History Film / GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire

* AdaptationalExpansion: Similar to prior entries in the Monsterverse, there is a novelization that has more content than the film.
** The movie takes place in 2027, three years after the events of ''Godzilla vs. Kong''.
** While only implied in the movie, the novelization confirms that Suko is Skar King's son.
** The Skar King keeps all of the females in the civilization for himself, in something of a harem.
** Red-painted apes (loyal to Skar King) are called "Red-Stripes."
** Monarch speculates that Godzilla takes up residence in the Roman Colosseum because it reminds him of his old home that got nuked back in ''King of the Monsters'', observing architectural similarities between the two.
** Scylla had no containment field and was presumed dead when found.
** The film doesn't go into the background of Scylla and Godzilla's fight. But the tie-in 'Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted' backstory makes it quite clear that their battle wasn't an average dispute between the two Titans. Scylla was intentionally feeding on radiation, either to make more Scylla monsters or to make herself powerful enough to make a run at Godzilla. Whatever Scylla's intentions, Godzilla sensed what she was doing and stepped in to stop it. It's a compelling backstory that makes Godzilla's fight with his rival monster even more interesting knowing Scylla was more powerful thanks to her hidden agenda.
** Trapper's real name is Travis Beasley.
** The reason Kong ran into Suko and the other Great Apes so quickly after entering the subterranean realm is that they were waiting for him specifically. After destroying the Monarch outpost, the Skar King found evidence of another ape in Kong's cave and, curious, detailed Suko's party to capture him.
** [[spoiler:While it's kept vague, Shimo is given more backstory than in the film. Having worked out her existence even if they've never seen her, Monarch are aware of cave paintings showing her battling - and dominating - Godzilla, while Ilene at one point mentions the chemical composition of her ice powers matches Ghidorah's frozen tomb in ''King of the Monsters'', indicating she was the one that put him on ice]].
** Shimo's ice-breath can slow down atoms.
** Shimo is not related to Godzilla.
** Taxonomists don't know what titans even are (all of them).
** Shimo was called Monster H/The Hypothetical, based on the ice found around the earth.
** The crystal shard is implied to be part of Shimo.
** Its implied Shimo was the alpha before Godzilla, and actually subdued Godzilla in combat.
** Remains of Mechagodzilla are in Monarch facilities.
** Project Powerhouse was built from the Mechagodzilla technology.
** Jia was chosen because she was an Iwi that was deaf, and could sense Mothra's vibrations.
** Bioacoustics suggest the Mothra that appears in Hollow Earth is somehow the same Mothra who was killed by Ghidorah.
** The tree that [[spoiler: eats Mikael is called a "Tree-Mimic."]]
** Director Hampton gets far more characterization than just being Ilene's hapless boss. She was present in Honolulu when Godzilla first emerged to battle the male MUTO, in a hotel about to be destroyed by the latter, until Godzilla pushed it away. While she's firmly aware of how it sounds, she believes Godzilla saw her and deliberately pushed it away instead of smashing it through the building, making her believe he's much more than some mindless animal. For many of the sequences following Godzilla's actions in the film, she becomes the POV character as she and her staff confer on what's happening with the monster king.
** Godzilla's new form was made from Tiamat's DNA.
** The Iwi city is called, 'Malenka'.
** The names of Skar King's loyal followers are: One Eye, Stone Face and Catcher.
** Suko's caretaker is named Gnarled Finger, and isn't so much his designated caretaker as the only ape before Kong to take pity on him and treat him with something resembling kindness.
** The Skar King's motivations are expanded upon; in addition to wanting to claim the surface world, he also intended to invade and kill all life there as well to further assert his dominance. One of the reasons he enslaved Shimo is to further reach this goal with the possession of a titan incredibly powerful by their standards, enough to cause an extinction-level catastrophe.
** Much like the ''King of the Monsters'' novelisation (also written by Keyes) every chapter begins with recorded myths and legends that offer more insight, albeit distorted, into humanity's past encounters with the Skar King [[spoiler:and Shimo]].
** The novelization includes several other creatures such as a Diraffe, a hybrid of a giraffe and an armadillo with an otter-like head, electricity-eating beetles, and giant river leeches.
** The novelization opens up in 2016 with a prologue involving Ishiro Serizawa, Vivienne Graham, Ilene Andrews, and Emma Russell visiting Ghidorah's resting place and determining the existence of a "quintessential Titan" that caused the last ice age. It also reveals that Godzilla waged war with the Skar King alongside other Titans that were loyal to him.
** Hampton worries about the world's governments attempting a takeover of the Hollow Earth, which is only made worse with the presence of Shimo in Rio.
** Godzilla was apprehensive about whether or not he could win again, against Skar King. He won against him before, but with Shimo seemingly as a new addition or surprise variable he may not have known if he'd be victorious again.
** The metal in the pyramid is mercury.
** Kong now sees Godzilla and Mothra as part of his family because of the connection they have with the Iwi tribe.
** Suko joining in the final fight is him refusing to be afraid of Skar King and the Red Stripes anymore because Kong inspired him.
** Bernie, Ilene, and Jia choose to stay in Malenka a little longer while Trapper returns to the surface world, with hints that he and Ilene might rekindle their relationship.
** Kong and Shimo are "bonded".

** The crystal shard is implied to be part of Shimo."
** Its implied Shimo was the alpha before.

** Bioacoustics suggest its the same Mothra somehow.

** Suko's caretaker is named Gnarled Finger.

** The names of Skar King's loyal followers are: One Eye, Stone Face and Catcher. Suko's caretaker is named Gnarled Finger.