"Smoking the Dragon Blunt"Explanation (spoilers) In the finale, Godzilla reduces Ghidorah to his still-living severed middle head, which he finishes off by grasping in his mouth and forcing his atomic breath out its throat. Which was quickly parodied by fans and compared to smoking a blunt.
With KOTM receiving mediocre reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, it's become commonplace for fans to joke that Ghidorah (or Kong) running the critic site and/or bribing critics to sabotage Godzilla's Hollywood career.
So many fans joked about the critical complaints about how the movie focuses too much on giant monster fights... the thing people famously watch these movies for in the first place. Many even said the critical reviews just made them want to see the movie more. There was also widespread befuddlement by the fans over critics bemoaning that there wasn't more focus on the human characters, something nobody watching a Godzilla movie even remotely cares about.
Perhaps to mock fans throwing increasing speculative theories around as facts, some fans are jokingly trying to prove that the oil field scorpion monster is King Ghidorah and that he would turn into a scorpion in the final fight of the movie. Some have even editedthe teaser images to make fun of the concept, claiming that the three heads seen in one shot are scorpion tails.
The brief shot in the second trailer of KOTM where Ghidorah spreads his wings menacingly at Godzilla has drawn comparisons to DIO's "Oh, you're approaching me?" meme from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. This scene is even recreated in this glorious image◊ with Godzilla as Jotaro and King-Ghidorah as DIO.
Godzilla himself is compared to Jotaro since they're both dark-colored badass anti-heroes note with Godzilla being a morally-neutral force of nature, and Jotaro being rude, edgy, and an example of Good Is Not Nice type of hero with personal grudges against their respective villains and they battle said villains in close range.
The reveal that Ghidorah has the vampiric ability to drain his victim's energy, as well as his fate as a living severed head only further fueled comparisons to DIO, as well as his tendency to strike intimidating poses or his association with the color gold.
Many have also compared Rodan to Avdol's Stand "Magician's Red", or compared Mothra's Heroic Sacrifice to power up Godzilla to Caesar's "TAKE THE LAST OF MY HAMON!"
Calling the monsters "Titans" has prompted quite a few comments of "Where is Eren Yeager when you need him?"
The fact that the second trailer was teased in the December 2018 Comic-Con drew lots of jokes about how "we have trailers for trailers now".
The reveal of Mothra's new design, with curved claws on her forelimbs, has inspired plenty of jokes comparing her design to Scyther and Kabutops.
Many Pokémon fans also frequently compare the film's main monsters to Pokemon that resemble them, such as Tyranitar (Godzilla), Aerodactyl (Rodan), Volcarona (Mothra) and Hydreigon (King Ghidorah), also poking fun at the 4-trainer Battle Royale mechanic introduced in the Sun & Moon games where four trainers can either team up or just beat the heck out of each other (which the film's main Titans are pretty much doing.)
The introduction of Dynamax Battles in Pokémon Sword and Shield drew jokes from the fandom comparing it to this film, as the Pokemon are greatly buffed up for three rounds and grow to Kaiju size. Many have expressed a desire to see a Dynamax Tyranitar fight a Dynamax Hydreigon for this very reason. Even more Hilarious in Hindsight with the reveal of Gigantamax Charizard, who looks a bit like Burning Godzilla crossed with Rodan, and Gigantamax Butterfree, who resembles Mothra using her God Rays.
The shot of Sally Hawkins looking at Godzilla through an underwater window has prompted jokes that she wants to have sex with him.
With Dr. Graham getting killed by Ghidorah early on, many fans have expressed outrage that "Sally Hawkins deserved better!"
With Charles Dance uttering the line "Long live the king" and considering one of his most well known roles, cue the Game of Thrones jokes.
On a related note, people referencing House Targaryen for King Ghidorah's appearance (since their sigil is fittingly a three-headed dragon).
"The Dragon has three heads, and the left one is Jon Snow"Explanation Fans have jokingly compared the left Ghidorah head to Jon Snow, as both died and came back, and both "know nothing", as the left head seems to be the most dimwitted of the three.
"The Lepidopterans send their regards."Explanation Mothra defeating Rodan by straight up stabbing him through the chest with a Death Glare to boot, drew jokes comparing it to the famous Game of ThronesPre-Mortem One-Liner "The Lannisters send their regards", with Lepidoptera being the family of insects including butterflies and moths.
Due to how spectacular the trailer for this movie is, hundreds of people have started making trailers for other movies using the style of this trailer. Some have even remade Godzilla trailers like this, from Godzilla (2014) to Shin Godzilla!
"You mean you want us to make Godzilla our pet?" "No, we would be his." Cue fandom jokes about Godzilla keeping an ant farm but with humans.
Mothra's title as "Queen of the Monsters" has had some fans musing about Monarch shipping Mothra and Godzilla. Some are even joking about names of such a Crack Pairing, such as "Mothzilla".
