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Pre-Release Promos
- The last shot of the trailer in which we see Godzilla from Anna Sawai's character's POV and it serves as a frightening reminder of just how terrifying it is to be caught in the crossfire of the King of The Monsters.
- One of the new monsters is a tundra-based mole-like predator with tons of sharp teeth, long Combat Tentacles around its seemingly blind face, and breath capable of freezing people to death.
"Aftermath"
- Cate's flashbacks to Godzilla's attack on San Francisco. If you thought the scenes from the original film were bad, the show pulls no punches in depicting how chaotic and terrifying it would be to be right under the heel of the King of the Monsters. We even get an onscreen depiction of an evacuation bus (containing mostly terrified children) plummeting into the ocean.
- As she escapes the bus, the first thing Cate sees is the King of the Monsters roaring above her.
- Just the fact that all of this was the result of the military firing at and spooking him into ramming into the bridge in the first place. Unlike the more deliberate kills that the MUTOs inflicted, Godzilla did so by complete accident.
- Keiko's (seeming) death as Bill drops her line and she falls into a crevasse, swarmed by Endoswarmer hatchlings.
- The scene before that has Lee and Keiko walking through the Endoswarmer nest in a scene that feels directly inspired by Alien.
"Departure"
- Cate almost getting kidnapped by Monarch agents and trying to confront the police about it has a hefty dose of Realism-Induced Horror.
- The gradual reveal of the Ion Dragon, itself an unsettling combo of draconic and deep-sea fish characteristics. Keiko and Bill manage to find the USS Lawton (and exactly how a ship that size ended up in the middle of a jungle is unanswered), and as they trek through the dark interior, they stumble upon a room full of preserved corpses, most of which are quite fresh, covered in ionic goo. THEN the dragon comes back, tearing into the ship in order to weed out the intruders.
"Secrets and Lies"
- The Frost Vark in spades. It's a polar Titan around the same size as the Skullcrawlers, and it's hostile towards humans, which would already be enough to qualify it for this trope. But on top of that, it's also capable of burrowing underground at truly alarming speeds, and it has the ability to drain the ambient heat of it's targets, to the points that it's capable of flash-freezing an entire plane, including it's pilot, within seconds .
"Will The Real May Please Stand Up?"
- Seeing the founding of Apex Cybernetics: even before G-Day, they were engaging in unethical experiments on animals. The footage of a chimpanzee screaming in pain with a neural cap fitted to it’s head is particularly horrible. It goes to shows that even before Mechagodzilla entered the picture, Apex were already doing some nasty stuff.
- The simple idea of humanity being able to collapse the Hollow Earth vortices, and cut the Titans off from the surface of the Earth. True, it sounds like a good idea at first, but then humanity would be separated from our protectors as well as our destroyers… and, as Ghidorah proves, not all threats come from below.
- Plus, the base concept flies in the face of the coexistence that the MonsterVerse preaches: remember the Lion, the Mouse, and the Thorn.
- Not to mention: sealing off one vortex increases the gamma ray output at all of the others. If all, or even most, of the vortices are sealed, it’s implied that the very Earth would explode from the bottled-up energy.
