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Considering The Bridge started right before the modern era of kaiju, especially Godzilla, came about with the 2014 film, alongside the fourth generation of My Little Pony still ongoing, there have been numerous instances it seems like the writers of the story and official media were sharing the same braincell.

  • Early on in the story, Mothra Lea's changeling form is called a "rainbow changeling" as a joke descriptor because of how unlikely it seemed given the species is dark colored. Three years later in Season Six of the show and we ended up getting actual rainbow colored changelings.
  • Some fan art of the story depicted Godzilla Jr. and Xenilla teaming up. Flash forward a year later, and IDW Comic's Godzilla: Rulers of Earth issue #21 has such a team up. Ironically, the artist of the comic Matt Frank liked a few of Bridge's designs months prior.
  • After Tarbtano said he was not going to try and pursue any romance angles, literally dozens of fan art depicting Princess Luna and Godzilla Junior popped up regardless, enough to make a DeviantArt fan group. Come the Valentine's Day special, despite its blunt title, and it looks like it might end up being Ascended Fanon given some hints the two have been giving off.
  • The In-Story version of King Sombra and the one in the IDW comic series have more than a few similarities. Having a direct hoof in the "death" of Princess Amore, being able to hide in crystals; and coming back to life via dark magic and his surviving horn.
  • Xenilla's shenanigans about the Crystal Empire's rulers constantly all having the wrong royal title (King/Princess instead of Emperor/Empress) causes a chuckle when one realizes in issue #36 of the IDW comics, the revived King Sombra declares he will be "Emperor Sombra". Bridge readers can't read that line without Xenilla/Spacegodzilla popping up and yelling, "F***ING FINALLY!".
    • Ghost Godzilla is depicted as having purple atomic breath in illustrations. It turns out this is his atomic breath color in Godzilla Resurgence.
    • The mermares in this setting are ruled by a queen. Come release of "The Movie" and this turns out to be exactly the case.
  • Tarbtano Word of God confirms that the Bridge Gojira has no relation at all to the Godzilla Family but in 2018 in Matt Frank's revival of Godzilla Neo, Gojira or the Legendary Godzilla is the super ancestor to Godzilla.
    • Years after Kirin were introduced to the story, Kirin were featured in the Season Eight episode "Sounds of Silence". They closely resembled Tarbtano and Faith-Wolff's designs.
  • The story repeatedly showed Princess Celestia not only also has a Royal Canterlot Voice, but it's even louder than her little sister's. Season 8 confirmed both years later.
  • The story pretty much predicted a reverse version of the episode "The Beginning of the End". Here, Grogar is an ancient evil who trained and empowered the MLP villains. The villains revere him and work to free him from imprisonment. In the episode, Grogar is an ancient evil who frees the villains from imprisonment, empowers them, and forces them to work for him while they don't like him at all. The story did also predict that Grogar is the single most powerful villain in the G4 setting.
  • Grand King Ghidorah mentions how he lost a head when he first fought Kaizer Ghidorah and how it eventually regenerated. Come Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and we see that King Ghidorah do just that after Godzilla tore off one of his heads! Only it took him a few SECONDS! In addition, Grand King Ghidorah tries to kill Junior by flying him up and dropping him from the upper atmosphere, which is exactly how Legendary Ghidorah attempts to finish off Godzilla in that film.
  • The Amgalm'verse Timeline's version of the events Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack! was meant to pay homage to the original draft where Anguirus was amongst the Guardian Monsters instead of Ghidorah, with Canon Immigrant Gamera stepping in for Varan. In it, Godzilla Junior sensed the rampaging revenant of his grandfather the 1954 Godzilla, and got involved as well to stop him. Come 2017 and The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films by John LeMay revealed that one considered Heisei era film actually was Godzilla Junior battling his grandfather.
  • Another one for the timeline. In this continuity the Mysterians invaded in 1957 and it was their technology being reverse engineered that helped make the sci-fi weapons seen in the timeline's versions of the Heisei saga films, with M.O.G.U.E.R.A being directly patterned off the Mysterian machine. Come 2020 and an obscure Japanese-only Collections book Tarbtano is adamant he didn't read reveals this was also the case with the official Heisei continuity.

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