The meme has further gained traction with Michael Dougherty himself acknowledging it on Twitter, dropping some Ship Tease in his descriptions of Godzilla and Mothra's "symbiotic relationship".
BIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIExplanation On Twitter, a fan asked Michael Dougherty if King Ghidorah would make his iconic chirping roar, which he wrote down as "bidibidibidibidi" (and to which Dougherty bluntly replied "Yes.") Much of the fandom immediately embraced the onomatopoeia.
Ghidorah spreading his wings in a threatening posture as he faces off against Godzilla has also drawn comparisons to the "T-pose to assert dominance" meme.
The scene where Ghidorah awakens all the Titans, causing them to wreak havoc has been used in many fanvids, where he awakens all the other cinematic monsters (e.g. Smaug) as well.
It certainly isn't as hate-fueled as Zilla/GINO from Godzilla (1998), but Mothra has been teasingly referred to as MINO after her figure was revealed with some dramatic changes. note For the record, much of the ire towards GINO/Zilla stemmed from how he acted, not how he looked. When Mothra was revealed to be her usual benevolent self, this quickly died down.
Godzilla sprinting straight at Ghidorah has spawned memes of "Very big lizard boi running at incredible high speed".
Rodan has been affectionately compared to Starscream due to having flight, speed and an association with the color red. And most importantly Rodan's sulky resignation to submit to Godzilla was what sealed it.Note Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when one remembers that in Beast Wars, Starscream's Predacon equivalent was Terrorsaur, who transformed into a red Pteranodon resembling Rodan!
Ghidorah's three heads have drawn comparisons to the three hyenas Shenzi, Banzai and Ed from The Lion King (1994).
Likewise, there's a similar one that depicts Ed, Edd, and Eddy from Ed, Edd n Eddy as Ghidorah's three heads.
On that note, the page image has spawned a meme where the first two heads are labeled, while “Kevin” is given a third label which, while related to the other two, also seems very odd or out of place.
"Ichi, Ni, San AKA Kevin"Explanation When asked if King Ghidorah's heads having their own individual names, Mike Dougherty responded to the tweet with "Center head: Ichi; Right head: Ni; Left head: San... aka Kevin". Basically, their names are 1, 2, and 3 respectively, with the third head being named Kevin
Early on in 2019, some concept art leaked allegedly showing the new King Ghidorah design that had disproportionately long limbs. The concept was widely mocked by the fandom, with many jokingly comparing it to a giraffe, though it was later mitigated after the leaks were revealed to be fake.
"Is that a monkey?"Explanation In Kong: Skull Island, a soldier casually quips "Is that a monkey?" at the sight of Kong, in a hilarious understatement. Fans soon joked that Godzilla would have the exact same reaction upon meeting Kong...but only in a belittling, dimissive manner because he's tiny compared to Godzilla.
The SDCC trailer is widely agreed upon to have both Awesome Music and Visual Effects of Awesome, to the point where multiple people have done fan-made trailers for other movies in that style.
Godzilla: EndgameExplanation It’s become common to mix footage of this movie and Avengers: Endgame together to make it look like Godzilla is in the movie.
Crawl and Godzilla are the same movie.Explanation Shortly before this movie came out on home video, an article from WhatCulture was written that rated 10 monster movies better than King of the Monsters. Because these monster movies were different from what a Godzilla movie is, and that Crawl was ranked very high, the fandom mocked the rather poorly written article by claiming that they’re both the same movie because Godzilla looks like an alligator and they both have monsters in them. Other monster movies have been interchanged with Crawl such as Alien: Covenant, The Predator and A Quiet Place, which also made it on the list.
With Godzilla vs. Kong pushed back from March 2020 to November 2020, a lot of fans joked that Kong just watched Godzilla vaporize King Ghidorah and hurriedly asked Legendary for "a little more time".
The fact that NECA has repeatedly refused to release a Ghidorah figure was jokingly compared to the in-universe lore of "humanity wishing to forget Ghidorah's existence", memeing that his power is dreaded by even NECA itself.
Behemoth, the mammoth-sloth titan, has been jokingly labeled by fans as either the bastard child of Manny and Sid or "Snuffleapagus on steroids". Pokémon fans have also compared him to Mamoswine.
The film became sort of a Dueling Movie with Godzilla: The Planet Eater due to their radically different portrayals of Ghidorah, with the Monsterverse version praised for "actually doing something".
Also, the Anime Ghidorah being mockingly compared to noodles.
In an Twitter post in April 2020, the directors revealed that a nickname for the MUTO Queen was "Barb", after the spines on her body that distinguish her from her 2014 predecessor. This spawned jokes comparing her to the "Karen" meme, or gijinka fanart depicting her as a rude and unpleasant suburban woman.
The delay of Godzilla vs. Kong due to the coronavirus pandemic has inspired jokes that the real winner of the fight would be the coronavirus. This was further fueled by the reveal of a bat-like titan called Camazotz, which drew comparisons to the "Bat Soup" meme that people blamed for the pandemic.
