose this attitude over the film) and are rather jaded.

* TheStormbringer: once [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah Ghidorah]] is awoken, he generates a perpetual hurricane filled with yellow lightning around himself which follows him wherever he goes and gets more powerful the longer he's active. And when Ghidorah takes over as the ruling alpha from Godzilla and leads the Titans toward creating an extinction event, his WeatherManipulation begins spreading offshoot storms around the globe, and it's overall suggested that if Ghidorah hadn't been stopped he would've enveloped the entire planet in endless storms. Only [[spoiler:his death at the hands (and [[WaveMotionGun mouth]]) of Godzilla brings the storm to an end]].

** Additionally, the fact that attempts to use technology to stop the outbreak either by controlling nature/Titans (the ORCA) or by simply destroying them (the [[spoiler:Oxygen Destroyer]]) only succeed in making things worse.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Monarch are talking to the United States senate about how humanity's current course of action is unsustainable, and for the sake of their own species' survival they must change their ways to coexist with the Titans instead of trying to destroy or dominate them; yet every serious argument they're making for Titan coexistence is clearly just going in one ear and out the other ear in the senate. Political attitude to GlobalWarming, anyone?
** Ghidorah, the one Titan who actively threatens to destroy humanity and render the world inhospitable for most other complex life, is not only released from Antarctica as a consequence of the ice fields being destroyed, he also seeks to destroy the world by creating a global NaturalDisasterCascade which includes tsunamis, wildfires and Ghidorah's own spreading storm systems -- all of which are RealLife escalating symptoms of manmade climate change which ultimately threaten to make the Earth inhospitable to both humanity and most other existing life. In fact, the novelization specifically states that Ghidorah's apocalypse is essentially the same as the Global Warming process that humanity was already causing but ''massively'' sped up.
** A news article in the CreativeClosingCredits mentions there's a minority among the population who remain fimly entrenched in their anti-Titan sentiments despite evidence of the Titans' relationship with the Earth's ecology now being "insurmountable" and refuse to believe it, now being called "Titan-deniers" after public opinion on the Titans has shifted towards the positive; just like RealLife climate change denialists who remain ignorant of the increasingly irrefutable evidence that Global Warming is both real and a serious problem.