History YMMV / GodzillaVsKingGhidorah

* EmsembleDarkHorse:

* HypeBacklash: The film is highly regarded as a major fan favorite within the Godzilla series, often ranking high up on fan lists as one of the franchises all time best. It’s also appeared in lists ranking it as one of the most overrated and sometimes worst entries of the series, believing it lacked interesting characters to follow (minus Shindo and Emmy) and the time travel plot that is sometimes passed off as an unintelligible mess that ruins the enjoyment of the film.

* HypeBacklash: The film is highly regarded as a major fan favorite within the Godzilla series, often ranking high up on fan lists as one of the franchises all time best. It’s also appeared in list ranking it as one of the most overrated and sometimes worst entries of the series, believing it lacked interesting characters to follow (minus Shindo and Emmy) and the time travel plot that is sometimes passed off as an unintelligible mess that ruins the enjoyment of the film.

** M-11 is also well liked for his quirky personality.

* HypeBacklash: The film is highly regarded as a major fan favorite within the Godzilla series, often ranking high up on fan lists as one of the franchises all time best. It’s also appeared in list ranking it as one of the most overrated and sometimes worst entries of the series, believing it lacked interesting characters to follow (minus Shindo and Emi) and the time travel plot that is sometimes passed off as an unintelligible mess that ruins the enjoyment of the film.

** Shindo’s [[spoiler:sacrifice]]
** The appearance of Mecha-King Ghidorah

* HilariousInHindsight: JapanTakesOverTheWorld by becoming the richest nation...despite being in an economic downturn that's lasted two decades as of 2014!

* ContrivedCoincidence: One of the questions this movie raises is how they knew that the Godzillasaurus on Lagos Island wasn't the same Godzillasaurus destined to become the first Godzilla that attacks Japan in 1954. [[IdiotPlot They did no DNA tests and relied solely on visual evidence to identify the Godzillasaurus as the one from their future]]. They could have gotten really unlucky and ended up [[ExplainExplainOhCrap with two different Godzillas in the future, plus King Ghidorah, none of whom would be in the mood to save Japan]].

* WhatAnIdiot: The Futurians.
They decide to go back in time and erase Godzilla from history as to prevent it from destroying the rest of Japan.

** '''The Result:''' The Godzillasaur doesn’t die and it lives in the ocean, healing its wounds in peace until a nuclear submarine passes by in the 1970’s and the creature feeds off the radiation, thus creating the Heisei Godzilla seen ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla from the very beginning of this era]]''. [[spoiler:Although they are the villains of the movie,]] them creating the very creature they set out to kill wasn’t part of their master plan.

* WhatAnIdiot: So the Futurians decide to go back in time and erase Godzilla from history.

** '''Instead:''' They teleport the Godzillasaur out from Lagos Island to the ocean, all while still in 1944.
** '''The Result:''' A nuclear submarine passes by in the 1970’s and the Godzillasaur feeds off the radiation, thus creating the Heisei Godzilla seen ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla from the very beginning of this era]]''. [[spoiler:Although they are the villains of the movie,]] them creating the very creature they set out to kill wasn’t part of their master plan.

** '''The Result:''' A nuclear submarine passes by in the 1970’s and the Godzillasaur feeds off the radiation, thus creating the Heisei Godzilla seen ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla from the very beginning of this era]]''. [[spoiler:Although they are the villains of the movie,]] them creating the very creature they set out to kill wasn’t part of their master plan]].

** '''The Result:''' A nuclear submarine passes by in the 1970’s and the Godzillasaur feeds off the radiation, thus creating the Heisei Godzilla seen ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla from the very beginning of this era]]''. [[spoiler:Although they are the villains of the movie, them creating the very creature they set out to kill wasn’t in their master plan]].

** '''The Result:''' A nuclear submarine passes by in the 1970’s and the Godzillasaur feeds off the radiation, thus creating the Heisei Godzilla seen in ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla from the beginning]]''. [[spoiler:Although they are the villains of the movie, them creating the very creature they set out to kill wasn’t in their master plan]].

** '''You’d Expect:''' The Futurians go back to 1944 with some kind of advanced weapon that could permanently kill Godzillasaur once and for all, or let the thing bleed to death after it was badly wounded.
** '''Instead:''' They teleport the Godzillasaur out from Lagos Island to the ocean.

* AwesomeMusic: Akira Ifukube returned to the franchise for the first time since ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'' in 1975, and his return was ''glorious''.

** The idea of a prosthetic ''head'', to replace the middle head Ghidorah lost to Godzilla. Sure, it's a rather silly concept, but ultimately, what's not awesome about a cyborg three-headed dragon who can now shoot ''laser beams'' out of its robotic center head?

** Discussed in-universe in regards to the Godzillasaurus saving Shindo's platoon during World War II: Did it deliberately rescue them as Shindo feverantly believes or was it simply defending it's territory?

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Godzilla kill [[spoiler:Shindo]] out of anger at [[spoiler:being left to die by him]]? Or was it because [[spoiler:he knew Shindo wanted to die]]? Did he actually recognize or even remember [[spoiler:Shindo]]? Or would he have just destroyed that building, regardless of who was standing there?

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Godzilla kill [[spoiler:Shindo]] out of anger at [[spoiler:being left to die by him]]? Or was it because [[spoiler:he knew Shindo wanted to die]]?

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* {{Narm}}: The film has the most ''terrible'' acting from the English actors in the Heisei series, aside the rest of it. Especially with the American [=GI=]s in the World War II sequence. The acting was so bad, it fits the "SoBadItsGood" territory. The Omni Productions dubhas this in effect as well, for some reason dubbing over the English-speaking actors as well with ''even worse'' acting.

* {{Narm}}: The film has the most ''terrible'' acting from the English actors in the Heisei series, aside the rest of it. Especially with the American [=GI=]s in the World War II sequence. The acting was so bad, it fits the "SoBadItsGood" territory. The OmniProductions dub,has this in effect as well, for some reason dubbing over the English-speaking actors as well with ''even worse'' acting.